Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-07
Notes About the Stage in
all Quarters.
Gossip About the Actors and
their Plays.
Items Concerning the People of the
Mimic World.
The Next Performance at the Grand will
be Nellie McHenry.--Othe At
fractions Announced.

for brief visit to friends in England.
The Red Hussar, Edward Soloman's
new opera, is to be produced IN New
York at Palmer's theater this summer.
The profits to date for this season for
the managers and author OF Shenandoah
are officially given as $4,000.
The Pauline Hall Opera Company is
being organized for next season. The
repertory will include Erminie and one
or two new operas.
Alice Dunning Lingard is to come to
this country next year, bringing her
own London company, and appearing in
repertory OF society comedies.
A new dramatic soprano has appeared
in Paris in The Jeacess. She is Mile.
Flerens, and has powerful voice, well
cultivated. She comes from Brussels.
Messrs. Wyatt & Conant are making
numerous engagements for the southern
circuit, which they control. They ex-
pect to take all the best attractions over
the road.
Miss Sybil Sanderson, the fair Cali
fornian is expected to create the princi-
pal part in Massenet's new opera, lie
Mage, at the Grand Opera, Paris, next
fall.
Lily Post has been engaged to under
study Marion Manola's part in Castles IN
the Air. Her husband, Will H. Morton,
will manage the new Broadway theater
in Denver next season for M. B. Leavitt.
Del Puente, the favorite baritone,
recently made his debut in English
opera in Philadelphia. He appeared in
Trouatore and Ernani, and he claims to
like the English language for singing
purposes.
Maud Harrison will play the part for
merly allotted to Marie Burroughs on
the Pacific Slope tour. She gets a
handsome advance in salary, and 81 900
worth of Nine. Alleys finest stage and
street dresses.
The success of the London season of
Italian opera is a dramatic soprano
known as Tavary. The lady is Rus
sian and was secured by Manager Au-
gustus Harris for three London seasons,
who made the engagement within an
hour of her London debut.
Little Mabel Stevenson, the New York
girl, has captured English swells with
her limitations of birds. She has been
quite as much the rage in fashionable
drawing-rooms in London as Carmencita
has been in New York. Last week she
twittered for the prince and princess of
Wales.
''Pete" Bakers manager telegraphed
to Messrs. McLain & Lehman yesterday
that the company will not be here dur
ing the coming week owing to the illness
of the star The Opera house will re-
main closed until the Goth instant, when
Nellie McHenry and company will COM
mence an engagement.
San Francisco has not taken kindly to
IL .,L.x
skirt dancers failed to excite Pacific
slope enthusiasm; On the other hand
The Old Homestead has in Frisco exactly
duplicated it's New York success, even
though it has no Denman Thompson to
play "Josh Whitcomb."
Mrs. Alice Shaw has signed contract
to go to st. Petersburg and whistle for
the czar and mobiles. The inference is
that the czar has done so much whist
ling himself to keep UP his courage that
he has got tired and is willing to pay
some one else to do it for him. The
handsome American will do it most
charmingly.
w. L. Lykens, Maggie Mitchell's for
mer manager, and Charles Abbott, her
husband, have carried their battle into
the New York courts. Back of the two
suits which were entered June 18th lies
an interesting story. Mr.. Lykens claims
81 200 from Mr.. Abbott for back salary
and percentage on Miss Mitchell's re-
ceipts up to May.
Rider Haggard and Darlington Foote,
the vocalist, have arranged to tour the
United States next season and intro
duce to the American public what they
call ga novel enterprise" Rider Hag-
gard is to read selections from his nov
els and thrill his audiences with tales of
his adventures, while Mr.. Foote will
warble an appropriate accompaniment.
The civil courts in Berlin have just
rendered an interesting decision re-
specting theatrical agencies. A young
actress had signed contract by which
she agreed to pay the theatrical agent
who procured her an engagement a per-
centage not only on the first engagement
but on all the others during her pro-
fessiOnal career. She failed to pay
hence the suit. The courts decided such
an agreement was dishonest and not
legal.
The larynx of the great tenor Gayarre,
who died not long ago in Madrid, was
removed after his death, and was found
to be of such peculiar formation that it
will probably be preserved in some
Spanish museum. Gayarre received
$l,40O night in opera-the largest
salary ever paid tenor-and his for
tune is estimated at 100000 He was
the son of blacksmith, and common
workman when his voice first attracted
attention, and he was only 40 years old
when he died
Mrs. Langtry's summer season has
been a most disastrous one. Her old
friends have forsaken her, and it is re-
ported that her health has completely
broken down. She has dsbanded her
company, and several London papers
have announced that it is very doubtful
if she is ever able to again appear upon
the stage. Although Mrs. Langtry' Is
illness is deeply regretted, the drama
will lose nothing by her retirement. 1t
is a pity she ever attempted to act.
California has produced some notable
song birds. Amongst the youngest and
most promising is Miss Ollie Archmere,
a native of Red Bluff in that state, now
a pupil of Meretzek, from whom she is
receiving finishing course in vocaliza-
tion and in the study OF the great So
prano roles. Miss Archmere proposes
to take further course at the Paris con-
servatory next year. She has had ex-