Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-17
s Dramatic and Musical Notes.

S Dramatic and Musical Notes.
Soooocooooooooo oooooooeeeeoeS
Thomas W. Keene recently celebrated his
seth birthday.
j. X. Emmett, Frederic Bryton and
Grace Filkins have gone into vaudeville.
Olga Nethersole has been obliged to can
eel q number of engagements on account
of severe attack of tonsiiitis.
Lille Lehman, the great German so
prano has arrived in America to fill her
engagement in German opera under walter
DamroSch.
Creston Clarke has in preparation ro-
mantle drama called The Last OF HIS
Race" which will be given its initial per-
formance at Fords Grand opera mouse,
Baltimore, during the evening of March /.
The next free recital in Mr.. w. H. Leibs
course will occur next Friday evening.
Admission is by ticket. and these must be
gotten at Mr.. Leib'S office, HOS Main street.
This promises to be the best of the series
so far.
Now that holiday recreations and ap-
pointments are over, there is decided i'm
provement in the attendance and in the
interest of the Oratorio Society. The at
tendance last Monday night was large. the
enthusiasm great and the indications for
the future encouraging.
Charles Frohman has engaged Miss Nir-
ginia Harmed to appear in the new Sardou
play, "Spiritisme," which is to be pro-
duced at the Knickerbocker theater on
February II. Miss Harmed will create the
same role in New York in this play that
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt will create in
Paris.
The Standard Concert Company, COM
posed of Mr.. Rudolf King, pianist; Mr..
Silas r. Mills, basso; Mr.. Francois Bouch
er, violinst, and Mrs. Rule d. Meeke,
dramatic reader. assisted by Miss Lillian
Mellen, soprano of Chicago, will give a
| concert at the Y. NJ. C. a. auditorium the
evening of January Is. Tickets are on sale
at jenkins music store.
There may be people who have never
heard of Mime. Nordcas voice, but scarce
woman in the land has not heard of her
tiaras. Just how many she has up to the
| present time is not known. The latest one
presented to her contains 233 diamonds,
ranging from one and one-half to one
| eighth carats. There are dozen of the
larger stones, and the entire tiara is worth
5000.
Edwin Milton Royle's romance of the
Mexican war. Captain Impudence." ap-
pears to be one of the pronounced successes
notable one, theatrically. there being no
| less than six new openings on Monday
night. Captain Impudence" is at the
| American theater and the first week was so
| encouraging there is already talk of ex-
| tending the engagement.
Modieska. who has been in private life
| for some time will return to the stage in
San Francisco January %, appearing in
| Mary Stuart" Macbeth and 'Madga.'
She will be supported by Mr.: Joseph Ha-
| worth, and her company will include two
|
| Egerton who has been prominent reader
on the Pacific coast for some time, and
| Miss Frances Joliffe, a younger sister of
| Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels.
| Thomas w. Keene, the eminent TRACE
dian, who will be seen here this week. has
| known President-elect Mckinley for nearly
twenty years. and has frequently visited
his home in Canton. There is said to be a
| strong facial resemblance between these
| two distinguished men,. Mr.. keene tirst
met Major Mckinley during an engage
| and n n n pta.slli
| which was then formed soon ripened into
warm friendship.
| Jean de Reszke recently wrote Manager
Fred c. Whitney a letter in which he gave
it IS his opinion that Brian Boru" was
the best comic opera of the day. The or,
chestration is perfect" he wrote, "and
consider MIR. Edwards n painter OF music.
| have never seen in Europe anything tC
equal the mise-en-scene. American comic
opera appeals to me more than either
and vivacity about Brian Borus' singers
that cannot be found anywhere else
Miss Mather's offer of 5000 for play
to suit her personality will bring her abou
j.001 plays, and woe to the man who read:
them all, His brain will be a composite
picture of dramatic lunacy. This offer o.
money prizes has seldom. if ever, brough
| forth artistic results. Mrs Thurber ha:
time and again made the experiment, anC
mediocrity has inevitably been her reward
Somehow or other the muse works bette
| when spurred by native fire or starvation
! New York Advertiser.
Mrs John Drew began an engagement
in the leading role of THE Sporting Ouch
! ess" but the seven necessary COSTUME
changes. the eight dark shifts of scener!
and the presence of so many horses on tn
stage told upon the strength of one o
; her age. and she asked to be released
Manager Frank l.. Perley consented. an,
| secured for the part Rose COghlan. VIII
; was on the eve of sailing for England L
fill an engagement, WHICH she has can
celed.
. 1t was during the long run of "Shor
Acres at Daly's theater. New York, tina
, Henry Irving first saw this great American
r lists had invited the distinguished Englsl
; actor to witress. as their guest, the hes
{ American play yet written, and 1t wa
Shore Acre" that he was taken TO see
, Many times since then Mr.. Irving ha
spoken of the many beautiful and pictur
esque scenes in the play. and he alwdy
: advises Englishmen to see the perform
ance This play will be seen at the Coate
the week of January %.
The Dramatic Mirrors matinee girl says
l Il have discovered the, secret of Ann
2 Held's popularity. It's her shiver. Hav
: you seen her shiver? When she sing
: Won't You Come. out and Play Wit
Me?' she shivers in deliciously mystt
! rous manner. difficult to describe and in
4 possible to initiate. / know, for l tried I
: initiate it the other day for an hour bt
fore pier glass. Its the very newe:
y thing in histrionic effort, and the Hell
= doesn't need to have 1t copyrighted. 1t
. hers, She saw it first.
a Yvette Guilbert. the darling of the mus
= halls of Paris London and New York, til
h woman New York acknowledges the grea
:: est foreign artist in her peculiar line, wi
d appear at the Auditorium for one nigl
e only on Monday, January %. Guibe
Y has been singing In New York to lars
g audiences and has expressed the desil
to make n flying trip and see some of Il
G great America. She selected her own rou
and was booked accordingly, viz: Montrea
=. Toronto, Buffalo, Detroit. Chicago, S
y Louis, Kansas City. st. Paul, Men
5 phis Louisville, New Orleans. A
+ ianta and Washington. She is said
y be most original genius. She Is declar,
n as great in her line as Duse or Beri
~ hardt are in theirs. Her repertoire CO
y, sists of sixty songs, some of which are
q | English. She says: In my present larl
: repertory my art makes itself manifest
y | three distinct elements: First subim
n then less lofty as in the more model
a ! song, and lower still. the third elemeI