Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-17
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Those
Who Present Them.
GOSSIP FROM THE WINGS.
The Mendelssehn Quintette Cluo
and Other Attractions to Ap-
pear Here Shortly.

Next Sunday evening benefit will DC
given at the Los Angeles tneater Iol
the B. P. o. Elks.
A play at one of the English theaters
hos inst had to be modified because the
actors had a superstition against the ap'
naarance of a peacock or its feathers on
the stage.
Henry Pettitt, the successful author o1
English melodrama, is writing comedy
the principal scenes of which are laid in
America. Mr.. Pettitt contemplates a
visit to this country, to study localities
aud customs.
Zola's latest story, "The Dream" is to
be turned into comic opera by French
librettist and composer, and he has also
given to another author the right OF
making a similar use of "The Fault Ct
the Able Mouret."
Count Tolstoi's drama, The PoaUer of
Darkness, the production of which in
theaters was prohibited, has been per-
formed privately in st. Petersburg be-
fore an aristocratic audience and made a
profound impression.
Kate Castleson has some odd notions
crammed into her shapely little head.
One of her queerest crankisms is in re-
gard to eating. II can satisfy my
hunger at any time" she said to friend,
"by merely inhaling the odor."
The most noted colored actress of the
day is II anrietta Vinton Davis, OF Balti-
more. She made her debut in Wash
ington in 1888, and has been we'll re-
ceived in such roles as "Juliet,"
"Desdemona," "Queen Elizabeth" and
81 "sLsah."
Lottie Collins, of the Boston Howard
Atheneum Company, is said to be the
originator of the skirt dance in London.
She was originally with the Gaiety Com
pany and played the principal soubrette
in Monte Cristo. 1t was in this burles9ue
that skirt dancing became craze.
According to French critic at the
Partisan gardens, Beethoven's music
creates demand for beer among the
patrons, Mozart's for absinthe, Offen-
bach's for champagne, and Berlioz's for
mineral water. But when Wagner is
played everybody goes home.
Henry Irving is considering an offer
for series of Shakesperean recitals with
Miss Terry at the different cities of
England during the summer. The
scheme is to accompany them with
fine music and make them the great
est entertainments of the sort ever
given.
A fashionable New York woman says
that one of the most exquisite sensations
she experiences is that of sitting in an
orchestra chair and knowing that her big
hat shuts out the view of the etage for
two or three people behind her. II is
ryov,,o, l;l,o tbi. u,bo Ir;vo n, an tO HrIpk
between the acts.
The Hyers sisters in Out of Bondage
will be the attraction at the Los Angeles
theater on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day evenings. This comedy-drama was
written by Rev. Joseph Bradford, and is
said to contain many points of interest.
The company includes number OF the
best colored actors on the stage.
Following her Australian engagement,
Mrs. Brown-Potter will make tour OF
China. India and Egypt. 1t would not
be half 80 bad if Mrs. Potter and Mr..
Bellew would remain in India. The
climate is we'll suited to their tempera-
ment, and ii they should return to
America they might find it rather chilly.
The perennial spectacle of comedians
pranciDg about the stage with tin kettles
tied to their coat-tails has depraved the
public taste in some towns, and plays
with humanity and beauty in them are
not welcome. provided the supply of
Paper Dolls. Wooden Apes, Soap Bubbles
and Liver Sausages holds ut.-[Brooklyn
Eagle.
A novelty was introduced in Bluebeard,
Jr., at Niblo's theater, New York, re-
Gently, which effectually supplanted the
memory of Carmencita in the minds OF
New Workers.. This was the "Loon
Doom" dance, which is the national
dance of Venezuela. 1t was performed
by six South American dancers, who
are credited with having made a sensa-
ton.
The revival of the report that Mary
Anderson is to marry and forever retire
from the stage is probably without foun-
dation. At least there are many who
will not credit it until confirmed by the
actress herself. That she is engaged to
Mr.. Navarro and that she intends to wed
that gentleman may be and probably is
true. At any rate this part of the
numerous bits of gossip concerning the
future of Miss Anderson has not been
denied.
Margaret Nather has purchased Bar
bier's great play, Jean d'Arc, in which
Sarah Bernhardt has been making such
sensation in Paris, and will produce it
in this country next year with all the
music of Gounod and on the same grand
scale on which it has been given in Paris.
William Young, author of Ganelon, Pen
dragon, ETC., has been engaged to trans
late it into English blank verse. Miss
Mather will appear at Hooley's early in
March.
Some of the newspapers are groaning
and swearing because, under Justice
Fields decision in the Younger case, the
proprietor of o theater may exclude any
body, white or black. Well, why not ?
A theater is as much private property as
any other house, and it's owner has an
uHquestionable right to say whether he
will admit anybody, how many, and on
what conditions. The attempt of any
body to enter against the owners wish
is simply an attempt at an abridgement
of the owners rights as indefensible as
an assault or robbery.
Tonight w. S. Cleveland's minstrels
will commence weeks engagement at
the Grand opera house. There is spec
tacular first part, in which the stage set
ting is Venetian and the end men are
dressed as court testers of the Fourteenth
Century. The vocalists are attired in
tha tights and purple of Venetian noble