Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
The Philharmonic Concert
TO-MOrrOw Night.
NOTES FROM NEAR AND AFAR
Announcements Promised for Los
Angeles iu the Near Future.
Stage Whispers.

The Philharmonic Concert tomorrow
night at the Los Angeles Theatre should
be crowded.
Edwin Booth never voted but once in
his life, and singularly enough his ballot
was cast for Abraham Lincoln.
Sol Smith Russell is a son-in-law oi
SOLVER Optic" (William 7. Adams), the
famous author of books for boys.
1t is said that Miss Fay Templeton is
on her way to this country. 1t has been
declared that the affair with Howell Os-
borne Is off.
Patti says she is never 30 happy as
when wandering among the Welsh hills.
Her favorite amusement, next to singing
for So 900 night, is hunting Welsh rab-
bits.
Den Thompson denies the report that
he will soon retire from the stage and
"quit work" He says it "isn't healthy"
to omit. Certainly not, while you're
'the fashion,"
The only entertainment at the theatres
tomorrow night will be at the Los An
geles Theatre, where the third concert of
the Philharmonic Society will be given.
The seats are on sale to-day.
Grip" and "Patch" are two interest
ing characters in Sol Smith Russell's
play A Poor Relation. They are played
by Gerald Crisp and Ada Terry, two very
pretty little ones aged respectively 6
and years.
Arrangements have been made by
which Nine. Patti will make her posi-
lively last farewell tour of America next
season, giving thirty performances Of
grand opera in the United States, Can
ada and Mexico, beginning in New York
City on December 5, 1889.
Mrs. Langtry's western ranch now
measures more than 5000 acres-a fact
which suggests that it is about time that
she became an American citizen and
grow up with the country. Mrs. Lang
try's art may be open to criticism, but
her thrift is beyond dispute.
Dion Boucicault remarks that in the
course of his lifetime the sense of de-
cency has shifted from the ear to
the eye. The public nowadays re-
sents double entendre, but applauds
an exhibition of the kind which would
then have been received with amazement
and reprobation.
The largest theatrical advertisements on
record is that just placed by Henry
Irving in the London Era. 1t occupies
sixty columns, or twelve pages, of that
paper, and comprises all the more i'm
portant notices that have been made of
Mr.. Irving's productions of Macbeth in
the London press.
Ali the London theaters, with one or
two exceptions, charge sixpence for q
programme, and several leading critics
have set their faces against the tax and
refuse to give the names of the actors in
the cast unless programmes are fur
nished free. The London critics must be
better paid than their brethren in this
country or they couldn't stand the tax.
Lawrence Barrett said in New York the
other day that it is settled that Nine.
Modjeska will play with Mr.. Booth next
season, Notwithstanding the denial which
was telegraphed from San Francisco last
week. The Booth Modjeska combination
will open it's season at the Broadway The
ater October 18th. The repertory will
include Hamlet, Macbeth, Richeliea, The
Merchant of Venice, The Fools ReUenye,
and two or three other plays, but the
plan to present antony and Cleopatra has
been abandoned for next season.
Herr Gungl, the veteran waltz COM
poser, who recently died at Weimas, is
said to have spent the most of his wax
ing hours for the last eight years face to
face with the portrait of beautiful
woman. Who the original was, no one
appears to know, and what her relations
with Gungl were, is equally mysterious.
Close friends of the old composer, who
had known him intimately for half a
century, say that they never saw this
woman, and never even knew OF the por-
trait, until about eight years ago, when
Gungl suddenly withdrew from society,
and began living the life of a recluse. An
ivory miniature of the same woman was
buried with him.
CIeveland's aIinstrels.
w. S. Cleveland, the minstrel mag
nate, writes Fred Hewitt that his COM
pany will have a Japanese troupe num-
bering twenty-five performers when he
visits Los Angeles this summer. The
Haverly- Cleveland Minstrels played at
the Windsor and Niblo's theaters, New
York, last month, and the metropolitan
press pronounces Mr.. Cleveland's show
as the best minstrel organization ever
seen in New York City, and compares w.
S. Cleveland as Snowman 20 the great
P. T. Barnum.
ssA Poor RelatAOn.1
Sol Smith Russell is almost certain to
be greeted with one of the largest au-
diences of the season next Thursday
ax,ap;no of tho Grand Tho Trov "