Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-08
ends the picture. Miss Davenport uses
in this scene live snake.

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Manager Wyatt, it is said, will open
his new Los Angeles theater on Novem-
Der 10th, 18th and 18th with the farce
comedy Skipped by the Light of the
Moon, which will be followed by Mckee
Rankin in The Canuck on the 26th,
9th and 28th. Mr.. Wyatt has num-
Der of fine attractions booked for the
rest of the season.
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Considerable interest has been felt
about Mr.. Dixey's new play The Man
With the Hundred Faces. The affair is
nothing more than prolonged slight
ming change" act, as the variety theater
programmes term it. He failed in The
Solicitor and takes up this change play
to recoup his manager. His reappear-
ance before long is not impossible in
some glittering burlesque.
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Heredity seems to be more forceful in
"the" profession than other lines of
life. Joe Emmett died and was buried.
Young Joe Emmett dons old Joe's cos
TUNES, learns old Joe's roles, and plays
old Joe's roles to even more money
than the happy alcoholic old Joe ever
took in to blow in.
Another. Young Alexander Salvini, re-
Gently in Memphis, played Othello, using
his fathers prompt look. Three years
ago he played a minor role here in farce
comedy. Young Emmett, it is said,
never was on the stage before he COM
menced playing his fathers parts.
NIX
Last Sunday in this column attention
was called to the demand for tall people
in dramatic productions where the
spectacular was made the feature. An
advertisement in another column for
supernumeraries for Cleopatra at the
opera house emphasizes this point
Tall young men and women, both white
and colored, are wanted-all tall. This
demand ought to be easily supplied. The
colony of colored people in this city is
large, and it is seldom that an under
sized negro is found.
DUNLoP's NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Langtry is booked at the New
York Standard for January 25th, when
her. American tour begins.
The question whether German street
musicians are artists under the terms of
the alien contract labor law is to be de.
cided by the United States circuit court
at Boston, in case which had a pre-
liminary hearing befor Commissioner
Hallett October 2lst.
The most important theatrical news in
Germany is the sailing for America, Oc-
tober 2ad and oath, of 100 members OF
the company and staff of the famous
Meininger Court theatre. The artistic
triumphs of this company will be repro
duced at the Thalia in New York.
DIR. Hamilton Griffin, stepfather OF
Mary Anderson-Navarro, arrived from
England last week. He states that Mrs.
Navarro is now residing at Tunbridge
Wells, near London, and that she does
not contemplate returning to the stage
Mr.. Griffin yet chews Negro Head to
bacco as violently as in the old days.
Edwin w. Hoff, the American tenor
| who has made such marked hit al
Robin Hood in the opera of that name
is not 25 years old. He is one
of the handsomest men on the stage
and all his friends say he has those 10y
able characteristics which make him
one of the most charming men to meet
in the world. He halls from Baltimore
miss Marie Burroughs" according
to the Chicago Herald, 'shared the
honors bestowed on Mr.. Willard on the
temperance of that actor in The Mid
dleman in Chicago" The Tribune says
''The beauty and gentleness of Miss
Burroughs are surely growing on play.
goers." No young actress of late has sc
wisely guided her own career to ultimate
success in her profession as this talented
girl has done. -2a#
Complaint has been made to the
United States commissioner of immigra
ton that the opera company which ar
rived at New Orleans October Goth, vii
New York, to- give season at the French
opera house, is acting in violation Of thu
alien labor law, inasmuch as the hair
dressers, working girls, musicians ant
choristers are brought over here unde
contract from Europe. The complain
was made by labor organization.
Alexander Salvini has been playing t
immense business in the western cities
the prices having most everywhere beef
raised to $3.50. Last week he entere,
upon tour of the principal southern
cities, going as far as New Orleans. HI
will in Memphis put on Othello for tn
first time, and is now busy with rehearl
ais, using his fathers original promI
book for that play. Salvini's phenom
email success in the standard romanti
plays is proof positive of the awakenin
interest in this class of the drama.
1t was dismal, rainy night in one
night stand in Indiana. The depressed
comedians were trying their best to b
funny in farcical skit called Early i
the Morning. The manager, Will Nc
Connell, was modify pacing the gloom
foyer and wondering how he would &c
to the next town. The advance agent @
the troupe to follow entered and cheer
lily inquired how business was. "Fine,
replied Mcconnell. with enthusiasm
"Great! Splendid! I've been out seve
weeks now, and all have sent my wifi
is the route ~
Startling Facts.