Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-18
DRAMATIC NOTES.
Gossip About Plays and Those Who
Present Them.


Present Them
Miss Verona Jarbeau is to have new
musical comedy next season, although
Starliqht continues successful.
Lawrence Barrett emphatically denies
that antony and Cleopatra is to be done
by either the Booth or the Barrett COM
pany next season.
Salvini will fill Mrs. LaDgtry's dates
that were booked for next season. The
Lily is still uncertain as to her exact
plans while abroad.
Alan Dale estimates that within the
last ten years jewelry to the amount Of
$75,000,000 has been stolen from ac-
tresses and singers.
Nine. Emma Albani is about to visit
California, where she has not yet been
heard. She is to be piloted thitherward
by Signor Diego de Vivo.
Hans Guido Won Bulow sailed for New
York March 18th, where he will remain
for five weeks, giving sixteen perform
ances, for which he will receive $4,000.
There is well-founded impression in
spiritualistic circles that Miss Coffin who
recently attempted to shoot Kyrle Bellew,
is controlled by the spirit of Shakespeare.
At present the divine Sarah is study
ing English, and London will see her in
the near future in an English adaptation
of French play. Mr.. B. G. Stephenson,
author of Dorothy, Dora and other Lon
don successes, is to make the adoption.
So says Marcus Meyer to New York
reporter.
Nine. PATHS rerertory in this couatry
next season will consist of Semirdmide,
Lucia, The Barber, Dinorah, 1raviata,
L'EtoiIe du Nord, Rigoletto, Don Clio.
0anni, Faust, Martha, Lakme, in which
she has never been seen in this country,
and Romeo and Juliet. She started from
Paris last week for Buenos Ayres.
Managers will do almost anything. A
barn -storming company in the South
prints on its bills quotations in its own
praise from leading papers in Boston,
Chicago and elsewhere. A curious in-
vestigator finds that the concern never
appeared in any of the cities named and
that the notices are all bogus.
Miss Fanny Davenport's success in
La Tosca has been SO efeat that she he
determined to make precisely the same
tour next season, playing in the rame
theaters and at about the same time.
Her managers, Klaw & Erlanger, esti-
mate the net profits of La 7'osca for the
two seasons will reach 100000. Miss
Davenport is now engaging her company
for next season, when nothing but La
Tosco will be played.
While young James Duff was arrang-
ing with Europesn composers for light
operas for Chicago, and while Millward
Adams was on his way to Europe, Marcus
Meyer slipped into Craig-y-nos Castle
with tiny Mexican dog under his ann
and engaged Patti for Abbey. Adams
may, however, induce Nilsson to cross
over once more. The Chicago Auditorium
people have already engaged Nine.
Schalchi.
The Cricket on the Hearth does not
chirrup cheerfully in Maggie Mitchell's
household, as she wants divorce from
her husband, Henry T. Paddock. Mics
Mitchell is 81 years OLD, and was mar
lied to Mr.. Paddock since October 1G68
She is worth about $400,000, and this
fortune is now managed by her leading
man, Mr.. Charles Mace, whose theatre
cal name is Charles Abbott. He is a
South Boston men End the husband of
sn actress named Nellie Taylor. Miss
Mitchell has been on the stage for nearly
forty years. She is the half sister of Mrs.
John W. Albaugh, who was divorced
many years since from James w. Col
lier. Miss Mitchell charges her hus-
band with in6delity, and that he has
wasted 100000 of her property. Pad
dock, who is a prosperous real estate
broker at 1877 Broadway, says absolutely
nothing, but his friends stand out for
$25, 200. The proceedings are the talk
of the town, the female part of the FRO
fession upholding Miss Mitchell's action,
while the male pant cotton to Hank
Paddock.