Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-19
News About Actors Known
to Fame.
Gossip About the Stage and
Its People.
Amusements Announced for This
City in the Future.
Herrmann's Vaudevilles at the Los
Angeles Theater Next Week.

Thomas W. Keene expects to retire
from the stage in year or two.
1t is announced that Julia Marlowe
will be her own manager next season.
The profits of the Jefferson-Florence
combination for the season foot up about
$142,000.
Next season Stuart Robson will pre-
sent She Stops to Conquer, and produce
two new plays.
Fanny Davenport will sail for Europe
next week to consult with M. Sardou
about Cleopatra, which she is to produce
next season.
Manager Al Hayman is in Paris nego-
tiating for the American rights of
spectacle now running at the Gaiete
theater in that city.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett will return to
this country in about two weeks. The
latest letters say that he is very much
improved in health.
Annie Louise Cary is living in New
York. At concert given in Brooklyn
recently she sang in the chorus and re-
marked that she was afraid to appear as
a soloist.
Patriotic denizens of st. Louis deny
the report that theatrical matters are so
dull in their city that carriages have to
be sent to the dead-heads to induce them
to attend
The Gondoliers will be produced in San
Francisco by the Kreling Bros. the 10Th
of June. The rights have been pur-
chased from Manager Henderson by
them. They will have the territory
from Denver to the Pacific coast.
Sovc tho Dotroit E,oo D,oao. ,o
authenticated fact that the Italian opera
in New York this season drew more
money in four week than the Wagner
opera drew in four months on the same
stage and in the cream of the season" !"
Ever since congress settled upon site
for the worlds fair new amusement pro-
jects have been freely floating about
Chicago. Not less than four new
theaters are talked of, and probably as
many more are figuring beneath the
surface. Some of these enterprising
spectators should be told the fable OF
the butterfly that fitted too close to the
candle flame.
The performance of lie Genh1homme
Pduure, announced for tonight at the
Berkeley Lyceum by Mr.. Georges Buis-
son, has been postponed for a week on
who was to have played Madeline. )"
This important item found space in a
New York daily, and was reproduced in
rural eastern sheet under the heading
of Agricultural" Still people come
west to escape cultivation.
Seilor Sarasate, the eminent violinist.
pays this tribute to M. Saint-Saens ::
"One of the most remarkable musicians
in Saint-Saens. He is compendium of
Bach and the old masters, and he knows
everything rom memory, everything
think of this man who will tell you in
which part of a score of an old work by
Bach or by Palestrina such or such a
passage is written; where in a score Of
some other master in such or such edi-
ton OF the same, occurs phrase for
fagott or oboe; a man who will sit down
to the piano and play from memory any
and everything in the classic scores. 1t
is wonderful, wonderful! ~
Sophie Eyre has uttered her views on
matrimony. She is of the opinion that
actresses ought not to marry. This is
what she has to say on the subject: ga
husband interferes with our artistic
plans. An actress is always more or
less hampered if she has a man at her
heels. Ii an actress does marry she
should have man she can absolutely
dominate, or one so superior to herself
that she could worship him for his
greatness. Commonplace, matter-of-
fact husbands are useless additions to
the families of women on the stage" :"
Miss Eyre is very plainspoken, at all
events, and her dominating or worship
ing idea is certainly as original as it is
refreshing