The record-union., 1899-09-10

done. This structure alone is to cost
$40,OOO, so the expense Of the festival
can be realized
Philadelphia Post It was Edward
Payson Weston, the pioneer long dis
tance pedestrian, who tempted Daniel
F'rohman, manager of the Lyceum
Theater of New York. from journalism
into the theatrical business. 1t hap
pened this way: Mr.. Weston had re-
turned to New York after his success
full walk through the West, and in 1871
he gave an exhibition against time in
the old American Institute Building.
This was the beginning ef our present
six-day walking matches. He hired
Franklyn Fyles, who was then a Sun"
| reporter, and Daniel Frohman to man
age the novel affair. The receipts from
this undertaking were more than SlO,-
0G0, and this success started Mr.. Froh-
man IN theatricals. MI. Frohman has
| amassed a fortune since then. Mr..
Fyles is a leading dramatic critic and
playwright, and Mr. Weston. as young
as either of his old-time friends, is an
advertising agent
The Parisians are nightly amused
over an action pending in Brussels. a
gentleman took a stall, a program
and book Of the words for some opera.
Directly the curtain went up the
| lights were lowered. He accordingly
claims damages on the ground that it
was impossible to read the book that
he paid for, and that the artists We're
so completely incoherent that it was
| impossible to hear a word He also
/ claims for waste of time.
! Harry Farjeon, the eldest son of the
novelist, and grandson of Joe Jefferson
! has composed the music for a tWo-act
opera, "Floretta," for which his young
er sister, Eleanor, wrote the book,
| which has been performed with success
| in London. Young Farjeon is a years
of age and his sister is Is, but she had
completed the play when she was TO.
/
Israel Zangwill brought from En-
gland a large number of plates of Jew
| ish characters that will be utilized in
staging Children of the Ghetto,
which promises to be the quaintest
character play ever seen in America
| While every personality in it will be
strikingly Hebraic, but two characters
will speak the Jewish dialect. All
other parts will be straight English
in the reading of their lines.
James A. Herne has changed the title
of his new play to Sag Harbor." While
the scenes will all be laid in this quaint
| Tc1a 1I1o ~
acters will all be types of the shoremeH
of this place, as the characters Of
'Shore Acres We're typical of the peo-
pie of Maine, the story will be purely
imaginary and will in no sense carica-
ture the place or personalities about
which it is written.
An amusing story concerning the
great Bohemian poet and dramatist,
Maurus Jokai, is told in the Glasgow
| Herald" His youthful drama, "Dai-
ma" was performed in it's author S
presence at Pesth a few days ago, and
! the students, with true Continental en-
| thusiasm, took the horses out of his
carriage to drag the hero home. Ar
rived at the house, Jokai put his head
out of the carriage window, declaring
that he had left these premises more
| than three months, fact which he
had for some moments past been en-
deavoring to explain to them. Moth
| ing therefore remained, but for the stu
| dents, with many a hearty 1augh, to
| drag the carriage to the poets new
abode
James O'Neill will give special revi-
walls of Monte Cristo' this season, al
| ternating it with 1.-The Musketeers.''
| NJ. George Averhoff. the wealthy
Greek whose gift of a million francs for
the restoration of the Stadium at Ath-
ems led to the revival of the Olympian
games a few years ago, has just died
| in his 10th year. Mr.. Ayerhoff WGs a
man of almost innumerable charities.
The Actors Church Alliance Associa-
| ton is said to have elected Bishop
| Potter to membership. engaged the ser
vice of two newspaper men, secured
a fair amount of space in each of the
| New York weeklies. and to be other
wise progressing finely in the direction
of it's purpose.
Johann Strauss had a habit of iotting
down ideas for waltzes on his cuffs OF
an envelope, or anything that happened
to be convenient. The chief theme of a
waltz he did not live to complete he
scribbled on the back of a hundred
! form note, which is thus made worth
several times its face value.
| Sardous "Tosca" will be made the
! basis of an opera. the music for which
will be contributed by Puccini the ItaI-
ian librettist. Signor Tllica, has taken
| liberties with the text of the play, and
has made the heroine stab herself in
stead of throwing herself .rto the Tiber.
| A good story Cf De Wolf lioppers
| London visit IS now going the rounds
| At the first night performance of eel
| Captain Robert billiard and his wife
| took a young English couple to the
theater as their guests.
After the second act the English
woman turned to Hnliard and asked:
is Mr.. Hopper a married man."
| Married! Good gracious, yes! Three
times" laughed Hilliard.
And are all his wives dead?" asked
the Englishwoman, sympathetically.
Dead? Oh, dear, no,' answered Hill
lard. They re all divorced
"Oh" remarked the EnglishW oman
sagely, 81 see. Hes a grass Hopper y
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Drew have reached
New York after summering in England
and Germany. Mr.. Drew will appear
| Of ~