Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-27
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The Juch Opera Company
Here This Week.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE STAGE,
The "Pearl of Pekin" at the Los
Angeles Theater-NOtes Of
Interest.
Henry Adonis Dixsy was 81 years old

Sydney Rosenfeld has finished new
play called The Stepping Stone.
The report is that Joseph Jefferson
gets 81 600 number for his articles IN
the Century-$12, 900 for the lot.
Sarah Bernhardt's Joan of Arc has
made profound impression in Paris. 1t
will be saen in America next winter.
Grattan Donnelly has sold his play,
The Millionaire, to Dan Sully, VINO will
produce it before the season is over.
This evening Miss Flora Batson, the
colored vocalist, will nske her farewell
appearance at the Fort-street M. E.
church.
Lawrence Barrett's friends say that
since he has made such a success finan-
cially by managing Edwin Booth he
will never go back on the stage himself.
As the "Tyfoo" in The Pearl of Pekir1
Mr.. Harrison has scored the. most pro-
nounced success of his career and as a
comic opera comedian stands pre-emi.
nent among the best.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has Oh gan
izsd concert company for tour
through the small towns. It is her in
tention to give some one-act operas dur
ing her engagements. Quousque tandem
abutere, etc.
The Boston Howard Athen@um Com
pany lately played three weeks at the
California theater, San Francisco, to the
largest receipts ever known at that
house. variety" appears to be money
as well as "the spice Of life."
The Beethoven House society, of Bonn,
has just come into possession of Bsetho-
ta MIA HxvN No,.
rad Graf, of Vienna. Because of
Beethoven's deafness it had four strings
to each key, instead of three.
1t is narrated in Boston, where he
died, that Alopzo Stoddard, the operstic
baritone, electrified his attendants and
others in the hospital by sitting up and
singing one of his favorite solos few
minutes before breathing his last.
Tomorrow evening a concert will be
given at Simpson tabernacle, on Hope
street. Prof. @. s. De Lano, Miss
Spaulding, Miss Lola Emery, Miss Stsgg,
W. A. Arend, Miss Spencer and Miss
Lille Buckingham will take part in the
performance.
The richest man in Russia, Count
Scheremtjew, is about to produce Pusch-
kin's play, Boris Godunow, in his own |
house, and has spent 0,000 ru5les on
scenery and costumes. The performers
will be noble amateurs, and the royal
opera will supply the music and the
chorusss.
Stuart Robson paid Mr. Crane $25 900
for The Henrietta. This season already
he has received back in profit $22 900,
and before the end of his Chicago en-
he will be considerably ahead.
If Mr.. Robson desires he can make all
the money he wants cut of this play and
then retire.
William Young, author of Ganelon,
The Rdjoh and other success
Margaret Mather to write play for her,
of Gonelon, which had its first produc-
ton at the Chicago opera house last fall,
is still fresh in the minds of the public.
Frank Marshall, the English play |
wright, is dead. He was the husband of |
the beautiful Ada Cavendish, an actress |
who visited this country some years ago. |
Mr.. Marshall was the author of GA Study
of Hamlet" and was associated with
Henry Irving in the preparation of the
edition of Shakespeare that bears Mr..
Irving's name.
Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Langtry and Mrs.
O'Sullivan Dimpfel have given up their
efforts to elevate the American stage, and
Maude Banks has become her fathers
private secretary. Miss Letitia Aldrich,
niece of Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
rushes into the breach on the Washing
ton stage and will endeavor to raise the
tone of the drama.
A Denver reporter has discovered that
Mckee Rankin was born in Canada,
across the river from Detroit; that he is
a grand nephew of Tecumeeh, the big
Injun; that he went on the stage at the
age of II in Rochester, N. Y, as the
drunken porter in The Secret of Hole in
the Wall, and that his front name is
Arthur.
The New York Evening Post thinks
operetta matters are at crisis and ad.
vises managers thereof to arrange for q
repertory from the works of Strauss,
Lecocq. Audran, Offenbach, and Gilbert
and Sullivan, and all this anent tho con-
fessedly miserable Interpretation of The
Gondoliers by the English company sent
over to introduce it here.
Tamag gno, the great tenor with Patti,
gets $40 0 900 for singing fifty nights DUR
ing the tour in America and Mexico.
He is guaranteed his fifty nights and gets
500, 900 whether he sings all this num-
Der of nights or not. He will probably
sing forty-two nights during the tour.
As soon as this engagement closes he
goes to South America, where he gets
1000 for twenty nights.
1t is very rare indeed that an actress
celebrates her seventy-filth year of con-
secutive service on the stage of the same
theater. This event, perhaps unique in
dramatic annals, has just occurred at
Stuttgart. where Frau Louise Schmidt,
of the Royal Court theater, has now
completed her three-quarters OF CEN
tury of uninterrupted engagements with
that house. She made her debut in 1914,
being then years old.
Tomorrow night the Pearl of Pekin will
commence an engagement at the Los
Angeles theater, which will continue un-
til the end of the week. This comic
opera was played $50 nights consecu-
lively at New York, and was pro-
nounced by the press a great success.
Louis Harrison, who has been seen here
in other productions, is with the com.
pany, which numbers eixty-five people.
The original scenery and costumes will
be used here, and the indications are
that the houses will be crowded.
According to Vienna cabIegram just
raQaivad frouo Mr. T n ElWQll tho