Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-27
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Interesting Notes of Actors
and Their Pia;s
AaUssMEsTs x IRIS cIrY.
Stray Bifs Of 1ossip FROM The
Wings-News From the
Mimic World.

| Mimic World.
John 7, Malone has gone to Europe on
a pleasure trip.
Mrs. Langtry owns stable full Of
blooded horses.
Ben. Stern has signed with the Carle-
ton Opera Co. for next season.
Ellen Terry is fond OF eccentric cos
tunes and big lunches of roses.
Blondin, the aerial artist, is TO sail from
England for this country on the 26th
inst.
Maud Granger goes to Europe next
week, and does not know II she will ever
come back.
Henri Meilhac, author OF Frou- Frou,
Belle Hfleae, Toto Chez Tata, Dfcore,
etc., Is now one Of the "Forty I'm
mortals."
Alice Harrison is studying negro dia.
lect for the coming great production Of
Uncie Toms Cabin, in which she will
appear as Topsy.
The House that Edwin Booth has pur-
chased for the Players Club adjoins that
OF the late Samuel j. Tilden, on Gram
ercy Park, New York.
Kate Forsythe says she recently de-
clined an offer from A. M. Palmer TO 20
on the road in Theodore. Her plans
for next season are as yet undecided.
Giro Pinsuti, the composer, who died
in Italy, March 10, left quite fortune.
twenty thousand dollars Of II goes TO
Italian charities, and the remainder 10
his nephew, Vittorio Pinsuti.
( 1t is reported that Rubenstein, the
eminent musician, has signed for an
American tour, during which he Is to
give fifty concerts, for which he will re-
ceive 100000 and his expenses.
Miss Jane Hading is no longer Nine.
Victor Koning; her divorce from the
Manager OF the Gymnase having been
granted and signed the day before her
departure for Brazil with the Coquelin
Company.
Henry Greenwald, the Texas manager
OF twenty-four play-houses is in New
York. Since he took the lease Of New
Orleans theatre, Mr.. Greenwald has dis
carded his cowboy costume, his nose
paint and his gun.
Nat O. Goodwin has purchased from
William Yardley an adaptation by the
latter of "Gringoire," entitled A Royal
Marriage, which he will produce next
season, preceding 1t with Turned Up, in
place OF Lend Me Five Shillings.
Booth and Barrett did not do 4 GOOD
business at the williamsburg Amphion
Theater last week, and the Manager, Mr..
Wiske, had given guarantee OF fl8, 900
for the week. The receipts were about
$4,000, and some one was disappointed.
According to recent newspaper arti-
Gle, Frank Howard, the minstrel and
song writer Is the proprietor OF farrn
in Iowa Of $50 acres; which includes q
half-mile track for the training Of blooded
trotting stock. He has realized some
$40, 900 from his songs.
Itseems strange to connect Billy EN-.
erson's name with then drama, but GER
tain it is he has joined Katie Putnam's
Company, and reports favor his meta
morphosis from burnt-cork to grease
paint and powder. In other words, he is
proving himself very acceptable actor.
Frank Maeder believes in making The
Hunming Bird In every way worthy of
its namesake. With that in view, he
has had sparkling new music written for
it, and costumed the ladies OF his COM
pany with dresses that would put 10 the
blush the brilliant plumage OF the superb
little beauty from whence his piece is
named.
The present Palais- Royal success On le
Dit O pendant to Doit-ou k Dire is
rollicking comedy-farce, cast in the usual
Palais-Royal mould; and during the
three acts enough buttons nightly burst
off to cause Q stampede among good
housewives. The play fits the actors,
and the actors fit the play.
Prof. Alfred N. Hennequin, Of the State
University, Detroit, Mich, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect October l. He
will thereafter devote his time TO dram
attic art and play writing, in which he
has been interested for the past few
years. He is the author Of several suc-
cessful plays.
Vernona Jarbeau writes: II am per-
fectly delighted with my season. It has
been successful far beyond my hopes. I
intend to play up to the second week in
June. My next season opens In st. Paul
on August Goth. It will extend to San
Francisco, where 1 shall open Septem-
Der 20th."
While in Hartford, Ct, last week,
Nine. Janauschek received Q check for |
81 ,050 from the proprietor Of the Perry |
House, Newport, being the amount |
agreed upon in settlement Of 9 suit |
which she brought against him, and for |
which she was given . verdict for . |
much larger sum.
The widest man in Paris Just now i |
M. Emile Zolo. All on account Of Ger |
,niaai having displeassd the critics, and |
Parisians In general. M. Zola appealed |
kf, the r,o<,rIo and kl,o 1<<,~o ~ 81 = fvt,-k
let were thrown open for free perform |
ance. A boisterous crowd filed the thea |
ter and applauded everything, too much |
perhaps, which accounts for the author |
being somewhat displeased at the verdict |
given.
The Emma Abbott Opera Co. closed |
it's tenth annual season in Albany, May |
70. Next season Miss Abbott will add to |
her already large repertory Bizet's |
Pearl Fisher" Thomas "Esmsralda" |
and Dasid's "Lalla Rookh," for which |
an effective ballet win be secured. Sew
eral artists will be added to the present |
and the season will open In |
Chicago In September. A season of |
English Opera will be given in New York |
in November ct the Academy Of |
Music.
Denman Thompson left New York May |
23d in special car for Denver, Colo,
where he opens tomorrow for q week. |
His next stand will be Salt Lake City, |
Utah, June 3, 6, z, whence he goes 70
San Francisco, opening four weeks
season at the Baldwin, June IL. After
that he will return East by way Of Los
opening there July 8. From
there he will 60 direct to New York, to
prepare for his opening at the Academy
Of Music, in August.
Louis Harrison had quite narrow e.
cape the other day. He was walking
near the curb ct the corner Of Twenty
3i9ht street and Broadway, buried In