Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-28
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip About Plays and the
Players.
NOTES AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The "Black Crook" at the Grand
Opera House-Carlet0n and
NOdjeska Coming.

Mr6. LangCry 16 WIltlnk uoI lHos ~
should be spicy book.
A European statistician finds that
375, ,OO0, 900 worth of Jewels has been
stolen from actresses within ten years.
A man in McKeesport, Pa, has in
vented system of musical stenography
that will enable an expert to steal q
whole opera.
There is no doubt about Fanny Rice's
costumes as "Nadjy." From her bust to
the dimples of her pretty little toes, she
is ballet symphony in black.
Pauline Lucca declares that after her
approaching American tour she will re,
tire from the stage. She has purchased
. villa at Gmunder, where she intends
to open school for opera singers.
Adelaide Ristori is now in Paris stay
ing in her splendid Rue Malesherbes
mansion. She is the wife of the Mar
quis Capranica del Grillo, leading
member Of the old Papal nobility.
Women first appeared in ballet in 1851.
Prior to that date young and plump
youths were selected for stage dancers.
The first premiere danseuses were Miles.
La Fontaine, Roland, Lepeintre and
Fernon.
The death is chronicled of Nine. lima
di Murska, the once brilliant soprano
vocalist. She died January 18th in
Munich in extreme poverty, and her
daughter committed suicide in despair at
the death of her mother.
James Brown Potter, the husband of
the society actress, is described as q
stout, handsome young man, who strolls
about the lobby of the theater listening
TO al that is said about his wife. 1t is
presumed he never hears anything de-
rogatory. He gets that from the morn
ing papers.
Patti is singing for s., 500 night in
London, which is the highest price yet.
This is singing up among the high C's.
And yet, according to the great Frau,
Lehman-Kalisch, "Patti is over
Doubtless there are many of US. even
Germans, who would be overjoyed to be
lover" on like terms.
Lotta, the actress, has purchased the
northeast corner of Seventh avenue and
One Hundred and Eighteenth street, New
York for 100000. This information,
which can be authenticated by the city
records, ought to make some profession
n people who have squandered as they
have gone along, feel quite i'll.
Lawrence Barrett has resumed negoti-
ations to secure Nine. Modjeska to star
with Edwin Booth next season, while
Mr.. Barrett is starring alone in his new
play. He has telegrsphed Nixon & Zim-
norman, asking how much they want
for Nine. Modjeska's release for period
of twenty weeks. Booth and Modjeska
would look most impressive on the play
bills.
As Hans Won Bulow will be on this side
of the Atlantic before March of this year,
Hans Richter, Of Vienna, will conduct
in his stead the performance of Bee
that month by the Berlin Philharmonic
Hans Richter will conduct on two sue
esssive venings, and the programme,
besides the symphony, will contain
works by Brahms and Liszt.
The California songstress, Miss Sibyl
Sanderson, is likely to be the means of
divorcing her tutor, Composer Marsenet,
from his wife. According to Paris cor
respondent, Nine. Massenet is growing
Jealous of the young operatic star, who,
Christine Nilsson said, could take one
note higher and hold it longer than any
singer she had ever heard. If she can
do this, and also make it louder than
anybody else, not counting much on
quality, she ought to be an immense sue
eess in this country.
One of the women whistlers of the
time came to grief at Worcester, Mass,
ON Sunday. Being billed to render sew.
ernl selections at 80 o.called sacred con-
cert, she was waited upon by the Mayor
and Town Council and asked what airs
she expected to whistle. The character
of those she had learned to whistle was
most too lively to suit the austere solons
and they bluntly informed her that if
she included nothing more sacred in her
repertory she had better move on. She
cried and pleaded with them, but they
were obdurate and the Hhistling was post
poned. Think Of that, ye Los Angeles
Sunday-nighters
Clever Fannie Rice, the prima donna
sorbrette who made such success of the
title role of Nadjy at the New York
Casino. returns to that house in the same
part on the 21st instant. Miss Rice is one
of the highest salaried artistes on the
comic opera stage, and her services are
IN RI6Ab O0Luhuus 0u0 Anb olKCauy K6-
ceived three fattering offers for next sea-
son from New York managers, includ-
ing one from Rudolph Aronson to re.
main at the Casino, which she will prob
ably accept, as it has the inducement of a
big addition to her present salary.
Funny careers some actresses have,
don't they Here is Julia Marlowe, for
instance, the sensational success of the
present season, everywhere pronounced
to be the coming great tragedienne.
Eight years has che been on the stage
and vet nobody heard of her until she
came forth at the Bijou Theater last sea-
son with great flourish of trumpets,
and she was worthy of the flourish. She
jumped instanter into popular favor, and
is now sweeping everything before her.
Her real name is Fanny Brough. She
was born in Illinois, but spent most of
her girlhood days with her mother in
Cincinnati. Her mother was divorced
while Miss Marlowe was yet an infant,
married again and is now the proprietress
of a hostelry which has lately come into
unpleasant notoriety at Porkopolis. Miss
Marlowe's first appearance on the stage
was with Josephine Riley in Chicago.
She played soubrette part. Then she
became chorus girl, and then bur-
lesquer, when she pranced, capered, and
gyrated about the stage in tights in COM
panies with such burlesquers as Ida
Mule and Ella Weston. And now,
"presto change!" she is the great emo
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