The record-union., 1897-10-17

You Like It" by Augustin Days COM
pany at the Memorial Theater, STRAIT
rd-on-Avon. Nine. De Navarro lives
in the village of Broadway, twelve miles
from Shakespeare's birthplace, IN much
seclusion, and rarely goes to the play.
When the committee appointed to
superintend the Donizetti memorial at
Bergdlno began its work, requests were
published in all cities where Donlzetu
had ever lived for the loan of letters,
portraits, manuscripts or anything else
relating to him. Vienna was not over
looked, for there he lived in lS42 and
1S43 as conductor of the Italian per-
forrnances at the Imperial Opera. A
special committee was formed for the
purpose of collecting relics, and the
numoer found was SO great that spe-
cial Donizetti exhibition was held in
Vienna before the objects We're for
War1ed to Bergamo \ Among the liter
ary documents We're some letters by
Donizetti, but they all relate to bust
ness matters, and offer nothing of BIZ
ographic interest. More readable were
a batch of letters to Donizetti, includ-
ing one from Verdi, who, as young
man, implored Donizettis good will and
assistance at the forthcoming perform
ance in Vienna of his opera "Ernani."
No object in the exhibition attracted
more attention than piano score Of
''FavoTita.' On the title page was
DonizetM's name. in large letters, and
below it, in smaller type, the informa-
ton that it was an arrangement for
voice and piano by Richard Wagner.
This vocal score was one of the pot
boilers which Wagner was obliged to
write during his starvation days in
Paris.
One of the speakers at the Interna-
tional Medical Congress in Moscow was
Professor Herman Krause of Berlin,
who delivered a lecture on the various
methods by which the voices of stu
dents and singers are ruined. He called
attention to the large number of charla
tans who spoil the fresh and promising
voices Of their pupils by their ignorance
of vocal physiology and hygiene; to the
injurious effect of the corset in the case
of women, and of tobacco and drinking
in the case of men, and many other
points. Among other things, he in
sisted that only robust girls should as
pire to the career of public singers, and
that any frail anaemic girl who tried to
adopt such a career sinned against her
health as we'll as against art.
'"The Fortune Hunter is the name of
the play which w. S. Gilbert has writ
ten for Miss Fortescue. 1t was pro-
duced in Birmingham on Monday. The
story is of a French viscount who, hav-
ing married an Australian heiress, en-
deavors to get rid of her when she
loses her money by pleading that his
marriage was illegal, owing to the lack
of parental consent. His most inti-
mate friend champions the cause of his
wife, and forces him into a duel, in
which he is cleared conveniently out of
the way to make room for a better
man. The Duchess of Dundee, a rich
American girl, is prominent figure.
The great scene in "The White
Heather" the new Drury Lane melo-
drama, is duel under water, in
sunken yachts cabin between Vice and
Virtue in divers costumes. Virtue cuts
Vices air tube and leaves him to
strangle. The stage picture is said
to be exceedingly ingenious and effect
i've
1t seems that Auguste Van Biene, of
fame as an actor and violoncello player
throughout all England, is doomed to
failure in his efforts to tie this coun-
try to his chariot wheels. He came
over first with a play, which he said
he had given over one thousand times
in England, called 1.-THE Broken Mel
ody," and the result-that is, the only
tangible result now remaining-is the
caricature of his manner and his
methods originated by Ferdinand
Gottischalk as Katzenjammer in
Never Again
Maud Hoffman will be E. S. Willard's
leading lady this season, and will play
Edana Hinde in "The Physician" Mr..
and Mrs. H. Cane, who have been with
Mr.. Willard for several seasons; Keith
Wakeman. Agnes Palmer "a Boston
girD, Oswald Yorke and Venner Clar-
ges will have prominent parts. The
production of this play will be the most
notable of the seasons productions
Luigi Cocola, laborer in the arsenal
which are to be performed in that city
next season. He is entirely self-taught,
and his talent has attracted the atten-
ton of many musicians.
The well known violinist Teresina
Tua, now Countess Franchi- Verney,
French Academy. She was formerly
r,f rn Do M xyeaffrs
James O'NeiIl has reason to be proud
of his revival of The Dead Heart It
is one of the most sumptuous scenic
displays on the road this season.
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r. a. Barnet has devised some new
and startling mechanical effects for the
musical comedy on which he is now at
work. 1t will probably be produced by
the Boston Cadets.
Miss Lulu Klein, for several seasons
the leading actress of the late Annie
Pixley's company, has been engaged by
Manager w. NJ. Wilkison for Freder-
ick Warde's company. She is to have
| an important part in 'Iskander."
The famous English vocalists, Mr..
and Mrs. George Henschel, are among
the early musical attractions for Cali
fornia. They make their first appear
ance in Brooklyn on the 10Th instant.
E,lanor Moretti has strong part in
"A Ward of France Klaw & Erlanger's
big play. presented in Philadelphia re-
Gently The cast contains twenty-seven
names and includes Maurice Barrymore,