The record-union., 1896-04-12
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-UNION SUNDAY

Davies, Watkin Mills, Hamlin, Plunket
| Greene. Theodore Thomas will partic-
ipate with his Chicago orchestra, and
the Music Hall, entirely remodeled at
an expense of over 100000, will be
used for the first time on this occasion.
The festival will last from May 18th to
| 2od. One of the programmes is de-
voted to Wagner, three are miscellane-
Gus and two are devoted to special
works new to Cincinnati-Tiner ''St.
| Francis and Saint Saen's Samson
and Delilah" fAsss
On Tuesday evening, April 14th, the
! third and final concert of the series of
McNeill Club concerts is to be given at
the Congregational Church. For the last
concert the Music Committee has pre-
pared the strongest programme yet
given. The soloists from abroad will
be Miss Florence Doane, soprano of San
Francisco, and Miss Ivy M. Gardner,
contralto of Los Angeles, both pupils
of Mrs. Marriner-Campbell of San
Francisco. Four Of the members of the
club will sing solos and one will play
cello solo. The club will render five
choruses. The principal number of the
evening will be William Cullen Bry-
ants "Thanatopsis," arranged for male
voices by Mosenthal 1t is a very elab-
crate and taking number, introducing
bass solos. AS the programme is longer
than usual, being thirteen numbers
the club desires to begin as near 5
o'clock as possible, therefore ask that
the people be seated so the club can
begin promptly.
True Blue" recently produced, with
the greatest elaboration of stage effect,
at the London Olympic, seems to be the
most idiotic of recent melodramas,
either naval or military. The conceal
ment Of a young woman in the boilers
Of a man-of-war is one of the sensa
tional incidents. and her rescue in a
par-boiled condition another.
Professor Villiers Stanford's new op-
era, "Shamus O'Brien" shortly to be
produced at the Opera Comique, Lon
don, is understood to be a comparatively
light, but at the same time romantic
work, and is founded on lie Fanu's poem
bearing the same title. 1t is said to be
thoroughly Irish in tone, as of course it
should be, the book being from the pen
Of George H. Jessop. "Shamus O'Brien"
will be under the superintendence of
Sir Augustus Harris
Herr Siegfried Wagner is taking an
active part in the rehearsals for this
years performances at Bayreuth, which
have already commenced.
There Is only one pun in Gilbert and
Sullivan's new operetta, THE Grand
Duke" 1t is about man who loses at
cards and dies of a cardiac" affection.
Among the satiric touches of the piece
are chorus of chamberlains wearing
an ascending number Of feathers and
orders.
The Roentgen rays have been utilized
in a one-act play which is to be per-
formed soon in Berlin
Maurice Barrymore will open his
starring tour at Palmer's Theater, New
York. next October '@
Nat c. Goodwin has accepted a new
light comedy from the pen of Madeline
Lucette Ryley with which he will open
his next season. Mrs. Ryley is also un
der contract to write play for Charles
'i,- - 4. .sTm @H'
When E. H. HenleX returns to the
stage he intends to produce Robert
Macaire," the nelodTamatic farce writ
ten by his brother W. E. Henley, and
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The next tour Of Madame Sans Gene
will begin in, San Francisco about
September 1st. The, play will be seen
at Palmers Theater, New York, with
the original cast. on April 9th. for two
weeks. 80, ssnn. ~ Is..