Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-02
Events of Interest in the
Mimic World.
Gossip Concerning People on
the Stage.
Several Notes of Plays and Those Who
Present Them.
Attractions Booked For Los Angeles in the
Near Future Wilson Barrett
Next Week.

Both theaters are closed for the week.
Crane, in The Senator. will follow Will
son Barrett at the Grand.
Patti (off for Europe): Farewell! A
last farewellr" America: "Ta-ta! See
you later. r."-[New York Weekly.
The new spectacle of the Hanlons has
not yet been named, but the stage-crafty
brothers say it will eclipse their former
efforts.
Carl Strakosch has offered Miss Lizzie
Boyer, OF Oakland, CAL, contract as
prima donna in new opera company he
is organizing.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has cause for
rejoicing. 1t thanks heaven that there
are no tragedians in heaven. Why not
include the whole stage category?
1t is rumored that Lilli Lehman will
head her own German opera company
next season, and that Albini will be the
chief of new Italian organization to
appear next winter.
Miss Geraldine Ulmer, who made her
first success with the Boston Ideals, is
coming back to America next month
and will be the star of her own opera
company next season.
Barnum having declined to give the
Brookly aldermen free passes to his
show, those patriotic statesmen in
creased the license fee for circuses from
$3.50 year to $500 day.
The Ugly Duckhng is the name of the
society play that Paul M. Potter has
written for Mrs. Leslie Carter. The
title was suggested by photograph of
Mrs. Carter's Chicago hacker.
Patti must have en'extremely lavish
while in America with invitations to
visit her castle in Wales, for half the
actresses who have concluded their
seasons work announce that they will
visit the diva.
Joseph Haworth has been engaged
some time on biography of John Nc
Cullough, which is nearly ready for the
printer. 1t will be pleasant to read
something good that one actor says
about another.
Kathryn Kidder is going to star in
play that has been written for her by
her mother. Miss Kidder's father will
be the manager of the company and her
brother will be advance agent. Her
grandfather will furnish the money.
Next week Wilson Barrett will occupy
the stage at the Grand opera-house.
Miss Eastlake is the leading lady of this
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cludes George Barrett. Claudian, Ben
my-chree and Hamlet, The Color Sergeant,
Clerical Error and Chotterton will be
given here.
Mrs. Langtry says one of the funniest
slips she ever heard was on stage in
New York. Two of the company were
playing the parts of lovers. They wanted
to be alone, and one quietly repeated
this line: "Let us seek some nosey
COOK He should have said some 'cozy
nook"
A Wild East has been brought to Lon
don for an attempt similar to that of
Buffalo Bill. Eighty Arabs and a few
negroes, including women and children,
horses, camels, asses, dogs, tents-in
Sact, the oriental outfit complete-have
come over to exhibit the life and to exc
cute the fantasias of the desert.
The French government supports
music and the drama by the following
appropriations for 1891: Grand opera,
100000; Theatre Francois, $4,000;
Opera Comique. 100000; Odeon, $780,
600; Concerts Lamoureux, $4,000;
Colonne, $4,000; popular concerts,
$4,000, and besides these sums $4,000
additional for the general encourage
ment of musical and dramatic enter
prises.
Mrs. Langtry's appearance in Esther
Sdndraz has evoked an almost unani-
nous opinion from the critics that she
has made decided progress. She can
now be really curious in denuncia
tion." Her dresses are more splendid
than ever, impossible as that may seem.
One illustrating an entirely new prin-
ciple of decoration was described as fol-
lows: "She wore dress white in front
to enhance the tender alabaster of her
bust, and black behind to heighten the
subtle gold of her neck"
Out-of-town managers think English
opera companies are chimed-out chest
nuts, that stand for reiterations of
Martha, The Bohemian Girl, Faust, Mari
tana and MignOn, and if they are not
specially attractive by having great
singer, refuse to book them. Opera
managers, they say, are dying with dry
rot, for although there are no better
operas than these named their confreres
"on the other side," are constantly
bringing out new operas, or reviving the
the present generation.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: "Mrs. Pot
ter's failure in Australia has consider
ably eclipsed both her New York fasco
and the extraordinary fzzle which
marked her widely heralded London ap-
pearance. Kyrle Bellew has partici-
pated in Mrs. Potter's plunge and the
entire press of Australia has taken to
ridiculing the pair in the most extrava-
giant manner. They are caricatured by
the clever artists and the sentiment is
one of absolute derision." The Eagle
adds that having failed on three conti-
nents she ought to go to Africa and
'1grow up with the country" The
Eagle is mistaken. There is no growth
in her. She ought to go back to Potter
if he'll take her-and behave herself.