The record-union., 1898-01-30

Sisseretta Jones, "The Black Patti"
Then follow a number of specialtieS,
and finally the Black Patti and her sup
port in the kaleidoscope of the OPP
era" which we take it is a medley ar
rangement We are told that it lasts
'Trovatore" Carmen" Faust" "Bo-
hemian Girl" Grand Duchess Cav
aleria Rusticana, Daughter of the
Regiment" The Tar and Tarter." !"
Throughout the scene the participants
are appropriately and richly costumed.
Miss Laura Burt is securing the sig
natures of theatrical celebrities to Pc
tition which will request the Governor
and Legislature to discountenance As
semblyman julius Harburger's pro-
posed charter amendment permitting
theatrical performances on Sunday IN
Greater New York.
Forbes Robertson when he goes to
Germany will be supported by many
of the actors who played recently in his
company at the London Lyceum. 1t is
and Juliet" as well as Hamlet" and
possibly he will also present ''Magda, :"
in order to give a good opportunity to
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
1t appears that Secret Service" hes
lost little if any of it's popularity in
London by the removal of its former
hero, William Terriss by the hand Of
the assassin, Prince. a public subscrip-
tion has been opened in London for
fund for the endowment of life-boat
station as a memorial to the dead ac-
tor, who seems to have been as pop
ular off as he was on the stage.
Among the plays which Beerbohm
Tree has in store for the future is one
by Paul Potter, which deals with the
subject of the Indian nutiny.
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Some interesting figures are publish
ed in London concerning the cost and
the Profits of pantomime. 1t seems
that the late Augustus Harris expended
100000 upon Dick Wilmington at
Drury Lane. and f15.000 was spent
upon THE Babes in the Wood" this
ceedingly profitable.
A German publisher promises short
ly the first volume of a biography of
Brahms by DIR. ReimaNn of Berlin.
Upward of 600 letters are said to have
been found among the literary remains
of Brahms, several of them written by
List, Wagner and other eminent mu-
sicians. IL is also reported that the
fortune he left amounts to 400, 900
marks.
c. NJ. Freiherr Won Weber, the last
grandson of the composer of Der
Freischutz." has recently died at Dres-
den. He was an officer in the Saxon
army, and distinguished himself in the
Franco Prussian war. He also tried
his hand at literature, but without any
signal success. In 1856 he published,
on the occasion of the centenary of the
composers birth. a volume entitled
"Reisebriefe Won Kari Maria Won We
Der an Seine Gattin"
1t IS said that Herr Kienzl, the COM
poser of Der Evangelimann," has set
to music Wagner's poem on THE Re-
turn of Napoleon" written in 1910,
when the Emperor's remains were
placed in the Invalides.
The question of reducing the pitch
has been discussed by the Leeds Festi-
val Committee in England, and 1t has
been decided to adopt the normal di-
apason before the next festival OF
course the expense of altering large or
gans is great; but it will have to be
incurred sooner or later, and the soon
er the better, says the 'Athenaeum.
H. V. Bsmond, author of One SUM
mer's Day" has completed four-act
piece called My Lady Virtue" which
will be played in Her Majesty's Theater.
London, by and by
Seymour Hicks, 1t is said, is becom-
ing tired of English burlesque and pro-
poses TO appear before long in an Eng
lish adaptation of the successful French
farce, "Jalouse."
At the Brecon Eisteddfod the other
day, Madame Patti was presented with
the freedom of the borough. She was
escorted from the station to the pavi.-
ion by the Mayor and corporation.
Violin dealers put all sorts of fancy
prices on old Italian instruments up to
50, 900 each, but when such instruments
are sold at auction they fetch much
lower prices. At resent sale in Lon
don the highest price reached was 5000
for, a Guadagnini. while an Andreas
Guarnerius fetched only $50. and a
Pietro Guarnerious realized S4OO An
Italian violoneello, upon which Patti
has often played, was sold for 5000.
Ever since the time when List re-
signed his position as operatic conduct
or at Wcimar because the manager in
terfered in his artistic plans, that city
has been famous for its quarrels be-
tween conductors and managers Only
a year ago Stavenhagen routed DIAL
bert, and now Stavenhagen has resign
ed the conductorship because Of q row
with the manager