Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-07
THE DRAMA.
Notes About the Plays and
Players
BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Langtry in s'As in Looking
Glass ''-The "Pirates of PEN
zance-Other Matters.


Paderenski, Polish pianist, is
alectrifying Paris. He is not boy,
either.
Lester Wallack has bought the
Parmalee homestead, near Circle
vile, N. Y, for which he paid $32,-
GOO.
The most popular amusement in
Paris, at present, is the Morldgnes
Russes-the switchback. Shades OF
Pasadena!
Berry Wall, the dethroned King OF
Of the Dudes, talks Of going on the
stage, and has actually had an offer
for next season.
Rice and Dixey will have four COM
panies on the road next season. They
are Rice's beautiful Evdngeline, with
new scenery and costumes and sixty
artists; The Corsair, Pearl of Pekin,
AMI Rice's big burlesque company in
Adonis.
Mrs. Scott -Siddons has resumed her
dramatic readings for the purpose of
introducing to the American public
her adopted son, Henry Walter, once
in infant prodigy at the piano. Mrs.
Scott-Siddons reads as well as ever,
and Mr.. Walter plays admirably.
The Pointsman, realistic railway
drama, has nos yet been seen in
America, though it has been popular
in England for whole season. The
sensational scene represents railroad
collision SO awfully that the audiences
ara Mortified. That ought to draw
here.
Kate Forsyth is back to America
after several months pleasure seeking
in Europe. 1t is presumed that she
will resume her starring tour next
season, as she has plenty Of money to
back herself and has probably picked
up some novelties in the way of plays
during her stay abroad.
Miss Saker, the manageress Of the
Alexandra theatre, Liverpool, has had
a testimonial benefit on her retire
ment, on account of i'll health, from
the profession which she has adorned
for twenty years. w. s. Gilbert vol
unteered to play Pygmalion on the
occasion but the cable is silent as to
-the result.
Marconi, the one thousand dollar a
night tenor, withdrew from the cast
Of Otello, after the second perform
ance, and skipped for sunny Italy.
He said his wife was sick and had
cabled for him. The argument that
Signora Marconi would be either dead
or we'll by the time be could reach
Italy did not convince him.
In the divorce proceedings Of Leslie
Carter against Mrs. Caroline Louise
Carter, in Chicago, some very COM
promising evidence to Kyrle Bellew
was adduced. Several entries on the
Colonade Hotel books show correc-
tions made in bills chraged to Mr..
Bellew and to Mrs. Carter. Among
them are a laundry bill for $7.25, and
some choice wines and cigars.
Although it has been stated that
Lester Wallack is not well off financi-
ally, this dispatch from Newburg, N.
Y, has not been contradicted: "Les-
ter Wallack has purchased the Parm-
alec homestead, near Circleville, for
1872 GOO. He will make it his summer
home, and will have half-mile rae
llk tIkCk I8lQ out Ol LIE 11O Will t6AC
some OF his finest horses there"
The report that Miss Leonora Brad
ley is matrimoDially inclined is not
correct. She looks as lovely and dain-
ty as ever, and pretty enough to make
any man wish to marry her, but she
prefers single blessedness on the large
salary she is able to earn, rather than
being linked to even the handsome
and wealthy society swell who has
laid both himself and his fortune at
her feet.
Professor Hart, OF Vienna, has ar
rived with nine lady fencers. who will
give public exhibitions through the
country. The professor is a famous
expert and his fencing with both
hands has never been excelled. His
pupils are graceful, elegant and ac-
complished. Some OF them are beau
tiful. One Of them is Baroness, and
all baronesses are beautiful, outside
of Germany.
When the Temple Theater in Phil
adelphia burned Mr.. William Crane
stood by until the stage was entirely
destroyed, watching something very
attentively. Then he paid fireman
to plunge into the building and rescue
q charred piece OF wood, which the
comedian took to the express company
and wrapped into package. Into
this he put the following note:
Dear Larry: You always wanted
the center Of the stage. Here it is"
The new Union Square Theater,
which the Palmer estate will deliver
to Mr.. J. M. Hill, August 10Th, on an
eight years lease, will have a
frontage on 14th street, New York,
of 68 feet. and be fireproof. The
house will be formally open,
September Sd, by five weeks
engagement of Miss Helen Barry, q
Jun@sque English actress, who is
backed by one Of the managers Of the
Palmer estate and member of the
Union Club.
Labouchere says that the Russian
National Opera Company with twenty
principal singers and City choristers,
will come to this country next Sep
tember. This is in consequence of the
supgestion that the great Russian
opera, Lite for the Car, would be
popular here. The Russians will be
warmly welcomed, and, if they sing
and persuade the fashionable that
Russian is all the same as German,
they will make money. Perhaps Rus
sian will be the fashion here, as
it is in Paris.
It has been stated that the reason
of E. J. Buckley's retirement from
the Booth Barrett Co. was MFR. Bar
rett's jealousy of the young actors
popularity. There was no reason fol
any such statement, as they parted
the warmest OF friends. Mr.. Buckley's
leaving the organization had been
amicably settled upon because q
family arrangements and the prelimi.
nary preparations for his starring tout
on the coast. Mr.. Barrett treated
H., NTH ox caadinO kindness through