The morning times., 1896-10-18

4 Fitch was seen. 4 don't think 1 will
go up TO see Bisson today he remarked
Poor chap. He must feel awfully cut up
about these roasts on his play
The Paris Temps Publishes a column OF
| dramatic criticism but once week.
francisque sarcey is the critic. 1t is
said that after his death the paper will
Il follow III the American line Of publishing
criticism the morning after the first
| performance.
| A Viennese musician and photographer
mas undertaken the publication OF a Cata-
| ioGue OF Wagncr's letters, written between
| 1880 and the year OF his death, 1883,
Numbering 800. The date or each letter,
| the person To whom it was addressed and
the volume in which it is published Will be
Indicated.
happy event looked forward to in the
household of Charles II. Hoyt is the talk OF
| te many friends of that gentleman nd his
Handsome wife Caroline MiskeD. 1t
| may furnish 10 new generation another
clever writer OF amusing farces, or il may
! give TO the future stage another handsome
actress. Mirror.
The tenor Tamaguo wants to know what
he has done TO the newspapers that they
| SHOULD treat him SO unkindly. Some time
| dSo hsny OF them printed the statement
that he had received ST 80 600 for singing
| III iiity concerts, and now lie complains.
ne gets an average OF eighty letters a day
| begging for money.
Z. Eugene Wilson, of this city, leaves
TOMORROW Tor New York city to ioin tbt.
| Wiley Dramatic Company as advance
1 representative. Mr.. Wilson is an expe.-
| renced newspaper man and has the proper
consistency OF gUodfellowship and tact
TO get about everything he wants from
| the dramatic columns
Cbevaler, whose clothes, in our vernacu-
lar, are out Of sight, declares that this h,
| the newspaper card OF a SmuhrieId Market
tailor, at the east end OF London. .-SIan-
| up klcksies, cut Ssfucy, made to fall over
the trotter-caSes. Vests built tight up
around the scrag. All made to bash the
| dickey. Lots OF artfuI fakemcnts"
The principal attractions are this week
divided as follows: Otis Skinner in Omaha:
Richard Mansfield, in Kansas City; Roland
Reed. in New Orleans; Sol Smith RUSSELL
in Cleveland; Frederick warde, in New
Orleans; the Tabers, in San Francisco;
"Chimn ME Fadden.'' Miss Philadelphia"
in Baltimore, and Clay Clement, in Chicago
Francis Wilson recently wrote ]. Cheever
GOODWIN for more verses to his principal
topical song in Half King Goodwin
doesn't like topical songs. but he Wrote two
verses and sent them with this charge:
''Francis Wilson to ]. Cheever Goodwin.
DE, to two verses of topical song and the
labor and sense OF degradation in writing
them, S5O.''
One of the actors in a revival Of Rich
ara III at the Lyceum Theater IN London
IN the year 1877 vas Arthur Pinero. now
liie best known anOng English pla ywrishtS.
ne played the small part Of Lo=d Rivers.
ihotner subordinate role in that prOduc-
tion Was acted by K. c. Carton another
successful dramatlst and the author Of
Liberty Hail.
RehearsalS have already ba,,,,, -, NJ,
York for Roaring Dick X CO.. the pIay
selected by William a Brady for Maurice
Barrymore initial starring tour. which viii
| begin At the National Theater, ia this city.
on November 3. Among the people en-
gagged te support Mr. barrymore are Walter
J. Lemoyne. Edith Crane, George d. Chap
lin and Leslie Allen.
Richard StahI. who composed some of
the prettiest musical mum bers in "A Black
Suetp, when asked why ne did not trupJ
pubic favor with another opera. said: Il
am, as MasScnet was, confronted by four
elemental necessities First, Ibretto:
second, hbretIo; third, a Hbretto: fourth,
hbretto. When 1 can meet these four
necessities l viii go to work.
OF The members Of the recent summer
stock. William Boag and Percy Brooke
are with Crane in Chicago this week:
Charley Mackey Is playing young literary
chap with Sol Smith RusseH'- "A Bache.
lur Romance in Cleveland: Fred Bond
Is playing the paryenu III My Friend From
India" III New York and John FindIay ia
VITA The Prisoner of Zeuda" in San
| Francisco.
Frederick Wa rtle's revival OF King Lear,
| has been the most successful of MS series ~
I shakespedr productions, and has vet To
| receive an adverse criticism. He is now in
New Orleans. having pla yed the PRINCIPAL
cues on the a tlantic coast. Business has
been most gratifying. The Rise of
| Islander" his new play, by W. ID. Eaton
| VIII be put in rehearsal this week. anu pro-
| duced as soon as the elaborate scenery and
effects are ready.
| The festival performances at Ravreuth
this year We're placed underline mana cement
ofSiegfried Wagner the son Of Richa rd Wag-
| ner. Some criticism has been made OF
! hiru. and DIR. Hans Richter comes to his de-
| fense. SAVING in the London Times: L
| have heard Uerr Siegfried Wagner con
dUCt, and / have see him at work as stage
| manager. In my humble Opiniun, he is u
competent and even a remarkable leader,
| and he is stage manager of great PROM
| ise.''
Mr.. Edwin Terry, husband of Julia Neil
| son, hotn of whom Were seen here last sea
sor with John Hare, will reopen the Lon
don strand Theater on the ITth instant
| with Love in Idleness," a new three act
u T. y.
Goodman, which has been very successful
in England and Scotland. He plays the
| character of an incOrrigibly idle man who.
| stirred temporarily into energy, makes a
mess OF everything which he undertakes,
| and then relapses into his normal Con-
ditlnn OF torpidity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bourchier Violet
| Vanbrughl and the London Royalty The
| ater Company have added to their already
I rer fglTE MIA f4ag. "a
| upon the life Of DR.. Samuel johnson, a
| contemporary of Goldsmith and Garrick
! Boswell figures prominently in the play,
| which is written round AN episode in the
! life of Mrs. Boswell. During AIr and Mrs.
| Bourcher's eugagement in this city, at the
New Columbia Theater, beginning January
4. they will be seen in the abovr-ramed
| play and their recent London successes,
| The Chill Widow THE Queens PrDc-
tor" Monsieur de Paris" kitty Give"
1 and Sardou's new play, written expressly
| for them.
| nWilhelmj, like Liszt. abandoned the
| vlrtuoso career when his fame was at its
height, and IL now seems as it, like List
| in his day, he has made up his mind never
| to return to the concert stage. Yet he is
i only fifty-one years old, With the possible
| exception of Joachim, he is the greatest
| vtOlinist since Paganini. When he was
| sixteen Liszt said To him. You are so
eminently predestined for the viclin that
| if it had not existed before it would have
been neces sary to invent it for yuu:"
| and in 1876 Wagner paid him the ctmpl-
ment of inviting him TO be Concert master
Of the Bayreuth orchestra. After retiring
from the stage he started n violin school
In Behrich, but soon gave it up and de-
| voted his attention to his vineyard At
| Present he lives near Dresden, giving some
| Of his time to Composing.
The celebrated Danish actor. Joachim