Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-31
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE PLAYS AND
THE PLAYERS.
A Season of Comic Opera at the Grand
Opera House-Katie Emmett in the
''Waifs of New York; at the Los
Angeles Theater.

1t is said that p. T. Barnum made
$3.50, 900 in England.
Stuart Robson makes his first New
York appearance as a solitary star next
month.
Manager Aronson, OF the New York
Casino, has paid over $120,000 III a roy
atty to the authors of Erminie.
Rose Eytinge has come down to teach
ing acting She is going to open a
school shortly in New York city.
1t is said that Mrs. Langtry has
''struck oiP' with her As You Like 1t,
which she is now performing at the st.
James in London.
The mortality among the members OF
the theatrical profession has been larger
this year than has ever been known be-
fore, while the sick-list is astonishingly
large
An almost complete score of Wagner's
Tdnnhauser, written by Richard Wagner
and signed by him, has been discovered
in the ruins of the Zurich theater, re-
Gently burned.
The Hanlons say that the Los Angeles
audiences are the largest that have
greeted them during their present tour
every performance.
leila de Lussan will return to Amer
lea, it is said, for the season of 1891 -92 as
prima dona of an opera company bear
ing her name. She is at present with
the Carl Rosa company in England.
Letters from Lawrence Barrett an
nounce that he is getting along nicely
and that there is not the slightest doubt
of his playing with Edwin Booth next
season. A tour of thirty weeks has al
ready been booked.
Estelle Clayton says she has an opera
which will take America by storm, en-
titled PauIitd, composed by f. J. Dar-
ling, Miss Clayton having rewritten the
libretto- The scenes are on the border
between Mexico and the United States.
Richard Mansfield has bought the
right to play the principal part in a
dramatization of Leander Richardson's
novel Lord Dunmersey. The dramatiZa-
ton is made by Clay NJ. Green and Mr..
Richardson, and the gross price is said
to be $4,000.
Edwin Booth Will move to Boston this
summer, and make his permanent resi-
dence there. Bostonians, however.
don t regard him as much OF an acquisi-
ton, as he has never licked man and
and knows nothing about the Marquis
of Queensbury rules.
Tamago, the great tenor, who gets
100000 for fifty performances and has
other valuable perquisits, including
eight seats every night, has brother
who sings in the chorus for the affluent
income OF $l7 per week. The brothers
do not travel together, neither do they
have any association save when the
stage business demands
Barnum's one hundred and fortv-five
ballet girls are rehearsing at his winter
quarters in Bridgeport, and the girls in
paper-box factory there have become
SO demoralized that they emulate the
gymnastics of the ballet, and spend their
noon hour in the seductive pursuit of
high kicking. Twenty-Five of them have
already been discharged
Shakespeare is highly appreciated by
the higher educated natives in India.
and last year large number of his
plays were published in the yernacular.
As You Like IT and The Winters Tale
were translated into Tamil and Telegu
for Madras; The Tanning of the ,Shrey
came out in the Punjab, and Hamlet.
Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy
Of Errors were great favorites in the
northwest provinces.