Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-07
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip About Members Of
the Profession.
THE ADJUSTMENTS TO COME
Lydia Thompson At the Grand
A San Diego Company To
Entertain Los Angeles.

Annie Pixley's new play by George
Jeesop is named ss Second Floor.
Al. Hayman has bought Shenandoah,
which is great success in Boston.
Lillian Russell is to have $500 week
when her engagement at the Casino
begins.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., not only an
nounces that she will go upon the stage,
but that she will act.
Louis James and Marie Wainwright
will produce Twelfh Night on a grand
scale next season. 1t will be seen first in
Chicago.
The Carleton Opera Company will be
here in about fortnight. Mynheer Jan
is new opera which will be given on
this occasion.
Helene Dungeon, favorite on the Pa
clfic Slope for years, and one of the orig
inal Salsbury's Troubadours, reappears
in the East in Said Pdsha next month.
The new play which Maurice Barry
more was said to have written for Fred
Brytton (which will be produced next
month), turns out to be The Don re-
written.
The Philharmonic Society is prepar.
ing for its third concert of the season,
the programme for which will be COM
posed of much lighter music than has
hitherto been given by the Society.
Marie Gordon, the widow of John T..
Raymond, is soon to appear at the
Theater Royal, Hull, in a new four-act
play called Princess Diana. Her Eng.
lish manager is Mr.. Alfred Cuthbert.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett
have publicly declared their sympathy in
favor of the petition for congressional
relief from the imported actor. burden,
and have both joined the Actors Order
of Friendship.
Patti Rosa goes from England to Aus
tralia, opening there in February, and
returns via San Francisco, where she is
booked in October. The English tour
has not been a money maker, though
notices were good.
Nine fully equipped English dramatic
companies will appear in America next
Anderson, Grace Hawthorne, Mr.. and
lesque Co., Charles Wyndham, Wilson
nard Beere.
Minnie Palmer will not be seen in this
country next season. She will play a
four weeks engag ement at the Fifth
Avenue Theater, commencing May 9th.
Her season in London will open in Sep
tember, in new play by Henry Herman,
author Of The !Silrer King, and will con-
tinue for twelve weeks.
1t is said that Miss Charlotte Crabtree
(Lotta) will retire from the stage in 1891
and make her home at the Hub, where
she will personally manage her theatre.
Miss Crabtree-she abhors the name
may have many years of usefulness be.
fore her, but not upon the stage.
Miss Julia Marlowe opened her two
weeks engagement at the Broad Street
Theater in Philadelphia OH Monday, and
the Philadelphia press unanimously in
dorse her as the most charming of our
American actresses, and predict for her
the brightest future for any actress on
the stage. The company which supports
Miss Marlowe is said to be splendid one.
Mr.. F. Kerkow, the genial proprietor
of that popular resort, the Vienna Buffet,
has made arrangements with the man.
agement of the Washington Gardens to
give two concerts each week at that
place, beginning next Sunday, the 18th
inst: On Sundays from 2 to 5, sacred
concert, on Wednesday from to 5 a
grand concert of classical music. The
music will be rendered by the celebrated
Hunparian Rand