The record-union., 1898-08-07


tour. Her gowns for Lady TeaZle in
the School of Scandal" likewise for
Desdemona, Lady Macbeth and Portia,
will be the creations of Worth, Paquin
and Duse, the famous Partisan gown
makers.
Wilson Barrett has so prospered in
Australia that he has arranged to re-
turn there for the season of 1S99-19OO.
j. M. Barrie has completed a new
play of contemporary life in Scotland,
which will be produced by and by by
George Alexander at the London St.
James Theater The piece, although
Scottish, is said to deal with no special
popularity Of life, law or character.
An original pen ink sketch of
Edmund Kean by himself was sold in
London recently. The actor is seated in
an armchair before the fireside. The
portrait was drawn during his last i'll
ness, and only a few days before his
death; it measures inches by 61a
inches. 1t was given by Kean to G.
V. Brooke after whose death, in the
wreck Of the London. it passed into the
collection of DR. Barry Delany of Zion
in 1871 the portrait was acquired by the
present owner, in whose possession it
has remained up to the present time.
From Paris comes intelligence of the
death of Edouard Cadol, the reader of
the Coincide Francaise, and the author
of many plays and novels. He was 90
years of age. His greatest success on
the stage was Les Inutiles," played in
1868.
The London "Athenaeum," discussing
John Oliver Hobbies play, THE Embas-
sador," says: The new drama is as
sweet, pleasant, guileless, primitive,
artless piece of work as has ever
been placed on the stage. 1t enchant-
ed a public sated with stronger fare
just by reason of it's very innocence.
Like party of sybarites indulging in
the country in beans and bacon, and
protesting to enjoy itself, the public
went into raptures, real or affected, and
real rather than affected. This is well.
and we would not have it otherwise
We are most of US in our hearts much
less wicked than we would have people
think us. and the worst of us is capa-
bic of an incidental debauch upon
,
morally gratifying to see cynical and
fashionable world going into ecstacies
over a play in which not the slightest
puncture is made in the l><<t of the
commandments. John Oliver Hobbies
must not, however. be led away by her
triumph, jump TO the conclusion that
she has written a good play. She has
written a nice, presentable, sympathetic
entertainment, to which, according to
the phrase Of the day, a girl may take
her mother and has supplied 1t with
dialogue at once epigrammatic, appro-
pirate and unforced. There is, more
over, a vein of good humored cynic-
ism. Add to these things that the man
agement has supplied an excellent in
depreciation and lovely mise-en-scen
and the secret of success is apparent"
The editor of the Italian musical
weekly 'Il Trovatore" has been investi-
eating the statistics Of performances
given at the three leading opera-houses
in Europe. In Berlin the number of
different operas sung last year was "a );
of the composers represented ID were
German, 8 French, q Italian. AT Wen
ma 53 operas We're given, and Of the
composers IL were German Z French
and Italian. At the Paris Opera only
10 different operas were given of the
composers 10 were French 5 German,
4 Itaean.
John Hare has published an official
statement of his plans for his next sea-
son at the Globe Theater in London. He
expects to begin it with revival of
Robertson's ours" which is to have
a preliminary trial in the provinces,
together with an English version Of
lie Pater'' of Francois Coppee. To
follow he has several new plays. in
cluding one by Francis w Moore.
Moreover, he has commissioned G.
Stuart Ogilvie to write him new COM
edy.
The death is announced in London of
Mrs. William Cook, the Louisa Moore
of former days, an actress of consid-
cradle ability, who was we'll known on
both sides Of the Atlantic. One of her
best achievements was her perform
ance OF the boy, Josephs, in Never
Too Late to Mend" She also did well
here as Myrrha in revival of "Sar-
danapalus," under the mana cement of
Charles Calvert. Upon her marriage
she retired from the stage. For many
years she had been a great sufferer.
Her body now lies in Brompton Gene
terry, by the side of her sister Nelly
Moore, the delightful actress who died,
in the first flush of her beauty and
charm, nearly thirty years ago.
George Pleydell Bancroft, son of Sir
Squire Bancroft has written a new
play called What VIII the World
Say?" which is to be produced in Lon
don in the autumn by Edward Terry.
meeting of the Elizabethan Stage
Society was held in London the other
day. when Mr. Poel made a report up
on the past achievements of the organ
ization, and announced that its activi-
ties w1ld be continued. Edmund
Gosse, who presided, spoke of the i'm
portanee of the stage representation CT
classic dramas. which for two centuries
had been known only as printed mat
ter, and Captain Hutton discussed
the management of duels upon the
Shakespearean stage. Mr.. Dolmetsch
gave some interesting points with re-
gard to the revival of Jacobean cham
Der music. The next performance by
the society will be a representation of
1.-The Sad Shepherd" of Ben Jonson in
the gardens of F'ulham Palace, under
the distinguished patronage of the
Bishop of London.
Mademoiselle Jeanne Ludwig an