The record-union., 1892-06-11

A.P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of June 4th, says:
1.-The new Miners Fifth Avenue Thea
ter, after many postponements, was
opened on Saturday. 1t is handsome and
commodious, and a valuable addition to
New 1ork's many playhouses. The
lines of the theater are simple and grace
ful and an unobstructive view of the stage
can be had from every seat. The initial
attraction was THE Robber of the Rhine
comic opera, book by Maurice Barry
more. music by Charles Puerner. Mr..
Barrymore is very great favorite, both
as an actor and a writer, and great deal
was expected, which was not realized,
for the production, although not a failure,
was undoubtedly disappointment. The
plot has done service before in The
Brigands,' which itself was taken from
another play, and Mr.. Barrymore's treat
ment of it is not very interesting. The
dialogue, which was expected to bristle
with bright lines from the most brilliant
clubman in all Gotham, was spun out TO
a tedious length, and many of the good
points lost in verDosity of language. The
score by Mr.. Puerner met with great fa-
vor, and, perhaps, after the pruning knife
has been at work, the opera may succeed.
The hit OF the play was made by Edith
himself the posseSsor of a voice Of great
sweetness and expression, and acted his
part in an earnest and conscientious man
ner.
ION Monday the only novelty in town
was at the Peoples Theater where Mer-
vim Dallas produced his dramatization of
The House on the Marsh The dramat-
ization of Florence Wardens story is
broadly melodramatic and makes strong
bid for popularity. MIR. Dallas played
the role of the combined magistrate and
burglar well enough to deserve the loud
applause he received, and Tyrone Power
made marked success as the humorous
man from America (instead of Australia
as in the book. The House on the
Marsh may be counted upon as a money
winner next season in playhouses where
the melodrama is admired"
DENoUNCING THE STAGE.
Another young Methodist preacher has
broken loose in a red hot denunciation of
the stage. His name is w. II. Jordan.
and he halls from Dixon, Ill. Brother
Jordan says that 1.-The theater is the DEVILS
own," and that ninety nine per cent. of
the actresses are bold, bad women''-and
oh! oh!-'those who go to see them are no
BETTER" Says Brother Jordan: Our
theaters are nurseries of sin and dens of
vice. LicentiousneSs and lewdness stalk
boldly in front of the audiences. indie
cent dances form an important part OF to-
days performance on the stage The
history OF the drama is one of decay, in
decency and decline" And again: The
devil and hell have been let loose in the
American plays and operas. In fact, the
theater may truthtully be called monu-
ment of luxury and effeminacy. 1t is a
weak play, indeed, according to the stand
ard OF to-day, which does not include
divorce, robbery and suicide. e.''-Dunlop's
stage News.
SIR WALTER SCoTT's PLAYS.
When Sir Walter Scott was about eight
and twenty he wrote a play called 1.-The
House of ASpen," which was sent to
london, and, according to Lockhart, put
INTO rehearsal and afterward abandoned
has lack OF encouragement may have
Aeon happy circumstance, but some one
ias secured the manuscript and the play
VIII soon be produced. Apart from trans
alton, Sir Walters works in dramatic
2rm consists OF The Doom of Devor-
oil" "MacdufPs $ Cross, '"Halidon HiiI,p
md ''Auchindrane, or the Ayrshire Trag-
ody." None Of these was put upon the
stage, and the only one of his novels in
which he had a hand in fitting for the
theater was Guy ManneringD 1t was
done to help his friend, Daniel Terry,
che actor, through whom his interest in
the theater seems to have been mainly
kept alive.
STAGE NOTES.
A. NJ. Palmer has gone to Europe.
Campanini is not as sick as reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robson are in
London.
Paddy Murphy's new play is called
SIN a Fog"
Joseph Brooks goes to Nantasket Beach
for his vacation.
Denman Thompson has gone to his
farm ut Swanzey, n. 81.
Willard Spencer of Little Tycoonn
fame is writing new opera.
"a Full Moon' is the title of a new
farce-comedy for next season.
Minnie Seligmann's mother died on
Tuesday of heart failure.
Sallie Williams, a daughter of Fred
Williams, has plighted her troth to Chas.
Riegle.
Aunt Louise Eldridge has signed with
the White Squadron Company Tor next
season.
Henry Dixey is to make his reappear-
ance in comic opera at Boston on the 18th
of June.
Frank Mordaunt has been compelled
by severe illness to leave The Lost Pa
radise Company.
Charles Frohman has engaged George
r. Sims and Cecil Raleigh to write com
edy for Johnstone Bennett.
The firm of Proctor IL Mansfield has
been dissolved, Mr.. Proctor having leased
the Boston Grand Opera house.
Minna Gale has promised to become
the vile of Archibald G. Haines OF the
Equitable Insurance Company in New
York.
Hoyt's late success, ga Temperance
Town." will be brought out at the New
York Madison Square on the 31St of Oc-
tober.
'tFontenelle. or the Kings Messenger
new play by III. G.. Fiske, will be tried
next season by James O'NeiIl
Charles Alfred Byrne, Louis Harrison
and Gus kerker are jointly at work on
3 new comic opera to be known as
Venus"
Mysterious things are never what they really
seem in fact
Who thinks the 'super' natural has never
seen him act.
John w. Jennings has tried his mono-
comodrama Hosea Greenleaf of ,Jerico
Vermont" and feels confident that il will
make telling success.
Walter Damrosch has written an opera
on the subject OF Hawthorne's scarlet
Letter. Tor which u. =. Lathrop Haw-
thornes son-in-law, has written the lib
retto.
Edouard Latoni and Edoltho Ciicana
male ballet dancers, rehearsing at Edo
rado, quarreled over Rosa atour. a cory
phee, last week, and Latoni gashed MIR.
Gicana'S lace with a stiIetIo in true
Italian style, and he was put in the lock-
up.
Managers Miner and Wilson have Sc
cured MIR. and Mrs. George Ober for a
season of six weeks with their company
at Saratoga Springs this summer. Mr.
Ober was secured by permission OF Hoyt
and Thomas, to whom he is under CON
tract.