Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-30
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes Of Plays and Those
Who Present Them.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE STAGE.
Uncle Toms Cabin" to be Given
at the Los Angeles Theater.
Other Events.

other Events.
, George S. Knight is still at his hom,
in Orange, with very slim chances o
recovery.
Fred G. Maeder's new play, The Skir
mish Line, produced by Mckee Rankin
at New Orleans last Monday, has made 6
hit.
The Albert Hall, where Patti sings in
London, has seats for 5000 people, and
on those occasions $500 of the seats are
reserved"
Mary Anderson has, among her stage
effects, three hundred wigs. This makes
her the wiggedest woman in America
Washington Post.
E. E. Rice has lost both of his beauti-
full "Evangelines''- and Tenn.
pleton-having both sailed out of the
reach of his magnetic influence.
Brantinghame Hall, Mr.. w. S. Gill
bert's new play, produced at the St.
James Theatre in London, has proven a
warmest friends.
It is said that Clara Louise kellogg
owns $50, 900 share in the Continental
Hotel, large interest in the new STRAIT
ford Hotel, and several valuable stores
in New York City.
Miss Annie Perkins is at present filling
the place in The CorsaN left vacant by
Fay Templeton's sudden exit. The Cor
soir has been playing to large audiences
at the st. Louis Olympic Theater.
Fay Templeton sailed for Havre last
Saturday to Join Howell Osborne, who
promised to marry her on her arrival.
If he breaks his word, the interesting
dispatch will be valuable document in
breach of promise suit.
Up to the end of last week, Gilbert
and Sullivan had drawn $4,000 in roy
alties from The Yeoman of the Guard, in
this country. This shows how they
must rake it in when they make big
hit, such as The Aikado.
Mr.. Mike Kelly, popularity known
among ball tossers as the SIC, 900 beauty,
will, on Monday, appear in Hoyt's Tin
Soldier at the Fourteenth-street Theater
as "Bob Graves" ''The only Kel' is
also to appear in Mr.. Hoyt's new play.
Restless Jennie Yeamans has retired
from Natural Gas, and Lena Merville. a
very clever soubrette, replaced her in the
and Gerard, are, however, the "show"
all to themselves, and are coming money
with their amusing skit.
Paul Boynton has great aquatic show
on hand for the coming summer. He ie
now engaged collecting marine novelties
for his venture. A troupe of trained seals
will arrive in day or two from Europe,
and they will be put in special training
for an innovation in water locomotion.
For the first time poor Nicolini asserts
his authority by objecting to the "too
perfectly passionate way" in which Mr.
de Renske and Nine Patti sing the love
scenes in Romeo and Juietta at the Paris
Grand Opera House. Perhaps the great
success of Jean de Renske shadowing
that of Adelina Patti has something to
do in the matter.
Judge Andrews has decided that Miss
Margaret Mather's contract with j. M.
Hill holds good, and that she cannot
continue longer under the management
of Gilmore and Tompkins. As Miss
Mather has sworn that she will not act
under Mr. Hill's management, her season
will probably end.
An odd sort of competition is that to
come off among the young women of the
Bath (England) Philharmonic Society
They will sing behind curtain, so that
they cannot be seen, and the judges will
have to vote on the number of the
singer. Each will sing one sacred song
and an English ballad.
One of the many Washington corre-
spondents who described the thrilling
police court drama, in which Mrs. Pot
ter, last week, figured as the prosecutor
of her own particular jewel robber, says: !:
"She subsequently appeared before the
grand jury, and afterwards was not too
proud to take the $1.25 witness fee
allowed by statute, laughingly remark
ing that her visit to Washington was to
make money, and she might as we'll
take all she could get"
After many changes it has finally been
concluded to call Mr.. John A. Mackay's
new play A Noble Son. 1t will be tried
at Orange, N. j., October LIST, with the
following cast John A, Mackay, Hen
rietta Crossman, Bertha Welby, Annie
Deland, Marion Booth, Xephia Carsted,
Gertie Wood, Miss Carolin, Samuel J..
Brown, George Sprague, Franklyn Rig
lyid and j. J. Hill. Mr.. Sol. Berliner
will be Manager, Julian Magnus Busi-
ness Manager, and John A. Lane Treas
urer.
On January 5th Mrs. Potter will ap-
pear as Cleopatra" at Palmer's Theater,
and Mrs. Langtry as Lady Macbeth"
at the Fifth Avenue. If these ladies do
not give the bones of Shakespeare a
twist, his body is sure to turn in his
Stratford-on-Avon vault when Bellew
struts on as the stalwart and magnetic
"Antony," and Charles Coghlan skips on
as the warlike Macbeth" Mr.. Coghlan,
it is promised. will discard his monocle,
and Mr.. Bellows beau ideal legs will be
apotheosized in fleshings.
Mr.. Frank Daniels has introduced the
"Razzle Dazzle," and the drill, ye Ter.
riers, Drill! !' songs composed by Mr..
Hoyt for A Brass Monkey, into his
comedy Little Puck, without permission.
He has also taken song from the Pearl
of Pskin, called "Three Little Chin. Chin
Girls, and changed it into -Four Little
Coryphees." Besides making himself
very unpopular, Mr. Daniels will soon
find himself with two lawsuits on hand
that will be expensive enough for him to
whistle another tune not near as pretty
as either of the three he has used.
Manager Palmer, of the Madison.
square Theater, New York, has decided
to restore the original ending of the las
oct of Cnnfni,a SqDtf, which was changed