The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-08

has been lately produced successfully in a
city OF the size of Brunn. In 1862 and
1903 no fewer than fifty-four rehearsals of
TINS opera was held in Vienna, and then
IL was put aside for twenty years as i'm
possible; DR.. Hanslck actually made
wager that il would never be sung any
where. But in 1880 and 1891 it was sung
IN thirteen German cities. Thus do sing
ers and audiences grow up to composer
those who did stoop to the fashionable
taste OF their day-DoniZetti, Rossini, etc.
are now practically obsolete.
During the recent engagement of
Friends" in New Orleans, which is one
OF the most critical and appreciative mu-
steal centers in the country, Lucius Hen
derson's piano playing created sensa;
ton. At the matinee ladies in the boxes
and balcony plucked flowers from their
corsages and flung them at his feet. Young
Royle, who plays the other friend" not
to be outdone, picked up bunch OF yio-
lets, and presenting it TO the bowling mu-
slclan said, repeating a line of the play,
Il suppose half of that belongs to me-"
and the girls were convulsed with laugh
ter.
a poem of the mystical order entitled
Alone" by Edwin Milton Royle, the
author of the highly successful play,
Southern Magazine. An impertinent re-
porter was moved to write to MIR. Royle
and ask II the poem was written before or
after his marriage to Selena Fetter. Royle
responded in the following brief note {:
Poetry is truth, and truth is impossible.
Facts do not exist except as revealed in
the unreal. Are you answered." The
eloquent silence that followed was dis
tinctly audible at distance of five miles.
The 550th consecutive performance of
Hoyts "a Trip to Chinatown" at the
New York Hoyt's Madison Square Thea
ter takes place Friday, April 18th, and for
the eleventh time during the successful
run of this play at Mr.. Hoyt's New York
home of comedy, Hoyt " Thomas will
present souvenirs-this time valuable
bronze stauette of Welland Strong as
played by Harry Conor. 1t passes the
marvellous how this play holds on.
An anecdotal paragraph recently went
the rounds of the press concerning Mary
Lilly, the negro nanny of Miss Selena
Fetter. Miss Fetter met her old nurse
not long ago in Louisville during the
engagement there of Edwin Milton
Royle's stirring play Friends" and
said; well, nanny, see you nave
been getting into the newspapers"
YES" said the old woman with fine
scorn, ''ain't that scandlous."
women of the stage by the Incorporation
of the Professional Woman's League.
The objects are: ITO bring together
women engaged in dramatic, operate and
literary pursuits, with a view of render
ing them helpful to each other; to minis
ter to the pecuniary needs OF the MEM
bers, and aid in procuring them outfits
and other things necessary in order to OBJ
tain employment"
EET RaOtza11 - AIaSpoupi3S 1otact iS
in no sense accounted the success that
"Cavalleria Rusticana" is. The opera is
in four acts, which are so short that it
takes but two hours in the presentation.
The story is identical with the play Les
Rantzau," which gained a Partisan sue
cess, but the music is not up to the high
standard expected to be displayed by the
admirers of Mascagni.
Max Alvary, who is to-day unques-
tionably the greatest interpreter of Wag
ner's tenor roles, has lately been electrify-
ing Frankfurt audiences with his Tam
hauser and Siegfried. The critics pro-
nOunced him well-nigh ideal in these
roles-a remark which Hans Won Bulow
made long ago about his Loge too.
There have been few greater successes
in the West than Daily's New York
Stock Company in Sacramento. 1t has
played over three months at the Clunie
Opera-house to full seats, and has not
missed a night, and has had only three
or four changes in the roster of the COM
pany in that time.
Henry E. Abbey has beaten Colonel J.
II. Mapleson and Sir Augustus Harris in
the race for the privilege of giving opera
at the Metropolitan Theater, New York.
He will open the season on the LIST of No
vember and give fifty-tour performances.
The musicians at the Paris Opera struck
recently and declined to play die Walk
ure." They alleged WEAKNESS as an ex-
cuse, but it is assumed q patriotic"
aversion to German opera made them
tired.
They say that the silver statue is Miss
Ada Rehan's head, but that the other
part of it is the figure of a New York lady
well-known in society.
Junius Brutus Booth has entered the
medical department of the University of
Vermont and intends to become physi-
clan.
Alexander Salvini began his initial
metropolitan engagement at the Manhat-
tan Opera-house on the Sd of April.
Neil Burgess opened at StockwelPs
Theater, San Francisco, April Sd, in 1.-THE
County Fair" as Abigail Prue.
The receipts for the first two perform
ances of Nerdrs 'Falstaff7' at Milan are
said to have been S34, 900.
George Parkes, for many years a MEM
Der of Mr.. Daly's company, has gone to
the Forrest Home.
Marie Jansen, who is touring South
America, is at present in Guatemala.
Melbourne Mcdowell was seriously at
tackled with pleurisy at st. Paul.
THE Isle of Champagne is doing
wonderful business at the West.
There is prospect of early LEGISLATION in