Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-11
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip Relative to Actors
and Actresses.
AT HOME AND ACROSS THE SEA.
Notes About New Plays and
Operas-Light Music in
Los Angeles.

Los Angeles.
The Pirates of Penzance will prob
ably be revived atthe Savoy Theatre,
London, before long.
Mistress Robinson, founded on sRob-
inson Crusoe," will open the coming
season at the Gazette Theater, Paris,
France.
Mrs. P. O'Brien, German giantess,
and her two children sailed from
Liverpool, Eng, February 16 for this
country.
A Timely Moment, a one-act play by
e. Andrews, was seen for the first
time February 9th, at the Public Hall,
Harrow, England.
FroncilIon has SO shocked German
Tsensibilities that an attempt was made
to have it interdicted, bus the effort
was unsuccessful.
E. J. Buckley is to retire from the
Booth-Barrett Company after their
Frisco engagement. G. B. Hanford
will take his place.
Nelsonia, the juggler, will leave
South America for the United States
early in April. Next season he will
double with Rounclere.
N. G. Goodwin, Jr., has decided to
continue in Turned Up another sea-
son, contrary to the report that he
would shelve the piece.
| The Medicine Non, an American
comic opera, has been completed by
Julius Kahn and w. w. Lowitz. All
the characters are Indians.
The Union Square Theater fire de-
stroyed all the scenery of a Possible
Case, which had just been completed
and taken into the theater.
Fritz Gayle has supplied the music
for the revision OF Sydney Rosenfeld's
comedy, In the Swim, to be done by
G. G. Brotherton's new company
III. G. DeMille and Charles Bar
nard are at work on new play for
Neil Burgess, in which he will depict
his favorite character, the New Eng
land rustic.
Nellie Lingard has purchased an
interest in The Shadows of a Great
City for the English provinces. She
contemplates returning to America in
the summer.
| Mrs. Jarramie's Genie, an operetta
by Frank Desprez Emusic by Alfred
and Francois Cellier), was surg for
the first time February IA, at the
Savoy Theatre, London, Eng.
| Clara Louise Kellogg, it is told, is to
take the road as an operatic prima-
donna again next season, under the
management of her husband, Carl
Strokosch. She will carry large
company.
Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore
appeared recently for the second time
at st. Petersburg, Russia. 1t was a
special appearance before the Gear
and royal family Dapid Garrick was
performed.
| w. S. Gilbert's proposed theatre in
London, Eng, will be a personal
affair, and will in no wise
interfere with his partnership with
Arthur Sullivan. John Hare has ar
ranged to lease the house.
The old Confederate Libby prison
in Richmond has been sold to Mr..
William H. Gray, of Chicago, for
$22, 300. 1t will be removed to the
city by the tail end of Lake Michigan
and used for show purposes.
Jocelyn, four-act grand opera, by
Benjamin GODDARD Qibretto by Armand
Silvestre and M. Capoul), was origin
ally sung February 25 at the Theatre
de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium. 1t
seems to have been success.
M. B. Leavitt received from Conreid
q Hermann 5000 for their breach of
contract with him. He has COM
menced another suit, attaching their
scenery and wardrobe, for 81 900, for
the forfeiture clause in their contract.
In Rostock, Germany, Rosa Lindh
(Rose Jacobson of New York; has
achieved most emphatic success.
The opera in which she sang was re-
peatedly interrupted by the applause
and the throwing of flowers on the
stage
The Theatre Libre, Paris, France, is
a new institution, organized for the
performance of unrepresented plays
by amateurs, enthusiasts, etc. Sew
eral comedies first given there have
been accepted by the Theatre Fran
caise and the Odeon.
The case of Little Josef Hofmann
and Manager Abbey-wlso is now
called ''the child of luck'-remains
in statu quo, and viii probably so re-
main, as the little prodigy is indeed a
very sick child. Josef Hofmann will
not be heard again in public, at least
not for some years.
The new three-act comedy, Decore,
by M. Henri Meihac, which has been
purchased by Mr.. A. M. Palmer, is,
perhaps, the best and funniest play
produced in Paris since the fall
of the Empire. So think the Gros
Critique of the gay city, and the gem
eral public seem to lean that way.
The one-hundred.a and -fiftieth per-
formance of The Winters Tale by
Mary Anderson at the Lyceum The.
atre, London, Eng, will take place
March 3D. Miss Anderson will, as
usual, rest during Holy Week. Gem
evieve Ward is negotiating for the use
OF the theatre during that week.
Having concluded a successful en-
gagement in the City of Mexico, Del
hauer, the human frog, is now visiting
with relatives in Los Angeles, Cal. He
is negotiating with minstrel party
for next season. and with gentle
man, for the revision and rechristen-
ing of his comedy, Paddles Pond.''
The Gaiety Theatre Company
Nimited) has been foated by George
Edwardes. The goodwill, manu-
scripts, costumes, lease, etc., of the
London Gaiety has been disposed of