Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-09
THE STAGE.
Palmer's Madison Square
Theatre Company.
Hermann, THE MAGICIAN.
Gossip About Plays and the Actors
Who Present them to the
People.

nO lC6CAu thSAh " s-
People.
Commencing Monday, September 18th,
the Opera House stage will be occupied
for the week by Mr.. A. M. Palmers
Company from the Madison Square The
atre, New York. This organization has
substantially kept together for eighteen
years, for despite the inevitable changes
incident to 60 long time we will stillsee
in the work of this body of actors the
spirit of the old Union Square days,
whose history marks an era in the Amer
ican drama. This company is now as 1t
ever has been, when the large numter OF
it's mem bers and the varied work they
are called upon to perform, are
taken into consideration, The most
accomplished body of players in
America. Other organizations are con.
fined in their stage efforts to single
class of work, or even single play, but
Mr.. Palmer's Company has been called
upon even during his last three years OF
metropolitan management to interpret a
farce. comedy. like the Priuate Secretry,
= play of social life, like Our Society, an
English domestic drama of the style of
SAINTS and Sinners, a society melodrama,
like Jim, the Penmdn, and drama
which combines the elements of several
of the above, like Partners. This actu-
ally successful accomplishment clearly
proves the claim of this organization
to the first place among American
stock companies, and further places it on
q par with those of London, since the
only four of the above works which had
. prior production in the former city
Private Secretary, Saints and Sinners,
Jim the Penmdn and Partners were more
successful when subsequently presented
in New York under Mr.. Palmer's
auspices and by his company. 1t is
needless, however, at this late day
10 enter upon any discussion OF
this organization so far as concerns
their approaching appearance here. Thev
have long since won the favor OF the
amusement-goin public, and their first
appearance here, whether in their old
time successes or in their late New York
presentations, they are sure on their per-
sonal account alone of genuine and
most cordial Welcomes tribute to a
body of artists to whom, individually
and collectively, the theater-goers of the
city will stand debtor for many weeks.
THE REPERTOIRE.
The Los Angeles engagement will con-
sist of four plays, all of which have been
successful in New York, and all of which,
irrespective of that fact, are expected to
win favor here. The list is as follows !:
Jim the Penman, Saints and Sinners,
Heart of Hearts and Partners.
The great play, Jim the Penman, will
be the inaugural performance of the
company in this city, having run
through an entire season at the Madison
Square Theatre, New York, to the
largest continuous receipts in the history
of the house. There was no tentative
period in this plays New York record.
No one wanted to see what the papers
said or to hear what their friends
reported regarding the work. The
verdict of London, Chicago and San Fran
cisco had preceded its metropolitan
presentation in America, and from the
first the houses were sold solid for three
weeks in advance. The reception given
the play in Boston both by press and
public was simply an indorsing duplica-
ton of its reception in San Francisco,
Chicago and New York, and for four
weeks the Park Theatre there proved
ridiculously unable to contain the people
applying for seats and standing room. !"
ONE VERY INTERESTING EPISODE.
In the history of Jim, the Psnman was
its special performance before the Presi-
dent and Cabinet of the United States at
the National Theatre in Washington,
ID. @. This performance was given
at the request of the President
of the United States, and its proceeds
we're devoted by Manager A. M. Palmer
to the benefit Of the "Actor's Fund of
America" The semi-official reception
accorded to the company proved highly
gratifying to the members of the dra-
matte profession of the United States,
and it was source of congratulation that
Manager A. M. Palmer had SO especially
great and attractive play to present at
such time and before such
an audience-Saints and Sinners, Heart
Of Hearts and Partners, all late New York
successes, will be produced. 1t will thus
be seen that Mr.. Palmer is well equipped
for his season here, to which he looks
forward with hopeful anticipation of the
same gratifying success which has always
attended him wherever mis- world re-
nowned company appears.
THE COMPANY.
The full cast of Mr.. A. M. Palmer's
company, who will appear here is as fol.
lows: J. H. Stoddart, Alexander Salvini.
Frederick Robinson, Louis Massen, E'
NJ. Holland, Waldon Ramsay, G. P.
Flockton, Clarence Handysides, Herbert
Millward, Harry Holiday, A. G. Hills
dorf, Geo. s. Stevens, Little Gertie Ho-
man, J. B. Hollis, Harry Woodruff, G.
w. Presbrey, Mrs. E. ]. Phillips, Marie
Burroughs, Annie Russell, May Brook.
lyn, Virginia Buchanan, Clara Lipman,
Kate Maloney, Annie Homan. The sale
of seats for this dramatic event of the
season will commence next Thursday
morning at nine o'clock, and from the
applications already made, Manager A.
N. Palmer will have no regrets visiting
Southern California.
Margaret Mather Wins.
Margaret Mather, the actress, whose
real name is Mrs. Haberkorn, has,
through her counsel, ex-Judge A. J.
Dittenhoefer. scored victory over bor