The record-union., 1897-01-31

The last of the Capital Concert Series
will be given to Sacramentans next
Thursday night. If it is as successful
as it's predecessors it will be thoroughly
satisfactory. But the promise is that
6t will surpass them. Messrs. Cohn and
Kidder have won high credit for their
management of these concerts, but the
programme promises more honors for
them in this last concert, which we eX-
pect to draw the largest audience ever
put into the great auditorium OF the
Congregational Church. Those who have
not season tickets will certainly avail
of single admissions to attend on this
closing occasion. By special exertion
and at extra cost the managers have
secured Sig. Abramoff, basso cantate, of
La Scala, Milan, and of CoVent Gar
den, London, and late of the Metro
politan Opera Company, New York He
ranks as one of the great Operat1c baSSoS
of the time Then we are to hear our
old favoIite, Gertie Aud Thomas, better
known in Sacramento as Gertie Carley-
One of her numbers will be the Shadow
song from "Dinorah," by Meyerbeer.
BY kindness of Madame Melba Mrs.
Thomas had special opportunities to
study the opera of '|Pagliacci' with Mel
ba as Media In the "Balatella," from
that opera, Mrs. Thomas will sing a
Media part, a song full of the song and
life of birds. Miss Ivy Gardner will be
the contralto Of the evening and will
sing by request Loves Serenade," by
Miss Dunster of Sacramento. Miss
Gardner will be remembered as a great
oTd af oil HITrla Ia St
winter. We are to have the popular
Knickerbocker Male Quartet of San
Francisco also. composed Of Lawrence,
Elliott, Crane and Larsen. Louis Won
der Mehden. the solo celloist just return
ed from study in Europe, will be one of
the artists. Rodman, the flute soloist,
who was here with ScheePs orchestra,
will appear, and Professor Hoffman will
be the accompanist of the evening. Sub
scri to the concert can reserve their
seats Tuesday morning at Purnells.
Miss Mabel Carmichael of Sacramento.
who made so successful a debut last
summer in ''As You Like IT. at the
Shakespearean entertainment on Capitol
Park, is to have a benefit next Friday
evening at Turner Hall There will be
recitations. songs, dances, instrumental
music, burlesque etc, etc. Miss Car
michael will appear in the scenes from
Macbeth" supported by George Allen
Watson, formerly of Louis James,
Frederick Wardes. Fanny Davenport's
and Clara Morris companies. The Elks
have greatly commended Miss Carmi-
chael and viii give her benefit their pa
tronage.
Brilliant imposing. queenly Nordica,
who came to US last week with the
proudest laurels OF Bayreuth still fresh
upon her. is a convincing instance that
Z art knows no nationality, genius no
geographical boundaries. For surely,
one would not look to cold, gray, staid
Maine to produce the dramatic fire, the
5ropic complexion of voice, the splen-
! dors of temperament, the facile adapta-
bilfty to exquisite training that combine
! to make of NOrdica the dramatic so
prano of this generation. 1t is only un-
der meridianal skies that precedent and
tradition have taught US to look for
such qualities, and when we find them
Towering to perfection in the seemingly
hostile circumstances of harsh regions.
we can but rub our eyes in wonder and
y >
MUS is an impossibility until he ap-
pears
New York plays and Players: The
vaudeville craze continues a leading
topic in theatrical affairs. The roseate
view of it, however, is not shared in by
everybody. In discussing the matter
recently Manager D. w. Truss said: "A
young actress called on me a few days
ago for an engagement. When I asked
her salary she aesitated and finally
said SJ0-that was what she was get
ting in vaudeville. l replied that prob
ably she earned it. but she should re-
fleet that she was compelled to play
twice and sometimes three times a
day; that she was compelled to do her
own huStling, had to be constantly on
the lookout for new Specialties to main
tain her position; had to pay her own
expenses from place to place and incur
numerous other cares and obligations
from which she was relieved in a regu-
lar company, where after the opening
might she had no study or other worries
10 occupy her mind. She admitted the
correctness of my views and was glad
TO accept a salary less than what she
received ait the vaudeville vheaters."
New York plays and Players Some
idea Of the enormous number of plays
written by ambitious American drama
lists can be estimated from the fact
that from thirty TO forty new manu-
scripts are received each week at ROs-
enfield's typewriting offices, where most
of the theatrical typewriting work is
done in New York. There is no geo
graphical monopoly in this aspiring
dramatic spirit, for the plays are re-
ceived from all sections Of the country,
even as far distant as California and
Nova Scotia. 1t is a. curious fact in this
connection that a very large proportion
of these efforts come from small towns,
places which are, as a rule. found only
on county maps and in the date books
of transforming managers.
They come from persons in all walks
of life One Ohio man distinguishes
himself by sending a new play once a
month. They are not infrequently ac-
companied by reuests to handle and
produce. as well as please put this in
type"
George Ohnet, author Of THE Iron
Master" and DIR. Rameau." has just
had his play, lie Colonel Roquebrune.'
produced at the Porte Sainte Martin
Theater. and has now a limited amount
of well-guarded praise from his enc
mics. while the critics of such papers
as the Petit Journal" and the Petit
the piece.