Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-20
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays aud Those
Who Present Them.
NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD.
Gossip About the Stage and Inter
esting Comment Upon the
Actors.

Henry E. Abbey is in Berlin.
Theodore Thomas thinks of disbanding
his big orchestra.
Sunday performance in theaters in New
Orleans have been legalized.
The Chinese are going to do Hamlet,
and they don't care who wrote it.
The widow of the late John McCul-
Tough left an estate OF $25, 600.
An epidemic of weddings has broken
out in Imre Kiralfy's Nero company.
The Carlton Opera. Company has been
rehearsing Mynheer Jan in Cincinnati.
lydia Thompson is said to have scored
ffty-five and is still handsome woman.
Adelina Patti wants to sell Craig-y-Nos
Castle. 1t is Welsh rare bit OF prop.
erty.
The Palmer Company will not visit
any of the interior cities except Los An
geles.
Col. Mapleson will not come over with
opera for fear Of the effects OF Presiden-
tial election.
Verona Jarbeau opened by Starlight in
Chicago on the 18th inst. and will move
rapidly in this direction.
Fanny Davenport and Melbourne Nc
Dowell will enjoy months so]ourn at
the Oregon seaside and then depart for
New York.
The New York Morning Journal pub
fishes map of Mrs. Langtry's California
ranch. 1t was discovered by the use OF
the Lick telescope.
Miss Minnie Palmer is to appear at
Manchester, England, September 3rd IN
Mv Brothers. Sister, which will take the
place Of My Sweetheart in the future.
The Webster-Brady Company opened
at Santa Rosa on the 18th inst. to double
their receipts there last season. Burr
Oaks. their opening piece, was go.
Rhea is in Paris, but will soon return
and begin her tour. Her repertoire will
next season embrace Sardou's A Danger
ous Game, and his new play The Case
Vidal.
No less than six spectacles will claim
the attention of the amusement loving
public the coming season. The TWelue
Temptations has the proud distinction of
being the newest.
The Philharmonic Society is now the
most popular musical society in this part
of the State. 1t will close its list of act
i've membership by September 18th at
Bancroft's Music Hall.
Patti Rosa sailed for England on the
18th inst, accompanied by Thomas j.
McGrath, stage manager, and William
Friend, comedian. She opens in Liver
pool, September Sd, in Bob.
Tony Denier keeps on buying and
1,,.s1 l. 80
George L. Fox is in his grave. 1t there
had been no Fox and Humpty Dumptv,
there would have been no Tony Denier.
Sam Thall has a grand speculation in
view. He is going to getup A Grand In
ternational Fabrication Contest, in which
all the contestants will lie at mark.
Entries limited to advance agents and
old soldiers.
Miss Marie Louise, the we'll known
banjoist, who is making tour of Europe,
was in London last week, and occupied
a box at the Royal Princess's Theater at
the first performance of The Still Alarm,
which has proven very great success.
The Crystal Slipper will be put on at
the Boston Theater September 10th, for
six weeks, with Philadelphia to follow
for three weeks. Baltimore one week and
Star Theater, New York, four weeks. San
Francisco will probably get the Slipper
later on.
The first performance of the rewritten
and revised spectacle, The TaCelue Tempt
ations, by Charles H. Yale, will be given
at the Grand Opera House, Topeka, Kan
sas, Wednesday evening, August 22d,
when an engagement of four nights will
commence. This spectacle will soon be
on this Coast.
While the East has been sweltering in
heat, tho Troubadours have been play
ing to large audiences in California, and
Manager Frank Maeder writes that "the
weather is lovely and COOL" Los Ange-
les, in which his successful company ap-
peared for week in The Humming Bird
and Three of Kind, is one of the mar
velous villages of the West that have
grown into large city in short time.
But few years ago the Troubadours de-
lighted an audience in the old Merced
Theater, near the Pico House, in that
place, then an adobe village, scarcely
known, and last week they again ap-
peared there in a splendid new theater,
the town meantime having become rich
populous city, better known on the
American continent outside of dozen of
the leading cities OF the land-and more,
five large newspapers, published daily,
agreed that Miss Nellie McHenry is one
of Americas foremost condolences,
when only one weekly paper, the only
one then in the town, praised her when
she appeared but few years ago. That
the Troubadours have grown as much in
popularity as Los Angeles has in size
goes without saying.-Dunlop's Stage
News.
In the melodrama My Sister, which is
to swing around the dramatic circle next
season, is a scene in which a dog is to
jump into tank and rescue a child.
During DR.. Charles s. Scott's recent visit
to New York huge St. Bernard was
bought, and forwarded to trainer, who
had instructions what to do. For two
solid weeks the rescuing scene was gone
through, and the noble animal each time
nipped the child by it's flowing clothes
and carried it the distance required. This
fact was telegraphed to the doctor, who
st once started for the trainer, quite en-
thusiastic over the intelligence of the
animal. The child, dog, trainer and
doctor started for a point on the Ohio
river, where the climax of the third act
was to be performed, and the child, feel
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