Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-29
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Doings in the Mimic World
Everywhere.
EVENTS IN LOS ANGELES.
Notes of the Plays and Players
The Spanish Opera Com
pany-A ParlOr Match.

h6to COTSyb I'LL Is Ou isor way uohi0
from the other side.
Fanny Davenport will follow Lang
try at the Opera House.
Violet Cameron has returned to the
stage of London Avenue.
Emma Abbott's season closes in
Philadelphia, Pa, May 9Th.
Langtry will be here next week,
and will play As in a Looking Glass.
George Giddens has made big hit
in ttFennel" at the London Novelty
Louise Pomersy y will 60 to Europe
soon. Next season she will have
new play.
Lawrence Barrett is Mason, and q
member of Oriental Lodge No. IA ol
San Francisco.
Julia Folville is the last discovered
piano prodigy. She is Belgian, and
is soon to appear in London.
Orlando Harley, the American
tenor, is soon to return home, having
Cancelled his English engagements.
Virginia Peyton, for some time past
in Rhea's support, is lying dangerous
ly ill in San Francisco, Cal, her
home.
Nine. Fursch- -Madi has been en-
gagged by Augustus Harris for his
Italian opera season at Covent Gar
den, London.
Col. Mapleson is to benefit at the
hands of committee, formed for the
: purpose of raising funds for this un-
fortunate manager.
Mile Sara, having closed her en-
gagement with the Emily Soldene
Company, has signed with M. B..
Leavitt for his special California tour.
: Sardou will have to look to his lau-
rels as prolific producer of plays.
There is Park Row barber who, ev-
cry time he shaves you, brings out
new piece.-[Judge.
The Attention, five act romantic
drama by George Bernard, will be
acted for the first time on any stage
May 21st, at the Chelsea Mass, Acad-
emy Of Music, by Harry Knight and a
special company.
James R. Waite, of the Waite Com
edy Company, has secured w.
Thompson's The Gold King on a
royalty. He has also purchased from
Frank Leo a dramatization Of Rider
Haggard's She, which will be done in
spectacular form next season. Mr..
Leo is at work on another play for the
same manager.
In London, April IA, Henry Irving
appeared in Faust at ti,, Lyceum The
ater, and met with al enthusiastic re-
ception. The concensus Of opinion is
that Mr.. Irving acting has improved,
and that he has reached the zenith of
his talent. In a speech he said he
would produce The Amber Heart and
Robert Macaire month hence.
Nine. Cottrelly, of the McCaull
Opera Company, was presented by
her Chicago friends with an oil paint
ing of tiger. The subject was sug-
gested by the fact that Nine. Cottrel-
ly is to appear in one of the leading
roles in new opera by Sidney Rosen-
field, at Wallack's, New York, next
month, entitled "The Lady or the
Tiger"
For more than q year a suit has
been pending in the Supreme Court
against Henry Irving, in which H.
Cover Hose claims that he submitted
the manuscript of play to Mr.. Irv-
ing, which the latter appropriated,
and which was valued at 81 500. The
case was called in Brooklyn, N. Y,
April IL, but the counsel for the
plaitiff not appearing, the suit was
dismissed.
P. s. Mattox, business agent for
Lillian Lewis, has routed his star
through to the Pacific Coast via the
North estern route. The trip will
occupy the entire summer, and will
include a week in Portland, San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. Nearly all of
the next season has been booked.
Miss Lewis has, it is said, been very
successful with her version OF As IN a
Looking Glass, and is making money
and adding to her reputation as an
actress.
The Edwin F. Thorne Company are
reported to have stranded in st. Louis,
No., last week. They were to have
!. played this week in Chicago, ILL.,, but
poor patronage compelled them to
close. iMr. Thorne made an agreement
with the members to pay them half
weeks salary and transportation out
of the city. Some have gone to Louis
vile, KY, some have gone to New
York, but most of them secured en-
gagements in Chicago.
The Newport, r. l., Opera House
and Hotel were sold at mortgagee's
sale April l6, to Henry Bull, mort
gagee, for $4,000. The property
formerly belonged to Henry Bull Jr.,
but was assigned upon announcement
OF a verdict against him for damages
in the suit of Nine. Janauschek for
injuries received by her falling down
stairs in the hotel last fall, and order
ed sold at auction by the mortgage,
who has now bought it in. Both
places will be run as before.
Rinaldo Livingston, author of
Cupid's Franks, has, for the past
decade, confined himself to journal
ism in San Francisco, California. He
was formerly well known actor, and
played many an engagement in the
mining town Of California with the
leading stars who visited the Pacific
Coast prior to the establishment of
railroad communication with the
East. There are few people more
capable of giving an interesting rem
y iniscence Of mining camp theatricals
than Mr.. Livingstone.
The coming annual extravaganza at
the Chicago Opera House, June H.,
entitled The Crystal Slipper, by Har-
ry B. Smith, promises to be one Of the
most interesting spectacular efforts
that has been made in this country
for number Of years. The scenery,
costumes, properties and general
scheme Of the piece are designed by
Capt. Alfred Thompson. The scenery
has been painted by VIM. Voegtlin.
The costumes, amounting to over 280,
are by Dazian Of New York and