Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
The Owls Entertainment Last Night.
Other Notes.


A large and brilliant audience as
sembled last night at the Grand to see
the Owls Dramatic club of this city in
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's beauti-
full play, Esmeralda. The entertainment
was for the benefit of that most deserv-
ing of charities, the Ladies' benevolent
society. The popularity of the Owls,
combined with that of the ladies of
the society and the merits of the case
both ways, drew large gathering of So
ciety people in spite OF the rain. The
programme was as follows:
Old man Rogers, North Carolina
farmer, Mr.. Martin Lehman; Mrs. Lydia
Ann Rogers, his wife, Miss Jennie Prev
EFT; Esmeralda, their daughter, Miss
Edith Lemmert; Dave Hardy in love
with Esmeralda, Mr.. Henry Ludlam;
Jack Desmond, an American artist in
Paris, Mr.. Harry eastman; Nora and
Kate, Jacks sisters, Miss Gertrude Fos-
ter and Miss Letha Lewis; Marquis de
Montessin, a French adventurer, Mr..
George A. Dobinson; Daniel Drew, a
mining speculator, Mr.. James B. Den
mis-; Everard Estabrook, a man OF leisure,
Mr.. G. A. Vogelsang.
So often has the piece been produced
here with substantially the same cast in
the leading roles, that detailed comment
will not be necessary. Practice, OF
course, makes the performance run more
smoothly each time, and that of, last
night was notably so. The Messrs.
Dobinson and Lehman are veterans in
the ranks of the Owls, and it is to their
experience and painstaking efforts that
the success of the club is largely due.
The proceeds of the evening will be very
acceptable and in the hands of the
ladies will do much good at a time when
help is needed in so many poor families.
GRIsMER TOMORROW NIGHT.
At the Grand, the Grsmers will APP
pear tomorrow night. Particulars OF
the play they will produce appeared i'll
the HERALD of yesterday. These old
time fayorites Of Los Angeles audiences
will fill the house.
WHY ABBOTT OPERA IS STRONG.
A rare season of opera is expected at
the Los Angeles theatre next week when
Emma Abbott comes. Much is prom
ised and much will be expected. Abbott
opera this year is said to be quite out OF
the usual course of English opera, of
larger proportions and real magnificence
of staging. 1t is recorded that at the
close of last season Manager Pratt de-
.clared it to be his determination to pre-
pare and put on the present season the
grandest and most richly caparisoned
opera the country has seen since the
days Of the refulgent but disastrous
American grand opera, and from all ac-
counts he has kept his word.
The repertoire announced is attract
i've. 1t presents a wide range OF opera
heroic, tragic, romantic. brilliant and
so on, to the almost pastoral simplicity
of the Bohemian Girl. 1t excites inter-
est at once for its notable novelties and
the popularity of the two old operas.
1t is said that all these operas are dressed
and costumed with a beauty that is i'm
posing. "We will show you operas
dressed in manner never yet witnessed
on any stage, operate or dramatic, !"
said the Abbott representative yester-
day, "and 1 may add right here that
you have never heard Miss Abbott sing
as she is singing today. AS for the COM
pany, it will speak for itself on the open
ing night. 1t has no equal in existence
in English opera, and if it does not prove
the truth of what say will forfeit my
salary for the balance of the season."
In the Abbott casts will be heard
Emma Abbott, Miss Annandale, Miss
Mirella, Michelena, Pache, Rudolph,
Du Bois, Ready, Pruette, Broderick,
Karl, Borovik, Murchie, Miss Broderick,
Vernon and Ellerington. Herr Albert
Krausse directs the chorus and orches-
ira. Ernani opens the engagement Mon
day night.
JUCH AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
The seats are selling very rapidly for
the Juch engagement and indicates very
large audiences. The following is clip
ped from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Emma Juch Grand English Opera
company opened short season at the
Grand opera house last night, with an
exceptionally fine performance of Lo-
hengrin. Whether it is that Wagnerian
compositions are in high favor in Phila-
delphia, or that Miss Juch is a first
favorite here, or that the two COM
bined brought about the effect, matters
little, but there was certainly very
large and very high-toned audience in
the opera house at 8 o'clock. 1t was a
critical and intelligent audience, too.
There was no over enthusiasm, but while
the more familiar and melodious num-
bers were rendered exouisitely-which
was the rule of the performance-there
was, at the same time, proportionate
quantity of approving demonstrations.
That the audience was discriminating
one was also evinced. Miss Juch has
not been heard for many years in Phila-
delyhia as Elsa, but her brilliant success
last night was such that local opera
lovers would be glad of its repetition. She
is an ideal heorne. She was never in
better voice, and the exquisite music Of
Elsa was beautifully rendered.
Business and Politics.
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