Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-24
MUSIC ArD DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Players at Home
and Abroad.

other sengerfest. 1t will be held in
June, 1890, and the music will be sung
in Polish.
Miss Fay Templeton will, in all praba-
bility, star next season with the Don
nelly Graid Combination of Natural
Gas fame.
The Iuy Leaf Company will leave this
morning for Anaheim, where they will
play one night and then go through the
Southern circuit.
The Fairy Well will come out to the
Coast next season with the new scenery
that is being painted for it. 1t is to be
put or the road in frst-class style.
'Norah" of the Fairy Wen Company,
is bride of only two weeks. She was
married at San Francisco to Mr. Monroe,
who is accompanying her on her trip.
Nine. Nevada Palmer has been sing
ing with great success in Madrid and
Barcelona. She has been received by
Queen Christiana on several occasions.
There are in London sixty-fve theatres
and about 500 music halls, providing en-
tertainment for 325,000 people every
night, or 100, ,000, 900 in the course of the
year.
1t is said that Edwin Booth is the
wealthiest actor living, that Henry
Irving follows him, and next comes
Charles Wyndham and then Joseph
Jefferson.
A dress rehearsal of Mariana was held
at the Los Angeles Theater yesterday
morning. 1t went off in splendid style,
and there is every indication that the
show tonight will be great.
Mrs. Terry left yesterday morning for
New York. She accompanied her
husband, the genial manager of the Icy
Leaf Company, to the coast 80 that she
could see the Golden West.
Mr.. ]. J. Rosenthal, who was in this
city some three months ago as the ad-
vance agent of The Little tycoon, will, in
all probability, soon become the manager
of the Tivoli at San Francisco.
American speculators are angling to
catch Mr.. Sarasate for tour in their
country. Should they succeed, the
violinists already in the States may pack
up and DEPART London Telegraph.
Saint-Saens, the great French musician,
is resting under provisional agreement
to come to America to give concerts. The
provision is that certain sum must be
deposited to his credit before he starts.
"Bis repetita non placent" seems to
hold as true in the Argentine Republic
as elsewhere. Nine. Adelina Patti is
not drawing the crowded houses at
Buenos Ayres that greeted her on the oc-
casion of her first visit.
Summer English opera opened in
New York last Monday night with Mar
thn. Muldoon and another athlete
were introduced in the fair scene in a
wrestling match. Shade of Flotow To
such base uses even thy sweetness may
come at last
The great Bernhardt has, since the ad-
vent of her granddaughter, Mile. Simone,
been dubbed the eek divine" Sarah,
whereas Mile. Reichem berg, the never
fading ingenue of the Theatre Francais,
is known by the soubriquet of the "Bsbe
Doyenne."
minstrel Manager W. S. Cleveland
ccontemplates establishing chain of per-
manent minstrel theatres, one in New
York, another in Chicago, and third in
San Francisco. The ambitions of this
youthful manager are apparently limited
only to the capacity of the earth.
Jeffreys-Lewis, few years ago one of
the most popular of American actresses,
was found last week in California in a
destitute condition, she and her child
suffering from hunger. Edwin Booth
hearing of her condition sent her check
for 800, and benefit performance was
given for her in San Francisco Ex-
change.
People who heard Miss Sanderson sing
previous to her departure for Europe say
that she has bad tremolo which her
study has not overcome. The defect is
not as severely criticised as it should be,
for the reason that the French cultivate
it and appear to think that it is an ad-
mirable acquisition. 1t is, on the con-
trary, a decided blemish aud will in time
draw the voice off key.
An actors luck is illustrated by the
terrible accident at Johnstown. where q
company played, and, being too late to
catch the train for the next town, hired
q wagon to transport them just in time
to escape certain death. In spite of the
fact that actors travel more than any
other profession, none seems ever to get
hurt in any kind of accident. 1t is hard
to kill an actor.
Nine. Carlotta Patti de Munck, sister
OF Adelina Patti, is dangerously ill in
Paris. Her salon, where her voice has
so often charmed her intimate friends, is
closed, and even should she recover her
health it is doubtful if she will regain her
voice. Nine. Carlotta Patti, like her
distinguished sister, is independently
rich, although she has been in the habit
OF giving music lessons to few favored
pupils-among them five Americans
Carlotta, had she chosen, might have been
celebrated as a pianist, but her voice
was too marvellous for imprisonment,
and as concert singer she has rarely
had an equal. Slightly lame, she was
not able to sing in opera, but in the
opinion of many, had che entered the
operate arena she would have been
greater than Adelina.
The Opera.
Commencing tonight at the Los An
geles Theater, Manager H. G. Wyatt's
Opera Company will give season OF ten
weeks in opera. The first opera given
will be Wallace's Mariana, which con-
tains good deal of pleasing music.
Some of the solos and choruses are very
beautiful, and as this Company has been
rehearsing for several weeks, it is ex-
pected that the production will be sue
cess. The cast includes Mrs. Padelford,