The record-union., 1898-09-04
if they will only let him get at that

if they will only let him get at that
money.
Almost every kind of sport, from
horse racing up and down, will be seen
upon the stage of the Academy of Mu-
sic, New York, when Jacob Lift makes
his American production of the sue
cessful English melodrama, sporting
Life" which will be the annual melo-
dramatic offering at the Academy OF
Music. The company will be headed
by Robert Hilliard and Elita Proctor
Otis.
Jacob Lift will have three of the
most talented women in the theatrical
profession in his employ the coming
season. They are Marie Wainwright,
who plays the leading role in Frank
Harvey's Shall We Forgive Her?"
Elita Proctor Otis, who will create the
leading female part in Sporting Life, -
a successful English melodrama to be
given for the first time in this country
at the Academy of Music in New York
early in October, and Mary Hampton,
| who will share the honors with Maurice
Barrymore in Bronson Howard's great
war drama SHENANDOAH
| New York Post: Alma Tadema,
| George Grove, George Henschel, Vii
liers Stanford, Hubert Parry, E. Prout
and number Of other men known in
the art and music world, have ad-
dressed an appeal to the London papers
in behalf of subscriptions to the Brahms
| monument which is to be erected III
Vienna. The appeal declares that
with the exception, perhaps, of Ger
many, England, of all countries, has,
from the outset, been foremost in the
appreciation of Brahms work, and in
the acknowledgment of his genius.
| 1hls is perfectly true, and it forms one
or the greatest mysteries in the history
OF music-or of England Why Handel
and Mendelssohn should have become
so popular in England is easy to see;
| their works are tuneful and easy to
| comprehend, While their OratOrieS ap-
pealed to the special taste Of the Eng
j llsh Tor religious music. But Brahms
the most untuneful, dry, pedantic, une-
| motlonal abstruSe of all modern com
posers-why should he have become the
pet of England-a country which he
cordially despised? No doubt Joachim
| ana his quartet started the cult. which
| gradually spread and became a fad
! That, perhaps, is the answer Fads
never last long. However, it is to be
hoped that Brahms may get his monu-
ment.
Edgar Pemberton writes a letter tC
the newspapers to say that he. too
in
been engaged for some time in making
a dramatic adaptation of lie Capt.
taine Fracasse," and that he has
been assisted in the work by A F. de
Navarro, the husband Of Mary Ander-
SON.
The death is announced in London OF
another member of the Leclercq fam
! lily, so long prominent in theatrical
history. Louise Leclercq was a great
public favorite, and a distinguished
member Of the famous Haymarket
company, under J. B. Blackstone, forty
| years ago. Thirty years have
elapsed since she retired from the
! stage, upon her marriage to the late
Pandia Petrocochino.
1t is now said that Sir Henry Irving
has decided to open his next season at
| the London Lyceum Theater with a
| production of 'Cyrano de Bergerac, -
and to play the men with a nose him
| self He has seen Coquelin in the
part. and possibly is inspired with a
| chivalrous desire to try conclusions
with him. The probabilities are that
| future comparisons will be largely in
his favor, inasmuch as he is greatly
| the superior of the Frenchman as a
| romantic actor.
! A Russian ship has reached Varna
with a curious present from the Car
| to the Bulgarian people. 1t consists OF
| complete costumes for a hundred
plays, selected from the Wardrobes OF
| the court theaters at st. Petersburg
| and Moscow. There are no less than
| 800 separate articles of dress, valued
at 60,0O0 rubles. The Bulgarian Gov
ernment intends to hire a house in
Sofia. where they will be exhibited.