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MUSICAL.WQULD'ST LEARN MUSIC?THEN READ ATTENTIVELY THE

AUTICLE BELOW.

Scope and Purpose of the NationalConservatory of Music Undoubted

Advantages For Students ofthe Divine Art, Etc.

The board of directors of the National Con­ servatory of Music of America, No. 126-28 East Seventeenth street, New York City, lias issued the following circular in relation to the January semi-annual entrance examina­ tion:

'ihe semi-annual entrance examination of the National Conservatory of Music, 126 and 128 East Seventeenth street, New York, will be held u follows:

Composition—Jan. 9, 1893, from 8 A. n. to 12 11.

Piano and organ —Jan. 10, 9 A, M. to 12 u., and 2 to 5 p. M.

Harp, 'cello and all other orchestral instru- m*»tt—Jan. 11, from 9 A. u. to 12 u.

Violin—J»n. 11, 2 to 5 p. 11.Orchestra —Jan. 11, from 4 to 6 P.M.Voice Jan. 12 and 13, from 9 A. w. to 12 M.,

2 to 5 p. >!., and Jan. 13, from 8 to 10 P. u.CWm J»n. 13, from 8 to 10 P. M.The object of tho National Conservatory of

Music being the advancement of Music in the United States through the development of Ame­ rican talent, applications for admission into the classes of the Conservatory are hereby invited. It is expected tbat positive aptitude shall be shown by the candidates for admission, jrithout' regards to the applicant's stage ot progress, and that his or her desire to receive the instruction imparted in the Conservatory shall be the out­ come of a serious and well-defined purpose.

The successful candidates will enjoy the tuition of the best teachers that can be engaged, and, after graduation, will be afforded oppor­ tunities of making known their accomplish­ ments, thus securing engagements. The condi­ tions of admission as to lees, etc. (varying ac cording to the classification of tbe pupil), are determined by the board of directors. Instruc­ tion in all branches will be given free to students whose talent and circumstances warrant it.

The course embraces tuition in singing, operatic and miscellaneous, solfeggio and theory of music, stage deportment, el .cution, fencing and Italian, piano, organ, harp, violin, viola, 'cello, flute, oboe, clarionet, bassoon, French horn, cornet, trombone, harmony, counter­ point and composition, history of music, cham­ ber music, orchestra and chorus.

PURPOSE AND SCOPB.The Conservatory has been in existence

seven years; it enlists the services of 53 in­ structors; its actual pupils number 418, anil It supplied tuitiou since it was established to •2297 pupils.

The conservatory places the best Attainable musical education within the reach of all; it is open to all persons giving proof of suffi­ cient natural talent to justify their admission. The full course of instruction covers from three to six years, but varies with the apti­ tude and diligence of the students.

TUB STUDIES.The vocal studies are divided \nton prepar­

atory, & coiiccrt, an oratorio, and an artist's course; an amateur course has also been es­ tablished for the many applicants desirous of profiting by the advantage offered by the conservatory, without intent to embrace a professional career. The course includes singing, solfeggio, and theory of music, na­ tive diction, history of music, deportment, fencing and chorus.

The instrumental studies Include piano, organ, harp; violin, violoncello, contra­ bass, flute, oboe, clarionet, bassoon, French horn,cornet, trombone, etc. An orchestral class has been made up, and tuition in sol­ feggio, harmony, counterpoint and composi­ tion and history of music is supplied to all students when sufficiently advanced. Classes for every department are also in operation.

THE FACULTY.The membership of the faculty embraces

the foremost artists and instructors of America, and it may be affirmed that no con­ servatory abroad can lay claim to so admir­ ably efficient a corps of teachers. Here is a list of the teachers under the chict direction of the famous Dr. Antonin Dvorak:

Sint/iug Signor Komualdo Sapio, Mr. Chris­ tian Fritscb, Miss Katharine W. Evans, Mr. Oscar Saenger, Monsieur Victor Capoul, Mr». Eeebe Law ton, Miss Annie Wilson, Mr. Wilford Walters.

Opera clan—Mr. Victor Capoul.Conductors nf opera—Mr. Anton Seidl, Mr.

fluftav Hinrichs.Operatic chorus— Mr. Oustav Fllnriobs.Repertoire—Signer Ernesto Belli.Oratorio class— Mrs. Beobe Lawton.Piano Mr. Kaf»«l Josefl'y, Miss Ad tie Mar-

gnlieg, Miss Elinor Comstock, Mrs. Joisie Pin- ney Baldwin, Mr. Leopold Winkler, Mr. J. (J. Iluneker.

f'rej/u.'l'fory piano — Mis« M«b»l Phippi, Mi.is Adnlnirte Okoll, Mrs. M. Btrdilty, Miss Carrie Konigsberg, Mr. Hubin Ooldmark, Mr. Albert Mililenberg.

Oryan— Mr. Samuel P. Warrin, Mr. Horatio W. Parker, Mr. John White.

Harp— Mr. John Cheshire.Violin Madame Camilla Urso, Mr. Leopold

Licbtcnberg, Mr. Jan Koert, VI r. Juan fiui- t.ago, Mr. Joseph Kovarik.

Viola Mr. Jan Koert.Violoncello—Mr. Victor Herbert, Mr. Einlie

Knell.Contrnlat* Mr. Ludwlg MiiDOlj,Hute—Mr. Otto Oesterle.Oloc— Mr. Arthur Trepte.Clnrinnet—Mr. Kichard Kohl.Itnusoon—Mr. Adolf Sohst.French horn— Mr. Carl Pieper.Cornft— Mr. Carl Sohst.Trombone— Mr. Frederick L*ttcb.Competition Dr. Antonin Dvorak.Harmony and counterpoint Mr. Horatit) W.

Parker, Mr. John White.Harmony— Mr. Maurice A. Strathotte, Mr.

Ednard li. Kinnoy, Mr. Michael Bander, Mr. Bubin Ooldmark.

,?o'/«;'f>° Mr. Johannes Wersching«r, Mr. Albe to Frencelli, Miss Lvila LaFvtra.

Chamber mutic— Mr. Leopold Lichtenberg.Orchestra and chorus— Dr. Dvorak.History of music—Mr. Henry T. Finck.i.e«io» Mr. W. V. Holt.Italian—Signer Pietra Cianelli.Staye deportment— Mr. M. Bibeyran.Fencing— Mr. K. Senac.Accompanist- Signer Ernesto Belli.A very important adjunct of The National

Conservatory of Music is the Thenlrt d' Application, in which the advanced pupils of the Conservatory will have weekly oppor­ tunities of essaying their powers in carefully prepared representations; Slitdett/s' Concerti will also be given fortnightly, and munat'ers will be able to form estimates of t!i« per­ formers' worth amid particularly advan­ tageous surroundings.

A CHANGE IN CUSTOM.

Musical Notabilities Forcing Their Way Into Society.

One of the most characteristic traits that foreign musicians are surprised to discover during their visits to this country is its lack of social hospitality. In Europe the artist is lionized. In America he is ignored. How­ ever much our fashionable people may value the art of a great performer, their interest in him generally ceases when the concert is ended. We extend liberal support and ap­ preciation to music, but, show few attentions to its performers. Nobody of social eminence invited Sarasate to dinner, or held a reception in honor of Wilhelmj, or gave a children's party in honor of Josef Hofmann.

NATIVES ALSO SUFFER.Yet America is not invidious in this dis­

play of reserve. Our own people of talent re treated as coolly asif they were strangers. Nettie Carpenter, Camilla. Urso nnd Tercsiiia Tiia were alike applauded in public and neg­ lected in private. Our prophets and opera singers are without hospitable honor in their own country. Xelie de Lussan lenped into renown, hot water, and a high salary with

the Boston Ideals without being received by the fashionable elect.

^*k- CASES IN POINT.But on going to London she was at once

taken up by Belgravia, and is now on the visiting list of Windsor and Balmoral. The Queen recently gave her a brooch, in which the royal monogram, V. I. R., was set in diamonds, not a very costly present, yet of great value as a memento of the friendship exigent between the two Indies. Further than this Her Majesty requested the singer's photo­ graph and desired our vivacious Carmen to write her name in the royal birthday book. As Miss De Lussan is still under 30 she com­ plied with the latter request without hesita­ tion. But while she was in her own country no one gave her diamonds or particularly wished (or her name in an autograph album.

Similarly Miss Agnes Huntington had to

fo nbroiid in order to get into the best society, n this country she was merely a singer in

oratorio, concert and light opera. In Lon­ don she was a personal friend of the Princess of Wales. Antoinette Sterling and Belle Cole were social nobodies with us, but they arc people of some fashionable distinction in London.

THE INNOVATION.Until last winter our interest in the greatest

geniuses of the world went no further than their art. What had not been accomplished by Patti and Gerster, Alvary and Tamagno was achieved by Emma Eanies. The wife of Julian Story was admitted timidly into Mad­ ison and Fifth avenues. The Puritan con­ servatism of society, thns assailed by a very pretty, graceful, well-bred young woman, succumbed to art, and the De Keszkes and M. Lasalle were invited from the Metropoli­ tan stage into the boxes.

The dinner given last week by the Vander- bilts to Johannes Wolf and Joseph Hollmiin was n courtesy due to the innovation in our old-t'ashioned systems effected by the tact and charming manner of Mrs. Julia Story. We cannot do it so well yet as it is done in Europe. But before the season is over Pad- erewski will be invited to -linncr without be- iug requested to pluy the piano.

PADKllKWSKI'S REAPPEARANCE.

An All-Hound Improvement Visible in tlie Master's Work.

Ignnz Paderewski, the great pianist, reap­ peared in America on the nfteruoon of Jan. 2, at Music Hall, New York City. This was his firsteoncort of the season. The great artist received a perfect ovation from a tremendous audience. The receipts were over $6000. As to thepinnisl's playing and his appearance on this occasion one of the most interesting descriptions is the following from the New York Sim:—"And somesligiit alteration there is in Paderewski's playing. There seems more strength, more confidence, more assur­ ance in what he does and a happier, more cheerful spirit animates all his renderings.

"Last year his playing was that of a man who had conquered himself and his sorrows. Now, in addition, it is that of a conqueror who has commanded fame and won the world's applause. It would certainly be a pity if he were ever to lose that dreamy sad­ ness which formerly hung like a misty veil over almost every phrase, but Paderewski is too true a poet to drop that subtle charm out of his delineations. Tbeaddecl force and bold­ ness of his present manner give much more variety and brilliancy to everything, and can only be counted as a gain, where, indeed, had seemed to be no lack.

"In looks he is the same; his hair still makes a golden glory round his head and seems to frame his delicate, sweet, pure face. His manner is the same gentle, dignified, calm and gracious. He is the ideal type of a mu­ sician but yet deserves, perhaps, a better fate tiinu to be made the hero ot a musical novel."

Musical Notes."The Temptation of St. Antnony" la the title

of an Opera by Ohio.Charles Alfred Byrne has sold his new opera

"Venus" to Oeorge W. Lederer.The Boston music critics are doing their best

to drive Arthur Nikiseh out of the city.Senor Rafwel Diaz Albertina, the violin vir-

tuosa, has decided to make Now York his per­ manent home as a soloist and teacher.

Sir Arthur Sullivan is in the Riviera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert, but is hardly well enough to do anything with it at present.

Elsa Roge, an operatic performer, killed her­ self at St. Petersburg in the presence of her lover, Prince Stolewski, because be had wearied

of her.The law suit between Pauline Hall and

Marcus Mover has be?n adjusted by the payment on the part of Miss Hall of tbe sum of $2100 to Mr. Mover.

The Swedish soprano, Caroline Ostberg, prima donna of the Stockholm Opora House, has signed for a concert tour of this country, beginning early in 1893.

Mine. Caroline Oitberg, prima donna, lately of the Royal Opera House ftf Stockholm, will ting in various American cities under the man­ agement of Louis Blumenberg.

The Bostonians are repeating at the Tromont Theatre, Boston, the phenomenal business done by them during tbe past two months at tbe Garden Theatre, New York, with "Robin Hood." Tbe opera has been presented by the Boston fans for five months in Mew York alone during the past year.

Another linger who n.'ed to be a favorite at tbe Metropolitan during Mr. Stanton's regime is now judged beneath all criticism in Europe. Herr Heinrioh Gudohus recently appeared at the Aix-in-Chapello Opera House, and tho critics declare sadly that his voice is merely a remnant of iis olden tenor sweetness.

Mme. Mnterna, whose achievements in ora­ torio and opera are well remenibered here, receives a salary of 24,000 florins a year at the Imperial Opera House, Vienna. At the close of the present season the eminent Wagncrian singer intends to retire from Vienna and go on a tour through the principal cities of Europe.

Signer 0. Olivieri, the singing teacher, has come to the conclusion that the voices of American women, particularly soprano, are the best in the world. Signor Olivieri will return to Paris in May with new ideas and plans for the organization of a conservatory of music in New York, to be under the joint direction of Jean >nd Edouard de Reszke and himself.

Van Dyck, the tenor, who is now rivaling the renown of Jean de Reszke on the Continent, is engaged during half the year in Vienna, for which he receives 24,000 florins. This repre­ sents only a lesser portion of his income. He is announced to sing in London, Bayreuth and Paris, for whicb engagements his salary is higher than tbat paid by the Imperial Opera House.

Etelka Gerster, who sacrificed to the instincts of motherhood one of the most beautiful voices that ever charmed an audience, has not yet sur­ rendered all hope of regaining her eminence in opera. Some ten days ago she- gave a concert in Berlin at the Singakademie, for the purpose of proving that her once famous organ bad re- eovered its power. The attempt was unsuccess­ ful, and the prima donna has retired perma­ nently into seclusion.

Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, was re­ cently asked where he was able to compose best, and under what circumstances. He replied tbat there was no place in which he had so mnny inspirations as in a railway carriage. There is something in tbe rapidity of tbe mo­ tion, in the clanging of tho iron and in the whirring of the wheels which seems to excite his imagination and supplies materials for a host of harmonies.

Giovanni Tagliapietra, the tenor, li suing Oscar Hammeretein, the theatrical manager, to recover $2200 for breach of contract. Hammer- stein organized an opera company in 1890, with "Tag," as the tenor is popularly known, as the star. He was to receive $150 a week, and $50 was to bo deducted for ouch failure to appear. "Tag" absentel himself twice. The first time Hammerstein deducted $50, and on tbe occasion of his second absence "Tag" was discharged. The star said he was sick wiih a severe cold and could not attend. Hammerstein says be had to disband the company in consequence. This the tenor denies.

DRAMATIC-DRAMATIC CRITICS.

An Able Body of Men Who Receive Much Unmerited Abuse.

Probably no other men in the world are compelled to submit in silence to so large and varied a share of ill-tempered abuse as they who patiently, faithfully, and calmly sit through the first performances of new {.lays and record their impressions of them in the daily newspapers. No person of sense who reads the newspapers and goes to the theatre can deny that the great volume of contem­ porary theatrical criticism, whatever faults it may have, is amiable and gracious. It is also of a much better average quality, in a literary sense, than the plays with which it deals.

The dramatists and actors of this era, and incidentally the theatre managers, are not submitted to the cold and searching criticism that awaits the author of books, and, as a matter of fact, they get much more notice than the intrinsic value of their work de­ serves, because the ephemeral productions of the modern theatre are continually an upper­ most theme of talk, and the newspapers ever print what their readers most want to read.

A novel by Mr. Ilowells, a literary artist of rare skill, is reviewed in half a column; a play by Bronson Howard or Augustus Thomas gets columns of notice, written with a view to its ephemeral quality and the large and various-minded public it is desigued to please.

But play reviews restricted to mere puffery would be valueless and stupid. Therefore the honest and competent play reviewers, who were never before so numerous and indus­ trious and influential as at present, are fre­ quently subjected to the spiteful attacks of unsuccessful speculative showmen, incom­ petent playwrights, and the women and men of the stage whom the public refuses to ap­ plaud, and who stupidly blame the news­ papers, or pretend to. for their failure. Such attacks, though they are maliciously vitu­ perative and oft-repeated, are never heeded by intelligent and self-respecting newspaper writers. ___ ___

Pootlight Flickering*"Niobe" has reached Australia. 'Pete Dailey will star next season. ' *Crane will do Faltiajf next season.Mansfield will soon portray Shylock.In Vienna they do not applaud during tlie

acts.Willard intends to play permanently in New

York.William Murphy is Joseph Murphy's real

name.Paris has listened to 1250 performances of the

"Chimes of Normandy."Minstrel Bob Slavin, who died last week,

leaves a wile and one child.Louis L. James is about to be married to Miss

Alphie Hendrijks, a member of his company.May Brookyn joined the Palmer Co. this

week in Boston, playing her old part in "Ala­ bama."

'Frisco will shortly see the first American performance of Sydney Grundy's "Arabian Nights."

The Kendals will open in London on Satur­ day, their first performance in tbat city in three years.

A. M. Palmer's Stock Co. will take possession of their borne theatre Feb. 4, for tho remainder of tbe season.

Ralph Delraore and Gertrude Dawes were married at the residence of Mrtj. Espinola, the sister or Mr. Dclmorc, Dec. 19.

In "Old Kentucky," by U. T. Daizy, lately produced in the West, a gallant Kcntuckiau is the hero of some blue grass episodes.

Duse is said to speak English even worse than Janauxchok, Rbea, or Modjeska, but she is not to torture U3 with pigeon English.

A heartless biographer says that Madge Ken- dal made her debut at the Marylobone Theatre in October 1853 that stands for forty.

Ricci and Tirendclli's opera, "Athenais," has been produced at Uossina. Athenais was a Grecian maid who became an empress.

Joseph Arthur's new drama of Indiana life is to be culled the "Corncracker," and it will dis­ place from our stage his "Blue Jeans."

Sims and Raleigh are writing a eomedy called "Fanny," for Charles Frohmnn, with a leading part meant to be suitable for Jobnstone Bennelt.

Julia Marlowe has taken a fancy to collect odd and rare books, and at a recent sale in New York was a heavy purchaser of high- priced volumes.

In Steele Maokave's World's Fair Theatre the scenes will bo painted on sheets of iron 800 feet high. There will be 12 feet of water under the stage.

At the time Shakespeare wrote his plays there were not in all tho wot Id as many Knplish- speaking people as there aro now in New York and New Jersey.

Of the Liliputian;, Solma Qoerner, who is sick this week, is 30; Miss Toni Meister is 28; Max Walter, 2G; Miss Mincben Becker, 21; Miss Bertha Jaeger, 24.

Ex-convicts "Spite" Hennessy and "Kid MeC'>y," of "The Stowaway" Co., are having a well-known author write a play for them to star in next season.

Joseph Haworth, who is now appearing in "The Crust of Society," will before long bring out a new play by his brother William, entitled "Tho People's King."

"Fritz in Congress" Is the title of a new comedy which Sydney Rosenfeld is engaged in writing for J. K. Emmet, and which is to be produced next season.

Thomas Q. Seabrooke was once a bank clerk, but left tbe business in disgust, and that is said to be the reason why he almost faints when forced to sign a check.

"The New South," the latest Southern drama, which is by Clay M. Greene, was brought out at tbe Broadway Theatre, New York, last Monday night, with considerable success.

"Deacon Brodie," a melodrama by Robert Louis Stevenson and W. E. Henley, and "Beau Austin," a comedy drama by the same authors, have just been published in book form.

Henry James, whose first play was a fair suc­ cess over a year ago, has just finished a three act comedy for Augustin Duly that will prob­ ably open his New London Theatre about Easter.

Lady Brooke has a Shakesncarean garden at Warwick Castle, where grow and blossom every flower and shrub named by the immortal bard. Tho Prinoe of Wales planted the Orst specimen.

Henry Guy Carleton is rewriting "Ye Earlie Trouble," with a view to emphasizing its seri­ ous elements, so that it may no longer be over­ come by the more excellent humor of the play as performed.

The announced appearance of the New York Church Choir Opera Company in "Tbe Black Hussar" in this city will not occur; and as a consequence the Grand Opera House will bo closed next week.

Mr. (Jeorge W. Ledcrer has assumed the man- agement of "The Isle of Champagne" company, succeeding Mr. Charles McGcachy. The latter and comedian Seabrooke, it is said, had a dis­ agreement and they decided to part.

David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland" embod­ ies the incident of the poem, "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night," in a romantic story of Mary­ land life. It is in this play that Louise Leslie Carter will return to comedy next season.

In A. R. Haven's "An American," to be used by Sol Smith Russell soon, the life of Abraham Lincoln up to the time of his nomination for tho Presidency is depicted, and Mr. Russell will impersonate the rail-splitter who became a statesman.

Edward Milton Royle's "Friends" has created a veritable sensation throughout tbe country. The author, has in his first dramatic efforts produced a work which well-known critics have declared worthy of a place in the list of few native artistic productions.

Fanny Davenport is ambitions, and talks of going to London with her "Cleopatra" next season. Some one ought to whisuer gently to her that Sarah Bernhardt tried U and tailed.

Valued Indorsementof Scott's Emulsion is contain­ ed in let­ ters from the medi­ cal profes­ sion speaking of its gratify* ing results in their practice.

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and that they do not want American actors in London any more than we want English here.

Baroness Blanc, for so the ladv is billed, made her New York debut last Monday night, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, in "Deception," a fl msy adaptation of Dumas' "Le Demi- Monde," whicb now holds the stage of two of the New York theatres. The star was a failure, but her dresses were not.

The thrifty Chicago gentlemen who are ele­ vating art and their bank accounts at one fell swoop, have not made a brilliant success of Miss Ada Rehan's solid silver statue. Cnly the head and feet of the great actress are shown, and tho features of the first are said to look sour and in­ dicate Nemesis rather than Justice, while the latter, according to a wicked and cruel corres­ pondent, are built on the plans and specifica­ tions of a fire hydrant.

Stuart Robson, who has been very successful this season on the road, says that instead of tbe drama deteriorating, there has never been in tbe history of the drama such advancement as the people of to-day can point to. "Playhouses," he says, "are now pala-cee of magnificence, the ranking of actors is a thing of tbe past, and as for play-writing, it has become aa much a sci­ ence as house-building to the architect, a struc­ ture erected on fundamental rules and prin­ ciples."

Junius Brutus Booth, who is now a member of the Mason-Manola company, will retire from the stage at the end of the New York engage­ ment of that organization. He has a strong penchant for tbe study of medicine, and baa de­ cided after much thought and consultation with his mother, Mrs. Agnes Booth-Schoeffel, that he should follow the bent of bis inclinations. He will take the three years' course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and hopes to make tbe name of Booth as famous in medical as it is in theatrical history.

F. C. Burnand, of Punch, and Edward Solo­ mon, who, in addition to his own talents, once had the temporary honor of being Lillian Rus­ sell's husband, are collaborating on a comic opera. Mr. Burnand, whose humor is at times somewhat occult, i» said by those that have seen portions of the libretto to have excelled himself in wit. Mr. Solomon, it is stated, has been equally felicitous in numbers. The story is based upon ono by Charles Dickens, and, like its original, the operetta will bear the title of "The Cricket on the Hearth."

When Laura. Burt wns acting in the West, last season, an admirer, under some peculiar impulse, presented her with a deed of a lot in South Omaha. It was just before tho big Western boom and everyone told Miss Burt that the lot was only good enough to plant cabbages on, so she thought too little of the matter to even have the deed filed, but kept it in the botfom of her property trunk, never giving the matter another thought until last Friday, when she received an offer from a real estate man in Omaha of $5200 for the property.

The numerous articles by actors in the news­ papers nowadays brings to mind a story fur­ nished one of them since by M. B. Curtis. He had paid "Col." Millikin $50 to write it, and Millikin had his office boy copy it, word for word, from an old magazine. Everybody laughed at it as a good joke, but a young com­ poser, who at present, has an opera running at a Broadway theatre does not look upon almost a similar transaction as anything like fun. It is said he paid a youn ; and clever tr.usician to com­ pose his music .'or him, and little by little bo is finding that every note has been stolen.

Steolo MacKaye is said to be in great feather in Chicago and is blowing considerably about his World's Fair venture by telling how bis, new theatre-scenery will be painte 1 on sheets of iron 300 feet high, how his stage will have twelve feet of water under it. whereon to show the maritime picturfs of his Columbus spectacle, and how instead of a curtain a number of im­ mense searchlights will flash their ra*ft' across the proscenium opening and thus throw tbe stage into impenetrable gloom. Millionaires are said to be backing him, so probably they won't mind losing their money. Chicago, by the way, will be the crank centre of the Union until theFair is over.

Go^sipers abroad say that Sarah Bernhardt's reckless son, Maurice, has squandered all of his own fortune and not a little of Sarah's money at baccarat, and as his independent little wife re­ fuses to support him any longer they have quar­ relled and separated. Then business has not been exactly successful of late with the great actress. Several of her ventures have not been rich in results. Finally they have burlesqued her Cleopatra, and represent tlie divine as mildly dancing and singing Ti-ra-ra Boom-de- ay, and Sarah doesn't like it a bit. One can fancy the choice but translatable variety of French profanity with which the great tragedi­ enne discusses the succession of misfortunes.

When Stuart Robson first produced "Our Bachelors" this season it happened that tbe actor who took the opposite part to Itobson was taken sick and a substitute assumed his place. In the fistic encounter at tho end of the third act of the play this substitute gave Mr. Robson what the comedian thought too severe a punch and he gave it back with interest. This the substitute also repaid, and before the audience could realize what was happening the scene had turned to a genuine pugilistic exhibition. Mr. Kobson got the best of it, however, and gave his adversary a blow thnt sent him to tho ex­ treme end of tho footlights. Tho curtain at that moment descended and tbe substitute was forced to bow his way b»ok behind the scenes amid roars of applause from the delighted audi­ ence.

COLUMBIA WINS THIS CUP.

Bine and White Finishes First in the Intercollegiate Chess Tourney.

The intercollegiate chess tournament took plnce in New York during last week, anil was concluded Jan. 2, when Columbia, by win­ ning two games secured the cup for iirst time. This tournament has been the most interest­ ing chess event which has ever occurred in Now York City. Games have been played which could not have been excelled by pro­ fessionals.

Ilymes', Columbia, record of winning six games out of a possible six is really aline performance in itself. To-day the Columbia men won two panics over (be Pnnceton men. Wilson, Harvard, beat Kumsteatl, Yale, and Ballon, Harvard, beat Skinner, of Yale, which secured for the Crimson the second place. The final score follows:

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