The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-07
LondonerS Interested in the
Movements of William
Waldorf Aston.
COLLAPSE OF A GOLD MINE.
Patti Will Make Another Farewell"
Appearance at a Greatly Re-
duced Salary.

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cases in the court. the burning to death of
q woman in Ireland under extraordinary
circumstances by her husband and other
relatives on the ground that she was be-
witched, the shooting of girl by her lover
in the streets of London and the mans
subsequent suicide, one would have
thought that the English press had enough
to do in correcting its own morals this
week. But these events have not dis
turbed the usual self-suficient tendency to
lecture the United States. The Daily News
and other newspapers attribute the result
of the Chicago election entirely to the work
of Messrs. Stead and Burns.
The mining market has been excited by
a telegram from the Earl of Fingail an
nouncing the collapse of the Londonderry
gold mine, in which Colonel North, the
''Nitrate King" is interested. The pc
culiar part of the affair is that insiders
have been selling heavily for several days.
The decline represents loss of s., 800, 900
TO the shareholders.
The movements and concerns of Viii
liam Waldorf Astor have not been such
common property in London as Londoners
would like. Mr.. Aston has built himself
for an office a gem of building on the
embankment, which sports resplendent
gilded weather-vane in the form of an
old-time ship similar to those in which
Hendrix Hudson first passed the narrows.
But beyond these externals, the possession
of Cliveden and the Pail Mall publications,
London does not know anything like
sufficient to satisfy London's curiosity.
The Pail Mall Budget has ceased to be,
notwithstanding that it was paying its
way and Mr.. Astor had number of offers
to purchase it. All of these were refused
and the reason assigned by the press is
that the Budget was the late Mrs. Astor's
favorite paper and its appearance was
painful to the family.
Sir Augustus Harris will have an Easter
opera season at Drury Lane. The operas
will be given in English and popular prices
will prevail, the stalls being 81 70. A start
will be made with Bohemian Girl"
which will be followed by Faust" Gear
men" "Cavalleria" and others. Among
the artists viii be found Mesdames Fanny
Moody, Montieth, Johan and Esther Pal
lister and Mrs. O'Mara, Mr.. Child, Rich
ard Green and Mr.. Brockbank Messrs.
Glover and Seppili will conduct. There
will be a thoroughly adequate chorus.
Among the artists already engaged by Sir
Augustus Harris for his forthcoming Italian
opera season, which is to open at Covent
Garden May Is, are Adelina Patti, Melba,
Give, Emma Eames, Sofiaand Guila Ra-
vogli, Olitska, Florence Montieth, Hascella
Simbrich, Ralph and Jauermeister. For
the six performances in which Nine. Patti
will appear she is to receive SO, 900, rather
moderate for Patti, whose ordinary terms
are $4,000 for single performance. She
probably consented to a reduction on TAX
ing quantity, and then the diva is sure of
her money. To support Patti and the 9TH
ers Sir Augustus has engaged the following
gentlemen: Jan and Edouard de Reszke,
Messrs. Tamagno, De Lucia, Alverez, An
coma, Corsi, Pessinal, Binanaldi, Pini-Corsi,
David Bispham, Plancon, Arimoni, Rich
ara Green Albers, Customary and Joseph
0'Mara.
Among the works to be produced are
Massenet's "Nanon, ""Tristan and Isolde, !"
Faust" Romeo and Juliet, :" Hamlet"
and 'Falstaff." Wagner will be well rep
resented, and English composers will in
clude Mr. Cowen and DR.. Stanford. One
or two of Rossini's works will probably be
revived, and Patti will be heard in "Cris-
Pine la Comart." There will be the usual
large orchestra and chorus, and the con-
ductors will be Signor M. MacniceIli and
Signor Bevignani. Before the end of the
season Henry Irving proposes to revive
several of his old successes. Occasion will
also be taken to present don Dozens" the
story of Waterloo. Sarah Bernhard has
accepted new play by NJ. Armand d'Ar-
tots and Guyot, with the intention of pro-
ducing it during her American tour in
1886. 1t is entitled ia Belle Madame
Montbrulg, and has part for Bernhard
Ehich will offer great opportunities.
Cissy Graham produced a new musical
iarce entitled ''All Aboard" at Portsmouth
last Monday, which is the joint work of
owen Hall and ]. T. Tanner, with music
by Frederick Ross.
Litigation is promised, according to the
papers, over the score of Teddy Solomon's
last completed work. A lady who was in
his confidence during the latter part of his
life, is in possession of the score and
claims it. The composers widow asserts
the score to be hers, and is taking legal
measures to obtain it. A company is in
process of formation with a proposed
capital of $1,200,o00 to run the Coyent
Garden Theater as an opera-house. If the
money can be secured the Duke of Bed
ford, owner of the property, will probably
take the chair.
The Marquis of Lorne has again ap-
peared to the world of letters, not with
poems or other flights of fancy, but as the
author of an accurate and reliable guide to
Windsor Castle. "King Arthur" at the
Lyceum, showns signs of waning popu-
larity. Henry Irving will shortly pro-
duce triple bill, "Pinerose," by Cons, a
one-act version of Don "Quixote,'' and the
story of Waterloo, previously referred to.
Forbes Robertson will take the Lyceum
when Henry Irving goes to America.
Robertson win open that theater in Sep
TENDER with new play by Henry A. Jones,
in which Marion Terry will play the part
of the heroine.
The warden and head master of Brad
field College is preparing performance of
the "Alcestis" of Euripides, which will
be given in the open air in the original
Greek on the afternoons of June IL, IL and
Is. The theater will be in the grounds Of
the college on the same spot where the
'tAntigone'' of Sophocles was given five
years ago and the "Agamemnon" of
Eschylus in 1892
Affairs in India.
CALCUTTA, INDIA, April Ga dispatch