Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-19
Points on Plays and Players
From Near and Far.
Holding the Mirror Up to Ma
ture in These Modern Days.
What Is Going On at the Local Play
Houses This Week.
Patti Rosa at the Grand Tonight-The
Francisco Concert at the Los An
geles Tomorrow Night.

PAttl Rosa VIII give ner lnltiai per
formance tonight in Fred Marsden's
play, Imp. Patti Rosa's triumphs have
not been restricted to America alone.
Great Britain has freely acknowledged
her artistic work, and made her many
tempting offers to repeat her visit; but
her home is in America, her early tri-
umphs were in America, her countless
friends are in America. and so in Amer
lea this dainty and charming little
woman will continue. Patti Rosa dur
ing the present season presents an en-
tirely new play, entitled, Imp, the work
of that great favorite and much lamented
dramatist, the late Fred Marsden, which
has been carefully revised by Clay
M. Greene. 1t was written with
the view to give the lady an oppor-
tunity for the display of her varied
talents in their most attractive form.
The plot is described as an unusually
clever one, in which the scenes and in
cidents follow each other in natural Sc
quence. The interest is not only fully
sustained, but cumulative. While the
comedy vein prevails, the serious is also
we'll developed, and gives to it an ele-
ment of strength that lends consistency
and power to all. Songs and dances
will be freely interspersed, which will
be of high order of merit.
She will be supported by strong
company, which will give an additional
guarantee of the general excellence of
the performance.
Tomorrow night j. Bond Francisco
will give concert at the Los Angeles
theater. He will be supported
by the best local talent. including
Miss Augustine Berger, Miss Mansfield,
Miss l.. Jordan, Mrs. j. S. Owens, Miss
florence Perry, Miss Beatrice Francisco,
Mr.. Modini Wood, Mr.. A. j. Stamm,
Mr.. Harley E. Hamilton, Mr.. Bern
hart Bierlich.
The programme is: Overture Men
delsshon), Fingals Cave, piano, (four
hands) violin and cello, Misses Jordan
and Mansfield, Messrs. Stamm and Bier
lien; violin, MAX Bruch), Concerto in
Il Minor, Op. 26, Introduction, Adagio,
Finale, Mr.. J. Bond Francisco; con-
tralto, (Donizetti), 0 milo Fernando,
Mrs. j. S. Owens; string quartette,
(Schubert), from Quartette in d Minor,
Andante con moto (variations), Messrs.
Francisco. Stamm, Hamilton and Bier
Itch; piano, a. (Henselt), If Were a
Bird, b. (Schubert), Impromptu Op. 80,
No. 4, Miss Augustine Berger; tenor,
(Verdi), La mia Letizia, Modini Wood !;
string quartette, "a. Tschaikowsky), An
dante Cantabile, %. Gottschalkl, Ga
Vote, Messrs. Francisco, Stamm, Ham
ilton and Bierlich; violin, (Wieniawski) J.,
End polonaise, op. 21, Mr.. J. Bond Fran
cisco; contralto and tenor, (Pinsuti),
Ciel Stellato, Mrs. j. S. Owens and MI.
Modini Wood; piano, (Rubinstein), Tar
entella, Miss Augustine Berger; string
quartette, (Mayseder), Rondo movement,
Messrs. Francisco, Stamm, Hamilton
and Bierlich ; accompaniments by Misses
Perry and Francisco.
This entertainment, it is needless to
say, will be of very exceptional order
of merit. The house is certain to be
filled to the doors. All the musical
society people will be there.
The customary weekly change of bill
is announced at the popular Main-street
musee-theater. Chief among the new
features is an illusion, Thuma, styled
the Partisan Enigma. The managers
offer 500 for the discovery of particle
of glass in the construction of this
illusion, which is the same one they ex-
hibited several weeks ago, and that
caused SO much talk as to the method
of construction.
The first installment OF tropical birds,
which is to form the nucleus of an i'm
portant menagerie, the managers have
in contemplation, will arrive today.
Tonight Sir Arthur Sullivan's new
opera, Ivanhoe, will be put on the
boards for the first time, in London.
Here is the way the critics of that city
speak OF it:
Among the musical enthusiasts, the
event which is most anxiously awaited,
and about which speculation is rife, is
the result which will attend Sir Arthur
Sullivan's first incursion into the ranks
of the composers of grand opera. The
evening of Monday, 10Th instant, is
fixed for the production of 1vanhoe, for
which the most elaborate preparations
have been made, and which will see the
light in theatre which has never be-
fore been open to the public. Curiosity
of course, is very much stirred up over
the dual event, but the house, which is
beautiful in the extreme, does not,
naturally, command the attention which
the work does, for in many quarters the
composer of the Mikado is regarded as
the hope of England, musically speak.
ing, and very great things are expected
of him by his admirers.
Mr.. D'Oyly Carte has also done his
best in order to give performance
worthy the occasion, and it is stated or
the best authority that it will not be
possible for him to ring up the curtain
ON the opera under E400 night, sun
which is remarkable, even in these days
of enormous expenditure.
De Koven's light opera, Robin Hood
will, in all probability, be the nex1
musical event in London to follow Ivan.
hoe. 1t will be produced at the Prince
of Wales theatre some time during the
middle of next month, and Mr.. Horace
Sedger, the lessee, has now definitely
engaged Miss Marian Manola, the we'll
known American soprano, to play Maid
Marion.
Musical London has been much in
terested in the new organ which well
known London builder has just erected
at Blenheim for the duke of Marlbo
rough. 1t is magnificent instrument
which possesses between sixty anc
seventy stops, and far exceeds in vol
ume, variety and beauty of tone many
of the organs which attract great dea
of attention in well-known churches
and cathedrals.'
The refusal of Patti to 60 to Russia tc
keen the enoapement she entered into