Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-11
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
Notes Of Plays and Their
Actors.
FROM THE STAGE
Natural Gas" to Commence Here
Tomorrow Night-Events to
Take Place.

Fanny Davenport and La Tosca are q
"go."
A Paper Doll is one of the successes ol
the season.
Natural Gas is turning people away in
San Francisco.
Mrs. Potter will revive Madame dt
Bressier this season.
Emma Abbott and her company will
be here next month.
The new Los Angeles Theater will be
opened about December 3rd.
Roland Reed is doing we'll through the
South with The Woman Hater.
Grand(ather's Clock has run down, and
is in for alterations and repairs.
Emma Juch has brought suit against
Mrs. Jeanette M. Thurber for IS. 800 back
salary.
jacques Kruger has returned to New
York, the Popkins Tragedy company
having disbanded.
The Philharmonic Society will give it's
second concert at the Grand Opera
House on December 18th.
Ralph Delmore retires from the cast of
Mr.. Barnes of NeW York on Saturday, and
Mr.. Frank Mordaunt takes his place.
The Park Theater, Boston, Mass,
which is owned by Lotta, will be man
aged by her brother, Jack Crabtree, next
season. The house will be entirely re-
decorated and otherwise improved.
Ethel Sprague, the pretty daughter of
Kate Chase Sprague, is studying for the
sage in New York. She will not appear
until next season, and then probably in
a play written by her talented mother.
Carlina Patti, a daughter of Adelina
cally adopted and brought to her castle
New Orleans. The Welsh climate did
not agree with her.
The clever comedians, Girard and
Donnelly, have been doing a very large
business at the San Francisco Bush
Street Theater for the past two weeks
Standing room only has been order half
an hour before the rise of the curtain.
Kate Castleton opened at the Chicago
Opera House on Monday, in A Paper
Doll, to an immense house. Evidently
the admirers Of the dainty chic and YER
satile Kate believe her the fairest Kate
in Christendom, by the manner the flock
around her in every city in the Union.
Henry E. Dickey, after a very pros
porous tour of New England, opens at
the Brooklyn Amphion Theater on Mon
day in Adonis, November 18th. Adonis
will be brought to the New York Star
Theater, where he will, beyond doubt,
receive very hearty reception.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the production of Antony and
Cleopatra, with Mrs. Potter as the GEN.
trail figure. at Wallack's Theater, later in
the season. Mr.. Philip Goatcher is
painting entirely new and very elabo-
rate scenery, and the dresses, which are
to be superb, are now in course of manu-
fLcture.
The monument to be erected by Amer
ican actors to the memory of John Nc
Cullough was sent from Boston to Phila-
delphia, October 26th. 1t is of Quincy
granite, and is noble work of art. The
general design is somewhat like the
Scott monument at Edinburgh. The cap
is supported by four granite pillars, form
ing an arch, within which is to be placed
q life. size figure of the dead actor.
Carved in relief on one side Of the pedes-
tai are the tragic mask and buskin, en-
circled by the laurel wreaths. The other
side bears the inscription: "His life was
gentle; and the elements so mixed in
him that nature might stand up and say
to all the world, This was man."