The record-union., 1896-05-10

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THE ROSSON BROTHERS.
ers, the midget athletes, whose picture:
We present in this department. Franz
is 21 years of age and is thirty inches
tall, while Carl is Is years old and only
twenty-six inches high. They are sim
ply wonders We shall have more tc
say about them during the week.
Some good attractions are announced
for the Metropolitan Theater in the
near future, among them the Hopkins
Transoceanic Company on the 18th and
10th, Primrose and West on the 22d
and Eddie Foy in THE Strange Ad-
ventures Of Miss Brown on the 26th
Hoyt's Australian company present.
sng "A Trip to Chinatown" follows the
minstrels at the California Theater
San Francisco. Is it not wonderful how
that piece lasts? 1t has had three sea.
sons in San Francisco and is now in its
fourth year. But there is not enough
merit in it to give it vitality one year
II is funny, to be sure, and has plot
but beyond that it is least meritorious
of Hoyt's better works.
Eleanor Calhoun, the San Jose Juliet
who has been playing in London of late
years, returned home last week. Her
visit is in connection with the settle
ment of a valuable estate, of which her
mother is said to be one Of the heirs.
Maclyn Arbuckle has beeen specially
engaged to play the King In Hamlet
and Marc Antony with Louis James
and at the close of the season he re-
turns to California to rejoin the Fraw-
ley Company.
Edward Harrigan's manager has @
new story to tell every week, and he
row announces that Mr.. Harrigan viii
not play New York engagement this
spring, but will retire from the stage
temporarily for a rest.
San Francisco Music and Drama
says: Barry Sullivan, the eminent ac.
tor, whose death occurred recently ir
England, was born in Dublin in 1894
and made his first appearance on the
stage at the HaymaTket Theater, Lon
Don, February Z, 1852, playing the
title role in Hamlet" He came tt
America in 1853 and made his debut ir
the same character at the Broadway
Theater in New York en- November 22G
of that year. He returned to England
in the summer of 1860, and subsequent
ly made a second visit to this country
during which he made his first appear
ance on this coast at the dedication o.
Baldwin's Academy Cf Music, which
occurred March 6, 1877, the opening
play being Richard Ill" Mr.. Sullivan
was an actor of considerable fame
twenty-five years ago and was we'll
known in England as the manager Of
the Holborn Theater, but of late year;
has been heard of but little in America
A piece called La Meute'' has beer
produced with considerable success al
Sarah Bernhardts Renaissance Theatel
in Paris. 1t is repulsive, exaggerated
study OF modern society. in which out
wardly respectable but morally vile
characters intrigue shamelessly to Sc
cure possession of a fortune. The per
formance is said to be admirable.
Herbert Waring Will produce in Lon
don by-and-by an English version OF
Les Deux Crosses" a thrilling melo-
drama which has been extremely sue
cessful at the Paris Ambigu.
Lord and Lady Guilderoy'' is the title
of new play by Hamilton Aide. which
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall are trying in tbs
English provinces.
Below London Bridge" an adapta-
ton by Richard Bowling of his novel oi
that name, has had a trial performance
in the London Novelty Theater.
Miss Esme Beringer will play Romeo
to the Juliet of her sister Vera Beringer
in the London Prince of Wales Theatel
on the 18th of May, for the benefit of the
Actors orphanage Fund.
The New York Journal is respons-
ible for this: A Paris medical journa
gives space to the observations of al
English physician, who succeeded II
demonstrating that it's subtle influence
OF music has made one class of musi
clans bald and another possess magnifi
cent heads of hair.
The subject has also attracted atten
tion on this side of the water Pro
fessor William c. Rehm has gathered
some data He has discovered that
brass wind instruments are fatal to tn,
growth OF the hair and that just the op
posite effect is produced by the violir
and piano, each of which prevents and
checks the falling out of the hair. II,
studied the portraits of a long success
sion of European masters and then OBJ
served American musicians of note ant
became impressed with the indisputabl,
effect that music has on the hair Wher
seen, he said: The influence of musi,
produced by wind instruments of bras.
on the hair of artists is totally differen