The record-union., 1896-07-12

at the Garden Theater in November,
Arthur Bourchier has cabled TO H. =.
Hustled, who will direct the tour, that
he will also produce 1.-THE Queens Proc
tor" in which he made a success last
week at the Royalty Theater; Inc
LIAR" Kitty Give" and a one-act
play, Monsieur de Paris in when
Mrs. Boucher (Violet Vanbrough) made
deep impression in London. two or
three months ago. 1.-The Queens Proc
tor" is a clever new English adapta-
ton of Sardou's famous play, "Divor-
cons"
Bancroft, the American magician. is
hypnotist of marked power. On one oc-
casion, while giving his entertainment
in a small town in the West, he re-
quested a gentleman in the audience to
hold a handful of gold coins to assist
him in doing certain trick. He hap
pened to be an individual who was pos
sessed with a strong sense of his own
Importance. Desiring to divert attention
to himself at the nagician's expense,
he put the coins into his pocket and re-
fused to give them back. The audience
began to laugh at the wizards discom-
to the occasion. Producing bright
crystal, he moved it quickly before the
mans eyes, at the same time assuring
him that the supposed coins were burn
ing hot In an instant the man jumped
up with cry of pain and lost no time in
pulling the coins out. of his pocket.
Then he sneaked away amid uproari-
Gus laughter from the rest of the audi
ence
On another occasion, while giving his
exhibition of magic, Bancroft was an
noyed by a man who insisted on talk
ing aloud during the entertainment.
Not wishing to create a commotion by
having the man foroibly elected from
the theater, Bancroft walked quietly up
TO him, passed his hands over the mans
eyes, who Immediately fell into deep
hypnotic sleep, to the great satisfaction
and relief Of everybody else in the
theater.
Bach, the deepest musical thinker of
all time, whom Mozart, Beethoven, Men
delssohn, Schumann, Wagner, Franz,
Rubinstein, and nearly all other modern
| composers worshiped as the master of
masters, was SO little appreciated by
| his contemporaries that only a single
one of his vocal compositions was
printed during his long life. 1t was the
cantata God is My King" which was
| published in 170S Ry an odd coinci-
| dence this cantata is also the oldest
manuscript of Bach's that has been pre-
| served. Bach manuscripts are extreme
| Iy scarce in the market, the Berlin Royal
! Library having nearly a monopoly of
| them. Autograph collectors as we'll as
| lovers of music will therefore be inter-
ested in volume A Of Breitkopf & Har-
teFs complete edition of Bach's works,
which contains facsimiles of the cantata
| just referred to, as we'll as about 140
pages of reproductions of Bach's hand
writing at various periods of his life.
| There are specimens of the B minor
mass, the "St. Matthews Passion" the
well Tempered Clavichord," etc. Some
of the reproductions contain corrections
by Bach, thus affording glimpses of his
method of working. A melancholy in
| terest attaches to some sheets which
show the effects of Bachs approaching
| blindness. AS a rule the manuscript is
very neat and elegant, giving the i'm
1 preston that Bach worked out his
pieces completely in his head, and then
wrote them down from memory with
great rapidity. The elegance of the
handwriting gives the impression that
/ Bach, like Schubert and Wagner, en-
joyed this caligraphic work.
|
The Los Angeles Herald" man had
a chat with Ellen Beach Yaw, the phe-
I nomenal soprano. at her home in Los
Angeles the other day. Miss Yaw will
appear in a concert season, beginning
in October. She is just now in want of
an experienced manager, says the Her
aid"
Miss Yaw is the baby of the family,
| if the great year-and- "a half-old hound
/ Keats, her constant companion, be ex-
cepted for she is the youngest Of five
brothers and sisters, each of whom
sings, apparently a hereditary gift, for
both Miss Yaw's father and mother were
musical.
The soprano has many amusing and
interesting anecdotes of her experiences
to relate, and though she rarely reads
notices about herself-in fact she was
/ surprised and grieved to think that she
| was known by such horribly ugly title
as the phenomenal altitudinous So
prano"-said that she had often been
annoyed by the persistent and silly
stories that go the rounds about her.
They will have it that my name is not
really Yaw, but that it is transforma-
tion of the name Way, and all such
stuff"
Miss Yaw can sing higher F sharp and
hold it for eight seconds, then run up
the scale to c. The cadenzas in altissimo
are, of course. especially arranged for
her The scientific explanation of such
tremendous vocal altitude is that Miss
Yaw's inferior thyroarytenoid, or true
vocal cord, makes 2,o4S vibrations each
second.
| Queen Victoria is the heroine of an
exciting drama now being acted in the
leading Siamese theaters. The plot runs
like this: Victoria is about to be married
in Ceylon to the King of Siam, when that
outspoken monarch breaks off the
match, and for revenge Victoria invades
his country. She is repused with great
loss. The Duke of Cambridge does his
best to turn the fortunes Of the day by
swinging battleax against three Siam
ese fairies. Matters are looking black
for England, when the King of Siam
relents and bestows his hand on Vic
tcria. AS she has been madly in love
with him all along, she forgives her first
jilting, the slaughter of her army and
marries him.
The theater hat grows larger,
So pray, all ye who can,
For moral sense In womanxind,