The record-union., 1897-08-22

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Science Gossip:
For the past month / have noticed
that a common species Of the small
bat, probably the pipisteMe, which fire.
quents the towns in Southern France,
congregates in the evenings about those
cafes where it is the custom to have
outdoor music. This does not seem TO
apply to any particular town, as they
are TO be seen fitting about IN the
crowded streets among all the traffic
in Marseilles. Cannes, Nice and Monte
Carlo So tame are some individuals
that they hawk about for flies under
the awning which covers the chairs
placed on the footpaths 1t may be
said they come for the flies attracted
by the electric lights, but the bats are
far more numerous near those cafes
where there is music than around the
ordinary arc lights in streets or before
shops. The inference appears to be that
they find pleasure in the presence OF
music
Some of the Metropolitan Theater at
fractions for Sacramentans for the
near future, under the new manage
ment. are the following: John Drew
pany. Shaw's Big Company, THE
Heart of Maryland" VIM. H. Crane,
in comedy: MY Friend From India, :"
In Old Kentucky the F'rawley Com
pany. Under the Red -Robe' THE
Hoosier Doctor" Hermann the Great
and company, "Tennessee's Pardner,"
Louis James in tragedy, I'm Gay New
York" the Grau Opera Company, Ole
Coney Island" Stuart Robson in COM
edy, ''The Girl From Paris" "Courted
Into Court" Rentz-Santley Burlesque
Company, Lewis Morrison in melo-
drama, Primrose & Vests minstrels,
Joseph Holland, in society plays,
Shore Acres" Never Again." Robt.
Mantell in drama, Beach & Bowers
Minstrels.
Experiments have lately been carried
on at the Paris Academic des Sciences
with a view of ascertaining the infiu-
ence exercised upon the human voice
by electricity. AS the result, Dr.. Mou-
tier assisted by NJ Granier, the ac-
cornpanist the ConseI'vatoire) has es-
tablished the fact that the influence is
a beneficial one, the voice gaining both
rendered less subject to fatigue.
AT the last Richter concert in Lon
don the programme included a novelty
entitled 'Idyllic Symphony" by F. H.
Cowen, this being the sixth work in
that form It has a poetic basis. The
first movement is intended to suggest
the pleasuralble sensation of awaking
in, lks ny b1~ean
morning; the second, a stroll through
the fields; the third, peace and relig-
ious meditation; and the fourth, village
festivities in the evening, which last
until night closes.
Suppe, the composer of "Fatinitza, -
is having posthumus l1onors heaped up
on him. The other day his remains
We're transferred to a place in the nu-
steal corner of the Viennese cemetery
next to Herbecks grave, where a mon
ument by the sculptor Tautenhayn had
been placed. The viennese made this
the occasion of one of those impressive
musical funeral services of which para
doxically enough. they, who revel ir
Strauss and gayety, seem to be SC
fond
Max Hirschfeld, who led the orchestra
at the Castle Square Theater during tht
long run of opera performances, has
accepted the position of musical di-
rector of the TivoH in San Francisco.
Frank Daniels will be seen next sea-
SON in a new comic opera, '"The Idols
Eye" by Harry B. Smith and Victor
Herbert under the mana cement o.
Kirk la ShelIe, sxvho will also send ou
again 'sThe Wizard of the Nile
The Royal Opera of Berlin employs
thirty-three solo singers. The BerliI
opera and operetta theaters together
give employment to 443 male and SO:
female singers.
NThe Caliph," the opera in which JEFF
ferson de Angels made his first star
ring venture which terminated abrupt
~ at the Broadway Theater early las
season, is being translated into German
by AL Neumann for am early produc
uon-
Nothing succeeds like success. Sincs
the remarkable success a year or SO agS
of Kienzl's ''Evangelimann," in Vienna
this opera has been produced in 10'
different cities London win be tbs
one hundred and first city to hear it.
Composer Andre Wormser, whose
pantomime .-L'Enfant Prologue" (Tht
Prodigal Son), made quite sensation
some years ago. has undertaken t
write a two-act ballet entitled
"I'EtOile'' (The Starr in which the
can-can, that widest of Paris dances
Is gIorifed The libretto is Mr. Adeyer
the editor of the theatrical columns o.
lie Temps" The ballad relates the
short but brilliant career of a prims
ballerina From her mothers vegeta
bic store Monsieur Vestris engages he
for the ballet of king Louis XIV.
while her lover enlists in the army
Having dealt in vegetables and green:
all her life, she now made the acquaint
ance of the laurel as the vegetable O
glory" but in spite OF her artistic sue
cess she leaves the stage because sh,
cannot obtain for her lover who ha.
returned from the field, the privilege
TO enter the foyer where the gentle
men of the moneyed and blooded aris
tocracy collect nightly. The first per
formance of this ballet was a grea
success, and the Paris Grand Opers
will probably find 1t an excellent mon
ey-maker, as the airs are not onl,
melodious. but may be classed amons
the best light descriptive music writ
ten OF late years.
New York Sun: The theatrical public
1voc Glow IN believe that David ReIascs