Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-02
Notes of the Plays and Those
Who Present Them,
FUTURE SOCIAL ADJUSTMENTS
s'The Parl0r Match" This Week.
Margaret Mather and Little Lord
FauntlerOy Coming.


of rheumatic gout.
Lillian Nordica has been engaged fol
Abbey's operatic tour of America. 1t is
stated she is to sing on Tamagno's nights
Dion Boucicault says people who are
forever calculating Shakespeare, and
getting new and recondite" meanings
out of the text, are humbugs.
The final concert given by Nine. Patti
at Buenos Ayres last month produced
$4,000. For her concert tour in the
English provinces Patti will receive
$500 per night.
Mayor Grant, of New York, has ap-
pointed Mr.. Stanton, a salaried clerk OF
the Metropolitan Opera House, to rep.
resent American theatrical managers on
the Worlds Fair Committee, and the
American managers think it is the big
gest joke Of the season.
There are 1,500 actors in New York to-
day who are unemployed; yet over 1000
English actors are coming to this coun-
try to play next season in companies al
ready organized and for which routes are
already laid out.
An English manager who would like to
indulge in sumptuous revival of A Mid
summer Nights Dream for the autumn in
London, doesn't dare to undertake it in
consequence of the measures effecting
the employment of children on the stage,
which are at present before Parliament.
The children are always relied upon to
personate the fairies.
A prominent New York manager makes
the estimate that there will be as many
as one Thousand English actors and as
sistants in the London companies coming
to America this season, and that at a low
estimate they will send back to fair
Albion round million dollars. More
than two thousand American actors are
as yet in the metropolis unemployed.
Manager AL. Hayman of the Baldwin
and New California theaters, San Fran
cisco, announces that he will soon pre-
sent here the great success, Lettle Lord
Fauntleroy. The engagement is one of
decided Importance. The fact that the
play has crowded the theaters in New
York, London, Boston, Chicago, San
Francisco, etc., commands attention and
demonstrates that the play has in it
something that the public want. Mrs.
Burnett's clever book has been widely
read.
"Spike" Hennessey and. "Kid" Nc.
Coy, the two burglars who are doing the
safe breaking act with "The Stowa-
way" Company, had quite an experience
in Philadelphia the other day. Dressed
in their slickest cloth, and with big
diamond imbedded in their shirt fronts,
they walked into the Battle of Shiloh
and inquired if they passed the profess
sion. ''What company do you belong
to?" asked the girl in the box Office.
"Ihe Tn stowsway." answered the kid" "
you are not the burglars" she inter-
jected, as the ex.cracksmen walked into
the building. Speaking of the occurrence
the following day, the "Kid" remarked
that the girl "got on" to "Spikes" be-
cause the latter eyed the safe SO intently.
A London correspondent writes New
York paper: "Musical people here are
waiting with good deal of interest to
see what Patti will do when she gets
back from South America next week and
learns that Abbey has engaged Albani to
sing in opera. The Peerless P. has fol
years regarded Albani as her bete noire
and has said some very sharp things
about her. Though Albani will in no
way interfere with PATHS roles, it will be
very annoying to her to know that she ie
to be in Abbey's America company al
all. BIT Patti is bound fast by contract
and it is hard to see what she can do in
the matter. This may be Abbey's way
of getting even with the Peerless fol
going back on her word to him last win
ter and sailing for South America unde
the management of q man who offeret
her q little more money. Meanwhile
Tamagno has come to the conclusion tina
Albani's voice does not suit him and he
fatty declares that he will not sing witt
her. As Tamagno is by long odds the
prize of Abbey's season, and is, more
over, very independent fellow to dea
with, the astute American impressarit
will doubtless find some way out of tn
difficulty without offending him. In an.
event he has both Nordica and Valda tt
call upon in the Patti off nights"
1t is interesting to hear Nine. Modjesk
talk of her California ranch life. Sh
enjoys it immensely, and it must be pal
ticularly enjoyable in contrast with he
first experiment at ranching in the West
Then her husband, Count Bozenta, tile
the soil like any laboring man, but nc
to as much profit, while the great actrea
did the housework and milked the COWS
The Count tried to relieve her of tn
milking, but the COWS objected. An
one familiar with the Counts impulsiv
manner will not blame the COWS. Thos
were hard times, and, while the life ma
have been picturesque, it was not alto
gether pleasant. That on the preser
ranch is quite another thing. There is
lovely house, designed by Stanfor
White, plenty of servants, well-fille
stables, and just enough excitemer
about the crops to make it interesting
Mime Modjeeka gives her special after
ton to the Durham COWS an
the bees. She is up every morr
ing at O'Clock and out inspectin
her stock after q breakfast of coffe
and rolls. She is perfectly enchante
with her life, and, although she is fift
miles from the nearest railway town, sh
doesn't know what it is to be lonely, fc
the house is always filed with guest
And yet notwithstanding the fascinatio
of ranch life, when she scents the battl
afar, she longs to be leading the charg'
/ don't believe that it is possible for a
actor or an actress to voluntarily dro
from the ranks, and I believe that the
constant work and their delight in it
what keeps them young. Look at Josep
Jefferson; in years he is veteran OF tt
stage, but who that has seen him as ri
or Bob Acres within the last year woul
dream Of calling him an old man?
think that tits Nine. Mod djeska's plan tot
somewhat as Jefferson does, to act for
lew months in the winter, and then tai
complete rest from stage duties. and y