Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-08
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Events in the Mimic
World.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE ACTORS.
The "Little Tycoon" TO-Night-The
Circus on Thursday-Other
Happenings.

Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has at last
been suited in n drama, written for her
by Frederick Hale. She will begin
studying her part Immediately.
A Russian joint stock company is
building an immense boat theatre to
float up and down the Volga river. Per
formances are to be given at every large
town.
Edmund Dante, one of the Dante
Bros, fire kings, is in the city to appear
as q witness in the Coffee trial. he will
leave for Australia when the trial is COM
pleted.
A new theatre, to cost nearly $7,000,-
600, is to be built on the Champ de Mars,
st. Petersburg, says New York news
paper. Is there any such place at st.
Petersburg?
Bernhardt is making tour of Algeria
with great success. April goth che will
appear in French version OF "As IN
Looking GLASS;" adapted from the Eng
lish by M. Paul Berton.
Ash Wednesday no longer interferes
with theatrical performances in London.
Whereas all the theatres used to close on
that day, only two this ear paid any at
tention to it, and these merely an
nounced that they would keep open.
The Philharmonic Society will have a
booth at the Flower Festival, where those
who desire tickets for the concert, at which
the "Creation" will be given, can obtain
them. The booth will be handsomely
fitted up and several well known ladies
of the city will be in constant attend
ance.
Speaking of the late hugging and kiss
ing of Alvary, the German tenor. by his
admirers in New York, the World of that
city anxiously asks: "Will this fashion
be permit ed to extend to favorite singers
of the opposite sex ?" Well, not, per-
haps, as fashion, but after the old, old
way, ''by favor" no doubt.
Mary Anderson is still in Philadelphia,
but the reports are that she is gradually
recovering from her attack of nervous
prostration. DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, who
has charge of the actress. says she will
be able to travel within two weeks, and
she will then start for the South OF
France, where the climate is expected to
aid materially in Fastening her speedy
recovery.
California is going to do what the
managers will not do. 1t is going to
suppress the high hat. Women under
So years of age observe the cunning OF
this wording) must not go to the theaters
with plug hats, Gainsborough hats, stove
pipes, smoke stacks, or any other OBJ
streperous and inordinate head gear,
and people who are aggrieved by their
display of millinery can have them ar
rested and fined by justice of the
peace.
Mrs. Potter retires from Henry @. Alb
bey's management in June. she has
formed partnership with Kyrle Bellew
iOh fie 4 and both will take Antony and
Cleopatra through the country next sea-
son. Mr.. Abbey has not made any
money out of Mrs. Potter's tour, and no
doubt is glad that the contract terminates.
Mrs. Potter will manage her own affairs
with an assistant, as Mrs. Langtry has
done for the past two years. Mr.. Abbey
ought to be grateful to Kyrle.
One of the small humbugs of the day,
as noticed by New York paper, is an
advertising card of coming theatrical
attraction. On the reverse side is
printed pretty, highly colored picture,
beneath which is the caution to read the
other side, and afterward immerse the
card in water, picture uppermost, for
three days, then watch carefully the re-
suit. 1t is needless to add the result is
nil, but the scheme is rather clever, for
it insures, six times out of ten, the care
full preservation of the card.
It is reported that Manager Gye pur-
poses organizing a company to give
Italian opera in this country next season.
That his wife, Nine Albini, will head the
company, md with her will be 1850
ciated double quartet of the best oper-
attic artists to be found abroad. Aside
from this necessary foreign element the
scheme will be purely American one,
the general idea being to utilize the i'm
mense number of American singers who
under proper direction, can safely be
relied upon as a satisfactory working
force for such an organization.