Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-15
THE BUSKINED STAGE
Points ON Plays and Players
from Many Places.
Mr.. Wilke will Marble at the
Grand Thursday Night.
Scanlans Week a Great Success at
the Grand in Every Respect.
The Bostonian Season at Boston with the
New Attractions, and the Sad Death
of Lillian Grubb, an old time
Los Angeles Favorite.

Hubert Wilke and a select company
of artists appear in this city next
Thursday in Clay Greene's romantic
musical comedy. Peti the Vagabond.
The title role is the star part and will be
played with Hungarian Gypsy dialect,
and as Mr.. Wilke has made a study of
this line of work for years, it is no new
thing to him, although novel to us. A
pleasing feature of the performance will
be the Gypsy songs and dances which
impart characteristic flavor, and for
which Mr.. Wilke has long been famous
in the east. The following is the cast
of Peti the Vagabond:
Peti, Mr.. Hubert Wilke, Hungarian
Gypsy; Count Harold Won Sandory,
William Haworth, his friend and foster
Constantine, retired merchant Tenny-
sentimentalist in search of an affinity |;
Schlacht, Adolph Bernard, steward to
the hotel Berry, Fredic Perry, model
servant of the new school; Baroness
Florence Van Elva, Miss Kate Blancke,
Austrian nobleman; Rose, little Dot
Clarendon, her daughter aged six years
Grace Van Austin, Miss Rebecca Warren,
betrothed to Sandory; Ambrosia Van
Austin, Miss Josephine Laurens, in
search of an ideal; Nettie, Miss Helen
Mowat, the baroness's maid.
A recent writer in the eastern press,
in a long and exhaustive article on the
American theater, awards the palm for
emotional actresses unhesitatingly to
Clara Morris. No woman of ancient or
modern times, according to him, has
ever succeeded in so thoroughly arous-
ing her audiences. That peculiar gift of
emotional acting is one rarely found, and
it is no wonder, then, that Miss Morris
has attained the position she now occu-
pies. The tour the coming season will
be one of the most important OF her ca
reer, the entire western portion OF it be-
ing under the direction of Manager
Hayman. She will be supported by
magnificent company, and will travel in
her own private car.
Little Lord Fauntleroy still remains
in the undisputable possession OF the
first place among dramas of that class.
Manager Hayman has arranged with
Mr.. French to again present Mrs. Bur
nett's charming dramatic idyl through
out the principal cities of the coast.
Particulars as to the date, ETC., will be
announced later.
One of the most important of manager
Hayman's announcements regarding
theatricals in this city, is that referring
to the first presentation here of the
famous Chicago opera house spectacle
the Crystal Slipper. This company
will be the greatest theatrical aggre-
CATION that ever crossed the continent,
numbering over one hundred people and
including two carloads OF scenery, six
Shetland ponies and numberless trunks
and boxes of paraphernalia. 1t will be
presented here in its entirety, and it is
safe to say that nothing like it has ever
been seen before.
AL Hayman has withdrawn from the
management of the London Gaiety COM
pany's next season tour. The contract
between Managers Edwards and Hayman
was cancelled by mutual consent. Mr..
Hayman intends to devote his time to
his theatres and dramatic performances.
Mary Anderson's first dramas were
presented to her by Manager Ford after
her first success, made under his man.
agement in the south during the season
T..
$500. They were set in the shape of
She gracefully acknowledged the source
of the gift in her life, published few
years since.
Adele Frost is powerful and viva
cious young actress, much what Jeffreys
Lewis was in her youth, who, after do
ing very we'll indeed last season in the
south and west, will be seen in New
York shortly. Confident of being able
to make strong appeal for metropol-
itan favor, she has bought a play by
Victorien Sardou, which, it is claimed,
is quite as strong as Fedora. 1t has been
adapted for her by Mr.. A. d. Gordan, and
powerful company has been engaged
to support her in it.
Rose Coghlan began her season last
Wednesday in Milwaukee. Her repertory
will consist OF Peg Woffington, Forget
Me Not, and new play called Lady
Gabrielle. Her company consists Of
John T. Sullivan, Thomas Whiffin, Bea-
trice Moreland, Jennie Wethersby, Ella
Baker, Frederick Sackett Luke Martin,
Franklyn Roberts, G. E. Edwin and
John Colon.
Pearl Eytinge will create the role of
liza in The Clemenceau Case when it is
brought out at the Standard theatre,
September Is. VIM. Fleron made the
dramatization. Wilton Lackaye as the
lover and husband has part in Pierre
Clemencau which will enable him to add
to his individuality as an actor.
1t is said that w. j. Scanlan has re-
ceived an offer from well-known Lon
don manager for another starring tour
in England, Ireland and Scotland.
Marcus Mayer has made five dollars
day in London during his stay there.
He made a bet of one pound day with
Chas. Exquisite Abud that it would
rain in London once during the twenty
four hours. Every morning at IL O'Clock
Marcus appears with sweet smile and
says zone pound if you please" and
every morning the one pound is handed
over with something courteously pro-
fame in the way OF language. Marcus
then retorts, 81 don't find London ex-
nensive. nv room at the hotel costs