Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-03
Gossip from at Home and
Abroad.
NOTES OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS
The Philharmonic SOciety's Second
Concert AnnOunced-The
Minstrels.

Mrs. Potters production OF antony ana
Ckopatra will follow Miss Anderson at
Palmer's.
CLAW Green is writing comic opera on |
the lines of Longfellow's, The Courtship |
of Miles Standish.
Louis Harrison presented fifty bushels
of potatoes to the poor at Pittsburg or.
Thanksgiving.
Robert L. Downing and Miss ,ucenia
Blair we're married at MINI sapolis on
hanksgiving day.
at Cucinnati, and so S;S Say ths hlsoannea asnea
Wallace-Villa Compa' ~.
Fanny Davenport. =, under the manage
ment Of klaw an. Il Erlanger, has done an
enormous busi LESS this season.
E. ]. Buckley will join the Julia Mar
lowe Com .,any, which, by the way, is
made up entirely of Americans.
Mrs. J. H. McVicker has become a
convert to the Christian Scientists, and
believes herself wholly cured of her
long-standing ills.
1t is rumored that Andrew Carnegie,
the Pittsburg millionaire, will build
conservatory of music in New York, and
that he will spend 81 900, 900 on it.
Mrs. Eugenia LIE Grand, who claims to
be the wife of Mr.. Kyrle Bellew, is re-
ported to be in New York anxiously
awaiting the arrival of her liege lord and
master.
Myrtle Peck and her running combina-
ton will give an exhibition at Agricul-
tural Park in the near future. Miss
Myrtle is the champion long-distance
rider of the world.
Edmund Gerson states that Bolossy
Kiralfy will shortly produce a new fairy
spectacle on a scale of unequalled mag
nifcence The scenery and costumes
are now being made in Europe.
Julian Magnus has resigned as busi-
ness manager of the Frederick Warde
Company. Mr.. Mangus is too valuable
man to be idle and has probably been
gobbled up by shrewd manager before
this paragraph is printed.
Mrs. Langtry's private car was badly
wrecked in Lexington, KY, the other
day. being run into while on side track
by wild car" The porter had his leg
broken, and was so badly scalded that he
had to be left there at the hospital.
M. B. Curtis has gone from California
to Chicago in order 10 attend trial in
which large sum OF money is to be won
or lost. He says Mrs. Curtis is now con-
valescent and they will shortly resume
their rather nebulous starring tour.
Clara Louise Kellogg has not fred the
musical world by her return to the oper-
attic stage. Last Thursday night she
opened in Faust at the Providence, R. l.,
Opera house. but the large audience
thinned out over the tediousness of the
performance.
A Mr.. McIllvain, of Long Island, went
to see Annie Pixley last week at the
Brooklyn Park Theater, but refused to
remove his hat. An usher then put him
out, and now he has brought suit against
the management for $5 ,000, which he
proposes to push to the bitter end.
The Charles Frohman agency, at 1867
Broadway, will continue to run in the
same groove as it has for the past three
years; but the business will be extended
and offices opened abroad, The agency
will also be the headquarters for AL Hay
man, William Gillette and Harry Rock
wood.
Oliver Byron's new play got the Cup
per hand" of him one night last week,
and he now carries his head in sling.
In the scene with the horses in the last
act, he was badly cut about the face with
whip that he didn't know was loaded
Although suffering great pain he
managed to finish the nights work.
Mary Anderson is playing to about
ming away ahead of Booth and Barrett's
business at the Fifth Avenue, which is
about 81, ,720 each performance, both
hn &c o1
The London Gaiety Company at regular
prices are playing to average receipts of
81 200, and Street Lavender at the little
Lyceum to $500.
John A. Mackay's new $4,000 play,
which Len Grover has been writing, is
finished, and John has shaved his nous
taches. Next week the company will be |
engaged, and two weeks after will begin |
its tour under the management Of Frank |
Cutter, Mr.. Sol Berliher, the backer, re- !
naming in New York. Mr.. Grover has |
named the play Daggare's Theory, a |
name which, however, neither suits the |
star nor the backer.
While with Robson and Crane in |
California, three or four seasons ago, |
Selena Fetter bought, for luck, few |
shares in stock company then forming |
to work on some abandoned gold claim |
Nothing was ever heard of the invest |
ment until about six weeks ago. when !
Miss Fetter received official notification |
that the company had "struck it rich,"
IN proof of which she was sent small |
bag OF the precious "dust' itself. Sic
sent the "dust" to Tiffany, who inlaid
:. -. ieaves and flowers on the resplend- |
ent mother-of-pearl fan that she now
carries in the second act of The 7igress. |
TGc NIinstrels.
Tonight the Georgia Minstrels will
open at the Grand Opera House. The
Springfield Herald speaks as follows OF |
"a crowded house greeted the Georgia
Minstrels at Mansfield's Opera House
last night, and genuine success was
scored. The troupe is composed of gen.
uine colored people, and in many features
were equal to, and in some superior to
many Of the more pretentious companies
which have visited our city in past
seasons. The olio part was especial ly
good, and introduced many new things
that kept the audience in roar"
Philharmonic Society.
On the 18th Of the present month the
Philharmonic Society will give it's second
concert. For this occasion the Grand