Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-20
Special correspondence OF the Herald.

theaters this week. Lewis Morrison is
8 giving Faust at the Alcazar just as he
gave it at the California the first week
. OF this month. He gives it a very fine
scenic production, the Broken scene
being exceptionally well done. 1t is an
admirable illustration of the resources
of the modern stage, now that electric
ity has come to stay. Morrison con-
ceives Mephisto as a mocking sort of
devil, wearing a sardonic smile, and
taking literally fiendish delight in do
ing cruel things, and renders his con-
, ception we'll. l think there is rather
too much OF an effort made to extract
humor from the story, which takes
away from its dramatic strength, and
that Dame Martha is somewhat too
omnipresent. Otherwise the produc-
ton is commendable.
Considerable interest is awakened in
the revival next week at the Alcazar of
A Celebrated Case, in which Morrison
will be supported by Frederick Bryton
and members of the Morrison and
Alcazar companies. Bryton is playing
at the Alcazar as a stock star. He was
the original Jack of Diamonds in For
given, and was at one time looked upon
as the coming romantic actor. Hand
some, of fine figure, and with wonder
full voice, a great future was predicted
for him but he had some throat trou-
BILE which cost him his voice for while,
and he is now bravely struggling against
odds, for his voice is not yet in form to
recover the ground he has lost.
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best kind of a reception at the Baldwin,
but this is the last week of it, as next
Monday The Idler is to be presented by
the same company. The play is by G.
Haddon Chambers, the author of Cap
tain Swift, and something very inter-
esting is looked for
career at the California with this weeks
performances. 1t has been there for
two weeks, and has played to full houses
right along. The best points about the
show are some very good specialties.
On Monday the New City Directory Up
to Date company will start on an at
temptto break the record at the most
popular theater in the city, the record
being held by Shenandoah and the
Texas Steer up to date. The City
Directory company will be practically
new one, with a carload OF well-known
fun-makers, and the opening night will
be regular hurrah.
The Grab Bag has done very we'll at
the Bush Street. but gives place to
George G. Staley, German dialect
comedian, in A Royal Pass. The Mi
kado has been the bill at the Tivoli this
week. Lew Dockstader used to remark
that "a chestnut when well roasted and
when having no worms visible to the
naked eye may be palatable and accept
able" (which is probably the reason why
people have crowded to see The Mi
kado.
Ned Sothern, pleasantly remembered
in Lord Chumley and The Highest Bid
der, will open the season at the New
York Lyceum theater the second week
in August, with new play by Buchanan
and Sims. The play has not yet been
named.
f. Soldene Powell, of the London
Drury Lane theater, will be a member
of the company which is to play piece
called The President next season. Mr..
Powell is son of Emily Soldene, MEM
ber OF the Tivoli company last season,
and who will be we'll remembered by
old-timers who saw her in her palmy
days.
Bronson Howard says the Henrietta
failed in London because the Londoners
could not understand it. They could
not appreciate old Van Alstyne, who in
anger at his son, cuts him off with half
a million.
The Shenandoah company will be al
most entirely new next season. Very
few of the old members will be retained,
as new blood is considered necessary to
wake things up.
The regular season of the New York
Lyceum theater will begin in November,
when the company returns from its
present tour. The opening bill will be
Lady Bountiful, new play by Arthur
w. Pinero, the author of Sweet Laven-
. der.
Richard Mansfield will be out here
next April, playing twelve weeks on the
Pacific coast. His tour will be under
the direction of AL Hayman.
George G. Tyler, who was in Los An
geles ahead of the Little Tycoon, will be
in advance of James O'Neill next season.
Three of Archie Gunter's plays will be
in full blast the coming season, Mr..
Barnes of New York, Mr.. Potter of
Texas, and Miss Nobody of Nowhere.
Sheridan Block, who has played Count
Danella SO we'll with Mr.. Barnes, will
play the scheming Lord in the latter
production, and Hugo Toland, as you
probably know, will play the title role
with Mr.. Barnes.
Jerome X. Jerome, the clever author
of those bright books, Stageland and
Three Men in Boat, as we'll as Of other
things, is coming over to this country in
November to finish a play for the
Lyceum of New York. He is also en-
gagged by an American syndicate to
write his impressions of America to con-
trast with the disagreeable things writ
ten by Rudyard Kipling.
The three principal roles in Their
midor will be played by Forbes Robert
son, Elsie De Wolfe and Frederick Bond,
q strong trio. Thermidor, which has
been pronounced Sardou's masterpiece,
and the production Of which was inter-
dicted in Paris by the theatrical censor
for political reasons, will come to the
coast.
The play in which Charles S. Dickson
is to star has the rather singular name
Incog.
Sardou is going to write a play
especially for Charles Frohman's stock
company. Frohman, by the way, will
have between twenty and thirty attrac-
tions playing next season. N