The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-09

! a time when Mr. Wilson cherished fono
| Roman sword Most successful comedians
| have passed through some such stage of
| dream life. But this man has had the good
sense to follow the lead OF nature, and he
| is now dancing along the primrose path OF
| public favor, successful man. Mr.. Wilson
Is announced for a hall. weeks engagement,
| commencing Monday night Jan. II, at the
! Grand Opera House, in Half a King" The
performance of "fialf a King" is well re-
| membered here Mr. Wilson is continually
! funny while Miss Lulu Chaser is about the
| best singing Coincidence on the stage to-
| day. The mounting of the operetta is nota-
is a most inviting bit of folly. The advance
sale will open next Thursday morning at
the Pembroke Arcade
Mr.. William Armstrong who lectured be-
fore the Contemporary Club last year so
successfully will be the lecturer for the
January meeting. Mr.. Armstrong, since be-
ing in this city, has been to London, where
he gave his lecture, "A Group of American
Song Composers" which was illustrated by
Madame Nordica, a special friend of Mr..
Armstrong, and later he lectured, by invita-
ton of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, before the
Royal Academy being the first American on
whom this distinction has been conferred.
Miss Marie Engle, of the Covent Garden
Opera, and Mr. Charles Clark, the American
baritone, illustrated the programme there.
pressions of Contemporary Music and Must
clans in England and "A Group of En-
ghsh song composers.
Nine. Emma Games will remain in Paris
this winter. She has not accepted any en-
gascment vet, and Will during the coming
winter study Wagnerian parts in German,
as she v'ill sing IN that language at the
German season of the Covent Garden, in
London, next May when the entire Ring
OF Nibelung" and other Wagner operas are
to be performed 1t is proposed TO so ar
these DFOOuCtiOnS that
they may be given without a cut. The per-
Torrance, which begins at say o'clock,
after the first act there will be an inter-
, mission, allowing the audience to take din
ner, and the opera would still be out in
time to enable residents of the suburbs to
catch their last trains.
One of the many straws which indicate
clearly the drift of popular sentiment in
the case of 'sThe Bride Elect was shown
at the first performance of Sousas new
comic opera in New Haven last week, when
Mr. Erlanger, of Messrs. Klaw, Erlanger
& Stevens, the producing managers, was
offered a price for the production, even be-
fore the performance itself was over. The
price offered was 100000 in cash for the
firms rights in the opera 1t was made
by Mr.. BunnelI, of New Haven. Mr.. Err
LANCER smilingly declined to sell, saying
that he also believed he knew good thing
when he saw 1t.
Frank Daniels, noted among other things
other notch in his stick for his first en-
ira ace in 1.-THE Idols Eye" 1t is a straight
fall from his balloon, high above the stage.
into the sea, which washes the base of an
English garrison in India He declares as
he crawis from the water that is the last
drop I'll ever take but he has the habit
and repeats it every evening.
"a Normandie Wedding is the attractive
and romantic title of new comic opera
by j. Cheever Goodwin, Charles Alfred
Byrne and William Furst, which the Whit
ney Opera Company will present for the
first time on any stage at the Park Theater,
Boston. 1t is declared to be a straight comic
opera on the order of THE Chimes of Nor
mandy, with catchy tuneful music and a
quantity clever libretto.
A Berlin correspondent says that Lee
oncavallos new opera, Roland of Berlin
which was undertaken at the personal in
stance of the Kaiser, who, after the first
night of the "Medici' at the Opera House,
urged the composer to the task. is now al
most completed. The production jof
Roland of Berlin will take pace at the
Berlin Opera House.
Humperdinck has lately appeared as a
conductor at the London Philharmonic con-
certs, and among other things conducted
the introduction to the third act of "Kon-
igskinder," known to us Children of the
Wagner made easy, seems to have the
special charm for Londoners, and he is very
popular there.
Miss Lillian Carlsmith, who plays the
queen in Sousa's new opera, 1.-THE Bride
Elect" was obliged to cancel engagements
to sing in concert with the Baltimore SYM
phony Orchestra, and with the Seidl Or
chestra at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York. and many other lesser events
in order to accept the engagement.
ALI c. wheeler, who takes the part of
the Scotchman in THE Idols Eye" comes
honestly by his excellent dialect He was
born in Edinburgh, and in the same house
where his ancestors on his mothers side for
generations reaching back to the beginning
day.
Last weeks issue of the Musical Courier
was a great issue. 1t was called the illus
trated Chicago edition, ard contained a vast
quantity of interesting musical and personal
news of musicians from that city. A full
account or the Chicago Orchestra and it's
noted manager was feature. The num-
Der Is souvenir in many ways.
Hilda Clark, the handsome prima donna
of the ''Highwayman" company, at the
Broadway Theater in New York, is re-
ceiving much attention from members of
the -four hundred She is Being extern
sively entertained at O'Clock teas and
The musicians who play in the Court
Theater at Vienna mot the opera housed
receive only $500 a year, although they have
to attend rehearsals nearly every day. and
have little chance to earn anything by extra
work. They have now petitioned for an in
crease of salary.
Munich used to be looked on as a. place
where one could hear good German opera
for next to nothing. Twenty years ago
seat in the gallery cost only 20 cents; to-day
1t costs 10, and tourists as we'll as natives
complain of the "Americanization'' Of
prices. =
The always reliable press agent is au-
thority for the statement that KIaw &, Err
LANCER and B. d. Stevens were offered
100000 for their interest in 1.-THE Bride
Elect" before the first act of the opera
Was finished at New Haven last week
Opera in tent. That's the latest. Mr..
Henry b. Clifford. Chicago manager, is
the originator of this idea, and he is getting
ready TO send out company of 125 in the
spring to present operas in huge canvas
tent. Next, =
Lillian Carlsmith has made genuine sue
cess in Sousa's new opera, 1.-The Bride
last week. Miss Carlsmith is an uncom-
monty fine contralto and handsome young
woman.
The Russian composer, NJ Rimsky-
Worsakoff has completed the score of a
new opera, Mozart and Salieri." the
libretto of which is founded on a poem
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