The record-union., 1897-06-13

poser himself. following his fathers
example. The score of the first act
is already completed.
Anita Bridger, a bright young Cali
fornia comedienne well-known in Sac
ramento, goes to Del Monte for the
summer with party of Eastern friends
and will then go East to plan for the
coming season, having already re.
ceived several offers.
Hermann the Third, the nephew and
successor to the late Alexander Herr
mann, and Nine. Adelaide Hermann
are coming to the Columbia, San Fran
cisco, this season to present their en-
tertainment of magic, mirth and mys-
terry.
Daniel <. Bandmann has emerged
from his retirement, and with Mrs
Bandmann will play. a two-weeks' en-
gagement at the Murray Opera house
in Butte, Mont, presenting "Narcisse,' .
Diplomacy" and The Corsican Broth
ers
Nat Goodwin has made Francis Pow
ers Of San Francisco a liberal offer for
his Chinese play, The First Born ~
Mr.. Goodwin says that he sees great
possibilities for the play in the East
if it is brought out under favorable
auspices, and regards it as one of the
strongest and most unique plays he
has ever seen.
Either Nine. Melba does not like Lon
don or London does not like her. Ac-
cording to the Daily News" she will
not appear there in opera this season,
and only once at a concert.
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Nine. Lillian Blauvelt is to sing at the
next Bayreuth festival She is better
known IN this country by her concert
work, but she sang several years in
operas in Europe, especially in Brussels.
The tour of "Tennessee's Pardner''
season will be long one, covering up
wards of $1,000 miles. This coast will
be visited in November and December
and after returning East as far as
Denver the company will go to Texas
via Ell Paso, reaching New Orleans the
middle of January February. March
and April will be devoted to the large
cities of the East.
Nine. Modjeska has recovered from
her recent illness, and with the aid of
society amateurs has promised to dedi-
cate the new theater at Santa Ana
shortly. Marie Stuart will be the
BILL with Nine. Modjeska as Marie
Stuart, and Gertrude Foster, a society
belle of Los Angeles, as Queen Eliza
beth.
World says that the different varie-
ty shows are drawing a great deal of
business from the Partisan theaters.
whose patrons are growing weary of
increasing prices, inferior entertain
ments and interminable waits" be-
tween the acts
Beerbohm Tree has secured the Eng
lish rights of the new play which M.
Porto Richie has written for Sarah
Bernhardt, and which will be produced
in Paris next season.
'Curzon Street, Mayfair" is the
name of a new piece by Brandon
Thomas, which may be produced before
long at the London Comedy Theater.
The presentation of r. c. Cartons new
comedy has been postponed at the
authors request.
The Vienna Volkstheater Company,
which has been engaged to give a Sc
ries of performances in London at the
end of June, will be seen in three plays,
Die Goldene Eva" C"The Golden Eve')
and Renaissance" both comedies by
Schonthau, and Die Treue" c'Fidel-
ity'o, by Giacomo.
y
Katie Putnam is making an effort to
popularize the Burbank Theater in Los
Angeles with her popular plays.
THE House on the Marsh" which
won fame for it's author, Mervyn Dali
las, by it's sensational situations and
intense incidents, is to be produced in
a dramatized form in San Francisco
this week.
Belle Belair'' is the name of Ralph
Lumley's comedy, in which Mrs. John
Wood and Weldon Grossmith are to
appear at the London Avenue Theater.
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The gloomy and morbid pantomime
play "Chand d'Habits'' was received
very coolly at Her Majestys Theater in
London.
Arthur Bourchier is said to be medi-
tating stage appearance in the char
acter of Lord Byron
Dessau, German city of 35 900 in
habitants, had sixty-four operatic per-
mormances last season.
Wagner's Tristan and Isolde" has
now APPEARED in a Russian edition with
Russian text.
Japanese Journalism.