Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-23
THE DRAMA.
Notes from the Stage Here
and Elsewhere.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE ACTORS.
What is Doing in the Mimic
World Mrs. James
Brown Potter.


Rose Coghlan's starring tour will
begin on October 1st at Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Comstock
will sail for Europe early in June.
John S. Clarke got $141 900 for his
Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
Nellie McHenry wears massive
gold serpent twined about her thumb
as ring.
Miss Carrie Perkins will be the
merry little mountain maid in Adonis
next season.
Messrs. Richard l.. Nevill and Wal.
historical play entitled The Deserters.
Imre Kiralfy owns the right for all
countries of Messrs. Maeder and
Teal's dramatization of Matthias San
dorf.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett
will be in Leavenworth. st. Joseph,
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque
and Davenport this week.
Arthur Bird was married to Mrs.
Wilhelmina Denker, at Petersbor-
ough, England, February 29th. Mr..
Bird is an American composer.
Bolossy Kiralfy has secured the re-
lease of Mile. Paris from her engage
ment at the Alhambra, London, and
she will therefore continue to dance in
Dolores.
Miss Julia Marlowe's manager for
next season has not yet been settled
upon, and there is an apparent
scramble to see who will secure the
young star.
Emily Winant, the contralto, has
already been engaged by the Handel
and Hayden Society OF Boston for
Messiah and Elijah, to be produced in
Boston next December.
A new trio has been introduced in
The Pearl Of Pekin, and is sung by
Miss Irene Verana, Miss Clara Lane
and Mr.. Herbert. II is entitled "Oh,
What Subject to Paint on Fan!"
and the music is by Mr.. Kerker.
Manager J. M. Hill is SO we'll salts
fed with the success of 4 Possible
Case that he has determined to keep
it in reserve for the reconstructed
Union Square Theatre next season.
He has refused all out of town engage
ments.
Maud Powell, the violin virtuoso,
will undertake another Western tour.
She has been engaged for the Kansas
City Festival, April 26th, 9th. Sun
day evening, April 22d, Miss Powell
appeared at the Liederkrans anniver-
sary festival at Steinway Hall.
Matte Earle, leading lady with R.
L. Downing, while resting in New
York during Holy Week, heard j. H.
Connolly read his play, Rank, and
was so pleased with it that she has its
purchase under consideration for her
starring tour next season.
Kate Pursell has for obvioos rea-
sons changed the name of her drama,
Calamity Jane to The Queen of the
Plains. Chas. Benton is interested
with II. T. Wilson in the management
of her company. Early in May, with
q notablyf large support, Miss Pursell
will begin tour of New England.
Nine. Alboni says that in all her
career she never faced an audience
without being scared half out of her
wits. Even now, having long retired
from the public stage, though her
voice is still as perfect as ever, she
says she cannot stand up to sing be-
fore dozen friends in her own parlor
without bit of nervous trembling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry E. Abbey and
family sailed for Europe April 9TH. On
the 9Th Mrs. Abbey was sued by Mel
lie Danzig for $643.64 for costumes
furnished when the defendant was
Florence Gerard. In her defense Mrs.
Abbey stated that the costumes were
furnished on the order OF Isaac Bloom,
on the credit of Eric Bayley, with
whose company she was then playing.
The jury returned verdict in favor
of Mrs. Abbey.
The Mystery of a Hanson Cab was
acted for the first time in America
April 10Th, at the Amphion Academy,
williamsburg, N. Y, by special
company, under A. M. Paimer's man
agement, and including Henry Lee,
Sydney Armstrong, W. A. Lackage,
Augustus Cook, NJ. B. Snyder, Rose
Snyder, w. S. Harkins, E. H. Van
derfelt and wife and Carrie Jamison.
The week was originally contracted to
Clara Morris, but she Cancelled and
Mr.. Palmer took the house.
Sparrow & Jacobs, the proprietors
and managers of the Theatre Royal,
Montreal, Can, have recently given
to managers Of combinations playing
at their house, the benefit of week.
ly insurance upon the properties,
scenery and costumes held in the
Theatre Royal during their engage
ment there. The scheme seems
worthy Of careful consideration, and
has already been duly taken advan-
tage of by some half a dozen or more
we'll known managers of prominent
travelling companies.
1t is the rarest thing in the world,
touse one Of the common exaggerations
of speech, that a stage wig does not
betray itself. Aside from the fact
that it rarely is in keeping with the
complexion OF the wearer, for the skin
of the face, or face and shoulders and
the hands or arms, is seldom, if ever,
except in the case of blacks, Arabs or
Moors, made up to suit the color OF
the false hair. And what is true OF
wigs is also true of stage mustaches,
whiskers and boards. In the case of
men with short hair or women with
hair dressed up on the head the stage
wig usually, leaving aside its
color, makes its falsity known at
the back of the head and especially
about the ears. This is often due to
carelessness on the part o. the wearer,
either in putting the wig on or in
choosing one that does not fit: 1t
seems also almost impossible to keep
such wigs close fitting at the neck
when the head is held in any other
position than perfectly straight. OF
course, in the case of long hair wigs.