The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-09

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en- the cast. But NJ. jeans income
Is generally much increased by MS per-
centage Of S25 out of every 500 Of receipts
after 5000 has been taken in at the box
office. Thus. If he had received. payment
for his services at the Kitty Appey. bepe-
fit, his salary would have been $500 and
his percentage of the receipts an equal sum,
making $1,000 for the evening" Unfortunate
~, however, this season NJ. Jean mas bsea
frequently obliged to be content with MS
salary alone. inasmuch as the box office
receipts did not often allow him an nom
orarium. The Western tour was consist
entity Improbable in this respect, because
from the time Nj. Jean left New York un-
til he returned TO IT he received no percent
age. Through this disappointrnent our
tenor probably lost 10000. Nine. Calve Is
the most prosperous member OF the COM
many this year. She sang a great many
times not set down in her contract, at
81. 500 a night; and what with opera and
concert the FRENCH prinaa donna VIII PROB
ably carry off $125,00 to recompense her for
the bad luck of last season. Maurice Grau
was the only member of the company VINO
worked hard and earned little. Mr.. Grau
paid over half q million to his singers, put
received only 5000 for his own services;
Walter Damrosch did better than that; and
In spite of the briefness and disaster of
his tour. it is not to be supposed that
Colonel Mapleson put his managerial salary
down at so modest a sum-.
The composer of Wang" and in this
matter the author of the fortunes of Anna
O'Keefe and De Wolf Hopper, Della Fox
and many other popular comic oPera peo-
pie, died on Monday. and from his closed
lips falls silence over much of the good mu-
sic and good humor of our stage. Although
one Of the youngest Of our musicians,
Woolson Morse had earned perhaps more
than any of his rivals the favor of the pub
lie. He had q singularly fe1cltous union OF
mirth and melody in MS composition, anu
the people who have enjoyed ms music
would make a procession longer ana larger
than that which witnessed the dedlcaIlOn
of Grants tomb While he Was SUN d
youngster Woolson Morse wrote the score
for Cinderella at School, which delighted
later works were DIR. SyntaX," The Mer-
nv Monarch" 'P~anjandrum," Lost,
conceits of modern times, which has sust
won as much applause IN London as IL
earned in New York, and the famous
Wang" probably the most widely popular
comic opera ever Produced by ii native au-
thor. In his habit as he lived Woolson
Morse was a little, quiet fellow, solemn in
the humor in him and still kindly in speak
ing of the work of his rivals. In his UNI
timely death the world loses a good fellow
and its people are deprived or a musician
whose talents were devoted to the increase
of cheerfulness, mirth and philoso2ay.
Miss Julie opp is the name of an actress
who has taken the English theatrical
world by storm. Miss OPP was ormerly a
newspaper woman in New York. She in
terviewed Calve and won the friendship of
that singer and had the same success in
an interview with Bernhard. Both saw
dramatic talent of a high order in the
young woman and advised her to study
for the stage. She did so under one of the
FrohmanS, who made her a tempting Of
fer, but she received a letter about the
same time from Bernhard asking her to
join her in London, which she did. She
soon gained a position in George Alexan-
ders theater and took small parts very ac-
ceptably. She played as the understudy for
Julia Nelson and when Miss Nelson was
i'll went on at two days notice and played
beautiful. graceful talented. and has a
magnetism that makes her the center of
every circle in which she moves.
Tamagno obtained a great success in
''OtelIo' at the Paris Opera recently, his
powerful. ringing voice and the extraordi-
nary passion of his acting having electrified
the house. The audience was mostly official
and parliamentary. The receipts amount
ed to $4,000. francs, a rich windfali for the
charitable institution on whose behalf the
performance was given. The artists sang
in Italian, the chorus in French. An at
tempt had been made to coach the chorus
in the language of Ariosto for the occasion,
but it had to be abandoned, the twang of
Montmartre and Belleville asserting itself
far too loudly TO be agreeable to the ear.
According to the London Era Sig. Tamagno
is to sing three. times at Covent in
'.Otello;" he gave his aid to this, perform
ance without remuneration.
Miss Lucille Hill, daughter of the late
Matthew Hill, of Trenton, N. j., whose
successes on the operate stage abroad
have made her almost better known there
than in her own country, was recently
married to a British army officer. Miss
Hills voice manifested itself at a very
early age. Her mother, who was a widow,
was in distressed circumstances, and it was
through the generous aid and natTOna2
of some influential friends in Trenton that
the young girl found it possible TO attend
the Boston Conservatory of Music. She
worked diligently there for some time,
and. finally, was enabled to go to Paris,
where she was taken under the aegis of
Mrs. John G. Mackay, who contributed
largely TO her successes both social and ar
tistic.
Nine. Blanche Marchesi, a daughter of
the noted teacher of that name, and among
the most successful concert singers, re-
Gently shared the honors with Paderewski
in a London philharmonic. Nine. Marchesi
made her professional debut in Berlin early
in 1895. but was prevented by serious ILL
ness from continuing her career until jan
uary of the following year, when she sang
in NJ. Breittner's philharmonic concerts in
Paris. subsequently she gave her own re-
citals and in December of the same year
Les Contes Mystiques." Last June Nine.
Marchesi made her first London appear
ance, receiving unanimous praise. Since
then she has fulfilled a second English en-
gagement, singing in the provinces as well
as the metropolis.
Brahms has left a larger fortune than
was first stated. 1t amounts to about $72,-
600. Besides the sum left to the Society of
the Friends of Music he has left something
to the Liszt Society of Hamburg, to a So
ciety for the assistance of distressed mu-
sicians, and to his stepsister. His publisher.
Herr Simrock, has had the letter-intended
by Brahms as a will-photographed for the
inspection of the authorities. 1t is d curious
document and is very characteristic of the
composer. In one place he says: L do not
owe a penny, but there are a few amounts
owing to me. When | am dead they may
consider these debts as no longer existing"
Johann STRAUSS new opera, 1.-THE God
dess of Reason" was recently produced at
Vienna, and with great success. There is
much in the music which will become pop
ular. and more that is exquisitely refined
and melodious. The libretto was written by
Buchbinder and Wilmer, two Viennese au-
thors, and tells an interesting story of the
reign of terror in France. The opera de-
mands q great number of good singers. The
Goddess was sung by Nine. Kopacsi Karc-
gag. Among the several very good songs
performed elsewhere, is a fine Hussar song,
which is the leitmotiv of the work.
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