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Plump Adah Isaacs Menken, whose strip-tease opera, Mazeppa, had the town on its ear, wrote daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart...
...Queen of Sheba Gounod *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *"Whispering of the Flowers" Blon *Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens *"Triana" from the Suite "Iberia" Albeniz (Arranged for Orchestra by E. F. Arbos) *"Kol Nidrei" Bruch Violincello solo: Jacobus Langendoen *Cossacks' Dance from the opera "Mazeppa" Tchaikovsky *"Violets," Waltzes Waldteufel *"I've Got you Under My Skin," from "Born to Dance" Porter (Arranged by P. Bodge) Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite "Noure and Anitra" Ilynsky...
...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...
...bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night was to let herself be strapped quasi-nude to the back...
...program follows: 1. Overture to "Ali Baba" Cherubini 2. Concerto in D Major, Opp 77 Brahms 3. Prelude to a Drama Schreker 4. "Mazeppa", Symphonic Poem No. 6 Liszt...