The record-union., 1896-06-28

ing CodHpduleS 10 engage his dItcAltIoil.
He lunches in his Office, while callers
come and go. After enjoying the lux
ury of an hour or so at home for dinner,
he goes down town again and from
to IL is engaged at his theater.
Mr.. Palmer is short in stature, has
regular features, and a mild, placid ex-
preston on his face He has an exceed
ingly musical voice and very gentle
manners. He Is essentially diplomat.
There is, however, good deal of fire
and temper underneath that mild ex-
terror, as a process server who recently
sneaked into the theater while the COM
pany was at rehearsal discovered. His
egress, conducted by Mr.. Palmer him
self, was quick and violent.
'"The business is all going to smash;
everything's going up said an old-time
opera manager
Whats the trouble now?" asked his
| listener.
"Oh, it was bad enough when prima
donnas had only ordinary wheels; now
they are not satisfied unless they have
thousanddollar wheels
Della Fox will make her first trip to
the Pacific Coast next season since she
became a star The route booked by
Manager King will cover a greater
number of miles than has ever been
covered by any comic opera organiza-
tion on the coast. The little queen of
comic opera will travel in a private
car.
The claque not only still fourishes at
the Paris opera, but is officially recog-
nized and supported. But the chief
now receives 500 month salary, and
is obliged to distribute the thirty-two
tickets which he receives for each per-
formance free, whereas formerly he was
allowed to sell them-a system which
naturally led TO abuses. His assist
ants" are, however, displeased with the
new arrangement, and have petitioned
fCe restoration of the old order of
things.
London critic INDUCES in the fol-
lowing rhapsody: Beethoven is the
most mysterious of composers. His abb
rupt transitions from almost uncouth
force to terrible, tragic calm, charged
with expectancy as a cloud with thun-
der, his glorious viOlences, subsiding
with the startling swiftness of genius,
into vehement peace, a gentleness as
full of muscle as the arm of a SandOw
are quick with a mystery that is as
the mystery of the birth of sin in
creation, or the fitting of sorrow into
life. Beethoven is the most awful Of
all geniuses''
The bazar which is soon to be held in
London in the Queens Hall for the ben
ent OF the Actors Crphanage fund,
promises to be noteworthy affair." One
feature will be a collection of dolls
dressed to represent particular charac-
ters by the actresses who have played
the parts. Among the prominent ac-
tresses who will have stalls are Mrs.
bancroft, Genevieve Ward, Mrs. John
Wood, Winifred Emery, Olga Neither
sole. Mary Moore, and host of others.
Sir Augustus Harris, it is said, in
tends to give a series of Shakespearean
revivals upon a most costly scale on
the famous stage of Drury Lane 1t
is to be hoped that he will engage some
competent person to superintend them.
Ato neil, ailiiy oiOUSll, anu MA uQ
Millett play the principal parts in"The
Sunbury Scandal" the new farcical
comedy by Fred Horner, which has Just
been produced in Terry's Theater in
London
Commenting on the proposal to erect
al equestrian statue to the late Charles
Halle, the ''St. James Gazette" says:
Many composers, including Meyerbeer
in Les Huguenots' and Wagner in
"Rienzi," have put horses into their
operas But, with the exception of
Auber, Beethoven is the only one who
is known to have kept horses, or at
least horse, in his stable-without rid
ing it very often, it must be added
According to the London DAILY
News" NJ. Paderewski has commissioned
the brothers De Reszke to buy him a
Polish estate on the line between Cra-
COW and Warsaw, and here the great
pianist proposes to build a, cha ateau. =
Jean de Reszke declares he has no
money fortune, only land, and estates
in Poland are expensive to keep up. On
one of his Polish estates he drives five
miles over his own land from the rail-
way station to the house.
There is said to be some probability
that Max O'Rells new comedy drama,
"Heartsease" may be produced by Mr.
Forbes Robertson and Mrs. Patrick
Campbell. The story of the play
sketches life in the circles of upper Bo-
hemian life in Paris, the hero and hero
| inc being happily welded artists Sud-
denly the husband inherits a fortune,
| and for a time wealth elects love from
the household. But everything ends
happily before the final fall of the cur
| tain.
The London Independent Theater is
exhibiting signs of renewed life. 1t is
| to give a performance soon. The pro-
gramme for the season includes repre-
sentations of Ibsens Little Eyolf,"
| Miss Warrens Profession" by George
Rernard Shaw, and Freedom in Fet-
ters.'' by Sidney Oliver. This last piece
| has been passed by the present censor,
although condemned by his predecessor.
| 1t is announced that William Grub
| CT John Hare's lease of the London Gar
| rick Theater. He will assume control in
| September.
A play, with Robert Burns for it's
hero, was produced in Ednburg the
other evening, but was denounced saw
agely in the newspapers as an insult to
| the poet. dramatic taste, and the audi