The record-union., 1894-10-26

the Bostonians begin their annual New
ork engagement.
The subscription for the coming grand
opera season at the Metropolitan, in New
1ork, will be about 40 per cent. larger
tnan ever before. and will reach between
$4,000 and S14U,OO0.
"A1arse Van" a curtain raiser. by
Emma Sheridan Fry and Mrs. L. G..
sutherland, was produced by one Of
last week, and was well received.
Sadie Martinot appears to have opened
her starring tour auspiciously with Steph-
enson and Yardley's iarcical comedy
The Passport" the plot of which is
much like that of "My Official Wife,
James t. Powers has made such a hit
in The New Boy" that Manager Charles
Frohman has decided to keep him at the
head of the cast at the New York Stand
ard. instead OF sending him son the road. !"
The managers of "a Ride for Life'
have engaged for the locomotive scene in
their play jim Root, the engineer who re-
Gently backed his train through six miles
OF tire at Hinckley, Minn., and thus
saved 300 lives.
a company from the Paris Theatre
Llbre gave, on Monday evening last, at
the Residens heater, Berlin, the first
french performance in that city since
the Franco Prussian war, and was loudly
appIauded by big audience.
Dekoven and Smiths new opera, Rob
Roy." owes not little Of its success TO
the fact that singers, and not buffoons, are
engaged to interpret it. AS general rule
managers seem 10 think that singing is
the last thing necessary for comic opera
put Manager T. Z. Whitney knows better.
The Columbia College students have
TINS year wisely determined to do away
with ballet and skirt dancing in their
annual burlesque, and The Bnccaneer"
Will not Introduce any bony legged boys
caperlng III lace-trimmed petticOats, silk
stockings and high-heeled feminine Slip
pers.
The Man Without Country" James
w. Harklns, Jr.'s new play, had its first
production in New York at the American
Theater, on Monday evening. The scene
IS LAID in Louisiana during the civil war.
but the piece is not war play" as the
plot deals with the adventures of a fugi-
tive from justice.
Richard Mansfield, who is presenting
his old repertory at the Herald Square
Iheater, New York, on last Monday
played Shylock in grand revival of the
M erchant of NenIce," and on October
9th will give public dress rehearsap'
OF Napoleon Bonaparte," the new play
written for him by Lorimer StodGard.
lyon Yonson," with Gus Heege. the
author, as the star, is making its first
tour OF the Southern States. This. the
original Swedish dialect comedy, is maxi
ing so much money this season that
Manager Jacob Lift regrets that he has
already signed contract by which both
"Gon 1onson" aud Heege will 90 TO
London next year.
Della Fox finishes her very successful
engagement in The Little Troouer'' at
the New York Casino on October 9th.
On October 10Th 1.-The Passing Showr
Will be revived for a week, and on No
yember 5th Lillian Russell will begin her
American season with Jak obowski's new
opera, 1.-The Queen of Brilliants," The
libretto OF this work, which was adapted
from the German by Brandon Thomas.
has been entirely rewritten by II. j.
Dam.
at recent performance of 1.-THE En-
sign" Jacob Lifts mammoth naval pro-
duction, grizZled old fellow presented
himself at the stage door and asked per-
mission TO go on as one of the 'supers"
tie was allowed to do so, and after
ward, with tears in his eyes, thanked
the manager, adding: You must
excuse me Tor appearing to be
baby, but what | have just seen brings
back the old times so vividly that | can't
help 1t. l was with Admiral Farragut i'll
every one OF his sea tights"