The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-07-03

these ladies. She is not only attractive
in face, but has a deliciously clear
speaking voice, an enunciation that
makes her lines telling. She has play
ed the leading parts in all of Mr.. Days
| musical productions. In
her clown act with Mr.. Powers she is
simply inimitable."
Signor Mancinelli has contributed to
the June number of the "Aeolian Quar-
terly' an excellent article on his new
| opera, Hero and Leander,'' which is
to be produced in New York next
winter, and which has already had a
number of performances in Madrid,
London, Rome, Venice and Turin, the
two cities last named having heard it
ten and nine times, respectively. Signor
Mancinelli has some spicy things to say
about certain English and italian crit
les; but he devotes most of his space
| to description and analysis of the
opera. In composing it," he says. II
| determined to follow the lines laid
down by Verdi, especially in his last
two operas. 'Otello' and 'Falstaff': and
l believe that all my countrymen shall
| benefit and advance national art by
following in those footsteps" He has
not, as some of the critics said. fol-
lowed the model of the wagnerian
music-drama, for in that there are no
| separate pieces, arias, duets, etc.,
whereas his opera can esaily be divided
into arias, duets, concerted pieces,
choruses, etc., which he proceeds to
analyze, with many illustrations in
musical type.
Jean Rchepins new piece, La Mar
tyre, just produced at the Theater
| Francois, seems to be morbid in its
emotions and its realism. The martyr
IS F1ammeola, Roman patrician in the
early days of Christianity, who is too
! blasee to be capable of being interested
| or moved by anything until she is
suddenly brought into contact with two
Christian apostles-Aruns and johann
/ nes-the latter Of whom makes such an
impression upon her that she resolves
to win his affections. She brings vari-
Gus influences to bear on him, first of
all to seeking to act upon his pride,
giving him to understand that IL she
becomes a convert to the new religion,
she will be. followed by all that is most
INDUSTRIOUS in Rome, possibly by Caesar
himself. Johannes. by whom NJ Richie
4 pm AiSaliy lnlSiiQS " Sy luDOllZG RAUL,
while Aruns is Peter, though somewhat
shaken. has strength to resist her ad-
vances. In a final scene, where Flam-
nicola, hearing that the Christians have
been arrested, comes to the Praetorium
and asks where Johannes is. the door
of the amphitheater is thrown open and
he is seen hanging on the cross. all but
dead. Flammeola, in the ecstacy of her
passion, exciaims, And I, too, am a
IChristian!" whereupon Latro, the glad
iator, who has been jealous of her all
through. stabs her and himself Mile,
Bartet, who acts the part of Flamme-
ola, created thrill by her mode of
crawling to the foot OF the cross in or
der that the dying apostle might bap-
tie her with the blood from his wounds.
The part of the apostle Johannes was
taken by Mounet Suily who is said to
have undergone weeks of athletic prep
araton to enable him to depict accurate
ly and vidvidly the tortures of the
cross.
! Vaudeville managers, ever on thu
lookout for drawing attractions, have
seen visions OF wealth in the LAM b.:
Gambols." Negotiations have been Sc
on foot looking to an engagement o.
tho lambs and the offers made are nj