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i 1 1 i 'TTnT ii il i I I i'iOI 1 1 1 i in him hum limn Minium uninii urn wiih mi mm mnm rm mm ii.imipi. THE BBOOKLTN DAILY EAGrLE WITH THE AMATEURS. THEATERS AND MUSIC. GALLERY AND STUDIO; have found in Quebec, while Agnes D. Abbott comes still nearer home to paint New York," taking the Sixth avenue road and the tower of Jefferson market for her theme, bnt marring her work by erratic perspective.

A. W. Suhler, in tho "'Toilers of the Sea" (No. 59S), gives the water the stillness and the oily wimp ling that it has on summer mornings. Will S.

Robinson goes down to the sea. too, and he finds that the Dutch are not gray and black, as their other devotees will havo it, but full of color. The repose, reserve, and nobility of naturo are hinted in F. E. Bartlett's "In the Fields" (No.

600). and William J. Whittemore's "Seven Times One," a sweet faced child with a slate, is a fragrant harmony in pink. It is pleasing to know that the show has been an emphatic success this year, for not only has tho attendance been large, but the sales for the first week have been about 412,000. Anion? the ninfrtrnc nf.

nf r. made up with snow whito wigs and dressed in tho minstrel style of forty years ago. It will probably be a very effective spectacle. The members of the corps are J. W.

Dale and James A. Giff. bones; George Guetig and M. F. Hanlon, tambos; George P.

Christie, interlocutor; Bert Reeves, George V. Owen, George Bailey, William Schuckman, Harry Forosman. W. W. Herrington.

Arthur J. Goodwin. William Whipple, P. F. Finnen and P.

8. 8eery. The opening chorus will bo "Carry Mo Baok to Ola Virginny'' and "Dance, My Darling Baby." Then Harry Foresman will sing "A Sweet Little Face at the Window." George Guetig, one of the tambos, will follow with "Hail, Jerusalem, Hail," and V. Owen will give "Songs of Other Days." A comic selection, entitled "Tho Waterbury Watch," will be given by J. W.

Dale (bones), and then Arthur J. Goodwin will sing that old yet Pro Nobis." James A. another bones, will sing "Not the Only 33," and a quartet by Messrs. Goodwin, Finnen, Owen and Christie will follow. The first part of tho programmo will close with a song from M.

F. Hanlon, a tambo, "Push Dem Clouds Away." At the beginning of the second part of the programme Thomas T. Hayden, the blind actor, will recite "Old Ace." Mr. Hayden recited this selection at the Moran benefit, and it was very heartily received, so it is likely that his friends will be glad to hear him onoe again. A musical melange by George L.

Guetig and M. F. Haidon will follow, and then Arthur J. Goodwin will sing that ever popular solo. "Booked in the Cradle of the Deep." James A.

Giff, the well known elocutionist and comic singer, will give a few whimsicalities, and Harry Foresman will sing "Days of Yore" in costume. John W. Dale will close this part of the programme with specialties. The stage entertainment will oonclude with an original farce by M. F.

Hanlon and W. Walter Herrington. It is entitled "Editing and Acting." and the scene of its whimsicalities is laid in the office of the Daily Earth. The following will be the cast: Mr. Romeo Robinson, editor in chief M.

F. Hanlon Goodo Walker, advance agent tori the Lily Mud burlesque compim.i Guetig Bill Skates, tourist "Vr. W. Harrington Androscoggin MoWhortnlberry, foreman P. y.

Fianea Harrry Swift, li rhtning compositor William Whipple C. Main i Lightning, spring poet Bert Keeres Horse K. Horse, sporting editor William Schuckman DePompadour. socUtty editress John W. Dale intelligent Compositor No.

1 P. 8. Seery Intelligent Compositor No. George V. Owen Intolligent Compositor No.

3 George H. Bailey After the stage entertainment is finished a reception will be given. A programme of eleven dances has been arranged and there will be as many more as the guests desire. The whole affair is under the direction of George P. Christie and M.

F. Hanlon. J. J. Crowley's performance of "The Heir at Law," which will take place at the Atheneum next Thursday evening, has been looked forward to for some time with pleasant anticipation.

This is in view of Mr. Crowley's successful performances of "'David Garrick," "Richelieu," "Tho Honeymoon." "The Rivals" and "She Stoops to Conquer." The complete cast of Heir at Law" is as follows: is a schoolmaster, of such limited technical accomplishment that he can hardly play on the piano. E. S. Willard will produce Tennyson's play, "The Cup." in New York next fall.

Irving gave it in London. Henry E. Abbey has bookod up his first season at the New York theater that ho will begin to build in May. Glen MacDonongh. son of a well remembered manager, lias written his third play.

It is called "Delmonico's, at Six." Alfred Grunfcld. the pianist, has decided to settle in Vienna and take pupils. He has declined a professorship in Chicago. Joseph Hatton is dramatizing his novel, "By Order of the Czar." and Oscar Wilde is writing "A Woman of No Importance." "Darkest Russia" will not be produced until next season, when it will "go out" under direction of Ellis, Brady Garwood. Jerome H.

Eddy has made a farce comedy and named his new farce comedy for a most unlikely character: "The Truthful Press Agent." A paper on Actresses" in Donahue's Magazine says that two thirds of the players on the American stage are Jews and Irish Catholics. Bernard Dyllyn sues H. R. Jacobs for 810,000 damages for injury to his professional standing "by refusing to engage companies of which ho is a member." Daniel Sully's 1.000th performance of "Tho Millionaire" occurred at the Bedford avenue theater last Friday night. Mr.

Sully has a good constitution. Sarah Bernhardt has loft Rnssia full of disrespect for everybody from the czar up. The Russians did not like her much, cither, and may bo that accounts for it. Bello Colo and Esther Palliser, Americans, sang before the empress of the French recently. They took part in a mass by Miss E.

M. Smyth, a work that is said to be very clever. Henri Marteau, the boy violinist, will return to Europo in May. Jules Massenet has written a "symphony for violin" for him and he will play it in New York before ho goes homo. It is said that Mrs.

Duse, tho Italian actor, has not spoken to htr the Rosenfeld si ico she came to America. She insists that all bu i.ness affairs be transacted by her personal representative. As a rule the people of the stags keep successfully out of politics, but here is a clown, a Frenchman, who has been arrested in Poland for smuggling nihilist pamphlets into the czar's domain, from France. William Muidoon, tho athlete, played the wrestler in "As You Like It." at a bcuelt in Baltimore las: week, and the actor who played Orlando says: "I aid him. after being waved carelessly around in the air for several minutes, like a feather duster." George W.

Howard, a comedian of rare humor and intelligence, and a man who is personally liked everywhere, will have his benefit at the Boston theater on tha Kith inst. He is looking his last at the earth, for his eyesight will be entirely gone in a little while. It is not always easy going among tho one night stands. A well known actor writes: We have been scooting about the country among tho jays, doing good business, but living in a private car which was full of dirt, drafts and discomfort, in spite of tiie swell sound that such an occupancy has." is presented has been fully shown. Witness the oasa of Charlotte Cushman, Ristori, and others, and note the famo made for Meg Merrilies, Queen Elizabeth.

Nancy Siki.s, Nance Oldfield, and other old tinio plays. Attempts have been mado of Into to give to the stage a strong role, but theje have invariably degenerated into depicting a depraved side of woman's character as in "A Modern "Dancing 'Crust' or 'Friuiro of bear witness. Even 'Ca for years considered as the strongest female role in the drama, has been condemned for this reason. There are so many better traits in a woman that would serve the dramatist and bring forth, admiration in place of pity and abhorrence, it is to be regretted that the playwright, who so understands men. should be so little conversant with the character of woman.

I think Mr. Arthur has shown tho possibilities in an analysis of woman's nature by his June, for while running tho gamut of emotion, while oolving the character from a poor houso waif with slangy speech to a reiincd woman, it all tho tinio shows the bright side of a woman's nature." IDEALISM. Fanny Morris Smith says, in the Century, that on the stage Jefferson and Modjoska are examples of no great artists who work from this same stan Jefferson's defmation of an actor is player who, solus, with neither scenery nor stago properties, is able to run through the gamut of human emotion, and never fail to touch a reponsive chord in the audience," and such are those artists who. conscious of the power of music as a language, not only mako it the vehicle for the utterance of their personal feelings, but are able to express in music that progress and play of emotions which we call mood. We see at a glance that hero is something different in origin, aim and uso of material from any previous type.

Tho artistic material of such artists is less tho dramatic situation than the character they impersonate. Jefferson is Rip Van Winkle; he does not play him. Padorewski has the same power. Their strongest appeal is to the im aginitioti and feeling of their hearers. It is characteristic of the idealist that his appeal is nt once noble and stimulating.

The exquisite ideal of womanly tenderness which Modjeska expresses when she. as Portia, abandoning all stago traditions, obeys the divine impulse of pity, steals toward Shylock, and gently touches his arm as she tells him "the quality of mercy is not is a beautiful instance of dramatic idealism. From the exercise of the same gift arose the touching scene in Carnegie hall, when an audience, loath to leave their artist or to let him go, went away hnshod and sorrowful from the presence of a man who had won them solely by the music of a piano. The peculiarity and charm of this, perhaps the rarest, type of art, is that it sometimes seems to pass the borders of artistic production and to enter thoso of inspiration. IN THE I'ALMY BAYS.

II. Crompton. an able and conscientious player, who lias often been seen in this city, told a Philadelphia man recently, that the work he was doing now was child's play compared to what was formerly exacted of an actor. "For tho lirst threo years of my life on the stage I received the princely salary of SlOaweek. and I had to earn it.

One act farces had tho call then, and in one year's time I appeared in different plays. Nowadays one play runs for two or three years, and a company that can play a repertoire is accounted out of the ordinary. But tho palmy days ah! one got training in those times. We got hard knocks too. I got my hardest on a Christmas day.

What with a wife, a seven months' old child, and myself to keep, and a salary of $L0 a week, life wasn't worth living. On the particular Christmas in question, I awoke early and listened to tho church bells ringing. As I lay in bed I tried to bo contented with my lot. and reasoned that all would come right by and by. This course of reasoning was not arrived at though, until I had turned on my side and caught sight of the baby.

Ami then in a half sleepy sort of way and just before I dozed otf again I put out my hand to pat the young one on the head. Never again in my life do I want to experience the pancr of that second. My hand carressod a bit of cold clay. The doctor said the babe had died in the night and I had slept beside it through the oarly hours of Christmas morning. I had a 5 cent piece in my pocket when I went down to tho theater to beg to bo excused for the day.

I hadn't enough to buy my breakfast, much loss to bury the baby. Tho manager couldn't exense me. "This is Christmas he said, 'and a big crowd is expected. Wish I could leave you off. but well, I can't.

And there was no help for it and I had to act. My heart was heavy enough, but just as I was starting to go home one of the ladies of the company nut a little package in my hand and told me uot to open it until I arrived home. When my wife and 1 opened the package we found donated by the company. And that just paid for the baby's burial." I'EDOlt ox MUSIC. Dr.

Pudor, a man who came dishonestly by his name, has been pitching into nearly every musician in the world because he is not a Bach or Beethoven. There is no good music by that of Germany, ho says, and nothing good in Germany, except the two men uamed. Wagner, in his art, he says, is a mixturo of the Jew and Celt. Wagner, who hated both of thoso people so cordially a decadent, an epigonus. What is an epigonus, and is it different from a gonus? Equally decadent, he says Pudor does is Liszt, a Hungarian, "and tho Hungarians are, confessedly, a completely disorganized, self outlived, dying people.

No less decadent is Chopin, whose figure comes before one as ilesh without bones, this morbid, womanly, womanish, slip slop, powerless, sickly, bleached, swout caramel Polo. Of late days the Semitic spirit of rafSnomenthas laid hold of our German music. In Meudelssohn it What Is Going on Ainoug; tbc Different Societies. This has been an exceptionally dull week among: tho amateur Thespians of this city. The performance of the Amateur Opera association was, really tho only thin to disturb the general calm.

On the other hand, next week will be a very heavy one as far as performances are concerned. No less than four plays of the first rank will ho presented. Why would it not be a good plan to alter this? WTiy not spread tho performances more evenly, if more thinly, throughout the month? It would keep up tho interest certainly, and it might be managed easily. Lent comes so soon now that many of the societies are hurryiuz to give their February performance! before Ash Wednesday. During Lent there will bo little doing, but after Easter the rnsh will begin again and continue until tho season closes.

Why is it that wo do not hoar something of Mrs. Tongue, who used to be Fanny Korke? It is a shame to hide talent under a bushel and Mrs. Tongue might rest assured that she would re cei vo a royal welcome if she returned to tho amateur stage. And Mrs. Moafoy, too.

She will play in "The Two Orphans" it is true, but she has not been cast, with that exception, during the whole of this season. Why not cast her for Suzanne in "A Scrap of Paper." She would do it well and her many friend would be glad to see her again. The Florence is getting down to hard work on "The Private Secretary," which will be played at the Criterion on Thursday evening, February 10. Bert M. Cole will be in the title role.

The Gilbert is putting the finishing touches to "Esmeralda" for production next Wednesday evening. As things look it will be a successful performance. Last week the Melpomene were going to do "The Wife's Secret." Now they say tliey will do Scrap of Paper," one or Sardou's comedies. What will it be next week? The performance does not take place until February 27, so there ia utill time for another change. That part oZ tho dramatic corps of the Melpomene who play "The Cricket on the Hearth" seem to be making a success of the affair as a financial speculation.

Thursday night they played at Rockville Center. L. and on Friday night at Montclalr. N. J.

Last night they came to Brooklyn and played again for the benefit of Gilbert council No. 1.303, R. at the Criterion. The Laurel Dramatio club are rehearsing Shame," under the direction of M. J.

Rorke, for production at PrOBpect hall one week from to morrow night. Most of the amateurs and those interested in them are anxiously awaiting next Satuday evening when Thomas T. Haydon will produce "The Two Orphans" at the Criterion theater. Almost everyone remembers the success which met Mr. Hayden injiis performance of the title role in "The Galley Slave" last year, notwithstanding the fact of his total blindnoss.

Those who do remember are anxious to see him duplicate it next Saturday evening, and those who missed their last opportunity will do well to profit by this one. The complete cast with the few alterations which have been made in it is as follows: ChevaU do Vaudray Thomas T. Harden Count delaniere, minister of William B. Vernan Vroehard Morria J. Shillak 1 lerro.

his brnthor a Picarri. servant to reirorV Pattl Marquis de i'r 4l Hume Stoknm Daltsta, his friend. Harry A. Unnnon ijuhui, oi ioaiipscriere wnuamo. Moran captain oi tne Vr.

Difine, Countess de Lini Louise. Henrifttn.i' tho two J. Mackay J. K. cjunrt ttlla Elmore (Mrs.

A'bort Meafoy La rrochard, mother of Jacques and Varler tlioontcast Kdith Ellwoocl Slater Utfuevieve, superior of t. Mrs. Harry J. stoknm lorette Dorothy Dearborn Prancoisc Amy L. Smith Lillian Hllivood Keimnlt vrca R.

Lett de John K. Irwin There will be two features in the production of "The Two Orphans," of which Mr; Hayden is justly proud. One is the Mistletoe minuet and the other is the fencing scene. Those who will dineo in the minuet will be Thomas T. Hayden.

Mrs. H. J. Stokum. Edith Ellwood.

Dorothy Dearborn, Amy L. Smith, Harrie J. Stokum. Frederick R. Lett and irry A.

Gannon. The rehearsals are under the direction of Charles H. Rivers and Maual t. smith are going very smoothly. Thero are some difficult figures in the minuet and to do them properly Mr.

Hayden has to use his wonderful memory to its fullest extent. Auother instance where the memory comes in perhaps greater play is the fencing scene between Mr. Hayden and Harrie J. Stokum. Mr.

Stokum is an expert swordsman and it is under his training that Mr. Hayden is gaining that instruction which will enable him to do a very wonderful piece of work. Ail the principal thrusts and parries used in an ordinary fencing bout will be exercised and the whole scene will take fully two minutes or two minutes and a half. Tho costumes furnished by Mme. Schwencke are being mado especially for the players who are to wear them, and the costumer declares that they will bo the finest that have ever been seen at any amateur dramatio performance in this city.

During tho garden scene in the play Frod R. Lett will introduce a drinking song to which there will be a chorus of twelve voices. During some years past Mr. Hayden has bee connected with a great many societies, dramatic and otherwise. He served two terms as president of the Booth, three terms as president of the Melpomene, passed through all the chairs of tho B.

P. O. Elks, and is now past exalted ruler of that order. He is still a member of the Booth and Melpomene and also of tho Amaranth, Gilbert and Faust dramatic societies. He also belongs to Gilbert council No.

1,303, Royal Arcanum, and Columbus council No. 103, National Provident union. For seven years he was a member of the Thirteenth regiment, N. G. S.

N. and has received his honorable discharge as sergeant. A body of men from tho last named organization will attend the performance of "The Two Orphans" in uniform. The sale of reserved seats opened yesterday at Chandler's, and 'the number sold at the end of the day promised an excellent audience for Wednesday evening. Mr.

W. M. Van der Weyde, who acted as treasurer of the Moran benefit, is anxious that those who still have money or tickets will immediately make their returns to him. either in person or by letter, at his office in the Arbuckle building. The Amaranth performance will take place on Tuesday evening.

February 14. The play presented will bo Gillette's laughable comedy "All tho Comforts of Home," and Percy G. Williams will make his first appearance this season in the role that Harry Kennedy made noted, that of the old man Bender. Others iu the cast will be S. G.

Acton, F. W. Bowno, Albert Meafoy. Harry C. Edwards.

Douglas Montgomery, Frank Norris, Annie Hyde Willard, Holene Wintner, Eliso Louis, Fanny Webster and Florene Robertson. Miss Robertson is a new appearance. She will make her debut on the amateur stage as well as on the Amaranth stage. Sho has an excellent reputation as an elocutionist in this city, however, and sho will bo well received. The Amaranth expocts to make a great success of "All the Comforts of Home." They have secured all of the original scenery from New i'ork, and great efforts are being made to havo tho piece as excellent as when it was originally Frank J.

Higgins of the Meipoinene has organized a comedy company out of the amateurs in this city, which he calls the Lyceum Comedy company. They arc now barnstorming in New Jersey and rumor says meeting with considerable success. They have in their repertory "Leud Mo Five Shillings." "Chiselling" and "A Bad Penny." Mr. Higgins himself introduces songs and dances. "The of a Life." rechristened "The Boatman's Secret." was played last Friday evening under tho auspices of St.

Thomas Aquinas' society and for the benefit of St. Thomas' church. Tho performance was given at Prospect hall, at Fourth avenue and Ninth street, and the cast was the same that presented it at the Criterion on January B4 for the benefit of the Acorn Athletic association. The cast was as follows Mcrtin Moore V. .1.

MoNslly Major KiUpatrick T. H. Hayden Herbert Pool Hugh O'Donnell Clifton Jerome M. F. Delaney Ohariea Wi'kons Idwird I.

Baker Richard Bell Francis Kelly Pete M. F. Hanlon Marion Moore Kate Diamond Mrs. Morris linuie K. Lovely Jessie Morris Florence Wood "A Kettle of Fish" will be produced in April by the Barrett Dramatic association.

M. J. Rorke is directing rehearsals. Ada Austin, ono of the Melpomene Dramatic society's old stars, is playing with Mme. Jan auschek in legitimate roles.

She is now touring in Canada and making a succoss. Minnie Bowen, another ox member of the Melpomene, is playing with "The Dago" company. Tho company will bo at the Bedford avenue theater during the week beginning February 20. It is likely that Miss Bowen's friends will give her a welcome. On Tuesday evening.

February 14, George Cbristios amateur minstrels, comprising members of the Booth, Goodwin and Faust dramatic societies, will give a performance at the Atheneum which wilt be decidedly unique. It is intended to represent the old George Christie minstrels of forty years ago as if thoy had lived to the present timo and were still oracking their jokes and singing their songs. In consoquenoo all of the fifteen members of the cast will be How the Local Stage Will Be Occupied This "Week. The Xew York Programmes Some Concerts. In tlie Palmy Days Characters for Women.

Miss Tempest's Contract ldcnllsm Pudor on German Composers. Good and varied attractions, umsi. al and theatrical, are promised in Brooklyn this week. COLUMBIA THEATF.H. "Babes in the Wood." that closed a run of 100 nights in Boston last evening, will bo seen here for the next fortnight.

It is one of the showiest spectacles ever devised anil is said to employ company of 200 people. 1 50 of whom form the ballet corps. Among tlj original features is ballet of insects, dream dance, a ballot of popular airs, a Bhakspearoan pageant ami the gro tesqueries of Hiss Patte en i'Air ami her pupils. These shows are under direction of Mr. Btrtrand of the London alhambra.

who brings with him Elena Salmoiraghi and Mr. Bianciliori fromMilan, Miss Prioris from Naples, and Vanoti. the singer. The Ecenery is brilliant and the noted parts are taken by a number of skillful players, with a strong predominance of the comic element. IMItK THEATEIt.

"Diplomacy," which Rose and Charles Coghlan snd their associates will present this week, is one of Sardou's strongest dramas, and wheu first produced was a theatrical sensation for two years, having been simultaneously presented in Paris (under the name of London anil New York. The production in which Miss and Mr. Coghlan will bo seen will be identical with that given at the Star theater. Sew York, in the fall, which made a marked success. The company Includes Sadie Martinet.

Frederic De Belleville" John T. Robert Fischer, Mine. Yon Trautman and Mabel Eaton. Miss Coghlan is admirably adapted to the leading character. GltAXIl OI'KHA "The Still Alarm'" is aljint as well known a play as can be named, but people are still going to soo it.

This week it comes back with a strengthened cast, among which may bo named W. S. Harkms E.L. Snader. Hugh .1.

"Ward, J. A. Wilkes. V. B.

Arnold. J. P. Davis, Joseph Conyors, Mabel Bert. Edith Pollock, Einma Maddern and Little Tuesday.

The latter will dance and sing for live minutes, if the meddling Gerrv will allow. He makes no practical objection to having children black boots for ten hours a day, but to dance for a few minutes is a dreadful thing. There will be singing by the Standard quartet. HOLMES1 THEATEIt Agnes Herndon in "La Belle Marie: or. A Woman's Revenge," made so emphatic a hit last season that she has come back to niako another.

Her manager announces that she is equally at home in comedy and tragedy and that her dual portrayal in this piece is uncommonly strong. He also says that, while hate, revenge, jealousy and love enter into the composition of the play, "every other lino is a The Kosares family will appear each evening. LEE AVENCE ACAPEMY. "The Dazzler" goes to this theater to morrow with the same cast and accessories that have been seen during the past week at the Grand opera house. There are songs, dances, medleys and specialties the cast includes Joseph Ott, Anna Boyd.

Jessie Hatcher, the Clipper quartet, Blanch Arkwright, Ida Rogers, Addie Moore, Annie Wilmuth Curran, Bello Sanford. Eva Leslie, Frank Ward, John Curran, Albert Hart. Maurice Haynes, Max Miller and W. H. Way.

BEDFORD AVENUE THEATEIt. "A Night at the Circus," with spangles, gingerbread and lemonade, will be tho attraction this week. It will bo played with all the bonnco that Nellie Mc Henry and her company can give to it. and that is a good deal. There are so many people who like circuses that they even enioy the chanco to come within smell of the sawdust, as they seem to do in this piece.

THE A3IP1IIOX. "Blue Jeans" will be played again this week, with its saw mill, apple blossoms, real bull, real pigeons, brass band, kazoo chorus, quartet, Christmas tree, firelight, polities, comedy and all the rest. The players are William C. Beach. George D.

Chaplin. Andrew Kobson. Wallace D. Shaw, Charles E. Udell, W.

E. Crnndall, Joseph Graham. Laura Burt, Jennie Goldthwaite. Marian Strickland, Mrs. Edmunds.

Daisy Temple and Miss Mabel. BOSTON SYMrilOXY OECJIESTBA. The socresy preserved by the management of this orchestra this season makes it impossible to say what will be played or sung at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next Friday afternoon and Saturday night or who the soloist wilibe, if there must be a soloist. But tho orchestra will be there and that is a guarantee that whatever is played will bo well played, while the fact that Mr. Nik iseh will lead it is an equal guarantee that whatever is played will be worth playing.

SEIDL SOCIETY CONCEltT The next concert of the Seidl society occurs at Academy of Music on Thursday night, when the following programme will bo offered: Wajrner Violoncello Noeuirnc, Alia Mazurka Herbert Victor Five songs Wairner F.mmsv Jucli, pinno m'biiivaintiitn! Uy Anton Sriril. Sextuor "Souvenir tit TKcaaikowBky Andante con moto, vivace, for strinp Gri her.tra i tic it i. Quintet Wiicncr Kva, Miss Juch Mtis Mein "Walter, Mr. Town; David, Mr. Stephens; liuiis Sachs, Mr.

Sancer. Dramatic" symphony Uubinstein This is a bill that is to date" and is certain to be popular. It is made of such music, too. as Mr. Seidl puts the most heart into and the "Meis tersinges" pieces are not played anywhere in the world better than they will be played here in Brooklyn on that night.

Miss Juch is a singer with whom the public, is familiar and Mr. Herbert is a facile and spirited executant on the 'cello with a gift for composition that is more than a knack. HYDE AN'I BEIIMAN'S TtlEATEU. The Night Owls will fly about this week and will pose and dance and sing ami exhibit their new costumes and showy scenery. "Satan's Enchantment" and "The Bed Hussar" are the spectacles, and without spectacles one may see tho five musical students.

Rherue Nelson and a number of familiar specialty acts and actors. OAYETY THEATEIt. Sam Devere will sing, whistle and play on tho banjo thi6 week and with him will appear the Moorish acrobats, the Coulson sisters, dancers; Leonard and Moran, comedians: the Wood Tra velli trio; McBride and Walton, boxers: Kowe andBrannan. grotesques; the musical Highleys: C. W.

Littlefield. polyphonist; Harry Laiose, globe walker, and the Columbia four in a sketch. THE CASINO. Cyrene, the Spanish dancer, and Minnie Sehnlt, singer, are two favorites that will be seen again this week. Other performers are A'ictoria Walters, singer; Kissels, in the zouave drill: Mary Flower, singer; Emily Rema.

singer: Armand Veazey. cornet player, and Kirehner's orchestra. IN NEW YORK. This week one ma see Eieonora Duse at the Fifth avenue theater. Girl I Left Behind Me." at the Empire: Mario Tempest in "The Fencing Master," at tho Casino: "Lady Windermere's Fan." at Palmer's theater: "A Trip to Chinatown," at the square: "A Dark Secret." at tho Windsor: "Glen da Lough." at the Fourteenth street theater: "Ninety Days," at 'tho Broadway theater: Mr.

and Mrs. Minnie Selig man Cutting in "My Official Wife." at the Standard theater: W. H. Crane in "On Probation." at the Star theater; Flag of Truce." at the Grand opera house; Russell's comedians in "A Society Fad," at the Bijou; Abroad." at tho Lyceum; "The Black Crook" at the Academy of Mnsic; "The Taming of the Shrew," at Daly's; Manola Mason company in "Friend Fritz." at Herrmann's theater: English opera, at tho new Manhattan Opera house; the Union square; "East Lynne," at Niblo's; Lillian Russell in "The Mountebanks." at Garden theater; German opera, at Amberg's: "'The Mulligan Guards' Ball," at Harrigan's; "Across thn Potomac," at People's theater: "Tho Hustler." at Third avenue theater; "The Outsider." at the Park; Minna Gale Haynes Harlem npora house; 'The Span of Life," the Columbus; varieties at Pastor's, Proctor's, Imperial. Olympic, London, Miner's.

Eighth avenue, Koster A Rial's and Eden: Jewish drama at the Thalia, Kou mania and Eighth street houses; freaks at museums, frauds at others. more noon yon ciT.unrTEit. Laura Burt writes, that rue women on ought fo as good parts to play as men, but they don't. "Plays with strong male character parts are innumerable, but ruins for actressy ai those in which sin; appears as every ihiy self with the addition of force or sweetness, or embellishment of dress, but the opportunity to reflect finesse or inti Hect. and tho study of human nature are few.

Where i the opposite rolo to Rip Van Winkle. Baron Chevrial, Bean Brummel. or The Middleman That the actress has ability to grasp opportunities hcn a chance Annual Show of the American "Water Colorists. Some of the Notable Pictures nt the Academy of Deslgn pAn Increase in Independence and Originality The Brooklyn Art Club Minor Exhibitions The Guy Parton Sale News Items. The Water Color society is growing broader and more competent every year and is really a more national institution than, the Academy of Design or the 8ociet.y of American Artists.

The work to be seen in its exhibition this year is more original and less European than any it has shown in some seasons. It looked a while ago as if tho Dutchmen were to control the forms and manners of our pictures for a time, as theFrenchmon havo been doing since the centennial, bnt this display proves that it is not to be so. The men who are painting as they best know how to paint are gaining in self poise and self expression, while the men who are painting in the manner prescribed by foreign schools are weakening in numbers, influence and even technic. It matters little what school a man paints in, or whether he makes his own school, so long as his pictures are good, but there is less likelihood that they will be good when he imitates some other man or set of men than when he paints nature as it seems to him, or nature as it seems to his eyes that it ought to be. An aggregate of good painters is all that we want, then the matter of a national school will adjust itself.

The hanging committee has done its work with its usual thoroughness and the setting apart of piotures with white frames and mats in the north gallery, where they compose a symphony in white, is productive of a refreshing and refined effect. Among the men whose work is constantly showing better is the painter of Adirondack woods and mo3sy rocks, R. M. Shnrtleff. His "Sunlight and Shade" lias the settled calm and cool reserve of nature and his groupings are those of nature it self, unforced and un tinkered.

Trythall Rowe is the English sounding name of a late comer in these exhibitions, whose work has much to do with English village streets and is distinguished by frankness and clearness of color. His skies are occasionally rare in their truth and have the humid quality that the skios of Britain so commonly do have. It may occur to some that if the sky be thus loaded with vapor his ground views would have a little more of atmospheric recession, but Mr. ltowe protects himself from this criticism by taking his subjects at short range. Robert C.

Minor is among the men who seem to have a thought behind their work, and Horatio Walker is another to whom the visible universe is a symbol of other ar.d. perhaps, greater things. In his picture in the main gallery of sheep and their keepor, in refuge from a shower beneath a green shelter, it is not so much the actual fact of the rain and the wind that ho seems to want to relate to the visual sense as the sentiment of the scene to tho inner sense. He tells as little as he consistently. cm and stimulates the imagination to learn the rest for itself, and, with due respect to the technic of art, the imagination of man is not so mean that with a little leadership it cannot be made to dream out possibilities of greatness that dim the painted image.

This is equally true of music. The art that goes no deeper than the eye and ear is not art that will live always, however much it may be desired in a senBual understanding. Leonard Ochtman. one of the earnest young fellows who have been urged forward by a pure and fervent love of art and nature, is represented in a snow scene that contains a successful solution of a difficult problem in lighting, the sun being nearly opposite to the eye and the shadows radiated from the center of tho picture over fields that are delicately warm with snow and light. Similar in sentiment and likewise thoughtful in presentment is "The Snow Mantle" of Charles Warren Eaton.

Ben Foster, another of the earnest, ones, in whom high ideality is stirring, distances himself in his pictures of the swineherd and tho shepherds, where the feeling of night is seriously and sweetly conveyed. Elliott Daingerileld, a painter who is unequal, but at times convincing and always serious, shows a moonrise that is one of the pictures to mark for real beauty of light and composition, though the rays of the moon are just a shade too pronounced in their fanlike projection above the horizon. R. Swain Gilford has not shown in a long time a more satisfying than his "Road to the Village Salt Works of Batz, France" (No. 279), with its highway winding and its wall zigzagiag through a stretch of treeless plain that one is thankful to look at, it is so wide and fnll of air and so remote from the artifice of mankind.

Tho subtle gradations by which the artist has accomplished his aerial perspective, while he has not lost anything" of soundness in his color, are things to study and admire. Albert Herter in his group of women gathered at the parting of a curtain where another woman is seated tells us by his title that we are in the presence of "The Great Mystery." What the mystery is one may not say. It would be a flippantly easy thing to assume that it is the artist's motive in painting it. But it has a decoratH effect, which is all that he has aimed at. He has yet to learn, however, that there ia a difference between nudity and nakedness.

Widely different in his handling from some of the other men who treat similar subjepts, Walter Palmer, in his "Brink of tho Fall" (No. 302), interests the spectator by his artistic instinct. His statement of a beautiful phenomenon is literal, but' tho beauty of his subject a snowy hillside looking out across a valley with the moon throwing nuggets of golden light into the snow and ioe and water is manifest beyond the beauty of his art, and it has, therefore, the effect of art that conceals art. The prize of $500 is taken this year by. Sarah C.

Sears, whose picture of Romola hangs on the east side of the main hall. It has the force of oil color with remarkably free handling, a slight opacity being due to the use of body color instead of transparent washes, and presents an example of ripened womanhood, the face slightly averted and dreamy, the figure. what is seen of it in its black dress, sharing in the repose and unconsciousness of the face. C. Harry Eaton, in his "Indian Summer" and other pictures, gels close to the soil, the realitios and beauties that consist therein are satisfying to him.

His composition is always good. John La farge comes home from the south seas and the orient with some reports of the scenery thereof, and while it is likely that we can match it on our own coasts in the height of the monntains and tho luxuriance of vegetation, it takes the artist to describe what glories of sunlight there are not only in far lands bnt in every picture that may be seen when one rises in the morning. Clara McChesney, in her bent figure of spa old cobbler, realizes her subject ably and lights it well. Albert Lynch's "Marchesa," in spite of her side ache, is a pretty little thing, fragile, dainty, china like. Childe Hassam uses his brush like a stick of colored chalk his "Indian Summer.

Madison Square" (357), is a case of attempted pastel effect and he is still prismatic, though not so recklessly, defiantly so, as he used to be. H. F. Fai ny shows a company of Crow Indians, filing down a mountain trail that is overhung by a mighty cliff. It is a closely painted subject, snapping in its light, without any at temnt at tone, and shows the barbarians and the rocks and forest exactly as one may see them in the crystaline Western atmosphere.

L. C. Earle's puppies are cute enough to trench ou Mr. Dolph's prerogative. Mr.

Tliulstrup views the opera dimly from a box of the 400. It is the fog of conversation that always hovers about the precincts of those patrons of the arts that makes the stage so distant. His swells have high relief, which the audienoe never has when the swells are telling their women about each other's neckties. George Wharton Edwards is still at the whites and grays and blues of Dutoh cottage interiors, and their picturesque occupants he always invites one to look at. J.

Humphreys Johnston appears as the author of a feat of fancy that holds and stimulates the attention. It is the "Road to Queron" No. 446) a mythic land of the queer 'un, likely with blue lights showing through the wood like jeweled gleams in the witch's head and a nude figure flying through the night. Henry B. Snoll gets the exact quality of moonshine in his harbor view (No.

481) and tones red skillfully into blue in his up the Harbor" (No. 620), whore the shining side of the big steamer catches the sunset light. W. Hamilton Gibson sends a dozen of New England landscapes, quiet. seriouB.

rostfuL Howard Hel mick's studies of the Irish peasantry have a touch of humor and quite as much character and incident in a figure or two as Wilkio used to get in his great, crowded, tiresome story pictures. He paints deftly and in a high key. W. H. Drake is developing a firm style of his own, seeming to focus himself diligently on his shore and landscape subjects.

Distance and sentiment are the distinguishing traits of Henry Farrer's work. John T. Redmond finds a "Blue Corner in Belgium" (No. 580) that is about as quaint as he could bUDDUWn "A iJrUOS. lyn Art club, beside those already noticed, is Edward A.

Rorke's "Pattern Maker." which has many of the qualities that have made Mr. Ulrich's Die tnres famous Wbf.i;rri, i tu.N. UiUCUI'I'lA. sizing the objects in the workshop as it beams in in ine winuows; nrmiy arawn figures; sober coloring and vigorous relief. Th of a young man reading is an easy and "natural am nis inspiration left him when he undertook "St.

Cecilia." A. Josephfs rivor and meadow views are agreeable and his miniatures are dainty. J. B. Strickler has become an exhibitor again this year, his picture renresent ing a woman in a white dress watering flowers in a garden: Clark Cmm intnea.

1 uau. i into pastoral themes such as lie everywhere about one in tne country, ms greens being especially cheerful and his blues serene. R. M. Decker in "Th Frnzfin arA ''Tn 1 s.

.1 11 ts aikai Ltii his old time earnestness, with some. tmng aauea or color, freshness and vivacity. Verplanck Birney's three pictures are briskly paiuieu, yw graoeiuuy ana pleasantly. Among Mr. Whittemore's pictures none are pleasanter and prettier than the girl whose face looks ou from under a rharmnn F.ralrin T.

trt shown improvement in Sis work of late: it has more purpose in suDject. more resolution treatment, more light and color. It still has, in spots, a little feeling of thinness and uncertainty, as if the drawing had not been brought to the absolute precision implied in so free a style. A good way to correct that effect is to paint a subject in nn rf.pr. muTiner flrof nnH i 1'WJl, slashing out needless details, but preserving the mnaamentai trains tnat are thus enunciated.

The Snydcrs do some praiseworthy work, and Julian Bix has a diversity of subject. Other contributors are Eleanor C. Bannister. S. T.

Bailey, Matilda Brown, Eugene De Comps, George Clowes Everett, H. M. Eaton, H. Webster Fowler, MaryE. Hurst, Henry Ihlefield, S.

L. J. Rafter. Julius Ruger, M. E.

Rolrinson, G. Douglas Stearns, Susie B. Skelding, Frank Squier, Florence Beely, E. Christine Voss and Mrs. M.

"Wood. Whittaker. On the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday of this week a sale will be held at the Fifth avenue galleries of 136 pictures by Arthur Parton and Seymour J. Guy. The collection that these artists have placed there include several of their most important works and there is a pleasant contrast and variety.

Mr. Guy. as is well known, is an erudite painter of the figure and some of his lamp light effects in his domestic scenes are more felicitous than tho kindred pictures of English painters. His color is decided and his subjects popular. Mr.

Parton is one of the serious land scapists, a man with an opulent palette, who loves the woods, tho rivers and the hillsides, and whose pictures are sweet and healthful. He has ranged through Great Britain and our eastern states for snbjects and has brought away none that was devoid of charm. A loan exhibition of various work will be held at the Fine Arts society's building next week, the profits of which will be devoted to paying off the mortgage of the structure. Among the objects of special attraction will be pictures by Rem brsndt from the collections of H. O.

Havemeyer and Morris K. Jessup, examples of Velasquez, Peter de Hooch. Rigaud and others; a colossal model by D. C. French from the statue of the republic which ndorns the center of the lagoon at the world fair; W.

H. Fuller's collection of pictures by Reynolds, Gainsborough. Constable and other painters of the English school of land seapists; other English masterpieces lent by Mrs. Blodgett; Cyrus J. Lawrence's famous Barye bronzes, over one hundred in number; Tanagra figurines and Greek vases, shown by Mr.

Altman, T. B. Clarke and others; tapestries from the Barberini palace lent by Mr. Ff oulke of Washington, D. tapestries of the sixteenth and seventeenth.

centuries lent by Wi Bayard Gutting; arms and armor from the collection of G. P. Morosini, and objeots of art including ceramics, fans, from the collections of H. G. Marqusnd and other well known amateurs.

Beside tho fifty pictures by Robert Dudley, illustrating the laying of the Atlantio cable, that were given by Cyrus W. Field to the Metropolitan museum of art, there is in the galleries of that institution a new collection of native and foreign work that replaces Mr. Marquand's old English pictures, recently withdrawn. These pictures are S. R.

Gifford's "Near Palermo," Plasson's "View on the Seine," Grollerson's "Soldier at Rest," Charles Davis' "Evening," Sanchez Perrier's "Lagoon Near Venice," a winter scene in Holland by Koek Koek, Pasine's "Halt at a Mosque," W. M. Brown's "Rasberries," Julius Scbrader's "Queen Elizabeth Signing the Death Warrant of Mary Stuart," Adolph Schreyer's "Arab Scout," Velten's "Halt of Cavaliers," Pokitonow's "Cattle in Pasture," Girard's "Rainy Day in Paris," Jacquet's "Reverie," Preyer's "Fruit." Kinnaird's "Parting Kiss," David Johnson's "Monarch of the Meadows," Monchablon's "Wooded Hillsides," a landscape, with cattle, by Verboeckhoven; Jacque's "Sheep in Pasture," Gilbert Stuart's portrait of John Parr, Edward Slay's copy of Contnre's "Falconer" and Ferdinand Bol's portrait of a woman. The now prevalent portrait of Tennyson is the frontispiece to the February number of the Cen. tury.

engraved by Mr. Johnson in a masterly style, but masterly engravings are now so common that it is seldom that one takes them other wise than for granted. Several delightful examples of sculpture from the great museum in Constantinople, and fine subject, almost nobly pointed by a Turk, are seen in Mr. Peters' article. Slight, sketchy, scratchy, but full of atmosphsre are Castaigne's drawings for Mr.

Janvier's travel tale. Mr. Sterner's sketches for a little piece of fiction are lighter still. C. D.

Gibson is again successful in putting social varnish on the people whose thin chattering goes on and on through pages. The heroic trade of whaling is illustrated by Taber and Swift. There are fine portraits of Liszt, Sal vim and Rachel, a graceful with an extraordinary neck and manilla complexion, that William Thorne will have it is a type of purity. The face, in its wide eyed innooence, is fine, and there is a pleasant bit of real life in Fiancis Day's group in the kitchen. Cox, Fenn, Baer and Fraser give one au idea of what the jungles of palaces of the Malay peninsula are like.

At the Wunderlich gallery may be seen a group of seven plates illustrative of Burns' country and a fair land they make of it. The9e etohings de. pict Lincludon abbey, near Dumfries', the Nith of Lincludeu, Afton Water, Burns' monument, the two bridges of Ayr, Burns' birthplace at Ayr and Alio way Kirk. Mr. Law is an elderly Bcotchmaa who was formerly an engraver, and a little of the severity of his ancient practice attaches to his later use of the needle and aoid, but his plates are strong and rich, have air and texture, ore good in composition and are imbued with Scottish honesty.

A fine mezzotint portrait of Bums, by Frank Short, makes a good pendant to this little exhibition. All who are interested in prints, or who want to be interested, should get W. H. Hooper's descriptive circular, in which the processes of etching, mezzotint, line engraving, photogravure and so on are described. The exhibition of plates af ter the Dore pictures in this gallery iB well worth seeing.

John M. Falconer has an advance proof of the large photogravure from the Stuart portrait of Washington, tho most satisfactory of all the likenesses of the father of his country. The plate is nearly as largo'as the painted picturo. Warren Sheppard's large picture. "The Restless Sea" a canvas about seven feet in length that was in the place of honor at one of the New York exhibitions and for which he receiued a price, has been accepted for the world fair.

An exhibition of twenty seven pictures by Eu. gene Jettel will be opened at the Avery galleries to morrow. R. M. Shurtleff had a studio reception on Monday and Tuesday of lost week that was woll attended.

He showed a number of interesting pictures. Lewis Fraser. art manager of the Century Magazine, will lecture on illustration beforo the pupils of the Academy of Design on Wednesday night. At the Boussod Valadon gallery there is an exhibition of pictures by Dutch painters and French impressionists. James D.

Gill's annual exhibition of American works in Springfield opened on Wednesday, with 150 pictures. c. M. S. ljord Duborly Dick Douglas Dr.

Pangloss Ezekiel Hoincspnn Henry tedrat Waiter fohn Lady Dubcrly Caroline Dormer Cicely Homaspun William T. Harris, jr J. E. Quinn Charles T. Cat! in John J.

Crowley H. O'Donnell K. H. Stratton S. Boyd J.

Lester Edith Kltvrood Ella O. Christie itortenso Ijooth Next Iriday evening the Booth will do at the Criterion. There has been somo hard work spent on the play and a production fully up to the Booth's standard may be expected. The cast is as follows: Hon. Walter TCundall V.

FlockeU M. DoLevante G. Ostrander C. T. Wieiand C.

S. King M. Caldwell N. Durham Beseie Clarke Hi er Woad Dames Hdna Lyon Kate Savaisn Ralph Randall Horace Wimberly Fred Town Alberry Soaley Buddies Dr. Foleom Stella Gordon Cora Adalr F.lla Randall Eola Wimberly Mrs.

Malvernon Miss Prim Marrin When all things are taken into consideration the performance of "Princess Toto" by the Amateur Opera association last Tuesday evening was a successful one. The sickness of Mr. Harry Dixie, who coached the members of the cast, of course detracted somowhat from the excellence of the performance and the fact that there was only one full rehearsal of chorus cast and orchestra should be taken into consideration. Although some of the music of "Princess Toto" was in a measure uninteresting, thero were many catchy and pretty songs and choruses which wore universally well rendered. Why was it that Conductor Navarro was so slow in taking up cues A comic opora, of all productions, should go with a snap and vigor and on several occasions cues had to be given two or three times l.efore the orchestra began to play.

There were several scenes during the progress of tho opera whioh are worthy of comment. Notable among these was the first appearance of the Indians. Thoy were well costumed and Frank Norris. whom his friends have boon accustomed to see in emotional rolos alone, astonished everyone by his comical appearance and actions as the leading Indian. Another scene was the one where Caramel offers a warm bath to tho two tramps.

Nothing could be more ludicrous than their simultaneous fall to the stage, and the audience appreciated it and roared. Miss Ella G. Greene had a great many friends in the audience and down in the front row sat some Armenians, each resplendent in his fez. At the conclusion of Miss Greene's dance thoy presented to her a richly embroidered flag over the footlights. This is the highest compli mont a Turk can pay to any artist.

Miss Greene seemed to be nonplussed for the moment, but she soon rocovered herself and unrollod the flag, waved it once or twice and with a bow retired. Now comos the question as to whether another opera will be given by the association this season. There seems to be no reason why such a thing should not be accomplished if the members of the association wish it. There is plenty of time between now and April to rehearse almost any opera and produce it properly. In talking with a number of prominent members of the association Tuesday night there was cot one who was not enthusiastic over a socond performance this season.

It was said that a vote will be taken on the subject immediately. FIRST IXVITATI0.Y RECEPTION Of Hie Columbiau Club Va Held at Prospect Hall Xuosday Migrbt. The Columbian club of South Brooklyn is a comparatively new organization in this city of clubs. One year of existence has not yet been recorded on its books and yet the ball given under its auspices. Tuesday evening, in Prospect hall, was iu every respect mature and finished.

The dancing commenced after the grand march had been complotod and lasted until a late hour. Fully 200 persons were led by the floor manager, Mr. John J. O'Grady and his wife. The officers and committeos were: J.

J. Grady, president: Mrs. N. Roach, first vice president; G. M.

Gondor. second vice president; Miss M. Mc Kicnety, treasurer; A. Nicholson, secretary; C. Burrows, liuancial secretary.

Floor committee E. I. McGovern, J. M. Mc Cort, John Cullinan, J.

A. Price, F. J. Conlon F. S.

Reilly. A. F.Frey. W. R.

Dovoy, J. J. J. F. Learney.

F. J. Carlisle. A. Reilly, F.

A Priest, E. A. Purcell, F. McAfee. J.

J. Daly and P. A. Cahill. Reception committee O.

McNally. J. J. Duffy, G. J.

Burke, W. CauldweU, J. F. Carroll. W.

Dawson. T. Thoin. P. Ward, D.

W. Foley. F. Haggerty. MesdamesJ.

Newman. P. Shaffer. J. J.

Grady, Misses M. Owens, M. Flaherty, H. McGovern, G. Nolan, L.

Tobin and M. Beatty. Those present included Herbert O'Connor, Miss Geraldine Whitney. John MeCourt. Miss K.

Me Court, George P. Purcell, T. Haggerty, Charles Vaughn, John Cushion. W. Haig? Zvliss M.

Ellis, Mr. ond Mrs. Joseph J. Price, C. A.

Grogan. A Mulroy. D. G. Slattery.

J. M. MeCourt, Mrs. L. Delmont, J.

J. Delanoy. Miss L. Cauldwell, Miss M. Higgins, Miss F.

Gildersleove. Mr. and Mrs. Brown Mr. and Mrs.

William T. Black, Miss S. Dunne, D. Loughran, Miss M. Manley.

J. Foley, Miss A. Beatty. John O'Brien, Miss T. Hernon Miss L.

Waugb. T. Hopkins, Miss M. McCarty, P. A Cahill, Miss K.

O'Connor, C. Sullivan, Miss K. Hopkins, Miss L. Hopkins, J. Kearney, Miss M.

Kearney. J. Callahan, Miss M. O'Brien. A.

J. Doyle, W. R. Devoy. Miss L.

Almanda, William Morton Carberry, Miss L. Tobin, Mr. A. Mc Dougall. Miss A.

Nicholson, G. Davis, Miss D. Ehrling. J. Ferrall, Miss May Kehoe.

John Fitzsimmons, Miss L. Kennoy, F. Werner, Miss May Carpenter. R. O'Connell.

Miss M. O'Connell, L. Delmar, H. V. Monahan, Mr.

and Mrs. O'Grady, Mr. and Mrs. T. Roche, D.

Nicolay. James J. Flaherty, Michael Slattery. Miss J. Ryau, J.

J. Price, Miss L. Landwersick, James MeCourt. Miss A. Price.

G. J. Purcell. E. A Purcell.

Miss K. O'Neill. James Daily. Miss M. Silber, J.

Owens, William Girty, Miss F. Landwersick, G. Sanborn, Miss Furlong. Mr. and Mrs.

J. Carroll. Mr. anil Mrs. L.

M. Duffy, Mr. and Mrs. li. L.

Cauldwell. J. Nicholson. Miss B. Nicholson.

E. Silber, Miss Nettie Johnson, C. Burrows, Miss Maggie Johnson, J. Cullinan, Miss Sadie Bradley, Miss 3Iamie Bradley. Mr.

and Mrs. Dibbins. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Connell.

J. J. Smith. F. Ball.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Van Hosen, J. Reed, Miss M.

Ryan. Fhyllis Pagan. Harry Hamilton, Vincent Hamilton. Stuart Robson's arrangement of "She Stoops to Conquer" was acted beforo Queen Victoria, week before last, by a company of titled amateurs. It was hard to endure, but the queen has courage.

It appears that Mr. Rob3on handed his prompt copy of the piece to the Prince of Wales while stopping with him last summer. Matthew B. Snyder and Henry Talbot, who are playing in "Across the Potomac," are veterans of. the civil war and still wear their sectional colors when behind the footlights, though they are excellent friends.

Mr. Snyder was a lieutenant on the warship Essex and llr. Talbot, at the age of 1 5, commanded a company of homo guards in Natchez that was engaged on one occasion with Mr. Snyder's forces. Are there no Gerrys in England? The queen ordered a year old girl to sing in Osborne the other day, and the infant phenomenon must have startled the crannies around tho place by bursting forth with Cher." "Future Mrs.

"Avians." "The Nawsty Wy 'E Says It," "Owl and Pussy Cat." "One DayMargot," "Tho Longshoreman" aiid "I Lnb a Lubly Gal." English art is looking up. Walter Damrosch announces three concerts of Wagner music at Carnegie hall, on Tuesday afternoon, til 6 instant, Thursday afternoon, aad instant, and Saturday nigiir. asth instant, for the benefit of tho Orthopiedio dispensary and hospital. Selections will be given from "Tanu hauser," "Tristan," "The Master Singers," "Parsifnl" and the Niebelunsen ring. The soloists will include Clementine De Vore.

Lillian Blauvelt, Felicia Kaschoska. Mrs. Alves, William H. Rieger, E. C.

Towne, Antonio Galassi, Plunket Greene and others. A printed card from Samuel Dawson who calls himself boy in advance," furnishes this information. "Tho average dramatic critic is as afraid of an advance agent as dove is of a fox not that he has any personal feelings in the matter, hut he knows the aforesaid agent will tell him any number of ghost stories, thinking that the critic in an unguarded moment will publish at least ono of them, and when it is stated that a horse falls twenty feet into a real river of water, and afterward swimming away, leaving the rider clinging to the broken bridge above, the critic is apt to eye it with suspicion, but nevertheless it is a great finish to act third of 'The Tho hill for the popular concert at Carnegie music hall to night is as follows: i Marcho Militsire hubert Polonaise Beethoven CradloSoOK. Gonnoil Aria from Afrlcalae" Meyorbear Mrs. Koert Krouold.

Overture, Tannhau6er" "Waener rsepxet meusrs. i owne. uenison, Ulartte, ilot Uawiey arui BuBhuoll. Elizabeth's Air Mrs. Koort Kronold.

March and Chorus Wolfram's air, "Blink ich umber" Antonio CnhiMMi Prelude. "Tannhausor'a Pi'sp imaKe" Pilgrim's chorus Meud' lsEObn'M quartet and chorus. "Sonjr to the hvuuiuK Star" Antonio Wal msi. Overture For reasons nnknown it has been customary to put not only names but directions for playing or singing pieces in Italian. Some understand these notes, some pretend to, a majority do not oven pretend.

The Boston Symphony orchestra's programme maker probably startled some of tiie auditors iu Music hall a few nights ago, for while ho noted the' movements in American. Mr. McDowell's "Hamlet" and as largamento and moderato con tenerizza, he added to the German Wagner's prelnde to the "Master Singers" this statement: "In very moderato movement, broad and weighty throughout. major. 4 4." It is time to cut away from the Italian traditionor affectation and uso English in writing for English speaking people.

J. M. Hill says that his star, Marie Tempest, is a singular and impulsive woman. Ho says that she bounded into his office the other day and said: "'1 am not worried about the public or what the next eeuson is going to be I just ran across to askyonif yon wanted me next year. In case you say you don't, I wish to say I shall remain anyway, for if you don't know when yon have sot a good prima donna.

I know when I've got a good manager, and I'm going to sign tho contract risrht here!" And Miss Tempest went to the wiudow and with her index finger left her signature on the window pane. Must have been pretty grimy tho window must. The pane of class on which she left her signature has been framed, and above it is engraved. "Tho contract which governs her next season under J. M.

Hill's When the ever meddlesome London authorities tried to close Rayuer's subscription theater on a technicality, because it was "illegal to tako money at the doors," an effort was mado to evade the penalty by taking it at a window. The bills at one time announced "Admission gratis." an announcement being made with a confectioner next door to sell lozenges at 4 shillings an ounce, a ticket for the bjxes being given in; half an ounce, for shillings, securing admission to the pit. Later another arrangement was made with Glossop. who had the Victoria, and thoso who paid to any part of his theater had a corresponding admission to tii. Strand for any evening selected.

All the actors wore summoned to Low street and I'm. but this act of oppression led to a change the law. A year later tho chamberlain's interdict was removod and the Strand was licensed to give entertainments. This appears stupid now. though it is not more so than existing regulations as to sketches at music halls.

is rather tho capacity for making, which is inheritod from his Jewish ancestors. Other wise he is Italian or rrench. not German. He produces titillating, jingle jangle music in the highest perfection of form, as in the "Mid summer Night's Dream," but it is without depth and usually watery. Rafiine to sickliness, on the other hand, is Meyerbeer, but I have already in another placo sufficiently handled this gentleman of the Boulevards.

Goldmark exhibits Jewish raflinement. In him no trace of soul or heart can be fouudtall is mere ear tickling, and his music is like a shining soap bubble. Finally Nicode gives us rafiine French Canadian music. In Brahms we find for the third time the German vice of supersubtility. This is united in him.

with another, to which the German nature is rather inclined than disinclined, namely, doc trinarisui. A master of form, Brahms, twists and twines, ponders and weighs the musical thought so long that nothiug is left at last but the form. We ofton miss in him hcaithy. full blooded warmth: ho piunges down into his thoughts with soul and not with feeling, but, he embitters our joy in these thoughts of his, by spreadins over them a dark vail through which no bright sunlight comes. Brahms represents an aftergrowth of the symphonic work of Haydn.

Mozart. Beethoven, bnt aftergrowths are usually faded, dry and sapless Doctrinaiism crops out in Raff still more, and almost entirely on one side. We find in him still more form anil si ill less contents; we have no more to do with flesh and blood, and his music is transparent in both senses of the word. Raff had been a schoolmaster, which is characteristic, for he's not much more than a neatly solved example." He has a low opinion of Mozart, tolerates Schumann and thinks that the Scandinavians are doing the best work, in which he may be forecasting a truth, though the Italians seem to be entering on an artistic renascence that promises great things. NOTES.

The Aronsons are' negotiating for "The Rain Maker of Syria." It is rumored that J. Berger will control the Lee avenue academy again next season. Herrmann has added some exists to his New York theater. They were much needed. It is said that Lillian Russell has put "Girotle GiroUa" rehearsal for speedy production.

I There is a Mr. Duse. He is a pretty ood actor, too, travels with a company of his own. Thomas W. Keene will add Toodles," "lung "Ueiiry IV" and "Macbeth" to his reper tory.

i Mr'. Bernard Beere will give a series nf mat iu 'cs in London, appearing in her favorite bad i Frank Mni danui of the Frohman eompiny is i qui:" ill with a gastric trouble, but he insists on acting. Richard Mansiield may produce Chirag a I tue Urst Lortl Jjytton, caueu Woolson Mr.rse and Cheever Goodwin's new piece for De Wolf Hopper will bo called "Paajnn darum." I August Lima, the Danish composer, vlmse opera, "The Witch," has made a succoss iu Berlin,.