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ft THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIAK, PORTLAND, JULY 22. 1900. AWSMBk. W &? WmmL r Feellnffi Aroused "by Mnsie Is It this ekys vast vault or ocean's Bound, That U life's self and draws tny llfft from me, JLixd by instinct Ineffable decree holds my breath Qu&lllnff on the bitter bound? JCay, Is It life or death, thus thunder-crowned, ' That mid the tide of all emergency JTow votes by separate wave, and to what eca Its difficult eddies labor In the ground 7 Oh! -what Is this that knows the road Z came, 'The flame turned cloud, the cloud returned to flame. Tha lifted shifted steeps and all the way? !That draws around mo at last this wind-warm space. And In regenerate rapture turns my face, tJpoa tho devious coverts of dismay. Dante Gabriel ItosettL. SAPH0" THE PAST WEEK Australian Comedy Company Plays to Good Business and Will He- new Engagement for "Week. The) Australian comedy company com pleted a -week's engagement at the Met ropolitan last night. The bill, for the -entire week, was "Sapho," being a dram atized version of Alphonse Daudet's novel t-of the same title. The version used by HMga Kethersole, In the Host, Is not the xame as that presented by the Australian comedy company, the latter being ex purgated of all that could prove objec tionable, yet retaining all the action and "bright dialogue features of the Nether eole production. The company which produced It here, largely composed, as it is, of former 'members of the Moore-Robdrts combina tion, and several of whom made distinct nlta while in Portland with the last-mentioned troupe, during the past threatrical season. Is one of considerable merit, and played to very good houses throughout tho engagement just closed, this despite the warm weather and Summer exodus, which has recently set in. Miss George Elliot, a newcomer, and the leading wo man of the company, sustained the title role of the piece, and did it surprisingly well. It Is a part that calls for dra matic talent of a high order, and Mls Elliot met most of its requirements, and should Improve as she becomes more familiar with It Alec Cochrane, as Jean Gaussdn, was forceful, and Joseph Fyney showed a proper conception of the character of Dechclette. Herbert Jones, as Unole Ce saire, and Miss Madge Corcoran, who is a very pretty woman, as well as a capable actress, and who was cast for Aunt Divonne, gave commendable presen tations of their respective parts, while "W. J. Townsend, as Flamant; Percy "Ward, one of the best low comedians on the coast at present, as Hettema, and Milton Manning, as Caoudal, the sculptor, also performed acceptably. Miss Glrard was good as Madame Hettema. In consequence of the success of "Sapho," Manager Jones, of the Metro politan, has renewed the engagement of the Australian comedy company for an other week, barring tomorrow evening, when the Shank-Masjsh musical recital "will bo given at his theater. "Sapho" will be presented tonight and Tuesday and "Wednesday evenings. On Thursday night, and for the balance of the week. Including Saturday matinee, "His Night Out" will be given. BriXY THOMPSON'S LATEST. "Will Tour the Orient Tinder a Casn Guarantee of $GO,000. A contract was recently closed between Colonel W. A., otherwise familiarly known as "Billy," Thompson, of the Bos ton Lyric Opera Company, and Moutrio & Co., the Oriental operatic agents at Yokohama, Japan, and whereby the doughty lmpressario's forces will make & tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, India and Australia under a guarantee, by Moutrie & Co., of $60,000 Hot a six months' tour. The Arm further Undertakes to pay all transportation and. Daggage expenses from and to San Fran fcclsco, via Australia, and on December 1 rot the present year it will deposit $30,000 Jin the Bank of California, at San Fran cisco, subject to Colonel Thompson's or der, and to guarantee the performance of its contract. Colonel Thompson will Give a bond, guaranteeing the fulfillment of his part of the agreement. On the arrival of the company at Yoko "nama, Moutrie & Co. will make an ad ditional deposit of $30,000 In the Bank of Yokohama, thus fully covering the firm's guarantee. The company will open at Yokohama on or about June 30, 1201. This undertaking Is one of great mag nitude, and tho transportation of the op .era company, consisting, as it does, of 45 people, will prove costly. Tho rates of transportation to the Orient are very nigh, and It Is estimated that this Item of expense alone will reach a total of $9200, or $200 for each member of the company. The points at which tho latter will ap pear are widely separated, often requiring a journey of two weeks from one place to another. MAX BEHIND THE SCENES. Arduous Work of Him "Who "Sets tho Stnsre" for the Play. ASTORIA, July 18. (To the Editor.) "We have all heard of the "man behind the gun": he deserves every bit of the praise he has won, and more. I am going to speak of another man, little known, but who deserves more praise than is his wont to receive the man bobind the scenes. Back In the region of mystery, where so many of tho uninitiated who gather before tho footlights fancy all Is play, and see in the mind's eye the actor lounging In hla dressing-room, while waiting to go on, surrounded by luxury and resting on becushloned ohalr or couch, cut flowers scattered here and there on dressing tables, loading the at mosphere with fragrance there Is he to be found. Oh, how swiftly the pretty illusion Is knocked in the head as one steps through the old, begrimed stage door and sees there, to the front, the great drop-curtain and knows he is in the domain of King Thespls. No sooner is this stage-door swung to and closed, than one Is aware of a pe culiar odor not offensive, but different irom any other odor ever met with a combination of gas, paint, tobacco, per fume, and I don't know what all. This Is the home of, and where wo meet, the man behind the scenes. He is every wherehere, there, above and below. During a performancOt his is a "think ing" part, with any amount of action thrown in. He has no "lines" that is, for those in the front of the house to hear. He speaks, though, very often and with words that would make my fair lady gasp for breath. However, I warrant you. In the great hereafter, these words will be forgiven him. He, of all men. at times, has occasion to "say things." His part is not to stand in the glare of the limelight and make heroic speeches, but. In overalls and jumper, he works the stage changes it, at will, from garden to palace, street to humble cot Talk about the weather man! It is not for our friend behind the scenes to prophesy. If snow Is wanted, then, Just at tho right time, snow we have. In great, big paper flakes. The god of thunder and lightning Is not In It for a second with this magician of the wings; the rolls or flashes come or go, at his beck and call. "When, between the acts, tho wait seems long and tho audience grumbles, It should remember that this unknown actor his name is not down on the programme is going through his part, with all the speed that ho can command. The stage, perchance, has to be reset and all the scenery moved or rearranged: this is his work, and he Is trying to accomplish it in as, short a time as possible. So, reader, next time there Is a wait 'tween acts, remember our friend behind the scenes he who receives neither ap plause nor newspaper notices and be len ient S. TERRY M'KBAN, Jr. "THE SEXSATIOXAL TIIEATEIU" Well-Merited Excoriation of Vulffar Dramatic Ponderers. "The sensational theater," says a writ er in the July Century, "is operated upon the theory that the great bulk of the pub lic is not only Incapable of appreciating what is intellectual, what is instructive, wholesome, or Inspiring in the drama, but Is addicted naturally to what is mor bid, abnormal, audacious, startling or un clean, and will pay handsomely for the gratification of a depraved, appetite. In other words, the scheme is to make money by pandering to vice at the cost of the wholesale demoralization of the youth who are to be the backbone of the American nation of the future. "Tho policy is not only diabolical but fatuous. That it has proved temporarily KUceessftll rjmnnf hn rHnnnfort. T?rrttiTiio have been made by the exploitation or I wholly worthless and abominable plays; but evils of this kind, In the long run, work their own remedy. There is not perhaps, any reason for expecting a sud den or speedy revival of public morality, but sooner or later dishes reeking of one particular spice pall upon the palate, and in most cases satisfaction is followed by disgust Luckily the theater cannot for obvious reasons, exceed certain limits, and is thus condemned to a damnable iteration, which must in time become tiresome. These limits have been reach ed, or nearly reached." "Tho writer is nearly correct," remarks a Chicago Tribune commentator. "The theater-going public, as happenings of last season proved. Is about sated both with mere coarseness and with Its blacker associate, emotional viciousness. Efforts will be made to prove a contrary state of aafflrs, but they will react with a heavy financial penalty upon those who make them. The coming season Is to be one of stage clarification. The labor, however, is so gigantic that a twelve month may pass bofore the good results become In much wise apparent A few moro French farces freshly imported must have failure written largo across them. Nevertheless, the tide has turned." KXELL OF RED LEMOKADE. Famous Circus Concoction Will Soon Become a Memory. The one-ring circus has gone, and now the red lemonade Is in danger, says tho Cleveland Plain Dealer. Out In Illinois they have framed a new pure-food law, and on the first day of July it went into effect in all its startling sections. Tho law says that all lemonade must hereafter AT THE STEPPING STONES "I wonder what makes men brave? "Absence of dancer, usually." contain at least 5 per cent of pure lemon Juicel Reflect on It! Not a solitary sug gestion of any exception In favor of red lemonade! Think of circus lemonade, rod or otherwise, with 5 per cent of lemon juice in it let alone pure lemon Juice! Why, they couldn't dream of washing the snakes In c strong solution like that! And, of course, In all well-regulated cir cuses, thoj always do wash' the snakes in tho lemonade. The acid is good for them, you know, when it isn't too strong and it never Is. To snakes brought up on tho usual lemonade bath 5 per cent of pure lemonade Juice would act' like tur pentine. There wouldn't be any living In the house with them. It's evident those Illinois legislators haven't any humanity In the direction of snakes nor small boys, either. If thov had they wouldn't want it on their fos- slllzed old consciences that they had forc ibly soured the dispositions of both the serpents and the youth of this country with that unnecessary acid. But there's no use arguing on the sub ject They might as well order tho ar-senlc-mtxer to color his decoction with 5 per cent of imported red Ink. Ho can do It but It won't be the real thing. He can put S per cent of lemon juice on his snake, but it won't be circus lemonade. CCRED OF LIMPING. "Ben Hor" Performing Camel, Has n. Broken Lee Set. "When Ben Hur, the big 1600-pound camel used in the New York production of Lew "Wallace's play, "Ben Hur," broke its left foreleg last "Winter, it was tho opin ion of every one that it would have to be killed. The animal is worth $3000, and Klaw & Erlanger determined to save it, if possible. For, two month thereafter Ben Hur hung In a sling, with his broken leg en cased in plaster of parts. "When tho plas ter splint was taken off, the leg was drawn up, and the animal walked lame. It appeared as If tho camel would never be able, to move without a pronounced limp, so badly were the muscles contract ed, and that thereafter Ben Hur would be useless for stage purposes. Dr. Martin, tho trainer and veterinary, who trained the horses for the chariot race in "Ben Hur," said he believed he could make the camel as good as new. Ho took It to his farm at Hempstead, L. L, and there, every day for the past three months, he has had men manipu late the Injured leg by pulling and rub bing it The animal can now walk as well as before tho accident, without the sign of a limp. MASSFHSLD MEETS HIS MATCH. nichard Is Bested ly "Witty "Western Scene Manager. "Richard Mansfield Is a nlmble-wltted fellow," said a minor member of his com pany the other day, "but he met a scene manager out West early this season who was quite his match. The fellow's name Is Jack Qulnn. He had been familiar In olden days with Booth and McCullough, and was a prince at his work. Jack al ways s'ought to avoid ciuse for com plaint, and especially did he so act In the case of Mansfield. But a kick was In evitable. "A couple of scene-shifters, after some laborious work In tho flies, came down to the rear of the stage, breathing rather heavily as a' result of their exertions. Mansfield chanced to walk near thorn. Ko nearly froze them with a look. Then he summoned Qulnn. " 'The breathing of these men annoys me,' said Richard. " 'I'd answer to the law if I stopped it, replied Jack, with ready wit "A stage hand slipped and danced about a. little in the effort to regain his balance. " 'Your men make too much noise with their feet' exclaimed the actor. " 'Hereafter they'll walk on their hands,' was tho response. "Mansfield had no more use for Qulnn, and during the remainder of the engage ment they spoke to each other only when it was absolutely necessary." New Eng land Magazine. XEILL IN HONOLULU. Marked Success of His Engagement at Hawaii's Capital. Tho engagement played by James Nelll and his clever company, at the Hawaiian Opera-House, Honolulu, beginning June 'i, was a remarkable success, financially, as well as dramatically. Mr. NclU's at traction was the first to appear In Hono lulu since the plague visitation last Fall. Tho first two weeks' receipts exceeded $12,000, and those for the full period of four weeks were more than $25,000. Beginning in August 1901, the Nelll company will play a return engagement in Honolulu for five weeks, under a $20, 000 guarantee. Charles Aster Parker, xnanager for the company, will, early next .Summer, precede tho organization by a two months' start and arrange for dates In Australia and points in the Orient This tour will cover a period of nine months. DEATH OF CARL SOXTAG. Brother of Henrietta Sontasr and a Noted German Actor. Carl Sontag, tho noted German actei died In Berlin on Sunday morning. June Si. In his native land, where for many years he waa cstesmed aa a leader in his particular field of dramatic art h!s pass ing is deeply mourned, and among the German theater-goers of New York, says tho DnunaUo iflrrw, oS tbttt city, wfco knew him only through his two brief vis Its to. this country, his death Js sincerely regretted. Herr 5ontag was the youngest brother of Henrietta Sontagr the singer, and like her, ho learned the art of the stage under the exacting system of the German thea ter. Ho played during his early career In many of the court theaters,- and when still a young man he had risen to such prominence that he was Invited to take part in the Shakespeare plays produced in Munich, In the Summer of 1SS0, at the Muster VorsteUung. His first appearance In America occurred at the Gcrmarria, Theater on January 4. 1SSL when he glayed the leading role, Robert, in Robert chraibeia play, "Memolni of the Devil," and ak the chief part in the curtain-i raiser, "Eln Knopf," In Germany Herr Sontag waa most ad mired in polite comedy roles, and he had fw equals In that hlB favorite, line. Ho was immensely auocrmful as Bollngbroko, in "Le Verre d'Eau." and the Duke in the dramatization of Alphonse Daudet's novel. "The Nabob." He originated the latter rolo In Berlin, and It was considered one of the moe artistic Impersonations e-t bis careen, Ho waa also greatly admired In tho leading role of "The King's Lieu tenant" During the latter years of hi careen, Herr Sontag was a prominent member of the steck company at the Court Theater, in Hanover CLEVER ACTING. Mrs. Kendal Saves a Situation by Presence of Mind. Madge Kendal's readiness in a stage emergency Is well known, and it is aptly Illustrated by the following anecdote of the first production of "Prince Kflra toff": There was a scene in which Mrs. Ken dal was compelled to bid a long fare well to her child. On her knees, she clasped him to her breast, while the at tendants, who had orders to take the boy away. Impatiently .waited at the back. The last tender, lingering embrace was given In the presenco of a hushed house, and the child was almost forcibly led from its agonized mother's arms. In drder not to see this scd exit Mrs. Kendal hod, apparently, closed her eye3, but she opened them when a most un expected titter ran through the. audience. Had tho situation and her handling of It failed? Then, In an instant, she grasped the causo of the unseemly giggles. In going out the child's cap hod most awkwardly fallen oft Its head and re mained upon tbe stage. Mrs. Kendal knew exactly what to do. With a loving cry she seized the cap, cov ered It with kisses, and pressed it to her heart She at once killed the Irreverent laughter, and the applause that followed was not unmlngleu with tears. Every one thought that the effect, instead of being shcor accident had been most care fully arranged, and I even heard the author complimented on having Invented a very original piece of stage business! From "The Kendals." With, Thorough Indifference. Thomas Sheridan, the Irish clergyman and grandfather of Richard "Brlnsley Sheridan, the dramatist had agreat dls taste for metaphysical discussions, where as his son Tom, the actor, had a great liking for them. Tom one day tried to discuss with his father the doctrine of necessity. "Pray, father," said ho, "did you ever do anything In a state of perfect Indif ference without motive, I mean, of soma kind or other?" Sheridan, who saw what was coming, said: "Yes, certainly." "Indeed?" "Yes, indeed." "What, total Indifference total, entire, thorough Indifference." "Yes, to tal, entire, thorough Indifference." "My dear father," said Tom. "tell me what it is that you can do with (mind!) total, entire, thorough lndlfferenco?" "Why. listen to you. Tom," said Sheri dan, Unidentified Exchange. Drnmatio Hits. Critic Did you have a run In Hamfat town? Tragedian You bet; but we all reached the train before the sheriffs posse. Syra cuse Herald. "I think I have solved the mystery of the Shakespearean plays," remarked Browser. "Well?" asked Keen. "Bacon probably wrote them, but he stole a whole mass of quotations from Shakespeare." Philadelphia North Amer ican. "Who steals my purse," exclaimed tho actress, with genuine emotion, "steals trash. This Is almost as much of a 'chestnut as stealing my diamonds. But he who filches from me my good name does that which, while it perhaps en riches not him, advertises mo to beat the band." Detroit Journal. AX THE BEACHES. (Continued from Page Thirteen.) Mrs. W. B. Stevens and children, John Morrison. Mrs. Meyer and children, Mrs. H. F. Merrill and children and Mr. E. D. Beeman and family arrived, this week from Albany. Mr. Sullivan, superintendent of the Cor vallls & Eastern Railroad, spent Sunday at the bar, and H. I. "Waldon, of the Corvallls & Eastern force, came over the same day with the excursion. Squlro Farrar and family, of Salem, have gone to Seal Rock to spend their va cation. They will spend a week at New port on their return. Mr. Lodge and family, of Oregon City, are located in J. A. Olson's cottago. Q. I. Grey and family, of Shedds, who have been camping at Nyo Creek, have gone to Seal Rocks to spend several days. Miss Ixmg returned to Albany "Wednes day morning. Miss Laura Vance, of Albany, came over last week to Join her parents, who have a cottage here. Mr. and Mrs. Woodson, of Montana, have arrived here, and will remain for several days. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Thayer, of Al bany, arrived Wednesday evening, as did Mrs. Worley and son, Roy. Dr. and Mrs. Adams, of Aioany, arrived Thursday evening. Dr. Adams will re main here throughout the season. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Veal returned Wednesday to Albany. B. W. Langdon. cashier of the First National Bank, of Albany, arrived Wed nesday to Join his fatally, who have been here for two weeks, in their cottage on Nye Creek. Mrs. King, ex-agent for the C & E. Railroad, at Kingston, will have charge of the telegraph office and.rallway bag gage department here during the season. Edwin Stone, manager of the C & E. Railroad, was here this week. Rev. Jame3 Thomson, of Brownsville, who recently returned from a trip to Ireland and the Paris exposition, will preach at one of the churches next Sun day. P. J. Smiley, of Albany, waa here for a few days. D. Ew Ross, of the Postal Telegraph Company, Portland, has been in Newport for a week. Caacade 'Warm Springs Hotel. Arrivals at the Cascade Warm Springs Hotel during the week were as follows: J. Dunn and Mr. Ferguson, of Golden dale; Colonel L. I Hawkins, of Port land; Mr. and Mrs. C H. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. F. KoJe, of Stevenson; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kelly, Miss Kelly, Miss Genevievo Kelly. R. W. Wilbur. A. a Hammond, R. A. Wilson, W. H. Monahan, Mrs. C. W. Cather and threo children, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sherman, Miss Sherman, Claude McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moffett, Miss Myrtle MofCatt. Miss M. Mines, Miss M. Hawk, and Mr. and MfS. J. G. Malone. all of Portland; Thomas N. Rowe, of Walla Walla, and Mr. and Mrs; Surr-nt Md Miss Sargent, of Tho Dalles. ThirdandYamhill Important "HIS NIGHT OUT" Is Punny,, So If It Hurts You to Laugh, Don't Sec It. .,,' The MIMICKING ANIMAL VOICES Bird Music From Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, and Other Attempts Made by Composers to Reproduce .. the Wild Cries of Animals. jit is ro'u rt t c i LT-Ci? f? fo f? l?i i?'"""" "'"Trite Now that the days are come when tired humanity courts the sunlight and breezes, and makes friends with the birds and the squirrels of tho woodlands, the bleat Ins sheep of the mountain pastures, or the Tvhlte-plnloned sea gulls of the mists and the waves. It will sometimes help to pass a lazy hour to trace out the hid den music in tho wild notes of bird and beast. This has not been beneath the study of the groat composers themselves In their moments of relaxation. Beethoven, Haydn and others have much of this imi tative music scattered through their works. As an illustration of this, one has only to Quote the Bird Muslo from Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony," a pas sage from which stands at tho head of The Lion Roam this column. The notes of the nightin gale, the quail, and the cuckoo, are there given In the order named. Bird notes are comparatively easy to write out in musical notation. Insects also give out musical sounds, and the Greeks kept locusts In cages as we do birds. Thero was a pretty tradition among the Greeks that when Terpander was playing the lyre at one of tho Olym pic games so beautifully that he was sure of the prize one of the strings of the Instrument broke. But Just at that moment a locust perched on his lyre, chirped the right note and Terpander won the prize. Seals Arc Musical. It is a well-known fact that some ani mals love music Seals will follow for jlBSx""'?; v " " The Famous "Itcvcil da IiionH miles & boat on which muslo Is played, and It might be Interesting for Orcgo nians who contemplate spending the Sum mer months about Yaoulna Bay, Tilla mook Head or other spots haunted by fcthem, to experiment upon them in this respect. But It must be conceded that the ani mal standard of music differs from that set up by human tastes. In the animal world the female seems best pleased with tho male that can make the most nolso. One Is sometimes inclined to ask of whom animals take their singing lessons- In the case of lions and other savage beasts, tills question has practical Interest for the in structors. Do these wild animals eat up their teachers after each lesson, and thus assimilate their talents? Whoever has been in a menagerie about The Bound of an hour after the animals have been fed, says. the New York Herald, knows what a curious concert suddenly begins at that time. There is the deep, rumbling bass of tho lion, the tenor of the tiger, the alto of the hyena and the shrill troble of the wildcat, with a trumpet obllgato by the elephant. Haydn In his oratorio, "The Creation," has given his Idea of several animal sounds In music Ho has tho roar of the Hon, the neigh of the horse and tho dragging rustle of the serpent; and he also tries to realize musically the buoyant bound of the tiger and the leap" of tho deer. A famous piece of salon music in De Kontskl's day was that pianist's effective " Revell du Lion" ("The Trail of the Serpent. Awakening of the Lion"). It ends with a tremendous tour de force, which Is sup posed to realize the fully awakened roai of the king of the beasts. The Donkey's Bray. Animal sounds have been scientifically studied, and a German naturalist goes so far as to maintain that the donkey's bray moves in truo musical progression. Who ever hears it Is also apt to move, nor stand on the erder of progression, but get iway as fast va possible. In the tf - k Wig. P l" " " bo -H' I'7''" I L- tf I iiiJm WHIM !!! BIMfHI IMH jWIJT fH WU LMJM. ETROPOLITAN THEATER Announcement! ' Extension of Engagement! Owing to the Enormous Success of Qi a iD i-i n Great Play Will Be Presented for Three Nljjhts Longer Surfday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday Next and Remainder of Week, Including Sunday The Latest Farce Comedy, for the first time here "Hlk rViriHX Al IT" Don,t mIss seeI"0 Sapho, and Mrs. ailO lllVlfiEi UU B George Elliot as Fanny LeGrande. Adapted from the French There will be no performance by the company Monday night next as the Iheater Is otherwise- engaged. SATURDAY MATINEE ONLY. Orient people have such little apprecia tion of the donkey's musical talent that they have dovlsed an ingenious method of squelching It. When a donkey brays It stretches out Its neck and raises Its tall until the latter extends straight out from the body. This stretching of neck and tall, being necessary to the produc tion of the donkey's song. Us Eastern masters tie a heavy stone to the donkey's tall, with tho result that the curtain never goes up on the performance. It Is another case of enforced "Indisposition" or possibly of unappreciated genius. "Whatever scientists may say about tho -musical qualities of animal voices, .most animal sounds aTe distinguished by their quality, such as the "ol-ee" of the pig, rather than by any true musical progres sion. Animal voices are In this respect like the bass drum, which, while It can After Haydn. indicate a rhythm, has no special pitch. The gibbon, however, has a call which can be reduced to musical notation. Gen erally the gibbons exercise their mu sical proclivities In a wild ensemble when they are gathered together, but some times, when an old male has been retired, ho will execute a solitary vocal perform ance In the forest. It consists of a long shake on the upper E and an ascending chromatic scale of one and one-half oc taves, with a sudden drop to tho first note. The gibbon loves to roam at night, and it Is during the hours of darkness that It executes Its weird serenade. Monkey Cries. Another monkey species goes up tho scale with longer and longer intervals between notes. Its cry has a range of - - vx f " (Awakening of the Lion). about three octaves. Near the last note it becomes a great exertion for the beast to further ascend tho scale, and the very last note of all It gives out as If It would burst. There are also singing mice, and Instances of several of these little crea tures which have been taught to sing to order. They emit a low warble, which is said to always be In a minor key. A composition which Is quite popular among German vocal societies is a quar tet for a cat. a hen a dog and a pig, accompanied by a monkey at the piano. Of course, It Is not done by real animals. The performers wear papier raache hoad3 and dress up in costumes which are kept in music stores for the purpose. If well done, tho piece is irresistibly funny. There are some animal sounds which will probably never be fully expressed in music. Of such is the call of the cow the TJcer. moose, weirdly echoing over the moonlit water of a lake deep In the Maine or Canadian wilderness. Such, too, are the howls of a pack of wolves as they sig nal to one another to Join In the chase of some unfortunate deer floundering In the deep anow; a coyote sending his mes- Neigh of the Steed. sage over the plains, an Invitation to his comrades to feast on the carrion It has discovered; a fox wakening the stillness of the forest, summoning its cunning com rades to a raid these are some of tho rare noises of the wilderness which may be Imitated, but cannot be confined with in the rigid limits of musical notation. WILL SOOJf BE EXTIXCT. Tenors, in Time, "Will Be Classed With the Dodo. Thero 13 an old saying', writes tbe ed itor of the New York Musical Age. to the offect that God created three classes of human beings men, women and ten ors. That the latter species Is the most scarce anyone Interested In tho manage ment of operas, church choirs anx rente I fUfc an ii ii I "HI h I'1'' J.' jr "! "' - 'i" ' Ci ThirdandYamhill Quartettes Is well aware. Moreover, the scarcity continues and increases until it suggests the awful possibility that the race of tenors will in time become extinct, only to be 'Classed in the natural history with the Dodo, the Megatherium or tho Megalosaurufl. The general public might deplore this-, but it is highly probable that to the tortured manager it woulct come as a happy relief. Maurice Grau, for instance, might ex perience the emotion. He la visiting the varlouo capitals of Europe In the hope of discovering great, but as yet unknown tenors for the coming season of Eng lish opera at tl Metropolitan Opera house. He says he cannot find them. Tenors who sing In English are few and, far between. So in a more modest scale of musical experience, the church tenor Is also becoming a rara avis. Most of the church music in vogue is written too high for the average tenor singer, to whom G is a struggle, A but a mock ery and B a hopeless and inaccessible Al pine pb&k! Choir masters often wish that the tenor pait never ran higher than F, and iconoclastic members of the choir master ranks have been heard to feebly intimate that tliey wished there were no tenor parts at alL For. to moat tenor slngtsra their part Is beyond them, white thOii who can nil the bill become by that ery potency despots and cranks of tho most pronounced and Imperious charac ter. hen they ao not havs "coluy their inse of superiority is ineffably op pitssive. For a tune, htwver, the neces sity of tenors will by force of habit bo conceded. Once upon a time tbe exist ence of spinets and clavichords and of tho vioil gamba was deemed a necessity, let they became extinct, and music htavenly made, aurvived. Perhaps In time a raummined tenor will be exhibited in art museums, along with the quainc instruments of tne past, labeled 'Extinct Singer. Date lu to WW. Once deemed an essential element of musical Interpreta tion, and much admired in its aay." Mnfle Recltnl ut Metropolitan. Tho attraction at the Metropolitan The ater tomorrow evening, July 23, will be the appearance of Miss Marie Mildred Marsh, the clever pianist, and Mrs. Retta. Johnson Shunk, the well-known coiitrulto, in a musical recital. Mrs. Shank Is said to have a voice of great range and power, and Mlhs Marsh a manner and magnetism that win her audience. In connection with a recent performance In Tacoma, the Evening News of tnat city speaks in high terms of praise of Mrs. Shank and Miss John son. The Fine Arts Journal of Chicago, tho Chicago Times-Herala, Musical Cour ier, Pittsburg Express and other Journals of repute also refer most favorably to these talented women. Portland music lovers will, no doubt, avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing them tomor row night, at the Metropolitan. Music at The, Portland Tonight. 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