Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1892, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY B SEPTEMBER 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES, WITH ORATORIO AND OPERA Plaus of the Apollos and Miss Clary for Omaha's Musioal Calture. GREAT CHANGES AT THE BIIOU THEATER Tins a Stock Company and Will Give Con- tinuous Performances—Evolution of the Serpentine Dance—Coming Attractions—Stage Chat, The Apollo club, which has done so mush for the musical culture of Omaha, has made its plans for the coming season and annouunces three subscription concerts, which will be given at the Boyd on Thursday, November 7, Monday, February 20, and Thursday, May 4. The program for these entertanments will probably be selected from ““The Crusadors’ by Gade, *Frithoft” by Bunch, “The Golden Legend” by Sullivan ana *“The Creation’ by Haydn, all works of high quality. ‘T'ne man- agement expects to secure the assistance of Charles A. Knorr, tenor; George E. Holmes, baritene; Mrs. Johnstone-Bishop, soprano, and other musicians of like quality. Tn order to meet objections to the former method of reserving seats, the management has decided to have an auction and seil the choice of seats ln that manner. This plan has been tried in other cities with satisfac- tory rosults. Each ticket will have throe conpons, one for onch concert, and after once securing his sea. the subscriber wili have no further trouble iri reserving for the season. The following prices have been adopted for season tickets: Iach box, seating six persons, #25; seats in parquet and par- quet circle, $3; seats in the balcony, §2.50. [n this connection it may be well to remem- ber that the Apollo club is not a money making organizailon. No member reccives any remuneration for his services, and tho club generally expends more than it takes in. Last season this excess amounted to about E300. This organization is worthy the heart- lest encouragoment. Miss Clary reports very encouraging pro- gress for tho Omaha operatic festival, which will bogin at the Boyd on November 7 and continue for the week, and is now able to makeo some definitie announcements. Mr. Max Maretzek, a well known musical di- rector, has consented to take charge, which assures competent management in that de- partmont. Ho has expressed himself as very well pleased with the cast submitted, which will be selected from the following singer: Tonors, Payne Clarke and Signor Michaelin baritone, William Lee or Herr Caminsk busso, Siznor Bologna; soprano, Mme, Koer: Kronold or Miss Dilthey; contralto, Miss Rose Leighton. Signor MaYetzek says in a letter: *‘I have received your letter and scen Mr. Wolfsohn. We wili get a good and satisfactory company together, and I will come for the amount named."" Miss Clary says of Signor iaretzek as a director: “It is a great houor to this city to have this master, the companion and peer of Arditi, divect the first season of opera that is attempted to be eiven as alocal affair with the hopo and intention of permanently estab- lishing the same with all its possibilities for future development. Signor Maretzek has becowe identitied with the history of New York. The Kev Notesays in an article printed at the time of his golden jubilee, given at the Metropolitan opera houso: ‘As we read over the accounts in several old journals of the oventful career of our honored friend, we were more than ever impressed with the awmwount of work he has accomplished and the grand quality of that work When Sig- nor Maretzok came to our shores In 1845, he found our city in regard to operatic knowl- edgo a poor -place indeed, but under his management the finest performances were given that America hus ever scen.’ The members of the company are all known in Ahe best musical circles in the east, and we will have a great director, one whose skill, yxperience and fine taste will bring out the best rosults of the muterial be brings.” w's . Mr. Robert Downing, the tragedian, has been successful in more than one line of en- deavor. It is not generally known, for in- stance, that he is in the publishing business. Mr. Downing is a Kuight of Pythias, and this ave him renewed interest .in the story of ‘Damnon and Pythias,”’ n which, during his stage career, he had taken the part of one of the principals, He became convinced that a tale so full of dramatic interest and so suc cessful or the stage would muke a splendid subject for a romance, Having conceived the idea it aid not take long to execute it. A True Knight”? was soon writtea, a story of theioves of Damon and Pythias and of their antagonism to the tyrant of Syracuse, The tradition, as treated in John Banim's great play, was followed very closely, the only departure being in the introduction of a tender and romantic love element, the germ of which is in the old story, but which Mr. Downing believed worthy of more promi- nenoe, The romance being finished, the question of a pubiisher had to be settled. The terms that were offered did not please Mr. Down- ing. Ho believed that a book founded on the Pythias story would have an in and he also beheved that his work was so written as 1o possess more than an ephemeral value. T will publish_the book myself,” hesaid 1o his friend, A. D, Hall, who had collabor- ated with him on the romance. Mr. Hall objected that the trazedian knew nothing about the publishing business, and that he would lose money if he tried. But that aid not deter him. Ho had the work setupana storeotypo plates made in Chi- cago, bought paper, contracted with a Wash- ington firm for the printing, and opened a publishing house in tho lutter city. That was the begiuning of the Edgemore Publish- ing company. Within sixty davs the book was in the hands of the newsdealers all over the country, und selling fast, Then Mr. Downing pegan to look for other work for his publisiing house. The story of the unfortunate English stage pet, Nell (Gwynne, came to his mind a3 a good subject for a second romance, and indue time this work uppeared also, as “Our Lady of Laughter.” Both books have had alarge sale, ana the publishing house thus accident- ally founded is proving a prosperous venture for the tragedian. Visitors tothe old Grand will hardiy. recog- nize it sinco Manager Lawler’s improve- ments have been made. The most striking of these 18 a new ceiling whicn hides the ugly girders .that formerly disfigured the auditorium. This ceiling is handsomoly puinted in light colors and it is said to have made a wonderful improvement in the acoustio properties of tho room. The walls have also buen paiated to mateh and & hano- some new drop curlain adorns the prosce- aium arch. These aro but some of the reno- vations which have taken in the whole place in thoir scope. Au even groator chango bas been made 1n the manner of conducting the nouse, which, by the way, wili hereafter be known as the Bijou theater and Wonderland. Manager Lawler has engaged a pernanent stock com- peny and will give what is knowo as a con- tuuous show. Under the unow deal o will bave two companics. Tho traveling per- formers wko givespocialties will goon,say at 1 p. m, agd give their performar After the curtain has been down two or three minutes the stock company will bogin u play, At the conclusion of wiich tne specialists will sgain do their turns, to be followed immedi- ately by the dramatic performanco again. in this wiky 4 visitor to the Bijou way drop in At avy time during the altercoon or evening and watch the porformance as long as ho leases. Ho may 0 when the act which ne vst saw on entering Is ropeated, knowlng thut ho bas seen the whole proraw, or he @y wo in at the beglnninge of tho perform- wico and remain till the houso is closed, thus | detting four or five hours’ entertainment for | a swall sum. b'rhe atock company, which bas already e will roduce “Ilirtations at Long ranch,” “F X ®'s Korey,” “Bluck Flag," YEast Lynne,” “Silver King” aud other popular dramas. The price of adwission Wwill bo 156 and 20 cents. Lawler's ambition 1o give a theatrical per- formance equal to some of the successful theators of the east, the curio ball will have wany lateresting aL been supptied with & number of valuable aovelties, ‘Ihe season opeucd yesterday aud promises to be the most successful the man- agement has bhad. " I'he ®erpentine danca has become one of the sucoessful novelties of the stage, and the man who oan give the straightest avcount of its origin happens to be in Omaha. That gentloman is Louis De Lange, one of the stars in “Tangled Up.”” Here 1s his story, which shows how keon theatrical people are 1o appreciate the possibilities of acts comirg under their notics, and how ingenions they are in adapting them to the uses of the stage: “Hofore the aponing of the season 1 had occasion 10 #o to London and there met Loie Fuller, She and I havealways been friends, and when I told her about tho starring enter- prise that wasabout to open in America with myself as the prinnipal foature, sho asked for a place in its membarship. I have always entertained tho highest esteem for Miss Fuller’s dramatic talent, and I immediatel7 closed a contract for her appearance in the forthcoming production. In ono of Miss Fuller's visits to Paris during the exposition she was entertained by an exhibition of terpsichorean art as demonsurated by the Nautch girls, She was faseinatod by the oda dress that they use and as early as possiblo secured one, She was also a great admirer of the well known Englisn dancer, Letty Lind, and by seeing her specialty various times secured n porfect insight into her flower dance. 1t was not long before she was compolled to veturn to this country to fill her profes- sional engagament with me. [ had cast her for a part tha suited her perfectly and dur- ing the rendition of it she was to introduce the flower dance. The novelty of the dance was more in the dross than in the figares, the dress being made so that at various movements a bouguet of flowers was formed. *Quack, M. D., the farcical comedy that Fred Marsden had written for me, did not possess In a_very liberal degree thoingre. dients essential to a theatrical success. L had secured a strong company, but the piece was no go. It was during our engagement at the Park theater, Boston, the latter part of last September, that the incident occurred that caused the inception of the dance now 50 famous. It was at our Wednesday mati- nee. Miss Fuller, who had used the gown obtained at Paris as a swalking dress, was too much fatizued to make a chunge, so thay when her time camo she had on only the one that was o copy of the Nautch givls’ costume, T was in the wings watching the action, and when Miss Fuller began to dance my atten- tion was attracted by the working of the costume, I saw thero was & groat opporuun- ity for an innovation in dancing. ‘Che re- sources of seventy vards of Indian silk scemed to wuarrant the making of & dance that would cateh public favor. With pretty poses and intricate” hanaling of the skirts Tsaw a novelty that perhaps would redeem the failuro of the production. “When Miss Fuller came off the stage I told her of my discovery, requested her to rohearse with me the following morning, which sho did, and for ten days I was busy dritling her in poses, steps and the treat- ment of tho dress that has now mado the dance so famous. Ten days afterwards we opsned in New York city. The piece was usual disappointment, but the danco ated a furore. New York was captivated with 1t. Everybody paid tribute to the nov- elty and to the artist that was seen in its rendition. “Closing the seuson, we repaired to my country home at Asbury Park, N. J., and commenced rehenrsais of the new comedy, “I'angled Up.' Miss Fuller was to intro- duce the dance in the new production as well as playing one of the leading parts. We had not vet coristened thedance. My father, Dr. Do Lauge, at the dinner-table one day, suggested the name ‘sorpentine.’ Iscoffed at the idea, but Miss Fuller was pleased, and announced that thereafter the word ‘serpen- tine’ would be appiied to it. “Our season opened at Phiiadelpnia the wook before Christmas, and to be fol- lowed by a faw weaks' rest. Mis Kuller was aided this time by tho success of “Tangled Up.’ and the serpentine dance was one of its biggest features. Mr. Aronson of the Casino having made Miss Fuller a liberal offer, Mr. Rising and I released her from ber contract and secured for her placo Miss Lottie Mofti- mer. a professional dancer. This is tho real history of the aance, its Inception aud the origin of its name.” Gosslp of the Stage. Miss Miona K. Galo will be married Thurs- day evenng. Nat Goodwin tried a new comedy, “A Gilded Fool,” in New York Thursday ¢ven- ing. “Black Crook” was revived in New York last week. Atso, ~Patience,” with Dixey as Bunthorne. New Orleans was the first city in the union to introduce and firmly establish regular seasons of opera. Potter and Kyrlo Bellew have signed John Stotson’s management in anew play from a Zola novel. los Frohman has counted his com- He wiil have sixteen on the road on. This fops the record. A new Swodish comady, “Ole's Luck,” with Charles I’ Hall in the dialect part, was given its initial production at South Chicago. The news comes from London that Sir Arthur Stlliva is to bo mado a baronet, the first musician who has ever received this honor. Francis Wilson and wifo have sailed for Europe. His next season will not_open_ tall rehearsing u repertory of standard | November, and he will stick o *“The Lion ‘Tamer.” Otis Skinner did a pedestrian tour in Eu- rope this summer. The costumes he is to use in Modjeska’s company he has had made in Parnis. The New York managers approve of and will adopt Charles Frohman’s recently formed rule to exclude professional dead- teads at first nights of new productions, Dr. Stremitz of Gralz has sent tothe Vionna exhibition the warrant 1ssued by tho police of Dresaen in 1844, for the arrest-of Wagner as a ‘dangerous political indi- vidual.” Rehearsals of the Warde-JTames company began in New York last w James will have his chance in *‘Francesea da Rimini,’ Warde bis in “Tne Lion’s Mouth,” and the pair will getan equal opportuuity in *Julius Cipsar. Brost Possart, the German tragedian, has decided not to fulfill his contract for an American tour under Stuart Robson’s con- trol. Robson had wone to some expense, but Possart pleadad ill beaith, and there wds no slternative but to call the tour off. The railroad transportation for the entire tour of the Awmerican extravaganza company in **Ali Baba" was closed during the past week. ‘The contracts call for special trains of seven cars, and the strength of the road company will be 115 people. The traveling season will cover over 12,000 wmiles of tocri- tory. Fanny Davenport will play only twenty weoks the coming season. Sho will not play west of Chicago, and hor tour will simply in- clude the leading eastern cities, with two weeks in New Orleans during Mardi Gras time. Miss Davenport writes from her cas- tle in Wales that she has entirely recovered her former good health. Atone of the Vienna concerts a pleco for piano and orchostra by @ local composer pamod Labor was played, and was so well ved that the young woman who had pisyed the piano ran out and lod the com- poser upou the stage. He kissed her band and pointed to her when ho heard the ap- plause, giving all the credit to her. He could not see the auaience, for he is biind. A musical contemporary says: *‘Mascagnl, the composer of ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ has been much annoyed, according to foreign papers, by the i)or-luwut reappearance of & paragraph declaring that he bad become a eumblor ang played for hoavy stakes. He finally lost his patience and seut the follow- Jug telegram to one of the Milan journal It 1s true that I play—butonly billiards,’ Tur Bee acknowledges an invitation from Mr. DoWolfo Hopper Lo attend a special per- formance of *Wang" given in New York last Monday evening, at which Captain Watkins and tho oMcers of the City of Paris were nl honored guests. Mr. Hoper was & passen ger on that steamer when it broke the record in crossiug the Arlanue. The theater was | hundsomely decorated with flags,and a model of the steamer twelve foat long aud costing 3,000 was used in the first act. Accoruiog to Mr, Mare Kiaw, who is an authority in the mutter, there are about 2,000 | heonsed theaters in the United States. The traveling combinations number about 400, ud each company nverages filteen people, Wuilo it is Munager | ctions and has already ' making 6,000 actors and actroeses employed. Thero are as wany more unemploym}.’ ‘The thoaters of the colntry give employment Lo aboul 20,000 people, including gas men, prop- orty men, machinists, carpenters, sceue painters, supers and scone shifters. Aujunusual event occurred in New York last woel. “A Trip to Chinatown” was acted simultancously &t two theaters in that lolu. This 1s rare, but not unprecedented. 1 Nearly forty years ago “Uncle Tom's Caoin’ | was simultaneously acted at two New York viayhouses, and four or five other pleces nave since had & similar rocord, not to men- tion “‘Pinafore.”’ In Mondon, indeed, “Undle Tom" was ut ono time, at the helght of its® success, running on the boards of no fewer than twenty theaters at onc time. Sousw’s new marine band is being organ- ized in tho east and will stast for Chicago September 16, giving A number of concerts on the way. Mr. Sousa and his baud will augurate a sories of concerts at the Au torium on Monday, October 10. At the close of the World's fair dedication ceremonies a tour will bo commenced throughout the country, with the expectation that withia one year the whole of the United States will nave boen visited and every principal eity permitted to enjoy the playing of “‘the finest mlitary band ever organized.” Wiss Georgio Cayvan said, in an lnterviewy, that she was bumiliatod repeatedly in Japan by the predominance of the Enghish in com- mercial and soclal and official life, and her pride was humbled by tho pomp nnd oircum- stance upon_the Knglish naval vessels in the harbor of Yokohama, with thelr generous displays of bunting, in sharp contrast to the wooden ships of this country thers anchored, and their apparent carelesshess 1n the mat- ter of flags. She complained, too, of the modost showing wade by tais country in the way of accredited representatives when con- trasted with the great display of the English legation. But, with all that had disturbed ter, the absence of the American flag and the failure to fire even a single gun on the;Fourth of July over there were tho most exasperat- ing things. Miss Cayvan’s bosom swellea when in the harbor at San Francisco shesaw tho noble now ships of the United States navy, the Charleston and Boston, and she tnanked God for the sight. Tbere are said to bs more theatrical people out of employment now than at any similar period for fivo yoars. A dramatic agent {n discussing the reasons says: “There are about 500 more actors and actresses than can be given places, evon 1f every successful company in existenco last year was to take the rond again 1his autumn, I supposo the volitical campaign bas caused.a shrinkage of 25 por cent in the number of companics, 80 that upon_tho whole we have nearly 800 actors and actresses scattered through the country who have been and will be unabio to find places, What becomes of those who are out in the cold? They will live on their fam- ilies until better times cowe around. Asa rule they have nothing and always begln the ason deep in debt for the summer’s board. The actor who can start out for the season owing nothing is therare excention. I speak, of course, of the rank and file—the men who seldom aspire to more than $40 A week and go through their work in & thoroughly mechanical way. The fact is that it is a lazy sort of life which rather unfits a man for anything else. I speak now of the rauk and flle man, who has no ambition beyond getting his salary with the least nossible exertion to himself.” Peo- ple have an idea that actors are overworked. 1t's all bosh. A company playing one-night stands bas a good deal of traveling, but that is not hard; men play cards and smoke; the women read novels and sleep. There is no rehearsing, no study, and the only actual work, so called, is during thethree hours spent at tho theater. It must a'so be said that an actor often enjoys playing more than ho does eating his dinner. Therefore it may boe said that no actor resigns from the pro- fession, Whou be grows too old or finds that the public will not have him on any terms, the actor usually opens a school for young people anxious to shine upon the stage, thus adding to the already overcrowded ranks, The time is coming when the small actor cannot pay $1.50 a day at a hotel as he dons now. He will have to do as his professional brother in England has always been compelled to do—live in cheap lodgings and trust to odds and ends for meals. The English actor 1s satisfied to live on far less than we pay here, which ac- counts for the many importations we make. THE THEATERS. TheFarnam street theater has a high class aturaction 1n ‘anvied Up,” which will be repeated this afternoon and evening. Louis De Lange and Will S. Rising have branched outas stars 1n a very bright and humorous musical farce from the French—somehow all the bright and humorous farces are either from the French or German—to which they bave given the name of “Tangled Up.”” The name is aporopriate, as the en- tire dramatis personm 1s kept thor- roughly at_cross purposes and most hope- lessly tangled up tnrough two acts, and are barely given a chance to get themselves iden- tifiea and sorted out before the final curtain falls. Itis decidealy a farce of situations,and not of horse play, as are those so-called farces of home manufacture that have brought discredit on tho name. Musical in-, terruptions oocur at intervals not too remote to lev the audience forget that the two stars, Mr. Rising especially, bave good voices which they can use artistically, and not too frequent to spoil the chain of wncidents. Milton and Dolli Nobles and thelr excel- lent company close their present engagement at Boyd’s New theater this evening by giv- ing “From Sire to Son,” which fs considered one of the best plays Mr. Nobles has yet written. 1t possesses the essential element of “human 1nterest.” The men and women aro flosh and blood, Thore is nothing artiti- cial about them. Dollie Nobles plays with swoetness and intelligence. She sings exquisitely, accompanying herself with the maudolin. ' Mr. Nobles plays with the ease, polish and magnotic force that have always characterized his work. Many admire Milton Nobles as an artist far above the average in point of ability. e is always conscientious, acd whilohe may fail sometimes to_realize & character, still you will never find him com- monplaco. He is a product of our American civilization, and has risen from the rauks, like othors that might be named, to a promi- nent position as one of our leading native actors, Robert L. Downing, the tragedian, whose coming to Bovd’s New theater this week in four of the strongest plays of the logitimate drama js ap event in theatrical affairs, has been for tho past fifteen years befora the pub- lic, and during that uime each succoeding year has seen him do better than the past, both in thoe quality of his artand in the patronage given him by the publie, There are four characters in which he has won ospecial favor, and these aro Virzinius, Marc An- tony, Ingomar and the Gladiator, the four which he will play in Omaha, Trained in that school of great actors, the stock company, and graguaviug from 'that particular shining example of the best re- sults of the stock system, John T. Ford’s stock company, at the National theater in Washington, Mr. Downing is regarded as the legitimate successor of such giauts of passion and imperiousness as Edwin Forrest and John MeCullough. He is more thun that, Even in the great roles of heroic inveotive, Mr. Downing invests his work with a ro- mantic element which emphasizes the human quality, the tenderness of emotion which oven the strongest and greatest of mon feel. Mr. Downing’s repertory will be: Monday night, “Virginius;” Tuesday night, “Julius Wednesday afternoon, “Ingomar;" Weduesday night, **Tne Gladiator.” “The Fasv Mail” which appears at the Farnam Strect theater next Thursday even- ing is said to be the most successful railroad and scenic melodrama on the road this sea- son. Mr, L. J. Carter, the author aud man- ager, has contrived to weave into a consistent ory nearly all the good points of the s tional drama whbich tradition has nanded down, adding thereto the most ingenious mechanical effects of vhe day. The climax of ezch act1s strong enough to sustain a whole play, yet so well graded are the foatures of the piece that one views with increasing interest through the five acts the murder and the clever trick with the grandfather’s clock in the first the Mississippl river steamer, its engine room showing n bractical furnace, and the explosion with “complete change of scene behind & curtain of rising smoke,” behind which 1s seen the wreck, as the curtain falls on the second sct; the “life size” freight train, with its realistic engino and sixteen box cars, with their familiar lottering, followed, at the close of the third aet, by *“Ihe Fast Mail;" the dago dive of the fourth act, and the thrilling in- cidents and hairbreadth escapes which take place there; and then the “full front view of Niagara Falls, as seen from the center of Hspension bridge,” upon which the final curtain descends. The dialogue is said to bo bright ana cleau, and the company well trained, making the plece go with & vim. Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rookford, i, writes: xporiouce 1 can recommoend urilla, & cure for impure blood and general aebulity " WHERE BEAU NASH WAS KING Soenes that Waken ,slo;auing Momories of 0id-Time Revelries in Bath. RESORT OF ENGLAND'S WIT AND BEAUTY Saunterings In the Fair Someorsetshire City, Where Seventy Venrs Agone Sheridan's O Beauxand Belles Sorummed the Spinet and Played Havoe with Reputations. T (Copyrighitéd, 1802.] Barn, Eng, Aug: 93—(Special Corre- spondence of Tnk Ber.|--Nowhers in BEne- Iand huve so many groat men and women come and for a time lived and laft bohind thom such clear and charming chronicles of thelr tarrying s in the interesting old Som- orsetshire oity ot Bath, Curiously enough it furnishes fow of the ordnary characteristios which rendered most other British oities attractive to the travelor. There are no ruins of castles or vestiges of siego and slaughter. No Kkings Were crowned or aro entombed within t. It bas no cathedral, vast, dim, shrineful, where a Cromwell can still be remembered in the headless and limbloss effigies of mar- tyrs and saints. Even its abboy church has scarcely had time to turn gray from the hands of 1ts sixteenth and seventeenth con- tury builaers. Tho city's noble crescénts and parades are scarcoly 100 years old, aud only in odd quarters of the old town are found the tendors browns and grays minglod with the masses of ivy which mutely tell of a remote and hoary loug ago. And yet Bath has a koown antiquity of nearly 2,000 years, one that you can seo any day of tho year with your own oyes, and a claimed antiquity of nearly 1,000 years be- youd that, It is in the baths of Buth, modern and ancient, that chief interest contors. From the standpoint of modern elegance and convenience no clty in the world possesses more splendid provisions: while there is cer- tainly a wonderful fascination and interest in the fecling that hero in a west of England city, whilo enjoying hot baths under condi- tions of luxury unsurpassed in Europe, your surroundings are those of the Roman em- porors and geuerals of 1,400 to 1,800 years 8go, while tho same thermal waters possioly banished the ills of St. David, King Arthur and a vast line of old British princoes and po- tentates of 500 years boyond. ‘Whatever may be the actual antiquity of this ancient city and its more ancient baths, the legend of their discovery is most curious and interesting. Hudibras, King of Britain, who flourished 8., C., 892, hada son pamed Bladud, who being a loper was expelled from the royal courtat Winchester, and wandered in poverty throughout the land. After a time he be- came a swincherd along the banks of the Sumersetshira Avon, but soon discovered in dismay that all the animals 1n his chavge had becoar® as leprous as himse!f. The Pigs Discovered the Pool. Foarful of discovery by his master ho drove his pigs across the'fiver at a point still known as Swineford and took up a_position on the hiliside whereshelter and acorns wore in abundance. It happened that one of tho finest sows was addioléd toroving. She strayed from the rest andi Bladud on search- ing for her discovered her contentedly wal- lowin in & pool of muddy. warm water. But Bladud found much more to his satisfaction. The animal had been clednsed of her leprosy, and following her example, ho not only drove the whole herd tothe warm pool morning and night, but_himself wallowed within it: among the swine. Finally the prince rewurhed to his father’s court clean and whole. Thero was great rejocing and Bladud resumed his pluce as helr apparent, but for a loug time could not be prevailed upon to_make the place or cir- cumstances of his cuzeknown, He was sent to and educated in Grééce under the name of Anarls, and returned a “cabable governor of the nation.” He now bethought himself to make his secret known for the benefit of others. Therenpon he built the city of Bath (about 2,700 vears agol) when ho ap- piied himself'so dilizently und exclusively to ingenious studies that he succeeded in in- venting and making for himself wings with which to fly: but in one of bis flights he fell down upon a church steople, which caused the broaking of his neok, from which e ed. A Pamous King Coxcomb. However all this may be, certain it is that about the beginning of the last century Bath suddenly rose from the condition of a ne- glected provincial town to a second capital of English fashion. Its baths attractea all the rich and great. . Then it was that the un- known Richard Nash, who, when a law stu- dent at chambers In the temple, London, had been raised to royal fayor by his zonduct as master of the pageant on the visit of the king, came to Bath, and, by common consent as master of all city ceremonials and the most trifling questions of otiguette concern: ing the social relation of visitors, held un- disputed sway for over fifty years. New York has now a mimic of this famous king coxcomb, a sort of soctal male tape measure and steelyards of ceremonial inanities, but the Beau Nash of Bath was intellectually and 1 the matter of actual power, & king indeed in comparison with all’ the buffoon imitators who have followed nim. Tt is a lovely, leafy, roomy, rare old city, this Bath, without’ eny of its curious uld associations. Its baths are finer than can be found elsewhere in Euroge. Per- haps 200,000 visitors seek thewr healing qualities annvally. Wealth, age, refiLement and wonderful beauty of surrcunding renaer tarrying bore luxurious and charming. And then what a treat 1t is to have added to this modern day luxury the constant expericnce of sweltering in these hot waters precisely where the swine, Bladud and all the old Romans have wallowed! The oid Roman bath s here today ulmost precisely as it was built and the generals of the empire left it, Sowething 1ike 100 feet in lenguh and 70 in breadth are its dimensions. The ancient vaulted roof, fifty feet high, supported by six massive piers, is only lacking. But hern are still the clustered pilasters on either side, and broken columns, wonderfully carved en- tablatures, and all the curious stone work of 1,400 years ago. Itis all worth a long jour- ney to see, for in Rome 1tself is a no more curious relic of Roman time and Roman luxury, When Bath Was in 1ts Glory. To many the literary and artistic associa- tions of Buth will havo the deepost interest. In no other English city, except London, can there be found such a wealth of memories of this character. [Everywhere you turn is some reminder of a Plagant or pathetic sort of the doiogs and personality of the ereat scientists, writers, pobts, painters and actors, or their friends, of the last, or the early part of the present, century. Buth was then in its glory. In those days every coach from London, winter or'‘summer, landea some famous personage at_the door of the White Horse wn or the Pélican iun, which is still standing and Is known as the **Three Cup: At No. 21 Pulteney street lived Sir Willlam ‘Watson, the natural' philésopher who intro- duced Sir W. Herschiél td the king and the scienufic world. In 1766the latter removed from Yorkshire to Bath, where he lived at No. 7 Now King sweet. | dle was fora long timo organist at the Octagon chapel and leader of the orchestra at the public assem- bly rooms. At length s simple telescope, only two feet in lenglh, fell into his hands. He'was at once filled, with intense enthusi- asm for astronomical fesearch, but dismayed at the London price of a larger glass, be do- termined to construct oué Wwith his own ds. Tolescopes of seven, of eight, of ten finally of twenty feet focal distance finally orowned his efforts sud the primary planet Uranus was discoyored by him at this old house in New King street on March 13, 1781; and it is o pretty picture one's fancy makes of the faithful sister sharing in all the night watcles with her brother with penoil 1n hand and eager vyes upon the clock. Among the noted people of the stage who have made more sparkliog and mellow the memories of Bath were Sarab Siddons, Quin, the inimitable “Falstafl,” the elder ready, John Kemble, Foote and Gar- rick. It was hero tnat bluff old Dr. Johusou, who professed a profound con- tempt for antors, surprised the world with one of the neatest complimentseve rpald to *his ap artments We sell Hats, and sell them cheaper than hat stores. 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On returning to Bath somo months later as a visitor to the baths the mournful Iago who hAd supported him sought & renewal of tho great actov's ac- quaiutance, “Ihad the honor of playg lago to your Otiello at the Theater Royal; don’t you romember me, sir?” “Remember you, siri—remember you?' thundered tho irate tragedian, *How shall I ever forget oul” ¥John Komble, whiloa visitor at_Bath, and when bestowing a farthing on a beggar, gave to literature this imperishaole satire’ upoa the parsimony of tho nobility: ‘“Friend,” ho said with the dignity of a Coriolanus, “‘we give but seldom, bui, when wo do give, we give like princes ! Garrick wrote some of his finest satires at Bath. Thoe great mimic, Foote, was nearly always to b found in his company. Sheri- dan, when but a youth of 20, was one of the lions of Bath, He wrote and contributed tho same to a sort of literary “fair of Parnas- sus,” instituted by Lady Miller,so admirably described to us by Horaco Walpole, those exquisite stanzas pegiuning, “Dry be that tear,ny gentlost love; and Ganisborough’s celobrated painting of Sheridan was also done in this city. Quin lived longer in Bath thaun any other fn his profession, When the famous comedian for the last lime played “‘Falstafl”’ und retired from the stage, in 1753, he came to Bath to Dposs his remaining days bacause, as ho said, he *‘dia not know a better pluce f or an old cocl to roost in.” He lived for thirteen years and died in his lodgings at Chestor- field house, Pierrevont stroet; and in tho north aisle of the choir of Bath abboy is a marble tablot with a striking likenoss of tho great comedian, Undornoath 15 & mask and a dagger, representing comedy and tracedy, Batheaston villa. A Roman vase, dressed with lacos, costly rib- bons and myrtle, receivod the pootry, which was drawn ut every festival by six judges, who read all the compositions and an- nounced the successful compatitor. The lat- ter was crowned with myrtle and pesrmitted to kneel and kiss the fat and freckled hand of Lady Miller, who wus @ *‘coarse, plump- looking dame, whose aim it was to_appsar a woman of fashion and patroness of letters.’” It was Garrick who slipped the following ef- fusion into the sacred urn: “Ihe vase speaking: For Honven's sake bestow on me A little wit——and that would be, Indeed, an Act of Charivy!" Bath's ¥ dence, hous Literary Mon. In the residence of famous literary men, Bath was unmensely forjunate. Chistophor Aunstey, the poet. lived nearly all huis lifo in Bath, Wiuliam Bockford, at” oue time the richest and most luxurious man in Kogland, who expended nearly $1,5)0,000 ou ill-fated Fouthill abbey alone, but ‘whose onduring fame will rest on the authorship of that most wounderful of all orienval tales, ‘‘Vathek,"” was for many years a citizen of Bath, ana built the paiatial tower on Lansdown, be- neath whose shadows his body now lie ‘The memories of Dr. Johnson are so rife in the old Pelican ian that in passing through its oaken-paneled rooms one can almost scant the musty aroma of his candle-scorched wigs and seo the ludivrous picture of Frank, the sorvant, lying in wait to clap a fresh ono on bis hard, old head the momenta caller was announced balow. Samuel T. Coleridge often preached at the Saweclose chapel here, 1t was when referring 1o these days here he said to Charles Lamb: “I think, Charles, you never heard me preach.” ' %My doar boy,” replied Lamb, “L never heard you do anything else.” Alexandar Pope lived on the bounty of the rich philanthropist, Allen, here for yoars, only leaving, like the ugly little wasp he was, when his nost refused to grant him his manor house at Bathampton for the occu- pauoy ot his paramour, Martha Blount. Tnomas Gaiusborough finished many of his most famous portraits in Bath; and Siv Joshua Roynolds not only used his marvel- ous pencil hore, but recovered from . para- Iytic stroke through the use of Bath's ther- mal waters. Tobias Smollett was for a long timo one of the literati gatherea here, and aud o characteristic epitaph by Gurrick, the closing lines of which are: In Nature's hupplest mould however cast, To this complexion thou must come at lust. Some Famous Women, Tu addition to Mrs. Siadons some of the famous women who made Winsome the socioty of Bath during this brilliant oriod wero Queen Charlotto, wife of George IIL, Mrs. Plozz, tho celebrated companion ot Dr. Johuson, Lady Miller, Saran Flelding aud Mme. D'Arblay, Mrs. Plozzi was one of the most. beautiful and accomplished women of Eogland. Sno first married & rich brewer named Thrale. Tho couple lived in great splendor at Bath, and Dr. Johnsoa was the lacy’s acknowledgod greatest admirer. Shortly after the death of Mr. Thralo the sprightly widow tirod of the ponderous devotion of Dr. Johnson, ana be- came tho wifo of @ music master named Piozzl, A comploto rupture of Johuson was tho consequence; and tho famous loxico- eraphior was ever aftor & misanthrops re- gardiog all womanhood. After a brilliant career in [taly, Mrs, I’iozzi returned to Hatb, where, in 1520, sho celobrated her S0th birth: day by oue of the most famous balls und sup- pors ever given in Kngland, whero the Aprightly fomalo antiquo led off tho dancing with her adopted son, Sir John Saulsbury “with astouisbing elasticity.” But she died tho next year. Her “Anecdotes of Johnson' and ber own “Literary Romeins'’ are amoog tho most piquant tidbits of biogruphical literature. Lady Miller was @ conspicuous figuro at Baih in theso good old times. Walpole and Mme. D'Arblay both oharmingly doscribo the “‘fair of Parnassu ® sort of lllsr-r{ tournament lustituted st ber noted res every reader of ‘‘Meregrino Pickle” and “Humphrey Clinker,” is favored with pic- tures of Bath associations, customs and habits of that time. Oliver Goldsmith visited Bath in 1771, with the literary result of **I'ne Life of Richard Nash;” hardly a fivtng subject for the pen of the author of “The Vicar of Wakefleld;" but through this event Beau Nash’s memor: becamo more imperishable than through ail the monuments, epitaphs and paintings to be found to his honor 1 the ancient city; and Af you tire of identifying tho great of olden timos with their anceint habitations here, a pleasant walk of two miles to the west of the city will bring you to the little village of Twerton., ers in a tiuy, D4t cOLLAKE, DOW known as Fielding’s house, Fielding's ter- race, was obietly written “Tom Jones,” for which, through its first reading in manu- script by the wite of Andrew Millar, the great London puvlishor, Fielding secured the, to bim, incredible sum of £200, whicn so astoundod him that for himself,the publisher, who afterward cleared £18,000 from the salo of the work, and his friond Ihompson, the poot, Fielding straightway doliriously or- dered of the waiter, “Two bottles of your bost port.” EDGAR L. 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