The record-union., 1898-09-11

anne Patti herself and Will be much
missed by the poor of the Swansea Val
ley.
According to Sutherland Edwards,
England has no effective academy for
students of the drama or opera. The
debutante who is fresh from the hands
of Professor may usually be recog-
nized,'' he thinks, "by the superabund-
ance Of her gestures. She has been
taught, not only to suit the action
to the word but to suit an action OF
some kind to every. word she utters.
The result is that she works her arms
like a telegraph-the semaphore Of
! other days"
Compared with Richard Strauss
latest composition, it is said that even
his Thus Spare Zarathustra" is tame
and commonplace. The new piece un-
dertakes to describe in a dozen ''phan-
tastic variations the adventures OF
Don QuiXote The orchestra is enriched
by wind machine" whatever that
may be, and gruesome sounds are pro-
duced by putting caps on the tubas,
etc. Strauss is evidently anxious to
be called the German BerlloZ.
The following advertisement, for a
gifted German musician, appeared not
long ago in the 'Musiker Zeitung'
Wanted Immediately, a good first
violin, bass, flute. trombone, and side
drum. Permanent post. Only good
moral young musician need apply. j.
Duchscherer, Exmouth, Devon, Eng
land
Charles H Yale, who is perhaps the
best authority in this country on the
art of pantomime, recently received a
valuable addition to his library in the
bequest Of the late James S. Moffitt,
the pantomimist, who, at his death,
wiled to Mr. Yale his large and valu-
able collection of pantomime manu-
scripts, models, portraits and programs.
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New York Tribune: Those young
writer's who are constantly complaining
that they cannot get justice for their
efforts at writing for the stage should
now attend. 1t is true that it is hard
work to get a manager to read a play
at all. 1t is true that he is cautious
about accepting a play which he does
not like and thinks hopeless of sue
cess, even after he has read it. 1t
is true that the most of the plays now
produced by the most celebrated
writer's for the stage of the present
day are obvious copies, mutilated and
degraded, of plays written by obscure
persons and submitted, in helpless con-
fidence to unScrupulouS manager But
the writer's who suffer these wrongs
may find consolation, or the reverse,
whichever way they take it, in the
thought of the long time that Goethe
has had to wait for the production Of
one of his plays. The acting of a
play sixty-five years after the death
of the author may bring him fame,
but not worldly profit. This account OF
the affair is from it's Berlin reporter
of the Pail Mall Gazette: "A play
by Goethe, Die Autgeregten,' which
had never previously been performed,
was produced on Monday at the Royal
Theater Goethe wrote it when the
French Revolution was at its hight.
1t was intended to be a mirror hu-
morous, yet not without it's serious
side, of French events, set in a Ger
man frame-a comical and very small
revolution in a German village. The
play was not quite complete, but a
certain Felix Won Stenglin was found
venturesome enough to supply the
parts that We're wanting-a task he
performed. one must admit not alto
gether without skill. The Excited
People. did not succeed in arousing
any special excitement in the audi
ence Nevertheless there is fund of
humor in the piece far more than in
any other of Goethe's plays. The figure
of a barber who endeavors in his viii
lage to set on foot an imitation of the
Paris Convention, and sees in himself
a German Robespierre or Mirabeau, is
humorously sketched and achieved,
through the fine performance of Herr
Nolmarr the most genial actor in Ber-
lin, considerable success. The piece
possesses many other attractive feat
ures; especially to be noted is a sharp
ness in the characterization which in
Goethe's works of that period is but
rarely to be found Although the play,
of course, has it's place i'll Goethe's
Complete Works. it was quite un-
known to the general public, who were
new piece, whose very title was strange
10 them, SO much wit and dramatic
motive. 1t is not the only work by
Goethe that owes it's origin to his in
terest in the French Revolution. Be
sides the 'Aufgeregten, he wrote two
revolutionary dramas-the Gross
kophta, a version of the Diamond
Necklace, and the 'Burgergeneral'
The conclusion to this richtung was
reached by him in his magnificent
poem, Hermann und Dorothea, the
background of which is also furnished
by the French Revolution
Cleveland Leader: Theatrical man.
ayers have a proverbial superstition
against speaking of theater fires or ca
lamities. They claim it is best to have
the public forget them. But the press
has no such scruples and is always
happy to use facts if they are at all Of
interest in any manner of garb
In connection with the appearance of
Miss Julia Arthur some interesting
facts are given to the public for the
first time. Perhaps it was in accord
ance with the before mentioned theat-
rical fetch that they were not made
public before.
The drama of the Detroit fire may
almost be likened to a real stage drama
in many of its incidents, when the true
inwardness of some things connected
with it are known
Let US take the case of an actress
who for many years had been strug-
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