Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-23
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Items of Interest from at
Home and Abroad.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE STAGE
The Plays and Those Who Present
Them-The TrOubadOurs and
the Santley Troupe.

port, R. l., cottage.
w. A. Mestayer and wife, and George
Reynolds are at Asbury Park, N. j.
Cossira, the tenor, recently made his
debut in Paris as Sir Fernand in La
Fduoritd.
Edwin Booth and John Sleeper Clarke
are frequently seen together on the
boulevard at Newport.
James O'Neil will play nothing but
Monte Crasto next season. All contrary
statements are untrue.
Osmond Tearle will play the leads
during the Shakespeare memorial per-
formances at Stratford- d-on-Avon.
A dramatization of the novel, "Crucify
Her." is being prepared for Mrs. Bernard
Beere's American tour next winter.
Clay M. Greene's play, Hans the Boat
man, is reported by the Australian
papers to be a great success in Mel
bourne.
Letters of administration OF the per-
sonal estate of the late Dean of Jersey.
Mrs. Langtry's father, showed the value
to be only $25.
Miss Columbia, who recently made
successful operatic debut at Covent Gar
den, London, in L'Africaine, is Miss May
Scanlan, of Chicago.
Verdi's Otello is spoken of as one OF
the first novelties for the fall at the Eden
Theatre, Paris. M. Maurel will proba-
bly, play the title role.
Emma Juch will sing in a series Of
twenty concerts next season. Hope
Glenn, Leopold Lichtenberg and Teresa
Carrefio will also be in the company.
Irving is having the most elaborate
scenery and dresses prepared for the
great revival of Macbeth next season. He
says he will give an entirely new reading
of the part.
Mary Anderson has accepted Saville
Clark's blank verse play, founded on the
novel "Hypatia" Miss Anderson is
taking absolute rest, preparatory to her
forthcoming tour.
The prize of 10000 francs offered by
the city Of Paris for the best musical
composition was kept back for the reason
sidered worthy of it.
It is stated that the annual rent of
Wallack's Theater has been raised to
$35, 1000, but ambitious managers, yearn-
ing for a metropolitan "show-place,
won't mind little thing like that.
Londoners are now interested in Julia
Nelson, who has recently added to her
laurels by her rich impersonation OF
''Selene" in The Wicked World, which
was done July in London. She may
attempt Shakespearian roles later on.
London is to have a Russian opera
season early in August. The troupe con.
sists of twenty principals, chorus of
fifty and band of thirty. 1t will pro-
duce Glinka's Life for the Gar and Lud.
qpillo, two operas by Tschaikowsky, and
q list of other Russian operas only.
Mrs. John Wood and Arthur Cecil open
the new Court Theater next fall with an
English version of Les Surprises d,t
DiUorce. 1t seems rather difficult to i'm
agine how this piece can be Anglicized,
as the English and French laws are 30
very different.
The latest device in stage effect is now
enlarging in the brain of a certain dra-
matte writer, being the introduction in
one of his plays of very wet river in
flames, and the heroine on a moving
block of ice holding on to streak Of
forked fire. Sensational, truly.
Oliver Doud Byron's bump of acquis-
itiyeness seems to be abnormally devel-
oped. He has added several blocks of
Atlanticville to his already large estates
in Brooklyn and elsewhere. Mrs. Byron
is summering at Atlanticville, having re-
Gently bought cottage there.
Mrs. Langtry's appearance Of wretched
ill-health occasions her private friends
much anxiety. The Lily has become
painfully this in the face, her cheeks
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dark-rimmed eyes no longer CLEAN with
Thence to her epithet of Jersey.
Dame Rumor SAYS that Mrs. James
Brown Potter is to visit Sarah Benhardt
at her villa in Canterats, France, during
August, and. while there, study "Juliet'
in French, so as to appear in Paris dur
ing the Exhibition to Bernhardt's
"Romeo." Bernhardt aspires to do
"Romeo" in English also, to Mrs. Pot
ter's Outlet"
Mrs. Langtry has leased the cottage of
George Washington Brown, the Mayor
of Long Branch, for the summer. The
cottage stands in beautiful grove on the
north side of Bath avenue, short dis
tance from the beach. The house is
roomy, and has spacious grounds and
beautiful lawns. Mrs. Langtry will take
possession this week.
The moment manager becomes prom
inent all sorts of rumors are spread about
of his prospective enterprises, etc. The
latest comes from Boston to the effect
that J. M. Hill is to start palatial res
taurant in the new Boylston Market
building on Washington street. The re-
port is perhaps founded on an idea he
has in contemplation of securing room
in the front Of the building as a branch
office.
Les Fees, the new Wagner opera,
received it's premier June 26 at the Royal
Theatre, Munich. There are seven
tableaux in the three acts of the piece.
The story of the piece is commonplace,
but the music, which at times is grand
and purely Wagnerian, has several re-
lieving numbers of more lightness than
is usually INDUCED in by this heavy
classical composer.
Gounod seems to be fastidious in the
matter who shall play Outlet" in the
forthcoming opera of Romeo and Juliet,
to be done in October at the Grand
Opera, Paris. He is said to have found
his ideal in Nine. Hartertary, the wife
of q French army officer. She is pupil
of Duvernoy, and is credited with having
. voice of great compass and fullness.
Her nom de theatre is Nine. Darelee.
Some vague rumors are flying round
that Bernhart and Damala will come to-