Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-07

representatives for nearly all
the other roles. Mr.. Chanfrau Junior
gives Q kind of desiccated rendering of
the role to which Mr.. Chanfrau Senior
gave all Of his dramatic vitality; and he
law, and pleases q great many people.
After all, Otsllo Is not to be the last of
Verdi's operas. Its great success has
stimulated him to fresh effort, and he
is at present ct work on another score.
He has taken refuge in the little un
frequented watering place Of st. Dalmas,
where he finds the quiet without which
he cannot work. 1t ia curious that the
new opera is founded on subject which
brother-composer attempted and in
which he met with failure. Old opera
goers remember that it was one of ths
charms of Mario's career that he was al
ways trying fresh parts and encouraging
new productions. He was not content
with few triumphs, but urged his di.
rectors to put on the stage one opera after
another, written by any one of that con-
stellation Of composers for whose work
he was the ideal tenor. He is now re-
membered only by his triumphs, but he
had his failures. In 1854 he insisted on
producing Bellini's Beatrice di 1enda, q
gloomy subject, in which the composer
failed fatty. 1t was not the kind OF
theme which the writer OF La S0nnGm-
bula could handle alphabetically. 1t
failed SO completely that even its pro-
duction is forgotten. Verdi finds the
plot full of dramatic opportunities. He
is having the libretto rewritten. OteNe
has given him g. taste for tragedy, and
The Lutte Player is to be the last of his
grand operas.-[Pall Mall Gazette.
Hermann, the worlds greatest magi-
clan and prestidigitateur, commences an
engagement of five nights at the Los An
geles Theater next Wednesday evening.
Herman is an enchanter with seem.
ingly inexhaustible resources. He
| is always devising some new mys.
terry, or putteng new clothes on old
mysteries. There is as much pleasure for
the spectator in HerrmaDn's manner of
doing a thing as in the thing he does.
His skill is amazing. He manipulates
live rabbits and ducks and other I'M
wieldly material with as much easy
grace as he palms off the coin of the re-
public or makes vanish an egg. His Ell
gagement at the Los Angeles Theatre
will be made particularly interesting
by the first production in Los Angeles OF
his latest and most successful marvel,
Cremation. In this illusion a human
body is apparently consumed by fire, in
full view Of the audience, yet instantly
reappears without blemish. The burn
ing of the human body, the
rise and flight of the spirit,
and the contest between mortal
and immortal. as portrayed in this clever
marvel, all combine to amaze and mys.
tify The spectator. He will also introduce
his "Black Art" in which subjects are
materialized, appear and disappear at
his commands. An especially interest
ling feature of his programme is his expose
of "so-called spiritualism," in which he
exposes all the tricks Used by the would.
be mediums to gull an unsuspecting pub
lie. The pretty figure and agreeable
face of Nine. Hermann, supplemented
in dress, add sensibly to the evenings
enjoyment.
Mr.. Charles E. Cook, the avant courier
of Miss Fanny Davenport, the distin-
guished actress, is in this city, and il
making arrangements for the appearance
of this celebrated star at tho Grand
Opera House next Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights. Victorien Sardou't
celebrated masterpiece, La Tosca, will BIZ
given for the grand occasion, and every
thing possible will be done by Mr.. AL
Hayman, of the Baldwin and Californis
Theatres, under whose management
Miss Davenport appears here, ant
Messrs. Wyatt and Douglas, to make thu
: production complete one. Mr.. Haymar
first presented Miss Davenport to thi
, city fifteen months ago, and the theatre
goers will probably recall the successful
engagement the actress had here. Tht
greatest of Miss Davenport's admirers
and they are many, have not seen her al
her best until they have seen her al
"Floria Tosca." From the time she enters
the Church of ST. Andrea, where
mario" is painting, till dying, she
! clasps the arm of her deae
lover about her neck, she il
J Tosca in very fact. From the pretty
jealous fault finding at the color of the
madonna's eyes, till the torture inflicted
| by "Scarpia" through her lover, and the
ecstacy of passion reached while she
heaps maledictions on the dying friend
whose head she ma3ly shakes lest be
should miss one word of the hate she
speaks, there is not flaw. The entire
gamut of passion is run without one false
tone. No one without the divine gift oil
Igenius, no matter how strong their lines
may be, can electrify an audience az
Miss Davenport does. Mr.. Melbourne
Mcdowell and an excellent company will
Support Miss Davenport. The sale Of
seats begins at the Grand this morning