Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-01
Dramatic and Musical Notes.


weeks engagement in San Francisco. It
has been three years since she last acted
in that city, and she is drawing big
business.
Charles Guyer, formerly Of Kansas City.
and we'll remembered as Pierrot, in Han
Ions "Superba," is member Of Ward and
Vokes' farce comedy company. which will
be seen at the Grand this week.
The Mirrors correspondent at Rome
learns that Bovio's famous play, 'Christ.
has been translated into the French for
Sarah Bernhard. who will impersonate
Mary Magdalen.-DramaticM Mirror.
Following the New York Stars at the
Ninth Street will come Lincoln j. Carriers 8
newest melodrama, 1.-THE Defaulter." which
promises to stir up more sensations than
any of this writer's previous works.
Rocco Venuto has been made librarian
for both the Symphony and Philharmonic
orchestraS, and has also arranged to tran
scribe the music for these organizations.
His headquarters Is $50 Ridge building.
Herr Antoine, the celebrated Hungarian
violinist, will make his first appearance IN
Kansas City at the Academy of Music,
Wednesday evening, November II. He is
said to be a greatly talented and highly
cultured artist.
Beerbohm Tree, during his coming Amer
lean tour, will present for the first time a
dramatization of Gilbert Parker's novel.
"The Seats of the Mighty" Tree plays
Doltaire, said by the critics to- be "the most
fascinating villain ever drawn by an au-
thor"
The first Of the series of free invitatioaal
ballad recitals proposed to be given by the
tenor, Mr.. w. H. Leib, was to have been
given next Friday evening, November 6.
but on account of the first Symphony con-
cert occurring on that date, the recital
will be given one week later.
1.-THE Old Homestead" will follow Ward
and Vokes at the Grand opera house. The
familiar drama is still one of the strongest
attractions of its class the stage affords,
and the reason is not hard to find. 1t
touches sympathetically nearly every class
of playgoer by its quaint picture of varied
phases of everyday life.
The Arion Quartette Clubs first concert
will be given at the Academy of Music,
Thursday, November II. The special SOLO
lists will be: Francois Boucher, violin;
Louis Apply. cello; E. Gill, basso; Henry
Kessler, tenor; w. H. Reach, tenor; Kate
Conway, soprano; Kate Donnelly, soprano:
Benjamin Nentwig. conductor; Gertrude
Concannon, accompanist.
Miss Louise Archer, of this city, who has
been a protege of Mrs. Jessie Bartlett
Davis, and who is singing with Eddie Foy
in "Off the Earth,' seems to have made
a hit. One Minneapolis paper says of her:
Miss Louise Archer is the most genuine
artist connected with the company. She
has a fine soprano voice that she uses to
good effect; she is modest and dainty on
the stage, and her song in the last act Is
really the gem of the entire production"
The managers of the Baldwin theater.
San Francisco, have taken a bold but ef-
fective means of removing the objection
able hat. Upon entering the theater each
lady is handed card bearing the follow
ing notice: "The management earnestly
requests ladies whose hats are of dimen-
sions likely to obstruct the viewT to remove
their hats while in the theater, as those
back of them are entitled to an unobstruct-
ed view of the stage"
For the past six months Wilton Lackaye
has been collecting photographs and en-
cravings of Professor Roentgen, the cell
ebrated discoverer of the x rays, and max
ing a careful study of his remarkable per-
sonality. The result will be seen in Mr..
Lackaye's makeup as DR.. Belgraff, which
is said to be more impressive than his IA
nous makeup as Svengali. without the
repulsive weirdness of the latter In the
art of makeup, by the way, Lackaye is
considered a master.
Mary Hampton will join E. H. Sothern's S
company as leading lady when Virginia
Harmed leaves to open in A. NJ. Palmer's
stock company. Grace Kimball. who was
deferred by illness from resuming her place
in Mr.. Sothern's support, at the beginning
of the season, has decided not to rejoin the
company. Miss Hampton is now playing
in 1.-THE Two Little Migrants" at Boston.
Annie Irish replaces Miss Hampton In The
Two Little Migrants" and Elsie De Wolfe
takes Miss Irish's place in the Empire the
ater stock company.
Harry vokes, of Ward and Vokes, is
putting in all his spare time on the road
working on an invention of his own, q
water bicycle for use in the surf. Mr..
Vokes hopes to have the new wheel ready
for the resorts on the Eastern coast for
next summer. Happy" Ward says that
of the 5000 pounds of excess baggage they
carry, 1000 pounds Of it is Vokes' para
phernalia for the "Merry-go-round." as he
terms 1t, and he figures that in forty weeks
on the road they will pay more for excess
baggage than the 'surf skinner" will ever
bring in, in forty years.
In few weeks Walker Whiteside, who
was seen in this city last season and who
left a very favorable impression, will be
seen at the Coates in Hamlet" "the Mer-
chant of Venice" and other standard char
acters, and will also appear In the title role
of Eugene Aram," a powerful play found.
ed on the historical character OF that name
Mr. Whitesde has recently been accorded
high place among those who aspire to the
extreme possibilities of dramatic art, but
he has been criticized for the inadequacy
Of his supporting company. This season
however. he has engaged strong people and
seems to have an organization entirely in
keeping with his own merits.
1.-THE success Of Brain Boru' has, as
you may imagine. stimulated me greatly
said Stanislaus STANCE to a Mirror reporter
yesterday. 1.-The press criticisms have, !
think, been uniformly fair and kind. My
new play for Andrew Mack has been COM
pleted. but the title has not yet been chos-
en-. Mr.. Mack will appear as Dan, Of Bal
lyhara, young peasant farmer. The time
Of the piece is the seventeenth century,
and 1 take some pride in the fact that
there isn't an Observation-Disclosures or
otherwise-in the whole play. That Is no
trifling achievement, let me confess. AT
present am working on a new comic
opera for Jefferson De Angels. which will
be produced at the Knickerbocker theater
on April Is. The title chosen is His Amer
lean Highness' Dramatic Mirror.
"I was in receipt of check from Maple
son." says Arditi in his memoirs. land. be-
ing anxious to cash 1t. drove one after
noon, just before closing time, to the bank
at which it was made payable. When
presenting the check the clerk asked me
If had not brought anyone who could
idapfify launched and said snopsf