Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-01
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The Carlton Opera Com
pany for q Week.
sorRs FROM EVERYWHERE.
Points About Plays and Players
Piekings From the Wings
and the Stage.

The OoOldh IS Delng reneaIseu Ny
the Errssnie company in Philadelphia
Clay Nj. Greene has just finished
writing an Irish drama in tour acts
entitled The Curfew.
A Hard Pull is the title OF a new
three-act comedy by Arthur Colburn,
Boston journalist.
Cos Bothner has already booked
thirty week stands for The Bunch Of
Keys for next season.
It ia again reported that Mr.. Bere-
bohm Tree contemplates q tour
through the United States.
Grace Hawthorne is to- produce
Siberia and Uncle TOMS Cabin at the
Princess Theatre, London.
It is rumored that the minstrel firm
OF McNish, johnson and Slavin. Is
shortly to be dissolved.
Mrs. Langtry has sent handsome
rocking-chair as a birthday gift TO
H. r. II. the Prince OF Wales.
Hole sa The Ground followed The
Begun at the Fifth Avenue Theatre,
and was seen there on December Eth.
Helen Blythe has made success
full march through Georgia." and is
meeting with equal success In South
Carolina.
The latest applicants for the rights
to play Kcs Blossom are Laura Dainty
and the Gilbert and Huntley COM
pany.
Charles r. Gardiner will put on
the road next season new military
drama, by Elliott Barnes, entitled
A Bond Of Friendship.
Charles T. Vincent, author OF Pars-
loe's successful comedy, A Grass
Wsdose, is at work upon farce enti-
tied The Rival Bdrbers.
Joseph F. Flynn has written a
comedy entitled Irish Froiics, in
which he and his partner, Frank B.
Sheridan, will star next season.
All seats for the Booth-Barrett en-
gagement in Boston were sold before
the first performance. Even the
orchestra space in the big Boston
theatre was sold.
Jocelyn is the name that has been
given to the play which Charles
Coghlan wrote for Mrs. Langtry.
Rose Coghlan possesses the Ameri-
can rights to the piece.
Frank w. Sanger has Just received
the notices OF the Australian produc-
ton of the opera Dick, by Murray
and Jakobowski, and of which he
owns the rights for this country.
The sixtieth representation OF the
The Waters Tdle has been given at
the Lyceum Theatre, London. and
the chances are that it will run through
Mary Anderson's entire season at that
house.
The troubles OF Mrs. James Brown
Potter and II. Mud Miner have finally
eliminated, and at the end Of the
pending contract, in twelve weeks,
they will separate for good. Henry h.
Abbey will then become her manager.
George HI. Jessop and Horace
Townsend's semi-spectacular drama
for Mrs. Langtry is almost completed,
and will probably be produced for the
first time late in February, during the
last two weeks of the actress engage
ment in Chicago.
Alfred Cellier. the musical director
and com poser. left for Australia last
Saturday by the mail steamer Austria
liza with batch OF operas on his own
account, and likewise in the interest
of his former colleagues, Gilbert and
Sullivan.
Mics Lizzie Vigourenx has been Of
fered $400 by an Eastern manager for
her own version of The Strangers OF
Paris, but she prefers to keep IL. She
is at work on another play of the ro-
mantle and picturesque order, which
promises to be intensely sensational.
Mesdames Langtry, Modjeska and
Brown Potter travel in special cars at
an average cost of 500 per day. Ed
win Booth goes from Boston to New
York in an ordinary parlor car at an
extra cost Of 81, yet he plays to more
money than the other three stars COM
bined.
In Liverpool. England, play en-
titled Who's the Li.aatics was recently
enacted. Before it was finished half
the people in the audience were shout
ing, 1.-The author the authorl' When
he blushingly APP cared he was greeted
with roars OF laughter and cries Of
"He's the lunatic."
The veteran actor, Barry Sullivan.
says cable dispatch, has returned
from the German Springs thoroughly
recuperated and quite recovered after
his recent severe indisposition. MIR.
Sullivan is considering two PROPOSE
tions fir I'm American managers for
tour of the United States.
1t is said Of Edward Harrigan that
while travelling West he studied the
Chinese habits, had models made Of
their houses, purchased some of the
Chinese instruments, and promised
some place in his company when he
again visits them. This all appears
as if Mr.. Harrigan contemplates bur-
lesque on the Mongolian race.
Henrie Louise Branscomb, the
pretty little San Jose actress who is
favorably recollected in San Francis
co, is now playing in the New York
spectacular production Of She. She
is described by the Star Of that city
as "a comely lass among the savages,
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nude as to her bronze ankles, going
about waking the sleeping warriors
when the scene opens. 1t isa beauti
full bit OF action"
Fred. Marsden's eyes are better.
He finished QuGcE some weeks ago
and Roland Reed writes glowingly
concerning it. There is funny and
original character in this piece--a
man who believes in phrenology, and
develops special bumps by means of
cranial congresses. When he's work
ing at combativeness he fights every
body he meets; when its harmony, he
fings, and so forth. Marsden is now
hard at work on a comedy for Patti
Rosa. Its name is Imp.
Scott and Mills Chip o. the Old
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