Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-16
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Whisperings About the Plays
and Players.
Gossip About the People OF the
Mimic World.
Notes Relative to the Happenings in
Stageland.
Attractions Due in Los Angeles in the
Near Future-Wilson Barrett at
the Grand.

performance OF as You LAKE III at his res
idence near Stamford, Conn.
Nine Fursch-Madi is residing in Paris.
Her husband, Henri Verle, died about a
month ago, and she is deeply afflicted
by the bereavement.
There is likely to be double wedding
in the Bostonians family before the
next season begins, if one can rely upon
pretty surface indications.
Mrs. Langtry sends out the unwel-
come intelligence that she will return to
America in July. Mrs. Brown-Potter is
also coming back. And Mrs. Leslie
Carter is getting ready to star. It's
tough.
Clara Morris will be surrounded the
coming season by the largest and best
appointed company that she has ever
had. She will be here in November or
December in one or two of her most
brilliant successes.
A dramatic critic of one of the leading
newspapers of Australia was recently
dismissed for having written a favorable
notice of Mrs. BrownPotter' acting.
This was summary vengeance, indeed.
How would it work in this country?
Charles Frohman's preliminary stock
season at the Twenty-third Street
theater, New York, will open on Sep
tember Sth with the production of Gill
lett's comedy success, AU the Comforts
Of Home, His regular season will open
October 18th with Belasco q DR.. Mill's
new play.
Buffalo Bill has captured the city of
Dresden with his wild west show. The
first performance was held Sunday, and
there was an immense crowd in attend
ance The enthusiasm was great, par
ticularly when Colonel Cody and his
cowboys did their sensational rifle-shoot-
ing on horseback.
Manager H. G. Wyatt, OF the Grand
opera house, will take a benefit next
week, which bespeaks a crowded house
for the night on which it is to be given.
The Pair of Jacks Company will give the
performance, aud the demand for tickets
already shows that Mr.. Wyatt's popu-
larity as manager is as great as ever.
Some unkind newspaper man has
written that Boucicault is about to die.
This statement is probably based on the
supposition that Boucicault has lived so
long and so much that he ought to die.
AS matter of fact, however, the old
man is holding his own very well. He
looks dry and withered, but for all that
he is still in the ring.
Tom Karl, who has been suffering
from a severe throat affection, is rapidly
recovering the use OF his voice, but,
acting under the instructions of his ply
sician, he will not attempt to sing again
this season. Mr.. Karl will go to Europe
this summer, accompanied by Mr..
Dewey, the affable business manager of
the BostOnians.
The "banquet ballet in The Crystal
Slipper is one of the most novel things
ever seen on the stage. 1t opens with
march of plate. This is followed by
girls clad in costumes representing the
various dishes of banquet-oysters on
half shell, boiled Holsters, fruit, ice
cream of various colors, charlotte russo,
cafe noir, and so on.
A story is going the rounds to the ef-
feet that during recent engagement
played by Joe Murphy in New York the
widow of Fred Marsden applied to him
for two seats and was refused. Mr..
Marsden was the author of Shaun Rhue
and Kerry Gow, from which Joe Murphy
has piled up fortune that amounts to
very near, if not quite, $l,00O,O 900.
Lawrence Barrett saw Nine. Bern
hardt play Jeanne d'Arc in Paris, and
spoke highly of the performance, not
only as a fine piece of acting on the part
OF Nine. Bernhardt herself, but as a
spectacle. He was also particularly i'm
pressed by the music incidental to the
piece. He was especially pleased with
thought were extremely strong dramat
ically and powerfully acted.
Lawrence Barrett is back from Europe
l. l,o3, 10 ie,
splendid health and spirits, and has not
looked so well in many years. He will
act with Mr.. Booth next season, begin
ming in November. They are to play
three months engagement in New York,
opening in December. Before beginning
work with Mr.. Booth, Mr.. Barrett will
act with the company for several weeks
in the west.
Manager Hayman, of the California
and Baldwin theaters, has returned from
London to New York, and is now busily
engaged with his various enterprises.
He is giving his principal attention at
present to the details of the tour of Mr..
A. M. Palmer's company from the Madi-
son Square theater. This company will
make a transcontinental tour of several
weeks duration under the personal di-
rection of Mr.. Hayman, and will present
several of their famous successes In an
elaborate manner, and exactly as pro-
duced at the home theater. They will
be seen here late in the summer.
Among Mr.. Hayman's various enter
prises of interest to the Pacific coast is
the tour of Elsie Leslie, in Mark Twain's
beautiful dramatization of The Prince
and the Pauper. Under the direction OF
Daniel Frohman the little star and the
play have been a tremendous success
everywhere, and it will be good news for
our theater-goers to learn that the at
traction is to appear here in the fall.
Wilson Barrett Tonight.
Wilson Barrett, accompanied by Miss
Eastlake and London company, in
Guiding Mr.. George Barrett, from the
Princess theater, come to Los Angeles
this week, and will tonight open six
days engagement at the Grand opera
house. Mr.. Barrett's eminence i'll the
English-speaking world as cultured
and scholarly actor, his well-known and
really marvellous skill as stage direc-
tor, and his position in literature as
dramatist Of rapidly developing powers,
all entitle him to the respectful atten-
ton of the intelligent and thoughtful.