The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-16

the 17th, will be Tom Taylor's LADY Clam
carty.'' When through with Chicago the eou-
! pie Will come here and give us ArthiiT wing
Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."
! Sadie Martinez ana her husband, Max Fig
man. just back from England will TOUR Amerl-
ca with Yardley and StepensOn's comedy. zine
while abroad.
The London Gulldhan School of Music has
ABOUT 1000 female pupils, 800 OF whom are
taking lessons on the violin. Think OF the
6ow-ing and scrape-ing there will be when these
fasahlhlS IN petleoats get out of leading
strings.
position, and now we have a woodman who as
pres 10 become vocal star. Alois Burg
staiier, VINO appeared This summer Heinrich.
one OF the minstrel knights in ''Tannhauser"
az Bayreulh, was wOodchopper I'D Upper
BaV'rla at % cents day when Nine. Wagner
discovered hun last spring. His heroic tenor
voice induced her to bring him TO Bayreutn,
where lie was set al work to study singing
Boston has fourteen theaters
Jean de Reckless fad Is The bicycle
Henry Irving has under consideration a play
by Mrs. Humphfy Ward.
Mrs. Carl Rosa Is managing the Carl Rosa
English Opera Company.
The Guild OF ST. Cecilia in London will hutId
or hire large hail where nervous, sleepl as
and weak people can go TO have soft music
played and sung TO them, Or from which point
telephones can be strung 10 the beds of hos
pitfalls. This would be mistaken kindness for
some lnvalids.
Il think an actress should dress as simnlv az
possible" says Miss Kate ROrke, the English
actress, especially when taking a pat6e ic
part. 1t is mistake TO keep changing ones
gowns, for 1t abstracts the attention OF the audi
ence; the public, especially the feminine por-
lion of il, does not care what the woman Won
represent is saying or feeling II you come each
time OH the Stage In a different and perhaps
more striking dress than that worn in tue last
act The audience fOrgets what is going on,
and only thinks of the smart frocks and Of the
effect produced by them"
DIR. HanslIck relates in his memoirs that
when he once visited Mime. Patti at her castle
in Wales, NJ. Nicolini brought him a list of
pieces after dinner, begging him to choose one.
The critic naturally expected that the prima
donna would sing tor him, so he chose piece,
whereupon Nicolini Called the servant and
said, John, No. 26." moment later the num-
Der was begun by an-orcheStriOn, ''an excel
lent, very expensive instrument, which we I'M
ported from Germany, as NlcollnieXplalned.
Nat c. Goodwin and Beerpohm Tree, a Lon
don actOr-manageT who Is 10 tour the United
States for the first time In January, 1898. re-
sem0e each other strikngly. They have sandy
hair OF exactly The SAME color, ana their feat
ures are not unlike.
Lester Lonergau, who began his career 10
this city by essaying Hamlet. Is now being
mentioned in Eastern pabers especially in the
New York World. He plays Lem Stockwell IN
Coon Hollow" and is now en- route with that
comedy = an emanatlon from The brain OF
JuaniIp Mauen, The Spanish voinist. will
begin a tour OF fifty concerts in The United
States next November.
Operas based upon English poems or English
rom 'nces are growing common on the Con-
tinent. Verdi'S latest operas are both founded
on Shakespeare. A Danish composer has ST
a book adapted from Haggald's Cleopatra"
and new opera, "EnOch Atden,' drawn from
Tennyson's poem, has been accepted al tins
Imperial Opera, Berlin. The music is by
Victor Haussman, a young and untred COM
poser
A Boston paper says OF a feminine singer in
"TObasco": 4 he more one sees this brilliant
little butter ball of 4 singer The more one likes
her style" She is as jolly as the pTOverblal
SandbOy, aud when she ''tOotles- tOOIeS" with
that irresistible squeak on the imaginary flute
tie Sphinx herself would laugh.
1 he rec mt death in New York OF the Scottish
singer, Nine. Osborne, was peculiarly sad. she
came 10 his country to sing In opera, but of
late years had depended on !eacuing for sup.
port, and during the hard times there were not
enough pupils 10 pay her expenses. She was
turned out OF her lodgings, and walked about
ali day III The burning sun without food. She
was relieved by friend, but 10 was 100 late,
and she died from the results OF exposure.
Among the artists who were heard for the
first time at Bayreuth this Sc AsOn was young
hungarian, Zaltan Dueme. He was il barytOue
originally, but under d Paris teacher developed
tenor voice. SbIiglia, the teacher, raised
Jean de ReSZke's voice from barytone 10 nor.
Edison mas patented bUmbshell for stage
purposes that bursts with bang aud glare,
but does not EJECT smoke into the eyes OF the
audience and throw pieces of itself through the
plays that are 10 be revived in the fall.