Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-23
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Gossip Gathered From the
Green Room.
The Plays and Those Who
Present Them.
Notes of Artists From All Quarters
of the Globe.
IA Pair of Jacks' at the Grand Tonight.
Manager H. G. Wyatt's Benefit.
Other Items of Interest.

fun of the lawyer in a gag on the stage.
H. G. Miner is seeking to recover
81, ,43S. 40, which he claims to have paid
out on costumes for Mrs. James Brown
Potter
A new wrinkle has been introduced at
the Madison Square theater, New York,
where a beverage of lime-juice and
water is supplied to all patrons.
Rinaldo, new tragedy in five acts by
Ernest Lacy, will probably be given at
New York next season. The scenes are
laid in Italy in the sixteenth century.
Patti has positively declined all pro-
posals to sing in this country next sea-
son, and Mr.. Abbey is authority for the
statement that there will be no Italian
opera performance in this country be-
fore 1892.
John Drew Fisher, the actor, who
died recently in Brooklyn, was the fifth
of his family to die at the same hour of
the same day of the same month. His
mother, brother, two sisters and himself
died in different years, but always at 7
a, m. on Sunday.
The Brazilian, the New York Casino
opera, has not caused the local press to
90 into ecstacies. The Herald says: "It
is great drop from The Grand Duchess
musically, pictorially and histrionically,
and the sooner it makes way for another
work the better for the Casino"
Sir Giovanni Emanuel, famous Ital-
ian actor, will visit America during the
season of 1912, under the management
of Sig. De Vivo. His repertoire will be
King Lear, Nero, Hamlet, The Bastard,
Alcibiades Mercader and OtheUo. His
leading lady will be Signora Verginia
Reiter, who is now sharing honors with
him at the Balba theater in Turin, Italy.
1t is now definitely settled that Sara
Bernhardt will not come to America
next season, though it is announced that
she will surely come over in 1892. The
time that has been booked for her will
be filled by the Agnes Huntington
Opera Company. Mr.. Abbey, who has
Bernhardt under contract, will probably
take her through Germany and Russia
after her London engagement.
Lawrence Barrett announces that he
expects to produce in about year a
new tragedy written tor him by an Eng
lish author whose name he is not yet
willing to disclose. Its theme will be
the great career of Beckett, archbishop
of Canterbury, while chief minister of
King Henry H., ending with his murder
by barons who thought thereby to
please the king, with whom Beckett had
quarreled.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is hard at work
on his new grand opera, IUanh0e. So
far only two people have been engaged
for the principal roles-Ben Davies, the
tenor, for the title role, and Eugene
Oudin, baritone, for the Templar. No
fewer than five leading baritones of Lon
don have announced to their friends
here that they were to sing the role.
Mr.. Oudin's. contract was signed Mon
day.
On Tuesday evening of next week the
Young Mems Literary Society will give
an amateur minstrel performance for the
benefit of the society club rooms. Those
who will take part are Frank Scheidler,
Eugene Kohler, Ben Lanning, Dick Sui
livan, Fred Kits, Harry L. Price, Fran
els Shipron, Eugene Kohler, L. f.
Shepard, Dick Sullivan, Geo. A. Hough,
Geo. Hargett, j. B. Arnold and Leo G.
Wells.
In the last number of Harper's, Mr..
Howells devotes considerable portion
of his editorial columns to expressing
his contempt for the dramatic critics of
the daily press. His comments, how
ever, lose their sting when one recalls
that Mr.. Howells once wrote very bad
play that was most emphatically sat
upon by these same critics. There are
other unsuccessful writers of plays who
share Mr.. Howells's sentiments.-[C Chi
cago Herald.
Mr.. w. F. Falk, the auant courier Of
A Iona Lane, or Pine Meadow, the latest
New York success, to be produced at the
Grand opera house Tuesday evening
July 1st, arrived yesterday, flushed with
the success made by his attraction. A
Long Lane is comedy drama dealing
with human interest and plentifully
spiced with comedy of high order.
The company is now playing in San
Francisco to enormous business.
Writing to the Pail Mall Gazette Will
liam S. Gilbert says: 'You appear to
attribute the termination of my joint
work with Sir Arthur Sullivan to ques-
ton connected with the opera which he
is writing for D'Oyly Carte's new thea
ter. shall feel obliged if you will per-
NIT me to state that my secession has
no connection, direct or. indirect, with
the production of Sir A. Sullivan's new
opera. For reasons that appeared to me
to be sufficient have voluntarily with
drawn from further collaboration, with
out, | am happy to say, putting an end
to the friendly relations which have ex-
listed between Sir A. Sullivan and myself
for many years"
The Lumho1tz Lecture.
DR.. Carl Lumholtz will lecture this
evening at the Unity church on Seventh
street, near Broadway, giving an account
of the manners and customs of the can
nibal tribes of Australia. The lecturer
comes highly recommended by the east
ern and English press, both for the in
terest of the matters on which he
speaks and for his excellent style OF
delivery.
ga Pair of Jacks"
At the Grand opera house H. Grattan
Donnelly's farce, A Pair Of Jacks, will
open this evening. 1t is said to be very
funny, and the plot favors that state
ment. The first scene opens in the re-
ception room of Professor jenkins
Queer's seminary for young ladies': Dur.
ing the summer vacation 'Hetty Hopes"
and Lefty Still, pupils, have been left in
400 Drofoocor who