The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-02

style is healthy sign of the musical
progress Of Scranton.
Miss Nellie Griffin, organist at the
Dunmore Presbyterian church, has had
the misfortune ITO fall upon the Ice
and sprain one of her wrists. Z. 4.
Southworth will probably fill the posi-
ton until Miss Griffin Is again able
to use her hand upon the keyboard.
Il Il Il
Editor Sam Hudson, of the Times,
is at work upon a comic opera libretto
which is of a brilliant character and
teeming with upLto-date witticisms. 1t
is possible that Professor Richard
Lindsay may write the music for Mr.
Hudson's plot.
william d. Evans, the tenor. Of Car
bondale, was In town on Thursday
evening to attend the rehearsal of the
Cambro-American club, of which he
is a member
Mrs. NJ. ]. Boston Williams. the we'll
known West Side contralto, will be
among the so.cists at Mr.. Carter's
organ recital. to be given at Elm Park
church on Feb. u.
Mr.. Southworth's pupils at Keystone
academy will give Il recital at the
academy In Factoryville on Wednesday
evening next.
Organist j. Willis Conant, of St.
Luke's church. has returned from a
visit to New Bedford. Mass.
DR.. Mason. of Wilkes-Barre, expects
to bring out his new Welsh opera in
the near future.
Eugene Ysaye, the young violinist
who has recently come from Brussels
to get his share of the money which
Americans are lavishing on foreign art
lists, is destined. in the Troy Times
opinion. to be the idol of the matinee
girl. In fact, he has already reached
that exalted position, and the New
York girls are raving about his genius.
The Ysaye craze has not quite reached
the stage, where the enthusiasts throw
things-tlowers, ribbons and gloves
at the performer, as was the case when
!, ,Paderewski was in this country, but
Ysaye is certainly the successor of
Paderewski in the affections of the
girls, and 1T Is only a question Of time
before he will have to dodge the many
missiles aimed at his leonine head
At present he seems to take the open
demonstrations of admiration with
considerable surprise He has not been
accustomed to that sort of thing, and
the American matinee girl is novelty
in his life. The violinist is a more
manly looking man than Paderewski,
and wears his hair considerably
shorter. He also parts it on the side.
His face is rather fat and his cheeks
have so far encroached upon his eyes
that the latter are almost closed. Take
1t altogether he ia not a beauty, and the
reason for the alteration manifested
by the fair sex is difficult to explain.
But it Is certain that Ysaye is making
no objection, for the coin is flowing into
his Golfers in steady stream.
Nothing would have seemed more re-
mote" observes the Philadelphia Rec
and half-sacred Bardic body the Welsh
national eisteddfod; and yet it seem!
that these music-pving descendants OF
the old Druids are terribly agitatet
over the selection for the heroine of one
of their novels in verse of Welsh lady
the legendary Ardurfyl, who, it ap
pears, was a woman with past And
strangely enough, the heroine of tn,
old Sanskrit play enacted at New Yorl
during the past week, 'Vasantena,
turns out to have been a second cen
tury Mrs. Tanqueray. When the ole
Hindus and mystic Druids indulged il
such social problem plays and studie:
so many centuries ago, what becomes