The record-union., 1896-02-01


newly strengthened and enlarged and
is to-day the. best stock company or
ganized on the coast since the days of
the old California Theater Company.
w A. Brady's "Trilby" Company Is
to appear here February 20th with
Edith Crane as TriIby-she who perso-
mated the character here a few months
ago. The company has been organized
to tour Australia, and will sail from
San Francisco March 9th.
A. NJ. Miller, advance agent for the
Old Kentucky Company, is in the city
arranging for the appearance of the
troupe here February 7th.
Next week the Hanett Stock Company
will produce at the Clunie Opera house
the roaring farce-comedy, MY Precious
Baby" Mortimer Snow is to join the
troupe as leading man.
1t is claimed that the midnight meet
ing of directors in a bank in the third
act of Men and Women" to be played
here by the Frawley Company, is the
most intensely dramatic Scene ever put
into any modern play.
The pickaninny band in "old Ken
lucky which was with the play when
given here over a year ago, still at
taches to it and is a chief attraction.
Miss Mary Timberman, one of the
leading support of Thomas w. Keene,
has personal friends in Sacramento.
who anxiously await her arrival to well
come her.
The movement among theatrical man
ayers and actors at the East to abandon
Sunday night performances in theaters
is gaining ground and several of the
first-class managers have now signed
agreement to it. 1t ought to be made a
universal custom. The people Of the
stage need day of rest as we'll as
anyone else, and their performances
will be all the better for it.
Laura Burt, who has the Madge of
the play "Old Kentucky to be here
presently, was the original Jane in
"Blue Jeans" She carries with her in
a special car the pet horse which she
rides in the play.
They have in the East now new star
known as "the singing doll" She is the
wife of Paris physician, and came to
this country with her husband on BUSH
ness, but has been induced to remain for
time. She has sung with Melba, Calve
and many other great artists. She was
all the rage in Europe last year. She
conceived the idea of dressing as a doll
and appearing with all the mechanical
movements of doll. After a few pre-
liminary squeaks as the doll is wound
up by an attendant, she burts forth
into song, and near its close the ma
chinery appears to break down, the
song dies away in a. dolorous wall and
the doll is carried out. She takes high
F easily and often reaches G.. Madame
Patti has commended her art warmly.
She tells in her vivacious way of an
amusing experience at a concert given
in the Free Masons' Hall, London.
Secret ceremonies were in progress,
with the Prince of Wales as chief con-
ductor AT a signal the door was
opened, she was led upon the platform
and sang the selection prepared. At
its conclusion she was obliged to retire
by the same door, which was immedi-
ately locked Notwithstanding the de-
mand for an encore. by the assembled
Masons.
"Chimmie Fadden" is having a mar
velous run in New York, so much so
that bids to have it go elsewhere are
enormously high.
Thursday night in New York the vet
eran actor, J. H. Stoddart, was given
a reception by artists, actors, critics,
managers and literary people in honor
of his having completed his sixty third
/
he missed but two performances for
which billed. When Stoddart was in
Sacramento last he stated to friends
here that inside of a month he would
retire from the stage. That was two
years ago. and he is at it still in the
cast of THE Sporting Duchess"
Sarah Bernhardt isn't an atom
ashamed of being a grandmother Many
stage ladies try to hush up that dread
fact, or prevent it's accomplishment by
keeping their daughters single and in
sisting upon the celibacy of their sons.
Sarah doesn't care. She shows herself
in public with little Mile. Simone her
! granddaughter, who is already old
enough to go to school, Many a woman
would try to choke such an obstacle in
the way of apparent youth.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit was
shocked recently by a show at a local
theater. One of the scenes represented
| fire alarm at night in a young
woman's school, when a number Of the
pupils appeared in white nightgowne,
as if just aroused from sleep. Mayor
Pingree at once, it is said, issued a de.
cree directing that at future perform
ances the young women should appear
in bright red silk slippers, red stock.
ings, red boomers and red overskirts. -
Reginald De Koven, the composer,
writes thus of Miss Ellen Beach Yaw,
the new and phenomenal American
singer, of whom so much has been said
in Europe and America, and such vo-
ciferous praises sung: THE phenome-
nal in art is never truly artistic, and the
singing of Miss Ellen Beach Yaw,
whose phenomenal range Of voice has
been extensively advertised and com-
mented on of late, does nothing to con-
/ trovert this automatic truth That
Miss Yaw can sing several notes higher
than either Patti or Nilsson or any
other great prima donna / have ever
! heard. / freely admit. but as these ex-
treme high notes are anything but pleas
ant in quality / do not see that her pos
| sibiIities in this direction are of much
advantage to her. Her medium regis
ter is weak and her vocal style imma-
ture and should suggest to Miss Yaw
that she ignore for the time being the
fact of her phenomenal range and apply