Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-08

then ?'' Frank was asked one day.
"Well," he replied with a peculiar
gleam in his soft gray eyes, 81 made it
known that l was looking for tragedians,
and l got splendid line OF goods. To
my way of thinking queer tragedian is
an awfully funny man. So in that way
got out of my difficulty, eased the the
atrical market and kept salaries within
reasonable limits"
Frank, you are fnancier as well as
manager" remarked his friend.
Points on Plays and Players.
Lawrence Barrett intends to revive
Francesca de Rimini this season.
Adele Frost's tour in Sardou's new
play, Lucille. will begin the first Mon
day in October.
Columbus first saw the light in Los
Angeles at the Grand, when Lydia
Thompson was here.
1t is said Augustin, DAILY calls Mrs
Gilbert, Ada Rehan, John Drew and
James Louis his big four.
Effie Ellsler will produce a new play
written especially for her by Howard
p. Taylor some time during the present
season.
Wilson Barrett's melodrama Good
Old Times is to be produced at the
Fourteenth street theater, New York,
on September l5.
Alice Harrington, the youngest sister
Of Marie Burroughs, has come to New
York to make final preparations for
metropolitan debut,
w. R. Hayden, Stuart Robson's
manager, has returned from Europe.
Active preparations for Mr.. Robson's
next tour will soon be set on foot.
The Sisters Levy, three young English
women who are to be members of the
Evans & Hoey's Parlor Match company
this season, have arrived from Liver
pool.
The First Mate is the title of drama
written by Gus Levick. The title is all
right, but we will have to wait for the
production to see about the righteous
ness of the play.
theater ended with the performance of
last evening, the house will be closed
this week. William II. Crane will APP
pear in the Senator next week.
Columbus made decidedly favorable
impression at the Holiday street theatre
the last week and the Baltimore papers
speak well of its future. The play has
been considerably changed since it was
played here.
While Twelfth Night will remain the
principal feature Of Marie Wainwright's
coming tour, she will occasionally appear
in The Honeymoon with Barton Hill
as Duke Aranza and w. f. Owen as
the Mock Duke.
After twenty-eight weeks performance
at the Chicago opera house, THE Crys-
tai Slipper extravaganza company left
Saturday night, for st. Louis, and after
q week there, they go to San Francisco,
then to Los Angeles.
Shenandoah, which was burned out in
the McVicker Theater fire at Chicago
recently, played the same night at four
hours notice without proper scenery or
costumes in the Auditorium to $2,257,
and gave a good performance.
Steele Mackaye rehearsed Paul Kauvar
daily, preparatory to the opening OF the
season Sept. 5. in Trenton, N. J. E. j.
Buckley played ther title role, and he
ought to play it well. Paul Kauvar is
played under the management of Eugene
Robinson, who recently purchased the
play.
William Fleron's version of Alexander
Dumas play, "L'Affaile Clemenceau,"
is to be produced at the Standard thea
ter, New York, on September 18th. Will
ton Lackaye, John Kellard, Frank Tan
nehill, Alice Fisher, Harriet Ford, Ella
Gardiner and Mrs. Elizabeth Post will
be in the cast.
The following people have been en-
gagged for the Pauline Hall opera COM
pany, now rehearsing at Chickering hall:
Homie Welden, Rachael Booth, Rosa
Cooke, Carrie Russell, Charles H. Drew,
j. S. Greensfelder, Arthur e. Miller,
Walter Copleigh and Charles r. Bur
rough. The musical director is Edgar
S. Kelley.
The Rajah will be put on the road
this season under the management OF
Sturgeon, Tener and Young. 1t will be
seen in Albany Sept. 10. The claim is
made for it by the management that it
is "the youngest theatrical firm on the
read, the Oldest being not yet thirty
years of age" 1t is to be hoped it will
live to a good old age.
Agnes Huntington, accompanied by
her opera comique company. sailed for
this country on September 3rd, on the
City of New York. Marcus r. Mayer,
who is associated with Ben. Stern in the
management of this company, will be
one OF the party. Miss Huntington will
open on Monday, Oct. 9th, al the Broad
way theater, New York.
Henry Neville, one of the foremost
leading men of the London stage, arrived
in this country last week to begin an en-
gagement with Eugene Tompkins at the
Boston theater in his forthcoming pro-
duction of The Soudan. This representa-
ton will be the most expensive and
elaborate that has ever been made, oven
at this theater, the scene of the initial
production of such successes as Youth,
The Silver King and The World.
Trapezist William Hanlon, who suffer
ed fall from a broken trapeze at the
academy during the initial performance
in America of the Hanlon-Volter & Mar
tinetti Company, is fast recovering from
the effects of the accident. He will ap-
pear upon the academy's stage in New
York and bow his acknowledgements tc
the audience. Young Hanlon expects
to again engage in his remarkable mid
air feats at the academy soon.