The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19
dian, Frank Bacon deserves the glad
hand wherever he goes.

dian, Frank Bacon deserves the glad
hand wherever he goes.
Foreign composers are becoming
pessimistic. The other day Joseph Ben
nett asked Professor Stanford when
London was likely to hear again his
fine "Elegiac Ode After / am dead, :"
was the answer So NJ Saint Saens,
talked to about his glory" exclaimed:
Don't bother about my glory; let us
drink to music. Glory cannot come
without DEATH
Gounods oratorio ''Mors ct Vita" re-
Gently had it's first performance in Italy
at Genoa and met with an enthusiastic
reception III Trovatore" says it was
AN enormous success"
The Grand Prix de Rome, which has
been held by most of the great French
composers, has been awarded this year
to a M. d'Olonne, a pupil of Massenet.
Martha Morton's new play, "A Bach
lor's Romance" will be produced in
the Garden Theater on the Goth of Sep
TENDER, with Sol Smith Russell as the
hero.
Signor Patti, the eminent violon-
cellist. is now IS years old, After
long career, upwards of half a century
of which he has spent in London, he
has now retired from the Monday Pop
ular Concert season, his place being
taken by Professor Hubert Becker of
Frankfort.
Verdi is said to have just completed
a new "Te Deum," and it is reported
that he is about to commence the COM
position of a new requiem mass.
English musicians are indignant be-
cause al the recent commemorative fes-
tivities, when the colonial troops We're
reviewed at buckingham Palace, the
programme was composed exclusively
of French and German music, English
composers being entirely ignored.
Audiences are forbidden to applaud in
Russian theaters. A French Algerian
court has decided that any spectator at
the theater having the hat on his head
after the rise of the curtain is subject to
arrest.
Harrison Grey Fiske's "Privateer" has
made a genuine hit at the Star Theater
in New York Mr.. Fiske isn't content to
rest upon his laurels as the brilliant
editor of the Mirror" for he has other
rlaVS in reserve
Herbert Kelley and Effie Shannon be-
gan their starring tour at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on September 9th. They go to Wal
lacks on September 18th for three
weeks. The first piece they will pro-
duce is Madeleine Lucette Ryley's "A
Coat of Many Colors."
Rosita Mawis, the famous dancer at
the Paris Opera, comes out in favor of
the erection of home for ballet girls,
where they Will be protected from the
dangers of a wicked world and kept
within the bounds of morality. The
Mercury" regards this as a symptom
of an Increasing hostility to liberty.
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Thomas w. Keene has postponed his
contemplated revival of Drink" this
season. He is meditating the produc
ton CT a strong historical play, the
scenes of which are laid in America.
For the present Mr.. Keene will stick
to mis- repertory, which includes "Rich-
ard H." Hamlet" "Othello," Julius
Caesar" THE Merchant of Venice"
'Richelieu,' and Louis XII"
Robert Mantell comes to the Pacific
Coast next spring. He will be welcome
as the flowers that bloom at that time,
says the Los Angeles Herald"
The Spanish Government has decreed
that artists belonging to the aristocracy
may not use their titles on theater bills.
Richard Mansfield will open his Lon
don season with piece by Oscar Wilde.
conceived and partly written during his
imprisonment. The name of the piece is
not announced
Mrs. Oscar Beringer has written a
one-act play for her two daughters. It
is called My Lady's Orchard" and in
it Miss Esme Beringer will appear as
a troubadour and make love to her sis
ter Vera.
Justin Huntly Mccarthy has writ
ten a new version of Paul Feval's LIE