The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30


s6efgerac" has yet been played in Lon
oon' but it is said that somewhat tardy
arrangements for the production Of the
play are now in charge of Charles
Wyndham.
Sir Henry Irving will close his pres
ent season at the London Lyceum on
the 18th inst. He will begin a brief
provincial tour in Birmingham on the
11th of September previous to his de-
parture for the United States. His
temperance in London will probably
ject.
The new play which Sydney Grundy
is writing for George Alexander is said
to be founded upon Scribe's five-act
comedy "Une Chaine.''
The announcement comes from Lon
don of the death of Lady Pollock, one
of the most intimate friends of Mac
ready. She put her "reminiscences of
the great actor into pleasant little
: volume, "Macready AS I Knew Him. "
She was also the authoress of a vol
ume upon amateur theatricals.
& The people of Ammergau are already
making active preparations for next
years 'Passionsspiel,' in which young
Anton Lang is again to perform the
part of Christ. Among other expen-
sive Improvements, they intend to erect
an enormous iron covering over the
auditorium, at the cost of $50 600
marks, as a protection to the audience
z. crair fIni 81 ~
For some years past Ben Greet has
been giving open-air performances of
shakespeare pastoral comedies, in
England, during the summer months.
The other evening he presented "A
Midsummer Nights Dream under
peculiarly favorable conditions in the
gardens of the London Royal Botanic
E Society. The night was perfect, and
the scene, embowered in lovely shrub
berries, was Illuminated by Chinese lam
terms and fairy lamps. On another oc-
casion, in the garden of Chelsea rec
tory, he presented LAS You Like It.
: with Dorothea Baird as the Rosalind.
: Mr.. Greet himself enacted Bottom in
= the one play and Touchstone in the
other, winning plaudits in both.
The following details are published of
the new play on the subject of THE
Queens Necklace" which Robert Blu
chanan and Charles Marlowe have
written for Mrs. Langtry. The first act
occurs at the royal palace, the second
at the house of Cagliostro; the third at
a great ball given by the King; the
fourth at Versailles. In the second act
is shown the inception of the Cagliostro
plot, to induce Cardinal De Rohan-
who is in love with the Queen-to pur-
chase the necklace for her and SO COM
promise her in the eyes of her husband.
But the fact is that her double, Cal
dOliva, is TO be substituted for her,
and even De Rohan is deceived. In the
third act Cal d'Oltva is wearing the
; necklace at the ball, and is pointed out
to the King as his wife. In the fourth
act the King taxes Marie Antoinette
with her conduct. and then the plot
against her is unravelled. Cagliostro
is represented as a hypnotist.
THE Weather-Hen" is the curious
and rather awkward title of a play by
Messrs. Berte Thomas and Granville
Barber, which was tried in London the
other day, and won certain amount OF
success. 1t is the story of a>woman IN
happily married to a dissolute scamp
3 who resolves to run away with another
man. or rather boy. but being frus-
trated in this design, returns to her
husband, only to find that she has not
strength to endure his treatment
Finally, she makes up her mind to sep
arate from him and fight the battle OF
life by herself. The play is criticised
as uneven and uncertain in purpose
being partly farce, partly comedy, and
sometimes serious drama, but is gen.
orally admitted to be amusing, inter-
esting, and, to a certain degree, origi-
nal. Most of the press notices are
favorable, but there seems to be a
general concurrence with the verdict 81
one commentator that 1T wobbles and
goes off on side issues
Many years ago Miss Adelaide Neil
son drove through beautiful Tower
Grove Park in ST. Louis On the way
she was impressed with the Shakes
pearean statue which is one of the at
tractive features of the park, and she
expressed a desire to plant tree with
secured a mulberry tree at Stratford
and sent it on to the Park Commission
ers. instructing them to keep it until
her return. She went to France and
died, but the tree was planted, and a
small white stone tells this story. Since
then trees have been planted by Booth
and Barrett. Several weeks ago Miss
Olga Nethersole heard the story OF
oil nd ,orl, fri IL
she secured the Park Commissioners
permission to plant an English elm
close to the Shakespearean mulberry
The tree-planting was attended with
much ceremony. Miss Nethersole shov-
eied the earth with her own hands in a
heavy rainstorm. Beneath its roots she
placed a metal box, the facts concern
ing it's contents being known only to
herself The plot of ground in beau
tiful Tower Grove Park thus implant-
ed with trees furnished by the profes-
sion of the stage has been happily
called 1.-The Forest of Arden"
Sam T. Jacks will left all his money
to his wife providing that she shall
marry his brother. 1t now occurs that
the brother is already married and
Mrs Jack will contest the will.
Manager Wagenhals reports that the
tour of the James Kidder- Hanford
Company is already booked and that
the scenery and costumes for all the
plays in their extensive repertoire are
being made The road season begins
in September.