The record-union., 1892-10-01
Music And TIE DRAMA.
Miss Lottie Collins in Her tiara.
"a oom-de-ay."
She Is Wonderfully Clever-Charley
Parsloe's Observation-Disclosures De-
Stage Notes.

A. P. Dunlop. writing from New York
under date of September 24th, says:
''The only thing entirely new in the
city this week is Candy an extrava-
ganZa by Robert Breitenbac music by
Carl Josephs. The author has shown no
little ingenuity in fitting the tiny Lilli-
putians, and their success at the Union
Square was emphatic.
UNEXPECTED between the second and
third acts of Jane at the Standard, on
Monday. Miss Lottie Collins sang and
danced her 'Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.' She
is more pantomimist than a dancer, as
grotesque as a clown, as plant as a con-
tortlonist, and as agile as an acrobat. She
has more varieties of twisting, bending
and turning, more yagaries of gait OF
coquetry and absurdities than was prob
ably ever expressed in ten minutes on
the stage, and yet her performance is free
from yulgarlty. 1t is just fun gone mad,
with nothing indecent or unseemly to
mar the fooiery. She is neither very
young nor very handsome, but she is a
! very great success.
AT the Miner Fifth Avenue Theater,
Miss Pauline Hall began this week a run
IN 'Purltania,' which has the credit OF
one hundred consecutive performances in
Boston. The clever thereto is by Chas.
NJ. >. Mcclellan, who founded the Black
Cat, and is now the editor of IoaU31
Topics, and the music by Edgar S. Kelly,
| an earnest and ambitious student OF
music. An opera dealing with the Salem
wltchcraft era in particular and the Pu-
rltans IN general, is not exactly a theme
TO be wildly hilarious about, but both
author and composer have acquitted
themselves fairly well, and their work is
both scholarly and artistic. The mount
| ing of the opera, alike in scenery and
wardrobe, was excellent.
Mart Hanley also threw open Harri-
| gan's Theater on Monday, and Edward
Harrigan revived 'Squatter Sovereignty
which has not been seen in New York for
twelve years. All the rollicking good
humor was preserved, Paddy Duffy
Cart Widow Noland's Goat and The
McGuires' were unanimously encored.
during the week that magnificent
! trIckster, Hermann, also opened his thea
ter, having the center of the stage all to
himself, and, although he did nothing
new, he did everything so artistic as to
completely charm his audience"
HE DON'T LIKE II.
Charley Parsloe, the veteran stock
actor, who appears as Bill Bovine in
The Ensign" has a grievance. He is
one of the oldest stock actors in the bust
ness, and he has done almost everything
that can be done on the stage, from agi-
| tating canvas waves to Macbeth, but ne
| had the misfortune to become identified
with the character of the Chinaman when
! playing with Louis Aldrich in my
Partner" and although it is some years
since he wore the pigtail, every time he
enters new town he learns that some
paper has referred to him as 1.-The man
who, played the Chinaman," etc. Now,
| he does not object to having il known
that he was successful imitator of the
| MongoI, but it breaks his heart to think
that all his past performances have been
| eclipSed by such q character. Mr. Pars-
loe's indignation on this score has be-
come stock joke in the profession, and
when he made his first visit to his dress
lng-room at the New California Theater.
San Francisco, he found that some mem
Der OF the company had been malicious
enough to lnscribe upon the door in red
chalk: 1.-The man who played the China
man is Gagged here"
MODJEsKA'S DESCRIPTION OF "PADDY. -
For several years Paderewski was Pro-
feSsor of Music in in the Conservatory at
Strasburg. During the summer months
he was accustomed to visit certain little
summer resort frequented by other dis
tinguished artists, among them Nine.
Modjeska and her husband, Count Bo-
Zenta ChlapowSki. Nine. Modieska de-
scribes him at this time polished and
genial companion; a man Of wide culture;
of witty, sometimes biting tongue; brill
liant in table talk; man wide-awake
to all matters of popular interest,
who knew and understood the world
but whose intimacy she and her husband
especially priced for the elevation of his
character and the refinement of his
mind"
TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN ART.
Miss Lillian Russell has set an example
to those American actresses and singers
whose boast, at the opening of their sea-
son, is that they have brought with them
a complete wardrobe from Worth's or
Felix's ataliers.
Ladies in this city will be carried away,
as have been their sisters in New York,
| by the gorgeous gown worn by the prima
donna in the second act of LA Cigale."
1t is of New York make, and ranks in it's
material and its conception with the
finest productions of any of those of
Partisan sources.
The train is cut almost to point, with
five fan-like plaitS, which widen out to the
end. The draperies open on the right
side, showing jupe of old lemon an
tique satin, of very large design, repre-
sentlng bouquets OF pink flowers and
leaves tied with ribbon and overworked
with gold thread, spangles and jewels.
A sash OF the same gorgeous design is
arranged across the bodice, forming a
corsage. 1t is fastened ON the left side
" I'LL d lLde DoW anu IlduSS uOWn over IflG
front OF the skirt almost to the ground,
and is finished by a fringe of colored
crystals. Under the sash is worn silk
pocket of blue velvet, embroidered with
crystals and edged with fringe.
The waist, which is made en- Rembrandt,
with sleeves reaching to the elbows, is
cut very decollete and has high jeweled
collar standing out gracefully above the
shoulders. a pretty hat of blue velvet,
embroidered with jewels. and a large
bunch of ostrich tips in yellow, olive and
blue, with muff and boa of ostrich
feathers, yellow gloves and blue satin
slippers, embroidered in gold, complete
this gorgeous and elegant costume.
STAGE NOTES.
Ellen Terry is i'll with the influenza.
Cheever P. Goodwin and John P. Sousa
are writing an opera.
Ed. J. Buckley will be member of the
Bernard Beere company.
John Drew made his stellar debut in
Milwaukee September 18th.
1.-The Lost Paradise was seen at the
New York Star September 18th.
Gus Kerker has nearly finished Byrne
and Harrison's new opera, "Venus.", 49,.
Isabelle Coe, the star of the Niobe
Company, has made a big hit in the
Northwest.
hOytS n lOle III the OrOunQ' is do
ing as big business as it did during its
first season.
George Marion is said to be making a
fine impression as Count Spaghetti in
1.-The Hustler
Frank Mckee is in Boston, but will re-
turn to the Hoyt Madison Square in a
couple of weeks.
j. Is. Polk, once star, but lately a
gold miner. has returned to New York
looking for a job.
"A Nutmeg Match is booked for a
long engagement in New York, begin
nj in