The record-union., 1896-11-08


young lady with the white hat was a
belle this summer at the West End
Hotel, Long Branch.
Plays and Players: John Glenden-
ming, an actor we'll known in this coun-
try, recently played an engagement as
Macbeth at the Grand Glasgow. Glen
denning is a good actor, but if he had
attempted the same character in this
country what howl there would have
been at his presumption! There is re-
ally very little encouragement for
young actors in this country who as
pire to present Shakespeare's greatest
characters.
The judgment of managers evidently
does not coincide with that of the
newspaper critics in regard to Archi-
bald c. Gunter's "a Florida Enchant-
ment." Colonel Sim of the Montauk
Tteater, Brooklyn, saw the play at
Hoyt's Theater a few nights ago and
after the performance told Mr.. Gunter
that he would be pleased to book the
play as soon after the close of the New
L VI cISdSeIIieul dS pOSSlUlc
Franklin McLeay, the young Cana
dian who was once a pupil Of Muir
doch of Boston and who now plays
Nero with Wilson Barrett, has re-
Ceived almost as warm commendatiOn
for his Interpretation of the depraved,
paralyzed and prematurely senile en-
peror as Mansfield did for his acting of
the roue, Baron Chevrial McLeay, as
Nero, is one Of the attractions of the
Lyric Theater London.
While Edgar L. Davenport, who plays
Decker in Thoroughbred was stand
ing near the front of the stage during
recent performance in Detroit, Will
lam Norris came up and whispered to
him: ouch. l struck my funny bone
against scene as l came out" well,
Willie" observed Davenport, ''if you
can only strike one or two in the audi
ence, you will be all right for the rest
of the evening"
Otis SINNERS new romantic play, "a
Soldier of Fortune" is meeting with
much favor throughout the Western
tour of that actor. 1t is in line with
the prevailing demand for romanticism
in plays, and deals with events-polit-
ical, sentimental and military-in Italy
at the time of the Borgias and Mac
chiavelli.
Bach's admirers have a chance to
show their devotion in a practical way
by contributing something to the fund
for the monument to be erected to him
in the Johanniskirche in Leipsic, where
his lately-found bones are now placed
at rest. The sum so far collected
amounts to 1900 marks and about
81 900 more is wanted.
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The latest Partisan novelty, the flying
ballet, has been secured by the manage
ment of Palmer Cox's Brownies" and
will be seen on the coast for the first
time when the spectacle is produced at
the Baldwin, San Francisco, during the
holidays. Clever little Ida Mule is a
member of this company, says San
Francisco Music and Drama"
The first play ever produced on the life
of Chatterton was presented in 1885. 1t
was written by Henry de Vigny Henry
Arthur Jones is also responsible for a
play by this name which was produced
by Wilson Barrett in 1884. The play
used by Julia Marlowe-Taber was writ
ten especially for her by Ernest Lacey
four years ago.
The wisdom of subjecting a new opera
to process of revision out of town be-
fore placing it before a New York audi
ence is shown again in the case of "An
American Beauty" the new opera in
which Lillian Russell is now appear
ing. Since the first performance Of the
work at Scranton, Pa, one act has been
wholly rewritten by the authors.
Willard Lee, whose beautiful produce
tion of the romantic melodrama, I'm the
heart OF the Storm" is one of the big
successes of the season, began life as an
engineer. He is thorough mechani-
clan and electrician, and most of the
fine mechanical and electrical effects of
the production are due to his earlv
training NO accomplishment comes
amiss in the profession of an actor.
Three years ago the Viennese seemed
10 pc unwilling to hear ANYTHING hut
MaScagnIs "Cavalleria' and Leonca
Vallo Pasliacci." Last season the frs,
o. these mad only fifteen performances
ana the other twelve, while Humper-
dinck with his "Hansel and GreteP' had
more than the two combined-twenty-
nine.
I1lvia Crox Seabrooks is singing a
new and catching song entitled "Since
My Little Baby Brother Came to Stay.
1t is by Gertrude r. Spellan, the talent
ed young composer, whose pretty song
My Little Sweetheart May" is now
being sung by Lydia Yeamans Titus.
Fanny Rice had to cancel the first two
weeks of her New England tour. owing
to painful abscess on one of her eye
lids. She will resume, however, as soon
| as she is permitted by her physician to
appear. Other attractions have suffered
from painful assesses in patronage in
the same locality.
DR.. Wilhelm Kienzl whose Evan
gelimann' has been played in fifty-four
different theaters in Germany Austria
and Switzerland, is busy at the compo-
sition Of a musical tragi-comedy, don
Quixote." He hopes to have the work
completed early in 1897.
The Russians, too, are beginning to
realize that in the case of orchestral
concerts, the main thing is to have a
great conductor The concerts of the
Moscow Philharmonic Society are to be
presided over this winter by Hans
Richter, Felix Mottl and r. Moszkow-
ski.