Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-20
Points ON Plays and Players
From Many Places.
Nine. PATHS New Theater at
Craig-y-Nos in Wales.
Some Notes OH New Plays and Operas
Gathered form Many Sources.
Los Angeles an Excellent Play Town, as
Georgia Parker Last Week and Carle-
ton This Will Prove.

The London News says: "Mme.
PATHS bijou theatre and opera house at
Craig-y-Nos, Breconshire, her Welsh
home, is at the north end of the castle,
and adjoins the French billiard room
and clock tower. The front faces south
and is in the courtyard. 1t has an
ornamental facade in the Italian style,
which distinctly marks the purpose OF
the building. On the pediment stand
out in bold relief, in gold letters, the
words Patti Theatre" AS the theatre
is essentially private one and is for the
convenience of the visitors at the castle,
though charitable performances, to
which the public may be admitted, may
be given from time to time, the principal
entrance will be from the house by
means of a wide corridor from the
French billiard room: there is also an
other entrance from the front. The
dimensions of the auditorium are AZ
feet by n feet, and there is curved end
at the back, in which is small gallery
or tribune. The height is % feet with
cove ceiling, supported by twelve Corin-
THAN columns, with decorated surfaces
round the sides, dividing the walls into
panels. The floor has unique peculi-
arity; while it slants toward the stage,
there is an arrangement underneath by
which it can be raised at the stage end
to level with the stage, and charm
ing ball room can be provided, which is
rendered all the more attractive because
OF the facilities offered by the stage
scenery to give the appearance of a
drawing room at one end. AS ball
room, the length obtained by this con-
trivance is 81 feet. Special attention
has been paid to the lighting. In the
daytime this will be obtained
by lantern lights in the cell
ing filled with ground glass.
At night a central electrolier of sixteen
lights and brackets of three lights each
round the sides will be employed. The
building has seats for I80 persons,
though it is possible to find room for
200. The chairs in the first few rows
have arms, and are covered with blue
silk plush. The decorations are not vet
completed, but it is intended that they
shall be finished in quiet tints of blue
and ivory white, with a plentiful use OF
gliding. The orchestra is divided from
the auditorium by low balustrade, and
is six feet below the stage level; it has
room for band of sixteen. The proscen-
ium is very striking; it is twenty feet
wide and nineteen feet high. Surround
ing it is a handsome border, with pedi-
ment and descriptive and decorative or
naments at the top. The frieze of the
proscenium is panelled, and this pan
elling is continued round the auditor
ium, bearing the names of great COM
posers. Rossini, PATHS favorite COM
poser, occupies the central position on
the proscenium, and is faced by Shake
speare above the gallery. The tableau
curtains are very handsome; they are
richly festooned, and are of electric
blue silk plush. The act drop is por-
trait of Nine. Patti in the character of
Semiramide, driving a chariot and a
pair of horses. 1t has been painted by
White of London. The stage is "a feet
deep and 40 feet wide, with ample
height to allow the whole of the scenes
to be raised into the flies without roll
ing. Every modern appliance necessary
for opera and pantomime has been pro-
vided."
A New York exchange speaks thus of
Carl Milloecker's new opera Poor JON
athan": "The opera, or, more correctly
speaking, the comedy, with musical at
tachments, was first produced at the
Theater under Wien, Vienna, and later
on at the Fried, Wilhelmstadt, Berlin,
where it is now approaching it's two
hundred and seyenty-fifth performance.
1t has also been performed at the Royal
Court theaters, in Dresden, Stuttgart,
and Munchen, where, as rule, only
grand operas are permitted to be sung.
The music is by Carl Milloecker, the
composer Of the "Black Hussar" and the
"Beggar Student" The book is by Hugo
Whitman and julius Bauer, with Eng
lish translation by John P. Jackson and
Ralph A. Weill. The librettists have
chosen a peculiar subject, and have
placed their scenes in a new locality
for writer's of tine German school.
In the manner of the production, Ru-
dolph Aronson has made a particular ef-
fort to arrive at perfection. Three
handsome scenes have been prepared.
The first represents the interior of Ruby
COLDS residence. The second scene is
Monte Carlo, when the gambling season
is at its height. The third is pano-
ramic view of West Point and the Hud-
son river. The costumes of the ladies
are the latest Partisan gowns, after de-
signs by Worth, Felix and De Grimm.
The men will wear modern clothes and
habits de couleurs, recently introduced
at a ball given in Paris. Although the
chorus will contain the usual number Of
voices, the work allotted to them is light,
the entire production depending upon
the individual efforts of the principals.
Lillian Russell, Fanny Rice, Harry
McDonough, Edwin Stevens, Jefferson
De Angels, Eva Davenport, Grace Col
den, Rose Wilson, Sylvia Thorne,
Charles Campbell, A. w. Tams, Max
Figman, Frank Reisdale, James Mas
and Edgar Smith will be in the cast"
Los Angeles is one of the best play
towns in the country. The opening OF
the beautiful new Los Angeles last week
was great success under Manager
Wyatt. The U. S. Mail with Miss
George Parker as the central figure en-
raptured the house and filed the Golfers
of the management to the point of over