Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-15
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes From at Home and
From Abroad.
PLAYS AND THE PLAYERS
Gossip About Stage Matters in Va
riOus Places-Amusemen in
this City.

"Iago" next season.
Alice Lngard will probably make a
starring tour of America in the near
future. She is said to be as beautiful as
ever.
The Government now proposes to re-
build the Opera Comique, Paris, on the
old cite, without front on the boulevard
at cost of 8, ,480 900 francs, minus 30 900
francs paid for old materials and 1887
600 francs for insurance on the old build
ing.
Perhaps the oldest actress in the world
will be a member of Stuart Robson's
company next season. Mrs. Agatha
Hallam is 90 years old, and made her
first stage appearance at Scarborough,
England, May 25, 1910. She will play
the part of an old servant in Steele Mac
kaye's comedy, An Arrant Knaue.
The Nashville An,erican editor has
been to see the Curly Bellew and Mrs.
James Brown Potter's representation of
ATstonu and Cleopatra, and declares that
ga diamond surcingle with a gold fig leaf
attachment is the Potter ideal of a proper
stage costume"
Nine. Emma Nevada, the prima DONNA
is repeating her vocal triumphs in Spain.
She is spoken of as the spoiled darling
of Spanish audiences, both socially and
artifcially. She is at present in Seville,
where she has appeared in Dinorah and
the Barber of Seuille.
Mrs. Langtry, Immediately on her re-
turn to England, will commence tour
OF the English provinces, starting at Not
tingham in the early autumn. At Christ
mas che will in all probability produce
Esther Sandrdz ct a London theater.-
London Telegraph.
The girls at Wellesley College made
quite success the other day of per-
formance of As You Like 1t, given ex-
clusively by feminine performers. Not
even in the audience was masculine
head to be seen, and the wrestling scene
WAS carried on at distant part of the
stage where the audience couldn't see it.
almost every city in the Union, in
cluding even Cincinnati, has an office
where the dishonest employees OF theaters
may dispose of lithograph and other
kinds of complimentary tickets. The
Joints are simply making bid for dis
honesty. Is there no way to put stop
to it ?" So says a Cincinnati exchange.
Georgia Cavyan and Hattie Moore
commenced professional life at the same
time and were girls together in Boston,
frequently appearing at the same anna
teur entertainments, one as dramatic
reader and the other as vocalist. Both
ladies have done honor to their BIRTH
place and credit to their instructors
Music and Drama.
The total number of theaters known to
have been actually destroyed by fire dur
ing the last thirteen years is AL the
number damaged, 149. The killed
reached the fearful total of 2,215. The
blackest cross has to be placed against
the years 1881, 1888 and 1887. The first
of these years included the great catas-
trophies at Nice and Vienna, by which
alone $50 lives were sacrificed; 1887 was
the year of the destruction of the Opera
Comioue in Paris and the lamentable dis
aster at Exeter.
One of the petty but constant annoy
ances that theaters persist in putting in
the way of the theater- going public is
the noise and turmoil caused by the
stout-lunged fellows who 60 up and
down the aisles with opera books or
pictures of the artists on the stage. The
pera-glass man is also decided nuis-
ance, but not equal to the other. Not
infreauently can one hardly hear ones
self talk between the acts of an opera, nor
even hear the music of an everture.-
dramatic Times. The same annoyance
is met with here OCCASIONALLY.
A volume of stage history records the
fact that high hats of women were such
a nuisance in theaters in 1920 that man
ayers circulated handbills among their
audiences reading like this: Ladies'
are respectfully yet earnestly requested
to take off their bonnets during the per-
formance. 1t is trusted that their ready
compliance with request 80 reasonable
and 30 easily granted, and by which even
they themselves will be 30 much bene-
fitted, will render it unnecessary to re-
quest the interference of managers. /"
History repeats itself. The high hat is a
confounded nuisance again, but no man
ager has the "sand" to ask the vain,
thoughtless, selfish women who wear
them to take them off.
A New York business man who re-
members Theodore Thomas in his youth,
saws that his musical education was
mostly self acquired, and that it was be-
gun in a music store on Broadway, where
he was employed as boy. After dust
ing the counters in the morning, young
Theodore would take one of the violins
out of its case and saw on it until the
boss or the clerks found something for
him to do, and he was hardly more than
q lad when he found place as fiddler in
one of the Broadway theaters at So a
week. He practiced constantly, and be-
came a member of string quartet that
had abundance of engagements in con-
certs. Thomas played the violin excel
lently we'll, but he always showed a re-
luctance to repeat his solos, and some
times exhibited little temper when he
was recalled. He still believes in not
granting encoras.
The Jinglers.
Tonight at Turn Verein Hall, the
Jinglers will give one of their character
istic entertainments, and on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday evenings they will
appear at the Pavilion. A San Francisco
paper gave the Jinglers the following
notice "The Jubilee Jinglers gave their
second concert, again drawing. full
house, and their quaint melodies and
grotesuue motions convulsed the audi
ence to laughter or touched their eyes to
tears. Their imitation of the brass band,
the circus calliope and the heathen
Chinee quartette were ludicrous in the
extreme, and they were recalled again
and again. The negro melodies, as