Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-16
ADJUSTMENTS.
The Two Great Emmas Will Sing Next
Week

The sale OF seats for the Abbott season
at the Los Angeles yesterday was a
boomer. Those who want good seats
for any performance would better get
them at once. Remember Abbott sings
at every performance. Most Of the operas
are new in this city.
At the Grand opera house. Messrs.
McLain & Lehman announce as their
Christmas attraction the peerless
Emma Juch Grand English Opera com
pany, headed by the brilliant American
prima-donna, Miss Emma Juch. The
brilliant achievements of this famous
singer in the real,,a of English opera is
matter of the most recent musical his
tory. The large company of artists.
carefully selected from both America and
Europe, with the object OF securing to
the public the foremost English-singing
exponents of the roles to be interpreted,
is confidently presented as being verv
nearly perfect. The chorus is large and
is composed of ambitious young men and
women. The fresh quality OF It's voices
and the fact that it is mostly American.
have been approvingly commended. The
organization is also accompanied by the
Emma Juch Opera orchestra, which is
composed of well-known soloists, Sc
lected from the leading New York Or
chestras
The opera selected for the initial per-
tormance, Christmas night, will be the
Huguenots, in which, besides Miss Juch
as alentine, Chas. Hedmondt will be
heard in the leading role, and Carlotta
Maconda, as the Queen. On Friday eve
ming there will be grand spectacular
production OF Faust, with Franz Vetta
IN his justly famous impersonation of
Mephistophles and on Saturday eve
ming the greatest OF all Wagnerian
operas, Lohengrin, will have its initial
Production in this city, with Juch as
Elsa, Hedmondt as Lohengrin and
Franz Vetta as Henry /, King of Ger
many. The mounting and costuming OF
these great music-dramas will eclipse
anything heretofore seen in this city, it
requiring five special cars TO handle the
scenery, costumes, properties, electrical
and other novel effects used in these
productions.
The sale of seats and boxes will begin
Wednesday, December II, at 10 q. m.
THE GRrsMER-DAvrEs COMPANY.
The Grismer-Davies company will
appear at the Grand opera house next
Saturday, matinee and night; also
no Monday night, December 22d.
The regulations of that sterling actor,
Joseph Grismer, and that excellent
actress, Phoebe Davies, are sowell known
in Los Angeles that to say aught in their
praise is entirely unnecessary. The play
selected for their engagement is Mr.. De
watt ioung's romantic military drama,
Beacon Lights, of which the Sacramento
Bee says:
Last season there was brought out
new play at the Grand, entitled Beacon
Lights. The play is remembered as
treating Of theme similar to the Golden
Chant. young woman, whose husband
has died in the gold fields, endures trib-
ulations in seeking to establish her
claim. She is protected, and villainy
thwarted, by the chivalrous conduct of
a young army officer and his friend, an
honest miner. Beacon Lights always
was and always will be great play the
piece, however, has been greatly i'm
proved since it's last visit to this cltv, az
the comedy has been developed and the
action heightened by putting it into five
instead of four acts, and so avoiding the
shifting OF scenes in one OF the best acts
OF the play. Each scene now stands an
act, and each has strong dramatic eli
max. Beacon Lights should never be-
come "played out"
The sale of seats will open at Grand
opera house box Office tomorrow morning
at % o'clock.