Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-12
Movements of People in the
Mimic World.
Gossip About the Plays and
the Players.
Several Attractions Coming to Los
Angeles Very Soon.
s'Shenandoah' to be Given Here Next
Week-Other Amusements An
nounced This Season.


Emmett has cleared over $4,000 this
season.
Patti took home with her $175,O0O,
which represents forty-two appearances
in the United States and Mexico.
M. B. Leavitt has arranged for the
appearance of Sarah Bernhardt at his
new Broadway theater in Denver next
season.
Miss Pauline Hall is about to purchase
handsome cottage at Cape May, where
she will reside after her return from
Europe.
Mrs. Langtry has ensconced herself in
a most charming new residence on Pont
street, London, says New York paper.
Now how on earth did she do it?
Flotow left a posthumous opera called
Dds Kdtchen UOn Heilbronn. which has
been performed at Mannheim and Hano-
yer, and is announced for Berlin.
M. B. Curtis, the comedian, is worth
$500, ,000 He owns town in California,
which he built with the profits of his
play, Sam'l of Posen.-[Exchange.
Fanny Rice has signed with Rudolph
Aronson to remain at the Casino, New
York, for another year, from next Octo-
Der. She will not play during the sum-
mer.
Tommy Russell is no longer Faunt-
leroy. His parents asked larger salary
and his manager retorted that he could
not pay it to an infant that began to
grow whiskers.
Richard Mansfeld's doctor has warned
him that he must give up playing Dr..
Jekyl and Mr. Hyde if he wishes to pre-
serve his throat. Clyde" makes ter
rible strain on the actors vocal organs,
and, consequently, Mr.. Mansfield will
never again present this play.
Pictures of Beethoven's father and
mother have just been discovered in the
Kempen, in Cologne. Both portraits
were painted by Beckenkamp. Kem-
pens portrait of Beethoven's father is
thought to be the only one extant.
Mr.. Irving will next autumn open
the private theater which Nine. Patti
has built at her Welsh home, Craig-y-
nos, at cost OF $4,000, says an ex-
change, and if this be true, what is to
become of PATHS promises to Little
(they're all ''little ladies'') Miss Har-
vey?
Sardou is writing play for Coquelin,
which will be played at the Comedie
Francaise next season. 1t is founded
upon an incident in the life of the actor
Labussiere, who by destroying the pa
pers drawn up against the company by
committee of the convention in 1898
succeeded in restoring to them their lib
erty.
Great actresses are few and far be-
tween. Clara Morris is still the greatest
nd nT,lnf 1,for 1o |.
imitators, but no rivals. She is to ap-
pear here the coming season in one or
two OF her most successful roles, and the
event will be great dramatic treat for
theater-g oers.
Maude Granger opened her spring tour
at Washington on Monday night, at the
New National theater She produced
Mrs. Lucy Hooper's new play, Inherited,
which was originally brought out in
Paris last winter. The beautiful
Granger is said to have the strongest
emotional role in Inherited that she has
yet been seen in.
Mary Anderson's intimate London
friends claim to have received positive
information from the lady herself that,
although she will soon take husband,
she will not abandon the stage. Miss
Anderson's old dresser, now attached to
the London theater, is said to have been
notified by the actress that her services
will again be required next season.
A. M. Palmer's Madison Square Thea
ter Company, of New York, has long
been admitted to be the leading stock
organization Of the English-speaking
world. 1t cannot fail to be of interest
to the theater-goers to know that the
entire company, numbering forty-two
people, will appear here this summer
under the direction of Mr.. Hayman, in
series of their greatest dramatic sue
cesses. Elaborate preparations are to
be made for their tour. They will travel
in their own special cars and carry all
the draperies and paraphernalia neces-
sary for thorough presentation of their
plays.
Everybody who read Mark Twains
charming story, "The Prince and the
Pauper,' was thoroughly captivated by
it at once. Everybody who saw Elsie
Leslie in Little Lord Fduntleroy was cap
tivated by her at once. These two vic
torious elements are now in conjunction,
and, as might be surmised, Daniel Froh-
mans production of Mark Twain's
dramatization of his story, with Elsie
Leslie in the title role, has been an un-
qualified success from the start. 1t is
announced that Mr.. Hayman will pre-
sent the attraction here during the COM
ing season.
General Sherman, who occupied a box
at the last performance of Bronson How
ards greatest triumph, Shenandoah, at
the Twenty-third-street theater, New
York, was compelled by the vast audi
ence present to make a speech at the
close OF the third act, and he said: 81
sent word to the proprietor that there
was to be no speech-making here; it
was all action. And the scene you have
just seen and the words you have just
heard come something near war. OF
course it is impossible to secure battle
on a small stage like this, but l can say
for the Shenandoah that it is very life
like scene, and / have always been
charmed with the call-especially the
bugle calls-they are true and delight
ful, and the mountainside, the signals
from Three Top Mount are very good in
deed. The new actors and actresses; to
them, one and all, give my heartiest
thanks for many pleasant evenings
within this amphitheater, and the
crowded theater, tonight, proves what a
hold Shenandoah has upon the patriotic
mlnd,' Shenandoah will he given at