The morning call., 1894-07-12

Her story 10 c0mlcal tale or woe, CescTlDiug
the inconvenience and ridicule 10 which she Is
exposed, owing to the lac that she mas a
double who constantly copies ana impeIsonates
her. Yvette says: 1.-THE worst Is that my
health suffers from it. For the last three years
people have been saying, The false 1Vette Is
growing fieShy.' Then l hastily make mysel1
thlh-Vapor baths, dry toast, massage. Two
months afterWard this satanic lVette grows
tnln Then fly To arsenic pills, farlnaceouS
lood ana every other fattening subs ance MY
Growing woe Is that she always DluHS me by
getting thin in the summer, and naturally II Is
l, who, irving To get feshy, suffer and per-
splre and stife and end by getting out OF breath
when sing. And that is what celebrity ieads
to-"
"Music" is responsible for the following
statement respecting Clarence EDDY, Inc we'll
known organist: when gentleman arrives
at competence, and the first push for profess
slonal position has placed him upon the very
pinnacle, many charming possibilities open 10
MIN. Among them is that OF gentleman
farming. Such position OF at1uent ease mas
| been reached by Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Eddy
aud Tor some years they have been developing
niue country place In California Win lDeial
fruit possibilities. The orange grove Is now
coming into bearing, and the first fruits nave
| been gathered this year. Alter MIR. and Mrs
~-N
ing some of their friends received baskets OF
oranges of a particularly large size and choice
flavor Each orange was wrapped In Japanese
paper, bearing the legend o. o. .. drademarK)
opus one from the Orpheus orange orchard,
Riverside, Cal, 1884,"
The Princess Beatrice's new songs, written
TO poetry by Lord BeaeonSfeld, were recently
sung at Miss Janotha's benefit concert, given
ltdlIV'S
Maiden'S Song" anG 1.-The Green Cavalier
proved TO be decidedly above the average OF
amateur efforts. The Princess Beatrice is an
excellent musician. being good performer on
the planoforte, the harp and the organ. She
has written several church pieces, which often
form part of the services at ST. Georges
Chapel, Windsor.
Paris papers say that Emperor William has
several times expressed the wish that an opera
might be composed, which. taken from PTusslan
history, might be treated with complete Ger
man Chauyinism. Otto Bendes, the journalist
last year expelled from France, has undertaken
this task. In his retreat In London he has
| written the text for an opera entitled "The
Kings Guard" and LeOnhardt Emile Bach has
written the music. The first representation
will take place next autumn at the Berlin
opera.
The idea OF effecting an arrangement Tor
Thomas Chicago Orchestra 10 play In New
York part of the time is understood 10 nave
been dropped for The present. New YORK
would have been glad to get Thomas, but de-
sired not 10 have Chicago orchestra. More
over, New YorN desired TO control the time OF
the concerts, without regard 10 the Chicago end
of the partnership. 1t is not unlikely. however,
that Thomas and the Chicago orchestra Will be
heard in New York next season.
The wealth of Italy in theaters is shown by
the following statistics: In Catania there is one
theater to 1900 of the population in Bologna
one 10 10000, In Vienna one 10 2S,OOO IN
Milan and Turin one 10 10000, in Rome one TO
81 900. Against this compare Berlin, with one
TO $1,000. Hamburg one TO $4,000, Vienna
one to $4,000, London one TO $4,000.
mus ical competition has just been an
nounced by the city Of Paris for all citizens OF
French bith. The works submitted must be
| original, of high style and grand proportions
| They may be either symphonic or dramatic.
I lie manuscript must be sent to the Bureau of
Fine Arts at the Hotel de Vile in March, 1896.
'Saint-Saens' "Phryne'' has had a great sue
cess at the Royal Opera-house in Stockholm.
TIE tltle-rOe was sung by prinla donna of
light opera, Nine. Peterson Norries, the
Swedish Jude, who in this work appeared in
grand opera for the first time. She was greatly
admired both as actress and singer:
report comes from all authentic source that
| among Meyerbeer's legacies have been found a
| melodrama, LA Jeunesse de Goethe" many
| youthful works, psalms and conglomerations
! of compositions. which originated when
! "L'Afucaine' was under construction but were
! not used in that opera.
! Spiro Samara. the successful composer OF
! LA Martire," studied for some time in Paris
with Leo Delibes. 1t is owing to the en-.
! couragement of the Milan publisher SonZOgno,
however, that his works have been produced
| and that he has finally written his way through
! failures to succ
! The tablet at Mayence, commemorative the
birthplace of Peter Cornelius, will be dedicated
on October 26, the anniversary of the death of
the composer. The Liederkranz Society OF
| Mayence, to which Is due the success OF the
affair, has the management of the ceremony.
| Miss Lalla Miranda, the favorite soprano in
Victoria, has left Australia for England. Pre-
i vous 10 her departure the Mayor OF Melbourne
| held a reception in her honor. and she bears
| with her Il citizens address signed, among
others, by the Premier and Chief Justice.
Weingartner, who is engaged for 1896 by the
! Royal Theater at Munich, has asked for his i'm
! mediate Hlease at Berlin. but the lntendenl
! has refused on the ground that the interests OF
| the royal opera demand his presence there until
| the expiration OF bis contract
| Nine. Richard of the Paris Grand Opera abso-
| lutely prohibits her pupils from using any scent
! When any of them come 10 her per!umed she
| frequently refuses to give the lessons on the
ground that the scent makes the vocal chords
| unfit for use.
A grand cOncourse of 125 musical and choral
societies has taken place at Orleans, France
| Saint-Saens conducted and a banquet given
in the evening he was presented with bronze
model OF famous statue of Joan of Arc.
! The grand Gounod festival, given in the
! Trocadero, has been repeated gratuitouSy by
! Invitation. An unpublshs Work. at which the
master was at work at the time OF his deaih
was performed.
The Princess de BrancOVan, who gives mag
nificent musicaes at her home, is known III
| Paris as "the queen of society pianists."
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