Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-03
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Players at
Hama and Ahr0Rd.


Home and Abroad.
A comedy called The Influenza has
made hit in Poland.
AL Hsyman and Will ]. Davis have
leased the Chicago Columbia theater for
five years.
Reserved seats for the Couthoui enter
ready selling rapidly.
James O'Neill will next season revive
Mr.. Henry Irving's version OF 1he Deod
Heart, shelving Monte Cristo.
The receipts of the benefit performance
for Mrs. James g. Blaine, Jr., at the
Broadway theater, New York, amounted
to fully $4,000.
Carmencita, the charming Spanish
dancer. has gone to Roster q Blaps IN
New York after an unpleasant expert
ence with Kiralfy's Antiope.
Gerard Coventry lost all the money he
had in his efforts to make NonOn go In
England. German comic operas are
not good investment in any part of
Great Britain.
Mile Rhea and her handsome leading
lady, Ida Van Siclen, received great
praise from the Troy and Albany
papers during their recent engagement
in those cities.
The people of San Francisco have the
satisfaction OF learning that seats for the
Patti-Tamagno season in Denver were
only 81. San Francisco opera patrons
were charged 81.
The Booth Mod jeska Company's tour
closes May at Louisville, KY. Nine
Modjsska is still nursing her wrenched
ankle in New ,rk, but hopes to be able
to rejoin Mr.. Booth shortly.
Manager Pollini, of Hamburg
theater, refused journalist admission
on the ground that he had given his
entertainment adverse criticisms. The
critic sued the manager and recovered
500 marks for each refusal of admission.
Mrs. Leslie Garter will have roper
toire Of three new society plays when she
begins her tour under E. D. Price's man.
agement at the Broadway theater, New
York, after the Bernhardt season. Mr..
David Belasco is to supervise the artistic
productions.
William Young has made a special
contract with Lawrence Barrett, by
which he is again the owner of his play,
Ganelon. Mr.. Barrett now intends TO
return to this country in May, to begin
arrangements for his next season with
Mr.. Booth.
Wedding-beIls are soonto ring again for
Theodore Thomas, the orchestral leader,
his financeeis a Chicago lady of high social
position. Rosa Fay, the bride that is to
be, is the daughter of the late Rev. Chas.
Fay, an Episcopal clergyman, of Cam
bridge, Mass.
Miss Maubrey, the agent in this coun-
try for Mrs. f. HI. Burnett, and who has
an interest in the Little Lord Fauntleroy
production in Australia, starts for Eng
land this week to visit Mrs. Burnett. She
will also 60 to Germany and France, and
arrange for presenting Fauntleroy in the
principal cities of tn ose countries.
Furiosa, which received its initial pre-.
sentation at San Francisco, is said to
contain some very catchy music. The
composer, Theodore Vogt is young
man, and if one may judge from his first
work, his future prospects should be
bright. The opera ran for two weeks at
San Francisco. The libretto is to he
somewhat changed, after which the
work may be put on the road.
Mr.. Levy, who is to give a CONCERT
here soon, first came forward as soloist
in 1860, at Covent Garden theater, Lon.
don. During these years he has made
such discoveries and advancement in
the development of his instrument that
it has become in his hands, as it were, a
thing of life. 1t is said that his hearers
generally have owned that this extraof-
dinary man has passed the fiery ordeal
of all criticism and have contented chem
selves with seeking for terms in which
to describe and praise his playing.
The New York Suns spa cial from Bal
1a1 Eos N
of the San Francisco dudes: Mrs. Bette
Padelford, now with Stetson's GsndoIaers,
proposes to marry ]. j. Rafael, the tenor
in the same company, just as soon as the
courts will disentangle the matrimonial
moose which binds her to her present
husband. Indeed, by many of the COM
pany it was thought the couple had
already been married, but the lady her.
self iaughingly denied that matters have
gone 30 far, though she has introduced
the handsome tenor as her husband.
"Mr. Rafael has not obtained divorce
from his wife, but as soon as we obtain
our divorces-well, l can't say what will
happen" she remarked. "Jack's dear
fellow and 1 am very fond of him,
and we do expect to be mar
ried some time, and that very
soon. have obtained a divorce in Eng
land, but l understand that it is not legal
in this country" Rafael is also suing
tor divorce, and it will not be long be-
fore the case will come up in New York.
The company left today for Washington,
where Mrs. Padelford's parents reside.
She is daughter of General Ordway, OF
the United states Army, and was very
we'll known in society in Washington be-
fore her marriage. Several years ago
she visited the White Sulphur Springs in
West Virginia. While there she made
Baltimore man famous. She made
wager that she could make this gentle
man do anything she asked. One even
ing in a crowded ballroom she removed
her slipper and filled it with champagne
and requested the gentleman to drink,
which he did.
THE DENNISON CASE.