The record-union., 1898-11-13

Tonight at the Orpheum and to-mor-
row night, Miller & Freemans COM
pany in the musical comedy and aN-
travaganza, AT Gay Coney Island.
It has been played in all the large cities
with success. Like all such farce com
edies, 1t is a rollicking, merry making
thing, extravagant and while depicting
life at famous Coney Island burlesques
it as well. The company is very large
one and ii is equipped with a great
deal Of special scenery and stage acces-
sories.
The music loving public which was
Sc excellently served in the first Of the
Capital Concert Series two weeks ago,
is looking forward expectantly to the
second concert of the season, which
will be given December I'd. The prom
ise is that it will excel the first concert
and the program is choice throughout.
These concerts are, without exaggera-
ton, the most popular musical events
which take place in this city, and the
management should receive the hearty
support of all who have the welfare
of musical taste in this city at heart.
Gorton's Minstrels, the oldest troupe
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Wednesday night next The company
is composed of minstrel stars, the
brightest in their respective lines, and
their program is put together with the
object of presenting new, novel, re-
fined and elegant minstrelsy> We are
assured that nothing inferior or OBJ
JectionabIe is permitted, and that every
performer bears the stamp Of superb
ority and refinement.
Monday evening the farewell COM
plimentary concert to Miss Katherine
Ruth Heyman, the pianiste, will be
given at the Sixth-street M. E. Church.
Miss Heyman is a Sacramentan. She
is one of the most brilliant artists of
her time. She has won honor and
fame in her own land and In Europe,
and she has the approval of the Sc
verest critics and most exacting aud
itors Her first concert here since her
return was a brilliant success, and
won so largely the applause Of the
community that it is safe to say her
final one will be given to a crowded
house Miss Heyman now returns to
the East to reside, so this will in the
fullest sense be a farewell. A large
number of Sacramento women, loving
good music, have undertaken this COM
pliment to Miss Heyman, and that is
another assurance that the audience
will be large.
The second act Of Mistakes Will
Happen" represents coachhouse in
terror, and shows the loft as well as
the ground floor. In order to make
the loft practical it is necessary for
the company to carry eight thirty-three
foot beams.
There is a current rumor that Kyrle
Bellew and Miss Kate Rorke may soon
head a company in one of the West
End London theaters.
Edward Terry will produce new
comedy called What Will the World
Say?" in the theater that bears his
name some time next January.
play has been made out of "Tha
Minister of State" a novel by John y.
Steuart, which had a considerable
amount of temporary popularity a year
or so ago in England The piece will
probably be seen in a London theater
some time this winter.
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It is now positively announced that
John Hare intends to revive the entire
series of the comedies of the late Tom
Robertson as they were produced orig
inally in the little Prince of Wales
Theater, in London.
George Grossmith has taken a brief
lease Of the Royalty Theater, in Lon
don. in order to produce the fareical
comedy Young Mr.. Yard" in which
he and his brother, Weldon Grossmith,
have been starring in the English
provinces.
Among the new plays which George
Alexander hopes to produce in the
London st. James Theater this season
IS the Rupert of Hentzau'' of Anthony
Hope. who, in, this instance, has been
his own exclusive dramatist Mr.. Alex
ander also has in his possession a po-
etic play by Stephen Phillips on the
subject of "Paolo and Francesca"
When he presents Shakespeare's Hen
ry V" Miss Fay Davis will play the
part of the Queen.
Was Bismarck musical? In an article
on that subject, Mr.. Spanuth writes in
Musical America: During the many
years he resided in Berlin he hardly
ever went to an operate performance
or to a concert save on State occa-
sions, and in his official character. He
took a liking, however, to Pauline
.Iueca, and admired her greatly in
Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor.
But even the fact that a photograph
is extant in which the Iron Chancellor
appears grouped with that brilliant
song bird cannot make him a musical
individual. Scaria, too. was for time
q great favorite of Bismarck's. But,
disinelined to sit through an opera,
Bismarck frequently invited the singer
to his house. and there the great basso
was invariably asked to sing a number
of German student songs-a kind of
music which the man of blood and iron
Immensely enjoyed"
The effect of music on the pulse has
been discussed in Paris lately. Philip
Hale Of Boston writes, apropos. that
he has singular little book entitled
'Nouvelle Methode facile ct curieuse
pour connoitre le Pouls par les Notes
de la Musique" 1t was written by a
physician and botanist named Mar
quet, and published in 1747 Marquet
says in his preface: II am not the Il
first to institute a parallel between
musical rhythms and pulse-beats. AVi-
eenna, Savonarola,- Saxon. Fernel and
several other learned physicians OF by
gone days suggested this parallel with
out making practical experiments.