Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1890, Page 16

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Bicon vs. Shalkcespeare and a Review of the Brief for the Plainiff—Mme, Pati’s New Tacater at Her Beautiful Castle in Wales. Theworld In gencral when it ses a well- performed production of an opera or ccle- brated play upon the stage rarly ever thinks of the enormous amount of work and the large outlay of money required to placethe counterfeit presentment of humanlife wd passions before them, or of the intemal froubls which & manger s to contend with before success canbe attined, It isonly the initiated whocan conpreiend these points, which, one conquered, inthe majority of cases, prove the maincauses of success and conseuently of prospeivy. Butthercare sime artists whocan never sccure an ontento cordiale with their man- sger or with the membersof the company whosofortuies they share, snd wsis often the cuse inother walks in life, success only adds forceto this obuoxious trait of char- scter and when an actor or an actress be- comes & star of the first maguitude, woo be- tide the unfortunate manager or the still more unlucky fellowartist who Incurs the wrath of the star, Such & character is Sarah Bernlardt. The Givime Sanh Ben hardt—famous the world over for herartistic avilitiesand her, touse u modern but expressive word, cravkiness, There wis & gentleman in Owmaha week before last who probbly spprciates the foreoof this observation more than any other mauin America, He is Mr. Edgar Stra. kosch, & menber of the well known fanily of musidansand nanagers of that name, Mr, Strakoschis thebusiness managerof the Carlton opera compiny, which appared herea short timoago, and i1 an hour's con. versition he toll some interesting reminis. cences of lis experience with famous arustes of the modern operatic and theatrical stage, That heis quiliiedto speak with authority is proven by his reconl, Heganing with the famous Wilhelunjin 1578, Mr. Strakosch i 1870piloted Ole Bull and Madime Emma Thursby ; in 18081 cnducted the chic Theo through the United States, Cuba wd Mexico; in 1%2-3 was the manger for the charming Adnce; then took hollof and contributed t thesuccees of the divine Sarah’s success on thiscontinent, snd afterwards acted in tne sauo oJJun'lLy for Kellogg, He has also pioicered Gerster and Minie Huuk through A uerica, But nowhe has abwdond grad opera for Liglht opers, believing thatit 1s nore Jmuulur andmore sucesful, I properly paced befor thepubiic, Attheoutsetof theinterview [asked im whit event in bis carer horeganled the most exiting, BERNIARDTS PATHOTISN. “Well he rplied, ‘thatis a bard question to wswer whee oo bas braved so many dangers of flood and field wd _rilway trai Butl reilly beliove that an adveiture w happoned Lo us when wo—tlat is, Saxuh Benbant anl her compny-wereon our Wiy fron the Agentive pepublicto Chili fills thoblll. We wereon the Britian stearer Cowpax, andas god stout wesel sho was; but somo howor oier 4swe werepassiig through the Swaits of Magelin, we agoundon @ sind buk. We drew oclgh teen fect of water ad had unfortunitely entered thestrails at ow witer. Everyone believed wi were shipwrecked, thit ourengigemet I won1a never bo fulfillel; thatall oir artistio prosprcts were ruined, and that we wiere dooned o stay wherewe were for threo wecks, {or youmust know it is ouly usual for thesteamers of this linoto pus theeevery “m was distrited, Shetore ber halr. Sho bt herbreast in hor owu ivimitatie miuner and e wed the—well, clissical— linguige for which shois noted. Thero we | They had sterling piety, simple hoesty, | g were ind there was mo prospect of relief. |unconquerable thrift; shiftlessness with | wonder, This was about 9 o'clockin the moming. The | them was s crime, Made of granive and sun- scene mn be better imagined than described. | shine, they went over this continent with the The ldies were in tears and frightened out | keeness of winter’s blast, and something of of ther senses, and even the men of the com- | the mourishing gentleness' of summer rais, pany felt uncomfortable, The assurances of | of courseitis the home that makes men and the captain that all would be well were of no | women. availind everyboly wisin despair, “The company who present tho play here “*Atlast, shoutuoon, the smoke of anap- | tonight and on Monday, Tuesday and hing 'stearner wasseenin the distnce. | Wednesday evenings is the samo as soen last 's hopes revived. Aid was athand | fall, the only difference is that entirely mew ¢ would berscued fron ourunplesant | scenery will beused. position. Time went byand the steamer drew 2 near. As she approached theCotopixi hoisted | The Standard opera company begins an en- signalsof distressand she bore down upon us, | gagment tonight atthe Grand opera house, But 5 5001 4 hor flag was reoguized, pitri. | Lo list until next Sunday night, with Satur- otism got tho belter of fear daymatinee. The company consists of fifty alarm had di I, Tushingto the cap- | whon are the favorite primadonnas Miss tatn, o bluf Kagish sulor. 1o fhoped on hior | Bessie Fairbum and Miss Alico Johnson, the kneés befre him and implored im for the | beatiful contrlto Miss Julie Cristen, the life, sbandon her profession and lose all her | 8nd well trained chorus. The repe: for 1opo0f ATUSULC W Li a footupon the deck of s Geman ship, Sur- | Normandy;»> M prisal at lor chuge of tone, the captain con- | day, * Girofl 3 sental and told the German caplin that his | Vetle; Thursday, 'Chimes of Normandy; passngers did ot need assistane and tho [ Frilay, “Fra Diavolo; Saturduy matinee, Teuton siled avay. But Sarahwasequal | ‘‘Mikadoy' Saturday night, “Ihe Mascot,’ ay, *“The Mascot;” Tues- cablin, she brought upa silken French tri- [ ment will be at popular prices and the OppoOr- | church, colorivhich had been presmted to her by | tunity will beofferel to hear all these popu- some admirer and as the Germansaileduway | laroperssby a thoroughly competent com- depirting foe, “Did weget ot Yes, indeed. About 7 a. m., the tilerose andwe foated into harbor in sifety. CAFPOUL THOREATENED WITH DEATH, “Another exditing incidnt comes to my o, mind, Victor Capoul,the famous tenor, when | powerful heroic drams, “Ihe Corsican 1?1 ““,;- he first, visited Cuba, actedas correspndent | Brothers” In this play, Mr. Mantell has | Blawhe forthe Puris Figaro, nd cxpressod bis opin- | many excellent opportunities to display his ionsof the Cubins wery frely. Thatwas all right. But the next year he rturned. In [ successhe has gainedin the iarg eastern themeantime the Figuro containing these let- speiks an interesting perlormance. ters had rached Cubi, and the popular feel- i ing was aroused aginst Capoul. He was even thratenel with death, and had to leave buriedly for New York uider the cver of night. The wgagement was spoiled, of course. The well known actor, RobertMantell, begins threonights' engagement at Boyd's opra house on Thursday ovening mext, Mr. sane as Henry [vving used when he pro- | #8€d: duced this play at the Lgeeum theatre, London, a few yvears ago. Tiland of Corsica. Its strongest dramatic siluations aro those of the fifth and sixch | T8 ! SETIING A DIFCULY, “0le Bull and Emna Thursby, when tray- | 418 eling togother, could never agree, anl both waited ©havetheirnames first on the ad- verlising posters. Of course thit was impos- sible, and things seemed. t be at a deadlock, But Maurice Straksch, the manager, was equil to the emergency, and placed both nanes fint in the form of 4 cross, There was nowore trou bl after that, A MANAGEWS CLEVER KUSE. “One more story sald Mr Strlosch, and 1 lave done. When Beruhardt was i thesouth she was supported by Mr. Garnier, wiois well known Kxbhlmllu\l-lll. Howas i avorite everywhers, but in Brazil be curi- 0 beir 2 ously inwurred the lostality of the stadents | U Miss Charlotte Behrens, while M. and they would wis pliying Armand in *Camille) Tho students bissed, hoyled wd hurled épithels atnim ud infrmed the manager tht Gu- nier coull notbe albowed to_contanue on (ke stage. Sarah triedto solve the dificulty by appearig on the stige arm inarm with Gar- nier, butthe students would not be quieted. Sho'weas ll xight, but they diduot want that folow. Garilor' wis withdmwn ad the | e rest sctorin thy compmny was placedin | With delight by tho lovers of good music in [ There spart, The stulonts were so dsgusied | Omalu. Alhough a native of ornia, tiat thiy @sked Gurnierto retuen, He did | M. Pliel hes spent most of his lifo in Paris, soand scored i greal sucess.” Tug L.OUNGER, Tonight at Boyd's one of those delightfully | queenof Spain he wasafforded an excellent refreshing entertaiiments takes plae in the | opportunity to meet tho best people of tno prsentition of Denman Thoupson's famous : r\,‘y ““The Old Homesteud,” the storyof Now | in consequence has reccived greatpraise from ingland home lifeso well kuown o all. It | foreign journals. as @ bistorical valie, als, in that is @ per- | His wife, Mme, Tekely Planel, who has foot reproduction. of the land of homesteads, |been s member of the theater Gymuwse in the cndle of commonwealths, the school |seasons past, willalso be heard in several nouse of patriots, the mcademy of statesmen, | recitations while the Apollo club will appear and where our Wobsters', our Adams’, our |snd fill out what promises tobe & most de- Everelts and our Longfellows got their ear- | Ightful programme, liest. iuspiration and imbibed the principies that made them known to the world, kiownto the stage. Tue doath sceneof Fubien at the Corsican home has also been warmly commen ded by com petent critics visions, vamipires, furniture, properties, etc. for the New York city presentation, thus assuring a flnished performance. It requires amuchlarger supporting company for this play than was used for **Monbars,? yet all the old favorites havo been retal Thursday evening, September 25. Mons M, Planel was heard to excellent advan the last concert of the Apoilo club, a decision wo give @ concert under his ow T'he pations of the Eden musee this week men aud women who have made the vu\lm{- Ple in o | i peaking of iutelligent wimals say, of thoOhioand Mississippi to blossom li s hymn-—-book in one hand and musket inthe ' puzze,and is almost. the equal of somebuman other, They con verted the prairies of the west. l beings. He canand will tak atcach exhibi- luto measuvloss gurdeus teedthe world. ' tion, M ufl(:lskfllful withthe cards. Hels indeed a ‘ ears of Shakepeare's life are entirely lost to Belle Vernon, the lady_of 100 faces, s tho ucen of facil artists. Hor lightui facial grimances are wonderful and creato | Howard Furness, the noted Shakespearean much merriment, Little Kittie Bingham,the [ critic, “we would beat_a_loss to sustain his chila artist, b ouly. This Godfrey's Music and Musicians. i r Theconcert,_given by the choirof the Sec- love of God andof Francenot to hanl her | favorite comedian_Charles A. Gilbert, the | ond Presbyterian church last Tuesday even- over to the tender merciesof her enemies, | Dowd baritone W. V. Kent, and the English | ng was a complete success, Ivery number Shewouldrather stay shipwrecked all her | tenor Mr, Mercer, togetner with a very laree | as wriven onthe programme was very iccept- ably rendered, and it would scarcely be just erary success thin set [ theweekis as follows; Tonight, **Chimesof | to mention any me as especially deservings of Mme, Patti’'s d praiseabove any other participaut. The et | house at ~ Craig-y-nos, Wednesday, *‘Oli- | receipts were 45, “The Owls,”” Prof. Krat2? malo chorus of North Omaha, begin their season’s work 5 Sauranrnighty, I Monday evening and will meet hereaftex in to tho emwrgency. Rushing down to her | @ud Sunday night “Erminie.” The engage- | tho Jocture room of the Knox Presbyterian The elub now has a membership of twenty, with applications pending, and ex- B by, 10 pectsto dosome hard work this winter. In | buildin On” the pediment stand out in hoisted the ago! Frace and waved itat the [ Pany at2, 85and 5 cents for reserved seats. | conjunction with the T K.” quartette a con- cert is contem plated. Theater.” ' As the theater is essentially a A.Todd gavea class recital of his pipllsat his residence 26% Davenport | ¥ o A i) o i street Thursday afternoon, which was a very | form e s e O e e e its | successfulufTairin overy particular. Tt was | mitted, miy bo given from tine to time. and Fabien doi Franchi in Alexander Dumas’ | & debut of all the ]'“y“-* participating, us Misses Bird y Parker, Jessie Ithridge, trend Tone Vinled tales asy romantio actor, i the | MY 0dd, a very arcomplished piunist, also mer Mendelssohn and - Schumann, It was a ver Hig vorbonof tho cConsio B othoah ja | pleasint innovation and should be encour- The selectionof Mr. L. foam theitr®s | ledo, O.,as dinctor of the Apollo club can- | the aides, dividiog the walls into panels, ondon, & £ 0, I8 not help but give great satisfaction to the lid in Paris and its envirouments, und tho | B0% help but give ereat satisfuctin to the s been condueting for a number of The duel scene that closes the fifth act, [ Year, with astonishing succes: A ARy geticto a degres and will pla king consilered the most, sbsorbing fight | 50 Omaha on a still higher fo which is v The club will commence rehearsals a cause of the fucilitics off October I, the intention now being to invit I For this production of the +Comsican | & BUMDEroE the best fomulo siygers to form | 1 one As Brothers,”” Mr. Mantell caxries with him all | {* Sy clio It d by ths . po . - is not the mteution to change the personnel atiention has b the handsome mew scenery, traps, slides, | 5 ot T 2 nore esting y i that his maniger, Augustus Pitou, had made | Eranine nore lteecting by the addition of Bacon ve Shakespeare. To what author shall the ed, the | plays be ascribed? » Custom almost immemor- jation being headed by thocharming | jal has given that honor to Shakespeare, but uneducated and soinexperienced as we know | the stage level; William Shakespeare to have been could ever | 1€ n | have studied out the grand conceptions which wspices in the near future will be hailed | theworks in questiim contained. forward to sustaiw the accusation that Will- [ cenium is pan Wherehe wis educated under the best teaeh, | 18 Shakespeare has unrightly usurped the | tinued ers, and now he hus developed o dual tlent, | fame attached to those dramas, In the first vocaland instrumental. As violinist to tho | place, hewas in reality uneducated, while the mlll\nr“u[ the plays must neces: pusical world abroad, and Ms vioin playing | Crmel. Feerofiisyicduuiitod withth i I ‘Lhie menbers of nis family were illiterate, | Theuct drop is a portrait of Madame Pattiin | L and his daughter unable 10 write even at the | the chavacter of Seuivamide driving a chur age ol twenty-seven. asfar asonewn judge frem the fin by Wh g&ruphs handed down w while notwo of them inany marked degree. nomention of any literar will, but was careful to spici y bequests his ‘second-best bed,” though not & | mime bas been provided. There ar That old homesteaa stands there yot on the | will see one of the amusements of the nine- | book, uut & copy of one of b ny bills orin the shaly valleys just as it | teenth century, Manager Lawler has se- | even & nanus when Buunker Hill was ‘At It |ocured Prof. Madden's wonderful educated | ter writton by h! sent out generation after generation of brave | talking dog boy. Youhave often heani peo- | served, and but two ad those make no referenco to literature, This ‘Hols 0 smart that he can do everything | is the arraignioent made sgainst Shake- | some switchboard, which bas cach depar the rose, They foughtthe battle of life with | but talk.” Well, Bozhas solved the great | peare by Edwin Reed ina pamplet published | ment labelled, A by Rand, MoNally & Co. b of the popular author have always one | scenes aud traps, while alongside the audito- Ppleasant episode. lore yet, he can play high-five, beiug | standby upon which to fall back.” Three rium on the opposite side of the corridor is a l According to the Brussels Guide M. ica — child has won fame by her im- | three years learn the minutest details of le ersonations of the swell young man of the , lore; for the author of those pl. day, singing with dramatic effect Charles famous song, ‘“The Bridge.” Bingham, the ventriloquist and his worden- headed farnily creates much merriment for | tongue's end. Did he not travel over all the children, E tlons the Beethoven quartette of singers and wcomedy company of ten artists will appear. Throughout the seven exhibition depart- he com meuts the show is _complete in allits details “Suah_(id not hesilate o monent. Her | firstclassoperitic artists, prominent among | gud will repay anhour's visit. | history, threo years aro a blank to modern chango | __“If it were not for those three years, says as been engaged forone week | claims to authorship. Did he not in th buen an expert lawyer. Did he not become a sailor in that time; for the playw have had the language of the Inaddition to these attrac- must have scen many of the places which ho deseribes soacurately.” This is the defense, Whiie it does not argue against any person, itattempts to repel the attacks made upon Shakespeare, Although the most weighty arcument for Bacon 1s his capa ducing the pliys, it will retain his ' laurels until it is clearly | the piece. An work. Madame Patti's Theater. ilou theter and opers reconshire, her | of Welch ‘horts, was dnformally opened on | C'° favorits part August23. The theater is situated at the worth cid of the castle and adjoins the bi liard tovii and clock tower. The front facy south and is in the coart yard, It has an | ©nthe down gra omamental facide in the Italian style, ning.” Dold weliet, in gold letters, the words “Patti privateoneand is for the convenience of the visitors of the castle, though charitable per- s, 10 W the public will be ad- [ her presence, too, The principl entrace will be from the houso | ing round the cir by mivas of & wido corridor from the French | Midnight Bell,” ¢ billizrd room; there isulso another entrance | 7 \ from “the front. The dimensions of the auditorium are forty-two feet by twenty-seven fect, and thiereis a curved end at the back in which is a small gallery or tribune. The height is twenty-two feet, with acove ceiling, supported by twelve ( let. A, Torvens of To- | thisin e Lamns, with decorated surfaces round | () our Wilde, clloy, Vida Mosel Pierce and Gertrude Hospe. nt Partner.” sctions from Chopin, He The floor bas 2 unique pecnliavity; while it | § slants toward the stage there is an arrange ment underneath by which it can b raised aL the stageend o a level with tue stage, and soa ug ball-room od all the mo ng ovel Hueis enel seenery o give the appoar: son received last b rus to assist in the wor s contrivance is sixiy-two f . 0 paid to tho light- but simply to make the pro- In the daytimo this will be obtained eround glass, At night u central electrolior —— of sixteen lights and brackots of threo lights caen round the sides will be eumployed. kospearcan | The buililg 15 scated “for 180 porsons, The chairs in the first few rows g o the white, with a_plentiful use of pilding, “Tho ponnet in th orchestras di ) ed from the auditorium by | Angot,’ w18 room T'ho proscent iravaudiere, ty feet wido Surrounding itis a b ment and guments brought 5 aud this panclling is con- und the' auditorium, bearing the numes of great composers. IRossini, Patti's favorite composer, occupies the confral posi- tion on the proscenium, and is faced by Shakespere e tho gallery. The 7 handsome; th and are of eloctric blue silk plush, may be, b, Italian and Spanish languages” | festoon q and complicat His own haud writing | 1ot aud a pale of horses. 1t has beon patnted | 1he famous b ) of London. Thestage is twenty sco W tremely four feet deep and forty : h sentahead and pl able one another | ample height to allow the akespeare mude | the scei to be rised iuto rty in his [ flies without rolling, vi among other | ern applianee ne sentation in eve sury for oper wn books nor | footlights, rows of batten lights in the wings, 2 eution, Nolet- | and d lights with colored lamps for arric fiu to any one has been pre- Tho number of 1ight faressed o him, und ater s 251, and all thes rol of the protopter by means of a b llar under the stage iac- ut the defenders | commodates themachinery for working the | A happy I largo scene dock, thirty-two feet long and of | whose W: : full heiwht, to uccommodate scenes when 1o man, in use. Behind the stagoare five dressing rooms on the first andsecond floors, with a | garded by many of Wagner's warme: ver for_properties. The architects aro Bucknall &Jennings of Swa London, The builder was Mr. H. Smith, of Kidderminster. The scenery was painted by Mr. W. Haun, of Loudoi. instru- | Sidney Grandy; Honr The theatre will part of a favorite | sides Mrs. D. . Bowers, Char] 1 W. 1 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Nellic McHenry, who was for a little while ¢, has regained hor old time place iu the public heart, and is cutting a which distictly marks the purpose of ‘the | Wide swath in hernew piece, ““Chain Light- s Sylvia Gray has followed Miss Letty d and now announces that when al Gaiety company leaves home for ica and Ausiralia it will do so without his winter, to wit: Do you ever play Hamlet, Mr. Roscius?! asked the soulful young woman, Ishould saynot ! replied that eminent actor | picce. M. Alphonse Daudet in fine scorn, *“The idea of me playing Ham- | for the coming theat rical Iain't no amateur,” **Hamler! ays that when he plays Chopin the piano be feels as though he had Perhaps’ his audienee the musical sins he has committed. During Stuart Robson’s_Chicago, Philadel- phin. Boston and New York cngageme thre now plays will be_produced celk from V. ing over torien Sardou the first dvaft of a comedy which the great Freneh dramatist promises for the season of tard Mansflold has_come into the pos- | fps lantern lights in the ceiling filled with @ hi cal paint rance, 5, during the reign of | “h ¥, D03 sesionof Napoleon,and was presented by hin though it is possible to tind room for 20, | to Murat, king of Naples, before his abdica- 1t subsequently have arms, and are covered with blue silk | Charles Drew,who used to be the comedian Bric: 3 4 it is still & question whether it has been | plush, The decorations ure not yet cou- mot allow bim to wt, Ho [ Mavk Price will appearas Chattean Reasud. | ooy doq vivh justice. Itis not so much the | ploted, butit is intended that they shall bo Mons. and Mme, Planel, who arrived from | €laims of any other particular writer that finished in quiev tiuts of blue and ivory San Erancisco the past week, have been pre- [ render the authership doubtful, but rather viiledupon to g1ve & concert at the Boyd | the overwheluing:improbability that one so of the Carleton opera_company, is now ap- N He has the vival of “Li " and Max Lube,whois ti a low bulustrade, and is suuk six feet below | MarioHalton is the Clairette, ( i i +is tne Mile. Lange, and Fred 2oni- Fille de Mme. the Murphy has dramatized “The Kreutzer Sonata” —the no and hopes to gt it played in New Yorl the novel is mostly u s tions, and as it contains but o) cident, Mr. Murphy must. this simuior. He will find material for an otner play in Carlyle music | paid my money to b n- | Arthur rétu worked hard Resartus,” drami 2 ar- ry Shubel, who of sc 10 by din positio J. M. Hill proposes to give just us good a | pect on the rond as was given in the production at th Henry Maple: nd M cloctric | avated and all London is discussiug the con tretemps. It turns out although they and per consequ all around. As soon us M I is broken up by this very un- up. gnerian sympathies are well-known —the forthcoming production at Bayreuth of the Paris versiop of “Tannhauser’ is ro. 3 staamir- bing but unu satisfuctio ea, and | They urge, and it must be admitted not - reasonably, that the music written by tia master of Paris in 1800, (after “Tristan’) Mr. W. | The electric | differs so entirely in style from the rest o t lighting is supplied by the Wenham Light | the overa as to interfere seriously with the 1 st | company: and the decorations by Messrs. | unity of expression. ip at his | Jackson & Sous, of London. L The piece verformed was Mr. W, F. Hul- Curopo inthat time for tho Same author | ley's comia opera whbD Genmrid b Ty is my intention to take Palmer’s theater out of the list of combination theaters and make it a stock theater,”’ said A, M. Palmer audienco_included, besides Madame Patti | the other day, having ' justlanded tro Signar Nicolini, 4 large number of distin- guished guests at thé castle, including Si nor Arditi. Mr. Hulloy conducted the or- chestra, which consisted of fourteon ility of pro- | ments. ' Mudame Patti expressed herself at comsthat Shakespeare | the close delighted with the whole action of minated ed ad- proven who in reality Is the author of tho | dross wis presented A fadume ot vofors the company separated, not be opened formally till next year, when Madame Pattiwill ~sing opera and Mr. Henry Irving will play or re- Atlantic steamer, **Among the pl 1 expect to produce there is a ‘Villaga Priest,) an adaptation from the French v Hamilton's ad of ‘Le Crapeaw’ wnd Mr. Ralph Lume forthcoming play with several others also secured the refusal of the Amerd ghts of ‘An English Rose, by Rob Buchanan and George R. Sims. " Frederick Ward has in his compan hton, Beverly W. Turner, Robert C. H. Barton, Percy Sage, William Tanner, H, W. . C. Mar- D.” "Talbot. Au utton, the therine Coggswell, Lottie Sutton i o, Jennie Vale and Naonia Al- froy. The repertoire is “Heary VIII," “Galba, the Gladiator? *“Macbeth “Othello,” “Damon and Pythias,” “Virgi ivs” and ““Julius Cemsar.? "Mrs, Bowers not appearing in the lutter two plu; CGireat things ate expectea from the third act of Francois Coppec's now play, to be pro- duced in Paris this winter. The ' action of the play s in the fifteenth century, when ‘There will be five Hoyt farce-comedies fly- | Turk and Christian were battling for Europe. “A | His hero is aslave called Brankomir, who, Brass Monkey,” “A | because hehas not succcodod fn his ambi: Texas Steer,” *A Trip to Chinatown,” and tious hopes, makes an unpatriotic compact with the sultan, but is killed ina ducl with his own son. A duel between a sultan und his own_son is the great situation of the s also preparing mpiign, and has aplay nearly ready for the Gymnase, The managers of Miss Agnes Huntington are working up 4 boom for herin the st c manner. They are sending ov bound volumes of press notices clipped from English and American newspapers, togetiio with photographs of the young woman. T value of press opinions diminish- v suddenness when it is discov- o are selected from cable dis- patehies to New York papers, E: e acquaintance with the amusement knows how casily the London cor- respondents ave induced to say protty things London newspapers, ho Miss Huntington right heartil cess in “Paul Jones'' was genuiie. lowing good story is told of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Someittlé time ago, when ige in the cast bad been made, Sir Avthur, who happened to be dining at the Savoy hotel, slipp from't went, into the upy here to b compuny | himself as to the capabilities of the newar- s As the play proceeded, and o fuvorit i he talented i to hum 1it to be rendered., Solomon | 1 ) ed his next door 3 arked; “Excuso sir, if 1 mention the fact that | have ir Arthur Sullivan's wwming opera as given by the 1 ot your confounded humming.’ to his dinner and related the wcident with great gusto, e Dr. Birnev cures catarrh, Bee bldg, - Bl ight=-Y err-0ld Barglar. wet New aigned in Yorkville police me of burglary. I Holland, who keepsa butter and egg stove ut 899 Tenth avenue, had things stolen from his store, and he waited in the hope of cutching the thiey At wbout 8 o'clock he saw a little bitof a fellow hoisted over the fanlight by two not | gtulwart boys, little £+ low themselves thought to place a lot of cheeses Lo @ hel lund lost his prosence of mind ard rushed on the b e ing away his companions. Policeman Golden ook young Shubel in charge and locked him Dr. Birney cures b, Feo bldg