Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-21
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
Notes of Plays and Those who
Present Them.
ADJUSTMENTS IN LOS ANGELES.
"Little Lord FauntlerOy" at the
Grandfather Attractions
In the Future.

Manager Hayman will again treat Los
Angeles to season of Palmer's excellent
company next summer.
The language is enriched by q new
word. Theresa Vaughn is called IAN
authority in the art Of gownery."
Nauqhtology, or Nothing is the curious
title adopted by an American author for
a plav which is soon to have q repre-
sentstion ct Terry's theater in Lon.
don.
Verdi denies the report from Paris that
he is writing new opera with Beatrice
di Tenda" for q subject, and Edward
Grieg denies the req ,rt from London that
he is writing an opera from "Alexan.
dria."
Manager Al. Hayman is making q
large fortune out of Bronson Howard's
latest and greatest success, Shenandoah.
Mr.. Hayman will undoubtedly produce
the play here in the near future.
Those clever children, Wallie Edd'1-
ger and Flossie Ethyl, will be taken,
after the present tour, to the Madison
Square Theater, New York, to play Little
Lord Fauntleroy for the entire winter.
Speaking of his separation from Law
renee Barrett and his future plans,
Edwin Booth says: "We are both
young men and there is no telling what
may happen" He is now q little over
Sc. Well, that's young historically
speaking.
Dellinger's Captain Fracdssa, the first
novelty Of the Vienna comic opera season,
has been successfully produced in Munich.
The music is said to be in every way
equal to that of Don Caesar, which first
established the composers fame.
Manager Isaac, of the Dime Museum,
has strong bill for fair week, and has
also engaged the famous Big Bertha for
week Of October 26th to apr gar in the
museum department. Big Bertha will
appear in street dress, and lecture on her
life.
A Cincinnati paper says: "Have we
q manager with nerve enough to pest
conspicuously at the entrance of the
theater the notice Ladies will please
hang up their high hats in the retiring
room p" No is safe answer both there
and here.
D'Oyley Carte is negotiating to bring
the Savoy Theatre Company to America
next year to sing Gilbert and Sullivan's
operas in the English fashion. Lsonora
Brsham and Geraldine Ulmar are the
leading singers, and Weldon Grossmith,
once here with Rosina Vokes, is also in
the cast.
Miss Anna Fuller will appear in con-
cert at the Los Angeles Theatre on Fri
day evening. She will be assisted by
Signor Modini and the Hungarian orches'
ira. The programme contains q number
of good selections which will, without
doubt, be excellently rendered, and it ID
anticipated that the theater will be
crowded on this occasion.
Mrs. James Brown Potter arrived in
Paris recently from Trouville on her way
to Satisfies Bains, q watering place in
the south of France, where she intends
to take long rest. She is suffering from
nervous prostration and has been obliged
to DENY herself to all callers. Her father,
Colonel Urquhardt, is with her and says
she has not abandoned the stage as re-
ported, but her return to it will depend
upon the state of her health, which at
present is source of deep anxiety both
to her family and friends.
Commencing this evening Mrs. Fran
ces Hodgson- Burnett's Little Lord Faunt-
lerou will be given at the Grand for six
nights and q matinee on Wednesday
and Saturday as before. Wallie Ed
dinger and Flossie Ethyl play the "Lit-
tie Lord" and the company is said to be
an excellent one. The "Little Lords''
have been playing at the Baldwin Thea
ter, San Francisco, and come here di'
rectly after their San Francisco engage
ment. Wallie and Flossie appaare1 in
the successful production of Little Lor
Fauntlsroq at the Grand last spring, and
are pronounced the best yet seen in the
part.
Panslavism seems to be asserting
itself in music. Tschaikowski's OF era
on the subject of Poushk;n's famors
poem, oxygen Onegin," was recently
brought out in Czech version at the
National Bohemian theater of Prague
where it was received with enthusia 5m
partly for its musical merit1, partly u
recognition OF the fact that it, com
poser we1 Slav and brother. The
Bohemian comp oser Dvorak has now
chosen as the theme of an opera or
which he is already actively engaged 6
subject borrowed from the history o.
Russia-the strikingly dramatic story o
Demetrius, the impcstor, which in som'
particulars recalls the story Of John o
Leyden, as treated by Meyerbeer l.
LIE Prophete.
The new Gilbert and Sullivan oper'
will be presented at the Savoy Theater
in London, late in November. The sub
ject of the opera is Venetian. The dog
is the principal character. By ties o
birth and association he is an aristocrat
At heart he is a thorough republican
He CESS among the people in disguiee
and urges them to rise and uncsat tn
doge. A council Of ten finally oblige
him to take an oath to kill Q man of tn,
people. The populace then compel hin
TO swear to kill the dogs. The principa
character is apparently On the blink of |
precipice, but is rescued by Gilbert II
his usual happy manner. The caste ha
not been filed yet, but it is said the fol
lowing artists will take part in the pre-
duction: Courtice Pounds will have tn
chief tenor part, that of Venetian swell
Geraldine Vlmar will probably b
the chief soprano. John Wilkinson
who succeeded Grossmith as Atacl
Poynte, and who cast Grossmith in tn
shade, has been engaged for financia
reasons for ''small part" but vii
probably appear as the doge. Jessi
Bond, who plays Phoebe in The Yeomal
l of the Guard, will probably appear as
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