Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-30
Gossip Gathered Behind the
Scenes.
Notes of the Plays and Those Who
Present Them.
Amusements to Come in Los Angeles-"A
Long Lane" at the Grand
Opera House.


the two parts he likes best are "Fal-
STAFF and the Senator"
The Young Mems Literary Society
will give minstrel performance at lii
nois hall tomorrow evening.
Miss Mamie Short, of Los Angeles,
has been engaged by Marie Hubert
Frohman for the coming production of
The Witch.
An unsalted advance agent has wag-
cred with another equally anti-saline
that he can marry, divorce and remarry
the same woman before August lst The
wedding is scored and the divorce is be-
ing rushed.
Emma Abbott arrived in Paris on
Thursday, June 18th, and before mid
night had been interviewed by two
newspapers. In one of these interviews
she said that she has offers to sign in
Paris in French opera.
Sarah Bernhardt will not come to
America after all, so Maude Banks and
Margaret Mather will have Joan of Arc
all to themselves. The dates booked by
the Bernhardt will be filled by Agnes
Huntington and her opera company.
A troupe of about fifty Persian sing
ers, dancers, wrestlers, boxers, conjurers
and equestrans, nearly all of whom
have been forced from their native land
for highwaymanry, are about to make a
tour through Europe, starting from
Odessa. Their performances are said to
be quite wonderful.
Mme Janauschek was supposed to
have retired for good, but By Order of
the Czar is the name of new play writ
ten for her which she will produce next
season. The authors name will not be
revealed for the present. The compli-
cations of the play, whose scenes are
laid in Russia, OF course, are political as
we'll as domestic.
The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau
was discovered by Englishmen in 1850,
when two Oxford fellows, who were
staying at Bad Gadstein, heard of it by
chance and decided to be present. They
lost no time in describing it to their
friends in Oxford, and Dean Stanley,
then an Oxford tutor, visited the play
and wrote a description of it, which
made it well known.
A little while ago Scanlan, the Irish
comedian, bought fine house in New
York, and now Roland Reed follows suit
and buys handsome home on One
Hundred and Twenty-second street, for
which he has paid $4,000. Comedy
"pays" obviously. But has anybody
yet heard of the newspaper men to
whom these comedians largely owe
their success, buying nice homes out of
their ''princely" salaries.-I Chicago
Times.
1t is not generally known in America
that Fay Templeton, who left America
with Howell Osborne, has been cultivat-
ing her voice in Paris. She has devel-
oped what her masters consider a fine
mezzo soprano, and next Wednesday
she will sail for America to star with
Lyken's company. Her wardrobe is
calculated to make the lilies of the
field wither with envy, and her salary
for official purposes is said to be $500
per week and a percentage OF the
profits.
1t is curious to notice the decadence
of some voices. Miss Attalie Claire sew
eral years ago had voice that promised
in time to make deep impression upon
opera-goers and also in the concert
room, and yet her singing of late in
English opera discloses the deplorable
fact that the same throat that formerly
produced rich and pure tones is now in
an abnormal state, and gives no satis
faction. Whether this is due to neglect
or false method or natural decline can
not be said, but so it is.-[Boston
Courier.
Teresa Careno is now considered in
Germany one of the worlds greatest
pianists. Her success has been i'm
mense. In almost all the large cities
she has played two and three times, and
everywhere her debut brought a return
engagement. The critics call her the
Piano Valkyre. After her third concert
in Dresden the queen of Saxony re-
uuested her to give fourth one, so as to
enable those not having had the oppor-
tunity, to come to hear her. When she
played the Greig Concerto in Leipzig,
the composer jumped on the platform
Immediately after she got through play
ing, kissed her hand and asked her to
let him have her picture. She said she
would send him one on the condition
that he would exchange photographs.
When Careno returned to her hotel she
found Greig's photograph there already.
The symphony concert of the Los An
geles Orchestral Society will be given
this evening at the First Congregational
church. The programme will be as fol-
lows. Overture, "Egmont" (Bee-
thoven); twelfth symphony in G major
(Mozart), allegro moderate, andante,
menuetto, fnale-allegro; contralto
solo, "Perche? ?" ("Why?'O Filippo
Filippi), Miss Jeanette Wilcox; night
song, for strings alone, (Gustave Bach);
second concerto, Op. TO-, two violins and
piano, (Ch. Dancla>, Chas. A. Valen-
tine, Geo. Grosser and Miss G. Sites;
overture, "Leichte Cavallerie" (Von
Suppe); violin, "Fantaise de Allie
mande" (Leonard), Mr.. II. f. Hamil-
ton; symphony in B minor, unfinished,
(Schubert); contralto solo, LET Me
Love Thee" (Arditi), Miss Jeanette
Wilcox; "War March OF the Priests"
(Mendelssohn).
Managerial plans for next season in
clude Booth and Barrett in joint star
ring tour; Jefferson and Florence in old
English comedy: Fanny Davenport in
Cleopatra; Russel's comedians in Easy
Street; Sol Smith Russell in new
comedy by Dion Boucicault; new
farce-comedy by Charles Fl. Hoyt, called
A Trip TO Chindtopn John }. McNally's
new comic absurdity, A Straight Up;
Edward E. Prices new company in The
Worlds Far; Lew Rosens farce-com-
edy, The Hustlers; James O'Neill in 1he
Dead Heart; the Frederick Warde-
Douor, oo,,, him tion in Hpnru VIII