Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-04
THE DRAMA.
Interesting Notes from Far
and Near.
NEW PLAYS AND NEW MUSIC.
What is Being Done on the
Stage - Gossip About
Actors.

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Clara Morris addresses her husband
as Fanny"
Fred Marden is writing a play fol
s'little" Corinne.
Mrs. James Brown Potter is anx-
ious to present Anthony and Cleopatra.
Frank Sanger has purchased from
Edward Coleman the latter's play,
Diana.
Dion Boucicault's new play, Cush-
la-ma-chree, has failed to enthuse the
Bostonians.
Charles A. Mestayer has secured
the rights to Jonn Brougham's Lottery
of Life, and will play it in the CHIEF
theaters.
Herr Daniel Bandmann will soon
be seen in his own version of DR..
JekyU and Mr.. Hyde, which he pro-
poses to take on the road.
Maurice Strakosch has discovered
q sixteen-year-old prima donna who
has been singing with great success
at Vienna. Her name is Miss Nikita.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to be
again very sick, due entirely to over
exertion. His new opera on the
Wild West and Buffalo Bill craze is
nearing completion.
"The Humming Bird' is on its way
to the Atlantic coast, and will appear
for the third time this season in New
York. They played this week to inn
mense audiences at Pillsbury, Pa.
Mr.. James Owen 0'Connor is to ap-
pear for week at the Star Theatre in
New York as "Shylock." AS he pro-
poses to play the part with German
dialect, the performance will be
unique.
A cable from Paris received We'd
nesday Gays Victor Maurel will sail
for New York on April 7th for tour
of Verdi's new opera, "Othello," in
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
M. Maurel is to receive a salary of
$780, 900 month during the tour.
For want OF patronage, and unable
to cope with the Academic Rationale
de Musique, The Chatelet and Gazette
theaters, the well-known Eden
Theater, Paris, has closed as Ballet
Home and opened as a Refuge
dOperette, with La File de Madame
Angot as spectacular play.
Rumor has it that Mr.. Hoffman,.
father of the little prodigy Josef has
accepted an offer Of $4,000 from
syndicate Of New Workers to complete
the boys musical education. Mean
while josef has refused to lay any
more golden eggs for Manager Abbey,
and Mr.. Abbey in return promises to
bring suit.
Mrs. Mary Hewins Fiske (The
Giddy Gusher) has written a play
for Joseph Haworth. Mrs. Fiske is
one of the cleverest of the many
women who make good living by
their pen, and her play is sure to be
not alone original but brilliant. Those
whoshave heard it read say it is full
of startling situations and sure to
make a sensation.
Abbey, Schoefel and Grau will con-
troll next season the following attrac-
tions: Mrs. James Brown Potter,
Jane Hading, Mary Anderson, Mon
sieur Coquelin, Sarah Bernhardt,
Josef Hoffman,, ,the5Star theater, New
York; the Park theater, Boston pos
sibly the Meininger Company, and
Wallack's theater, New York, which
will become combination house.
Mrs. Langtry declares that she will
not be seen as the wicked "Lena," in
As in a Looking Glass, because she is
not in sympathy with the part. The
Lily's sympathy has nothing to do
with it. She has been making money
with the play, but Charles Coghlan,
who becomes her leading man as soon
as Barrymore has gone, declines to
play the part of "Jack Fortinbras. !"
The opinion is that elena Despard''
suits Mrs. Langtry exactly.
Mr.. Henry E. Abbey says he has a
contract with Mrs. James Brown
Potter from March 10Th and one for
the whole of next season. Mr.. Miner
says he doesn't care snap what Mrs.
Potter does after March 10th, but that
he has contract with her for next
season, at salary of $500 a week
and one-third OF the benefits in addi-
ton. Both managers promise to
make things exceedingly warm for
the other.
M. Henri Meilhac, author of "Frou-
Frou," La Belle Helene," Ella Grande
Duchesse," and ever SO many more
good things, says that the height of
his ambition will not be reached until
he has written "Comedie de meurs
Americaines," and for that purpose he
proposes visiting the United States,
in order to draw his characters from
life, "as seen with his own eyes, .
and not from hearsay, etc., as was
the case with M. Victorien Sardou
when he wrote 'Uncle Sam" far
more English than American.
Ten years ago NJ. Julien Dallieves
left with the janitor of the Theatre
Francaise the MS. of a play in verse,
called the Mission de JeGune d'Aro,
and a few days after was drowned
while boating. Last week, while look
ing over some old papers, the play
was found, and curiousity leading
Manager Clarette, he read the drama,
with the result that it will shortly be
put into rehearsal; several of the So
cietaires Of the Comedy Francaise
proclaimingit to be masterpiece.
Edward E Rice will introduce a
new and novel idea into his travelling
organization next season, consisting
of . special halter included in each
company. This he finds necessary,
from the fact that it is impossible to
keep any one sized hat, either fol
street or stage wear, that will fit the
principal comedian at all times. He
states positively that pronounced
individual hit in any one city where
his companies play week or more
will increase the circumference of an
ordinary head from 61a to ~.
The Mystery Of Hanson Cab was
produced at the Princess's Thea.
ire in London, on Washington'e
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