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asked to change his seat while the
berth was being made up He refused
to move, saying that he had paid for
the seat and would remain there as
long as he pleased. The conductor
said he could do nothing in the prem-
ises. Bloom then asked him courteous
~. as his wife was in delicate health.
He made a disagreeable reply, and
Bloom, who is a chunky, sturdy in
dlvldual, grabbed him by the beard
and yanked him out In the scrimmage
that followed Bloom got the best Of it
and the berth was made up. The man.
ager was still boiling hot when he re-
tired, and he lay awake thinking out
some further plan of vengeance. When
the enemy climbed into his upper
berth, am inspiration occurred to
Bloom. He smiled to himself, reached
over and picked up a pair of shoes and
threw them out of the window. Then.
he chuckled and went to sleep con-
tented. When he got up in the morn
ing he discovered that he had thrown
out his own shoes!
The July number of Music con-
tains a reprint from "Godey's Mag
azine" of an article on one of the most
individual and interesting of Ameri-
can composers, Edgar Stillman Kelley,
who was born in Wisconsin QS5O, but
has for a number of years been the
most prominent musical personality of
San Francisco. Mr.. Kelley has writ
Mo h f0l,
won popularity here as we'll as abroad;
but his most important works, dra-
matte and orchestral, are still in man
uscript. His Macbeth music, as pro-
duced by Mckee Rankin, had a three
weeks run in San Francisco, while his
operetta "Puritania' had a run of
more than a year during tour ON
which Mr.. Kelley himself conducted
his work. Unique and extremely in
teresting is his Chinese suite 'Alad-
din," in which real Chinese airs are
adopted and most ingeniously handled
Mr.. Kelley's most popular song, THE
Lady Picking Mulberries,'' is also in
the Chinese vein, and has won much
favor among the Celestials Of San
Francisco.
Buenos Ayres has a handsome new
opera house. It was opened with a
performance of Verdi's "Otello," with
tate there and is said to have made up
his mind to retire from the stage and
devote himself to agriculture
The London DAILY Mail" revives the
agitation to abolish an arbitrary and
obsolete restriction which has hitherto
prevented Londoners from hearing
works like Saint-Saens' Samson ct
Dalila," Rubinsteins "Maccabees"
and Goldmarck's Queen of Sheba."
1T seems hard to imagine" Says the
Mail" that anybody could take ex-
ception to the fact that characters
from ancient history-who were no
wise divine in any of their attributes
should be the motive of a work of art"
In Germany such performances are
permitted so long as the Savior himself
is not permitted as an acting charac-
ter ON the stage. Rubinstein's
"Christus" was forbidden at Breslau
not long ago with reference to this law
Of censorship.
Gilbert & Sullivan's Grand Duke
has met with a favorable reception in
a German version at Berlin theater
japanese" operas are coming more
and more into fashion. The latest er-
fort to treat a japanese subject seri-
ously is the opera ''Lili Tsee,'' by
Franz Curti, which has been sung with
success at Mannheim and Frankfort.
pronounces it truly
and graceful; an
welcome addition to the
The well-known composer and the
orist Jadassohn celebrated on May
10Th the fiftieth anniversary Of his
appointment as professor ait the Leip-
sic Conservatory.
new American play by Bret Harte
will be produced under the manage
fnent Of Charles F'rohman In the
Theater, Philadelphia, on
the 18th of September. Annie Russell
will enact the heroine and Joseph Ha-
worth, probably, the hero. The scene
is laid in the Sierras.
The Grail scene from Wagner's
Parsifar was recently sung with
great success and excellent effect in a
Spanish version at Barcelona. 1t is
a pity that, owing to the scarcity of
composers in that country, music is so
seldom sung in Spanish, the most mu-
sical of all languages.
That famous Wagner bubble" con-
tinues to burst" in the most brilliant
manner. Last year over O. thousand
Wagner performances were given in
German opera-houses; last week the
Berlin Opera completed a cycle Of all
Of Wagner's operas excepting, of
"ParsifarD; next week the
Bayreuth festival begins; Munich has
It's usual Wagner series during the
Buda-Pesth has two nearly
complete Wagner cycles during the
Exhibition, and so on.
In speaking Of the production recent
" of Mascagni's latest opera, "Zanet- |
to-" the London Times" remarks:
Seldom has public opinion changed |
SO quickly as in the case of Mascagni, |
/ change due, it is true, quite as much |
70 the poverty of his later works as to |
he proverbial fickleness of amateurs" |
In this new work the Times thinks |
he has been wholly successful in |