The herald., 1895-05-05
ACTORS ON THE
MIMIC STAGE

The regular monthly meeting of the
pupils of Herr and Madam Rubo will
take place next Wednesday evening in the
Blsnchard-Fitzgerald hall.
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The Church of the Unity has secured
Mile. Martinez and her company for the
concerts on the evenings of Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 21st and 22d of May.
Mile. Martinez, as her name would in
dicate. is a lady of Spanish birth. In adj
dlsion to her great gifts as singer.
nature has endowed her with an excep-
tionally fascinating stage presence and
manner. In commenting upon her rare
qualities as concert singer. Music and
Drama of New York says: ''Anna Louise
Carey (the great American contralto) used
to be regarded as the most popular singer
with audiences, but Mile. Martinez has
captured her laurels.
The artistic career of Mile. Martinez
has been one of unbroken triumphs from
the time she made her debut as Marguer-
ite in Faust. under the personal manage
ment of Max Strakosch, the celebrated
impressario of Italian opera. Although
Mile. Martinez was not yet Is years of age
when first heard in,opera. her success was
immediate and pronounced. Since then
she has appeared in all the leading capi-
tails of the world, creating everywhere the
most unbounded enthusiasm.
The London Daily Telegraph, in speak
ing of recent concert in that city, has
the following: 1.-The concert given on
Saturday evening by the Royal Amateur
Orchestra society (his royal highness the
Duke of Edin burgh, president and first
violin) was attended by Il company so
numerous as to fill st. James hall. Mile.
Isidora Martinez making her first appear
ance in concert in England, was received
with great favor. In the scene Regnava
ell Silenzio from Donizetti's Lucia. the
new singer revealed voice of beautiful
quality and style of vocalzation to be
gained only by experience. The Aria
was sung with great artistic expression
and the Cabaletta laden with toriture,
with consummate skill. The en-
thusiasm aroused by Mile. Martinez was
spontaneous and well merited.
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If it is true that Verdi is writing an
opera on Shakespeare The Tempest,
then this wonderful old man will COM
petely throw into the shade all the hith-
erto accredited efforts of octogenarians.
M. Victor Maurel is responsible for the
news, which he has only known posi-
lively for the past few days. He, it is
said. will sing the part of Caliban. When
The Tempest is finished it will complet the
Nerdian Shakespearean trllogy, Othelio,
Falstaff and The Tempest. What supe-b
achievement. and how it does put to the
blush the wailings of the young men of
our day. the true degenerates. who mask
their laziness with fine philosophical
terms like pessimism and world sickness
and such hollow, idle phrases. Look at
Gladstone. men all enjoying mental
health. and simply because they have
worked and continue to work. These be
examples for the younger generation OF
men and women. who should cease to
hearken to the despairing. cry of false and
sick Drained prophets. Courier
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Mucn has been heard recently as to how
the words of our so-called national an
them. America, came to be written. but
very few people appear to know anything
about the music except that 1T is Identical
with God Save the Queen.
DR. Samuel +. Smith himself seems to
imagine that the air was originally Ger
man, but the best German authorities
give no support to this view. The fact
that Beethoven borrowed it from the
English is referred to by Nohl in his
Beethoven Feer (p So, and Chrysanders 5
Jahrbucher Opp. 2s7, 4oO credits it to
Henry Carey.
LThe facts as given by Grove in his well
known Dictionary of Music and Mu-
sicians. are these: ''The first public per-
formance was at dinner given in 1740 to
celebrate the taking of Ortobello by Ad
miral Vernon, when it is said to have
been sung by Henry Carey as his own
com position. both words and music.
fhe fact that Henry Carey was the author
is testified to by. j. Christopher Smith.
Handel's amanuehsis.-san by DR.. Har
ington. but for the evidence the reader
must be referred to Chappell's full state
ment in his Popular Music (p. 694, and
to Chryasnder's S. Jahrbucher.
He'll Drim Segerkranz, the German
version. was originally not Il German.
but Danish song, and was written by
Heinrich Harries, a Helstein clergyman,
for the birthday of Christian VII. of Den
mark, and published IN the Flensburg
Wochenblatt of January y. 1870, "to the
melody OF the English God Save Great
George the King" The German version
is by B. G. Schumacher, and appeared on
December II. 1893.
The oldest known air bearing any re-
sem blance to the melody of America, or
God Save the Queen, is that at page 9s of
Jan Buli' ard dated 1919. This, how
ever, is in MINOR key.-Musical Courier.
Announcements
BURBANK THEATER-Will O. the
Wisp, rollicking Irish comedy from the
pen of the distinguished actor, author.
vocalist. song writer and comedian, Ed
gar Selden, with the author as Oiny Dar
rell, an Irish lad always welcome as
sunshine, will be produced tonight.
During the action of the play Mr.. Selden
will sing several of his latest songs.
among them No One SO Sweet as My
Nancy, The Girl | Love, Dancing on the
Green, and Her Name is Jane. OF the
play and the actor | aiding eastern ex-
change says:
Edgar Selden, young Irish comedian,
is the latest asprant for honors in this
peculiar field of Irish comedy, hich has
filled the pockets of Scanlan and Murphy.
1t had always b en- supposed that these
two eXponents of Irish character h d
fully covered the field, and that all others
who attempted the line would find it
pretty difficult to contend with them.
But those who witnessed the Selden crea-
tion last night were convinced that thel e
j. always room for Que more. Mr. Sell
den's Irish characterization was certainly
very nicely carried out. He seems to un-
derstand perfectly the requirements Of the
character. He is a very pleasing young
man, graceful in all his movements, and
he has good voice, which he uses to
good advantage.
Orpheum.-The commonplace names
Bnns and Binns. which appear on the
Orpheum play bills for this week conceal
the real. high sounding and honored
titles of two me embers of one of the most
illustrious families of the European
nobility, who are related to some OF the
most prominent personages of the con
tlnent. These two arstocrats are travel
ing inco2 making their. way around the
world bv the employment of their excep-