Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
DRAMA AND SONG.
Amusements all Over the
the World.
ANNIE PIXLEY AT THE GRAND.
Notes of Plays and Players
Known to Los Angeles
People.
ANNIE PIXLEY AT THE GRAND

Mr.. Henry E Abbey sailed for South
America April 9Th.
Miss Minnie Palmer will sail for
Europe, in the Alaska, May 10th. She
goes over in royal style. Two cabins
arranged into one will be prepared for
her.
Rumor has it that Nat Goodwin will
shortly marry Buffalo lady Of high
degree and big bank account.
Mr.. ]. s. Haworth is in New York
preparing for the production of the
play which Mrs. Mary Hawkins Fiske
has written for him. He promises to
produce it this season.
Alphonse Daudet's novel "Fromont
Aine ct Risler Jeune," dramatized by
Robert Buchanan and called Partners,
was produced by Mr.. A. M. Palmer at
the Madison Square Theater, New
York, on Monday last, and success of
considerable brilliancy was achieved.
Mr.. E. E. Rice's Conrad the Corsair
has been very successful on the road.
1t is as clean burlesque as has ever
left New York, and the Kaleidoscope
colorihg of the costumes is 80 mas
terly blended that all the pretty girls
go to see it with view of copying the
combinations for spring suits.
Mr.. Henry Pettitt is learning
French, aud Mr.. Paul Decourcelle is
learning English, in order that they
may shortly collaborate in an original
comedy to be simultaneously played
in London, Paris and New York.
Three first-nights, SO to speak.
The manager of the Aachen Thea
ter in Germany, having excluded a
dramatic critic because he had writ
ten adversely Of the entertainment,
the journalist brought an action for
damages, and won his case last week :,
the court holding that the manager
had no right to refuse admission to
any sober person to his theater.
No illusionist OF recent years has
been able to play so often and profit
ably in New York as Hermann, the
the prince of mystifers, who is this
week filling the Star Theatre. He
owns house in Forty-tifth street,
which is perfect museum OF pretty
things, collected in his voyages
around the world. His carpets are
from India, the furniture, Ceylon
teak wood, the lamps from Japan,
while scattered around are dainty
bits OF bric-a-brac from every nation,
civilized and uncivilized. His estab-
lishment is always kept prepared for
his reception, no matter If he is a
thousand miles from it.
Bolossy Kiralfy's Dolores, at Nj
bios, New York, is Sardou's Patrie
worked over, and a companion pic
ture to La Tosca. The play is nc
doubt "go," and Franciscina Paris,
black-eyed, perfect limbed danseuse
with toes tipped with steel, and black,
straight hair brushed back Ia
Helen Dauvray. great success. HeI
arms are long and slender, but she
knows how to handle them, and
when she wriggles down to the foot
lights she does so tenderly and grace
fully. Miss Paris "knows her bust
ness"
Mr.. Louis Harrison has made tre
mendous hit as Chinese mandarin
in the "Pearl OF Pekin," at the New
York Bijou Opera House, and the city
is laughing heartily over his very fun
ny topical song, "Signor Bing Binger
the Baritone Singer" When on the
Pacific coast Mr.. Harrison learned te
speak Chinese, and he makes gooc
use of his knowledge of that peculiar
tongue in which he jabbers to the
amusement OF large audiences. This
is the first entertainment in New Yorl
which Cinnamon have SO far patron
lied, and group of them are on han'
at every performance, chuckering a
the puns in their own language.