Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-02
Interesting Gossiping About
Actors and Plays.
SPICY NEWS FROM THE STAGE.
What is Transpiring in the Mimic
WOrld-Light Opera in Los
Angeles.

Urlcn'S CaSlnO at Cincinnati.
Miss Vyse, of the Langtry Company
is summering at Long Branch.
w. S. Gilbert is said to be writing
new play for the pretty wife of an Amer
ican gentleman "with bar'ls of money"
Mile. Columbia miss Scanlan of Chi
Cago) made her debut as "Selika" il
LAfricaine at Covent Garden, London
June 13.
The list of new and unheard of starr
for next season is gradually lengthening
Many will begin in the fall, probably
end by one.
Annie Pixley closed long and pros
porous season at Chicago on Saturday
night. She will pass the Summer at hel
Canadian home.
Fanny Rice made her first appearance
as "Nadjy", at the Caisno, New York, on
Monday night, and Marie Jansen is now
enjoying vacation.
The new opera, Woman's Wit, will re.
'ceive its first production by the Monte.
CRITIC Opera company next season, under
the management of Max Zollner.
Preparations are being made for two
months run of Kiralfy's spectacle,
Fall of Babylon, in Cincinnati, under the
auspices of the Order of Cincinnatus.
Joseph Jefferson is at Skif Lake, N.
B., killing salmon. His wife and son are
with him at his Summer residence there.
His next season begins September oath.
F. F. Kelly, of the Theatre Royal Lon
don, has engaged for G. r. Gardeners He,
She, Him and Her company, the dancer.
Miss Thorn. This lady weighs IT'S
pounds, and is over six feet tall.
Mr.. Pyke has nearly completed ar
rangements for the establishment of an
opera house here. 1t will be opened in
two or three months time, and light
opera will permanently take the boards.
William Ludwig, who sailed for Eng
land recently, will return to this country
in the fall to fulfill engagements already
made. He will also make tour in con-
certs, Of which Irish music will be the
feature.
Miss JEANNE Winston is at present
playing in Washington. Her engage
ment in that city will close, however,
the end of this week, and she will then
come back to the Coast and rejoin the
Pike Company.
David Belasco is seriously i'll with con.
gestion of the brain, and his physicians
have forbidden him doing any work or
going to San Francisco to superntend the
production of The Wife there by the
Lyceum Co.
w. A. Mestayer has engaged the
Viennese female fencers, nine in num-
ber, for his burlesque comedy, TaUenty
Maidens to TWo Dudes. The Baroness Ida
de Soniogvi, the most noted woman fen
Ger in Austria, is among the number.
The Scarlet Letter dramatized from Ma.
thaniel Hawthorne's novel, by Stephen
Cambridge and Norman Forbes, received
its premier June 4, at the Royal Theatre,
London. Another adaptation, by Alec
Nelson (the prologue by Charles Caring
tom, was acted the 5th at the Olympic
Theatre, London.
Lawrence Barrett presented the Play
ers' Club of New York with Sully's por-
trait of George Frederick Cooke and
Cosene's painting of the Chandos
Shakespeare. In addition to those gifts
he has presented his theatrical library,
jewel worn by Edmund Kean, and
other things interesting to the profess
sion.
w. A. Mestayer will produce a new
skit next season called Iwenty Maidens to
Two Dudes-an awkward title. 1t will
illustrate the complications arising from
the advent of a couple Of young men of
the period at watering place, where
twenty young women are expiring from
ennui and when the two gallants make
their appearance they are overwhelmed
with marriage proposals, etc. The skit
is said to be very funny.
Maurice Barrymore has written a bur-
lesque on DR.. JekyH and Mr.. Hyde, which
will probably be seen the coming season.
A prominent point of the burlesque is
where patients life is saved by the
TRANSMISSION of blood from the arm of a
.drunkard, the result of the operation
being that the patient acquires bibulous
desire himself, and gets drunk every day,
and beinga clergyman much fun is evolv-
ed by his queer antics, to the astonish-
ment of his flock and everybody else.
The Redmund-B Barry season has been
an Improbable one, and their recent
Pacific Coast experience was rather
disastrous. The talented couple have
therefore concluded to separate; Mr..
Redmond will probably resume his old
character of "Michael SLrogoff," under
Charles L. Andrews management, il
negotiations culminate favorably. Mrs.
Barry is at her home in Roxbury, Mass.
She will star next season in Herminie, or
the Cross of Gold, opening in Philadelphia
on August 9th under the management
OF @. Lawrence Barry.
An auction sale was held in London
on June 5th, containing 1876 lots, among
which were: An autograph letter from
David Garrick to Mr.. Wallas, dated April
-2l, 1858, "Returns him ten thousand
thanks for the honor done him of bestow-
ing such jewel on him as the handwrit-
ing of Shakespeare" sold for G41; an
other from Garrick to the Rev. DR.. Hoad-
ly, dated May 4, 1765, Making some
curious remarks on Italian manners after
his return from abroad" 81 guineas, and
one dated from Hampton, May 8. l771,
from Garrick to the Rev. DIR. Hoadiy.
complaining of his (Garrick's) health,
saying, .I cannot quite peck and boose !;
what's life without sack and sugar ?''
G22. A number of autograph letters from
David Garrick to various persons, bear
ing the dates Of 1776, 1777 and 1778; also
I. signatures of the father and mother of
Garrick, scarce portrait by Hogarth,
portraits of Garrick and Mrs. Garrick,
playbills and other illustrations, sold for
a36.
The Pyke Company.
Tonight Mr.. Pyke's Opera Company
will appear for the first time in the pref
ty and sparkling opera Oliyette. 1t is