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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. KEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1898. 19 SOME HINTS ON SINGING. NO NEW PLAYS THIS WEEK. QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

pause and the spectacle makes a sho wy evening's entertain meat. The Russell brothers will take their farce Manhattan are not to be disturbedVfor some time. "The Christian" at the Garden and "Trelawney 01 the Well's" at the Lyopum are good until spring and and Off'i at the Madison Square and "The Turtle" will probably make fun, plain and spiced, for nearly as long. "Cathar'ne" will last at the Garrick until late in January, when "Zaza" will follow R. There is no talk of a successor to "The Runaway' Girl" at the Fifth Avenue, where that pretty piece reaches its lliuth night on Monday.

Ada Kenan will play Portia until after New Year's Day at Daly's. Then a brief production of "Madame Sans Gene" will bo made with Miss Rehan in the part originated here by Kaithryn Kidder. Then there will be a radical change ot policy at Daly's, and "The Great Ruby," the current Drury Lane rr.olodrama, will be produced with Miss Rehan in the part which Mrs. John "Wood plays in London. Crane will be succeceded on January 2 at the Knickerbocker by Nat C.

Goodwin in "Nathan Hale," Clyde Finch's play, which that actor brought out so bril or three other classics in small towns of Wisconsin anc Michigan, where he proposed to stay about three nights in a town, and It was his proud boast that he could pay all expenses and salaries except his own for $350 a week. He expected to carry thirteen people, the highest salary being $30. He had br en over the ground before. He is a good actor, calculated to make an excellent Sir Anthony Absolute, and it Is quite possible that he may give? an intelligent performance of the old play to audiences which would never see it otherwise and accumulate something beside hoatd bills. Maud Powell las been playing in London and this is the surprised comment of the Illustrated News: "On the Tuesday afternoon, at the Queen's Hail, a violinist hitherto, we understand, unknown to the English public, but coming with a considerable reparation from the other side of the Atlantic, Miss Maud Powell gave a recital which, we rather imagine, considerably astonished her audience.

There cannot be two opinions a'bout the brilliance of her accomplishment and aer extraordinary manual strength. Her' technique is simply irresistible. With perfect accuracy of note and intonation she niea through tie most difficult music. She never makes a mistake; she never plays out of rune. She Impresses you at the same time with the possession of an amazingly masculine qualitj There is no softness or tenderness or femininity about her playing.

It is self confident and manly. We thought her at her best iu Bach's Sonata in m3joi and in Bazzini's most exacting, but muscially quite worthless. "La Ronde de3 Lutins." In a word, this ls a young player with whom we shall have to reckun in the future." spirit of fault finding. Loving the teacher the reprimand will not only be accepted, birt the student will tiogin to use his or her mind and 'oral iip, and thus seek not to err aga.n in the same manner. Thus you see why arc told good like gre a.

artists born and not made for these (Utilities must be in'oora and part of your very nature. You limply etmno; acquire; them as you would wealth and worldly goods. Tile student should aiso at ail times feel free to ask the why and wherefore of any (k1ik which he may no: clearly and fully understand, so it behoove teacher to 'jo careful no1: to impart or advance any theory or prAicipie which cannot oe proved and made clear by sne' given illustration. The deeper you plunge into tho subject of teaching, the more will be convinced that without the proper and necessary kind of knowledge and study, with all itw attributes, you simply cannot become the successful teacher of a high class art. Perfection is not possible.

Even in our nest efforts we fail in a large measure. lie who claims perfection is blinded by and the teacher of singing or any other branch of learning, who endeavors to make the student believe that he or she is a near approach to perfection will surely gain nothing thereby. Arrogance and presumption may leave a momentary impression, bu1 student will soon learn to place a true estimate on the value aod character of the ieacher. I would then say most earnestly to teachers, "Being imperfect yourselves, be patient with those who are imperfect." Many of my readers may think I am not only unjust, but awfully hard on some of tho teachers, but, when you pause to think of the vast numbers who, like myself, have paid out enormous sums of money and in return have received nothing but the empty husk; when you think of the shattered hopes, health and CORRFSrONDrNTS NOT TJISArPOfNT T. WilKN THKIK QirKVJ'IHNS NOi F.UKJt IMMtfPMTKI.V.

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e. aulj wh. re he tUl Taer. comedy, "taids to Order," up to the Gayety this week. They are known to the patrons ot t'hat house, as they are all over the country, for their eccentric and funny sketch of uhe Irish servant girls, which has placed Oiam among the most popular entertainers upon the vaudeville stage.

TWs year they have smarted out with a farce comedy built around their old specialty to play In houses where they have not been seen heretofore. They areas amusing in the new guise as. in t'be old and they are supported by a company of fun makers. A great deal oif fae laughable stuff In the piece is now, built arcund the feature in which the stars are most popular, and altogether, "Maids to Order" mates a good Show ot its kind. James Thornton, who writes and sings Tiapular songs and parodies, and wno is a bright and entertaining monologue man, ism lead this week's bill at Hyde UKiman s.

His popularity is of Vcng standing, 'but he has not been here recently and will no doubt have hir. jokes and comment brought down to date and made, snappy in his usual way. him will be the Mc tweef troupe of six Russians, men and women, wbo have a European reputation as acrobats and eccentric dancers. They are new Siere, but are said to do an excellent turn. Bessie, the equestrian baboon; Mason and Forbes, En glish comedy site ten team; Hlnes and Remington, in a sketch; the Whitney Brothers, vita a clever rouiicai an, t.rm Roosi Tii ntiiprs.

rotesctue anl mystifying acrobats; C. Jack Hammond, black face parodist; Gardner and Gilmore, in "A Lovers Joe Bcnnell, ana tsoma aim iuei complete the hill. Rice and Barton's Rose Hill Folly Company will give this week's show at She Brooklyn Music Hall. The company has a good reputation among burlesque troupes and sams of the specialists are excellent. The Rice Brothers will give their comedy bar act, av, ooii Rivhe in Coontown Mile.

Victoria, a contortionist, has a new specialty; Lilian Wa Sftburxt, a wen ajiusvu star, will sing and others in the company are Cain and Mack, witto a funny turn; Cunningham and Grant, acrobats and knockabouts; Blanche Newconrb, daughter of trie DriMmmh and a singer; and ona.ies E. Udell, a character entertainer. Tbe per i conciuue wim a review, "Round the Town," which will Introduce, a large chorus in tights. Fred Irwin's Majestic Burlesquers, a new organization, will be the attraction this week at the Star Theater. Everything is new and the entertainment lis above the average, according to the notices from cities wnc.e the company has already appeared In olio will atmear Winnie Richards.

Newll and Shevett, Howard and Mad, Irwin and Remington, Russell and Tillyne, the Sisters Gar rnontelle, the eight Ragger girls, Jennie. Clifford, the Ouri Trio and Bloom and Coopci. Concluding the performance will be the burlesque "The Street Fair," introducing tac entire company and twenty amazons. Two more stock companies have failed in Brooklyn, and it looks as if the oid system at popular prices, which has been suc cessfullv revived in so many cities, would never get a foothold here. The stock company at the Park is now scattered from the const to the prairies, and that at the Novelty, a Hot three weeks' fight, disbanded last night and will he followed by combinations.

The Pnrk will be closed until Christmas, when I Kate Claxton becomes its lessee and will open I her management with a fortnight, of the perennial "Two Orphans, herself, of course. CARL, A. HA5WIX IX THE SILVER KING." After that Miss Clax playing blind Louise trv nlav traveling combinations. Everyone will wish the popular actress, the best of luck, and 'he proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Beside these theaters, there is the Criterion, built for professional occu pancv and now used chiefly by amateurs.

One would suppose that a good stock company would succeed in any of them. But this year's stock companies have been fair, and that which Hyde Behman organized last winter was admirable, and yet all of them lost monev. The only experiment which remains to "be tried here is a stock company in new plays, if such can be had. or in revivals of the classics, with which stock companies throve fifty years ago. The experiments, so far.h ave been made with the drama of the' last twenty years, and most of the interesting Dlavs of that period command such high royalties that, tbey are out of the reach of popular prices.

Perhaps tho explanation of the difference between Broukly and other cities is that the amateurs nave played pretty much everything pretty we. anu mat it is not difficult to get invited to amateur shows. Even high class professionals have had occasion to complain of tho competition ot tne tsrooiuyn amateurs, turn wuuiu uu naru to ui uw a ujic mji work and that of some of the stock companies. Theaters in Manhattan. The first nights will be irregular in Manhattan this week.

Julie Arthnr has withdrawn her anouU'Cements of the Italian play, "Infide'le," ait WaKack's for Monday night, and that leaves the only novelty for the opening of the week, Russ Whytal's "Vagchondia," wh'rdh he and Mts. Whyta! will play at tho Harlem Opera. House. The n'env is said to give Mre. Whyta! the opportunity which that excellent actress has been in need for seme seasons and to have been well received in the smaller cities where Mr.

has been trying lit foT a month. On Wednesday night "The Sorrows or Satan," a draimiatizatlon of Marie Corelli's novel of the same name, will be brought out at flhe Broadway Theater. The eoTOtpaaiy has "oeen organized by A. H. Cham berlyn, an Englishman, and contains some excellent actors, among thcni Mary Shaw, John Kellerd, Graoe Ida Vernon, Anna Robinson.

Howell Hansell and S. Miller Kent. On Thursday night Julia Arthur will return to "A Lady of Quality," in which her financial' success has been mucn greater tuan wita her i aissic mbi." nss a nie: in prpst. The once great OVn ris Vn: come to the once famous Walktck's Theater, now the btar, wnere ot) cents gets the best se it in the house, to revive "Miss Mul ton." Twenty years ago Just around that i corner in Fourteenth street MIsjs Morris ule i the most select audiences In the counnry waeo and shiver in this game pl.ay. just as Mrs.

Fiske does in "Tess" now. But fashions change and plays and payers with them. T.he Tnstle Square Company, at the Ameri can Theater, will put on one of their stand bys, whieh is always sure to draw, in order to meet the competition of Christmas chopping This is the tuneful "Bohemian Gir" of which t'he public never tires. With its present force the company should give a superb performance. It has Elolse Morgan and Yvonne De Treville to alternate as Ar line, either one of them more than equal to the requirements of the part.

Charles o. Bassett, an excellent tenor, is now in the company in case Mr. Sheehan is not able to sins Thaddeus at every porformafl're. Brooklyn" people remember the Importance to which Miss Macclchai raised the Gypsy Quim bv her beautiful singing and dramatic iiro last spring, here, and she will repeat the part tnis weeiv. "w.wuw ni i vm include Stewart and Moulan, beth gocd ers.

and the old opera iwn oe sure ot pollent interpretation, on oaturuay msa the 3e.l)th performance of the opera in Kr.glish the American will be ceiebra te wiih hand Eonie souvenirs, a supplement to the wrilir.g deik souvenirs heretolore distributed. On Christmas Monday the company will begin a spectacular revival of "Lurllne," which has not been heard for years. Only one week remains of John Drew at the Empire Theater before he brings "The Tiars" to the Montauk The other strong plays in FOUNTS IN" TEACHING LEARNED BY EXPEDIENCE. What a Good Teacher Should Be and Why Questions of Students Answered by an Expert Study Abroad and at Home. fCopyrjf, by JIarie De I.

In again taking up my pen to answer the most important questions which have reached me, some from as far as the State of California, I would like to state that, realizing the vast amount of good which can be accomplished by tie answering of these self same questions, I have sought in my answers the highest and bast authority and have tried to leave no stone unturned which could help me best to do so. In some of the letters which I have received since the publication of my articles last spring, it can read II be seen how keen the growing desire for knowledge of the higher and most advanced kind is among a laige number of musical students. I have decided to see if i cannot heIp sorae who, having sought the right teaching in vain, and who not possesslng fine vo but the brains to use them as well, are ear. nestly trying to help themselves. I have gotten together, at great cost, time and labor, what I hope will prove of lasting value to students.

While it is true that good teaching can do much to guide and show us tho way, it cannot do everything. We, as students of a noble art, have got our own part to do. and we must each of us bear in mind that in order to enter the portals of the temple of art we have some pretty steep climbing to do. let us, recognizing tbc grea and W()n. oerful power of song, become, in every sense of the term, what in Europe is known as thoughtful students." and let us resolve that from now on we will brine all mP and the power of our minds to bear on our studies, so that we.

too, some day, may be able to enter the portals of the temple of art. Before leaving hom this question was put to me by a friend and musical student: "Why go to t'he expense of going to Europe for study when we have thus and thus to study with ngnt at our own doors?" I looked at her for a moment and smiled, and then answered. "For the simple reason that I personally much prefer the wheat to the chaff." in other words, having tasted of knowledge acquired by instructors who are students 1 can never again be satisfied with knowledge acquired simply by experience and observation, and that is how these teachers which my friend men'tioned teacl. Unfortunately for me t'hat is the kind of teaching I have had nearly all my life, and as with the other kind of teaching I not only put in more solid study, but gained such a thorough knowledge of my own voice and its hidden possibilities that I would far rather return to such teaching than accept for nothing yean? of 'the ether. Once having made the acquaintance of the substance t'he shadow run you.

Think you that I would pay to take lessons from those who have no voice of their own to fully illustrate 'to me the principles which they would have mo understand? No, a thousand times, no; not when I can have the arttet teachers who car. be had in Paris and elsewhere. You can be cheated and guyed in Paris jutfe as well as in New York or any other place, or frauds of the highest order abound 'the world over, but if as students you will leave the highways and' seek the hedges you cannot fail in finding the hidden treasure. I also found chat teachers to be successful must not only have the knowledge, but must be young and brimful of their on studies; fujl of fire and enthusi personal magetism so that they can develop of their students, proved beyond doubt and arrogant teacher the best in each The fact has bepn that a self sufficient can work morei harm with her students than one can evor imagine. Wei! do I remember after passing a successful entrance examination as etude in in the National Conservatory of Music in New York, getting up and taking my firs't lesson with the' great artist and teacher, Mme.

Furscn Madi, now dead. She wanted me to take a high' note wiien I felt was beyond my power, and when I innocently QeT so ruceive(j Lhu full vials of her wrath at my presuming 'to tell her such a tbdiig. The result waa that possessing a timid disposition my actual terror of the woman was ho grea't I could never conquer my fear of her to take another personal lesson from her, but ever a.fter remained an auditor in the etas. And yet as such, being conversant with the language she spoke, I was fully able to comprehend every remark or observation which she made, ana t'hue take in the full value of suggestions offered to each one in that really magnificent class of students, of which Lillian Blauvelt. Charlotte Ma eon da and Emma Traubmari were members.

For, despite her quick and violent temper, Mme. Furse Madi had the warmest of hearts, and in point of knowledge wao a perfect and peerless teacher, having at heart t'he interest or each one of her students. But. as I have often since heard remarked, had she retained her firmness of character with the apirrt ot forbearance and patience, remembering that she. tuo.

had been a student, ten times greater would have been her success both as teacher and artist. The more this fact is reasoned out. the greater becomes the difficulties of successful teaching. Let the student look forward with the fe cl ing of keen pleasure to the approach of the lesson honr, and the meeting with t'he teacher, and ihe result will be a lesson of the most satisfactory kind, de spite 'the fact of severity and even reprimand f.r careless and knougntH ss neg.ect some given point of observation, quickiy, too The Ktudent will recognize and that the correction was offered for the student's good and nx. merely in toe Mr.

Charles C. Overton, stiperln tenden 'ihe Sunday school of Hrlghtoii Coney iKlan.l. and originator the Chr.st.an F.ag, has comii.jietl the words and music of a i norus, which he Vv his ami presents to Jie readers the lagle. Mr. suggests tha.

it effe ive if sang as the closing isong at. the Christmas and that it is su.tatoe for exercises in the public chooiK and family ga.h 1 erlugs. It ia no. copyrigh.ed. 1 1 CHABJLES COGBXAtN" WILL GIVE "THE ROYAL BOX." "The Geisha" "Will Uet'orn for a Fare well Visit and There Will Be Other Popular Plays and Some Good "Vaudeville.

No manager has the. courage to put on novelties for the week before when even the department stores become dramatic and the rivalry of outside interests, is the strongest which the theaters are called upon to face. But some of the old things we are to lave this week are good and others are popular, so that Brooklyn Is as well served as often happens at this time. The leader in merit is undoubtedly Charles Coghlan's effective and interesting play, "The Royal Box," which that actor will bring to the Montauk. This play has served nearly every great European actor since Dumas wrote it as "Kean." It has not succeeded so well with English speaking audiences because the story is entirely fiction, does not apply tc Kean or suit the personality of that" actor, and with the original title the anachronisms destroy the interest of English and American audieuces.

Mr. Coghlan has cured that defect in his version by naming the actor Clarence and thus making him as mythical a figure to our audiences as Kean Is to those of France and Itaiy which applaud the original play. GSRTRUDE COGHLAN IN "THE 'ROYAL BOX' He has preserved all of Dumas' theatrical effectiveness and has given the story a text of brilliant and witty English in which the foibles of Mr. Coghlan's own profession, as the actor himself knows tiiem, are set forth as entertainingly as even Mr. has done it from his observations of the stage.

The part of Ciarence offers mare opportunities for brilliant acting than any on the contemporary stage unless it may be the much discussed Cyrano. Mr. Coghlan takes advantage of these with masterly skill. At his best he is one of the best actors speaking English, and no one who saw him on the first night of this at the' Fifth Avenue Theater, when he made his return to New York after a considerable absence, will easily forget the effect of his consummate skill and great earji estnes. The play has been seen in Brooklyn before and there is no need to detail its story.

In Mr. Coghlan's company are Andrew Rob sou, Alexander Kearney, Palmer Collins, Charles Stanley, Claude Brooke, Charles W. Bankson, Harry Hanlon, R. C. Chamberlin, Taylor Granville, Mortimer Weldon.

Edgar George. Miss Lottie Linthicum, Gertrude Bennett, Gertrude Coghlan, Josephine Adams and Nora C'Srien. "The Geisha." that most popular of masi cal plays, will come back this week to the Columbia for what is announced as positively the last time in Brooklyn, but one may have his doubts. With a run of three years in London and 300 nights at Daly's in New York one may doubt whether the local appetite for "The Monkey on the Stick" and' the other tuneful ballads, for the pretty drosses and sprightly story of this work is yet exhausted. The adventures ot LieuCBaaiu Fairfax among 'the tea cruises and the entrance of Meily Seamore into one of them in disguise make a.

picturesque story if there were no Mimosa San with her gold fish and no v'un Hi in it, and with the pretty music it has charmed more people than any musical comedy of recent years. The company this year is new here in this work, but it has several clever people. Miss Minnie Ashley appears as Molile Seamore, Miss Helen Royton as Mimcsa San. Miss Alexia Bas sian as the French maid, Juliette; Leonard Walker as Lieutenant Fairfax, W. H.

Tred enick as the Japanese marquis, and Charles Daarby, who played the part two years with George Kdwardes' company in London, as With Hi. the Chinese keeper of the tea house of the Ten Thousand Joys. The production is said to he identical with that which ran so long at Dalyls in New York. "The Silver King" is one of these vital melodramas which is hard, if not impossible, to kill. It is not so old as "The Two Orphans," but it lasts in the same way.

Of late years the play has bean associated with Carl Haswiu, who has played Wilfrid Denver from Hudson's Bay to f.ie City of Mexico. Mr. Haswin has wade several ventures in other plays, hut always his audiences want "The Silver King," and so he comes back to that vigorous and picturesque play, which made a reputation for W.ilson Barrett in England and has hei'ped several American eetors into prominence. It was written before Henry Arthur Junes became a social philoso II I.N ASHLEY. Ir.

"The MOIJ SEAMORE Geisha." pher and wVten lie devoted a'ii his thought ingenuity to telling au interesting story in an exciting and effective way. How well he succeeded the long career of this play jn oves. None of his more ambitious works has worn so and none likely to do eo. Mr. Ksiswin will play "The Silver King" once nvoTo at the Bijou this week, and the audience will see.

not only the woes of Wilfrid and Nellie Denver, but will with the Spider, will laugh over Elija'a Coombs, Parlous. and Cripps, and possibly cry a lit tl'O over" gentle, falt'jftii old Jallies. It is a good play. "Forever Auction," which has been liked at tho Gayety, will come down to th Grand Opera House thLs week, with three ballets, transformation scene, its Scusa dances, its shy young girls, timid oid maids fln. musical nurses.

Man.irop vln way? made a feature of the specialties intro duced into the performance of this snw.if'ri ar.il strong. At is strong. At tn head ss Miss Phyiirs Aljen, whose heavy contralto votes has nraeis her a popular sinser In the variety houses 'or several seasons. Others who will appear'are Alexander De cea, a. comedy trick cyclist, and ihe Phtantos brothens, aerial sque performers who make fua upon a ladder and a trapeze swung at the LngV.e point of the proscenium areh.

'Littl Miss Colli nvbi a is a novel bit In the programiiie V.ilca always conies in for ap liantly In Chicago last spring. Drew will be followed by the Empire Stock Company next week at its borne theater, where it will give WW JAJtES THORXTOX AT HYDE BEHMAX'S. "Piiroso," now being played in Boston. "Hotel Topsy Turvy" will be followed in the Herald Square in a. fortnight by a brief interlude of Delia Fox and then comes James A.

Heme's new play, "The Rev. Griffith dramatized from one of Helen Gardiner's novels. This play will mark the welcome return ot Mrs. Catharine Heme to the stage. May Irwin and "Ka'te Kip" will run merrily on.

at the Bijou and the end of "Sporting Life" at the Academy is some distance off. "Tho Village Postmaster" has one more week at the Fourteenth aud then Chauncey Olcotit will produce a new play there. The holiday attractions at the Eden Musee have seldom been so good as at present. Th.c Marionettes give a pantomime exhibition each afternoon and evening. Tho Cmeniato graphe displays are given every hour during the day and evening and the gypsy concerts afternoon and evening.

The wax collection is at its best. Two new Christmas groups were placed on exhibition yesterday. One is Uncle Sam's Christmas presemt. Uncle Sam, in characteristic dress, is standing by Santa Claus. In his Christmas basket Santa Claus has three little naked children called Cuba.

Porto Rico and Hawaii. In his hands, extended toward Uncle Sam. is a little child labeled the Phil ippines. The detail of the group is excellent. rue second group stands in the Historical chamber.

It is a Southern Christmas. Be iOK flre jn a dilapidated cabin, sits an 0ki darky nursing his rheumatic leg. Near him is his old wife ironing. Tiie door of the cabin lies just opened and a white girl, beautifully dressed, is entering. She is followed 1iy her maid who carries a large basket heaped widi good things.

The realism is perfect, even to real logs and real fire. The Stage All Around the World. Eliia Proctor Oris will "ne starred next sea sen, it is said, under the management of Jacc 'b Li'tt. "The Ciub's Baby," a recent English comedy, will be given a ssar cast when it is produced later in ihe season by Jacob Lite. "A Marriage." by Du Souchet, is doing so well it will be continued next season.

It Is capitally acted by a good company. In "Th Finish of Mr. Fresh" are Al Wilson, Charles B. Ward. John T.

Ticrney, George W. Day, Harry Earle, Tom Ripley, tho Stewart sisters and Fanny Bloodgood. The Jefferson hnys will not visit Brooklyn with their father's plays. Their date at (lie Columbia has been canceled and the time given to ihe "Hotel Topsy Turvy." "Mistakes Will Happen." with Charles Dickson. Crosman and NanneCo Comstcek in Hie will probahly be given a New York production later in 'the season They have had a play called "The War Correspondent" in London.

It was much more sensational Mclntc6h's venture, hut it seems doomed to as sure a failure. E. S. Willard has given a commission to Louis N. Parker to write a play on historical lines, with Sir Roger de Coverley as the central figure.

This will 'be Mr. Wil'lard's new piece for America next year. Miss Leonora Jackson, a young American violinist, played the Brahms violin concerto at A.ix la Chapelle, November 22 and at Dus seldorf. November an'd aroused in both cities much enthusiasm. J.

M. Hardio. formerly well known in Brooklyn, lias become r'ne lessee of the Princess' Theater in London. Hardie has made mo ney in England starring with Sara von Leer iu "On ihe Frontier." The of "Zar.a," which goes huto the Garrick Theater, Manhattan, January 0, includes Charles A. Stevenson.

Albert Bruning, Mark Smith. Hum Toland. Gilnioiv Si Tt Millward. Marie Bates. Malbel Howard, i Anne Sutherland.

Maude Winter, Elizabeth Belknap. Helma Hcrneman, Helen Tracy and Mrs. Leslie Carter. Smart Robson has secured Theodore Burt aayre new comeuy now cal ed Two tozucs and a Romance." Reason will have tho role cf an eccentric. Kivglish diplomat with a crusty exterior but a warm heart.

The scene of the piece is in asnington. and the story relates the romantic love of an ambassador's daughter fcr an Italian gambler who is masquerad ing here as a nobleman. Eugenie iilMv, who has just closed a Fix weeks' engagement, at the Pari; Philadelphia, will riwmno her own tour, with her owp company, under the direction of her husband. Mr. Robert Downing.

Thn success of Miss Blair has been fair and this is her third season. She has now plays in prepa r.v.ijii, but first she will gpt in her old olios for six weeks in Portland. The New Tri Slar Company formed by R. D. Mac Lean, Odette Tyler and Charles B.

Har.ford, inaugurated its season last week, in Louisville, and was given a cordial reception. Mr. MacLcan appeared as Bruruf Miss Tyler Portia ami Mr. llanford as Maro Antony in "Julius Caesar." "Romeo and is a prominent feature of tne repertory, and "As You Like It." and "Twelfth Night" are in active preparation. Manager Pi ton is making extensive preparations for the production of his new play, "A Romance of Athlone," which he has written for Chauncey Olcott.

The play will imve it first performance January 2 in Philadelphia, and a week later Mr. Olcott will be; seen In it at. the Fourteenth Street er in Ntw York. The play will not employ numeries, or orlcfss. will be no or Jt Is simply a romantic IrU'h drama.

Tho big spectacular production of "Sporting Life." whte has been running at the Academy cf Jltt. ic, New York, all will transferred the Montauk Th, ater Janu ary 1(1. The pre sentf. uon in 'this city will include r.li of uvi srenery. effects and proper mw! hi titie A'Mdomv Ti t.innti.'..'.nv flip sa ma east, whi.

Robert Hilliard. Llita Proc. Otis, Jeanne: Adelim dier, iM azer Cniiner, a'o. A. Roberts, ft.

Cibos. and others. eph Whrolock, K. Charles Olga N'elhe'. addition to Iter wrote 'Itose ni ai': Tauoue.i'ay." "Tli soon, and in 1 tiltiys will seen "The i anu arson.

wIm "The St cond Mrs. Ter. n.sg.itu" is said to have itl (. and settings, and some vry beaut 1: it' to tell a story nnV Shrew." Many rxe Se toud Mr. TaiKiu last ijUcirter the failure In this Mrs.

Kendal made Taii'iuuray's ar.d all ligure in the men will ho v. a like. Tne Taming of the S'Wiit itritii. con. i.ler "The 'ray" the best piiy of i p.

I ntury an.l heiit ve that its try was due to the. fact that sip a view ot Paula as lnate ying pri voslercus f. oni ihe central Mi. M'ohersole's treat ted great interest for this re iseh. well a.

lie dm jilavs Paula as fo; ins.taiice. is al mo. Not. ain to ma a pro.ound impression. i.

u. an ioc uiii priced affairs of which press agents talk ro glowingly. An actor recently left Brook.yn inteut upon playing "The Rivals" ana two i In the same issue Lillian Blauvelt gets a sin gle line for her brilliant singing at another concert. The talk of a break between Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew seems to be overthrown by the following letter, which Bellew sends to Hilary Bell of the New York Press, who was Mrs.

Potter's champion when she needed friends. This Is the letter, dated November 2S: "It has been a terrible fortnight, but now Mrs. Potter is recovering, although eight days must pass before she is out ot danger. This illness was the irony of fate. On the 13th last, she was first taken 111 and during her thirteenth performance of Xtiladi she fell fainting on the stage and was carried from it in an unconscious state.

On the fifth day of her illness she was mot expected to live. On the tenth she again collapsed utterly, and the doctors said it was all over. For forty eight hours she lay dead. All that medical science could do for her had been done, but it seemed unavailing. The crisis is over now, although she is in a desperate state still.

But she is alive and the doctors say that they will pull her through. It was an extreme case of pleurisy acd pneumonia. "There is the most intense and general sympathy everywhere for her and every one, from H. R. H.

down to the call bey of the theater has either sent or called to. Inquire. Cable messages of condolence have been received from every quarter of tho nivilized globo in which we have played America, China, India, Japan, Aust.raUa, New Zealand, Ceylon and South Africa but none from her husband or daughter." Maude Adams' spring season will be interesting. She will return to New York on April 18, when he will present at the Garrick Theater for three weeks, "The Little Minister." On May she will appear as Juliet either at the Empire or the Knickerbocker Theater for two weeks. On May 22, 23 and 24 she appears in Boston: 25th, New Haven; 26th, 27th, Brooklyn; 30th, 3lst.

Philadelphia; June 1, Baltimore; 2d, Washington; 3d, PitDsiburg: 5th. one week, Chicago; 12th, St. Louis: 13th. Cleveland; 14th. Rochester, N.

Buffalo: 16th, Al'bany. and June 17. Springfield. where the season closes. Miss Adams' next season will open on October 1.

when she will again present "The Litue returning to New York in Deuemiber, and producing a new play by Mr. J. M. Barrie, who Is now writing a comedy for her. Mr.

Frohman proposes to give over Miss Adams' next three seasons to J. M. FRANK MOT TLON In "The Boheni'lun Girl" al The American Tbfater Barrie's plays, concluding each season with a Shakspcrean production. William Favers ham will be her Romeo and J. K.

Hackett her Mcrcutio. Before that Mr. Hackett has forty performances at the Lyceum Theater in his' new play "Rupert of I and while he is there the Lyceum company will play "Trelawney" at the Montauk. The Christmas uintjer of the New York Dramatic Mirror, which celebrates the twen tieth anniversary of that paper. Is larger and handsomer than any of its predecessors.

It) is a difficult thing to maintain an intelligent; dramatic journal with high aims for even half I as long as the Mirror has lived and that jour I nal is to be congratulated on its achievement. It has had and has troubles of its own. but it triws the most vnte'llitrent review of the stage both hero and abroad which is pub lishod in America and it deserves its success. Tne CPristTna unmoor nas a nanusome colored cover by F. R.

Anderson and is profusely illust rated in half tones with portraits of all ilia Mirror staff, from Harrison Grey Fiske, its editor, down to its correspondents in the smallest towns, and with portraits of many eminent ar tors. The long and detailed history of the paper includes practically the history of the New Yurk stage for the last twenty years. The number also has historical sketches of tho American Dramatists' Cluh, of Edwin Forest Lodge ot the Actors' Order of Friendship, of rhe Actors' Society of America and of the career of Junius Brutus Booth in England, together with much other matter which is invaluable to any cue who tried to follow the affoirs of the stage intelligently, and with Christmas stories and poems. Christmas week will be a very strong one in the Brooklyn theaters. Tho visit of Mrs.

Fiske to the Academy is tin; chief dramatic event of the season, as tin's actress has now won general ii.e ui utr piace at. the head of the American stage. She is a woman of genius an.l is as weii a finished and cultivated artist, and the conihinatioii of gifts with culture makes any play in whi she appears worth the attention of inteiii g. nt Theater goers. For this visit she has three line plays which have not been seen in Brooklyn.

"A Hit of O.d Chelsea" and ove I 'inds tile Way" combined in a double hill, and Sir.lou's Dlvorcons." There will be three performances of th double bill and only out of "Divorcons," and they will be in the first three days of the week. The last of the week will be given up to "Toss," in which Fiske made so strong impression last year. At the Montauk the Christmas biil will John Drew, who will tiiay Henry Arthur Jones latest comedy. "Th. Ijlars." there for a fortnight.

At the Columbia. "Yankee Doodle Dandy." a musical olec from the Casino, will be played, and the Amphion will rtop. with tiackett ihe Tree of li i ne tiion wt i have a n.e farce. "The Finish of Mr. Fresh:" the rirand Opera House, "The Girl From Paris," and tne Oayety, "What Happened to Jouea." ambitions of the many who star.eu out wi the buoyancy of youth to become good singers, who gave not only their money, but i time, do you wonder that I am not ashamed 1 to speak or write my convictions? I do It at the request of many who.

like myself, were cheated out of their just rights by some of ibese so called great teachers. Were i possible. with many others, would put down and out. for the sake or all classes of students, those who could not prove, before the highest and most competent authority, their fitness to teach. As I remarked last spriog, I am only speaking and writing in ravor or those who are starting out with the intention of, becoming professional singsrs.

whether in church, concert, opera or oratorio. These students paying high for their tuition I have the right to expect full value or money expended. If when our great artists who realize all these facts write, or permit themselves to be interviewed, tor the benefit and advancement of students, they would give us honest advice and the hard, plain facts. instead of ihe idle, pleasant chit chat, which tney almost a. ways cio, now oeuer would be ror us as students and for the advancement of high art.

Over a cup of fragrant tea. I had a long and earnest talk with an artist of the Grand Opera, one whom I had been informed I could never hope to approach, as she was a more than busy person, and that she was also averse to receiving or meeting any more American students. Fortunately for me, my teacher gained me the longed for pleasure, and for once I found an artist who was not afraid to speak out the truth and point out ail the dangers and hardships of the profession and who gave me most valuable information for all those who desire to become intelligent students in the noble art of singing. This, I shall unfold as I go along from article io article. When I remarked to her that, if she ever consented to come to America and let us hear that glorious voice of hers the finest of all France, 1 hoped she would, if interviewed, speak out just as she had done to me.

She replied: "Think you. if I did, my words of advice would be heeded? I think not, for I have already come in contact with a few of your American students and, as a general thing, instead of being willing to be taught, they oftentimes stand ready not only to criticise, but to condemn some of us, as well, and it is perhaps for that reason some of my fellow artists are not willing to advance what they otherwise might to the general class of students through the pres of your country. However, personally to you, I will answer any and every question whieh you may like to ask of me. as best I know how, for I recognize the search after knowledge which lies behind those questions and that the i answers will not only help you on in your own studies, but others, as well." And so in i asking and receiving passed one of the most, i pleasant afternoons I havo ever spent. It also proved to me that, if we would gain true and broad knowledge, we havo to patiently and unswervingly seek It out, eltse it.

remains hidden. L. DF, COMPS. AN IRON DOG. The Kind Which a Bored Congressman.

Preferred. A ConKrossman from the West was tin gueest of honor at a Thanksgiving linucr in Sixteenth street. He; is a man who is Rive to I expressing his opinion frankly, and when he has ilinotl ho always has the; cnuraRe of his convictions. Opposite him at the (able sat. a man who v.

oulrl he considered "impossible" if his natural vulgarity weren't gilded to tho depth of several millions. He talked about, his dOK and tho tenor of his remarks was something like this: "Awfully good dog. Had him with me at Monte, Carlo last year. Prince of Wales stopped to pat him asked me where 1 koi him. Chauncey I)epe took greatest kind of a rain to him, told the French President, he'd xivo a thousand for one like him.

Coming over on the steamer Pierpont Morgan made an offer for him. hut. Andrew Carnegie was bound to get him. and offered twice as much. Hut I wouldn't sell.

Clreat. 3og, tha'L. When I was in Hero the host interrupted the narrative. "What kind of a dog do yon like. Mr.

'he said to the guest of honor. The Congressman replied with great dellb eroitlon. "I'd rathe have an iron dog," said he. "It don't bite. If stays where It's put.

don't get fleas. I'd rather have an iron dog." Washington Post. voi a merry, merry Christmas, I you a merry, merry t'iir rsiin, I wish yon a tnerry, rne merry, rry, np rry. merry, iiiei: fuot ry, merry Chriwtmas; I wish yo.i a hatipy, happy Ne.v Year: I wish a h.ippy, Year; 7 sh a happy, happy, Hapl'V, happy, happy, happy, Happy, nappy, happy New Vear! I Ti. lfv.

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