San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-18

begin his seasons work in August
by sending out fourteen companies.
Next season he will produce The
Girl / Left Behind Me in London,
with a cast almost entirely made
up of American actors who have
appeared in the play in this coun-
try.
The engagement which Sarah
Bernhardt has just closed in Lon
don was the most successful that
she has ever played in that city.
She concluded her English visit
with a series of matinee perform
ance in Manchester, Liverpool, Biz
mingham, Sheffield, Glasgow and
Edinburg.
Eugene Ysaye is coming over
for a concert tour in November,
saws the Boston Transcript. Mr..
Ysaye is Belgian who plays on
on the violin like another Orpheus.
He wears his hair in a Rubin
stein name and his name is pro-
nounced -: Well here are few
tries at it: Isaiah, Icy, | say.
Mr. Beerbohm Tree changed his
mind about closing the Haymar-
ket season with a revival of Ham,
let and decided to present Ibsen's
An Enemy of the People instead.
He will make this piece feature
of his provincial tour. Oscar
Wilde's new comedy will not be
produced in the Haymarket until
the new year, when Mr.. Tree will
be in the United States.
Bronson Howard has, according
to his practice of delivering a play
once in two years, nearly complet-
ed new piece, to be produced at
the Empire, New York, at the close
of the run of Henry Arthur Jones'
Masqueraders, to be seen there for
the first time in November. Mr..
Towards last play, Aristocracy,
was produced at Palmer's theater,
New York, November IA, 1892.
The new one is to be a satiriCal
comedy.
In October Mile. Calve will sing
in Sweden and Norway, while
from November l to Decem Der -
she will sing at the Paris Opera
Comique. In January she will
give few special performances at
Madrid. She will sing at Monte
Carlo in February, while for March
and April she has accepted a spe-
cial engagement to appear in La
Navarraise and Carmen at the i'm
perial opera houses of st. Peters
burg and Moscow, whence she will
return direct to London for the
spring season there.
Mozart societies abound in Ger
man and Austrian cities, and are
found in Antwerp, Rotterdam, Co.
penhagen, Bucharest, London, Con-
stantinople, Paris, and even in
Toxic, Japan. These clubs have
for aim the support Of the Mozar-
teum at Salzburg, which ls both
musical school and a museum,
with a rich collection Of objects and
writings relating to the life and
works Of the master. In twelve
years more than 1000 have at.
tended this conservatory, the ma.
jority of whom received instruc-
tions gratis.
A new comic opera, The Magic
Kiss, by Julia Edwards and Stan
islaus STANCE, was produced at the
fremont, Boston, last week. The
advertiser" says of the first per-
Torrance: "The music is certain
ly not reminiscent, being too queer
and individual for that. Nor is it
tuneful, the legend air running
through the opera being the only
one likely to be much whistled.
The pedestrian is musicianly, if a
little eccentric, and most of the
the choral arrangement effective,
Madeleine must be cut to reason
able length, both the last two acts
being too long-drawn-out in dia-
lOgue, much of which seems need
less but the first two acts pleased
the audience, and the piece will
doubtless be popular.
Walter Damrosch has recently
made the odd confession that he
still continues to suffer from a
peculiarly nervous agitation just
before he ascends to his place al
the conductors desk. In speaking
of this subject recently he said
ain even the smallest and least
critical towns in which / ever ap.
pear in public, the half-hour before
the concert is invariably one o.
absolute misery. 1t is not exactly
stage fright, but sort Of nervou:
fever. 1t is impossible to eat oil
drink anything. 1t is torture. Il