The record-union., 1896-09-13

compelled to have an assistant 10 care
for my correspondence, as well as the
minor details of business negotiations.
For gentle art, in these rushing days,
goes hand in hand with roughshod COM
mercial interest, and one may barely
live without the other"
e. +. Coward in the New YORK
world" thus writes: Until Paul Potter
made an effective play out of Trllby
but few novels had stood the test or
dramatization. With the popularity OF
this piece every story and romance pc
came the subject Of theatrical consld-
Grafton. The success of Edward T..
Roses adaptation Of Anthony Hopes S
exciting adventures of red haired
Rassendyll further strengthened eX-
pectations from literary quarters while
"Chimmie Fadden,' "a Social High
wayman' and The Story of Rodion the
Student" clinched the belief that there
was a new vein Of dramatic inspiration
to be tapped. This season, therefore,
will probably see dramatizations of
Under the Red Robe" "A Daughter of
the Tenements," "a Tragic Idyll," Mr.
Wits Widow" 'Tom Grogan," Seats
VI lIiC hISAly dilu w llSAi oiOOiN -AN ~
Greek"
How successful these works will be
remains to be seen. Books have sup
piled ideas for many good plays, but or
the numerous direct dramatizations
that have been put forward Camille,
East Lynne and ''Uncle Toms Cabin"
are about the only ones that have stood
the test of time. "Trilby' as play
owed large share of its success to the
widespread popularity Of the novel,
What the dramtist failed to provide the
spectator out of his knowledge mentally
supplied In the long list just quoted,
there are few books that are any ways
near as widely known as Du Maur1ers S
celebrated study of Partisan student
life
If the public really wants romantic
plays and melodramas it is certainly 60
ing to get it's fill this season. Several
will come from England, but the native
writer has shown ch a superiority in
this line of work" Under the Polar
STAR is worth a score Of Sporting
Duchesses," "Burmahs' and Cheer,
Boys, Cheer''-that local managers are
| looking to the home market for their
supply. Here is only a partial list Of
some Of them that will have metropoli-
tan playhouses shake with their melo-
dramatic detail: AN Enemy to the
King" Sue" Roaring Dick & Co."
Flower Moyne," Secret Service" In
the Heart of the Storm The Great
Northwest" The Cotton Spinner"
| The Hand of Destiny" Boys To-
gether," When London Sleeps"
House of Mystery" An Innocent Sin
ner,' "A Lions Heart" "A Soldier of
Fortune" new frontier drama by
Henry Guy Carleton and a new Cuban
melodrama by j. w. Harkins
To offset this influx of action, blood
and stage mechanism, the going
public is promised a revival of the Rob
ertsonian comedies and a new comedy
by Pinero, Rosemary" The Liar"
The Sign of the Cross" Mary Pen
nington, Spinster," Richard Savage"
'Treadway of Yale" My Lady Virtue"
1.-The Wife Of Scarli" and The Rogues'
Comedy" The senses, not the intel
lectual, faculties are what the managers
with singular and regretable unanim-
ity will cater to during the coming year.
The musical critic of the London
Sunday Times who was over here
some time ago, hs been telling English
opera-goers some interesting things
about the New York theaters, including
the following:
Il heard a splendid performance of
| Lohengrin' under Herr Seidl. The sub
dued and refined playing of the orches-
ira constituted revelation for ears ac-
customed to the ordinary Interpretation
of Wagner's familiar score. Herr Seidl's g
men were neither out Of sight nor sunk
deep below the level of the stalls; they
had been taught the art of self-subor-
dination, that was all. Really we must
hear no more excuses on this subject
when our Covent Garden orchestra takes
Wagner in hand. NJ. Jean de Reszke was
the unapproachable Lohengrin of DID,
and so fresh was his voice, so pure and
clear in it's tone, that one would never
have imagined how much hard and con-
tinuous work the famous tenor had
gone through since last November"
Shakespeare and Music is the title
of a book just published by E. w. Nay
lor The author thinks that Shake
speare wrote with a special reagrd to
musical accomplishments to his plays
turesque account of the musical life Of
the sixteenth century-from the drunk
en- tinkers sitting by the ale house fire,
! with the pot of ale between their legs
to Queen Elizabeth herself Willing
away a weary hour at the virginals.
Mr.. Tree seems to have spared no
pains nor expense in his revival of
| Henry w" in the London Haymarket
/ Theater. The costume and scenic eff
fects are praised highly. His Falstaff
is commended, but not enthusiastically.
1t is regarded, apparently. as an ex-
pertinent more curious than convincing.
The great hit Of the performance was
the Hotspur of Lewis Waller.
Jefferson De Angels, who is happily
blessed with a comedians face, a nimble
pair of feet and a long career as a, New
York fayorite in comic opera, will make
his first appearance at the head of his
very own company at the Broadway
! Theater Thursday evening, September
Sd. the production being the first of the
numerous presentations of comic opera
engineered for the ensuing season.
A new ballet by Franchi entitled
THE Mulatto,' was given with success
at Naples two weeks ago. The papers
| claim that not since the days of .Ex-
| ce1sior' was there seen such a wonder
/ full spectacle on the stage Of the San
| Carlo Theater. A bolero, two Moorish
dances Spapi1b waltz opd canaan