Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27

Maryland Calvert Leslie Carter
Phoebe Yancey.".."..........Miss Helen Macbeth
Nanny MacNair......-........Miss Minnie Dupres
8 DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NOTES. 8
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Charles Frohman will manage Julia Mariovs next
season.
Julia Arthur may be seen next season - Rosalind.
Viola, Juliet and Portia.
Miss Maude Adams 200th appearance In The Little
Minister was made March -.
May Cargill. known on the stage n Yvstts Violstts.
has been engaged by Augustin DAILY.
Willie Collier has written a comedy. M. Smooth"
which he may produce next season.
Eugen d'Albert has lately written . ene-set sper-
eta which will be given at Munich.
Joseph Arthurs 'Blue Jeans" with Laura Burt
heading the cast. is a London success.
Mrs. Carl Busch gave 4 piano recital at ~lndepend-
ence Friday. assisted by Mr.. Louis Bueh. violinist.
Mrs. Fiske will shortly produce . play By Mar.
guerite Warrington. She will impersonate = cripple.
The next festival at Bayreuth will consist Of Par
~sifal.'' Die Meisteninger," and the operas Of the
Ring.
Jennie Winston has made = hit in the new musical
comedy. Monte Carlo" produced in New York last
week.
Mr.. R.. H.. Comes, of this city. is receiving high
praise for his playing Of Heutsau in The Prisoner Of
In a recent London production Of ''Trilby'' the
woman who played the title role sang Come Back
TO Erin
The German company in which Jean de Reszks 10
singing began its season in st. Petersburg with 10
hengrin.'' and the heavier Wagner. operas are to fol-
low.
and Lachaume will tour America Ysaye II to play
next season in Australia. China, Japan, India and
Egypt.
E. S. Willard, who has been playing at Hooley's
theater. Chicago. IL stricken in that city with . Be-
we're case Of typhoid fever. He has closed his Amer
Frau Lili Lehman has been singing 'as guest
At the Vienna opera house. She has appeared in
Norma" in 'Fidelio." and in die Gotterdammsr-
ung.'' among other work..
DIR. Dvorak has written 4 new three act opera.
which will. in all probability. shortly. be given a.
Prague. 1t is entitled The Devil and the Cadn."
and 1t is founded upon an old Slav legend.
Johann Strauss. who has lately been very Infortu-
nate with his comic opera l~ibrettos. has now offered
81. 900 for 4 ballet scenario which he guarantees Will
be produced at the Royal Opera In Vienna
Adelina Patti. who has been Ill With nervous pros
tration since sisnor Nicolnis death. will be heard
cert In London during the first week in June.
we!nsartner's forthcoming opera is to be one Of
s a 1ri sa s.,;., !. ..n %sEaer ~ and "a, R ,Sn t5t., The t'i log,
are to make II up will DO ,iaAed upon "Agamsmnon''
and two other tragedies OF Asschylus.
Jacob Lift has made Arrangements for the trans
lation Of his immensely successful melodrama. In
Old Kentucky into the German language for the
purposes Of. production n that tongue in certain
American cities. and also In Germany.
The Oratorio Society has IN preparation 4 very At
tractive programme for its closing concert. April q.
The members OF the cn0EuS, ~ L0-m0tr0W evening .
rehearsal. will take up = number Of patriotic songs.
which are to DO made a feature OF tbs concert.
A fireman on the Wabash road was brought before
me in the police court the other day, charged with
d~isorderly conduct. He said his name was George
Banks. and l saw a chance to get event fined
Banks. Of the Wabash. IS and eosta-"Bin Hall"
The Kansas City criticisms Of MsL Ella Backus-
Behr's playing of the Schytte concerto at a recent
Symphony concert have been reproduced in the Must
one, for to have successfully played such a colossal
number shows an unusual degree Of virtuosity.
William Black. the English novelist. has Just
granted to Frances Aymar Mathews the right to
dramatize his latest romance. wild Eeiin.' now
running in Harpers Bazaar, where Tess Of the
d'Urberviiles'' first reached American readers in Sc
rial form.
Mile. Reichemberg. the ingenue and senior Of the
Comede Franchise. will have at her farewell appear
Of "Adrienns Lecouvreur.' wnen her performance
may be compared with that Of Sarah Bernhard and
Adelaide Ristori.
Miss Julia Arthur is another American stage favor
its who leaves for England At the close OF her present
tour. She says strictly business matters take her to
tons for her next seasons offerings. which arc to Be
Of a very important and expensive character.
Jean des Reszke is devotiny more attention this
been interested in the sport. In his stable at Borrow
no. near klomnice. he has thirtythree horses. OF
olds. Most Of his best animals are from French and
Austrian strains.
Under the honorary presidency of signor Verdi an
pose OF dsvisinE a means OF rssuming the perform
ance Of opera at the historical Teatro della Scala. in
Milan. and placing the undertaking upon a sound
financial and artistic basis. Independent of any sub
vention from the municipal authorities.
Mr.. Mckee Rankin expects to spend the summer in
play with Mr.. Arthur Pinero. author Of 1.-THE Second
Mira. Tanqueray.'' THE Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith."
full dramas. II he persuades Mr.. Pinero to accept a
commission. the play undoubtedly will be written
with an eye to the capacities Of Miss Nance o'Neil.
Nine. Pillar NORM has been engaged for Miss May
Twins company for next season. She Will create the
part OF an up-to-date japanese girl in the new play
which Glen McDonough has written for Miss Irwin.
Miss Irwin will impersonate a buyer for a large dry
goods house, and the japanese girl IL supposed to
have been a classmate OF hers in a New York school.
The play will be given its nrst production on any
stage in Kansas City some time in April.
Zelie de Lussan is singing in Paris with great
comiaue as Carmen and as Misnon. and critical
praise has been shewered upon her. Bruneau. OF the
in glowing terms of her finished singing. her subtle
characterizing. and her personal charm. Manager
I Iusssn' u .na she 6ee is to sing z.riina in = -ntempIsted
revival Of Mozart's Don Giovanni" with Maurel In
the cast.
The Royal Opera in vienn. has lately arranged for
the performance o; q lyric opera by Mehul that Is
now quite forgotten: The opera called .uns Foiie'
was composed In 1901 by Mehui. II 10 In two acts.
Sly Foxes" It was found in the Royal Library In
the French original and has been translated for the
tenors. one baritone. one bass and one soprano. The
music is said to be highly melodiouA No accounts Of
the former German performances can be found At
present
Alfred Darbyshire. Of Manchester. tells . funny
story Of Sir Henry Irving. Hamlet was being
played. and Mr.. Darbyshire was Polonius. II re-
member" he says. the weather was very hot, and.
after being consigned to oblivion. 1 was sitting on q
table behind the tapestry. tanning myself. whom. to
my establishment. Hamlet drew aside the tapestry.
and. repeating the we'll known words: Thou rash.
intruding fool. I took thee for thy betters.' he gave
an aecnzing look. and. soto soce. exclaimed: For
goodness sake: get me a pint of stout. I'm DRY q. .
llmekfln!' This from the Prince OF Denmark startled
me, and for some little time I failed to take in the
situation"
Sir Henry IvinEs forthcoming debut a. the spirit
ual.stic physician in the modern dresD play, The
Medicine Man." Of Messra Traili & HichenA. will
not be the nrst time that London playgosn havs seen
that distinguished actor In stage attire Of the present
fashion. Though his recent Appearances In London
have chiefly been In costumes OF past periods. he has
in his time filled quite 4 number Of parts involving
the assumption Of contemporary dress He played
Rawdon Scudamore in Hunted Down." and Robert
Audley mildly Audlsy's SscrSt." He WAs sssn a