Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-12
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Those
Who Present Them.
ADJUSTMENTS IN THE CITY
Lord Chumley" at the Grand-A
Speciality Company and Other
Attractions.

M. Damala. ex-husband of Sara Bern
hardt, has become a confirmed opium
eater.
The Duchess Of Cambridge used to pay
Sig. Tosti 81 500 a year to entertain her
with music an hour every day.
A benefit concert will be given Prof.
M. s. Arevalo, tomorrow evening, in
Turnverein Hall. A very pleasing pro-
gramme has been arranged.
Ben Teal's new version of Twelfth
Night, which he has made for Marie
Wainwright, will introduce many limo.
vations in the way of scenery and new
business.
A man named Tega sang one number
of mass 30 we'll in church in Parma,
Italy, on a recent Sunday, that the
audience applauded. The town was
scandalized.
The Bernhardt's opinion of Mary An
derson is kindly but cheeky. 81 think, -
she said, "that Mary Anderson is ex-
tremely beautiful, and che is beginning
to show talent"
Lord Chunley has in this, its first
season, made profit of over $50 900 for
Mr.. Sothern and his manager, with ten
weeks of the season yet to play. A great
showing for the young star.
Miss Kate Pattison, OF the Lord Chum-
ley party, first came to this country as
leading lady for Mrs. Langtry, and had
all her wardrobe burned in the New
York Park Theater fire before she played
a single performance.
The Lyceum Theater Company will
make its second visit to Los Angeles in
July next. The company will be I'M
changed in personnel, and will produce
the latest success, Street Lavender, in ad.
dition to a revival OF The Wife.
Messrs. DeMille and Belasco, the au-
thors of Lord Chumleg, are also the au-
thors of The Wife, last seasons success
of the New York Lyceum Theatre Com
pany. They are receiving about $40, 900
royalties yearly from the two pieces.
Fred Hewitt, for some time past sec.
rotary to Manager Wyatt, of the Grand
Opera House, will go to Buffalo, N. Y.
to-day to join W. S. Cleveland's Min
strels as business manager. Mr.. Hewitt
has many friends here who wish him
success in his new venture.
The old Ambigu Theater in Paris, an
historical home Of the melodrama, is
about to be pulled down. 1t was first a
sort of variety theater in 1853, and was
afterward given up to the performances
of children. 1t has been devoted to the
melodrama for century.
Manager w. s. Cleveland has added
two more Japanese performers to his
Oriental annex, and Mr.. Cleveland
promises the amusement public Of Los
Angeles an innovation in minstrelsy
when he visits here next season with the
Cleveland Haverly minstrels.
Mile. Rhea, as land speculator, is in
luck. Some time since, at the instance
of friend, she purchased lots in Seattle
for which she paid So 900. A number Of
capitalists bought land all around hers,
which has SO increased in value that it is
worth to-day, it is said, 100000.
Tamberlick, the tenor, who died the
other day, was once strolling through
the market at Madrid, when he noticed a
great lot of song birds in cages. He drew
q 1,000.frauc note from his pocket,
handed it to the proprietor, and threw
open all the cages, saying: go and be
free, my brothersp as the birds flew
away.
The tall hat may become an instru-
ment OF punishment to its wearers in
some of the London theaters, for it is Sc
riously proposed that part Of the pit
shall be set apart for women who insist
on wearing hats, and when group Of
them is formed, not single person in
the crowd will have 80 much as peep at
the stage.
A glance at what European composers
were doing at the time Washington was
inaugurated as first President of the
United States is interesting. Take
Mozart, for instance. In 1876 he had
finished the Marriage of Figaro; in 1888,
Don Juan, and in 1889 he accompanied
Princess Lichtenstein to Berlin. Beeth-
oven was only 10 and was court
organist to Elector Max Franz. Haydn
was AZ and had not yet written his
greatest works. Handel had been dead
thirty years. Gluck had been dead two
years. spontini was only Is and spehr
5. In 1889 we fail to discover that q
single American composer is ready with
anything of a National character, and
New York theatrical managers have moi
q single play that has reference to epoch.
making days of century ago.