Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
Bernhardt's
Next
Production.

production with the greatest possible cafn.
Mr.. Victor Ullmau. the stage manager -
the Renaissance theater. has recently SO Ii
to Milan, where the scenery is being paint
ed after sketches made by an artist sent
the spot and obtain casts from antique
objects from Mykenae, now III the mu-
scum at Athens. This drama has hut four
acting persons and is said to contain the
so-called ARISTOTLE three %unitiss. and the
public will have a final chance to c~riticise
dAnnunzio as u dramatist. His ilrst effort
Dream" had SO little of the dramatic in
it that 1t can hardly be called anything
but a beautiful poem.
Nellie Melba was heard for the first time
at a musicale at the Marchesi school on
December 30. 1856, and in public for the
first time on March q. 1887. at the Sale
Erard. Jane HorwitZ and Emma Eames
also appeared at this concert, and all three
were warmly welcomed while Neiba in
particular received an ovation. Marchesi
says of Melba: she is to-day without a
rival on the operate stage. AS Il vocalist
she mora resembles n bird than a human
creature, and it is impossible to conceive
anything more musical or more flexible
than her marvellous voice, which is always
clear as a silver bell. l am only repeat
ing what the critics of every country have
as regards taste, style and vocalization.
this pupil of mine is superior to any living
creature"
The ~brokendown actor has been carica-
tured many times on the stage, but the
complete. real and pathetic break" came
to one Of the old timers in Chicago, De-
cember u. when ,Waldemar
-" A.' street. a victim of starvation
Dies of and neglect. Dahlborn was a;
starvation. Dane by birth, and played
first in 4 German company
in the old Bowery theater in
New York. He was a member of the orig
inal Madison Square company, aud went
around thu. world with -, DnIrllnn Ia
played DunStan in Hazel kirke.' luke
Fielding in The Willow Copse, Jacques
in The Two Orphans and CASTOR in
He was stage manager at Electric Park
last summer. and that was his last en-
gaGcment until he got a chance recently
to play at the Biiou. Last Wednesday he
came 10 Stage Manager Walters and said:
Il am hungry, Waters. viii not be
something to eat Later he said that he
had gone two days without food.
When the Bilou was closed Wednesday
night none of the actors received any sal
For many years Dahlborn had kept a
diary, and a few hours before his death
he wrote his last entry in 1t. 1t reads:
December l0-Dinner, Clark street restau-
rant, . cents.
For many months he had lived at times
on less than 81 Il week. The expenditures
for the last five days of his life We're as
follows, as shown in his diary:
December G-Dinner. Madison street. 10
cents.
December G-Carfare to theater. 10 cents.
December Coffee and rolls. Halstead
street, D cents.
December Dinner. 10 cents.
December 7-Barber. ; cents.
December Coffee and rolls, , cents.
December Skinner, Madison street, 10
December sCarfare to theater, 10 cents.
December S-Coffee and bread, Waverly,
5 cents.
December eDinner, Madison street. 10
cents.
December l0-Dinner. Clark street. 3
cents.
Fifteen years ago, according to earlier
parts of his diary, he ate at Delmonico's,
in New York, where it was his, custom to
pay 50 or 81 for a meal. The weli-thumbed
pages show where at times he was on the
high wave of prosperity. and again. when
out of an engagement. the diary tells how
he Subsistcd on : cents n day.
one entry in the latter part of November
shows where. though in poverty himself,
he gave 5 cents TO a mendicant.
Probably the most pathetic page In his
diary for 1886 is that of Christmas day.
While nearly every person in that big
and plum pudding. the Old actors book
shows that his dinner that day cost D
cents.
J. II. Stoddart, who is now with THE
Sporting Duchess" is to be starred in Il
dramatization of Ian Maclaren'S BESIDE
the Bonnie Erier Bush" Frank Perley is
to produce the piece in New IngE next Ht
lanes Macarthur. editor of Bookmau. and
Thomas Hall. Il well known literary man.
The annual charity benefit of the Elks
was given Mt the Coates opera house Fri
day afternoon and was attended with the
enthusiasm characteristic of these events
in the past. The thcater was
filled, and as there We're COM
The paratively few expenses to be
Eiks' met. the receipts Will stand as
ps,eft a substantial fund for diStri-
~ button by the charity commit
tee of this excellent organlZa-
ton. These benefits have been of great
| service to the distressed of this city and
to the needy Of the theatrical profession.
| and il is n significant commentary upon the
| professional people who from year 10 year
give their services for the entertainment
of the public on these occasions. that they
always respond c~heerfully and give the
best they have to offer.
Fridays programme was so long that It
IS Impossible to say all the good things
that might he recorded fer the several con-
trihutors. II was one OF the most varied
and creditablc programmes Vet given at
the ElkS' ANIMALS. and there was not Il
The entertainers represented the various
companies now playing in the city. who
appeared by the consent of the theaterS
and company managers. and the orchestras
of the several houses contributed the mu-
sic.
The turns In their programme order
We're as follows: George Austin. in his
exceedingly clever slack wire and comic
performance; Ashley Rush. with song,
The Night Joined the Elks:" the Kings
ley sisters. In their !aughahie black face
dancer. in her artistic and graceful
dances: Joseph J. Conlan. with song, Mrs
Hogan. of Hogan's Alley TraCediar
Thomas W. keeac, in his great charac,
act of Julius Caesar" supported by
Charles Hauford as Brutus. Arthur Stan