Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-24

| 1t is reported that Dion Boucicault will
shortly put a company on the road
headed by Louise Thorndyke.
| May Bardell, California girl, makes
quite hit as "Patti Toogood," the SOU
brette part in Passions Stare.
| Nine. Modjeska's season will be linn
tied to eight weeks on the Pacific Slope,
under the management OF Al Hayman.
| Frederick De Belleville has returned
from visiting his father at Antwerp.
The old gentlemen is now seventy years
Of age.
| Margaret Mather has opened her sea-
son, under the management of Gilmore
| & Tombkins, at Cleveland, September
i17th.
Amelia Glover, "The Little Fawn."
who dances in black in the second act oi
Ecangeline. is Henry E. Dixey's sister
in-law.
| The Grismer-Davis Company did The
World against Her and Forgiuen at Port
land, with L. r. Stockwell as an added
attraction.
Maggie Mitchell proposes to build a
theater at One Hundred and Twenty
fifth street and Seventh street, New
Charles Rice has closed arrangements
with Rice and Dixey, and for the coming
season will be tie New York representa-
tive of all their enterprises.
Leila Farrell, formerly with Adonis,
has brought suit against Nat Goodwin
for 10000, alleging that her affections
have been damaged to that amount and
that the comedian has failed to fulfil a
promise ofSnarriage.
Mary Anderson has entered into an
engagement with Herbert Waring and
Mabel Hoar to accompany her on her
forthcoming American tour. Jack Barnes
also goes with her, but the date OF their
departure is not yet determined upon.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Osmond Tearle are play
ling tragedy in the English provinces. He
is accepted as clever and well-graced
actor, but his company, it is said, varies
from "bad to shocking" He appears in
Varginius, Hamlet and OtheUo.
Miss HELEN Harlow, leading lady with
the Elleford Dramatic Company, at pres
ent touring the interior California towns,
has made quite hit with her rural aud
fences and won the hearts of the country
critics, who are loud in their praise of
decided ability.
The Hatmming Bird has flown back to
America. appearing this week to large
audiences at Spokane Falls, Montana.
Manager Frank Maeder wires that the
weather is crisp and cool enough for the
audience to laugh heartily and in COM
fort at the Nellie McHenry's perform
ance.
Miss Nellie McHenry, who is called by
the press ON the Pacific Coast "the best
comedienne on the American stage ="
promises to write a description of her
tour of the extreme Northwest. She likes
the slope 80 much, that she may sell her
pretty villa at the Highlands in New
Jersey, and pass her summers on her new
acquired fruit farm in Southern Cali
fornia.
The interior of Maggie Mitchell's new
theater in Harlem will be the same as
the Grand Opera House in Paris. The
exterior will be of granite. Miss Mitchell
will bave no partners in this enterprise,
but when the theater is finished next
year it will be managed by William Ly-
kens, her present manager.
Booth and Barrett will be supported
this season by the following COMPANY ::
Charles Hanford, John A. Lane, William
Stafford, Lawrence Hanlev, BENJAMIN 6.
Rogers, Owen Fawcett, Charles Collins.
K. Vroom, G. Koehler, Beaumont Smith.
Walter Thomas, William Hughes, Oliver
Doud, Carrie Davidson, s. Horn. G.
'McCalla, Minna Gale, Gertrude kellogg
Alice Acres and Eleanor Tyndale.
Sarah Bernhardt, who used to dress
gorgeously during the day time, and
either paint or model in clay before ad-
miring visitors, now sits all day long in
a greasy wrapper playing bezique with
Damala, with whom she has again fallen
in love. Raw brandy has become her
tipple, and it is said that it is only a
question OF very little time when the
world will be deprived of its greatest
artistic.
In Mynheer Jan, the new opera by the
authors OF Erminie, which the Carleton
Opera Company produced at the Chest
nut-street Theater, Philadelphia, Septem-
ber 18th, a novel situation occurs, where
the comedian seeks safety from pursuit
by taking the place of a scarecrow which
he sees suspended in garden. Throw
ing the scarecrow over the wall he sus-
peDds himself to the tree, and in this
position sings topical song, his ragged
clothes making him good substitute for
the dummy.
Rice and Dixey's organizations will no
doubt prove great winners this season.
The Corsair and the beautiful Evangel;ne.
under the management of Mr.. Sam Har-
rison, are in California playing to houses
that average $1,000 a week. The Pearl
of Pekin opened the season at the Am
phion Academy, Brooklyn, on Monday
to very large audience; and the great
and only Dixey appeared in Adonis at
Col, Sims Brooklyn Park Tteater dur
ing the week to packed houses. Each of
these organizations is composed of the
best artists and each is costumed and
staged in manner never excelled in
America, and therefore in any other
country. Rice and Dixey's enterprises
this year are on a scale never before at
tempted; all their attractions are known
favorites, and each Of them able to make
q fortune.