Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-14
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes Of Plays and These
Who Present Them.
COMING LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Hoyt's BRASS Monkey" and "Little
Lord Fauntleroy" ut the
Grand-FlOra Bats0n.
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
COMING LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS

Manager Hayman, of the Baldwin and
California theaters, San Francisco, will
direct the coming Coast tour Of Duf'a
Comic Opera Company.
There seems to be no doubt now But
that Wallie Eddinger and Flossie Ethyl
are the best of those who have yet
played Little Lord Fduntleroy.
The Lighthouse was Wilkie Collins
first drama. At it's original production
Charles Dickens appeared as the keeper
and the author played an important
role.
Sig. Luigni announces to the italian
public that latter lapse of more than
1900 years the theater of Pompeii will
be opened with The Daughter of the Regi
ment."
Pretty Kathrynne Heron, who ap-
peared at the Grand last week with the
Davenport company, has received a
number of fattering offers for next
season.
Manager Isaac has many attractions in
his Dime Museum and good vaudeville
bill in the theater department. Ace
Levy, the clever female impersonator,
makes his first appearance this week.
Bronson Howard's latest work, Shen-
endoah, an interesting drama dealing
with the romantic side of life in the
South during the civil war. has made q
wonderful success at the Star Theater,
New York.
The present season in Italy will see
ftty-three opera-houses open and per-
formances in fofty-seven different cities.
Four cities have each two lyric stages,
Milan, Turin, Bologna and Florence,
while Trieste boasts Of three.
A manuscript by Richard Wagner has
lately been discovered. 1t is his musical
setting of Harold Won Brackets popular
hymn, written in honor of the Russian
Emperor, Nicholas l, and composed
when Wagner was conductor at Riga.
Mr.. AL Haymsn will take A. M. Pal
mer's company on western tour from
cisco, Los Angeles and the principal
western cities. The Lyceum Theater
Company also tour the West the next
spring under Mr.. Frohman's manage
ment.
That pretty play, Little Lord Fauntle-
roy, will bo presented for the second
time, next Monday evening, at the Grand
Opera House. This play has made more
play that has been produced for many
Flossie Ethyl will play the Little Lord as
before.
Next Thursday evening Mr.. Charles
Hoyt's latest, A Brass Monkey, will have
it's first production in Los Angeles at the
Grand Opera House. A Brass Monkey il
like all of Hoyt's plays. 1t has not
,tok hut Sc fall .f
funny situations, bright music and pretty
girls, and is credited with fulfilling its
mission Of creating laughter.
1t is currently reported that DR.. Won
Bulow, all accounts to the contrary not
withstanding, has signed an agreement
to revisit the United States in the early
spring. The identity of DR.. Won Bulow's
new impresario can not even be guessed
at, and the question as to which of the
leading piano.makers takes an interest
in the enterprise is still less easily an
swered.
Miss Flora Batson, known as the Afri-
can Jennie Lind, whose phenomenal
voice ia so much spoken of by the presa
of the whole country, will appear t0mor-
row night at the Los Angeles Theater.
The engagement is for single night,
and the theater is sure to be full, for few
will be willing to miss hearing for them
selves just what this woman's singing is.
A number of press notices received dur.
ing Miss Batson's tour will be found in
another column.
Herr Botel, wonderful tenor, ID
fascinating the audiences at the Kral
gardens, Berlin. He was coachman moi
long ago and his rise to fame has been
romantic in it's details. He must fine
opera-singing more remunerative anG
agreeable than driving horses. At re.
cent Sunday night rendition Of a popular
opera he was recalled six times after one
song and masses of flowers were show
cred upon him. He is an. bilious to come tt
America and will doubtless have ,
chance to crafty his ambition befor'
long.
The New York Sun says: "Rumor
are afoat in musical circles of a possible
matrimonial alliance between Sig. Peru
gini and Miss Emma Abbott, or, as sh'
ID known ia private life, Mrs. Eugene
Wetherell. Mr.. Wetherell died about
twelvemonth ago. Miss Abbott-or Mrs
Wetherell-is one of the wealthiest wo
men in the lyric profession. She ia Ger
tainly not worth less than $500, 900, an,
for years her services have commando,
$1,000 for each and every week of
forty weeks season. The story that sh
is putting up a costly monument owe
the grave of Mr.. Wetherell is absolutel,
authentic; $S5, 900 is to be expende'
upon an appropriate mausoleum." o.
the other hand, an Illinois paper recent,
published very strongly worded rumo
that the fair Emma is soon to be ''led t.
the altar''-that's the form of statement
if not of fact-by handsome young bus
mess representative, George N. Loomis
The chances are that when she is sled
it will be to suit herself and not the ru
mor-makers.
The Bostonians begin their season to
day, and will extend their tour as ia
west as San Francisco, taking in Los An
geles on their way. The repertoire {
the company has been greatly enlarge
for the coming tour, so as to include
range of works suited to meet the largef
possible constituency. The manager
have not been unmindful of their dut
in encouraging the American composer
and have in the Don Quiaote, of Reginal
de Koven, an opera written especial
for the company by an American mus
clan, with q book furnished by a
American journalist. This opera is t
have simultaneous production in Ems