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The theatre-goer may take his bicycle
along in Australia. They will check 1t
at the door.
Rose Coghlan in Madame" is said to
have at last found a role that hts her
like pair of tights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Grandin are to
begin tour in September with ro-
mantle play called "At the Carnival.
Australia is gloating over new play
called 1.-The Land of the Moa." The
leap of a horse over a chasm twenty
two feet wide is one Of the great scenes.
Anthony Hope, the author OF The
Prisoner of Zenda,' is to marry the
Princess Flavia of the London produc-
tion of the play, a Miss Evelyn Millard.
Mrs. Potter and Mr.. Bellew are going
to Australia, to open at Sydney, May
30th in "As You Like 1t" with William
Elton, formerly of Wallack's, as Touch
stone.
It is said Nine Modjeska's left arm
is partially paralyzed as the result of
her recent illness. The report was that
she had completely recovered, neverthe-
less the arm is still in a sling.
Philadelphia is something of an opera
town. The Metropolitan Company,
which appeared in eight performances
in that city recently, played to S4S,Ooo
or an average of sc, 900 a performance.
Music will play prominent part in
the Cars coming coronation ceremo-
MES. A chorus of 5000 singers will
give a monster concert" under the di-
rection of Professor Safon of the Mos
COW Conservatory. Glasunof has COM
posed a coronation cantata, in which
Alma Fohstrom will appear as the lead
ing vocalist.
Chicago welcomed Melba with a So
900 audience, and she respectfully chal-
1enges any of the great musical centers
on the earth's surface to match that.
Contracts have been signed by Daniel
Frohman and Richard Mansfield
whereby Mr. Mansfield will act under
the management of Mr.. Frohman till
1900 The arrangement is to begin with
next season.
Nine. Melba has been singing seven
years. Her maiden name was Mitchell
Her father was Scotch and her mother
Spanish. From her mother she inner
tied her musical gift. The artist has
three brothers and three sisters. One OF
her brothers is a remarkable singer
When her father was appointed Com
missioner from Melbourne, Australia,
10 one of the London exhibitions he took
his family with him 10 Europe. Soon
after her arrival Melba began to study
with the great Marchesi, whom she has
never left for any other teacher. She
made her debut in Brussels in 1888.
Charles Salaman, the oldest living
musical composer in England, now in
his SD year, has been continuously be-
fore the public for sixty eight years. He
remembers the tolling of the bells fol
the death of George III. He was pres
ent at the coronation of William "
and Queen Caroline, and he was a lad oil
10 when he travelled with Charles Kear
to Stratford-on-A to be present al
the third Shakespeare jubilee. He
knew Mendelssohn, to whom he was in
troduced by Atwood. the organist o.
St. Pau1s. He used to play duets will
List at his fathers house in 1927
Schumann, Hummel, Moscheles, Meyer
beer, Spohr, Thalberg Wagner, Heller
Balfe, Wallace. Bishop, Czerny, Johr
dol
Gounod We're all his personal acquaint
ances. He played at Munich in 1885
before the King of Bavaria He still
preserves some words which Mozart!
widow wrote for him when he visited
the venerable old lady at Salzburg.
Says the New York POST: So far a.
the future is concerned, the American
composer who is following the example
of his brethren of Great Britain, France
Italy and Russia, in studying German
ideals, will stand an equal chance Will
them in the struggle for recognition. 81
writes a, T. Krehbiel of New York 70
'Church's Musical Visitor AS soon a.
he is put upon their level in respect o
encouragement at home and abroad
these things are necessary for the devel
opment of that vigorous forwart
man." who, as Bagehot has contended
IN his discussion of the origin of liter
airy schools, will strike out the rough
notion of the style which the people vii
find congenial, and which, for that rea
son. viii find imitation. The character
istic mode of expression which will b.
stamped upon the music of the futur
American composer will be the join
creation of the Americans freedom
from conventional methods and his in
inherited predictions and capacities
The reflective German, the mercuria
Frenchman, the stolid Englishman, tn
warm-hearted Irishman, the impulsiv
Italian, the daring Russian, will eacl
contribute his factor to the sum of ma
tional taste. The folk melodies of al
nations Will yield up their individual
charms, and disclose to the composer
hundred avenues of emotional expires
sion which have not yet been explored
The American composer will be tn
truest representative of universal art
because he will be the truest type of
citizen of the world.
AT a recent performance in Denver O
Edwin Milton Royle's new drama
Mexico a lady in one OF the prosce
MUM boxes was weeping copiously a
one of the pathetic passages. wher
giancing aside an instant, her eye fel
upon man seated near by in the par
quet who was also busy trying to kee
back the tears by a vigorous use of hi
pocket handkerchief The man caugh
az he I've