Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-23
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Stray Bits Of Gossip Recently
Floating Around.
ADJUSTMENTS IN THIS CITY.
Notes About Plays and Those Who
Present Them-Events in
the Future.

Clara Morris begins her season Sep
tember 30th, at the Grand Opera House
New York.
Wagner's only son, Siegfried, is to be
civil engineer. He shows no marked
musical talent.
Nearly 800 theaters in this country
have adopted the drop dime in the
slot and get an opera-glass machine.
Augustin Daily takes his company to
Europe again next year. They will fill
engagements in London, Paris and Ber-
lin.
Johann Strauss is busy composing his
first grand opera. 1t is written by invi-
tation Of Emperor Francis Joseph. The
Hungarian poet, Doczi, author of Kuss,
writes the libretto.
Sembrich, next to Patti the most &C.
complished singer in the Italian school,
has yielded to the pressure OF German
music and is studying the role of Elsa in
Lohengrin, in the expectation of soon
singing it at Berlin.
Kaschmann, the Barytone, sang into a
phonograph in Venice, and now he is
suing Edison's agent to prevent any fur
Their reproduction of his voice. Does a
mans voice belong to him after he has
emptied it into machine?
There is said to be no hope that the
veteran manager, Mr.. Max Strakosch,
paralysis, although he may linger on for
Home for Incurables at Fordham.
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real estate investor. Her latest purchase
is beautiful summer residence ct Santa
Monica, the Newport of California. Miss
Davenport has homes now in New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and California
[Chicago Times.
Nine. Patti will remain at Craig-y-No
Wales, until October 81, when she goes
to London. She will sing in eight con-
certs, two in London and six in the
provinces, for which she is to receive
leave Liverpool for New York on Novem.
Der %. She is to sing in this country,
Canada and Mexico.
1t is stated that an enterprising man
ager is trying to form a dramatic com.
bination that will include Sarah Althea
Terry, Mrs. Leslie Carter and Mrs. Ray
Hamilton, with John L. Sullivan and
Jake Kilrain as the leading men. Pat
agent and Napoleon Ives should be the
Treasurer.
For the first time in the history of the
French stage "Shylock" is to make b
appearance before French audience.
Mr.. Porel, the manager of the OdeoD
theatre, will produce during the coming
II 1f hi 3.
comedies, including translation of The
lock, which has been prepared by M. Ed
mond Harancourt.
The epidemic of women, of more or
less notoriety, who have figured as stars
in the theatrical armament the past two
or three years, seems to have terminated.
There will be one or two modest women
only this season who will have the entire
United States circuit to themselves. Mrs.
Langtry and Mrs. Potter have retired
from our gaze, and the incoming Of Mrs.
Blaine and Mrs. Carter has been snuffed.
Tonight at the Grand Opera House in
this city The Stowoa0ay will be presented
for the first time. The advance an
nouncements promise the audience the
most realistic performance ever pre-
6outou III Culb CtIys AmouS tuo uotdDl0
features of the piece will be the blowing
open Of safe on the stage, and a full.
rugged yacht on which one whole act of
the piece takes place. The show will
run the entire week at this place of
amusement
Business in the Dime Museum has
been good since their opening. In the
museum department this week is Prof.
rar3o v1oc 10 To- hse
city during the time the museum was
Theater. Also Prof Borland's educated
goats, which were trained in this county
Manager Isaac has also placed on exhibit
ton the. panorama of the Centennial.
In the theater an exceptionally strong
vaudeville programme is presented,
making in all large programme. The
museum, as in the past, is the favorite
resort of ladies and children.
At the Grand Opera House, for three
nights and Wednesday matinee, COM
mencing Monday, September 30th, the
Irish comedians, Murray and Murphy,
will appear in their highly amusing
farce comedy of Our Irish Visitors, under
the management of ]. M. Hill, of the
Union Square Theater, New York City.
The play of Our Irish Visitors is said to
be replete with comicalities, witticisms.
new and favorite musical selections, pop.
ular songs, ballads, Irish jig and reel
dancing. The press of San Francisco
speaks very highly of Murray and Muir
ply and their play.
Since she became Nine. Burgunzio
the tuneful spouse of the director of the
Hydro Therapic establishment of Gas.
silla, Helene Hastreiter, whose first hus
band was Herr Won Schoonhoven and
who at one time sang under the name o.
De Vasco, has become entitled to grand
novel combination of cognomens which
would look more effective than many q
circus notice on a three-sheet poster
She is now, by laws dramatic as we'll az
of the workaday world, Nine Helene
Hastreiter Won Schoonhoven De Vasce
Burgunzio! Helene has always been 9
charming and popular woman, however
and no one need mind the name.
Twenty.one years ago young lady
approached Bottesini, the d0uble-basi
splayer, who was about to play, and said
low voice: II shall have the pleas
ure of hearing you this evening, but il
will not be for the first time" Bottssin
bowed, but said nothing, on which the
young lady repeated her observation anG