The record-union., 1897-01-17

| hardt clique, the comic papers and the
/ Bernhlardt critics. Mime. Duse will make
her Partisan debut in Fedora" which
| her friends think an unfortunate selec-
| ton.
A new development of the gift system
is thus described by a London journal:
"A disappointed piano salesman,
grumbling at those who undersold him,
| recently expressed his opinion that
pianos would very soon be given away
with pound of tea" The prophecy has
speedily been fulfilled from Birming-
ham. An enterprising tea-dealer in
| that city has, we learn, conceived the
idea to give away ten f40 pianos of
local manufacture to the ten persons
who next Easter can show the greatest
number of his teabags, each two ounces
counting as one point"
The "F'rankfurter Zeitung" COM
ments on the fact that Dvorak has be-
gun writing symphonic poems in place
of symphonies, and accepts this, quite
properly, as a tribute to the genius of
Liszt, who invented that form of music.
| The critics are gradually finding out
a few things about the creative genius
of Liszt a matter in which, as is their
wont, they are a decade or two behind
the musical public.
| New York Post: What has become of
| Otto Hegner, the Swiss boy pianist
| whose playing was second only to that
of Josef Holman? After several years
of private study with DAlbert and
others. he appeared again in public in
Berlin on December 18th, playing the
D Albert concerto. The critics say he
| has become mature artist in the best
sense Of the word, playing not only with
| technical finish, but with entrancing ex-
| preston.
The report that Massenet, the COM
poser, is soon to come to America, has
| been denied by usually well-informed
Partisan journals. He, in company with
| other French composers and musical
critics, has just founded a society, of
| which he has been elected President,
the avowed object being ito popularize
| chamber music and to appeal to all
who wish to encourage the movement"
| Most London theatrical managers
| have already made arrangements for
productions to take place during the
| Victorian Exhibition next spring. A
committee including Henry Irving, A.
w. Pinero George r. Sims and Charles
Wyndham will have charge of the dra-
matte entertainment to be given in
Earls Court Theater
The Greek composer Xyndas died at
Athens on November 26th, aged 81. He
was famed as the writer of a number of
operettaS and for his melodious setting
of Greek popular poems. He died blind
and SO poor that one of his admirers had
to pay the funeral expenses.
Eleanor Lane, an American actress,
| lately made her London debut at the
| Novelty Theater in a farcical comedy
entitled THE Extraordinary Behavior
| of Mrs. Jollowby,' andwas well received.
| Several London papers praised the act
| ing and beauty of Miss Lane, while they
showed that extraordinary" was no
misnomer for the play.
IAdA MUTUAL ldlo 10 Love,
which lis now playing in Rome, is
| deemed too moralizing for the Eternal
City. 1t is highly treated by the critics.
who, in spite of the preachings of Pro-
! fessor Lombroso and his nuch-printed
| comments on the play, decline to con-
| slider art and morality when presented
| in the same theme.
The name of NJ Got, the veteran
French actor, has been added to the list
of artists who are about to bring out
books of memoirs. His is to be entitled
Journal dun Comedien"
Rosenthal, the great Roumanian plan
| ist, is said to practice from eight to ten
hours a day to prepare his enormous
repertoire for his coming American tour.
| he writes his manager, Henry Wolf
sohn, that he now speaks English quite
| f1uently and will be able to enjoy his
| trip much more than he did when he
| first came to this country about eight
years ago.
VIM j. Scanlon the comedian, who
has been an inmate of the Bloomingdale
Insane Asylum of New Jersey for sew
| eral years, is said to be declining rap
idly and not expected to live much
| longer.
Lewis George Charge of Lexington
KY, a negro aged 50 years, who is
credited with being the original George
Harris Of Mrs. Stoves famous story of
the South, has been engaged to appear
with a travelling Uncle Toms Cabin"
Company in the East.
Robert Buchanan and Charles Mar
lowe have written new piece called
"Ye Mariners of England" the chief
scene of which will show the death Of
Nelson on the Victory. 1t will be tried
xperimentally in the English prov
| ir ces.
Florence Wallack Sewall, grand
daughter of the late Lester Wallack
will make her professional debut some
time next month in Margaret Mather's
production of "Cymbeline" at Wallack's
Theater in New York.
Alfred Dampier, a noted artist who
ties in Australia, is planning to revisit
America during the present year and
play starring tour in Hamlet and
Jean Vatican"
| San Francisco Music and Drama Mrs
Brown Potter, who is playing joint
starring tour with Kyrle Bellew in Aus
tralia is said to have made special re-
quest to the press of that country to