The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-11-06

n0rot oenINo rSwSsn ~ NV 1919.
ing will be is distinctly disappointed
| Lydia goes through her lines with the
| marked air of speaking pieces that be-
long to the schoolgirl Perhaps she
was spoiled by her success in her early
days; perhaps she is too pretty. 1t
| takes deep, strong feeling to do any
good work and an entire absence Of
| self-consciousness.
| A committee I'M Moscow is intending
| to erect a school on the Wychwotinzy
| property of the late Anton Rubinstein
| in memory of the deceased composer.
1t is to be called the Rubinstein Me-
| mortal School, and is to be open TO
natives and strangers. Great atten-
ton will be paid to choral singing and
music in general. The committee have
LOCO roubles in hand, and hope to lay
the first stone on November 10th, the
anniversary of Rubinstein's death in
| 1894
| The gypsy MINISTRIES form caste by
| themselves, says a writer in GOOD
Words" Their appearance is always
more swarthy than that of other Hun
| garian musicians, their dress is some
times purposely fantastic, and their
manner of life is far more bohemian
! than the most liberal minded artistic
would care to own to. Every hotel and
restaurant in BudaPesth possesses its
gypsy band, and the method of pay
ment is as free and easy as the music
itself and their life. The hotel keeper
is not bound by any contract; but at
| ro,-iO ivfn o1c fIpn oh
Torrance one of his gypsies takes a
dinner plate and goes around among
the various guests in the hall from ia
BILE to table, receiving in the plate
what the latter like to put there. The
| favorite coin deposited there is the
nickel ten-kreutzer piece, answering
| to our twocence. I have not seen
form or a kronen (half a florin); the
whole collection is, as rule, made up
of twopences.
| Alfred Welt writes in Musical Amer
| ica": Some one once said that Liszts
! symphonic poems sounded like piano
compositions arranged for the orcnes-
ira" If some one said that, he said
something very foolish. No one ever
wrote more automatically for the or
chestra than List. Indeed, one Of his
chief peeuliarities, as contrasted with
Chopin, was that he often tried to
change the piano into an orchestra.
San Francisco Music and Drama:
Olive Hoff, who went East to join Mrs.
Fiske's Company is playing Leslie in
Love Finds Way and is under
studying the lead in Tess" The ca
reer of this young actress is worth
watching.
change has come over the town of
| Ukiah since the building of the new
Mason Opera house. The people of that
| beautiful place now take an interest in
| all visiting theatrical companies, which
heretofore they ignored on account Of
| the old shack used for a theater. The
Mason Opera-house is modern and COM
plete in all it's appointments, and the |
town of Ukiah is one of the most pros
porous in the State.
SIS
Billy Banks has sold his big canvas |
theater to company of enterprising |
young men in Grass Valley, who will |
rent or play companies on shares until |
a new opera-house is erected. The tent |
is lighted by electricity, and has stage |
1Sx30 feet, with good scenery.
Henry E. Dixey will appear soon in |
a burlesque upon "Cyrano de Berge-
rae" under the management Of e. E. |
Rice.
The title of J. NJ. Barrie's new play |
is 1.-Two Kinds of Women" Although |
it is spoken of as a new composition, |
it was written actually before "The |
Little Minister" 1t will be first seen |
in the London ST. James Theater at |
series Of morning performances.
1t is said that in the version of 1.-THE |
Three Musketeers," which Sydney |
Grundy has written for Beerbohm Tree, |
especial stress is laid upon the love |
passages between the Duke of Bucking- |
ham and the Queen.
Louis c.. Elson makes the plausible |
suggestion that the reason why Mozart |
did not become a. musical reformer, but |
left forms as he had found them, was |
that he learned to compose at so early |
an age that the rules Of his art be- |
came to him fixed and unalterable as |
the laws of the Modes and Persians.
The latest contribution to the collec- |
ton of anti-Wagnerian humor is made |
by Dr. Hanslick In 1876 this eminent |
critic predicted most confidently that |
there would never be another festival |
at Bayreuth. There have been about |
a dozen since, and in recent years seats |
for any performance could only be OBJ |
tanned by securing them. weeks in ad |
vance. This naturally annoys the Wen |
nese prophet. But he has his revenge. |
With the wit peculiar to his city he ex- |
claims: Already the majority of the |
visitors at Bayreuth are North Arneri- !
cans; soon they will be South Ameri- |
cans, and ultimately the guileless fool |
will sing for a parquet of negroes"
Up to last year there had been four |
teen Handel festivals at the Crystal |
Palace, London. The smallest attend |
ance was in 1865. with IS, 434 while the |
largest on record was the S7,1S4 attend |
ance of 1883. On eight occasions an |
attendance of $4,000 has been exceeded |