Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-20
THE MIMIC WORLD.
Los Angeles Audiences to be
Greatly Favored.
TWO SEASONS OF GRAND OPERA
Emma Juch at the Grand to be Fol-
lowed by Adelina Patti at the
Pavilion.

Charles II. Hoyt will produce two
new comedies before the season closes.
Charley Day has retired from the busi-
ness management of Cleveland's min
sstrels.
The Gondoiers open in Chicago on the
Sd of February, and will start west
shortly after.
Buffalo Bills Wild West show opened
at Barcelona, Spain, December 2lst, to
remain there six weeks.
Three weeks ago upwards of twenty
members of the 'Bostpnians" were i'll at
one time with la grippe.
Mary Anderson is booked to open a
dramatic season at the Broad way theater,
New York, October 2Sth.
Gus Williams has written q ludicrous
parody on the McGinty doggerel on the
inspiriting theme, Sup Went Guggen.
heimer."
Fannie Rice is looking for musical
comedy, and if she finds suitable piece
will probably blossom out as a star in
the near future.
Mile. Rhea had severe attack of the
"grip" while playing Josephine, En-
press of the FRENCH" at Rochester, but
she pluckily played all the time.
Lawrence Barrett is still an inmate Of
the Louisburg Square hospital in Boston,
whore he is gradually mending. He
will sail for Europe soon to make a long
foreign visit.
Roland Reed produced his new play
american Assurance in Atlanta the other
night with much success. He plays a
self.appointed detective equal to all
emergencies.
The receipts of Shenandoah for the
seventeen weeks it has already run in
New York are said to amount to 1924
$50. Bronson Howard's royalties
amount to $l7 1000.
Last night at the Los Angeles theater,
Hoyt's first effort, A Bunch of Kegs, was
presented before a pretty fair audience
for Sunday night in Los Angeles. The
old farce is played with a good deal of
vim. 1t will be repeated tonight.
Four-ffths OF the New York papers
speak in favorable terms of Gilbert and
Sullivan's new opera, The Gondoliers,
pany sent over to butcher the work in
order to make Roman holiday for
Gotham.
rical affairs will be the production of the
Pearl of Pekin. 1t is promised that it
will be as brilliant production as was
ever witnessed in New York. 1t is full
of 60, and the interest from the rise until
the fall of the curtain is not allowed to
flsg.
Sarah Bernhardt's Joan of Arc is held
as great success in Paris. The dun
geon scene and the endeavors of the
judges to show that "Joan" is a witch
are especially dramatic. The impsr.
eonation is based upon the theory of
Bastien-L -Lepage that the horoine was
subject to hsllucinations.
The latest "freak" on exhibition in
the eastern museums is a man whose
body is transparent, it being possible to
see objects through his chest by holding
lighted candle at his back. A news
paper held at his back can be easily read
through his chest or stomach. He is
said to be an educated and wealthy man
named Orslof, native of Hungary.
The fast approaching Patti season
absorbs much of the attention of the Los
Angeles theater-going public. The sale
of seats for the three operas begins at
Days music store tomorrow, and the
disposal of tickets for single performances
takes place later. The repertoire may be
found in the advertising columns of the
HERALD, and an extended criticism of
PATHS voice at the present time appears
elsewhere in these columns.
After much trouble the management
of the Grand has secured the appear
ance of Miss Emma Juch, supported by
her superb company, in a short season of
grand opera. The event will begin jan
uary Goth, and the season will be of
three nights duration. Miss Juch will
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embraces Faust, William Tell, Carmen
and Der Freischuts. The sale of seats
begins tomorrow, and at a very reason
able scale of prices.
The New York Tribune when Roland
Reed first appeared in New York in The
Woman Halter said of the player and the
play: 1.-THE Woman Hater, D. D. Lloyds
eccentric comedy, which Roland Reed
last night produced for the first time in
New York at the Fourteenth-street thea
ter, achieved decided and well-merited
success. Seldom has a new play by an
American author been greeted with more
laughter and enthusiasm. From the
time that the characters were thoroughly
introduced the fate of the play was never
for moment in doubt, and the interest
once awakened was held in frmer and
frmer grasp till the final fall of the cur
tain" Mr.. Reed opens at the Grand to-
night.
On Thursday evening the Postage
Stamp" company will commence four
days. engagement at the Los Angeles
theater, presenting at each performance
their latest comedy success A Social Ses
sion. This company enjoys big repu-
tation in the East, and the Western
papers speak in the highest terms Of both
play and people. The following is a
clipping from the Portland Oregonian,
Of January 7th: San unusually clever
company greeted the audience at the
New Park theatre last night, the vehicle
which contained it's efforts to amuse
being sparkling farce comedy entitled
A Social Session. The piece, like others
of its class now so popular among theater
goers, consists of succession of laugh
able scenes and incidents strung upon a
light and shadowy story which occupies
the place of plot and serves to intro
duce the various specialties of the men,
bers of the new company"
The management of the Los Angeles
theater announce to the amusement
patrons of this city the engagement for
six nights, commencing Tuesday, Janu-