The record-union., 1896-03-17

d, =
basso, heard her, and brought her to
Wagner's notice at once. The master
hesitated, and then refused. Scaria in
sisted, and after long time Wagner
received her, and asked her with an air
of non-expectaney to sing to him. She
at once broke out in the great Tan
hauser aria, and Wagner sprang up.
exclaiming as he danced about the
room in his enthusiasm: "At last I have
found my Brunhilde-I have found my
Brunhilde.' She became the greatest
of all Brunhildes, the Isolde incom-
parable, and the foremost artist in the
Trilogy, Walkure and so on. Materna
is a tall, fine looking woman of power
full frame and well-rounded figure and
admirably preserved. Her face is not
to be termed handsome, but attractive,
because of its combined strength and
gentleness. Her debut was made in
F'idelo at the Royal Opera-house in
Vienna. Herwegh, the famous mana
ser, discovered her in "a cathedral
choir, where orphanage and poverty
had driven her, a mere girl. 1t was
while she was with Herwegh in opera
that Scaria met her, and rushed to
Wagner to say that he had found a
hemian violinist, with whom Materna
sings here, appears to have completely
captivated the music loving public in
San Francisco, where his success has
been phenomenal. He will arrive with
! Materna and Luckstone, the pianist,
| tonight also, and is said to be one Of
| the jolliest and most social musical
artists who has ever come to America.
1
The Sacramento Camera Club an
nounces this morning the first of Sc
ries Of six entertainments it is about to
| give. The opening one is fixed for
| Thursday night of this week at the
Congregational Church. For the series
! of six a ticket costs 81; each ticket ad-
mitting a lady and gentleman; a single
admission ticket costs fifty cents, and
| admits a lady and gentleman. The
entertainment will consist of an exhibi-
tion by dissolving electric light lantern
of 100 views, made by members of the
club, in and about Sacramento, views
in the Sierras, on the bay and in the
| Santa Cruz Mountains; of music by the
Imperial Quintet Club, and of the dram
attic reading of Tennyson's Brook" by
Miss Edith Howe, with beautiful illus
The club has projected these enter
| tainments in order to enable it to carry
out its plan of preparing views of Cal
ifornia scenery, products and evidences
OF climatic conditions to be sent East, to
| join the international Circuit" Under
this plan the California views, with ac-
companying text in explanation, will
be shown by all the Camera Clubs in
| I, ~,
and the Canadas, and finally the plates
will come home to the owners. In the
meantime each club will have started
out a set of its own, and these, too.
make the circuit, including Sacramento,
and will be shown here. The Sacra-
mento club sees in this one of the very
best means of intelligently and attract
lively advertising California for it's
good. 1t has not yet prepared it's Sc
ries, but will have them ready by the
| time it gains admission to the "Interna-
! tional Circuit" In the meantime 1t
needs help and encouragement, and it
takes this method of getting both by
a series of local exhibitions, and of call
| ing attention to it's work and gaining
membership also. 1t has handsome
club rooms and gives free instruction
to all who unite with it and free use OF
it's workrooms and model apparatus
for all kinds of Photographic work. The
entertainment of Thursday night will
present, save in nine instances, views
of Califoria scenes, which will be con-
trasted with some of the costliest and
best of the European sliders made by
French specialists. The club does not
! lay claims to highest excellence, nor to
great novelty in its first exhibition in
slider work, but modestly says: 1--WE
have done, we think, very we'll; we want
aid and we offer, for few cents, an
| agreeable evenings entertainment. If
| our schemes are worthy in public esti-
NATION, we will have house full of
people Thursday night. If not, we shall
| feel that our plans are not thoroughly
understood and will make greater ef-
| fort on the second occasion, and SO on,
until we win" Season tickets are for
sale at several points named in the ad-
| vertisement.