The record-union., 1896-09-27

proper light to the audience.
The play Of Divorced" gives the
principal members of the Clunle opera
house Stock Compny scope for the dls-
play of the most varied emotions. FROM
the opening scene in the home OF the
young couple whose happiness Is soon
disturbed through the scheming or an
adventures to the closing act, where,
after all the trials and tribulations at
tending a sad separation and divorce
the hero and heroine are reunited, the
chief characters run the gamut OF the
rassions-love, hatred, jealousy, re-
venge. A strong comedy underplot re-
lieves the more emotional side or the
drama and also gives an opportunity
for the introduction of musical special
ties.
A really original dramatic situation
is found in "Demi-Seurs (Step- -sisters)''
performed recently at the Theater des
Escholiers, in Paris. A young woman
with two equally devoted lovers, one an
artist and a dreamer, the other an eX-
slorer and man of action, loves them
both and manages to marry them,
one after the other, being left widow
with a grown-up daughter by eacn
husband, when the play opens. The
daughters take after their fathers, ana
three acts are spent in a contest be-
tween the half sisters to gain the pref
erence in their mothers affections, she
being tortured by the same indeciSion
in the case of her daughters that had
made her unhappy with the fathers.
There are no male characters in the
play.
The republic of Guatemala has ap-
propriated $1O6,O 900 for a bull fight, a
Spanish opera company and an Ameri-
can vaudeville company during its
worlds fair, to be held in February.
When Sara Bernhardt returns to the
Renaissance she will reopen that thea
ter with a new play" LIE Passe," by
Georges de Porto Richie. This will be
followed by PLUS ne Refine" which
bears Emil Bergerat's signature, and
in the course of the season the great
actress promises to produce a new
modern play by Victorien Sardou.
A London paper says that "a pound
a week would seem on a liberal esti-
mate to be the average income of a
British organist, and while the supply
50 greatly exceeds the demand no one
can reasonably blame Wears and
church wardens for not offering more.
In the smaller churches with poor or
gans from, f20 to f40 year is paid
the organist. Cathedral salaries range
from 1900 to 1850, but these are the
plums Of the profession and they in
volve at least a dozen services a week.
An organ grinder
probabl earns as much. 1t really
seems strange that parents should
waste their money and the time Of
their sons on a profession 50 hopelessly
overstocked."
Edwyn A. Barron, a well-known Chi
cago dramatic critic, who is residing in
England has taken to playwriting very
seriously, for not only is he collaborat-
ing with Wilson Barrett on a play, but
he has also made an adaptation Of
George Eliot's 'Romola" for Nine. Julia
Marlowe- -Taber.
Hoyts "a Milk White Flag" is one Of
ductions on the stage. 1t has a cast OF
fifty people, and the staging Of the
piece is probably the most elaborate Of
any of the Hoyt productions With one
or two exceptions, the cast of the COM
edy this season includes all the old
favorites in their original roles. The cos
tunes and scenery are all new.
W Prodv'C ro II a r
Trilby Company sailed for home Sep
tember 9th on the steamer Mariposa
The company played for one night in
Honolulu on September 18th. This was
the only instance on record of a theat-
rical company limiting a whole nation
to one performance. The American tom
opens in San Francisco October 9th.
Bret Harte's new play, Sue" will be
presented for the first time at Hoyt's
Theater, New York, on Tuesday night
November 10Th. AS it is the distin-
grished novelist's first ambitious at
tempt at play writing, the occasion
premises to be interesting as a distinct
lively literary as well as theatrica
event. The production will be particu-
larly interesting by reason of the ap-
pearance of Mrs. Annie Russell as Sue
and Joseph Haworth, who will play the
part Of her husband. Other well known
names in the cast are Horace Lewis
Louis Mason, Guy Standing, Theodore
Roberts, Sam Reed.
If the bicycle craze among theatrica
people continues an extra stage hand
will soon be required to take charge Of
the numerous wheels. e., bicycle
wheels-carried by some companies. Ir
| ". A. Brady's Humanity Company the
| stars, Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Da-
yies, are enthusiastic bicyclists ano
carry their bicycles with them. Severa
Of the company have followed their ex-
! ample and the carpenters have to stow
away seven bicycles besides the seen
cry, four horses and q pack of hounds
in the big special baggage car.
IN Drury Lane, London, the new
stage revolving With electricity, upon
which the late Augustus Harris reck-
| oned so much, is now fixed, and a new
| fireproof safe has also been built.
! The bulky posthumous literary manu-
| scripts Of Rubinstein are being careful
! ly examined, and a portion of them vii
probably be published during the winter
| season.
The Germans are beginning to realize
| the absurdity Of having Wagner socie-
| ties at time when Wagner's operas
are nearly monopolizing the stage. Dur.
! ing the last year the membership of The
| General Society fell from 5000 to 5000
| IT would be a small loss If this diminu
| ton led TO the demise of that very stu
| pid periodical. the "Bayreuther Blat
! ter" which is at present engaged il
/ printing the superhuous verses which