Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-13
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dances and specialties form feature OF
the entertainment.
Professor Fletcher will deliver his
second lecture upon the buried city to-
night at the Los Angeles college. The
| first lecture on this subject last Monday
night was one of the most instructive
and intensely interesting ever listened
| to. The audience was very large and
critical, and expressed itself as highly
delighted with the rare intellectual treat
Professor Fletcher afforded it. The pro-
ceeds of the lecture 60 to the furnishing
fund of the ladies of DR.. Chichester's
Emmanuel church.,
Lew Dockstoterhs returned to New
York with satchel crammed full of
I complimentary notices. He has sue
ceeded in working new joke out of the
! nickel in the slot. Instead Of chewing
gum machine or apparatus to test your
weight, Lew has transformed his highly
ornamental plug hat into a receptacle
! for music-box. How he succeeds in
hiding such an instrument in the linn
tied area furnished by high hat is
known only to himself. Certainly it is
feat worthy of Hermann or Kellar.
He first places the hat on the stage and
then drops the nicke! through the slot
in the top. Immediately the sweet
strains of "Annie Rooney" or "Annie
Laurie" as the case may be, begin to
issue from this queer contrivance, but
when Lew stoops to recover his tile the
hat collapses as fiat as pancake.
In The Master of Woodbarrow E. H.
Sothern has added to his repertoire as
important play as his father did before
him when Mrs. KendaPs brother, Tom
Robertson, wrote David Garrick for
him. Young Sothern has taken an i'm
portant step forward in his artistic
career. Jerome's comedy could easily
ular Lyceum stock company must take
possession on November 18th.
Agnes Huntington has made her
American debut-or rather, her first APP
pearance here since she won fame in
London-at the Broadway theatre, New
York, in Planquett's comic opera, Paul
Jones, which had never been done in
this country. She is supported by
company OF English artists, among
whom are Karl Mora, Eric Thorne,
Herve d'Egville, MILFORD Waters, Mar
guerite Van Breydel, Fannie Went
worth and Mile Marsden. There was
enough of romance in the life Of the
sailor hero, Paul Jones, to furnish ma
terial for dramatic entertainment even
if facts alone were dealt with. The opera,
of course. does not pretend to be histor-
ical, but it lacks nothing in romantic
color, and there is just enough of the
light and shade of history in the story to
give it an additional interest. The
scenes of the three acts into which the
opera is divided, represent the harbor of
st. Malo, France, the chateau of Kerbig-
nac-on-the-Bay, and the governors pal
ace, at the island of Estrella.
Another new play was produced last
week, Joseph Arthur's Blue Jeans, the
first performance of which was given at
the Fourteenth Street theatre, New
York. The play is in four acts and eight
scenes, and depicts type of people who
live in what is known as the "Blue
JEAN district in the west. The new
scenery for it's production was painted
by Emens and Peck, and the new music
was arranged by w. s. Mullaly. Forty
people are employed in the representa-
ton and number of novel features
were introduced. Among the people in
the cast are Robert billiard, George B.
Chaplin, J.J. Wallace, George Fawcett,
Jacques Kruger, Jennie Yeamans, Ju-
dith Berolde and Laura Burt.
Harry w. Emmett has written a
comedy for David P. Steele, which the
latter intends to take on the road. The
title of the piece is BY Order of the
Court. Jennie NJ: Steele. Emma Car
Isle, Agnes Wadleigh, Ad Weaver,
| John G. Leach and others will assist in
| the performance. William f. Stanley
is the manager, and George Wadleigh
| the business manager of the company.
The Jefferson Florence company at
Palmer's theatre New York, begin
an engagement on October 18th
with performance of The
Heir at Law Besides Messrs. Jefferson
and Florence the company includes Mrs.
John Drew, Nine. Ponsi, Viola Allen,
Frederick Pauling, F. @. Bangs, Elsie
Lombard, Joseph Warren, George Den
ham and Fred G. Ross.
Philadelphia has long enjoyed the
reputation among American cities OF
exercising the narrowest supervision
over the show bills put upon the street.
| a censor OF morals goes about and in
spects all the paper put up, and if he
| thinks any Autograph coneeals too little
| and reveals too much for the weak
spirited stomachs of the youths of the
| Quaker City, he incontinently orders
| that paper down. But the city of
Brotherly Love aud artistic taste has
| been outdone by Rochester, N. Y, where
the Autographs Of Marie Wainwright
have been ordered off the streets be-
cause her dresses are cut little too
decollete at the top. as the young fellow
saws in Nanon. That is strange; for
good society is supposed to be hardened
to costumes so ensmalled. 1t is the
dress of the poor ballet girl, decollete
far below, as the same young blood re-
marks, that shocks the grande dame,
hardened to the other kind OF meager-
ness of covering. =.
In concluding review of the roper
| toire of operas presented by w. 7. Garlic
toms opera company, at the Baldwin
theater, the San Francisco Music and
| Drama had this to say MIR. Carleton's
I welcome was one of that kind so dear to