Arizona republican., 1900-08-25
MUSIC AND TEE DRAMA
Comment Upon and News of Singers
 and Play People.

Our country can boast the posses Son music loving people of patriotic fib r, yet it cannot lay claim to a distinct lively national type of music. Even the origin of some of the national anthems dearest to the hearts Of the American people can be traced across the waters to the lands of our forefathers,
 The negro melodies are accredited Il distinctively American. yet the old songs associated with the colored peo- pie of the south. while melOdious and plaintive, are hardly peculiarly char- acteristic, and even admitting them as a distinctive type worthy of considera- tion. they are sectional, not national. As for the Eo-called rag time.' it Is but q perverted syncopation, which tat ter in it's sane use. is not uncommon elsewhere and is noticeably prominent in the ballads of the Scotch.
 The American people are still too heterogeneous tu have evolved any rec ughizable type of music. After the nationalities within the nation shall have become amalgamated and the distinctively foreign traits of the Ger man-Amcrican, the French-American the Italian American. etc, shall have become eliminated from our music, then may We look for q marked na- tional type of music. The high wcrth of the foreign teachers and composers adopting America as their home, as well as the promising outlook from American born musicians. coupled with the remarkable creative instincts of the American. bespeaks d great fu- ture for the music of this country.
 Roland Reed will begin next season, his fourteenth HF a star, in the Boston museum. with a new comedy entitled "A Modern Crusoe," by Sidney Rosen- field. It is said to be in a different Ve from other comedies in which he has been seen. He will have the aid of Miss 1sadore Rush and a company in- cluding Charles Gotthold, Her bert Fortier. L. F. Hicks, James Devlin. Mary Myers. Carolyn White and oth CTS.
 Among the new plays for the coming season none will surpass in interest the Battle of the Strong" In which Marie Burroughs is tn star under the manage ment of Daniel A. Arthur. The scene of the play is laid in the Isle of Jers y, spot which has fascinated many fla nous writers from Victor Hugo to Gil bert Parker, from whose novel of the same name the dramatic version has been made. The part of Guida will o. fer to Miss Burroughs something pre- cisely suited to her being at once m- pie. tender and womanly.
 Mime. Patti. who recently attained her fffty-seventh birthday. has for many years held the record for the largest sum earned in a year by a wo- man. Her highest total for twelve months is S35OOOO. Her present Lcndon concert terms are said to be S2,000 a night but her big water mark for a single performance is $11. .00O received in Buenos Ayres. Mime. Patti has writ ten some "Confessions" from which 1t appears that her favorite poet is Long fellow: her faVorite novelist, Dickers; her favorite pastime. entertaining her friends. to whom she is loyalty itself She presents them with rich and costly presents. All the chairs in Mime. Patti s boudOir at Craig-y-NOS castle are | draped with colored ribbons. taken ! from innumerable bouquets which have been thrown to her. Some of the rib bons are many years old, and much prized.
 Richard Mansfield has returned to New York. and plunged into the work ! of finishing his production of Shakes peare's King Henry "" The scensry, painted by Richard Marston. who painted all the scenes in Cyrano | de Bergerac. is completed and com prises what is probably the most elab- ! crate series of the stage pictures ever ! displayed in the illumination of the classic drama Attention was sfmul- taneously given to the question of cos tunes and dress for the soldiers of the English and French armies. the nobl=s. courtiers. sailors. maids. pages. peas antry and others. and they are now finished. There will be as many as 25O persons on the stage ar one time in
 King Henry "" some of these ap- bearing several times in different cos tunes. It is estimated by Mir. Mans fields wardrobe mistress that the play demands about 750 dresses.
 Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fisle has spent most of the summer in the Swiss Alps. where she went after stops in Naples. Rome, Florence. Milan and Venice and to the Italian lakes. She will return and begin rehearsals of Becky sharp" on September 3. Her tour will open early in October and will reach many cities where the play has never been given.
 Charles Frohman has engaged Eff Ellsler to play Barbara Frfetchie this season. Julia MarIOwe had SD much success in the play last season through out the country MT Frohman has de- ctded to give it a fine production this winter and to revisit all the cities where it has been played. as well as to
 make tour of California
 Five big baggage ears will be re- puired to transport the property of the Alice Nielsen Opera company the com ing season. This large equipment is necessary because Miss Nielsen will carry complete productions of her two operas. The Singing Girl" and The
 Fortune Teller" California and the southwest will have their first oppor- tunity to hear the Alice Nielsen Opera company this year.
 stuart Robson's annual tour is an nUlIUced b.pi1 p. NIh,p,-