The record-union., 1896-02-08

was quite wealthy Mrs Marks was,
however, forced to leave her husband,
who is now a roamer, picking up odd
newspaper jobs in johannesburg. Mrs.
Marks, after leaving her husband, be-
came a member of q South African
opera company, which failed.
It was recently announced that Min
ME Madden Fiske would add notable
play never yet done in English to her
already exceptional repertoire-a drama
that has brought into new lights the
powers of the greatest of foreign emo
tional actresses. The play, ii is now
said, is Dumas Femme de Claude to
be produced by her under the title of
"Caesarine,' which was originally
played in this country in Italian by
Duse and will be repeated by that ac-
tress during her forthcoming tour of the
United States, and which Bernhardt
was clever enough to include in her
test of plays in her competition with
the great Italian artist, who alone dis
putes her supremacy abroad.
Sir Joseph Barnby, who began his
musical career at Z. and was a teacher
at Is, died a week ago last Monday in
London. Joseph Barnby was native
of York and was born August II, 1888.
In about 1865 he organized the Vocal
Society, for which he composed a series
of songs, among them Sweet and Low !"
Meanwhile he was organist at various
famous churches. In 1871, when Gou-
nod resigned as conductor Of the Royal
Albert Hall Choral Society, Mr. Barnby
was appointed his successor. Eight
years later he organized the London
Musical Society. In 1892 he was chosen
Principal of the Guildhall School of Mu-
sic, which has an attendance of over
$500, and is probably the largest IN
the world He was knighted the same
year. Sir Joseph was the author OF
numerous anthem services, part songs,
trios and hymns, among them Re
bekah," king All Glorious" and 'The
Lord is King" He was a warm friend
of the late Sir Frederick Leighton.
The Frawley Company to come here
! in a few days has had the most re-
markable run of good houses in San
| Francisco since the beginning of the
year known in the history of any stock
company since the days Of the old Cal
ifornia Theater.
Corinne, who will be here presently,
| has a new song from England, entitled
Louisiana Lou"
w. A. Brady's Trilby Company leaves
/ San Francisco for Australia in March,
Immediately after playing in Sacra-
mento.
Souza's Band is to appear in Sacra-
mento as one of it's California dates.
Souza claims for it that it is the best
organization over which he has yet pre-
sided.
Says Music and Drama" It may not
he known that the late Tom Mcguire
owned a portion of the ground on which
the Baldwin Hotel is built It was IN
exchange for this ground that Lucky
Baldwin included a theater In the
building and leased 1t to Mcguire on
nominal terms.
Frank Mayo will bring his new and
! original comedy, 'Pudd' nhead Wilson,
dramatized from Mark Twain's story
to this coast early in the season.
A writer grows sarcastic over PATHS
''naturalness'' of manner. In Russia, by
permission of the late Czar, she always
called him papa" and the Czarlna
| mamma" In England, while dining
at the Marlborough House with the
| Prince and Princess of Wales, the coffee
did not suit her When it was passed
she slipped it, made a moue of distaste
| and exclaimed: "Ah, sire, que votre
cafe est degoutant." OF course, neither
Albert Edward nor Alexandra had made
the coffee, so there was some excuse fol
the incivility.
Gentleman Joe," that was so pre-
doomed in New York, and behind whlcf
SO much money was staked, is a failure
| Instead of being a musical comedy
Ii is a cheap concert-hall song farce
as the New York Tribune" puts 1t
without genuine wit or delightful hu-
NOR" Neither the talk. nor the music
nor the action is entertaining, according
to the New York critics. Yet this piect
is heralded as the reigning London sue
cess. a play or farce or musical hodge
hodge that the New York Herald
characterizes as "arid desolation, the
only relief in which is the introduction
of a lot of winson1e naidens who MAKE
a liberal display of fine Undertaking
The comedy element" says the Her
ald.'' Consists of the most threadbar'
effects seasoned with jests that the
rnegatherium may have whispered <
the dodo in the ages before man was
Not all the unctious art of Jas. I. Pow
ers could make an American aud1ene'
smile when he said 'candlestickly' fol
clandestinely, or superstitiously' To-
surreptitiously There is an awful piec'
Of drollery in the second act, which LAST
for fully ten minutes, beginning by nj
imagining that lady who talks or ma
de nler is alluding to mare, and Wind
ing its hideous course through series
Of misunderstanding until the hna
embarrassment is reached by his ex
pressing a desire to examine her knees
That is the sort of thing you have u
stand. That is the sort of thing tina
England has stood for 39S nights. Ye
there are Americans 50 pitiless as Z
wish for a war with that unhapp!
country.
FIRE ACROSS THE RIVER.
A Washington Family Had a NarroV