Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-05

says he will again be able to sing high G,
but his doctor declines to state his con-
victions.
Albani says she is not allowed to go
out the day or night before she is to sing;
must be very careful about her diet, and
can drink nothing but claret.
Patti is reported to have pensioned
Campanini, whose illustrious high G,
now silent, has scared so many time
with her celestial own. She is doing
crazier things, but this story is probably
false.
The season at San Bernardino opened
auspiciously under the new manage
ment, Messrs. Wyatt & Conant, last
Friday. These gentlemen state that
they will only take the best companies
to that place.
Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew are re-
ported to be meeting with great success
in Australia. This gratifying news is
made somewhat unpleasant by the state
ment that they will return to the United
States next season.
There will be no attractions at the
theaters here this week, both houses re-
naming closed. Next week Zigzdg will
open at the Grand and Herrmann's
Vaudeville Company will occupy the Los
Angeles theater.
Theater audiences in Santiago de Chill
are restless under disappointment. They
wrecked the theater and compelled the
managers and actors to flee for their
lives because the play was changed and
the performance curtailed.
pretty sure proof that minstrelsy is
,{, Io, OF hn 6CAt
in Chicago last week, when the Cleve
Emerson, Hughey Dougherty and many
other old favorites, opened to an audi
ence that contained exactly eleven pay
ing persons.
AS cleopatra" in Paris, Sarah Bern
hardt will appear as true Egyptian
woman with her skin golden-like and
her hair black. Cleopatra died from the
biting of an asp. In order to get used to
came to the rehearsal bearing as brace
let small snake from the forest of FOn-
tainebleau.
Tomorrow night Rose Hartwick Thorpe
the authoress of that beautiful poem
''The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"
will give reading at the Los Angeles
theater. She will be assisted by her
husband, who has the reputation of
finished elocutionist. The entertain
ment is under the auspices of the
Ladies Annex, of the Chamber of Com
merce.
That is great scheme which is said to
have originated in the fertile brain of
Alexander Dumas. He proposes to
hypnotize the actors and actresses who
are to present his next drama, and then
compel them to play according to his
dictum. If the plan works well it might
be good idea to corral several thousand
alleged actors and actresses, hypnotic
them, and direct them never to appear
again on the stage.
An amusing story told in connection
with the new society play that Paul
Potter is writing for Mrs. Leslie Carter
aptly illustrates the dramatic intelligence
OF the average modern ''society star"
"My dear Mr.. Potter" Mrs. Garter is
quoted as saying, II leave entirely to
your discretion the formation of the plot
and construction of the dialogue. But l
have one favor to ask. While l was in
Paris two years ago 1 saw a lovely cloak
and bought it. 1t cost me $4,000, and
is the most expensive garment that has
ever Deen Drought TO America. l. am
not wearing it and do not intend to until
| go on the stage. 1 wish you would
make it one of the leading incidents of
the play, putting it in the story so con-
spicuously that will attract attention" !"
Mr.. Potter was anxious to crafty the
vanity of the woman who is to pay him
handsomely for his services, and he has
made an important feature of the cloak.
1t virtually ends the second act. This
is the same garment that was made
famous during Mrs. Carter's divorce
case.