Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-02
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Those who Pre-
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| Queen Marguerite of Italy is one of the
best violoncello players of the day.
| A telegram was received from Manager
Wyatt last night, stating that Nat Good
win will play here for three nights, COM
mencing Monday, June 10th.
The Philharmonic Society will give
Hayden's Creation at the Grand Opera
House on the 14th. This woIk has been
in preparation for several months.
Manager H. G. Wyatt has gone to San
Francisco to settle with the agents OF
Booth & Barrett and Nat Goodwin, who
failed to keep their dates in this city. He
will return shortly.
The Peoples Theater has been we'll
patronized ever since it opened, and 1t
will probably remain popular for some
time to come. The Galley SLAVE will be
given at the matinee this afternoon.
At the performance of a melodrama at
Ashton, England, an excited woman
threw her bonnet and umbrella at the
villain on the stage, when he was strang-
ling one of the characters, but failed to
save his victim.
| Some one has discovered that the
music of the topical song. "When You
| OOD0 W luluh Vi IL Ill Uc DfUoo
Monkey is taken from Beethoven's First
symphony. 1t must be great relief to
the sy m phony.-[Somerville Journal.
Wilson Barrett's second American tour
will be an extensive one. He will
traverse the continent from east to west.
He opens in Boston October IA, will play
there two weeks, and afterward work his
way west to California. He may visit
Australia.
Augustin DAILY has sued Webster and
Brady for using in litter Dark railroad
stage effect which he used first in
| Under the GasRght. He won similar
case once against Jarrett and Palmer,
and then they compromised with him.
If he wins this suit probably Boucicault
will hear from w. and B.
An operetta dealing with life at New.
port, by the American composer, Robert
Goldbeck, was lately performed at Dew.
onshire House with considerable success
Among it's chief songs are "SwimmiDe
Scene, "Cheer the Yacht" "Dancing
Lesson" and the "Songs of the Looking
Glass"
Lydia Thompson will probably be very
careful when she again comes to America
on her own account, as she threatens tc
do next season. 1t cost her manager
about $4,000 to pull the company
through the season just closed. The
foreign members of the company are
said to be "kickers," equal to the best
brand of Kentucky mule.
1t appears that the attempt to induce
Sarah Bernhard to play "Romeo" to the
Outlet of Jeanne Hading in Paris has
failed, as might have been expected
Nine. Sarah ls not in the habit of play.
ing second fiddle to anybody. She is no "
said to be enraptured with the part oil
"Mary Stuart" in a new tragic drama
written by nj. Cressenois, in which she
proposes to act before her return tc
America next season.
The French papers announce the ar
rival in Paris of two lions and two
lionesses tanned by the celebrated
American Colonel, Daniel Boone" They
are exhibited at the Folies- Bergere, and
all Paris is focking to see the moving
spectacle provided by "les exercicet
suprenans que, seul, jusqu "a ce jour, le
Col. Boone est parvenue faire executor
au roi des fauves." 1t was the other
Daniel, of course, instead of ''le Col
Boone" who was renowned in con.
nection with lions, the American Dan'Pi
forest victories being confined to the
humiliation of "painters" and CHARS
But this is exhibition year in Paris, and
tout fotte.
Etelka Gerster, the once famous prima
donna, now lives secluded from the
world in villa situated on the summit
of mountain near the city of Bologna.
There she passes her days in superin.
tending the education of her children, in
reading and in needle-work. Sometimes
she writes to her friends in Paris or
Vienna long letters filled with reminis.
cences of the past and with mournful
forebodings for the future. Her voice is
said to have lost none of its brilliant
Qualities, but the precarious condition OF
her health prevents her from even think
ing of ever appearing again in public.
The Troyat0re gives a curious list OF
the operas inspired by the tale of Or
pheus, which, going back as far as 1900,
includes works bearing that title by Peri,
Ferrari, Monteverde, Sartorio, Lulli,
Kaiser, Graun, Guglieline, Bach, Ber-
toni, Naumann, Beud, Tozzi, LAMBERT,
Haydn, Gluck, Bachmann, Cannabich.
Kann. This list does not include what
was probably the first opera performed
in public, the Orpheus of Caccini. which
was presented at the Court OF Florence
in 1896, and Offenbach's amusing bur.
lesque, which alone had more represent
atoms than all the others put together.