The record-union., 1894-10-06
MUSIC AND TEE DRAMA.
Notes About Men and Women of the
Stage.
Authors and Composers-New Plays
successes and Failures-Noyel
Marriage Announcement.

Dunlap writes in his Stage Ne2cS: /
cannot always agree with my c0nfreres
/ OF the daily press, as these columns often
SHOW; but occasionally l find something
one OF them has penned which l wish
mao written myself. Such a paragraph |
| llnd IN the sunday World of this city.
IN the department so ably conducted
] by ym Crinkle," and [ cannot
forbear quoting it: Francis Wilson
IS now enjoying the popularity
which was once distributed between
| DIAey and Nat Goodwin. There does
not appear to be any limit to the mirth-
iulness that he IS capable of exciting.
This is only worth mentioning because
there IS general impression among
| managers that comic opera has been
overdOne, and Mr.. Wilson has the
very scarce discretion which prevents
| him from ever OVERRIDING anything. He
| possesses q great deal of rare talent which
once made Burton and Robson so famous.
! That talent consists III an absolute
knowledge of intrinsic humOr and the
physical ability 10 express it in every
possible form with the smallest expend-
iture of force. People who have seen
The DEVILS Deputy have found them
selves laughing uproariousIy ana heart
! lily in company with the entire audience,
and by no effort of the will could they
| control the tendency. Mr.. Wilson, in
some Of his methods, is as clean cut as
! CoQuelin, and through all his ebulliency
you feel the artist. l cannot think of
anybody who at this moment is enter
tanning so many people with the lightest
of viands and leaving no unpleasant taste
in the mouth"
The Baltimore Meas urges renewed eff
forts in raisingmOney for a monument to
| Francis Scott Key, the author OF The
StarSpangled Banner" "The promoters
OF the enterprise" it says, propose to
erect in Patterson Park tall shaft TO the
memory Of the poet who gave to the
United States its National anthem. The
monument would overlook the Patapsco
and Fort McHenry, the scene Of the stir
ring events OF the month of Sep
tembe, 1914. as well as the battle
field of Patapsco Neck, which has,
somewhat strangely, gone into history
stand upon the very ground where the de-
tenders OF the city threw up breast
works on what was known as Louden-
slager's Hill to repel the invaders. The
monument would silently teach its patri-
otic lesson to every person who ap-
proaches Baltimore over the two great
railroad lines-the Baltimore and Ohio
and the nsyIvania-as we'll as to
all who come TO the city on craft from the
Chesapeake Bay"
Mrs. Ryley, who is the author of
"Christopher, Jr., little comedy put
on the boards by John Drew's company,
is an EnglishwOman by birth. She is
extremely fond Of play writing, and says
that it is d recreation for her. This may
be because she has been SO successful in
that line. Mrs. Ryley writes rapidly,
making a tour-act play ready for the
boards in nine months, and believes that
woman, to write plays, must have some
knowledge OF the stage She advises
young people who desire 10 become dra-
natists to know the stage we'll at first,
perhaps not as actors, but, at least, the
mechanical side Of it.
Dunlop's Stage NcCs says: CoIlabora-
ton in playwritiug is something oil a
mystery to the uninitiated, but a most
satisfactory explanation was given the
other day by II. G. Stephenson, who.
when questioned as to what part of ''The
Fatal Card" he wrote, and what came
from the pen OF Haddon Chambers, said:
1--WE divided the labor. l wrote all the
vowels and Mr.. Chambers all the conso-
nants"
Fraulein Alice, the popular actress of
Berlin, announces her coming marriage: