Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-12
CALIFORNIA FAVORITES.
Popular Actors and Singers
and Their Plans.
DRAMATIC NEWS OF THE WEEK
Entertainment for the Coming
Season = New Plays to be
Brought Out-NOtes.


closed their long season.
1t is probable that John A. Ellsler will
be seen in support of his daughter Effie
next season.
Mr.. Sol Smith Russell will shortly en-
tertain New York play-goers for few
weeks at Daly's.
Joseph R. Grismer has bought the
Australian right to play The Burglar as
we'll as the California right.
More plays of Shakespeare's have been
turned into operas than those of any
other dramatist. They number ten in
all.
William II. Crane promises to make
elaborate productions of Henry ". and
The Merry Wives of Windsor during the
winter.
The twenty-five weeks tour of Mrs.
James G.. Blaine, Jr., is booked solid.
Fifteen one-night stands are contracted
on guarantees.
1t is stated on good authority that the
quarrel between the two brothers Imre
and Bolossy Kiralfy is at an end, and
that after next season they will Join
forces again.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, now in Ger
many, thinks that his Ganelon will be
the greatest production he has ever been
associated with. 1t will first be seen at
the Chicago Opera House.
1t is said that the receipts of the DAILY
Company for three weeks at Baldwin's,
San Francisco, will reach $4,000. The
Lyceum Company in a four weeks' en-.
gagement did business of $4,000.
Sarah Bernhardt has developed great
liking for Americans. She seeks their
society, invites them to her entertain
ments and openly asserts that they are
the wittiest people in the world.
Mary Anderson can be seen every
morning walking about Hampstead
Heath, and later to be seen vending her
way to the little Catholic church for her
morning devotion. She looks much
better.
Louis James is preparing for an elabo-
rate production of Richard ILL.,, which
he will make the piece de resistance of his
repertoire, which includes Hamlet,
Othello, Macbeth, Julius Cesar and Vir-
ginius.
Miss Florence Hamilton has been en-
gagged by W. II. Powers to play the lead
ing feminine part in The Fairy's Well
next season, which will be opened at the
Fourteenth. Street Theater, New York,
September I'd.
Although Willard Spenser, the author
of The Little Tycoon, made whole lot of
money last season, he will not put the
opera on the road this season. He says
his brain is too tired to devote any time
to managing.
Miss Fannie Davenport will begin q
preliminary season for four weeks in San
Francisco this month, supported by a
local company. Her regular season with
her own company will begin on Novem-
Der 9TH, in Rochester.
W. w. Tillotson's Zig Zag tour for this
season has been finished by Klaw Il
Erlanger, and they are now at work for
the third seasons bookings, beginning in
the fall OF 1890. Tillotson's colaborer
in the writing of Zig Zag was G. F. Van
Bruck, of this city.
f. H. Sothern arrives from the noun
tsins next Monday, when rehearsals will
begin for the second production of Lord
Chunley at the Lyceum Theater. The
first seasons run of this play at the Ly-
ceum was the banner continuous engage
ment in the record of that house.
The New York Dramatic Mirror is
authority for the statement that actors
salaries will show decline the coming
season. This playgoers will be sorry to
hear, as they like a cheerful actor There
is no mention, by the way, OF decline
in the rates of admission to theaters.
f. G. Stone, manager for Joseph
Haworth, has booked a season of forty
two weeks for Paul Kdupar, and he ie
considering the advisability of adding
ten weeks more, making the season cover
an entire year. The tour is to include
the Northwest and Pacific Coast States,
where the play has not yet been seen.
RMr. Frank Mayo will revive Dau,
Crockett this season. Old playgoers will
find pleasure in renewed acquaintance
with the chivalric backwoodsman, while
new admirers will be plentiful. Mr..
Mayo has made brave fight for legiti-
mate and romantic plays, but he will
doubtless find greater profit in the return
to his frontier classic.
J. K. Emmett will introduce a new
feature into his performances next sea
son. Instead of having vocal quartet
he will employ string quintet. Mr.
Emmett has written new lullaby, which
he will sing next season with the quintet
accompaniment. The quintet will also
be added to the orchestra.
One of Abbey's pet projects is to have
Nine. Albani sing alternately with Patt
next season. This contract was signed
says private cable from Ernest Gye
the week of July 4. Sig. Tamagno, who
was chosen by Verdi to create the par,
of "Othello" in Milan two years ago, will
complete the trio of stars in this con
stellation.
During his performance in The Pay
master, Duncan Harrison has met with {
number of accidents, some OF which
have come near having fatal termina
ton. 1t is now said that he has sus
tanned such severe injuries to one foo
that it will probably be necessary TO hav
it amputated. He is now on his wa,
back East.
The story OF Shenandoah, Bronson
Howard's new play, begins at the yer,
opening of the war with the firing of tn
first shot at Fort Sumpter, and deals no
only with battle, but presents the ten
derest phase of human sentiment an,
tells sweet love story. Mr.. Howard i
now putting the finishing touches on tn
play, which will be produced at the Sta
Theatre in Chicago, September 8. Lii
Vane and Frank Burbeck have recentl,
been added to the company.
The following well-known attraction
will play California and Western tou
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