The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

| nesday evening viii be given Monday,
the 9Th. in the Garfield hall. The best
talent in the city, including Mrs. Nal
I VIVA Walden, Miss Gertrude Calhoun,
! Mrs. S. f. Lawrence, Miss Bessie Wood
I Messrs w j. Cox, Eugene Fail, f. B.
Walden. Fred Huttmann, Garfield
/ Black and the Second Regiment band,
Will participate. Admission 10 and 25
cents.
BASE BALL TODAY.
The first game Of the season at the
fair grounds this afternoon between
Chuck Floyd's Ponca Indians and Hen
derSOn'S Pets promises to be an inter-
esting one as both teams were out
playing practice game yesterday af-
/ ternOOn. After getting warmed up
the boys chased the bali around the
diamond at a wonderful gait. The
Indians have all been selected with
great care for their own special posi-
ton which they thoroughly under
stand, and using all the trickery and
cunning of their race, makes a gme
that viii be hard to beat by the best
clubs in the country. Not only will
they be interes ting as cool ball players,
hut dressed in one of the most novel
and striking ball suits ever seen in the
national game. with their long Jet
picture well worth going to see. Last
evening both clubs headed by Profess
sor Smiths Picininny band made
parade through the main streets and
created quite a sensation by their odd
appearance. Go early and get in posi-
ton this afternoon. The game is call
ed at 3 o'clock and good street car
service is promised. Give the boys a
good send off. They start for the
east next week on one of the longest
baseball tours ever made in this coun-
try in one season.
SOUSA IS COMING.
The musical population of Wichita
viii doubtless be greatly interested in
the news that John Philip Sousa and
his peerless concert band will appear
in the city at the Auditorium on Thurs
day afternoon and evening, May 9.
What is there to say about Sousa that
has not been said. He is the greatest
concert band conductor of the day be-
yond question or argument. That con-
coded, and the perfection of his organi-
cation also admitted is remains but TO
state that the triumphal tours of last
season placed the band and it leader
higher than ever upon the pinnacle OF
musical fame.
Sousa's success and popularity are
doubtless as much due to his musical
compositions as To his ability as a mu-
sician and leader He is as widely
known in this country trough his ire
sistable marches as is the Strauss fam
lily for their famous waltzes. Every
band in the country may be trusted, in
the march Of a mile. to play two or
three of Sousa's stirring marches, and
no planiSts repertoire is considered
'up-to-date' which does not contain
the Washington Post" the High
School Cadets" the Beau Ideal" and
others of Sousa's compositions. He is re-
garded as much the March King as
Strauss is the Waltz King" And there
Is probably no modern music which is
more extensively hummed and drum
med and thrummed than Sousa's in
spring marches. But nobody can play
his own compositions like Sousa him
self; and this Will be one of the great
est reasons why our readers will turn
out en- masse to hear Sousa's band
when it appears in this city.
An additional attraction with Sousa
and his forces. will be the first appear
ance with this organization Of Miss
Barnard. one of the most brilliant So
pranoS of the east, and adds to her
splendid talents of voice and method, a !
stage presence of impresSiveness and
beauty. Miss Currie Duke is southern
beauty, the daughter Of General Basil /
Duke Of Kentucky. She was a pupil OF /
Joachim while in Europe. and greatly |.
favored by the great master. Her
playing is soulful. sincere and musical |
and her technique is almost beyond (
criticism. With the magnetic SOusa az 1
the head Of these attractions. there is /
no reason to wonder why the entire /
musical community is throbbing with 1
anticipation at the thought of the COM |
ing concerts