The record-union., 1897-01-31

to modern times.
The third of Dvoraks new symphonic
poems, The Noon Witch is based on
the Bohemian superstition that noon
has it's evil spirit and the music en-
deavors to describe the behavior-frst
| good then bad-of a child, and the
scoldings of the mother, who finally
! calls for the Noon Witch. On the
witch's appearance there ensues a con-
test for the possession of the child,
which ends by the compulsory retire
ment of the witch at the hour of L.
| When the father returns he finds his
wife in swoon on the floor, and her
child dead in her arms.
Miss Constance Bache has trans
lated Hans Won Bulow's letters, and
they will soon appear in print. They
contain graphic descriptions of the
! trials of a young musician, an interest
| ing gossip about List and Wagner, to
| whose encouragement and guidance he
owed so much in his youth and early
manhood. The translation, which has
| been authorized by Frau Marie Won Bu-
low, is illustrated with portraits.
Halle tells good story of Rossini.
When Brod the oboist, played F sharp
Rossini asked him for pinch of snuff
and placidly remarked that the right
note was F, but "in regard to the F
sharp, do not worry yourself; We shall
find means to put it somewhere else
There is another good story about Doni-
zetti who, being told that Rossni wrote
III Barbiere' in a fortnight replied: Il
can quite believe it; he always was a
lazy fellow
Miss Maud Adams is spending her
last season in the humble capacity of a
leading woman. She has made wonder
full progress ON the stage since she first
became known here some eight years
ago. She has been leading woman in
John Drew's company from it's first or
ganization, and next season she is to
| try to shine out as star for herself.
She has worked carefully for her ad-
vancement and will be followed by
good wishes.
There are few singers now on the
comic opera stage who have so much
of the dramatic ability that all of them
ought to have as Jessie Bartlett Davis.
She can do good deal toward carrying
a weak operetta, and she has done it
more than once, just by acting and
singing so earnestly and we'll. The
Bostonians have no more useful men,
ber of their organization.
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Edward Terry tells of a pretty Incl
inl,
tralian tour: DO you know what l
consider the most glowing tribute I
ever received? The compliment came
from child. There was a crowded
house-an intent audence-and humor
had, for that instant, given place to pa
thos. You might have heard pin drop,
and | felt the tension of the house was
at breaking point. The intense silence
was broken by childish voice-a girls
who. turning to her parent, asked, in
broken voice: Father, is it real?''' -
Two eminent performers who have
been seen lately in Berlin are Ludwig
Barnay and Eleanora Duse. The for
mer, who was supposed to have retired,
won a triumph as King Lear in the
Berliner Theater. and in a brief speech
announced his intention of acting occa-
sionally. Mime. Duse appeared in La
Dame aux Camellias," and was re-
ceived with immense enthusiasm.
Frau Adelheid de Wette, to whom the
world is indebted for the libretto TO
'Hansel und Gretel" has published a
fresh dramatized fairy story Der
E'raSCblxoepiey'' i.Lyipu Of tho EH,oorc,,l
for which the talented sister of Hum
perdinck has in this instance herself
written the music 1t is to be first pro-
duced at Christmastide by the Cologne
Stadt Theater.
LondOners are clamoring for cheap
priced concerts. The artists and would
be artists who charge 50 or more a seat
are left in solitude, while there is a
great rush for the cheap Sunday con-
certs ait both the Queens and the AL
bert halls. 1t was shown, too, at the
Lamoureux concerts, when, although
the lbs I'd stalls We're only once full
the Js balcony was sold out at all six
concerts.
Pauline Hall owns one of the hand
soonest and most valuable collections of
fans in the country. One of them is a
magnificent arrangement of rare laces
and feathers 1t is a thing of beauty
rather than of usefulness, for it is too
large to be handled with ease. She has
had numerous offers to sell it, and has
refused $500 for it.
Mrs. s. A. Baker, who is a member of
Thomas Keenes company, is the oldest
actress on the stage, being the senior of
Mrs. John Drew by two years. Mrs, Ba-
ker has been 80 years on the stage, and
in that time has been left behind but
once on account of sickness. The men,
bers of the company say that she is the
youngest and gayest of the party.
When Edwin Milton Royle once read
his play Captain Impudence" to we'll
known New York manager, the latter
exclaimed tragically: My dear boy. l
don't see laugh in the piece," This is
bit instructive when one reflects that
Royle's play now at the American The
ater, New York, is one of the laugh
making successes OF the season.
The Detroit Free Press" has begun
crusade against the modern Jugger-
naut "a term applied to the fellow who
squeeZes in and out during the entr'-
actes between the rows of seats, crush
ing Women's feet, wrinkling dresses and
causing altogether an inexcusable
amount of discomfort to his neighbors
Fanny Davenport is fond OF collecting
precious stones of every description. Her
ownings of diamonds and other rare,
valuable stones at the present time are
said 10 represent more money than those