Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-21

ported Japanese performers, lmPoiCSu
to this country by w. S. Cleveland.
The company also carries its own pand
and orchestra. Since Mr.. Cleveland has
taken the management OF this mlns!rei
organization, it has in every way I'M
proved, and is considered in every way
pre-eminently the best minstrel, show
now before the public. The advance
sale for the opening is large, ana the
weeks business will be repetition OF
Ecangeline.
Mrs. Potter's Guest at Tuxedo.
Almost any incident or accident COM
manding publicity is deemed valuable to
an actress for the sake of the advertising
which it incidentally does, but the re-
turn of Mrs. James Brown Potter from
Europe has been quickly followed by
something to disagreeable too be desired,
even for booming purposes. Ever since
the lady went on the stage, contrary to
the earnest protests of the Potter family,
it has been talk that she and her hus-
band were estranged. No evidence OF
this has been adduced, although it is a
fact that he objected strenuously to her
course, and it is also true
that they have lived separately nearly
all the time. Mutual friends have ex.
planned this by saying that his business
demanded his presence constantly in this
city, while her tours necessarily took her
away. While she was in Europe, last
summer, she emulated the example Of
Mrs. Langtry by counting the favor OF the
Prince OF Wales, she openly hobnobed
with Sarah Bernhardt, and in other
ways she evinced much independence
of conduct, although keeping clear
of scandal. The leading actor
in her company last season
was Kyrle Bellew, and he will be
with her again next winter. He made
the trip with her across the Atlantic and
back, as announced, to supervise her
dramatic studies, and to help in her pre-
parations fer several new roles. James
Brown Potter owns a modest cottage at
Tuxedo, that famously fashionable and
exclusive SUMNER colony of New York
ers. Pierre Lorillard is the owner of
Tuxedo and the originator Of the
enterprise. He leases sites for
summer residences there. but
only to the most highly ap-
proved families. Every candidate for
admission must be passed upon by a
swell board of trustees, and it is as diff
cult to get into Tuxedo as resident as
it is to gain a membership in the most
pretentious clubs. Of course, the Potters
are all right, for there are three Episco-
palian bishops in the family, and great
deal OF wealth and culture. But when
James Brown Potter sought to acquire
ground in Tuxedo, last year, the question
was raised whether his wife, because
she was an actress, was eligible.
There was much dicker and not
little ill feeling before the question was
decided in the affirmative. Potter built
his house, and when his wife arrived
from Europe he took her to it. There is q
combined hotel and casino at Tuxedo,
and they are exclusive to the uses of the
residents. A stranger could not buy ac-
commodation at that inn with any
amount of money, unless he were invited
by the head of some Tuxedo household.
The present trouble arises from the fact
that, for a week, Kyrle Bellew has
been almost constantly in the COM
pany of Mrs. Potter at the hotel and
her husband at their residence, and they
al SPOH6OI6 lOl AyAlC OOllCW 10 a
very handsome chap, although he looks
like younger edition of Henry Irving,
whose manners he apes extravagantly
He was the last leading actor in the dis
banded Wallack Company, and for that
reason has figured as stage masher in
this city. He has wife and children in
England, aud nothing is said against his
character. He is an educated man,
the son Of literary worker and even at
exquisite Tuxedo he is quite able to figure
with the best of the beaux. Neverthe-
less, a formal complaint has been made
to the trustees. 1t is signed by such in
fluential persons as the Messrs. Girls
void, Burnham and Lorillard, and it sets
forth that an actor is objectionably fire.
quenter of the casino. If that is to be
tolerated. they feel that they must with
draw from Tuxedo. That is the way
the matter stands, and it must rest so
until the trustees act. In the meantime,
Bellew and Mrs. Potter have resolutely
lounged on the premises. They are to
start on professional tour this week.
Rev. DR.. Houghton's Anniversary.
Although 1.-THE Little Church Around
the Corner" acquired worldwide fame
when it's good pastor first endeared it to
theatrical people by conducting the
burial service over q Thespian who was
not deemed sanctifed enough to merit
burial from more pretentious temple
near by, it is fact that the church was
organized forty years ago under its pastor
of to-day, Rev. DR.. Houghton. From
that commencement arose the quaint
little edifice on Twenty-ninth street, the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION. Starting
with neither dollar nor the prcmise OF
one, with only the indomitable energy OF
it's pastor, it is now prosperous and its
charities spread far and wide.
| Yesterday morning was the celebration
of the fortieth anniversary of the pastor
ate-Dr. Houghton's first and only
charge. Two other anniversaries were
covered by the day-the seventh of the
organization of the surpliced choir, the
eighth OF the daily establishment of the
Eucharist at 7 A. NJ.
The venerable pastor discoursed quietly
yet eloquently on the lessons and issues
Of the day. He suggested as celebra'
ton of the fortieth year, the raising of a
fund OF from $35 90 to $50, 900, the inter
est of which would provide for the music
During the last hymn the sunshine
streamed out brightly and propitiously
lighting up the many colored glass an6
dispelling all gloom under the low roof
The altar was lighted with its many can
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