Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-18
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip About Plays and
Actors.
NEWS FROM EVERY
Little Puck" at the Grand Opera
HOuSe-NOtes of Interest to
the Theater-gOers.

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Robert Downing, the tragedian, will
shortly marry Miss Eugenia Blair, the
leading lady of his company.
The Philharmonic Society of this city
intends to give the musicians surprise
on Beethoven's birthday at the Grand
Opera house.
The Emma Abbott Opera Co. will
open tomorrow night at the Baldwin in
San Francisco. 1t will be here for two
weeks at the holidays.
1t will cost $2 seat to see Miss Mary
Anderson play in 4 Winters Tale III New
York City. Such is the broadening
effect of foreign tour upon an American
star.
Verdi, the famous composer, was rs
years old last month. He has Just built
hospital in the commune of Vjllanova
d'Arda, which he has endowed with an
annual income of 81 400.
Donnelly and Girard have this week
been illuminating Los Angeles with
their Natural Gas. The clever company
have done a very large business on the
Pacific Slope, which they leave next
week en- route toward the East.-[Dun-
laps News.
Maurice Barrymore is to be Modjeska's
leading man during her six weeks trip
on the Pacific slope. Modjeska used to
say that no leading man in this country
suited her better than Barrymore, in
spite of his quick temper and independent
spirit.
Patti is going to create "Juliet' in
Gounod's Romeo and Juliet at the Grand
Opera House in Paris. She is to receive
G200 night for her services, and one of
the clauses in her agreement stipulates
that Gounod himself shall conduct the
orchestra.
Miss Ethel Sprague, daughter of
Kate Chase Sprague, who will soon
make her debut on the stage, is young
girl OF scarce II years, but of wonderful
vitality, medium height, magnificent
physical development, and is one of the
brightest, brainiest, most natural and
unaffected young women in the profess
sion.
Jane Hading is studying English night
and day, and it is said Henry E. Abbey
has scheme for managing the distin-
guished French actress for several years
to come in series of English plays. 1t
is pointed out that Madame Modjeska is
growing bit old, and that the field is
fallow for successor to the distinguished
Polish actress.
Nine. Scalchi is now in London, filling
not only a number of concert engage
ments concluded long ago, but many
others accepted by Nine. Trebelli, whose
illness is reported to have been severe.
In a few days hence, however, Nine.
Scalchi goes to Russia, where she will
be heard in the Imperial Opera House in
st. Petersburg during the winter months.
Th0 Nf kH4 - =
called "Razzle DAZZLE" and the boys,
are whistling and humming it every
where. Razzle Dazzle, in the vocabulary
of the gamblers, stands for streak of
bad luck, but the phrase has crept into
the vocabulary of the town, and is very
cleverly used by Charles Hoyt in song
in A Brass Monkey.
The highest.priced singer at the
French Grand Opera House is the barry
tone Lasalle. He gets ST., 900 for an
engagement of eight months. TIE con.
tralto, Nine. Richard, comes next with
$4,000. Escalias, tenor; Melchisedec,
barytone; Jean de Reske, tenor; Ed. de
Reske, bass, and Nine. Escalais, soprano,
follow in order. Nine. Mauri, the dam
seuse, gets $4,000.
Edward Sothern, who is at present on
the top wave of success with Lord Chun,-
leg at the Lyceum, is just the opposite to
his father and other comedians such as
Henry E. Dixey and Nat Goodwin in
this that he is seldom seen in the street
and never in barroom. He lives in an
elegant fiat, has an ample income, and
devotes his time to study in preference
to floating on the surface of the town.
Miss Nelly McHenry has a new play
In which she will be seen in New York
next February. During the past week
the clever company of which she is the
star has been drawing large audiences in
San Antonio and Galveston in spite of
the election excitement, which Mr..
Maeder writes has in no way interfered
with their very prosperous Texas tour.
Next week the company play The Hum.
ming Bird and 8 of Kind in New
Orleans, and then appear in the larger
towns towards st. Louis, where they are
booked for one week, beginning Novem.
ber 25th.
Miss Ethel Corlette, with Donnelly &
Girard's Natural Gas comes of re-
markably talented family. Her mother,
Mrs. Theresa Corlette, is fine musician,
elocutionist, poet, and ranks high as q
journalist. The three daughters Of Mrs.
COIIotCe all cnO6e tne stage as prCIeS'
sion. The eldest, Miss Theresa, after a
short and brilliant career married well
known gentleman of San Francisco. Miss
Nellie, the second daughter, is playing q
successful engagement at the Broadway
Theater, New York. Miss Ethel, the
youngest, is winning laurels. She has
phenomenal voice and plans it's devel
opment in the schools of Europe. She
adds to her other attractions that of be
ing an excellent painter in oil.
The story of Kyrle Bellows dealings
with Pierre Lorillard that is now thor.
oughly accepted in uptown clubs, says
the New York Sun, is that Mr.. Bellows
offence was that of cad and boaster
He walked into the Tuxedo Club, &C
cordinp to the version of the affair which
ia now accepted, called a servant to hin
in a loud tone, and, handing him q let
ter addressed to a young lady, told hin
to take it to her, and be sure and deliver
il personally and without the knowledge
of any one who might be standing by
The whole tone of his remarks and hi
manner we're such as to seriously com
promise the young lady's name, and
though she is above reproach, it is fel
by the more sedate and proper member
ri the club that such action was unbe