Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1888-01-15
THE STAGE.
Many Musical and ORA
matte Notes.
THE ADJUSTMENTS TO COME.
What is Going on in the Mimic
World NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in Brief.

Joseph Joachim, the greatest OF llv-
inc violinists, has been stricken with
paralysis.
Manager WYATT, of the Grand, has
some great attractions booked that
will appear in the near future.
Carl Hertz, the illusionist. with the
Boston Howard Company, is a Cali
fornia boy.
Helen Dauvray's retirement from
the stage will probably not be perma-
nent. She is to play in San Francisco
next month for charity.
Miss Lizzie DAILY, OF the Howard
Athenaum Company, is the one that
played Priscilla" here last season
with Daly's Vacation Company.
The renowned Irwin sisters of the
Howard Athenaum Company were re-
cent members Of Augustin Days New
York Company. They appear in a
sketch called Home Rule.
D'Oyly Carte is making arrange
ments to produce Gilbert and Sulli-
vans operas in Russia. He will pre-
sent them in English with a company
made up in London.
The combined salary list Of the
Boston Howard Athen3um Company
is $23S day. Add printing, railroad
fares and other expenses to this, it
must run it up to $500 day.
Wagner's only symphony lately dis
covered, will have it's first hearing in
this country on January 21st at the
New York Metropolitan Opera House,
under Herr Seidl's baton.
Just as Salmon P. Chase's grand
daughter, Miss Sprague, is preparing
for the stage, his niece, Miss Kate
Chase Ainsworth. a California lady,
makes successful debut in San Fran
CISCO
Lolita, who has been neglected by
New Workers for long time, thinks
that her new piece. PdWn Ticket No.
SI0 would please the metropolis, and
is trying to get four weeks for it at q
New York theatre.
The success of Manager John A.
Russell's Natural Gas is so great that
nothing can keep it down. Mr.. Rus
sell is leading it toward the East,
after very profitable two weeks en-
gagement in SAP Francisco.
Dumas Froncllon will be produced
in New York during the engagement
of Nine. Nicman-Roabe. OF course
the version will be in German, but it
will be the first production of any kind
Of version of this much-advertised
play in this country.
There will be four big minstrel
shows on the road next season ::
Thatcher, Primrose and West; Sweat
nam, Rice and Pagan; McNish,
Rama and Arno, and johnson and
Slavin. And then there is the band
headed by Billy Emerson and Lou
Harrison.
Josef Hosmann has become quite q
social lion in New York and Boston.
Last Sunday the little pianist was
given reception AT the house of Gov
ernor Ames, in Boston, and on January
IA he was entertained by Mrs. Cor
nelus Vanderbilt in New York.
Herr Ernest Pc .sart, a celebrated
German actor, now playing in New
York, was on Saturday remarked in
Brooklyn to his former wife, from
whom he had been divorced in Ger
many. They were attended by their
daughter, twelve years old.
Sara Palma (McGrew), California
girl, is credited by cable with scoring
a great success in the role of "Asto-
roth," in Goldmark' s new opera, Re
gina d. Saba, at La Scala, Milan,
Monday night. She has a soprano
voice of great sweetness and fexibil-
ity.
1t is said that Signorina Tua, the
violinist, will shortly return to this
country to become the wife of Alex
ander Lambert, director of the New
York Conservatory of Music. Another
rumor has it that Adele Aus Ger Ohe,
the pianist, will shortly marry Walter
Damrosch.
After Mrs. Potter's contract with
Mr.. H. Clay Miner has expired she
will be managed by Mr.. Abbey, who
will either give a series of matinee
performances at Wallack's Theater,
New York, supported by the Wallack
Theater Company, or take her for a
season to San Francisco.
Miss Stella Chase Ainsworth, who
recently made such a successful debut
at the California Theater, has COM
pleted all her arrangements to per-
manently adopt the stage as profess
sion, and is prepared to negotiate with
responsible manager. Her roper
toire is quite extensive.
Stage kissing is not what it seems
to the audience in the auditorium.
"Such Kisses" said a little actress,
scornfully shaking her golden cnrls
and arranging her rosy lips into de-
lightful pout, "are not worth having.
In fact, they are nothing more nor
less than a hideous parody upon the
genuine article"
In the comic opera line the latest
possibility" is a recently talked of
revival of Strauss most tuneful and
most successful comique, The Merry
Var. In New York it is proposed to
have new libretto written, to put
the piece on in gorgeous spectacular
style, with a beautiful chorus of a
hundred, and to obtain some big stage
like the Academy, where it could en-
joy long run.
The artists death roll in Europe
for the last few weeks included Eu-
gene Massol, who was a celebrated
French barytone half century ago
the composer and vocal teacher, Pan
Okla; Theodore Michaelis, who wrote
the Turkish Patrol; Edquard Marxsen,
Brahm' 8 teacher Marie arbieri-Nini
an Italian prima donna and Ugo Cap
ETH, an tia ian journalist and Wag-
nerite.
Miss Julia Marlowe was the OBJ
ssrved of all observers at the first
night OF Paul Kauvar at the Standard
Theater in New York City. She is
not very beautiful woman, although
pretty, but she has a face that attracts
everyone's attention to its youthful
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