The record-union., 1898-01-23

Weighed on other occasions and in the
second, no earthly good is to be ex-
pected from any discussion OF the kind.
No one denies that there is immoral
ity on the stage as in other professions,
artistic and otherwise. Perhaps the
theater has more than it's proper snare
of it, but it has purity, too, which can
bear inspection even in the strongest
glare of the footlights, to say nothing
of some other virtues which are not so
common in the outside world AS Cor
the present assault. it should be treated
with the contempt which, coming from
the source it does, it richly deserves.
AT recent recital in London Grieg
played three new pieces from a series
of lyrical pieces, Op. 65 and sc, namely.
a Folk song. a Ballad" and a de-
scriptive piece entitled "a Wedding
Day at Troldhaugen. They greatly
pleased the audience who, with the
Duchess of Connaught at their head,
called for an encore, to which DR.. Grieg
responded with his Cradle Song" At
ter the concert the Duchess and her
daughter had a long talk with DR.. Grieg
and his wife.
Piano recitals are losing ground ir
England, for the reason indicated in an
article in London Truth:
'Grieg, indeed, has, in the abstnce of
Paderewsh and Rosenthal, been the
one star of the season. and although
pianists have been numerous, their re-
citals have not attracted anything like
the attention gained by the musician
who, partly, perhaps, owing to his
Scotch descent, has playfully been
christened Northern Chopin Piano
forte recitals, indeed now seem TO be
more or less out of fashion. The ex-
hilarating joys of listening for two
hours on end to a pianest giving what
he is pleased to call new readings OF
hackneyed pieces have, it appears,
abated, possibly because eminent exc
cutants have for some time past labored
under the impression that the British
public prefer to hear the same music
over and over again, the programme Of
one pianist, with a few slight changes,
being almost identical with those of his
competitors. However, even pianists
have now learned the lesson, and some
of them are trying to alleviate the mo-
notony of their own performances by
songs and even by string quartets and
other chamber music"
Apropos of Maggie Cline: Nobody
would expect the Irish Queen" to ar
ray her face in the slow, languorous
Cleopatra design of smile.
Say, you don't expect me to smile n
the morning" said the Cline to the
photographer. It's too early. Bring
in the baby. Instead of my making the
baby smile for picture, the baby'll
make me smile. That's fair play eh?"
So the little god of the house, the
three e-months-old nephew of the Irish
Queen" moved her to mirth.
Where do / laugh and how do l
laugh? Indeed / don't know. My friends
tell me when I laugh out loud it sounds
like a goat So I'm not going to tell
how that's done How do I laugh? Why
I just enjoy myself, and then the laugh
comes. Anybody can do that. Yes, any
body who really means to learn to
smile or laugh can do So"
The Cline style OF laugh doesn't har-
moniZe with a long-faced, scrawny
checked, deeply lined face. Any girl Of
that description who tried it would be
a farce or fright. The Cline laugh
goes with the plump young woman VINO
doesn't think she is especially attrac-
tive, but has the assurance of mouth
ful of strong, handsome teeth.
That kind of girl would charm
man with a cheerful disposition and
abounding good nature of which her
laugh is evidence.
Joseph Jefferson said in Milwaukee
the other day that he still makes his
acting tours of the country because he
has never yet got beyond the necessity
of earning his living He also con-
fessed that never until recently did one
incongruity in rip Van Wrinkle" oc-
cur to him with any force, this being
the fact that Rip Van Wnkle is the
only person in the play who speaks
English with slightly broken Dutch
accent. The other characters content
themselves with ordinary English.
There are a bakers dozen of mighty
pretty women, as well as good players
in Never Again"-for example, Grace
Kimball, Katherine Florence, Ina Ham
mer, Anito Rothe, Alice Maynhan, Lii
liam Sullivan, Edith Edgar, May Gal
yer, Fannie Hunt, Vashita Turn4r.
Vivian ogden, Annie Meares and Elsie
Kent.
Miss Helena Selinger the principal
figure in the burlesque, The Girl From
China" has been associated With many
prominent opera organizations Miss
Selinger created the japanese charac-
ter in David Henderson's production of
Joseph W. Herbert's operatic success.
"Zendas King"
The Italian novelist playwright
d D'Annunzio has prepared versions both
of "Antigone" and "Agamemnon" for
the use OF Slgnora Duse, who is to ap-
pear in them at the new theater nowl
in process Of construction on the shores
of Lake Albano, near Rome He is
also busy with tragedy on the sub
ject of Persephone which is TO form the
opening attraction.
What wave Of Sousa music is Just
now spreading over this country-in
fact, over the civilized world. for Cen
eral Miles states that during his recent
trip to the scenes of the Turco-GreaI<
war he heard the stirring Sousa
marches played in every military camp
on the European Continent
Carrie Wyatt Banks. one of the orig
inla members Of the old California The
ater Stock Company. San Francisco
staged new play called Hampton
Roads. which recently had its ini-
tial production at Davenport, Ia. and