The record-union., 1897-11-28

The Sacramento Lecture Association
secured an engagement with the Aba
Haywood Speciality and Concert COM
pany, to take place on Monday even
ing, December 9th. This company is
what would be termed in parlance ap-
piled to circus aggregations "a COM
bination of four great shows in one.
The leading feature is Alba Haywood
In his impersonationS OF character
sketches, extremely humorous and oth-
erwise, and concerning whom, General
Lew Wallace author of ben Hur, re-
Gently said: Il am indebted TO
Alba Haywood for one of the pleasant
est evenings / have ever spent. t1iS
impersonatons and limitations are tru-
ly marvellous" Miss Flora Drescher,
the violin virtuoso, who was at one
time a star in the Thomas orchestra.
and subsequently toured Europe with
Mark Twain, is an attraction with the
Haywood Company, and is claimed III
the press reports to equal II not eXcei
Camille UTSo. to whose marvellous
strains upon the violin the music low
ers of Sacramento have already listen
ed. Another feature of the company is
the ballad singing of Howard DeBray'
whose songs-in good plain English
VIII CODlIIldIu liic 1lbCAihiOAA ~
who enjoy fine and taking ballad sing
ing more than the more classic music
quite generally given to the public py
our concert companies. No less an at
traction than the play of Miss Dresch-
er is the execution upon the piano by
Miss Blanche Steele, who is another
feature of the Haywood Company. she
is spoken of as ranking very h1sh as d
favorite. and her work Of class tnat
captivates her hearers and makes hsr
pianist and her work of class that
bination and concert company, the en-
eagement Will no doubt appeal strong
Nv TO all classes in entertainment ana
popular approval.
s'In Gay New York" will be produced
at the Metropolitan Theater on Satur-
day evening, December 11th. by the
same lively company now playing IL
in San Francisco to packed houses, and
all the original scenery and effects.
Edward E. Rice, having secured a
corner on the light opera and muslcai
comedy field with his three The dlri
From Paris companies and his lhe |
French Maid" company, which is sun
running at the Herald Square Theater,
New York, has branched out into the
production of straight comedy. Recent
ly he successfully presented for the
first time in this country at New Ha-
ven a comedy entitled, His Little
Dodge" 1t is taken from the French
of Georges Feydeau and Maurice Hen
nequin by Justin Huntley Mccarthy,
and has enjoyed long run at the
Royalty Theater, London, with Fred
Terry. Weedon Grossmith and other /
London favorites in the cast. Mr.. Rice
saw it there last summer and pur-
chased it from George Alexander, the
London manager He has produced 1t
In this country with A. Kennedy, Hen
1v Bergman Harold Russell Mabel
Amber, Sallie Berg. and others in the
cast. The prospects are favorable Tor
an extended engagement in New York
It is intended to bring the company to
California to produce the comedy here
Another infant phenomenon who has
lately appeared in London is Bruno
Steindl, aged 6 years, who lately played
Beetehoven's G major concerto at a
Queens Hall promenade concert.
New York Post: The Japanese be-
1ieve that they are in this world TO
enjoy themselves. in a harmless way,
as much as possible. Consequently
they do not waste all their time in
work, but those who can afford TO do
so go to the theater in the daytime
whenever they feel like it. We Amer
acans are at the opposite extreme: we
take our amusements only late at
night, after the brain is faIiguel by a
song days work. and when the stom-
ach is busy trying to digest heavy
dinner. That is the reason why Sc
Iious art leads such q pracariOas life
here, and why our entertainments are
becoming more and more trivial and
trashy A reaction must come some
day. When it does. our operate man
ayers may be able to follow the ex-
ample just set in Vienna, of beginning
long and serious operas early in the
evening, at $50.
vernona Jarbeau's "a Paris DOR
company disbanded on October 23d, at
Dubuque, Ia and most of the mem
bers. including Miss Jarbeau, returned
TO Chicago. The receipts have oeen
attached, it is said, at Madison. Wis.
and elsewhere. Miss Jarbeau intends
TO reorganize her company in Chicago
and go South
Among the objects collected for the
celebration of the centenary OF
Donizetti, none is more interesting
than his piano. The instrument, which
the composer gave to his brother-in-
law Vessilh, has inscribed on a plate
these words from a letter which Doni
Eetu wrote to the fortunate recipient:
do not sell at any price this instru
ment, which incloSes all my artistic
life since 1922. Its voice sounds in MY
ear. There murmur Anna. Maria,
Fausta, Lucia OH let it live, my
friend, as long as | shall live. / have
passed with it years of hope, of coniI-
gal happiness, and of solitude 1t has
heard my cries of joy; it has seen my
tears, my deceptions, my glory 1t has
shared my labor and my pains. In il
lives again, with my genius. every
stage of my career. Your father, your
brother. all Of us, has IL seen and
known; we have ali tortured il, and it
was a faithful companion to us II
should also be a friend to your sister,
and a confidant of all her thoughts of
sadness and joy
Dramatists who write about famous
F'renchmen are sure to have their trou-
bles unless they stick to facts Their
descendants shy a poetic license. The
present representatives of the family OF