Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-09
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays hose
Who Present Them.
Stray Glimpses of the Mimic
World.
What the Actors Are Doing in Various
Places.
Amusements to Come to Los Angeles in
the Near Future-"The Old Home
stead"

Inc prOUUS OF CUudrI hODSoil HISI
season as lone star were $69, ,7OS.50.
Edwin Booth with whiskers is men
toned among next seasons sensations.
Lawrence Barrett is expected back
from Europe within week. He con-
templates magnificent revival of King
John next season.
The masterpiece which Evans and
Hoey will play next season is descrip-
lively entitled Si.c IN One and Half
Dozen Of the Other.
The receipts this season of W. S.
Cleyeland's two minstrel companies
were 1915 1000; 500, 900 was paid for rail
road transportation.
The most prominent eastern comedy
success of the past season, A Pair of
Jacks, by Grattan Donnelly, will follow
Wilson Barrett at the Grand opera
house.
Margaret Mather has gone to Europe
and when she returns she will bring out
Joan of Arc with all the original scenery
and costumes used in the Paris pro-
duction.
A famous place of amusement known
for twenty years as the Brooklyn theater
was torn down on the Sd inst, and a
new building will be erected in its place
for the Brooklyn Eagle.
Miss Rose Wood, once great New
York favorite, and a prominent member
pany, has returned to New York after
five years residence in California.
A well-known London critic, referring
to Grace Hawthorne's performances of
Theodore, remarks somewhat satiri
cally that their chief value lies in the
proof they afford of Madame Bernhardt's
genius.
Bronson Howard has been paid about
$50, 900 in royalties since his Shenandoah
was produced last September. He re-
ceived $12,500 for Young Mrs. Winthrop
and got about the same amount for his
Henrietta.
The contract between Augustus Pitou
and Robert Mantell will expire at the
end of next season. Mr.. Pitou is en-
gagged in new enterprises and Mr.. Man
tell continues as star under his own
management.
Roland Reed closed forty-weeks'
season on the road in New York fort
night ago, and reports the business the
best he has ever had. He has played
Lloyd's comedy, The Woman Halter,
throughout the season.
To the Front, new military comedy
drama by Harvey w. Emmett, was pro-
duced for the first time Monday night at
New York. While it cannot rank with
Shenandoah and Held by the Enemy, it is
said to contain great deal Of merit
The author of Beau BrummeH, Mans
fields new play, is said to have looked
beyond the box-office in writing his play
which, it is said, will leave an impress
ion as a literary production if it does
not score a popular success.
We can sympathize with the New
York Egening Post, which hopes that
the failure in London of Mrs. Burnett's
play, Nrie, will put an end to the "silly
baby DRAMA We have heard alto
gether too much of the "sharp, shrill
pipe" on our stage since the beginning
of the Fauntleroy craze.-[Boston
Traveller.
Lady Colin Campbell, who has de-
cided to give the stage a lift, is described
as beauty of the Spanish type, six feet
in height, and expert in every sport
known to women in England. Her hus-
band, who is said to be pensioned by
his family, is living in one of the gar
rison posts of India.