The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Langtry's Alleged Bon Mot.

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New York Recorder.
Certainly 70 one would credit Lily Lang
try with esprit or the utterance of a bon
mot. She suggests good living. jollity, If
you will, but not wit. Nevertheless, she is
said tc nave made the following charming
at Roster & Balls: Cissie LOTUS was on
the stage, and-weli, you know she is Just
is in an interesting condition. After watch
ing the clever little mimic, the Jersey Lily
or, rather, Filly-exclaimed: Il DC. hope
Cissie will soon give us a good imitation of
Justin" Huntley Mccarthy, her husband)
Three Minutes with Musicians.
The will of Rubinstein leaves over $500, W0
to his wife and children.
Berlin critics say that Josef Hofmann
now stands in the very front rank of plan
lists, with hardly a superior.
Zelie De Lussan has concluded to remain
in this country during May to sing in a
number of concerts and music festivals.
Freund's Music Weekly contains about all
the gossip afoat concerning musical events,
and credit is due to it for many of The
cuttings in this column.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the e%rstwhile fair whis-
whistling to the audiences of the Berlin
kindergarten, the principal variety theater
of the Prussian capital.
Julian Edwards, who will be musical di-
rector of the summer opera season at
the Boston fremont Theater, is hard at
work on the orchestration of his new opera,
which will be produced in June.
Verdi. who is in his eighty-fourth year,
is writing a new opera in which Maurel.
the French baritone, is to sustain the chief
title, la Tempete." The role given Maurel
is said to be on the Mephisto order.
Receipts of the four weeks of German
opera in New York amounted to Sl50.0O0.
ances, divided among seven of the Wagner
works, as follows: aSiegfried," four times;
Tristan" and " Lobe each Y three :;
-''Tannhauser'' and die MeiStersinSer,"
each twice. The opera season was Under
Eastern critics harshly refer to him as "a
young and inexperienced musical director
Rumors which have been current that
Mr.. Nikisch is about to resign the post of
I conductor at Buda-Pesth, and to he sue
ceeded by Siegfried Wagner, are pronounced
incorrect. Mr.. Nikisch Is arranging a series
of fetes for next year in connection with
the celebration Of the one5thousandth
the Hungarian nation under the Chris.
tan monarch Stephen, whose title of
by Pope sylvester II, are still borne by
dhe Austrian Emperor. The opera house
will be open throughout the summer and
autumn, and the programmes will be large
ly devoted to national music.
There is in the Italian city Palermo a
magnificent opera house, now in the final
stages of interior decoration. IL Teatro
Masimo has taken many years to tuild;
it has already cost the city government
no less than 100000 lire, and will Lave
cost, before it is ready for occupancy,
2.O0. 900 more-that is to say, in all about
81. 1000, 900. IL Teatro Masimo, when COM
pleted, will have cost the taxpayers of
Palermo, in round numbers, $40, 0o0,0 600. This
new and really superfuous opera house is,
as all Palermitans proudly claim, the most
magnificent and perfectly appointed thea
ter in all Europe, the Grand Opera of
Paris. perhaps, alone excepted. All Paler-
mo goes to the opera, from the nobility,
to the general rag. tag and bobtail," who
pawn their cloalks, if cloaks they have. to
get the price of admission to the second
gallery.
Just now there is a controversy among
the critics as to whether or not Nine.
Media is a Jewess. The prima donna her
self denies having any Semitic faint.
from Melbourne, the city of her birth, her
maiden name being Nellie Mitchell. Her
father was David Mitchell, born in Forfar.
Scotland, and her mothers maiden name
was Isabella Dow, also Scotch, but of Span
ish ancestry-both were Scotch Presby-
five years ago David Mitchell and his wife
left Scotland and settled in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, where he has since amaSsed a for
tune, and where he still resides. Here
Mime. Melba and her three brothers and
three sisters were born. Ten years ago
Charles. Nesbilt Armstrong, younger son of
ST. Andrew Armstrong, Bart. The result
of this union was a son, now at school in
London.