Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-21
Gossip About Plays and the
Players.
Notes of the Stage from Far
and Near.
Amusements to be Given Shortly in
Los Angeles.
"Evangeline'' at the Grand This Week.
The Bostonian Opera Company
Here Next Week.


nights costs $4,000.
At the Paris Grand opera house now
the orchestra-players face the audience.
Cheever Goodwin, author of EUenge-
line, has written comic opera for Fran
els Wilson.
Jessie Bartlett Davis as 'Fatinitza"
was the feature of the Bostonians' open
ing in San Francisco.
Mr.. Navarro states with emphasis
that Mary Anderson will not return to
the stage after marriage.
The Hidden Gem will be given at the
Grand next Sunday evening by the
students Of st. Vincent's college.
Tolstoi has written drama entitled
The Poacer of Darkness, which has been
produced with great success at st.
Petersburg.
The Bostonian Opera Company will
be at the Grand opera house next week.
De Koven's Don Quirote is one of the
operas to be given.
The total receipts of the Paris theaters
last year was SO, 100000, an increase of
nearly 100000 over 1888. The expo
sition is supposed to account for it.
A benefit performance for the English
actors fund in London recently realized
$1,000. The performance lasted for six
hours, and over sixty actors took part
in it.
1t is said in London that Mr.. Barnum,
before starting for home, confided to Mr..
Gladstone the information that he had
dropped $4,000 upon his Olympia
venture.
1t is said that Victor Maurel, the
great tenor, now performing at Trieste,
has just made an engagement to come
to America for three years, the remun-
Grafton being 100000.
Manager E. E. Rice, who leaves Come
dian Dixey in a few weeks, has arranged
with Paul Potter to write burlesque
caricaturing the Worlds Fair. The bur-
lesque is to be in two acts and will be
produced early next season.
The Sultan of Turkey recently sub
mitted the manuscript of comedy to a
Partisan manager under nom de
plume. The play was carefully exam
ined, and displayed certain marks of
crude ability, but it's motif was too
oriental for even the Partisan stage.
E. H. Sothern has two new plays in
consideration for next season. One is
AU for Her, dramatization of Dickens's
Tale of TwO Cities, by Herman Merivale,
author of Forget-Me-Not, and the other
The Junior Partner, by Madeleine Lu-
cette. Lord Chacpley will still continue
in his repertoire.
At the San Carlos theater, Lisbon,
they have a curious custom of giving
every year during the last days of the
carnival an opera in which all the male
characters are played by women. This
year the opera was The Barber of SeuLe,
and all the parts except that OF Figaro
were taken by women.
Negotiations are said to be nearly
completed with M. Gounod to write an
original grand opera in four acts, which
will be produced in America in 1892.
The master will himself superintend the
production and conduct in person on the
first night. The first, second and fourth
acts are laid in Mexico at the time OF the
MonteZumas, and the third act is in the
Western States.
Although the experiment of producing
Ibsen's plays has hardly proved happy
one, the Norwegian dramatist is still de-
cidedly the fashion. The Dolls House has
just been produced at Dresden and it is
said that the grande porte is desirous of
having all of Ibsen's dramas translated
into Turkish. A Russian translation of
The Pillars Of Society is being played in
st. Petersburg. Its reception by the
worthy Slavs is reported to be slightly
lacking in warmth.
A late number of, the Epoch says:
"The other day little actress appeared
in a dramatic Office with a letter writ
ten on paper bearing the legend Craig
y-nos Castle in silver and signed 'Adelina
Patti The letter was framed in gor-
geous white and gold and the paper was
covered with glass. Its object was to
state that Nine. Patti had seen the little
actress in Chicago, was highly edited
with her performance, and felt perfectly
convinced that if she continued to make
such praiseworthy efforts she would be-
come an actress of note. This question
Immediately arose: How did the little
deniable and most emphatic letter from
the 'diva?' The question remained un-
answered unless some response were
contained in little fact that by dint of
some energetic work L was able to un-
earth. 1t was this: The little actress
was the daughter of the chef de cuisine of
the hotel in Chicago where Patti stopped.
This may mean nothing at all. But
still chef de cuisine is-well, a chef de
cuisine" Now, if the Epoch had only
said chef de drinkine then one could
but no matter.
Tamagno, the greatest dramatic tenor
in the world, received $4,000 for each
performance in which he appeared in
this country. When he left he carried
with him upward Of 100000, the result
of his singing and frugality. While
here, instead of spending $1O0 a day for
sumptuous apartments at high-priced
hotels, as Patti does, he lived like day
laborer, taking his meals in cheap res
taurants or cooking them himself in his
bedroom. In Boston he had his break
fast sent to his room one morning, and
the extra service cost him dollar.
Tamagno was in rage, and purchasing
some meat he cooked it in his room over
the CRATE. The landlord charged $40 for
damages done the apartment, and there
was a laundering row. The singer
washed his socks, handkerchiefs and un-
derwear himself, and performed other
eccentric duties Of menial character.
All over the country the papers are re-
counting stories of his niggardly mode
OF living. Tamagno left behind him
reputation of being the stingiest man
and greatest artist who ever visited |
America. But singer who can compel |