The record-union., 1897-08-15

could not have endured. For, however
much wife might love me and believe
in me, the complete certainty OF my f1nal
victory, as | felt it, could not be shared
by her. And if she should have at
tempted to console me-puhi l cannot
bear the thought; what hell that Wou. q
have been for mel"
But although Brahms remained a
bachelor to the end of his life, he did
not lack care. During the last eleven
years of his life he boarded in the house
of the journalist DR.. Truxa, whose
widow took good care of his comfort.
She was present at the death scene.
When she came into his room at $3.50
a. M on the last day, weeping bitterly,
he opened his eyes and wept, too, for
| several minutes. Then he opened his
mouth to say something but fell back
on the pillow the same moment and took
one short breath-his last.
Between the dates of the accession to
the throne and the coronation of her
majesty, the Queen, the young Princess
Victoria went to Coyent Garden Thea
ter to see Macready play Claude Mel
notte and Helen FaucK Pauline Des-
chappelles in THE Lady of Lyons. :"
That play has lasted untarnished for
sixty years on the English stage. 1t is
said to be tawdy and theatrical. 1t
may be. It was the very first play |
ever saw acted at Drury Lane, in 1919,
by James Anderson as Claude and Miss
Fandenhoff as Pauline. But it has lasted
as a stage classic, and is ever welcome
now, when we'll acted, because it con-
tains interest, because it plays upon
the chords of human nature, the best
and the worst of all of US. When has
the School for Scandal ceased to at
tract? Never, because in addition to its
brilliancy and its wit, the comedy is full
of human interest. London Assur-
ance," has held the stage for nearly sixty
years. Why? Because humor is allied
to human interest. When in the old
days or in later times, the Irving and
Ellen Terry days, did the Vicar of
Wakefield ever fail to charm? Never
because it is human TO the core. Why
were the Robertson plays so attractive
slight and charade-like as they We're?
Because they were human.
A new opera, THE Strike of the
Blacksmith" by Leon and Beer, was
recently produced at Nuremburg with
much success. The music is written in
the Wagnerian style. with now and
then an inkling of Mascagni melodies,
bat the orchestral score is well arranged
and the production was thoroughly en-
joyed.
James H. Dunno, manager of the Wo-
mems Philharmonic Orchestra of Bos-
ten, claims for his organization the dis
tinction Of being the original women's
orchestra of Boston," a title which has
been assumed by other bodies of play
ers. The orchestra consists of twenty
women players under the leadership of
Mrs. Marietta Sherman Raymond, and
even the drums, horns and basses are
played by women, which IS quite un-
usual.
One of the best results of the Schubert
centenary festivities, a few months ago,
is that led to the first performance of
his Mass in E fiat. 1t was given under
Richter's direction, and was unanimous
ly declared to be one of Schubert's best
works 1t was printed some years ago
by Biedermann at the advice of
Brahms, and will now doubtless start
on its tour around the world.
In reviewing the third volumes of
Hans Won Bulow's collected writings, the
London Musical Times" says:
1T was after Bulow's visit to the
United States that change came over
his style of diction and that he won the
sobriquet, with which List invested
him, of a humorous journalist This
change of style he adopted wilfully, for
in the first of a long series of letters ad-
dressed to the editor of the Leipsic Sig
male he writes: You see, dear sir, that
I have not been to America in vain, and
that I have studied the sensational style
of the Yankee press etc"
Fanny Davenport will give her new
play a magnificent production at the
Boston Theater, where her season opens
October 18th. A small fortune viii be
spent on the scenery and costumes. The
company will be remarkably strong, and
even the minor parts will be played by
actors of prominence.
John Drew has had longer seasons in
New York than any other star of recent
years. The season before last he played
there for seven months, dividing his
time between three theaters. Last sea-
son he was there for five months, but at
only one theater-the Empire-and with
only one play. Rosemary"
A movement has been inaugurated by
the Theatrical Mechanics Association
OF San Francisco in conjunction with the
Alliance of Scenic Painters and the Alh
ance of Stage Employees for the purpose
OF suitably caring for the grave of the
distinguished scenic artist, the late
Forrest Seabury. which, at present, is
without anything to mark the spot.
The big theatrical syndicate in which
AL Hayman, Charles Frohman, Klaw
& Erlanger and Nixon & Zimmerman
are the controlling spirits, have formed
a popular price circuit which win reach
from Boston to San Francisco, with the,
Columbia Theater at the San Francisco
end. The prices to prevail viii be from
10 cents to 81.
Eudle oS VIII De q HlGAlotf VI 14e
immense cast to appear in the produc-
ton if In Gay New York TO be brought
out at the Baldwin, San Francisco. The
popular comedian will appear in the
role Of Edgardo Booth.
Few young actresses have made such
rapid advancement in so short a time as
Julia Arthur, whose right name is Ida
Lewis. She was born il Hamilton, Ont.
Ten years ago she was minor member