Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-10
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of the Plays and Those Wh
Present Them.

NOtes OF the rays ana ThOse Whe
Present Them.
|, A new comedy, being played at Q
Polish theater, is called The Influenza.
1t is not likely that Mary Anderson
will ever again appear upon the stage.
On Friday evening the German Con-
servatory of Music will give concert at
Illinois hall. A good programme has
been arranged.
| The management of the Court thester
at Vienna has decreed that hereafter no
women who are over As years old shall
be engaged for the ballet.
Next Thursday Jules Levy will give a
concert at the Grand opera house. A
better programme than those given re-
Gently at the pavilion is promised.
Sig. Salvini will leave this country
with the record of having made fewer ac-
quaintances here than any foreign actor
who has ever passed many months on
our soil.
Fred Warde will be at the Grand next
week. His repertoire will be announced
later, and it is said that his company has
been considerably strengthened since
last he was here.
Minnie Hauk has sold her chateau
near Basle and bought the villa Trieb-
schon, on Lake Lucerne, which was the
residence of Wagner at the time when
he composed Sieqfried.
M. Nicolini-P Patti, the step-son of AIDE.
lima Patti, has obtained an engagement
as first tenor at the Paris Grand opera.
He has been trained by the diva herself
and will m AXE his debut as "Manrico" in
TrOvatore.
The violinist Sivori lives at Genoa,
and is now very old and feeble. At a
recent artistic festival, however, he
played superbly on Paganini's fiddle,
which is religiously preserved under a
glass case by the municipality.
At the Palais Royal theater, in Paris,
they have Just had to change the name
of new play from Les Moulinard to Les
Boulinard, because a country Justice of
the Peace by the name of Moulinard con-
sidered himself injured by that use of his
name.
Paravey, the enterprising manager of
the Paris Opera Comique. announces
for production no less than five new
operas: Dante ct Beatrice, by GODDARD !;
Joel, by Baroness Legoux; Rosen-
lecker's Ondine. Castegnier's Nor
mandi, and Benvenuto Cellini, by
Diaz.
English dramatic papers announce
that Miss Agnes Huntington is about to
bring an operate company to this coun-
try under the management of Marcus
Meyer. If it is not any better than the
company Carte sent over to do The Con-
doliers she would do better to stay in
England.
A London correspondent of the New
York World says: "Langtry does not
convalesce rapidly. People who have
visited her sick-room say that this illness
looks like general breaking up of hel
health. 1t is very generally believed
that she will never play again. at least iI
profitable way"
Miss Jessie Couthoui made her firs
appearance here on Saturday evening al
Illinois hall before large audience
Miss Couthoui is an elocutionist of con-
siderable ability, and secured the gooC
will of the audience from the start. She
will appear again this evening at the
hall and will be assisted by Mrs. Ma
Browning, Mrs. Stella Mathews, Mis-
Jessie Shields, L. G. LIE Sage and O. L
De Lano.
The Mohammedans of Bombay and
Poona have promulgated strong edic1
against the drama generally, all Moham
medans being strictly forbidden to attenG
dramatic performances. For the frs
offense fine of rupees will be inflicted
for the second 10 rupees, and on the
commission of the third offense, the of
fender will be denied the rites of Mo
hammedan burial. More than 100,0 ,00(
Mohammedans have already signifieC
their compliance with the edict. The
result to proprietors of native theaters
whose patrons hitherto have mostly beer
Mohammedans, will be disastrous. The
edict mas been passed in consequence O
the proposal to put Mohammed upon the
stage in Paris.