Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-09
Dramatf Notes.

Dramatic Notes.
Booth and Barrett will open their next
season at the Warder Grand Opera
House, Kansas City, September 10th.
Edwin Booth runs down to Boston
every now and then for recreation. He
is one of the most unassuming men in
the profession.
Miss Emma Abbott has purchased
from Rudolph Aronson the right to play
Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera in the
western country.
Mckee Kankin's new play, The Run.
dWay Wife, has been very successful in
Chicago. 1t is a version of Fred G.
Maeder's play of Wife and Child.
Lester Wallack was to have written his
experiences with theatrical people in the
Century,, commencing in the October
number, but he has transferred his
talents to another world.
Major Charles E. Rice will in future be
the New York representative and treas
urer for the Rice and Dixey's enter
prises, with headquarters at 1867 Broad
way.-[Dunlap's Stage News.
Henry E. Dixey returned from his Eu-
ropean trip last week, and is busily re-
hearsing his Adonis company at the
Bijou Opera House. Dunlap's Stage
News.
Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera will
be in two acts. The cast is long, much
longer than usual, and there will be a
large chorus. Fifty-six voices are need
ed, thirty-two of which will be male
[Dunlap's Stage News.
| Mr.. E. d. Jack, who is managing Ro-
land Reed this season, is son Of Mr..
John Jack, the we'll known actor, proba-
bly, the only one on the stage at present
who could play "Falstaff" successfully.
l-[Dunlap's Stage News.
The Captain Jack Crawford combina.
tion, which Sheridan Corbin took out,
has disbanded. 1t turned out that
Sherry had no money to pay salaries,
though he pretended he had ample
backing, "The Poet Scout" is looking
out for new manager.
Jacques Kfuger's "His Royal High
ness" Company leave town on Saturday
for Detroit, where the play will be pro-
duced at Whites Opera House, Sept. 10.
Mr.. Kruger has very amusing part,
that fits him exactly and in which he is
sure to make a hit Dunlap's Stage
News.
On Thursday Denman Thompson will
begin The Old Homestead, which is to run
for the entire season at the Academy of
Music. All these openings have been at
tended by large audiences, and it looks
now as if the season will be prosper
GUS one in spite Of the Presidential cleo
tion.-[Dunlap's Stage News.
Nine. Modjeska will play a tour of
eight weeks under the management of
Al Hayman on the California coast this
winter. She has received an offer to
play spring engagement in London.
Season after next she will make tour of
thirty weeks throughout the United
States. There is a possibility OF her pro-
ducing Theodore then.
"A Paper Dou," in which Miss Kate
Castleton will be seen during the coming
season, has been rehearsing during the
week under the direction of Mr.. Harry
Phillips. The cast is strong one, and
includes Frank Tannehill, Jr., Peter
Daley, Thomas @. Seabrook, BERTHE
Coote, Ada Deaves, and Maud Giroux.
The clever musical company will be first
produced at Syracuse, Sept 24th.-[ Dun
laps Stage News.
Before leaving London, Mr.. Dixey pre-
sented some of his English friends with
valuable mementoes of his ENJOYABLE
visit to the Continent. Among the most
beautiful was set of liquor bottles and
glasses made of Venetian glass mounted
with pure gold. This he purchased in
Italy for Captain Carl A. Thimm, a very
hospitable Englishman who has on many
occasions proven himself friend to
Americans abroad Dunlap's Stage
News.
E. E. Rice has $50 artists on his pay
roll, and is one of the busiest managers
in the country. Wien in New York he
is regularly at his desk at s O'Clock in
the morning. He seldom leaves before
O'Clock in the evening, and may be
seen working any night long after the
average Gothamite is in bed. Charles
Frohman, known as the ''little Napo-
lean" of managers, is also very indus
trious worker and believer in early rising,
although he seldom retires before the
electric light melts into the early dark
ness of another day Dunlap's Stage
News.
The Humming Bird Las flown to for
eign countries, and received q tremend-
GUS reception at Victoria, in British Co.
lumbia, on Monday evening. This is
what our English cousins Of the far West
say of the bright and clever Americans: :
''We doubt if in her line Nellie Nc
Henry has an equal. She is agile, subtle
in movement and as quick as flash. yet
artistic in all. Her capers seem as spon-
taneous as they are surprising. She