Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-08

Retner. Wnen Jne performance is nm
ished, my duty to the author is done.
Then l can, without impropriety, appear
in my own proper person and enjoy the
pleasure of responding to the approba-
tion of the audience. assure you, it is
no ungracious motive that prompts me
to substitute tableaus for calls"
Mrs. Kendal's advice to her brother
and sister professionals, given in her ad-
dress before the Goethe society recently,
was sound and sensible. And what she
said of the attitude of portion of the
press toward the stage was equally
timely and true. The furtherance Of
dramatic art depends largely upon the
newspapers, which have the power
either to uplift the stage or to degrade
it. There was never period when the
influence of criticism upon the character
ficially exerted than this period of ours.
had it more in their power to increase
their honorable profession.-Mirror.
The professional matinee of Poor
Jonathan at the Casino, to. which not
alone New York actors, but those play
ing in all adjoining cities, Newark, n.
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is not to take place. When asked for
an explanation regarding the matter.
Albert Aronson said: "The matter is
very simple indeed. The capacity of
the Casino is about 1900. 1t was our
intention to give professional matinee
at which every actor in town could be
present. We meant we'll, but we reck-
oned without our host. Whether it is
bppa1sn Ebora ic on I1uuc,,ol rr,ro har of
actors in town OF not, | dc not know,
but up to Saturday night we had no less
than three thousand four hundred and
sixty applications for seats. On Monday
morning there was another big stack Of
letters. No matter what we do, we are
sure to offend half the people who have
written to us. So rather than do that,
we will not offend any, and the per-
formance will not be given"
The secret of Marie Wainwright's big
production for the next season is re-
vealed. Miss Wainwright and her man.
ager, Julian Magnus, have for the last
six months been making elaborate prep
arations for the presentation of Amy
.Robsart, which was one of the most sue
cessful plays of Adelaide Nelson's re-
pertoire. The version by Andrew Halli-
day was secured from T. Henry French,
and this has been rewritten to suit
modern stage requirements. Arrange
ments have been made with A. NJ. Pal
mer for siX-weeks run at Palmer's
theater, beginning September Z, 1891.
The route has been booked and long en-
gagements will be played in the large
cities. Richard Marston will paint
several of the most important scenes at
Kenilworth and in Queen Elizabeth's
court. The cast, which is very long one,
will include several metropolitan favor
ties.
The National Conservatory of Music
of America has added to its faculty as
professor of violin Madame Camilla
Urso, who is particularly interested in
conservatory work. 1t is we'll known
that according to the rules of the Paris
conservatory boys only were admitted
to its violin classes until the great talent
Of Camilla Urso was recognized by
Auber, the director, since which time
the conservatory has opened it's doors to
all girls of promise.
Nym Krinkle in the New York World
has this to say of the cruro-mania shows
now so common:
There was no meaning to the exhibi-
ton. But hundreds of similar "shows"
have run for years without meaning.
There was no sense in it, but Evangellne
kept the stage, with nonsense. What
was the matter with it?
The matter was this. 1t was foolish
ness without fun. 1t was beauty with
out charm. 1t WAS music without voice.
1t was wit without JUNCTION. 1t was
restlessness without sport. Reckless
ness without abandon A cut-and-dried
procession of smirking women who have
been educated to believe that all the
public cared for is an exposure and not
an exposition.
Burlesque at this low and vulgar con-
dition is tiresome. Let that remarka-
BILE discovery be noted.
AS the theater at the present stage of
social development offers the only oppor-
tunity for men to discover how women
are built, burlesque, properly hedged by
a stage manager, may have its advan
tages. But even in this view of the case
it is necessary that the women shall be
built. In the interest of popular ideals,
one must protest against the wholly un-
warranted carelessness which these ex-
hibitors display in making up the neces-
sary womanliness. The disprOportion
between legs and arms goes on apace.
The arms get thinner and the legs get
bigger, and nature as rule does not as
sociate the consumptive arm with the
plethoric leg.
What is needed at this moment is
reformatory movement for the better
distribution of pads. Every buresque
company ought to have board of equal
ization.
If the exhibition of the female figure
is an essential and allowable part of
public entertainments, why should there
not be an effort made to improve the
female figure ON scientific stock breeding
principles? OF course l don't know that
this has not been done, and Mr.. Ned
Rice may have stock farm somewhere
for supplying the amusement market
with burlesque fillies.
l only know that in scientific age,
when sentiment has to give way to prac-
tical improvements, it would be very
good plan to keep the stage exhibit up
to the shop window exhibit, which offers
us at every step the classic Venus and
the divine Diana.
Manager Augustus Pitou has already
begun preparations for an elaborate pro-
duction of Mavourneen, Jessop and
Townsend's new romantic Irish drama,
in which w. ]. Scanlan will be seen at
the FourteentE-street theater next fall.
Messrs. Abbott & Teal have purchased
Harry Paultop' g three-act comedy ,Niobe,