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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1897)
"'' THE COURIER. ' ' . - .. . . t EST IB' '' m: THE PASSING SHOW. really h you listened you forgot that the hand organs play it, and tbat the chaos Jh.t tuaid carrols it morn and evo intbo Hat overhead, and when she says "Q, let me sit beside you in your eyes you 'The Bostanians have bean ith ub again in their new opera, "The Sere- nade,' by Victor Herbert. Tbe opera k would B5tbe6id her any old place even a fart disappointment nicer one , na. if Bhe had caod you a woU. May the heard Herbert'. "Wizard of the Nile. YMr8 touch her ever so lightly, and may . I expected him to go on doing that fort f 8mi,o b a9 j h . . ol thing and even better. But "The aIwavg Serenade" is just tbo ordinary, tuneless ' ' American light opera, with tho ordinary last Sunjay wa8 jjf nry CIay Barna- meaningless orchestration. The only bee's sixfv.fniirth. birthdnv. and tchen pretty air in it ia the serenade, which all the couipanv pu,ed out in lhe5r spec;a, car tor Kozceetor bunaay morning, tncy thocaet sicg continuously. Ah for the Bostonians, they are still tbei'r inimitable eelvej. William Mc Donald has gone off sadly in voice and phjBique. He is just a used up tenor now, who'now and then castB tho worn took a eet .of waiter and Ecrvicolrotu the Hotel Henry and mndeaday of it on the mad. Anton Seidl and his orchestra have smile cf other days .across the foat- been bcro as3;sjDg at the concert of the lights. Ho deigncu to appear only once cjub which Cnllltaeir "The United Sing lastwcek. .His people live down at Du- ers or Pittsburg.' Tho club ismadoup lutb.und when ho is here ho has a win- entirely of Germans, Borne two hundred ning way o! flipping oir to see them and and fiffy ot them an( tbev wcr0 a filori. letting his understudy sicg his part oua 6;gllt to behold s they sit on the The tear have begun to U 11 on all the (,tag0 of tho Carnegie hall that evening. old war horses of tho company. Eugene- Thcy are men from M waikg ot ylfe. from Cowles is the only really -vigorous man in lhg niacliiT:e shop and iron mills and the organization. He nover looked bet- gCiO0jB anj mercantile houses. Big Utflr bang better. Ho is both a brigand bearded old fellows who wore two pairs andataonk in this opera, and his coe- 0f elaEHSF. and dapper young men who xumc3 are properly designed to accent- wore tube rose8 ia lbeir buttonholes and uato his stalwart proportions. Ho is wbo ha(j buxom blonde sweethearts just the man to do tho jolly monk, and gomewherc in the audience. They sang the penurious composar has actually many , about ..jtoseczeit" aud granted him one decent solo. For who would be a ckaskred menk, When there's love in the world without lick?" Can't you just hear him sing it? "Liebcs Hertzcben,"' and it was good to hear them growl out those big German syllables in their big German voices, and it was refreshing to see bow seriously they tookthemsslvo?. Finally they sang "Lobe Wohl," the old.ssng that the dear Deutch sing down Id tbo Turner hall -Jessie Bartlett Davis is as infectiously about two o'clock in the morning when happy as ever. In tbo first act she ap- they are feeling at pcaca with tho woild. pears in skirts and seems rather a girt really after the leonine head of chunky, ordinary little woman who is, Anton Scidl bad once conhontrd you, alss! no longer young. But presently you thought very littlo about the poor ahe toddles out in the costume cf a "United Singeis." Theio is a peculiar Spanish,, lad and, in spits of certain magnetism about that man's person and obvious jpliysiral disadvantages, Rich- a peculiar magic about his face. Ire anl is himself again. Yte. when her member no other face so finely chiselled, coats are properly made the looks ao sensitive, eo suggestive of an acutely younger, prettier, oven more slender in nervous temperament. It has been trout ers. called a classic face, but tbat is a mis- I had a funny little experience.Iast leading appellation; compare it with any year with .Temic. It fell to my lot to face of Grecian sculpture and you will call upon her and humbly patiiion her to perceive the difference. What centurioa sing for the Press Club benefit. She 0f tempest and revolt, what warfare of was exceedingly cordial and made me the spirit, what moral upheavals lie be the recipient of numerous touching per- tstesn a face like this and those happy ,'EOoal cjnfidences which she evidently pfgan ftcrs ihat 6mile down on us from expected me to "print' and which, not. th-j pedertals of the Elgin marbles! Tho being- a prtts agent, I did not. Well, centuries hve Itft their mark upon us that night I heard her in "Robin Hood" artfr all. ' When tho new Semitic ie and said some things in my notic of ligio came into the - we6t, its ardors her performance of which she did .not burned awey tli9Ecreco beauty fiomtt;e approve and she waxed wroth and wrote classic face, and mayhap, tco, something an indignant letter to the papers laying 0f it3 arth"nes3. Sometimes I have alio would not ring at tho benefit be- thought that Christ'sfaceasitappeared causs of my notice and indited a Hunting jn early Italian art was the first modorn epistle at me in which she called ms a faco CVer painted. At any rate the wolf in sheep's clothing" a sad reflec- world has bean slowly approximating tionupen my dressmaker. And eingshq toward thatspiritual type of baauty ever would not, and J had only tho comfort- slcce, and the peifect, pbyEical radianco ing knowledge that I had told the truth 0j the childhood of the nations is left us which u not always as comforting as BOmore. That cameo face cf Seidl's is it might be. Yet if I had published all fairly aquiver with this spiritual fine, her personal confidences to the town she DeeFt no m0re like a classic fa3 than tho would probably have been pleased. Such faces or Keats'and Shelley were like tho. are the inexplicable caprices of prima placid, perfect countenance of Publius donnu! Virgilius Maro with its wbo!esome, self- Bat in spite of our Jiff I was mighty gatisfied vigor and the ambrosial locks glad to see Jessie toddle oat upon the curling about it Jibnsens! Wo ara stage the other night. Sli9 doea tesm an Bick 0 that soul-sicbnets which to cajoy it all 60, the prancing and caper- 'masters th hiart and wears tho body."' ingand warbling, that she charms you There are othc ra beside Ibsj-n and Sud iato mirth youreelf. After half a dozen erminn who have enlargement or the encores in the last act someone in tho spirit, gallery howled -Promise Men and all thttbig, enthusiastic audiecci caught,- .The first numlerHerrSeidcondvcted fire aad bawled -Promis; Me, O Promise was 'Schumann's "ilh'enish symphony Me!' She stepped laughingly tOHhrinE Sat, opus 97, 1 believe. Ho proba freat. again and asked, "What shaH.l biy selected it ta a graceful compliment prcmiejou?''andtho house applauded to the "United German Singers." 1 aad the' 'gallery jelled, "You know." .confess I did not pay much attention Atd, stasdiag tbcre in the costumo cf a until the andante in A flat, when all the S4ak lad, f he saag it, that doughty noisy brasses stopped and the clarionets ditty which refuse to grox old. Acd took up their beautiful melody, into which tho bassoons aad violas presently drifted with a restleps sighing down amocg the 'cellos. That aaovemcat is like an old Germau legend toldattwi- ligbtjlt is the song ot the Rhine daugh terp bathed ia the mystic airs oJ mediae val legendry. with ruined castles and moonlight and lovers and all the beloved German accessories. It drifts through one's fancy afterward like a ballad o' Ludwig Uhlacd's, so calm, so tender, so exquisite. Then comes the missive religioro movement, the enthronement of the Cardinal in the Cathedral of Cologne, and all the brasses come triumphantly back and the trombones which Men- delEEohn eaid were "too sacred to beueed often" fairly lift the Bishop's mitre to his'head. It is the triumph of the cross, the pomp of tho Roman church, which was more splendid than the pomp of the Caesars. Then comes the "lee down," tli9 fifth movement in which the good citizens of Cologne peer out of tbo church all in their holiday clothes and the pretty girls all in their Sunday ribbonp, and they stand a bit and gossip in the square and laugh in the spring sunshine musl havo been a spring day and then gooff to their dinneis and their beer gardens and probably sing "Lebe Wohl" till tho stars come out. The soloist of tho occasion was Mad ame Julie Rive-King, and she played Rubinstein's concerto in D minor, which Teresa Carreno played hero last year. Madame Rive-King is oce of the most sch larlyof musicians. Sho commands a wonderful breadth and depth ot tone. She is equal to the most brilliant Lashes of technique and her hand is like a gauntlet of steel. Probably her work would appeal more strongly to musicians than to an auditor, who must bo content with only the final impression. Probably, too, it would have be:n mote impressive had it cot evoked such glowing memo ries of the Latin woman who sat on that same stage and struck those same crash ing octaves a year ago. Madame Rive King is a thorough, a scholarly, even a brilliant musician. O! she is what you will, but "From the desert Iconic to thee, Cn a stallion, shod with fire, And the winds are left behind, In the speed of my desire!" That's Carreno for you; she comes like a Simoon, she leaps upon you like a tigress, takes you by storm, batters down crit'eism and dashc3 on, dragging you at tho wheels of her triumph. Ah, these trumpet tones, that panpply of purple and gold, iho'c crimson saunds! When her hand swept ihe key-fcojrd you heard tho tread of conquering armies and dreamed the splendid dreamB of Cortez. The glory of tropic noocs and nigh ta was about you, and before you was that splendid head, supjrb as that of an empress. What does .tladanie Rive King mean by playing that concetto that is known to1 be Carreno's war horse and identified with her everywhere? Does this pale, sad Norn of the Northland mean to compete with that pulsing creature who is halt Amazon, half Bacchante? As an encoro Madamo Rive-King, played Chopin's nocturne ia G minor. Next morniug one of tliB great Pittsburg dailies stated that hsr encore wn9 Saint Saens' concerto ia G minor, and another calmly announced tbat it was her own arrangement of Strauss' "Wiener Bon Bone." O.-ehades of Chopin and been candy! Wc have musical critic?, wo 'have. WILLA CATHER, PlTTSnCKO.PA. jwvrn. it HI 1 Ml and our HI n strictly water proof are having" A Great Run. Besides we have all the novelties in dress CALLANDTBYAPAIR I OCT. 0CS We are opening new patterns in I Artistic Wall Paper. J. E. HOUTZ. JJ06 O Street "Lcmins's Old Stand." 1 Stationer and dealer in wall pa- 0 ( i per, window shades, etc. 0 (First publication November 27) NOTICE. In the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska. Martha E. Stuart, plain-'i tiff. VS. J ; , 4. C.Graves, as Admin-1 ; ..' istrator of the Estate of MelancthonFerry.de- J- ceased, and the un-1 known hairs and.de- .. viseesof said Melanc-1 tbon Ferry, deceased, j defendants. ! The defendants and ea:h of the?i in the above mentioned cause will taao no tice tbat on tbe 11th day of September.. 1697, Martha E Stuatt, plaintiff herein, tiled her petition in the district court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, against said defendants, tbe object and prayer of which aro to enforce a certain con tract, by the terms of which Eaid Mel anc! hoa Ferry, in hi life-time, agreed to convey to plaintiff the following de scribed pieces, parcels and trc"s of land, situated in the county of Lancas ter and state ol Nebraska, to-wit: Tbe east half of tbo southeast quarter (e. J s.e. ) of section seven (i). aad ma west half of tbe southwest quarter (w! f.s. w. YCS of section eight (8), all ip tow uship eleven .11) north, range eight (8. east of tbo sixth principal meridian; which con tract was originally executed in favor of one Emanurl H. Dew, and thereafter duly assigned by judicial proceedings to the plaintiff herein; and to exclude said defendants and each and all o! them from any inUrest ic the said land, and to quiet and confirm the titlcjn tho said premises in p'aintiff, free fromatlclmms. lien, demand, and citato of the said de fendants, and each and every of them. You aro required t anawersiid peti tion on or biore Monday. the'.'lrd day of January, 1888. Martha E. Stuabt. Plaintiff. By C.U. Flanburg. her attorney. Dated November 22od, 1S97. I A miTtST Do YmKbow tbat IbM U I EbO Metrir." Dr.A ley's Ihigiu treuUuuuL lor DUeucsof Wowcn will, without .-in operation, use or linitruiiient, or or any exposure, aire nil forms of Fcaulc CMMUlnt? For particulars Hfldre, CURATWE REMEDY CO-, 1448 0 St, Uxoki, JUb LEGAL NOTICE. (First Publication Nov. 27 ) IntheDistrictConrtofLaucastercounty Nebraska. Joshui Perrio, Plaintiff) ve. Charles A. ifanna and ! D. B. Welch, whcs2 first name is unknown j Defendants. J The above named dofendnnts Charles A. Hanna and D. B. Welch, whoso first Ddra? is unknown, will take notiro tbat on tho 2Gth day or March, 1897, the plaintiff herein, Joshua Perrin, filed his petition in tho District Court of Lancas-. ter County. Nebraska, the object and prayer of which arc to recover from you upoa contract, the sum of 4.200.03 with interrst thereon at Ecvea per cent from the 17th day of October, 185X5; and you are further notified tbat your property has been attached to satisfy said claim, and an order is asked in said Court to sell said property for that purpo:-e. You are required to answer said peti tion on or bet ore the 3rd day of January 1893. Josh c a Pebrix, By Ricketta d Wilson His toroo $& ?2? m -st :m tr.f"?SM ?2J - EdSiAlfe3X-At-..x3feai3Slur.-i .i. t.rfLfc--aiJ'.',J7V
