Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-30
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Those
Who Present Them.
ADJUSTMENTS IN THE CITY.
What the G0ssips are Saying About
the Mimic W0rld-Stage
Whispers.

Maggie Mitchell will produce new
play entitled The Little Witch, early this
season.
Minnie Palmer is to play the title role
in Cinderella, the next pantomime at
Her Majesty's theater.
Physicians say that IL will be two
months before Mrs. James G.. Bisine,
Jr., will be able to leave her house.
A Stradivarius violin dated 1908 was
recently sold at Pesth for So 900. Its
purchaser was Mikailoff, q Russian vir-
tuoso.
Fanny Davenport is having tapestries
painted in Italy to decorate the third and
fourth acts of La Tosca. The production
will DO more elaborate than ever next
season.
The Italian newspapers mention as
possible the engagement of Nine. Chris
tine Nilsson and Mile. Van Zandt for an
American concert tour, commencing in
the fall of 1890.
The Dime Museum is drawing good
houses, and the new attractions there
are proving quite a card. Next week
there is q fire scene that is said TO be
very entertaining.
Messrs. Booth and Barrett are to be
given ga certainty" of $4,000 for one
weeks performances in Louisville, be-
ginning tonight. Probably the largest
certainty given one dramatic organiza-
ton for one weeks work.
The Wagner season at Bayreuth has
been profitable one, financially as we'll
rs artistically. Eighteen representations
made $12O, 600. The profits were about
100000, of which $4,000 goes to the
Wagner family and the balance to the
fund for future Wagnerian representa-
tions.
There is reason to believe that the
next Gilbert Sullivan opera will be less
romantic and more humorous in texture
than The Yeoman of the Guard. Should
this prove to be the case there are many
admirers of Mr.. Gilbert who will rejoice
ut his return to literary sphere in which
he has had so many triumphs and in
which he is most at home.
Gentlemen who "do'' weddings for
provincial journals should so far look up
the subject of music as to secure them
selves against sentences like the follow
ing: Miss Hutchence presided at the
harmonium, and very efficiently played
in Nature Worth by Haydn, 'Loegrin'
by Vaginal, and Roman March,"
"'Loegrin' by Wagnall'' And such is
fame!-[London Musical Times.
An old trick has deem played in New
York on q prominent actor. He re-
ceived letters asking for autographs, and
inclosing cards and stamps and directed
envelopes. He wrote his name on the
cards and thought no more of them until
his manager showed them to him with
the words Pass two" written on each
one above the name. They had been
found in the doorkeeper's box.
Tonight at the Grand the great Irish
team Murray & Murphy will appear in q
select line of Irish comedy. These gen.
tlemen have made a reputation all their
own in this special line of business, and
come here with the warmest sort of in
dorsement on the part of the press at the
East and West. The season is for three
nights, with Wednesday matinee. The
Grand will be closed the other days of
the week.
The waters at Aix-les- Bains have the
approval of Mrs. Langtry, whose govt
has left her entirely. She is in London,
looking like another woman, and will
shortly begin tour of the English
provinces, during which she will pro-
duce several new plays, including
Jealous of the Past. her own version
of Fascination, and a translation of
La Marchande de Souviver, the big
success of the year at the Odeon Theater,
Paris.
Next week the Los Angeles Theatre
will reopen, under the management of
Messrs. McLain & Lehman. The at
fro nysn ho khn ~
who, it is said, has q number of new
tricks. The theatre will be more COM
Portable now. Several rows of seats
have been taken out, and those remain
ing have been re.arranged 30 as to give
more room to the visitors. The gallery
has also been raised, 80 as to give the
people in the back rows full view of
the stage.
The next event in the theatrical world
here is one of decided importance to all
theater-goers. 1t is the appearance here
of the famous actress, Fanny Davenport,
This play is the masterpiece of Sardou,
the greatest of French dramatists, and
in it Miss Davenport does some of the
most brilliant work of her career. Miss
Davenport will make her appearance
here under the management Of Mr.. AL
Hayman, of the Baldwin and California
theaters, San Francisco, and the play
will be given with the same powerful
cast and brilliant accessories that made
it famous at the Baldwin.
Nine. Marchesi, who is the most re-
nowned teacher of operate aspirants in
Paris, is the subject of tremendous
amount Of talk in musical circles. "She
u.s." said one Of the members of Emma
Juch's opera company, "the most re-
markable old woman that ever lived, in
the way of penuriousness. She grasps
at money wherever the chance offers and
it is her rule that when she is not we'll
her pupils must pay her just as though
she gave them lessons; while if the
pupils are i'll they pay just the same.
This is very hard for the majority of
American and English girls who are
studying music in Paris who have to de-
pend almost entirely upon their own re-
sources for support and every penny
counts. Nine. Marchesi pretends to
have q tremendous interest in every
pupil who approaches her, but she does
not pay the least attention to those whose
voices are merely good without being
great. Once in awhile an Emma Esmes
or a Gerster comes along and then Nine.
Marchesi throws herself into the instruc-
ton heart and soul. She gets nearly all
the wonderful voices, for the simple
reason that the French do not believe in
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