The record-union., 1896-08-30

| thing of a departure from Manager
| Blooms usual style, for heretofore he
has shown a decided preference for con-
| else ALTERATION in the invention of
catchy show phrases. He is credited
! With having invented the line, magic,
| mirth and mystery which has since
| become the trademark badge of all
| magicians. He has also enriched the
| English language, as we'll as theatrical
| advertising, with the coming of such
rews words as 'magi-phenomena,"
"magi-comedy," "necromantique come
dian," and Napoleon of necromancy,"
from all of which it is quite evident
that Mr.. Bloom knows what he is about
and in adopting a long title for Ban
croft he has simply followed out a
| twentieth century idea that will at
tract the multitudes to the box Office
New York Plays and Players.
New York, says the New York Her
aid" man is a cafe chantant singer of
unusually excellent type, who not only
has the vitality. the chic, the finesse
| that all French women of the stage
seem to have born in them. but a beauty
of face and figure such as few of them
| naturally possess.
There is a manner. a style, an inde-
| scribable something about French
actress or singer that those of no other
nation have. They have a faculty of
wearing clothes that makes an ordinary
costume seem more dainty and tasteful
than it really is and they have way of
going without them, too, in a measure
that does not seem half as scandalous as
it would were young woman of any
other country to attempt it. | don't
| know What it is, what magic touch they
give to their costumes, what indescrib
able something they give to their songs,
| but if you have seen the genuine Paris
ian cafe chantant artiste-not the music
hall riffraff that we too often see and
hear under that name-you know, as
do, that the French chanteuse is a crea
ton separate and apart from the rest of
| the professional world. Mile. Held is a,
good example of all this, with the added
charm that she is one of the handsomest
women on the Paris cafe chantant stage
| to-day.
The young girl graduate of a Vienna
school of acting begins work at a first
| class theater for SO a month, and in
| many cases must provide her own cos
| tumes A chorus girl, if in the best of
luck, gets $24 a month. That is the
| maximum. Many chorus girls receive
| but 50 each a month, and those who
receive SO each month are supposed
| to be doing well. In the court opera the
chorus girl at the beginning of her career
has a salary of So 30 a month. Her
salary is increased with each succeeding
year of service until, after fifteen years
in the chorus, she gets the royal and
imperial sum of $50 month In the
! Theater an der Wien the chorus girls
| pay is from s. to SD 30 a month; in
the Carl Theater from SO to $22 30; in
the Josephstadt Theater from 50 30 to
SD 30; in the German Peoples The
ater from $40 to $500 a year.
|
Chrysander, the well-known Handel
expert and biographer, celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday on July Sth. He
lives at Bergedorf, where he cultivates
roses and attends to his large and prof
liable orchards whenever he is not busy
| writing and editing. He is the sole editor
of the German edition of HandeTs
scores, a herculean task, as may be in
ferred from the fact that this edition
consists of a hundred Volumes of which
all but three are completed. This work
has retarded Chrysander's Handel biog-
raphy, but the approaching completion
of the scores will enable him to devote
all his time to that task.
Katherine Grey became an actress In
Augustin Days company in 1889 After
one season she joined Charles Froh-
mans forces, playing in Shenandoah"
| and "All the Comforts of Home" Then
| she appeared in THE New South" and
for one season played Nell Berry in
Shore Acres" with conspicuous sue
cess. Last season she joined Richard
| Mansfeld's company, where she added
| greatly to her experience and her pop
ularity. During the present season Miss
| Grey has played in The Great Diamond
Robbery" and is now playing in His
Absent Boy" at the Garden Theater.
New York. She has ability, ambition
| and personal charm, and excels rather
in strong character roles.
Grace Kimball is f. H. Sothern's lead
| ing lady and was well liked at the be-
ginning of the season for her Princess
| F'lavia in The Prisoner of Zenda." She
has been a member of Richard Mans
| fields company and acted with the The
| ater of Arts and Letters. Her first ap-
pearance with Sothern was in "Sheri-
dan" and she has since played all the
| leading female roles of his repertoire.
As Betty Lindley, the Maid of Bath, in
| sheridan" she was beautiful stage
| picture. Her portrait in that character
was painted by J. Wells Champney and
Mary Cooper also modelled her bust
Miss Kimball has undoubted histrionic
talent and convincing beauty.
Miss Lillian Russell Will take herself
off on the road with AN American
! Eeauty before she makes her bow to the
New York public at the Casino in the
new opera. Her local engagement be-
gins in February, and meanwhile she
viii be on q tour, opening at Scranton.
| Pa, on September 18th, the same date
| on which the Casino season opens here
with Glen McDonough and Victor Her
berts new comic opera. The latter will
| seasonably, have a political flavor
New York Herald.
Much has lately been written about
the absurd and ruinous policy of pay
ing opera singers in America three
or four times as much as they receive
| in Europe. And now the London critics
are growing because foreign pianists
| who play in France and Germany for
about 81 a seat come to London and
charge 50. The guinea recital" saws
Truth lis. with the exception of the
solitary recital expected each season
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