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THE BEOOKLYKDAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1898. 29 COMEDY AND MUSICAL PUN GALLERY, and studio. SOME POINTS OF VIEW. iSILOTI AKD THE OPERA. ry on business with one plate, whereas a plate once etched is useless for any other "Heart of Maryland," has taken, to the vaudeville with a brief sketch called "The Judge." It is a Southern character bit and Mr.

Wiliiams will play it this week for the first time in Brooklyn. Lydia Titus, who is one of the few artistic singers on the vau deviiie stage, will come this week with a budget of songs, and others will be. T. Nelson Downer, "King of the Donn vans, in original Irish oddities; Stinson and Merton, in a comic sketch; Collins and Collins iu parodies and comic songs; James W. Reagan, a tenor, who recently starred in rmis proprietor's wife, while the other characters.

irnpersona'eJ by Miss Do Reu and Messrs. Edwards, Thayer, Tyler, Fay, Miller, Flint and Quilter are amusing. Many old memories will be stirred by the revival at the Park this week of the early melodrama, "The Streets of New York." The play is tfest remembered for the Bad gor of the elder Chaafrau aud for its big fire scene, which in Chanfrau's day was a wondcT of stage realism and as startling as the bottom of the ocean is now. Few people know that the piece was adapted from the French by Boucicault, was called "The Poor of New York," and brought out at Wallack's in 1S37. At that time Lester Wallack played Badger, which Howell Hansel will have this purpose irora that time forth.

Most of Mr. Horstall prints represent the sea and in this bo 1 hand rJ wnio reaches of caim water, his surf lapping against beaches, his big breakers boiling and flying upon the rocks, his inlets with sunsets behind high land and lights twinkling in k4Vo7 ZJ tery. A few attempts are also made in gen oral landscape and one or two portraits are offered, but it is in sea painting for this is painting in ink the best success is obtained. By the use cf vari colorc inks the plates are differentiated, a sepia brown being used for one effect, a greenish or bluish tone for another and so on. It wouid be Interesting to see what a monotypist could do with a single picture done in different inks aud transferred to the paper, as these have been.

It. is definitely announced at last that the art collection of the late Charles A. Dana is to be sold in February, the sale to be made in Chlckering Hall after an exhibition in the American Art Association galleries. Mr. Dana was not well known as a connoisseur of paintings, though he had an expensive and excellent collection; but he wad widely kuown as an authority on Chinese porcelains, and inese wer His hobby or one of his several hobbies.

He followed the conventions in his pictures, choosing the work of Corot, Diaz, i JuCVW Zlem aud others of their ilk, but he nad also a nota ble Courbet. In the department of oriental fic 1 tiles he had amassed specimens of the best i artists and the best periods, and, while he did "ot a'm ai completeness, as Mr. VaIters did, itCtan7 with owning probably the choicest private as semblage of these delightful works in the I country. The fame of was never wide I I I i 1 fJtbUt been known to other col was an inability to "obtain further bank ac lectors on both sides of the sea, and there a probability that prices will be b.d up to ex comJatlns 'n other words, the glove travagant figures. Among the specimens is makers hoped to keep on borrowing money the first piece of peachblow glaze ever brought without giving security.

Is that the idea? Some people were discussing the difficul 2S in modern trade and bewailing the size tics in modern trade and bewailing the size of the notes they had to give, to keep t.heir business going. I asked what they gave note for why they did not buy things, out and out. At thla they iaughe( with such scorn UU such surprise that I got into a corner, quick, and wondered why I never could open my mouth without getting my foot into it. 1 believe 1 have a certain small genius for doing that. But sometimes when I have been leaped upon for saying what I should not have said, it is a secret comfort to me that I said it, if only for the joy of seeing others suffer.

If they would come around to my point of view, which is the only right pne, they would not suffer. Every man is to a certain degree a bigot. I am, and I don't care. A man must hang to some belief until he has reasou for changing it for a broader one. If experience grains his belief into him, he has to stay with it whether he likes it or not, and may sometimes be persuaded to act on it when he knows that it is unpopular.

Well, it was always one item of my faith that a man ought to pay his bills deliberately, perhaps; but certainly. When the influential merchants laughed at me, I 11 me otnics' 01 lrade uaa been ''hanged since was younger. If so. I am Slad for the sake of the majority that small people keep to the old way of living and do not Pay the grocer. ast weelt a slove llrm failed for $800,000.

What right had it to fail for that sum It is said bv the firm's lawvers that the rramn How many loans of $10 could a man in a small business get from a bank or his friends without security? Not many. Is there not too much of this conduct of business on air? too much reliance on loans? Why should not big people pay for what they buy on the same terms that bind little people? In the wholesale district of Manhattan one day an acquaintance who was at the head of an importing business said: "Do you see that place across the way? Well, there's a firm that is doing a splendid business in spite of itself. There isn't a man in town who would trust if witli rr.i i ",7 TV I rascals can get hanks to necotiate Daner for them and so they are obliged to do busi' nets on a cash basis. Tbey buy their goods just as I buy cigars. The goods are driven up to their door, and the clerk who arrives I with them goes into the office and gets his money.

Otherwise the goods would be driven back to the factory, or the steamer wharf, or tho warehouse. Every rag they have in that place is owned by them, out and out, as much as they own tho diamonds on their shirts. They have grown to be one of tho soundest firms in town. They don't do so large a business as some of the high flyers, but it is a safe business; so there's a firm that has a good standing because it was too bad to get any kind of a one." That concern will not. fail for nor for any other sum.

And why is not this a sensible way to do? Why is a man absolved rrom paying his bills because his ventures are not panning out as he hoped tbey Above all. why is not a man content with enough? Chauncey Depew says that ho never knew a man over 40 years or so of age to retire without dying inside or a year. I have. Several happy and hearty people have ecme under my ken who knew when they had enerugh and are worth more to day than if they had kept in business. On the other side of the sea.

no man thinks of staying in trade any longer than is necessary to make enough to keep himself ccmfortably. In Franco they don't even wait for that. They chance it. I can not imagine that those seedy respectables who loiter all day long in the parks, and those seedier half respectahles who fish all day in the Seine, and never since they were born were known to catch a fish, those undoubtedly respectable women, too, in the top flats and furnished rooms on the side streets I cannot Imagine that those people have fortunes. It is doubtful if their incomes from investments average more than a week.

But so much in Paris is free that they get on. Room rents are moderate; you can dine for a couple of francs; you can lunch at a cremerie for cents; there are parades, band concerts, the daily show cf society in the Bols, tho museums, libraries, picture galleries, parks, all of which cost nothing; the country Horror! There are trees in the country, and trees are said to bite, so one must' never go there but if cue mutt, he can go there cheaply. And there are always the benches and the for a sou, in which one may sit as long as he likes, thinking of the dinners he would eat if he had a littlo more money, and no policeman will rap his feet while he is doing it. This is one kind of retirement, and if one is happy in It, why not that as well as another kind? It ought to be the duty of a man to retire when he has enough, for there are so many others who have not. enough that it is only fair to let have a turn.

The sooner a man retires the better he will get on as a retired man. ami the more he will find to do for his instruction or amusement. I can't conceive retirement without occupation, at least, for an American. In our electrical atmosphere one's nerves tingle to he doing something. To sit a park bench and rest no native can do that.

Perhaps it. is more the pity that. he. can't, for our national temperament needs Just thnt touch of calm, content and sufficiency that an? indicated by the ability to sit on a park bench for hours and gaze at the sparrows. There is strength in calm.

There is a loud haw haw over the propn sition in a magazine to put Rudyard Kipling into the British army office, as a sort of adviser or something, to do something for Thomas Atkins. As everyone knows, the soldier is one of the la.st. things thought, almut in army headquarters. There Is a great 10 do over his bosses, no end of money for hi guns anil clothes and for the forts in which Ik to serve; for the contracts by which he is supplied, for the schools in which his superiors are educated, but. for the man himself, who does the work it is only Saircy Ann on he.r Sunday out who gives any attention to him.

Mr. Kipling has made a study of him; sees his nex d.s, has fathomed th; reasons for his discontent, has Imagined ways for stimulating not only his courage and telligenco, but his ambition. But Mr. Kipling is one of tht litery fellers and what do litui fellers know about the practical affairs of life? It is tho mistortune of those who dircul tho practical affairs of life; that they are; often the least, practical of beings, and are above the advice of men like Kipling. This makes it unfortunate for men who have to serve under such diie to rs.

Symparb no less, than knowledge, is tie. de! fo managoinn i and In the ease tho admission of plain sense almost, valuable. Tie drill ev, eosm'u! an army would )' Tunnnv Atkins has some rp! us things it at least it had Ihe last tune 1 the thitm looking from a 1 ii in tile ilLStaiiee like the movioueii: of grains of In a popper. And the sob Sir Wols eo. pell every man to carry a Biol a sl'iavihu: bniish, a razor and shaving soap, no matter if the private were a Imattien glori it: whiskers as long as Pi I.stf that cratiuyiKio and Oruteiyisui and for I ii our o't who nit.

statesman nr the side .1 is the. pllll'e! aurraey that Their ioe i that a ordinate! to ening light will shin will nd it. i. ate t.homS' ives to is the praet: l' atii as ate! on the (jthrr op lti her the beau 1:1 way of refonos. :1 mankind inns: su: 'onie day a great a.vva.k in upo.

i them, for they ir business to ti bxmi i iiiankind. That is why mankind agrea to put them where they are. We all have places more or less relate the general and may contemplate our situa Uon with self improvement. C. M.

8. CRANE THE ONLY RELIEF FROM SWISHING SKIRTS. He Will Revive "The Senator" at the Montauk "The Geisha" at the AcademyAnna Held and a Chinese Play. Melodrama and Variety. A number of old friends will occupy the stage of the Montauk Theater this week.

Foremost anions thorn Is that breezy, buoyant, energetic, whole souled politician, Hannibal Rivers, whose career In the Senate was marked by indefatigable efforts in the cause of justice. Then there is Mrs. Hilary, that susceptible young widow whose Inability to help herself from falling in love with every handsome man she meets causes her, and incidentally her friends, a lot of trouble; Mabel Denman, the daughter of Silas Denman, who was loved by Rivers; the polished Austrian diplomat, the Count Ernest von Strahl; the dignified Secretary of State, Alexander Armstrong; the latter's young and indiscreet wife; Silas Denman, the old claimant; the Chinese Baron Ling Ching, who was continually being surprised by American customs and the favor which a certain widow looked upon him; Mrs. Schuyler, the aforesaid widow; Josie Armstrong, the young woman with a fondness for coining peculiar expressions; the Senator's private secretary and the phlegmatic Lieutenant Schuyler. It seems almost unnecessary to add that these are the characters of Mr.

Crane's very popular play, "The Senator." In reviewing the pay this week the comedian is guided by the judgment of Colonel Sinn, who believes it is a work of which the public will never tire. The play is a newspa per man's comedy, the plot dealing with a po litical intrigue at Washington, as told by David Lloyd, who was a brilliant Washington WILiLiIAM H. CRANE. correspondent as well as a playwright. His collaborator was Sidney Rosenfeld and they fitted Mr.

Crane with a character which suited him more completely than any, part he has had. Mr. Crane will be the Senator Rivers. Miss Annie Irish, who has won much praise in the play on the road, will be the Mrs. Hilary; Miss Percy Haswell, Mabel Denman Mr.

Putnam, Count von Strahl; Mr. DeVere the secretary of itate; Mr. Boag the Chinese diplomat; Miss Stevens, Josie Armstrong; Miss Lester, Mrs. Schuyler; Mr. Serrano, the Senator's secretary, and Walter Hale, Lieutenant Schuyler.

For three days next week the Academy of Music, under the management of Oscar J. Murray, will be added to the abundant supply of theaters in Brooklyn. The attraction will be "The Geisha;" the Japanese musical comedy which has been popular both here and in New York and the performance will be hy the musical contingent of Daly's company, which has given the piece sa long at Daly's Broad way Theater both last season and this. The Bhakspearean end of the company will be occupied at the home theater with a revival of "Twelfth Night," which will liberate the singers for these performances of the merry sceuically charming musical nonsense. The cast will include Nancy Mcintosh, who is about the best singer and actress upon the stage for this kind of piece.

Miss Mcintosh learned to sing thoroughly and she had some experience in opera in London before her return to hei own country. But she has hardly the physique for heavy parts, and has found her skill as a singer very valuable to her in a less ambitious line of work for which managers are bothered to death to find competent actresses. That is hardly apropos of "The Geishh," but it is a hint to the girls with not very large voices who have taken expensive singing lessons and is thrown in gratis. With Miss Mcintosh in this cast will be Virginia Barle, who has played Molly Seamore at Daly's ever since 'Violet Lloyd came over to Brooklyn with a road company last year; Jul fius Steger, a baritone who comes in for illimitable free advertising but who is a good singer nevertheless; James T. Powers, who graduated into Daly's from less ambitious stages; Augustus Cook, Helma Nelson, Ethel Hornisk end others.

The company will give three night performances and a Saturday matinee. Anna Held, she of the flowing locks, the languorous eyes and the risky songs, has de nancy Mcintosh. ecended from her pedestal of dollars at Koster Bial's at length, and this week she will come over to the Amphion with her own company and her latest budget of attractions. Beside the songs which she has sung here before and which are closely identified with Miss Held's reputation she will give a brand new one called "The Animated Chorus." This consists in having a sheet of music fill the back of the stage, the notes of which are indicated by the heads of a company of colored performers, each head bobbing up as the note i Is sung. With this arrangement Miss Held sings "I Want Dem Presents Back" and other "coon songs." The device has taken the fancy ol the public and is being imitated right and left, but Miss Held's supremacy with it has not "been seriously threatened.

Beside this eccentric singer the Chinese play, "The Oat and the Cherub," will be given. This piece is a variation of the same theme treated at the Amphion recently in "The First Born," and if it is half as good no one who cares for original stage flavors can afford to miss it. One would not exactly choose Miss Held for an accompaniment to as serious and fascinating a play as "The First Born," but we take our drama as we can get it, and the people who liked the former Chinese offering will be very likely to sample this one. This will be Miss Held's only engagement in Brooklyn this spring, and people "who care to see her sauciness should not miss the chance. "The Circus Girl," Charles Frohman's present offering at the Columbia, has been given a warm reception by Brooklyn theatergoers, who have added their verdict of approval to the i.ra:ses already bestowed upon the piece by audiences in London, New York and Hos ton.

The second and last week of the engagement at the Columbia will to mor row fjght, when an addition will be made to the f.t in the person of Miss Gladys W'allis, 11 for the first time e.istiy the role of emyss. The character is a sweet and one, and Miss with her expe beauty and slevss ncs slinulC S'l. The engagement so far. has heon "ileasant one for all concerned, as the i.jnusic. the stage pictures, the handed expensive costumes, the beau a le company, and the incessant fun.

their purpose, which is to tn.utse.N Uss Aawtuoa Fabris is spirited. tfc coincuyA "tipllej. Mr. Slaviu is likl, Mis Young J'ilever in the pantomime bits nad Bliss titi. Is unctuous and Jolly as the clr PICTURES SHOWN BY THE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.

Tribulations in Jersey City Monotypes by Bruce Horsfall The Dana Collection to Be Sold Drawings by Wenzell. Sergeant Kendall's Portraits Notes. The Manufacturers' Association of. this borough will formally open its now quartrere on Montague street on Monday with a show of pictures, to which many people ill be invited. Later it will be open to other invited guests, the exhibition continuing until the 29th inst.

There are not many canvases, but they are choice and have been well placed under direction of Henry T. Chapman, jr. At the end of the upper gallery is a group containing an old picture of a mother and child, Dutch in style and models, lighted with uncommon strength, and two fine portraits of women, who carry themselves with distinction, and who are aristocrats in dress no less than in bearing. One has a robe of blue with ornaments of pearl and the other, in a high wig. is robed in red with bodice richly embroidered.

A horse by Gericault Is remarkable for spirit and power; the animal is planted firmly on his legs and you know that he is full of mettle. Flanking this group are two interesting and unusual examples of Monticelli. They are careless in drawing and technic, the people in them have no character, but they are intended as decorations and that purpose they serve. One of these panel shaped pieces represents the interior of a large and richly furnished room, probably in some castle, with three young women gathered in the foreview near a table that is set with wine and fruit. A couple of dogs and a peacock that surmounts a stone vase are accessories.

In the other picture one sees a small company of peasants coming down a road In company with a goat. The background would resemble Corot if It were not for the false anatomy of the trees. Monti celli's purpose in these pictures is poss.lbl seen to better advantage in an Isabey a bishop aud his train leaving a cathedral door and confronting a multitude of mangy beggars. Th2 color here is good, and so it is in a picture that looks as if it might have come from Lancret or Watteau the lack of tablets to identify some of the pictures makes trouble. In this picture a company of last century people are picknicking in the artificial fashion that appears to have been common in their time is represented with a facile brush and in ripe color, the reds in a woman's gown being of especial beauty.

A Dutch family, distinguished for large heads and short bodies and consciously posing beside the open sea, and a feast of bedizened orientals by Frans Francken, the younger, arc specimens of a past art that are in curious contrast with the free technic of our modern painters. The picture of a young man writing in a book is strong in lighting and solid in handling. A large poultry group has the charm of work that ages gently and agreeably, and there is a splendid still life by Courbet, fruit, vegetables, flowers and wine, heaped upon the canvas with a quick, strong hand, fearless as to color, and finely harmonious. A Scotch interior by Bon nar, with a fat wine taster attended by a couple of peasants, is good in color but clumsy in its representation of the human form. One of the old pictures can be viewed with genuine satisfaction, and that is the landscape by Richard Wilson.

It shows a height on the left surmounted by a tower, a tree on the right springing from a ridge, a lake in the middle distance, and mountains beyond it, the mountains steeped in summer air. The golden tone of the work, the calm that broods over it, the warmth and the slightly formal composition commend it to every one's liking. There is a commanding Van Marcke, with cattle wandering in a rich meadow through which a stream meanders. There are birds in the air, the foliage is touched with tihe rust of autumn, but the ground is full of life and one feels it as he looks. A dark marine view is notable for its noble clouds, and there is rare cloud painting in the Michel, in which a hill crowned by a house and windmills is thrown into relief by the vast thunder cloud broodinir overhead.

Henry W. Ranger's view of high bridge, in Harlem, is joyous in its color scheme and freely painted; an altogether original and excellent treatment of a subject that has disclosed this phase to few observers. A. P. Davies has refrained from his usual positive color in his landscape with its round hills and its pigs at pasture, but he puts Into it a compensation of warmth.

It has a russet tone. There is an English landscape by E. W. Watts, showing a fertile tract with rolling hills and heavy foliage A coach crosses a stone bridge in the middle distance, toward a group of cottages, one of them below the level of the stream, and in the front are a shepherd and sheep. The local color is true and the picture has the restful quality of rural English scenery.

The saddening results of trying to satisfy some people with good work are seen in Jersey City, a town in which the sarcastic might say that, not having good work, its people did not know it when they saw it but there is a future for Jersey City and it is not all behind it either. Recently Jersey City decided to be in fashion by getting unto itself a soidiers and sailors' monument. It is one of the six places left in the United States that had no construction of this kind and the lack of it was an irritation to its pride for the town has pride, and reason for if probably no other city has so many railroad cars. Out of a number of designs submitted for the monument an excellent one was chosen. It was the work of Philip Martinv whose statuary at the world fair will probably be remembered, and it represented a seated figure of the goddess of Victory in the act of crowning tbe returned heroes with a wreath of laurel.

The figure was full of dignity and grace, the face was noble and beautiful, the draperies were simple and gave a touch of the classic to the figure, and the pedestai of stone the statue was to be of bronze was strong, sufficient and was to be decorated with the names of volunteers 'who had served in the war. Probably this design will be realized, yet the voice of tbe objector is heard. He is a man in some au thurity and his artistic training was re ceivee, in Keeping a nsn store, or carting ppving blocks, or something of that kind, vety likely. He does not want the monument, because there ain't no soidiers onto it. The iden of building a monument to soldiers and havin' a woman a settin' on top! That's all some folks knows about art.

And if he succeeds in having his way, Jersey City will probably be decorated with one of those stone soldiers standing at parade rest on top of a pillar thirty feet high, from which evervbodv would fear or hope that he would tumble off if he should become drowsy some afternoon, or if the wind blew hard. Such a man, carved out of real stono, by gum, and made by hand, would be an object toward which the patriot from Secaucus might point with pride. Xo mosquitoes would ever settle on its granite brow and expect to draw blood from it, and you could tell it was a soldier just as fur's you could see it, because it would have a visor on its cap and a stone gun in Its hand. The fact that something less than villages and towns In the North and South bad stone men exactly like it only proved that stone men were the proper thing to have. If not.

why did they all, havo Now, isn't that sort, of thing disheartening? Nevertheless, it is believed that Jersey City has an element that is capable of appreciating Mr. Martiny's beautiful work and that its councils will prevail in keeping the other element quiet until the statue is erected. Bruce Horsfall. a Western artist, has placed at the Hooper gallery an exhibition of bis: monotypes. They deserve attention for their intrinsic merit and because it will be interesting to many to know what a monotype is like.

They are not numerous, although Mr. Horsfall has been fairly busy in his field. To make a monotype you smear a plate with ink a fiat, copper nlate, such as etchers use. In this Ink you wipe a design I with a cloth, a brush or your fingers, the wiped portions constituting high lights in ihe ensuing print. After getting the picture where you want it.

indicating the sky by a partial inking or else by a partial wiping, the plate Is put into an etcliing press and a print, of the usual sort is taken. As this print takes all the ink ami leaves the plate nominally clean there an be only une Imprc sion. iieiu itie monotype. 1 nib process has the disadvantage of being Incapable of repetition, but to some minds that is an advantage, as the owner of a print has an original picture and there are none others like it anywhere. To the artls it also has the advantage over an etching of enabling him to car THESE WILL FURNISH THE MUSIC OF THE WEEK.

The Pianist to Piay at Association Hall on Wednesday Melba in "Aida" and "The Barber" and a New American Contralto The Clinton Vocal Club. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. SfXDAT tamrusch concert, Metropolitan Opera. House. MCJ.Vn.vr "AMa." with Meiba, Mciropolltaa i Opera.

ie. P. M. WEDXEsn.W j.i.ino re Association Kail. "LvhenBrin." with Gadsk i ind Kraus, Metro l.olkan Opera.

House. 1 M. THURSDAY CI in Lou Voe.U Club's first conoert. Manorial Hall. FRIDAY Uarb or vill.V with Me rna, Metropolitan Opera Hons M.

S.CPL'WiAV opera matinee. Metropolitan, V. M. The chief musical event, of this week on this side of tho river will be the opening of the Institute's series of piano recitals at Association Hall on Weduesday evening. The artist chosen to inaugurate the series is one of the three notable foreign pianists in America this year.

Alexander Siloti, long tbe private secretary and student of Liszt. Mr. Siloti. as shown by his portrait published in the Eagle recently, is still young enough to ha in the full perfection of his remarkable virtuosity. There has been in his case a gratifying absence of the pretentious brass band booming which recently been in fashion in presenting foreign musicians to the American public, but there is no reason to infer from this that Siloti is not a remarkable pianist.

At this writing he has not played in this country, but his European reputation indicates that music lovers will find distinct pleasure in listening to him. His programme certainly Is most attractive to the eye. containing a group of pieces by unknown Russian composers, with enough of the standard Chopin and Listz pieces to afford every opportunity of comparison with his predecessors. The list in full is: Suite in I minor enctM "I Craven te from "Mem oneo" VarraVi hy J'Tuk VT dnato. op.

ann aTr wehei zo in inino" V.V Consolation Uhaiie II The first concert of the Clinton Vocal Club is announced for Thursday evening at Me Shor'S1 ThiS is you" or chotal consisting of about sixty Rodrt ttUn'r th "hlP Mr. Frederick or liu cIutl havo tIlp distance 1 Reca Holmes, violinist, and Miss Magdalena Perry, contralto: the club will in MtT Blees and madrigals by Morley, Dow land. Barnby, Caldieott, Mendels wl" Present Itn fni U.T eav.St of hy Adolf Jen SJl' in ls Pro away.Maclron, Ballade et Mil leuxiempg lll't. Miss MalaN na'lvrrV Part soncr SkyCrk" 5. rnbv, 'lir.

"arnby of A.loni.. 1 A.tolt Jen Ilnton or; mi. itVh, Part soners the WeK" Vo al n.ih J1' Llcilc p. Kir.re 1,1 "Sunrise" Mls M. itclaI.

ha''l'vVrv KUti The opera at the Metropolitan tends to les Wh smaller musical affairs, both in Manhattan and here, for Mr. Dam rosch draws a considerable audience from Brooklyn The bill this week Is arranged to present both the Italian and (ferrnan ends of his company to advantage, and tho concert to night will introduce several new singers to New York. That charming singer. Mine. mWh the, brunt Programme I c1? Mile.

Suygard and Messrs. Salignae. Boudourcsuuo and Campaign, on Monday Melba will sing in A da for the first, time hero and the cast will introduce a new American contralto who disguises herself as Mme. flrazzl to facilitate her progress in European opera houses. Her name is Stella Brazor Pratt and sr me.

year ago she was a schoolmate of Ma Howe up in Brattloboro, among the tlreen "Mountains where the voices eonie frr.ni. It. is probably owing to the prejudices of New York in favor of foreign artists that. Mrs. Pratt is not proclaiming her nationality.

If she succeeds sb" can afford to admit that, she is an American. Messrs. Iboz. t'ampanari and Boudour esue will sing and Iiirnli.ini will conduct On Wednesday evening "Lohengrin" will be given with Cadski. Kratis.

ilispham. Fischer and Mr. and Mrs. Stuudigl. On Friday the opera will be "The Barber of Seville," with Molba, Salignae.

Campanari, Boudot'ireseiuo and Carbone and with Birnhoni as conductor The announcement for Saturday is not made yet. but it. will be die Herman contingent very likely in "Lohengrin." NEWS FROM A COLLEGE TOWN. i From 't. I.

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MoKay h.el tr Mr. Honti. 'if to tho tlir." of I Ma. i tii ihg canCtM i.Twt be jli trcatltli; hilii iUiija Irish comedy; ibe Skatorial trio, and Han ton ana won. This week's show at the Star will be given by Scribner's Columbian burlesouers, a new organization which gives the usual two burlesques with an olio between.

"The Columbian Reception," the first skit. represents the Evan gelina Cisneros episode and the last one has the title, "Mike from Klondike." No especial promises are made for these, but they will no doubt offer the usual collection of dancing and singing women. The olio has some good names of their(kind: The Bisin City quarter, James Richmond Glenroy, a capable entertainer; Clarice Thomas and Quinn, the Millar sisters, Marie Richmond and Madeline France. The performance is said to hold plenty of fun. Fanny Davevnport has been busy since her engagement at the Amphion in reviving her old Sardou plays, and she will devote thte week at the Fifth Avenue Theater to a number of them.

"La Tosca" will be played on Monday and Friday evenings and the rest of the week will be given up to "Cleopatra," which, from a scenic point of view, is the most remarkable of the series. Miss Davenport is a tireless worker and none of our managers produce plays with finer effects or more lavish expense than she. These Sardou plays, too, suit her style as an actress and in them she is seen to better advantage than in any other dramas of her career "La Tosca," particularly, is blood curdling in its strength and Miss Davenport's revival of it is likely to attract much interest. She will be supported, as usual, by Melbourne Mac Dowell and a strong company. As soon as the struggles for liberty began in Cuba, the Eden Musee commenced putting on exhibition wax groups illustrating the war's progress.

This work has been continued for over two years and the result is that the Musee has a large collection of Cuban wax groups, showing important persons and important scenes connected with Cuba. Recent events have given new interest to these groups; the Musee has remodeled them and thousands of Cubans and sympathizers have view id th? groups. Thecimemato graph is now showing twenty four views and many of them are war scenes. They Include ODEL'L WILLIAMS. actual skirmishes, cavalry clashes aud parades.

One of the views shows the battleship Maine just leaving the Navy Yard to protect the Atlantic coast. The Orchestra continues to give two concerts daily and the programmes are varied and well rendered. The Stage AU Around the World. E. D.

Price has retired from the management of the Pleasure Palace to resume hie former position as general manager for Edward E. Rice and will devote special attention to "The French Maid" at Uae Herald Square. Up at the American Theater on Eighth avenue English opera at popular prices is flourishing mightily. The company is the Castle Square and it is making as big a hit appar ently as the same management did in Boston, where the plan originated. This is the fourth or fifth week and the company will sing the pretty and now seldom heard "Mignon." The highest priced seat is 75 cents and after the curtain goes up there is usually nothing but standing room.

Next Tuesday night Mr. Daly will revive "Twelfth Night" at his theater, with all his original embellishments and lavish attention to details. Miss Rchan will of course repeat the charming performance of Viola and will undoubtedly add to its attractiveness by the naturally advanced power of her work. In the whole range of characters which Miss Rehan has undertaken none has been more of a success than her Viola. Directly on the announce ment of its revival Mr.

Daly was flooded with advance orders for seats and numerous applications for them in serried ranks for theater parties. Pretty and popular Julia will come over to the Montauk next week witli he new Polish play, "Countess Valesca." It is to be hoped 'that she will reserve one or two performances for her Shakspearean parts, for in Brooklyn wo still care for this actress in Shakspeare, though in Man'aauan you have to attach a souvenir or a scandal to a Shakspearean play in order to draw full houses. That queer, little bundle of fun, Frank Daniels, will be at tbe Columbia next week. He has a new opera. "The Idol's Eye," by Smkh and Herbert, which is said to be as funny and as 'tuneful as the same colabora "Wizard of the Nile." "My Friend From India" will come to the Amphion; Vesia Til ley and lier vaudeville company to the "The Pacific with McCoy, to the Grand, and "The Electrician" to the Bijou.

In "The Tree of Knowledge." by R. G. Carton, which will be presented at the Lyceum Theater Monday, Daniel Froham offers a ARTHUR A JHN.N'lE DL'XX. strongly wrought play almost melodramatic in character, but modern in style, simple in its story, and with a pleasant blend oil comedy. Miss Mannering will play the role that was.

performed in London by Fay Davis and Miss Julia Opp (who has been further retained by the management) will create hero the part played abroad by Julia Neilson. Mrs. Whiffen and Miss Skipworth also have parts, and the male roles are assigned to Messrs. Charles WalcDt, Felix Morris, Edward Morgan. William Courtleitrh, Frank Mills and John Findlay.

The play is in live acts. After the run of this drama a number of evening performances of "The Princess and the Butterfly" arc underlined, this play having evidently not yet exhausted its popularity. The borough of Manhattan lias one interesting novelty this week in a theatrical wav, "The Tree ol" Knowledge," by it. C. f'arton, who wrote Lhat charming play, "Liberty Hall," at the Lyceum, and one important re vival of "Twelfth Night" by Daly' on Tuesday night at his theater.

Fanny Dav enport comes to the Fifth avenue with her i old repertory and there Is to be rhange in the cast of "The Highwayman" at the Broadway which occasions much heartburning. The young and pretty Hilda Clark Is out and the less young but more clever Camille D'Arvitle is in as prima donna, and blood Is moving over i the face of the moon. There are no other changes of consequence. Maude Adams moves on her triumphant way at the Gurrick; Julia Marlcwo will play Iter last week it the Knickerbocker in "Countess Valcska;" "The Con querers" goes on seiiiitionally af the Empire; Coghlan is still playing "The Royal Box" at the Garden and the girly quartet is still vying with the white goods counters; The Girl From Paris" at Wallack's, "The Telephone Girl" at the Casino, "The Ballet Girl" at the Manhattan and the "The French Maid" at the Herald Square. 9 GLADYS WALLIS.

week; Mrs. Hoey Heida, now. to be played by Miss Crossman; Captain Fairweath er, now going to Mr. Davidge, and the older Sothern, which now falls, to Edward Esmonde. The plot deals with a big embezzlement and' switches street to Five Points, which it is possible that some readers may need to.

be reminded was once the wickedest part of New York. The scenery may have an historic interest iE if is faithful, for it promises' to show the office of the Banker Bloodgood In 1837; Union square in Union square at night In winter; two scenes in a Five Points' den and the big fire, which will he made as fine a spectacle as the resources of modern stage craft, much advanced since the play was new, will admit. Only two matinees are now given at the Park, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Grand Opera House will have a farce comedy this week. It is called "Who Is Who?" and introduces Kelly and Mason, the popular variety team, as stars.

The piece has been played this season at the Gayety. where it proved highly amusing to large audiences. It has something more of a story than most farce comedies, dealing with the perplexities of a young lawyer who invents a fictitious partner in order to influence business and then has to account for the puzzling situations when this supposed senior partner fails to appear. There is also a love story in which the young lawyer is the central figure. Kelly is the young lawyer and Mason appears as an absurd German capitalist who gets mixed up in all the fun.

Specialties are introduced by Kelly and Mason; Goggin and Davis, the Whiting sisters, Giguere and Boyer, Johnnie Le Fevre and a lot of pretty girls. Until very tecently the Indian Territory, Oklaihoraa and Northern Texas were the hot beds for the propagation of outlawry and crime. Here was the rendezvous of bloodthirsty gangs that killed and plundered. This is the scene and here aTe found the characters for Davis and Keogh's picturesque Western play by Scott Marble, "The Great Train Robbery," which comes to the Bijou tihis week. It was the first American drama attempting to portray life in this section.

It contains incidents as thrilling as those that have occurred in that bandit ridden ANNA. HELD. country. The success of the James brothers seems to have furnished a Incentive to similar endeavors and the world famous Dalton gang sprang into existence. The Bill Cook gang, the Doolin gang, the Buck gang, the Christian gang, che Wyatt gang and numerous other bands of robbers and cattle thieves continued to infest the section.

The operations of certain members of these bands are a part of the plot'of "The Grea't Train Robbery." There are sensational scenes of breathless Interest in the play and humorous ones of the farce comedy order. A realistic train robbery takes place where the express car is blown open with dynamite and the safe is cracked. The scenery is a notable feature of the production, including a reproduction of the famous Red River Canon. The Hanlon's "Superba" goes up to the Gayety this week, with the brilliant spectacle, the ballets and gorgeous stage pictures whidh pleased audiences at the Grand last week. A number of excellent specialties are introduced this season, among them songs and dances by Nellie Daly; clever wTrtwHt nii hv Tpimv school boy act by Guyer, and an excellent cum ui iuo jvuaiia.

ine oaiiets of vivan dieres and soldiers is handsome and there is a larrzft comoanv of hnT pK night the Gayety will have its usual' Sun uay etuiice, i ueiu luaggie cuine, wlho is said to have recovered entirely from the trrin will heart thp. hill nrhor fa A' Tr; appear are Press Eldndge. Conroy and McDonald Smith and Campbell, Collins and Collins, Nelson Downs and Norton and The Sunday night concerts at. thp r.avatv popular. The "Midnight Flood," which comes to the American Theater this week is a dramatic and scenic review of' th Johnstown horror.

The play is of the sensational order and has a story of love, hate and intrigue. The author Egan, had plenty of material to work on, he having been an unwilling witness to the catastrophe. The plot is said to be comprehensible, not too deep, the situation strong, the climaxes well worked out, the comedy element not to have been overlooked, and the scenic embellishments on a large scale. All in all, it is calculated to stir up the American audiences. The Brooklyn Music Hall this week will have those popular entertainers, Arthur and Jennie Dunn, in their taking sketch, "The Actresses and the Bell Boy." Amelia Glover, whoso Illness a few weeks ago was widely published, has now recovered, and will dance with the graoe and freedom which made her one of the most notable wrtman in lior" line rt lha no e.

this week's bill are the Midgeleys; Dixon. Bowers and Dixon, in their sketch, "The WRDSTLING FOR W'BALTH Three John R. Harty, an eccentric juggler; Snyder and Buckley, musical comedians, and Viola in descriptive songs. Hyde Behman's will have a great bill this week. Odell Williams, a comedian who has played with some of the best companies.

in "Pudd nheau llson" and to this country, three celebrated hawthorn jars and a rose Du Barry vase, said to be unique, that cost $12,000. A show of fifty drawings by A. B. Wenzell is open at the Keppel galleries. Many of the pictures will be recognized as the originals of illustrations that have appeared within a few months In the magazines.

The cleverness of this artist is conceded. He draws faces of women with appreciation and refinement and succeeds with the fashionable members of the sex better than with the classic. His drawings for the "Passing of Vivette." for example, show that he would better let the nudo alone until after a season of renewed stuu, tor tne women mere are tubbv form. In the elegant trifling of certain of hc inrE ii, v. ,1 i i onuiuiuing icr several years there is none who wields a better pencil than fie.

He is fitted for this work by taste and in his technic. His people are always in the top of style, always good humored and well fed. One would not. wish to be surrounded forever by folks who had so little character and so infrequent a mind as they, but they certainly rejoice the eye. Sergeant Kendall's portraits, at the Macbeth gallery, make a pleasant little show and are pleasantly mentioned by those who have seen them.

There are about twenty of them, mostly of small size and all in pastel. The sitters include Elihu Vedder, the artist; Joseph H. Choate, Captain Mahan, U. S. and August, Franzen, the artist.

It is pleasant to find the restoration of pastel to notice after a period of almost forgetfulness, and if a few more small shows of this kind could be managed in this city the reappearance of the Pastel Society might be looked for. It has not exhibited, as a society, in several seasons. The statue of General Henry W. Slocum. to be erected next year on the battlefield of Gettysburg perhaps it will one day be duplicated for the city of his residence, for we have the Warren status is to be after the model by Edward C.

Potter, who did some gtod work for the Chicago fair buildings. It is to be of bronze, 14 feet high, and will stand on a plain, substantial granitenpedestal, like that of the Grant statue in this city at about the point held by General Slocum during tho big battle. The de sign which has received this award, carrying with it a remuneration of $23, 000, was successful over eighteen thers. It represents the soldier in fatigue uniform, sealed quietly on his horse, looking into the distance where the fight is raging and keeping a good hold on the rein. The horse, fortunately, is planted on his feet and not rearing impossibly in the old sculptural fashion.

Two pictures have been added to the col lection of Boldini portraits in the Boussod Valadon galleries, those of Mr. White and Mrs. Poor. Evidently Signer Boldini is not going to permit grass to grow under his feet during his stay on our side of the water He has not been here long and he has two important portraits finished already. Mr.

Macmonniesi is hurrying up the figures and eagles for the plaza of Prospect Park, and he is also devising the statue of the late General John B. Woodward for the second wing of the Brooklyn Institute. The sculptor will return to his native city in the spring, and he may finel It sufficiently advanced to wish to stay here. The exhibition of pictures in tho upper assembly room of the Manufacturers' Association on Montague street will open to invited guests to morrow. It is a small showing, but a good one.

The examples of the French and English painters are interesting and adequate. The private view always meaning. the most public of all views of the pictures bought in Europe by the late William II. Stewart, will take place to morrow night, at the rooms of the American Art Associai ion and will be followed by a general view for a few days before the sale occurs. Though not a large collection tho fineness of it.

has made it one of the best known in the world. Henry Mosler will make an exhibition of his latest portraits on February 2 and 0 at his studio in the Carnegij Hall annex. Frederick Keppel issues a priced catalogue of about 1,700 engraved portraits of eminent people. The catalogue has a value for collectors, inasmuch as it is a reliable list of the leading plates thai have been made of some of the best, known statesmen, authors, artists, musicians, actors, scientists, prelates, physicians, soldiers, sailors and historical celebrities. The dimensions of each plate are given.

The collection of a well known Brooklyn connoisseur who has for years made a specialty of American pictures, Is shortly to be offered for sale, it is said, and among the pictures will be found many of high value. The Academy of Design lu.s received two or three gifts of late, among them a east from St. Oaudens' "Puritan" and a portrait by C. It Leslie, It. of Philadelphia.

At the Avery Gallery to morrow an exhibition will be opened of thirty drawings of negro llfo by R. W. Kembel. the; illustrator. and of Edwin A.

Abbey C. M. S. "A CHRISTMAS MEMORY." Christinas is past, dear little Mario, With its joys, its sorrows and rare, But deep is the grief of tbo loved ones at home When they look on your vacant, chair. Where are you now, little darling? Are you up in God's realms so high.

Moving through spafe with your bright angel face Pressed through the blue of the sky? TOok down; you may sea littie Eva, Who clasps her brother's hand Something she sees through a rift in Ioud.s Brings to her ees a bright, liht; tho "Whose face is that Stinking, And "where did I si it before? Dook, brother look, it. i. sisr.i Mario!" But a cloud parsing by Hid the i.i' in the sky, And if passed from their gaze evermore. M. A.

HY A N. A CHRISTENING PARTY. There was a christening patty on the evening of January IV, at. the res.detiee of Herbert E. Hall, Thirte.

nth street. Singing, daneing and a collation were Ik mam feature's of the CeeaMOI; "le 1 tbe ehrist ing of Mr. Hall's son. Ilerber 1 1. Hail.

Among those present were nr. and Mrs. Sx hrueder. Miss (lussie Ilariung. Iir.

Httt fleld, Mr. and Mrs. Atebb y. Van and ebil'lren. .1.

It li.tli, Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield. Nir. Mrs.

Sehorling. an Mrs. Mrs. J' inn Miss Mr. Gedney, Mr.

aley. Mr. iri II. I. Gladwin.

Mr. and Mrs. Wheel, and Mrs. Hazel. Tho male ostrich at times utters a cry which Rounds like an effort to speak with the mouth shut 1 I I.