Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-24
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
Emma Abbott At the Grand
Opera House.
TIE WORLD" ON THE STAGE.
Notes OF Plays and the People Who
Present Them-Interesting
Gossip.

A brass band composed entirely Of little
girls is something new in Liverpool, o
London ballet girls skirts have beer
heightened in pursuance Of the require
1ments of authority.
Jane Hading was disappointed because
divorces cannot be purchased in Chicago
for five or ten francs apiece. She wanted
to take one to Paris with her.
A contemporary says, sarcastically
-"Mrs. Potter's art is improving. The
rumors about her divorce have died
away, it is true, but some one has now
stolen her diamonds"
Mary Anderson's boom at Palmer's
Theatre, New York, knocks all previous
booms of stars out of sight. On the
opening day of the sale of seats for the
last two weeks of her engagement over
$4,000 was taken at the window before
noon.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., will 20 on
the stage. She has gone to work under
Mr.. Belasco's teaching at the Lyceum,
New York, and hopes by next season to
be sufficiently we'll qualified to accept
one of the several offers which have
been made to her by managers.
Essie Jenyings, the Australian actress,
who is expected to throw Mary Anderson
in the shade, is going to London at last.
The critics who have seen both Mary
Anderson and Miss Jennings in the char
acters of "Galatea" and "Juliet" tdeclare
unhesitatingly that the Australian sur
passes the American in talent and ex.
ceedsher in beauty.
Fanny Davenport has had the pluck to
make an innovation in La ToscG. In
the original production she threw herself
off the battlements of the Castle of St..
Angelo, and was supposed to drown her.
self. AS the Tiber flows fully twenty
yards from the fortress this always struck
one as rather ridiculous. In the new
death scene she is shot by Roman,
clasps her hands to her heart, reels and
drops dead in the middle of the stage.
Booth and Barrett will separate, but
there will still be union of interests.
In October next Mr.. Booth will begin a
sixteen-weeks' season at the Broadway
Theatre in Macbeth and Richelieu, sup
ported by Nine. Modjeska. In Septem-
Der Mr.. Barrett will try new play by
Mr.. VIM. Young in Chicago, which he
will bring to New York if successful.
The present metropolitan engagement
has not been as financially successful as
was expected.
Another society lady is preparing for
the stage in the orthodox society style.
Her name is Mrs. Hattie Warner. She
has obtained decree of divorce from her
husband on the ground of desertion, the
dcree being issued from the Court of
Chancery of New Jersey. Mrs. Warner
some years ago created sensation in
Patterson by appearing on the stage. She
drew crowded houses for several perform
ances, but similar success did not attend
her venture outside of Patterson. Mrs.
Warner will now continue her theatrical
career as "The New Jersey Lily"
The French adaptation of As in a
Looking Glass, hitherto referred to, is
completed, and will be done by Sarah
Bernhardt in Russia. Strange to say,
she has made the death scene most
quiet. instead of using the back falls snd
moribund gymnastics of Mrs. Bernard
Beere and Langtry. Langtry, by the
way, is said to have bought the Ameri-
can right OF The Deans Daughter, by the
same author, which, though a failure
here, is thought to be possible success
deans daughter herself, her father. Mr..
Le Breton, having been dean of Jersey.
Mr.. Largtry, whom the gentle Lily
swore to love honor and obey, and who
has been staying recently at the Ashland
House in New York, while remaining
strictly incognito as far as the majority of
the guests are concerned, became quite
friendly with one or two of the men.
Mr.. Langtry declared that he had never
spent penny of his wife's earnings, in
spite of the rumors prevalent to the effect
that she regularly allowed him the
princely and extravagant income OF 93
per week. He sid that he had always
lived happily with his wife until she met
the Prince Of Wales. Then came chaos.
Mr.. L.angtry appeared to have plenty of
money. He went everywhere, and was
very liberal. He said he was here for
pleasure, and not on any business con-
nected with divorce, which he asserted
the Lily should never obtain. He
thought she was far too anxious to get it,