Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-20
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NOTES.

Elwyn A. Barron has written a new play for Will
son Barrett.
The oratorio Society is engaged in the preparation
triotic numbers.
Mrs. Ella Backus-Behr has been engaged as solo
pianist for the Ottawa Chautauqua the coming season.
making the sixth season OF her work In this capacity.
The sale Of seats for the Valentine Abt mandolin
recital at the Academy Of Music Tuesday evening.
March 90. will open tomorrow morning at Legs
Bros, zoos Walnut street.
The Ella Backus-Behr concert company has been en-
gagged to give an entertainment at the Washington
Avenue Methodist church. Kansas City. Kas.. April
ton. A
Master George Maeder, who was 50 enthusiastically
received when he sang with the Oratorio Society last
fall. may sing again With that organization in the
near future. He has been even more successful than
usual Of late. He has become almost q sensation in
Chicago. his home.
Miss May Irwin is not going to London this sea-
son. after all. She will conclude her present tour
summers vacation after her arduous season. Next
month she will try her new play. ny Glen McDop-
ough. in Chicago. Miss Irwin is wise to stay in
America. for she possesses the land here. and over
the sea American comedians are not always liked.
Next G week At r the Sr ana ~ Manage, ma Charles ma I'M N,
the following novelties: Colby and Dewitt. comic
acrobats. in THE Organ Grinder and the Monkey"
the Phantos, aerial grotesques: Mile. Flora, the
tough girl on the wire;'' Brown and Harrison, COM
edy farceurs: Wayne Mayo, a bright and clever
a novel single specially. These special features.
combined with all the other novelties contained in
Inc Devils Auctl0n,' VIII Do = StrOn8 Dill.
George Enesco. q 1s-year-old composer and violin
list. is the musical sensation Of the hour in Paris. He
was born In 1882, In a little village in Roumania. and
when almost an infant showed q remarkable aptitude
for music. In his eleventh year he won first prizes.
both for violin playing and for harmony. at the Paris
| conservatory. He is not r." said Massenet, land
he orchestrates like an experienced musician"; and
Saint-Saens added: He produces music as an apple
tree produces fowera" At a recent concert given at
the chatelet, Paris. where one Of his compositions
was played. the whole orchestra rose to its feet at the
conclusion Of the performance and gave an ovation to
the young composer, Although only l6. Enesco is said
to look 20.
Mrs. Fiske was seen in '"Tess Of the d'Urbervilles'
In Chicago for the first time last week, and her recep-
ton there was even more enthusiastic than that In
New York on the occasion Of the original production
large contingent Of critical "nrst-nishters.' like New
York. and evidently they were all at the Grand opera
house last week, Monday night. when Mrs. Fiske be-
gan her engagement. Chicago has a civic fetch. too,
more marked than that Of any other American city.
and some Of Its newspapers. no doubt rejecting their
which was really unavoidable on account Of Mrs.
Fiske's inability to book an earlier engagement In
Chicago-that New York and other cities had enjoyed
Tess Of the d'Urbervilles' before Chicago had q
chance to see Mrs. Fisks in the play. This feeling
was In q measure e%xcusable, because Chicago hailed
New York had capitulated to her powers But calmly
critical as was the first Chicago audience that sat un-
der Tess" 1t grew enthusiastic as the play pro
Eressed. and. after the great scene in the fourth act,
literally rose At Mrs. Fiske with shouts of admiration.
The newspapers Of the city. without exception, ~
nected the fervor Of her first audience. and the thea
ter has since been crowded by Chicago's playgoer..
Mrs. Fiske will end her Chicago engagement on Sat
urday, and on March q viii open in New York at the
Fifth Avenue theater. saff!s -