The record-union., 1898-06-05

until the hearty, hale ana tattOOeO
bos'n-if that is what our friend of the
baggy trousers is-appears and sings
about his multitudinous sweethearts
The gendarme is splendidly funny, the
waiter deserves his black feature
type, the East Indian prince of amor
Gus tendencies is welcome to see and
hear, but the men of the deck and the
guns-ah, they are the ones who get
the posies and the pounding OF hands.
It is told of a second-rate cOmpan!
which is now touring through Iowa thai
in presenting "Othello" they send or
the Moor in the uniform of Commo-
dore and make him talk more about his
flagship than about his wife: that II
Difference to the times the injured anc
crippled Rochester in Jane Eyre" re-
ports in tattered regimentals and de-
clares that he obtained his wounds II
an engagement with the Spanish enc
my-which was subsequently, defeated
Of course-on the coast of Puerto Rico
that even when they make their Fri
day night attempt to lure the Sabbath
school and the temperance society pa
tronage by presenting Ten Nights ir
a Barroom," Willie Hammond Is deck
ed out in militia clothes and talks free
ly through the first part of the piece
about the armory and the boys drill
ing. The manager reports back tha'
he never before enjoyed such a wave
Of prosperity. He is thinking of adding
Camille to the repertOry by chang
ing the text so as to provide an en-
listment scene with Armand raising a
regiment and the naval signal flags In
dicating Remember the Maine" hung
from the center Of the stage.
John Drew's property is variously es-
timated, but conservative managers
place it at not less than $115,OOO. Mr..
Drew is not a man of expensive tastes,
but he is extremely liberal to his rela-
tives. He is popular in clubs, fond OF
manly sports, and widely entertained,
but with all his social duties he is a
saver. He had a good salary as leading
man at Daly's, and has done remark
ably we'll as a star. While with Daily
Mr.. Drew was pretty hard worked, as
most of Daly's people are. They used
to say at Days that he was inclined
to make a special kick on Wednesday
matinees "but since he has been a
sand is interested in the profits, he has
played all the Wednesday matinees he
could. You don't hear Drew kick
against Wednesday matinees now, dc
your"
A London paper of recent date has
the following interesting paragraph:
"Senor Manuel Garcia, the great sing
ing master, and one of the inventors
of the larnygoscope, yesterday entered
his ninety-fourth year, the Oldest prac-
ticing professor Of music Of eminence
in the world. For, despite his great
age, the veteran teacher Of Jenny Lind
Catherine Hayes and Mathilde Marches!
has not yet accepted the retirement he
has so well earned. He still receives
his private pupils, while only a few
days since he was present at con-
cert, as sound in mind and memory and
as keen in the appreciation Of music
as he was half a century ago. Wha,
this wealth of years implies may be
gathered from the fact that one OF
Garcia's early "reminiscences was the
scare following the storming of Balda-
joz by Wellington, a disaster which
caused the fight Of the elder Garcia
and his son from Madrid to Naples
where Garcia senior met and studied
under the celebrated tenor Giovanni
Anzani, and learned from him the true
Italian vocal traditions which he sub
sequently impaired to his daughters
Malibran and Viardot, and to De Merit
Lalande, Nourrit, and crowd Of 9TH
ers. The present Senor Manuel Garcia
was the original Figaro in the produc-
ton Of Rossini's II Barbiere' in New
York no less than seventy-three years
ago, with his sister, Malibran, as Ro.
sina, the opera being played to a pit
of only thirty people at four shillings
a head. 1t is pity the veteran can.
not be induced to dictate his reminis-
cences. They could hardly fail to be
OF the greatest interest"
Evidence is multiplying that woman
man in the field of composition. The
"Neue Zeitschrift fur Musk" of Apri
9th has two articles devoted to wo.
men composers-Ingeborg Won Bronsar
and Louise Adolpha LIE Beau. The frs
named was pupil Of Liszt, and wheT
she began to compose he remarked
Who knows, perhaps you will some
day be the George Sand Of music" HI
liked her as pianist sufficiently to al
low her to appear with him at public
concerts. To this day, she can claim
being the only dramatic composer o.
her sex-at any rate, the only success
full one-her "Jery und Bately" (baset
on Goethes play) and her "Hiarne,
the libretto of which was written by
the poet Bodenstedt Mira Schaffy)
having been heard at many of the Ger
man opera-houses. She has also writ
ten number of songs, mostly setting:
of the same poets verses. Three Crane
Dukes have honored her with medals
Parts of her "Hiarne" were to have
been performed at the Chicago exposi
ton. Owing to the general disarrange'
ment Of musical matters there. the plar
was Abandoned; but her Kaiser Will
helm l." march was performed at the
opening Of the womens department.
Some wiseacre has discovered that M
is very important letter in music, fol
number Of composers names begin
with it-Mozart, Mehul, Meyerbeer
Mendelssohn. Marschner, Methfessel
Milloecker, Mascagni. Massenet, Nor.
lachi, Mereadante. Metra. MoliQue
Meyer -Hellmund. But how about the let
ter b? There we have Bach. Beethoven
Brahms. Bulow, Byrd, Busoni. Bungert
Bull. Buckner. Brodsky. Brillenbasse
Breitkopf & Hartel. Brassin, Braham
Borodin. Bononcini. Boito. .Boieldieu, Boe-
kelmann. Boetius, Boccherini. Blechin-
strumente, Bizet, Besekirskij, Berlioz
Benediktiner, Bellini. sBegleitstimmen
Becvarovsky, Bargiel. Balfe, Balakie.
rafY Rlunnanharfy nd pa ohu