Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-05
Notes of Music and the
Drama.
THE NEW COMPANIES FORMING
What is Arranged for Next Season
Players and Playwrights and
What They are Doing.

Henry f.. DlXey Is still at Manchester.
by-the-Sea, studying his great part In his
new play, The Seven Ages.
Eddy Girard is at Long Branch and
Henry Donnelly at Mount Clements,
Michigan. Natural Gas will be let on
in August.
Miss Anna L. Jackson, late of the Con-
reid company, will be member OF
Lewis Morrison's Faust opera company
next season.
Phil Goatcher says that the scenery
for Lawrence Barrett's new play, Cane
Ton, is 30 extensive that it will keep him
busy until October.
Charles Reed left San Francisco July
S1st for Chicago, where he commences
rehearsals for The City Directory, which
opens the season August 18th.
Modjsska's seven weeks tour closed at
Omaha, Neb., July 9th, and the COM
pany returned to their respective homes.
Business is reported to have been ex-
cellent.
Manager E. E. Rice has engaged Miss
Marie Williams for Dixey's new play,
The Seren Ages. Miss Williams is in
London, and the negotiations were car
ried on by cable.
Manager Frohman's New York Lyceum
Theatre Company has "beaten its
record" this season in its California
tour, The Wife and Sweet Lavender
having been witnessed by audiences
that have constantly tested the seating
capacity of the western theatres.
Emma Abbott said in recent interview
in Europe: 81 am going to do Ernani,
aida, and Crown Diamonds in Amer
lea next season. l have ordered thirty
elaborate costumes from Worth and Fe-
lix, to say nothing of those furnished me
by the costumer of the Grand Opera"
The production of the ballet founded
on Shakespsare's Tempest at the Paris
Academy of Music is said to be the
grandest ecenic effect of modern times.
Purple grottoes, vast antique ships sur
rounded by naiads, enchanted islands.
alterations of storm and calm, are all
produced with wonderful skill and with
astonishing richness.
Miss Alberta Gallatin, a granddaughter
of Albert Gallatin, one OF the signers OF
the declaration of independence, and
Miss Alice King Hamilton, descendant
of Alexander Hamilton, have been en-
gagged by Daniel Frohman for the Lyce-
um Theatre forces. Both the young wo-
men are actresses of some years. expert
ence. Miss Gallatin has starred in the
South and West.
Robert billiard, the wouldbe king OF
the dudes, is to be the leading man next
season in Helen Dauvrey's company.
During the past month he has been in
the office of A. de Cordova, the we'll
known Wall-street millionaire stock
broker as drummer, at larger salary
than any actor is receiving during the
summer in New York.
Frederick Warde denies the report that
he will abandon the legitimate drama
and says that he will always retain Vir-
ginius, Damon, and Richard III.
In his repertory, alternating them
with revivals of old plays and produc-
tions of new ones. Mrs. and Miss Van
denhoff. widow and daughter of the late
Henry Vandenhoff, will be members of
Mr.. Warde's company next season.
Theodore Thomas has just closed an
unusually successful season of summer
concerts in the Chicago Exposition
building. Thomas has spent the sum-
mers Of the past ten years in Chicago.
The large increase in the attendance this
year is said to be due to the fact that the
programmes have contained more con-
siderable element of popular music than
Thomas is usually accustomed to give.
There will be an incursion of English
players into New York the coming sea-
son. Among them up to date may be
mentioned the Kendals, Wyndham, Bar
rett, Terriss, and the London Gaiety
Company in Faust. The Kendals and
Wyndhsm carry their own support.
Barrett and Terriss will be supported by
American companies. Salvini appears
at Palmer's in October in Othello, The
Gladiator, and SumsOns
This week at the Grand Opera House
Chas. Mccarthy will appear in One Of
the BraUest. 1t is an American drama,
of sensational aim, but with a vein Of
broad comedysrunning through it. 1t if
realistic to the last degree, a genuine
fire engine being introduced on the stage
The eastern press speak in terms of high
praise of the star and of the play. The
season opens this evening, and One o.
the BrGvest holds the boards the full
week.
At the Peoples Theatre The Long
Strike was presented for the first time il
the city Saturday night. The piece is
full of sentiment and comedy and il
received warm welcome. ALI in the
cast gave satisfaction, as was evidenced
by the frequent bursts of applause anc
rosrs of laughter. Under the manage
ment of Messrs. Crosbie & Arper the
theater is fast becoming popular as
place of amusement at moderate prices.
JAS. M. and Carrie Clarke Ward will fol
low The Long Strike in repertoire oi
their own pieces.
"Out west," said theatrical manage
who had just brought his company bacl
to New York, "they don't always d.
things in New York style. We playe'
at little theater in Salem, Ore., tw
weeks ago, and when 1 asked an oil,
man with long whiskers who was sort Q
general factotum about the thester wha
= time they usually rang up the curtain, b
said, shifting quid of tobacco in hi
mouth: We'll, we don't have no regula
time, we gently begin when the folks be
gin to stomp So we waited till ou
audience got there and 'stomped,' whicl
was about o'clock"
Mr.. Abbey is to bring Patti once NOR
to this country to sing in Italian opera
The company is to consist OF over 2O
members, and is the most expensive ell
terprise, Mr.. Abbey says, that he ha
ever brought across. The other soprano
of the company are Mines. Albani, Bou
ichoff and Valda and Miles. De We're an
Valergo. The contraltos are to be Miles