The record-union., 1894-10-06

/ o all my friends and acuuaintances: I
desire herewith to mako known that am
about to appear in q new character, which
have never yet performed The drama
Is called Marriage ('Die Ene'). The part
OF the hero will be taken by Herr Hans
E. Upon him it depends whether the
play viii be comedy or a tragedy. 1t
will certainly not be a farce, for we are
both OF US terribly IN earnest. Besides,
all my married friends tell me that in
Marriage there is nothing to laugh at"
DHRi0p'S sage Ne}cS has this with a bit
of cruelty added:
Tie play was on; my lady entered late:
Armed at all points she slowly paced the
(she has each charm which car my heart be-
guile;
Vain to resist, resistless, she, as Fate.
7 pom her breast clung clustering orchids rare
While ripping lengths of dusky, per1umed
hair
Lent lis sweet fragrance to the amorous air.
Long, curling lashes yelled the violet ewes
Ihat flashed at me glance of swift surprise:
As my lady but that instant knew
The slave who wears her chains was waiting
there.
again dropped lashes hid the heavenly hue;
Yet though the curtained eyes grew dark as
night,
They answered mine-and all the world was
light.
The ST. Louis poet who wrote the above for
got to add:
The play was on-my lady entered late,
armed at all pOlnts she slowly took her seat
(SJeppin@, as she passed by, on both my feet)
She sat before me-ah, my cursed fate !
Ihe house grew dark and faded from my
view;
The stage ana all its gaily tinseed crew
saw no more-was only conscious that
She wore laundering big cartwheel hat
At Henry Irving's Lyceum, London,
Lillian Russell has scored winner IN
JacobowSkPs comic opera. '',The Queen
N / IN (
WOrtd thus glows about it: 1.-The Queen
OF Brilliants,' which was produced AT the
Lyceum Iheater last night, corruscates
with color and with the glow of oriental
spiendor. The mounting and dresses are
superb, and, as a spectacle, few comic
operas can compare with it,"
Dunlop says: NJ. b. Curtis has lost
another manager This time it is Dun
can B. Harrison, who has found it impos-
Sam'l of POsen. lie adds: olga Neither
sole will make her American debut in
The Transgressor," evidently torgetiul
OF the Biblical declaration, The wa- of
the tranSgressor is hard"
Joseph Reynolds, Mrs. Lanrtrv's man.
ager, says that the actress sails for this
country on October 9th, and remains
here until juno next. 1t is not certain
yet whether or not she will appear at Nh
John Ashley, the circus man. cele-
brated the birth OF the new English
Princelet by inviting the 100 survivors of
the Crlmean campaign TO see the Kiralfy
show at the Olympia III London. He
also gave them dinner and pipes.
/. }. Reynolds has been appointed Su-
perintendent OF Madison Square Garden
to succeed the late Benson Sherwood,
Mr.. Reynolds was Mr.. Sherwood's as
sistant for some time prior to the latter $
death.
Somebody asked De Pachmann if he
was of Hebrew descent. "Non 9" said
he, proudly, my father was a cantor OF
Odessa, but my mother was Turkey; L
am pianist"
Richard Mansfield will produce a new
play by General Lloyd Bryce entitled
The Easy Road" to follow Arms and
the Man. at the Herald-square Theater,
New York.
The elder Coquelin has bean engaged to
appear with Sarah Bernhardt at the Paris
Renaissance, and will make his debut
there as Falstatfr Sarah playing Prince
Hal.
Tho announcement is made that new
American singer, of whom report speaks
highly, is to make her debut at the Paris
Opera next month in Romeo and Juliet"
Manager Todd OF Sacramento has pur-
chased the right To produce three of the
best Of all the comic operas, and Pyke's
fine company will render them.
James w. Harilins, Jr.'s, latest melo-
drama, The Man Without a Country"
will be produced at the American Thea
ter, New York, October 22d.
Robert Goidbeck, tho pianist and com
poser, after residence of eight years