The record-union., 1898-05-22

Milan in 1893, made a tour of South
Africa and was engaged at st. Peters
burg, 1S96-9I- She sang at the Leeds
festival of 1889, Birmingham QS91)
and at the Handel festival Of 1891
New York Evening Post: Some years
ago Count Tolstoi betrayed his amaz-
ing ignorance of music, as we'll as his
cynicism. in his morbid story, The
Kreutzer Sonata" which is really IL
bel on Beethoven. He has now made
another exhibition of his weakness in a
treatise on art in which he takes occa-
siolk to show that he is unable to un-
derstand Wagner. He tried to hear
"Siegfried,' but could not stand more
than one act of it, and that made him
ran amuck against Magnetism He is
particularly angry at the idea of hav-
ing a concealed orchestra and a dark
ened auditorium, which the Wagner
ties say add so much to their enjoyment
by concentrating the attention on the
stage and the music He attributes the
Wagner craze" to a species of hypno-
| tism. Spiritualists, ne says, hold the
same argument, for they aver that you
are not able to give an opinion if you
manifestations. in other words" Toll
stoi says, you must pass some few
hours in the company of people half
mad, and repeat the experiment dozen
times, and you will see what they see.
In such conditions as these one sees
what one likes. But there is a much
simpler method of arriving at the same
results. You have only to drink alcO-
hol or smoke opium" Has Tolstoi ever
seen a man who was Keeling drunk but
who fancied that he was all right and
the rest of the world intoxicated? There
used to be many like Tolstoi but they
have been laughed into silence. A Lon
don critic hits the nail on the head in
the following:
'TolstOi is doubtless an anti-Wagner
ite for precisely the same reason that
the average bus driver or the average
bricklayer, or the average MajOr-Gen-
eral for that matter, is an anti-Wag-
nerite-for the simple reason that he
lacks the requisite musical culture to
hold any opposite views. Take rail-
way porter or a cabman to witness
'Siegfried' and he would doubtless be
just as bored with it as Tolstoi was.
But either would have too much sense,
1 fancy, to bring in Tolstofs hypnotic
theory as explanation of this simple
result. Your philosopher is sometimes
the most foolish of men,"
An English journal remarks that cit
is rather amusing to find in Lord
Mount Edgcumbe's "reminiscences
that the indictments brought genera
ton or so back against Wagner for his
abuse of sorority We're forestalled in
the early decades Of the century by the
hostile critics of Rossini!'
A paragraph is going the rounds stat
ing that Maurice Barrymore is as much
talked of just now as any American &C
tor in London. Mr.. Barrymore was
born in England, where he became an
actor before he made his American
debut in Boston in 1875. He is the son
of a clergyman named Cline.
Henri Marteau has sailed for Paris.
He expects to play in Russia, Hungary
and Austria during the coming season,
and to return to the United States next
spring.
Mention has already been made in
this column of Rosenthal's successful
return to the concert stage in London.
He seems fully to have regained his
powers. He will give concerts in Italy
and Switzerland this month and come
to America in the fall.
my Innocent Boy is the name of a
new comedy, written by George r. Sims
and Leonard Merrick, which is likely to
be seen soon in London, possibly at the
Royalty Theater.
The Emperor of Austria has conferred
the title of royal imperial chamber sin
ger on Nine. Lilli Lehman.
De Wolf Hopper and his manager,
Ben D. Stevens, may separate, accord
ing to present rumor at the close of
the comedians summer season at Man
haitian Beach, n. Y.
A new comic opera is soon to be
brought out in Fulham, Eng, called
THE American Heiress.''
Clyde Fitch has contracted to write
another new play for Nat c. Goodwin,
who will feature Mr.. Fitchs comedy,
Nathan Hale" next season.
=
Mr.. and Mrs Kendall will revisit
America next season under manage
ment of Daniel Frohman, presenting
their new play, Not Wisely But Too
Well" which has succeeded in the Brit
ish provinces.
Paul Legrand, once so celebrated as
Pierrot, has died at the age of 81.
Franz Ebert and Louise Ebling of the
Lilliputians We're married on April 23d
in New York.
Nellie Strickland has been engaged to
play Antoinette de Mauban in THE
Prisoner of Zenda" next season.
Edwin Holt and wife intend. when
their tour with Stuart Robson is fin
ished, to star in a repertoire Of one-act
pieces.
Orrin johnson has been engaged for
Charles Salsburys stock company,
which opened in Rochester, May 9th.
Rudnoff, the Russian entertainer,
who was recently seen at the Orpheum
in this city, is now playing on the
Keith circuit in New York.
Ffolliott Page and Vernon Charges
are announced to appear as Mrs. NAL
aprop and Sir Anthony in Joseph JEFF
ferson's forthcoming revival of THE
Rivals
-
Lionel Barrymore has been engaged