Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-16
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

MUSIC AND DRAMA,
Neses Of she slase-Gossip About
Actors.
Maria Van Zandt will receive $500 for
each Of the twelve performances at Bar
celona and Lisbon.
Lewis Morrison will continue the star
next season in Msphisto, all reports to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
The latest musical prodigy is . young
boy in Luzerns, N. r.. who is said to be
able to play ParsvaI ON blade Of grass
held between his thumbs.
From New York comes the staggering
intelligence that Kaj0rkd is a tre-
mendous success, with "wildly enthusi-
astic" audiences in that metropolis,
Bluebeard in Washington lately played
to the capacity OF Albaugh's opera house.
II made the most tremendous success
ever made in that city by spectacular
company.
Lawrence Barrett recently met with
remarkable success in his new play,
Ganelon, at Albaugh's grand opera
house, Washington. The business has
been excellent and a decided social tri-
umph scored.
Alphonso Daudet's new play has
brought into use in France two new
"English" words. One who struggles
for life is called ''struglifer" by the
general public, and ''struggleforlifeur"
by those who spsak very choice French.
English.
Elvie Crox of The Fakir Company
was presented with q handsome bouquet
T. ut Wheeling Thanksgiving day. Among
the roses an elegant solitaire diamond
was subsequently found, and the joke of
it is she does not know where it came
from. So she says, at least.
"Bobby Manchester, manager of the
Night OaOls, wears a solitaire which
was once the property of Louis Napo-
leen," says Cincinnati paper. 1t was
intended as q joke, probably, because it
is added that the prize was "heired from
an uncle who was an employee Of Napo-
leon."
Bostonians were surprised by the Bos-
tonians in regard to the pronunciation of
Don Quixote. The week previous to its
production theater- goers were calling it
Don Ke-ho-ta, but they were somewhat
taken aback by the members of the corl-
pany producing it, who pronounced it as
it is spelled-Don Quixots.
England is considering the notion OF
having a Shakespeare festival, and the
subject proves as great bone of conten-
ton as when poets, dramatists, essayists
and critics wrangled and almost came to
blows over the proposed statue to Shake.
speare in London. Mr.. Irving is among
the exponents Of the festival project.
The term "Johnnie," which was orig
inally coined in London, is now very
generally used in New York to describe
the peculiar class of pallid youngsters
who hang around stage doors and fre.
quet bufi5sque theaters. The distinction
between johnnie and a dude seems to
be that the former has money, while
nothing is needed to equip the latter but
silver-headed stick, "a cigarette, consider
able ill-health, and a vspid smile. The
Johnnie is also an improvement on the
dude to the extent that he has an object
in life beyond cigsrette.smoking, even il
that object is only the worship of q stage
divinity. es~ss
Uncle TOMS Cabin will ba the attrac-
ton at the Los Angeles theater for the en-.
tire week, commencing tonight. This
piece, although presented to the public foI
30 many years, always preserves its fresh.
ness and gives delight to the present
generation, as it did their fathers years
ago. There are many troupes at the
present time performing Uncle Tom,
Cabin, but none put the piece on the
stage and present it better than f. E.
Griswold's company that will appear a,
the Los Angeles theater. Every in
dividual member is thoroughly up to his
part. Little Eva" is given with such
angelic sweetness and pathos that is re-
markable for one 30 young. Outside OF
their dramatic talent, band and
orchestra is carried. The former, mum.
beriDg twenty Instruments, will perform
each eveningin in front of the theater some
OF their choice selections.
Grace Henderson, of the Lyceum the
ater stock company, has determined tc
retire permanently from the stage. As
is we'll known, abe is the wife of the
manager of the Chicago opera house,
Chicago, David Henderson, and it was
with the latter's sanction that she came
to this city and adopted the life of an
in The Charity Bah, in which she is still
playing. fe a,.
To q World ldreporter, who saw her at he,
handsome suite of apartments at 394 Fifth
avenue, Miss Henderson said it was hel
intention to leave the stage for good the
latter part of January or early in Febru.
ary.
IT shall 60 at once to Chicago" she
said. ''and retire into private life. Mr..
Henderson is anxious that I should re-
turn, and the stage, to me at least, ID
more of an expensive luxury than q mat.
ter Of business. l have worked hard for
the past four or e We years, and believe
that l have made some friends here who
may regret my departure, but on the
whole am satisfied that am taking 9
wise step. ."-[New York World.
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