The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-01

Cherry Pickers," and Held by the
Enemy The company brings with II
a car load of scenery In the opening
drama, s.Trilby," Mrs. Frank Bergman
of this city will sing Ben Bolt.
Miss Jane Waldorf's second season
in Los Angeles, unhappily for finances
was in holiday week. but the entire
press of the city commends her highly
The Express is least warm, but even
it approves here and declares that she
has stepped up higher and fulfilled the
promise made for her last year. Inc
Times says her Viola is deliciously
sympathetic and spontaneous, ana OF
her Rosalind it says that she has an
excellent grasp of the possibilities tnat
lie in the character The Herald
says she gives fine touches OF art u
her work in Shakesperian characters
in which she is claiming the attention
and admiration of students and thea
ter goers generally. All the papers
warmly approve Mr.. McVey's work and
pronounce him thorough artist, and
the Herald declares that his Sir
Toby" is a gem. Mr. McGregor's NAL
volio it is conceded is well nigh faWless.
In the Drury Lane pantomine, or
Christmas annual there is children
Trial by Jury" where the youngsters
take the good and bad spirits to THE
Dock of Children's Justice" in Toyland,
and of course find the bad fairy guiltS.
and sentence him to be beaten and de-
feated evermore in Christmas enter
tainment AS the learned Judge re-
marks in his opening speech:
1 ate too much last night by far
At an overfed Christmas party,
Rather fond of refreshment hearty;
But, oh! twas a wonderful dream / had!
And that's why | sing this canto;
For I've come to try the fairy bad,
In Drury Lanes good old panto.
The good fairy, in her pleadings to
the prosecution, says:
He breaks all our dollies and smashes our
toys,
And we have to stand all the blame:
He teaches the mischief to bad little boys,
And, really, 1 think it's shame.
And the bad fairy, for his defense,
pleads:
Now you've got me Judge and jury,
All my deeds are full of fury,
But 1 shan't for them atone;
I'm a william truly awful,
Every baby from me flies,
Everything l dos unlawful,
But l shan't apologize.
New York Times: F. r. Benson pro-
poses to give performances of "Corio-
lanus'' in his tour of English Cities and
has engaged Genevieve Ward for the
role of Volumnia. The last Volumnia
on our own stage was Augusta Foster,
who acted in English the mother of the
voluable Italian Coriolanus of the great
Salvinia ooh, how he 1fiuttered'' the
VolsciansD in 1885. Clement Scott re-
calls that the modern English playgoer
scarcely knows Volumnia. Mrs. War
ner acted the role with Macready, Miss
Glyn with Phelps, Genevieve Ward, an
by birth, was known on the
Italian opera stage as Nine. Guerra
bella, before she made her first appear
ances in English-spoken drama, as
Lady Macbeth and Constance, in king
John,'' in 1873. About that time she
acted here, at Booths Theater, adding
Katharine of Arragon to her, repertory.
She has since made several starring
tours in this country, and has been
in some of Irving's most
notable productions.
Los Angeles Times: Max Heinrich,
his wife and daughter, are giving
series of recitals in the far West that
are proving very successful artistically,
financially, they leave much to be de-
sired, says Musical America" A Los
Angeles paper says: "a ridiculousiy
small audience greeted the Heinrichs for
their second concert Los Angeles is
rapidly gaining a bad name among art
lists and managers. Recent musical
visitors have played to empty benches,
and many of them have publicly de-
clared their intention not to visit the
city again. That is the correct remedy.
Drastic measures should be used with
persons who pirate of their interest in
music, thereby leading enterprising
to procure artists, and who
do not put their hands in their pockets
when such artists come.
The world is just beginning to find out
what busy letter-writer Hans Won
Bulow was. Breitkopf and Hartel have
just issued new volume, the fourth, Of
his letters to various friends-650 pages
yet it brings us only to October, 1864.
These letters are almost all in German.
The correspondence between List and