Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-08
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Interesting Notes About
Plays and Players.
GOSSIP FROM EVERYWHERE.
The Owls in "Esmeralda"-'lO-
lanthe" at the Los Angeles
Theater-The Minstrels.

In IoIa's IhefeSe hdqun.
A full brass band will be on the stage
tonight at the Los Angeles Theatre in
Iolanthe.
Here is DR.. Won Bulow's (reported)
opinion of a tenor II do not think q
tenor is man; he is an Illness"
Only three theatres are open in Phila-
delphia, and the papers say two of them
could be closed without being missed
much.
Lawrence Barrett will spend about six
weeks in the Black forest, Germany, 60
ing thence to London and returning home
about September 1st.
A daughter of Joachim, the violinist,
has become an opera singer, and has ap-
peared with success at Eberfeld as
"Elizabeth" in TannhauSer.
The Chinese lack appreciation of the
stage. AS soon as Celestial enters
on the stage he is deprived of citizenship
and his children after him for four gen.
erations.
Rose Coghlan's remark that she and
her husband agreed quite as we'll as the
great majority of married people is a
little ambiguous. She should furnish q
few foot-notes.
Last night, lat the Los Angeles Theatre,
Firginia was given for a last time by H.
G. Wyatt's English Opera Company.
Tonight it will be replaced by Gilbert's
popular and beautiful IOlanthe.
Den Thompson's share in the profits
of the seasons run with The Homestead
in the New York Academy of Music was
$3.50 900, and Gilmore & Tompkins, the
managers, netted $40 900 more.
Mr.. AL Hayman has been confined to
his bed for the past six weeks with the
typhoid fever, but is convalescing rapidly
now and will be out in about a week,
when he will start for New York.
The Parisians, it is said, are shortly to
their houses like gas and water by the
theatrophone. The cables, it is stated,
will pass through the Partisan sewers.
The latest additions to the realistic
drama have been heard from in London.
In spectacular piece called Lost IN
Africa the managers propose to intro
duce real camels and orang outangs in
the play.
A manager in Philadelphia was seen
to enter his theater with two bars of soap
and brush, and next day it was an
nounced in the local press that he was
about to expend $50, 1000 on the renova-
ton of the house.
John Gilbert dead is worth more to
the dramatic stage than 100 such actors
as Kyrle Bellew living Rochester Dem
ocrdt Doubtless; but do you think
John Gilbert living would be worth as
much to the stage as Kyrle Below dead
i Rochester Union.
A western playwright thinks of writing
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the design of which will be to show what
a generally undesirable person Little Lord
Fauntleroy became when he grew to be a
man. There are great many interesting
possibilities in this idea New York
Tribune.
At certain continental opera-house
a prima donna and her manager recently
had dispute. The manager, to bring
the lady to her senses, resolved to give
away no dead-head tickets, and the
prima donna consequently sang to an
audience of about one hundred people.
The manager and the artist are now on
the friendliest possible terms.
Christine Nilsson, Countess de Miriam
da, the once lovely Swede, has changed
for the worse. She has not faded, but
she has fattened. Her face is broad, her
features heavy, and the expansion of her
cheeks has diminished the apparent size
of her once lustrous blue eyes. Her
bright fair hair alone reminds the spec
tstor of her former charms.
The Lyceum Theatre Company of New
York ARE now playing their third week at
the Baldwin Theatre, San Francisco, and
the theatre has been crowded at every per-
formance given by this excellent COM
pany of artists. On Monday evening
last they presented for the first time in
San Francisco The Marquise, by permits
sion of Victorian Sardou, and made re-
markable success. Next week will be
the farewell week in San Francisco.
During the years 1887 and 1888 Ger.
many produced thirty-six editions of
separate Shakesperian plays, as COM
pared with twenty for England and
America. thirteen for France and eleven
for Russia. There were also transla-
tions into Danish, Finnish, modern
Greek, Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Ru-
mauien, Ruthenian, Swedish, Spanish
and Hungarian.
Nine. Etelka Gerster still cherishes
the hope, in which she is encouraged by
expsrts, that she will recover the full use
of her voice, and she works and practices
as methodically as in the stirring days
when she used to star in the United
States. Her famous baby has grown into
a chubby little girl, who has already
shown signs of possessing voice worth
training. The whole family are living a
quiet, happy life in villa near Bologna.
Miss Nina Van Zandt, the Chicago
young woman who was 80 anxious to
marry August Spies, the anarchist bomb
thrower, before the gallows put an end
to his life, is stage-struck, and will prob.
ably be seen behind the footlights next
season. Joseph Hayworth, who now
owns Paul Kauuar, has made an offer to
the young lady, and she will probably
lead the anarchist mob in that play when
it is produced in the fall.-[New York
Herald.
Henry Irving has made advances to
Joseph Jefferson to come to London to
play in Rip Van Winke at the Lyceum
theater. Mr.. Irving says it is his am
bition to place RIP Van WinkIe upon the
stage in manner suitable to its poetical
and dramatic interest, and with MIR. JEFF
ferson as the star it would be revival OF
unprecedented brilliancy and success.
1t is said tina. Mr.. Jefferson has thus far
resisted all applications, saying he is too
lazy to cross the ocean.
The leading tenor of the world today,
Tamagno, is about 40 years of age, and
originally assisted his father in the man.
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