The record-union., 1898-12-04

lect and come to the 'osses-" One
morning at rehearsal Herr Cline. a
tight-rope performer refused to as
cend from the stage to the gallery as
a dangerous experiment What" said
Ducrow, afraid of hurtin' yerself, I
suppose? I'm not pooty, and have
nuthin' TO fear. Give me thur pole
And in his dressing gown and slippers
he ascended and descended-an attempt
amounting almost to madness. at
which even the most practical per-
formers who were on the stage shud-
dered with fright.
1T is not good for an artist to be
born in oDulence.' wrote Rubinstein
THE cares of getting bread and butter
may be useful to him at the start, and
give his talents a dramatic turn. But
this state of poverty must not last too
long. 1t is desirable that he obtain
pecuniary independence; otherwise the
needs of daily life will diminish his
creative force, and in the struggle he
may founder
Mozart's Don juan has had a
strange fate in Paris. The first per-
formance was given in 1904, but was
an utter failure, because of the bar
barous manner in which the opera had
been mutilated. In 1911 another at
tempt was made. In 1884 the Grand
Opera produced it for the first time.
but though the singers were excellent
the work did not appeal to the French
taste or the time. In 1866, on the
other hand, no fewer than three
Partisan theaters gave the opera at
the same time.
AT the afternoon Wagner perform
ances in London last spring Mr.. Grau
resolutely refused to admit ladies wear
ing any sort of head-covering. The
Liverpool Philharmonic Society, en-
couraged by the good example, has
now issued the following notice: "A
request has been made that ladies
should take off their hats during the
concerts. AS irritation has been caused
by these present fashionable mountain
Gus obstructions, the committee re-
spectfully request that lady subscribers
should either use smaller adornments
of temporarily discard them at the con-
certs."
Mrs. Kendall does not approve of
elaborate stage dresses at any time,
and as, moreover, she depicts in the
new play at the st. James, London, a
woman who has said goodby to her
youth, she wears garments Of a most
dignified simplicity, and it must be ad-
mitted looks altogether charming in
them. One is of moire in the tender
@f u l.
me-not, a touch of white satin on the
bodice, and used again as pipings on
the cape, while the blue of the flower
itself is repeated in the velvet bonnet
with it's group of white wings in front.
New York Post: The English theat-
rical press agent appears to be
copying the example of his Ameri-
can brother. The London World" has
a paragraph complaining of the nui-
sance of having to open and examine
letters containing idiotic anecdotes of
the sayings and doings of prominent
London performers in the provinces.
If the anecdotes only concern persons
of whom anybody has ever heard, of
second or third-rate actors, for in
stance, the grievance, although real, Is
not altogether intolerable. On this side
Of the Atlantic there Is nobody in a
theater or music hall too incompetent
or too insignificant to be the subject
of the box office parag graphs which ar
rive by every mail, and are often just
as great an insult to intelligence as
they are trial of patience.
Mary Anderson -Navarro's younger
half-sister, the daughter of Dr. Ham
ilton Griffin, is with the Navarros in
Germany, training her voice for tha
concert stage. She is just at the age
when her sister made her first sue
cesses on the stage, and is said to
bear striking resemblance to the
former actress.
Paderewski has decided to give TWEEN
ty concerts in Russia this winter, be-
sides his usual recitals in England The
first two acts of his long expected Pol
| ish opera have been performed in pri-
vate by the band and some of the art
lists of the Geneva theater; for as in the
| case of the Polish rhapsody, Paderewski
did not put the finishing touches to the
orchestration until after he had en-
+ JOyEd Gil opportunity OL HGGEluS the
music. Herr Schuch, the we'll known
conductor of the Dresden, has likewise
been staying at Morges, reading over
the opera with the. composer, and the
third and last act being now completed,
the first production Of the new work
| may be expected at Dresden shortly be-
fore Christmas.
'Zaza" will have a splendid produc-
tion at the Garrick, New York, in jan
uary. David Belasco has personally
selected the entire cast He has just
completed the work of adaptation, and
as he witnessed the piece in Paris, it
will have the best attention in every
way. This new play, in which Messrs.
Frohman and Belasco will present Mrs.
Leslie Carter, will not be seen in New
York until January 9th. It will then
be presented at the Garrick.
Blaney's "A Boy Wanted" is said to
| be one of the most successful farce
comedy productions on the road this
year. Blaney has long list of sue
cesses besides the above, namely, "A
Hired Girl" "A Female Drummer" "A
Run on the Bank" and others.
Splendid reports continue to come
from Stuart Robson's tour of the South
ern States with ''The Meddler." He
has the strongest company he ever en-
gagged.
Frank Daniels, just prior to his de-
parture from his summer home in Rye,
called his young SON to him and thus
he spake: My boy, when you are
older and are through with vol1r pra-