Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-07
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE PLAYS AND
THE PLAYERS.
Opera at the Grand This Week Juvenile
"Pinafore''- Other Notes Of Local
Interest.

Della Fox has left the Conreid Opera
company.
Can it be possible that it was Charles
Dudley Warner who wrote Held by the
Enemy?
Christine Nilsson is to come out of her
retirement to sing at the farewell con-
cert of Sims Reeves in London in June.
Mr.. George w. Floyd, business man
ager of the Rudolph Aronson Comic Opera
Company, is Il thirty third degree
Mason.
south OF France, where he is recuper-
ating from his recent illness, that he will
return to New York about May 1st.
Miss Helen lamont, the Erminie OF
the Aronson company is Washington,
d. c., belle, and sang in church in that
city during President Arthur's term of
office.
1t took four members of the New
Haven police force to keep the Yale
students quiet at a performance of
Beacon Lights on a recent evening, and
four of the disturbers were taken to the
lockup.>
Tonight, for the benefit of the Ger
man Ladies' Benevolent Society, Pima
fore will be given at Turner hall by a
number of children. The performance
will be very interesting and entertain
ing.
Tamagno, the tenor, was baggage
porter before his remarkable powers of
voice were revealed. He does not favor
his former craft, however. when he is on
his travels. If a porter demands what
he regards as too much for carrying his
trunk he calmly shoulders it himself
with all his old-time skill.
The city Directory has now passed its
tiftieth performance at the Biiou-an
unusually long run for a farce-comedv,
and its prosperity does not seem to have
diminished an atom. 1t will remain in
New York until June, and then it goes
West under Al Hayman's management
for an eight weeks season.
On Tuesday evening the Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, Al Malaikah Temple, will
ladies'. Manager Wyatt will have the
elaborate manner, Rand each lady will
the management OH that evening.
During the visit Of Hans Won Bulow to
America last year lady handed him a
piece OF music, which she had composed
and on whicn she desired to obtain the
masters opinion. The composition was
entitled: ooh, Lord! Hear My Prayerw
Bulow looked it through, and wrote un-
der the title: ''He may if you stop sin
ming like this"
The desperate attempt Nat Goodwin's
wife made in st. Louis last week to put
an end to her life illustrates the correct
ness of Mrs. kendal's theory, that ''play
folks should marry among themselves"
Mrs. Goodwin was the divorced wife of
Buffalo merchant when Goodwin mar
ried her, and not being professional,
it is said that she is unreasOnably ieal-
Gus OF every actress in her husbands
company.
Lotta is rated as the richest single
woman in the world who has earned her
own money. Her wise mother, who is
an excellent woman of business, watches
the markets and invests the actresses
funds as fast as she receives them. The
little 'Marchioness'' owns a hotel in
Boston, an apartment house in New
York, and other real estate in Washing
ton. Chicago and Long Branch, besides
stocks and bonds.
For the coming production OF Cleo
patrd in Paris, an adaptation by Sardou
from Shakespeare tragedy Sarah Bern
hardt announces her intention of break
ing all her previous records by dyeing
her frail person chocolate color in view
of her impersonation of the Egyptian
Queen. The production will not take
place before April 20th, but the Porte
st. Martin box Office is said to be already
besieged by admirers anxious to behold
this curious metamorphosis of their
idol
1t is one of the signs of the times in
Russia that it is proposed to abolish the
Imperial Dramatic Company at st.
Petersburg, which has been maintained
by the imperial court side by side with
the Russian actors ever since the i'm
perial theaters of the capital came into
existence. 1t is said that the German
actors will receive years extra salary
on the conclusion of their contracts
next season, and thereafter no longer be
required.
Janauschek was playing in Racine
recently, and during the play the roof of
the theater was blown off in the great
storm, but nobody in the house knew it
at the time. Her manager cites the fact
as evidence OF the absorbing power of
her acting. 1t might also be taken as
equally strong proof OF the amount of
noise she can make. However, an
actress who can play against a hurricane
and win deserves to have credit, without
being too particular about the precise
weapon that won the battle for her.
Tomorrow night the Casino Opera
Company will commence an engagement
which will last for the remainder OF the
week at the Grand opera house. The
company is said to be very good. 1t con-
tains several artists who are quite well
known here. Tomorrow night and Sat
urday matinee, Erminie will be given.
The Nadjy will be given on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings, and the Black
Hussar will be given on Friday and Sat-
urday evenings. The sale of seats is al
ready large, and the indications are that
the audiences on every occasion will be
very large.