Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-09
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip About Many Plays
and Players.
THE AMUSEMENT WORLD HERE.
Margaret Mather at the Grand this
Week-Other People ON the
Way.
Modieska is at Marion, Mass.

Modjeska is at Marion, Mass.
Edwin Booth is in splendid health and
spirits.
Mrs. Blaine is very i'll and her starring
tour may be postponed.
Mrs. Langtry returns to this country
for the season Of 1890.1S91.
Del Puente will devote himself to
teaching vocal art this winter in New
York.
The Emma Juch Grand Opera Com
pany opens it's season in Philadelphia
October 21st.
England takes the lead in stage real
ism, recent production using real cob
ble-stones in street scene.
A hundred years ago English women
played cricket. Maggie Mitchell has
been playing it nearly that length Of
time.
Some of the sonatas for flute and other
instruments written by Frederick the
Great have just been published at
Leipsic.
M. B. Curtis is to play jewish
character in Lewis Morrison's forthcom-
ing production of new comedy entitled
The Schotchen.
It is announced that Lawrence Bar
rett has recovered from the trouble with
his neck, from which he was suffering
when he left this country.
An Italian paper announces that Emma
Nevada will 60 soon to Buenos Ayres to
inaugurate a new lyric temple, to be
known as the Nevada Theater.
Alice Dunning Lingard's daughter,
Lulu, talented and beautiful young
lady with taste for literature, is shortly
to be married to young lawyer in Lon.
don.
Archibald 9. Gunther is still in South
ern California, and expects to find ma
terial there upon which to build his next
novel. Mr.. Gunther processes to have
abandoned stage literature altogether.
Little Lord Fauntleroy will soon pre-
sent the rather curious spectacle of
play that is running simultaneously in
London, England, in New York and
San Francisco in the United States, and
in Melbourne, Australia. 1t will be here
shortly.
Girls who are willing to work with
out pay in order to obtain positions in
theatrical companies are numerous now
adays. They besiege the New York
theaters, and often they bring letters
from influential people endorsing their
personal qualifications.
Some time ago Stuart Robson had
controversy with the Rev. o. H. Clifford,
of Boston. The preacher declared that
he knew plays and players were wicked,
although he never was inside theater.
some does not need to eat the whole of
q leg of lamb to learn that it is tainted"
quoth the good man. The comedian re-
piled: $50 you take one bite of a bad
actor, and finding him foul conclude that
he is fair sample of the average player?
Will you allow me to apply the same
reasoning to preachers? II 80, then a
clerical criminal is a fair specimen of the
material of which your class is COM
posed"
The reigning star of the operate world
still shines with undimmed effulgence.
Adelina Patti remains, in attractive pow
ers, at the head of all prima donnas in
the world. Her late visit to South Amer
lea has been another triumph and she is
sought for in London as soon as her en-
gagements in this country will permit.
She is the only person living who can
demand and receive four or five thou
sand dollars for one nights exercise of
talents, and can repeat this night after
night. Patti is at present in Wales, at
her castle home. She is to sing at con
certs in London before coming to this
country.
The most ambitious effort that has
ever been attempted on the stage, is in
the melodrama The StoUaWay, in which
there is scene of safe robbery. The
safe is opened by two genuine burglars,
who have "done time" in Sing Sing.
They are "featured" on the bills and
programmes, and rapturously applauded
by the gallery. Someone suggests that
each manufacturing company lend the
manager safe and that the burglars be
given certain time to crack them, with
the idea of advertising the varying
merits of the different safes. The next
thing will doubtless be the real muir
derers and real victims. The StoaUaway
will be played in Los Angeles toward the
end of the month.
Here is what LIE Chat Noir says of the
new dancer now at Niblo's, New York:
She is supreme beauty. The romances
of Seville and Cadiz have never breathed
of more divine visions then she supplies,
and the maddening mist of the mantilla
has never screened fairer countenance.
Pink as roses is her flesh, black as the
raven is her hair, and her eyes are
eclipsed suns, radiant as MONDAY and
the color of midnight. don't see where
the dudes are. They went mad over
Sylvia Gray, and here is woman by the
side of whom Sylvia is poor, insignifi.
cant crab-apple. She losses the entire
Casino over her head. Russell is
feather bolster in comparison, Urqu-
hart doorstep. She has one express
sion, fainting of the eyes and slow
wreathing of the lips, that is equal to the
dawn of a new life. The man who
doesn't see Carmencita is poor wretch,
and he'll end up his existence with gap
in his heart big enough for horse and
cart to drive through.
In his 'tRambles from Russia to
Spain," the Rev. T. p. Thwing tells how
he heard comic opera sung in the open
air in the streets of Turin, on an impro.
vieed stage; and while discoursing of
Genoa, quotes this story: "The absorb
ing interest of Italians in music is illus
trated by CHASTITY tale told by Headley,
of q man who, while Clara Novello was
singing in the opera, was stricken by
death Immediately before her. 1t was
climax of the play. The moaning, strug.
Cling, suffering victim turned his livid
face on the prima donna, and she gave a
sudden start. The song was about to
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