The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
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AONNUu lie thhh NaeeN NNShs1
be considorably more enjoyable than they are
now. Such a concert as that on Sunday,
dragged out as II was by tho encores until IL
lasted from q quarter after 8 until nearly half.
past IL, is beyond all endurance. The persons
responsible for the continued applause evident
ly feel no great desire to hear a repetition. They
applaud merely because 1t has become tho
habit at the Metropolitan. 1t is less with the
idea OF getting tho worth Of their money than
for the sake Of whooping things up that their
chatter is continued until the artists are weak
enough TO crafty what they believe is q gepu'
inc request for more Of their work, On last
Sunday a number Of persons left tho Opera
5.mt sb before ore the e SmS,n. % mnst of be mo n Is sb eyt.
CT or that tho performers, must refuse more
than one encore during, the evening. After
the nuisance would abate. Then the pro-
gramme could be carried out in it, regular or:
by persons who wanted a chance to see-and pos:
sibly to hear-Calve, Melba, Eames, or some OF
the best known singers for the small prices
orally showed itself chiefly after these artists
appeared. Plancon usually came in for his
share OF the enthusiasm. Since Nine. Sem
brich ceased to sing. there have been no partic-
ular stars of this kind. and the audiences have
DECIDED to applaud everybody r. That is the
astonishing to hear the Immortality with
nous and popular is likely to arouse as much
enthusiasm as another who is little known. and
more than TWO or three numbers to the pro,
grammc.. But he is sometimes called upon TO
s sSee1 other them; so,a as; as sSoH Tdn follow 81 rlYSp sS2e's a ex.
sonable length.
Young Mrs. Jack Bloodgood, who Is to be-
come an actress this winter, is a very pretty
woman. with blue eyes, very blond hair, and
rather small features. She Is rather above the
medium height, and her figure is slight and
graceful. She is to retain her own name on the
stage, and ono explanation of this is the fact
that she has during her life borne 80 many
names that she feels herself entirely unequal
to the strain Of assuming q new one for
stage use. Her mother and father wero di.
vorced in her youth, and she assumed her
mothers name. Sine continued to live with
her mother and assumed the name of her step.
father when her mother married again. She
then married and became Mrs. Havemeyer.
Later she secured q divorce from her husband
and after a time became the possessor OF her
one rather than undertake. another. she Is ono
Of the few well-known women who have gone
experience in private theatricals. Mrs. Her
man Jones was another, and she was less fear;
full of changing her name when she appeared
professionally. Before that time she had been
Miss Rita Hone. and her two husbands gave
her the right to two different names. But she
Jones was younger than Mrs. BIoodRood when
her stage life began. and may have felt herself
better prepared for the burden OF a new name.
The incarceration of young John Watts
Kearny, which was brought about through his
fathers action some time ago, was a step that
seemed, according to the story told by his fami-
~, the only measure possible to save him and
his family from more serious disgrace than his
habitual intemperance had already caused.
When his father vas forced to appeal to the
New Jersey courts every other step possible to
work his reformation had already been taken
and had failed. 1t was only the practical GER
tainty of much more d sastrous consequences
of his actions that made confinement seem the
only means to protect the young man against
his own deeds committed while he was under
the influence OF liquor. Before the courts were
appealed to young Kearny could have had the
choice of any other means OF reform that had
not already been tried. 1t was his refusal to
yield to any proposed method OF reform that
placed hin in the Hudson county Jail. HIS
undertaken to bring about young kearny's re-
lease. has not for many years past been on
ment between them, began after the death of
Gen. Phil Kearny. who lett most of his fortune
to his son and little or nothing to his other
children. The Marguise de KERNEL has for
many years lived in Europe. and is now in this
county Sr. win IN her 6n son, w who or Fef bar sal MS edu CA
now in France. with her. Nine. de Kernel will
go when her son has completed his technical
CuuShllbh ~ ~ iio bCCh IICpdli lily ILiibC
to become an electrician, and will return 10
France when he has learned enough OF the sci
ence. His fathers home is in Brittany.
The leading roles in Sig. Mancinclii's opera,
which was produced the other day at Madrid,
were sung by Hercla Darclee and De March,
who were in this country a year ago with the
unfortunate Maplesonscompany, and failed to
find the appreciation which they had met with
in other countries. They are always to be
heard in the same organization, even when
they do not appear in the same opera, and theiI
disputes with Col. Mspleson led to the dis
closure of a very curious contract with that
impresario. The document was unique in
its way. and provided that - 900 should b:
paid TO them for every performance. II Nine
Darclee sang; she received that sum. and Il
Sig. De march, appeared, the same amount wal
paid to him. II they both sang in the same
opera they got the 81 900; Blu! even that contract
was too much for Col. Mnpleson to live up to
Sig. Mancinelli has been the conductor at the
Madrid Opera House during the winter, anc
has .9 HSss ssPss"i" MSidPh FT he dir fc e ps s5srea an
ton Seidl is so busy a man that work on biz
oIera is progressing slowly. He said III,
The iibretto is already completed.an deals witt
just the sort OF story that might be expected t
appeal sP poppor to MI; s se ses i 4 ! persU that Th f9e has Sa hsf
and other elements are personifed in the work
One Of the important parts of the first, act l
may not give an accurate idea of Mr.. Seidl'
libretto, but they come from one of the few per
sons who have read so much of the Hbretto a
has been completed. The composer is takinI
his work very easily, but with his almost un
interrupted engagements it would scarcely b
possible for him to make very rapid progress
with his opera.
Mrs. f.. Parker Deacon's return to New Yor
this winter was the result Of a chance meetin
in a Swiss hotel last summer, which brough
about what seemed to he the first opportunit
for reinstatement in society. Since the trae
edy which five years ago made her known to III
civilized world Mrs. Deacon has lived away froI
the world in which she had moved for man
years. There seemed very little hope OF a rel
t~oration to her former position in France, an
the life that was open to her in the Continents
cities was not to her liking. The only plac
that she longed for was that which she had OF
cupied before her husband shot NJ. Abeill,
and for that she determined to struggle who
the right time came. 1t arrived last sunme
in Switzerland. Stopping. in the same hot,
with her was her husbands brother. She ser
her card to his wife, and an intimacy grew u
between them. During that time Mrs. DeacO