Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-24
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
Bits of Gossip From the
Stage.
ADJUSTMENTS IN THIS CITY
News ,Of the Actors and the Plays
They Present-Glimpses of the
Mimic World.

engaged as Denman Thompson's under
study for next season.
The late Thomas German Reed, the
English concert giver, left personal es
tate valued at $4,000.
Rose Coghlan has settled down in quiet
on her little farm near Yonkers to rest
read, study and get bronzed for the fall
campaign.
The Webster-B Brady Company, which
was at the Pavilion last winter, is meeting
with considerable success at the Hay
market in Chicago.
Arthur B. Chase, Booth and Barretts
manager, thinks New York and its sur
roundings are good enough for sum-
mer's enjoyment.
Circe has been finally selected as the
title of the opera that Sardou, Gille and
Massenet are preparing for the Grand
Opera House, Paris.
David Belasco's La Belle Russo has
has been sent to II. E. Abbey, who will
have French translation OF it made for
Bernhardt's use.
Kyrle Bellew sailed for England June
13. He will return in September to re-
join Mrs. ]. B. Potter, under I'll. E. Alb
bey's management.
Phyllis Broughton is to sue Lord Dan
gan, eldest son Of the Earl Of Cowley, for
breach OF promise. He is only just OF
age, but he will fight the case.
John T. Kilham has invented and pat
ented a device whereby scenes are in
simultaneously and imperceptibly changed
in the presence Of the audience.
The rumor that Mr.. Stockwell has dis
posed OF his interest in the Alcazar is un-
true. His negotiations for a tour through
the country Of A Midnight Bell are still
pending.
1t is among the probabilities that May
Wilkes, the California actress, who is
playing pauline" in Colled Back, at
the Grand Opera House, N. Y, will star
next season.
The endowment OF one million francs
which Rossini left for an institute for
aged singers, is being used for magnif-
cent building in the Place de Jour, Paris,
to be ready by November.
The Troubadours are on their way to
the Pacific Coast and the extreme North
west. In addition to The Humming Bird
the Troubadours occasionally appear in
their amusing play Three of a Kind.
Mrs. ]. B. Potter sailed for Paris on
fall, when she opens her tour under Mr..
Abbey's management. During Septem-
ber she will be at Tuxedo Park, N. j.
The remains Of Beethoven, now inferred
in the Wahringer Cemetery, Vienna,
were exhumed June 20, and placed in
that quarter OF the Central Cemetery re-
served for the remains Of eminent men.
Frank Hart, an English presdigita-
teur, has been engaged for the George
. III. Adams pantomime comedy, He, She,
Hin, and Her. He will introduce among
other novelties in scenic and mechanical
effects, new ''Black Art"
The revival of The Mikado at the Savoy
Theatre, London, Eng, has been drawing
crowded houses. Geraldine Ulmar is
scoring an immense success, and has
been voted the best Yum Yum ever seen
on the London stage.
Dramatizations of Nathanial Haw-
thorne's The Scarlet Letter appear..to have
struck London with as much force as DR..
JekW and Dir. Hyde versions have come
on this side. Eleanor Calhoun gave the
premier OF her Scarlet Letter at the Lon
don Royalty the evening OF June 4th.
FL Paso, Texas, has the distinction OF
possessing the only theatre in the coun-
try, the foreign audiences OF which can
arrive at its door by means OF an inter-
national street railway. The city Of
Paso del Norte, Mexico, is connected
with the town by bridge over the Rio
Grande river, over which a street car
runs from one country to the other.
All the manuscripts owned by Leonard
Grover, or in which he has an interest,
were sold at public auction in New York
June 14th, to satisfy judgment OF some
thing over $4,000. Among the plays
which came under the hammer is
Lost IN Nem York, which was still the
property Of Mr.. Grover, although Miles
& Barton, when they produced it at the
Bijou last, week, did not use his name in
their bills.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's dra-
matte version OF her story, "Little Lord
Fauntleroy," now playing at matinees in
Terry's Theatre, London, has been Sc
cured for this country by T. II. French
1t is understood that Mr.. French paid
Mrs. Burnett $1,000 on account OF his
royalties. 1t is more than likely that the
play will be produced in America at mat.
inees only, as it is peculiarly calculated
TO attract ladies and children.
G. A. Farini, the English Snowman
has invented an orchestra chair, the
back Of which is hinged so that it folds
down on the seat, and when in this posi-.
tion can be turned sideways with the
standard to which it is hinged, and which
is secured to the floor, so as to have an
alleyway nearly the whole width of the
chair. Back OF the chair is a coat and
umbrella rack, and underneath the arm
place for opera-glasses q programme
as well as an inverted X Tor the occu
pants hat.
The collection of dramatic portraits
presented to edwin Booth by John S
Clarke, and ;hich will be given to the
new Players Club OF New York, is un.
usually large and valuable, and includes
the following pictures Shakespeare, Da
vid Garrick, Robert Palmer OF ''The Ros
clad" by Gainsborough, full length
Thomas King as ''Lord Ogleby, This orig
inal part; Edmund Kean, Miss O'Nei
(afterward Lady Beecher) as "Mrs. Bev
erly;" Joseph Munden. +. Kean al
LEAR" by Nagle, full length; William
Augustus Conway as "Falconridge," {
full length after Sully Of George Fred
erick Cooke as Orchard Ill, ." by
Lambdin; Charlotte Cushman, the eldel
J. W. Wallack, Henry Walack, Mrs
Nisbett (afterward Lady Boothby, ths
original Lady Gay Spanker"), james
Sheridan Knowles, Stephen Price, ovel
thirty years manager Of the old Parl
Theatre, New York, and for several year
OF the Drury Lane. London; Nine. Yes