Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-25
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
Gossip About tho Plays aud tho
Players.

Modjeska has finally agreed to play the
leading roles in Mr.. Booths support next
season.
Eugene Wether's will was probated
last week. He left $500, 900, all TO his
wife, Emma Abbott.
Mrs. Potter undraped cleopatra is
drawing large and swell audiences at Pal
mer's Theatre, New York.
Forty-one new Italian operas were pro-
duced on the continent last year. One
OF them achieved success.
Miss Fanny Davenport will present
nothing but La I'osco next season. She
iss aid to be making great deal of money
with it throughout the country.
Louis Harrison's new topical song, in
the Pearl of Pekin, "When Chung a-Lung
Struck High O." has struck the town,
and is being whistled by everybody, as
was "Razzle Dazzle" few weeks ago.
Henry E. Abbey, when asked how
long he thought antony and Cleopatra
would run in Boston, replied jocularly {:
"If the police don't stop it, there is no
doubt that it will run the balance of the
| season."
Business on the road this year is not
very good except for standard attractions.
according to all the managers. The gen.
eral public is tired of being swindled and
| the transformers" are now playing to
poor-house business.
Time does not deal gently with Lilly
Langtry. She looks haggard and worn,
and her figure, over which two continents
have raved for several years, seems vast
| ing away. The cause is said to be over
work and fatigue from travelling.
John Russell, Henry Donnelly and Ed
Girard have bought the new comedy by
Archibald Gordon and Charles Byrne.
1t is to be called The Referee and the
Backer. and will be produced in May.
According to Russell's enthusiastic
statements, Charles Hoyt will have to
look to his laurels.
| Mrs. James G.. Blaine, Jr., has been
engaged by Manager Daniel Frohman
for two years. She is to have part Of the
profits Of her starring tour, be supplied
with costumes, and have both female
companion and maid, all at the ex.
pense of Mr.. Frohman.
A recent performance of L'Africaint
at Buda-Pesth, is appropriately de.
scribed in LIE Menestrel as reminiscence
of the tower of Babel ,inasmuch as the part
of "Nelusko" was sung in French and
that of "Selika in Italian, while the resi-
of the artists sung in German, and the
chorus in Hungarian.
Nevada has had, as the Americans
say, a fine time in Rome. She was
offered long engagement there, but re-
fused it to 60 to South America, where
she is to receive EGO night for forty
nights. All the expenses of herself. hel
husband, the baby, the nurse, and bel
Itemme de c1ambre will be paid.
i Dramatic criticism has reached a high
plane in Washington. Says newspaper
Of that city: "When Fanny Davenport
brings La Tosca to Washington mex
week the public will find that it ISM
quite so low in the weskit as on the
Partisan boards, but still it is pretty low
Ia Paris it was a regular marine"
In letter to the New York World Mis-!
Marie Halton denounces as false the in
sinuation by Lillian Russell that she
wool under her tights" Miss Haltor
pulled over the eyes of the public, pull
ing it over other peoples legs is going
entirely too far"
In the first fifty weeks of Erminie o.
which six we're played on the road anc
the rest in New York, the receipts were
$404, 900, and it entered upon its second
run at the Casino with that amount tt
its credit. The total receipts of this opers
by one company have been over $500, 900
It drew over $30, 900 in Philadelphia il
three weeks. Forty Thousand dollars
have been paid in royalties for Erminie
Emma Abbott has secured another
first-class church advertisement. Hel
tenor, Montegriffo, sang in an Episcopa
licly thanked him. The other Prot
estant preachers formed league ant
issued fiery denunciation of Abbott
Montegriffo, the Episcopal preacher, e
al, and forthwith the Abbott company
drew immense audiences. Of course.
Realism" is carried to as great an ex
, tent on the French stage as on thu
, American. There is no record of tn
employment of patented tank OF rea
water in the Comedie Franchise, but or
3 the revival of "Henry I'LL" at that ia
t nous home of the French drama ''his
t ltorical accuracy" is carried to the ex
j. termest limit. In the first act the bell o
St. German pAuxerrois is heard to toll
and the bell used in this scene is tn
Q identical one which tolled the death
Q knell of the Huguenots from the oil
t church. The bell was originally pre-
/ sented to the Francaise to be used II
{ giving the signal for the st. Bartholomew
8 massacre in the tragedy OF Charles lA.l