Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-15
she had NJ Worth and M. Felix engaged

she had NJ. Worth and M. Felix engaged
upon an entirely new wardrobe, and not
until she sailed in August was the last
robe of between thirty and forty finish
ed. Her dresses this season are simply
dazzling in beauty and luXuriance Of
finish. She is said to have expended
$40, 900 in dresses alone for the season.
The company is also wonderfully
strong, not alone in casts, but in chorus
and orchestra also, both of which are
much larger and more skilled than any
the Abbott management ever before Sc
cured. The strength of the company
may be estimated when it is stated that
the casts alone include sixteen artists
Abbott, Annandale, Mirella, Miss Brod-
erick, Michelena, Pache, Rudolph, Du-
Bois, Ready, Pruette, Broderick, Karl,
Borovik, Murchie, Vernon and Ellering-
ton. Everyone appears. The new Alb
bott chorus and orchestra are under the
direction of Herr Albert Krausse, most
efficient conductor.
From the opening of the season to the
present the success of Abbott opera has
been greater than at any time in the
career of Emma Abbott. New operas
have been added to the repertoire, old
operas re-staged, new artists have been
secured.
The Los Angeles repertoire is Ernani,
Romeo and Juliet, Bohemian Girl, Anne
Boleyn greatest of tragic operas), Rose
of CASTLE and II Trovatore.
The performance to be given by the
Owl Dramatic club at the Grand opera
house next Thursday will be especially
interesting, as being the second presen-
tation in Los Angeles of Mrs. F. H. Bur.
nett's greatest success, the play ot
Esmeralda. Her later work, Little
Lord Fauntleroy, has also been highly
successful, but more on account of the
Fictitious interest excited by the pre-.
cocious youngsters who have severally
assumed the part OF the little lord, than
by reason of any art in the dramatic
construction of the piece. Esmeralda
appeals to the sensibilities of all who
may be influenced by plot OF strong
domestic interest, worked out ON agood
Old-fashioned plan, perhaps, but with
nothing mawkish or overdone in the
sentiment or diction of the play. Old
Man Rogers, the quaint North Caro-.
lima farmer, living on his native soil and
feeling the strongest attachment to his
surroundings; tender and loving in his
nature, but uncouth, uneducated and
quite under the influence of his terma-
CANT wife. is strong character sketch.
Their only daughter, Esmeralda, is
in love with Dave Hardy, young
farmer of the neighborhood, when the
play opens, and they are about to be
married, much to the mothers disap.
pointment. she desiring much better
match for her daughter. The discovery
of drift of iron ore on their farm, and
its purchase by mining speculator
makes the family suddenly wealthy
and the old lady orders trip to Paris
at the same time breaking off the match
between her daughter and Dave
Hardy, who are both heart-broken at
the fall of the curtain. The second act
discovers the newly-rich family in Paris,
and the audience is introduced to the
interior of an artists studio, where
a young American, Jack Desmond, and
his two sisters, Nora and Kate, are study
ing art. They are brought in contact
with the Rogers family, and also with
the young man Dave Hardy, who has
followed his lost love, Esmeralda, across
the sea, and is ultimately reduced to the
state of destitution in Paris. The mother
is about marrying her daughter to GER
tain needy French marquis for the sake
of his title, but her schemes are brought
t. q sudden termination by the rebellion