The record-union., 1896-11-01

"eliheu away, as III nothing unusual had
happened.
Brahms is generous. A bachelor with
simple habits, he does not need much
to live on, and has recently sent So. 600
to the Society of Music Friends in
Vienna, with permission to do with it
whatever the directors may deem best
y
A Milan correspondent states that the
operate prize competition instituted
some time since by the impressario
steiner has brought forward no less
than l93 competing works None of
these, 1t appears, has been deemed
worthy of the first prize of 5000 lire.
while the second prize of half that
sum has been awarded to Signor Van
bianchi for an opera, THE Ship
The new farcical comedy which has
been adapted from the French. by Jus
tin Huntly Mccarthy, for the London
Royalty Theater, is in active rehearsal
Fred Terry, Weldon Grossmith, Alfred
Maltby and Miss Ellis Jeffreys are in
the cast.
James fernandez will be the Jacques
IN George Alexander's production of
LAS You Like IT, in the London St
James Theater.
Charles Hawtrey's play "Mr. Mar
tin was a first night failure at the
London Comedy Theater. The author
apparently, has prepared for himself
a part which he cannot play, and has
concocted plot which nobody can be-
lieve or understand
The action of the little Napoleonic
Play which George Bernard Shaw has
disposed of to Sir Henry Irving. opens
in an inn at Favazzaono days before
the battle of Lodi, and the principal
personages are Napoleon Bonaparte
and strange lady, between whom
there is a duel of wits, having for it's
object the possession of a certain dis
patch containing compromising letter
A drastic remedy for the biz theater
hat evil is suggested. Women should
organize and refuse to buy them They
would go out Of fashion quickly enough
''Napoleon's Opera Glass" a mono
graph by Lew Rosen, will shortly be
published in London. The book will
treat of Napoleon as critic and pa tron
Of the drama, and will dwell upon his
relations with playrights and players.
Manager Malim of the Burbank in
Los Angeles has closed with the Pear
son Company, now doing big business
in the North, to present their sensa tional
plays there, the season opening in jan
uary.
Frederick Warde's revival of ''Klng
Lear has been unanimously praised by
the critics-the first adverse notice hav-
ing yet to be printed by the Eastern
press. 1t is pleasant to learn that Mr.
Warde's business on the Atlantic Coast
has been highly satisfactory, and his
new play, THE Rise Of ISLANDER" is
being prepared for an elaborate pro-
duction.
Henry Miller is said to receive the
largest salary ever paid a leading man
by A. NJ. Palmer. 1t was always sup
posed that the late Charles r. Thorne
Jr., received the highest salary ever
paid a leading man-either by Mr.
Palmer or any other American man
ager.
The new hypnotic play. Or. Bel
graft" will certainly not be in bad
hands. for, besides Mr.. Lackaye, the
characters will be dfsbursed among
such artists as Marie Wainwright, c.
w. Couldock, Alice Evans, Forrest Rob-
inson, Caroline Franklin, Byron Doug
las, Alfred Hampton, etc.
Duke Murray. general manager of
Augustus Pitou's enterprises, and local
manager Of the Grand Opera-house in
New York, is Vice-President of the Act
ors Order Of Friendship, and he mailed
$500 tickets to the benefit to out-of
town theatrical people with the most
successful results. 1t is said the receipts
of the benefit reached over 5000.
Justin Huntly Mccarthy is making a
dramatic version Of Anthony Hopes
novel "a Man of Mark"
The new play written for Charles
Wyndham by Murray Carlson and
Louis n. Parker Is to be called Change
Alley"
The production Of Under the Red
Robe" at the London Haymarket The
alter is set down for this evening.
Sarah Bernhard has been acting
Camille" in her own theater in Paris.
Interest in the occasion was increased
by the fact that all the characters were
dressed in the styles of 1915, the year
in which Dumas met Marie DupIessis.
IT is announced in London that Sir
Henry Irving will pay another profess
sional visit to the United States next
winter thus fulfilling the half promise
contained in his farewell speech in Alb
bey's Theater. His chief attractions
will be "Cymbeline." said to be one Of
| tbs most elaborate Of his presentations,
Richard Ill" and Madame Sans
Gene
On the occasion Of the Cars recent
visit to Vienna Hans Richter received
from him decoration and a gold cigar
case with the Russian eagle set in dia-
monds- From the Austrian Emperor the
great conductor received the order of
the Iron Crown.
Vladimir de Pachman, the Chopin
specialist, has established himself In
berlin, where he will teach the piano.
The Director of the Opera at Lyons
IS straining all his powers to produce
the Meistersnger" before Paris. in or
der &c secure the honor of having in
troduced that Wagnerian masterwork
| to France.