Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-05

Ogden men, with money made in Og-
den, and is thing OF beauty from dome
to basement.
This il what q New York paper
says of Fanny Davenport's Cleopatra:
The business at the Fifth-avenue the
ater since last Tuesday evening, the
night on which Fanny Davenport intro
duced Sardou's Cleopatra to the New
York public, has been sufficient to
prove that both the Judgment of her.
self and her manager, Mr.. Marcus R.
Mayer, was correct at the start. The
play is undoubtedly one of the most
notable and substantial successes from
financial as we'll as from an artistic
standpoint that has been seen in this
city in long time. And this is the
dullest season OF the theatrical year.
The Christmas matinee and evening
performances were unusually large, the
night being especially 80 as number of
people were unable to get seats. The
production of Cleopatra as conceived by
the authors required magnificent and
elaborate stage setting and parapher-
MALTA, and all this has been given to it.
The models and get-up of the piece were
approved by the great French dramatist,
and they were executed here with all
the ability and skill which the best art
lists and most skilled workmen could be-
stow on them. The first night was an
exceedingly severe trial for Miss Daven-
port to 90 through, for the reason that
for weeks past she has been engaged
both night and day giving her personal
attention to the direction and super
vision of the rehearsals and general get
up OF the spectacle. This, ofcourse, was
severe drain on the star, physically
and mentally, but she came out of the
ordeal victoriously, and has the satis-
faction of knowing that her enterprise
has been crowned with success. She
has now entirely recovered from her ia.
tigue, and her performance of Cleo
patra is equal to any of her great sue
cesses with which her name is associ-
ated in the past. The Marc Antony of
Melbourne Mcdowell is good, manly
| piece OF acting, but it is the play as a
whole which commands most attention,
on account of the intelligent as we'll as
gorgeous manner in which it has been
put upon the stage.
Gus Williams and John T. Kelly ap-
peared here recently in U & l. The
managers are quarreling over the play.
The San Francisco Call says:
Suit has been commenced by G. w.
Lederer against Alexander Hermann to
obtain a court order of dissolution of
partnership, the restitution OF 1859,
the appointment of q receiver, and a
general accounting.
The parties to the suit commenced
business in September, 1890, as organ
izers of a dramatic company to represent
plays in which Gus Williams and John
T. Kelley were the leading actors. The
partnership was for five years, and re-
Gently the company played an engage
ment in this city, presenting the farce
of U & L.
The defendant denies all the allega-
tions of the complaint, and states that
the plaintiff owes him $4,000, for which
he asks payment. Judge Wallace, pend
ing hearing of the case, has appointed
Wolfe F. Falk manager of the company
and receiver of the partnership finances.
An Oakland paper says: Many Oak
land people will remember Jeffreys-
Lewis, the peer of any American actress
in Forget-Me-Not and similar roles.
Oakland was her home for a while and
at her Market-street clearinghouse it
was said that she devoured more meat
than any four boarders. Here she had
her last and seemingly final "spat" with
her husband, Harry Mainhall. She was
in bad financial circumstances. She had
no more popularity as an actress. She
grew stout and little ungainiy. Mod
jeska lent helping hand and benefit
at the Baldwin theater brought Jef'reys-
Lewis $14O0. She started east and got
an engagement in company playing at
Niblo's, New York City. She was still
embittered at Mainhall. Now, however,
they are together again, husband and
wife and child. But JeffreysLewis is
evidently yet embittered toward the
stage, for she vows that she will never
let her child, who is a native of Oak
land, adopt dramatic career. Harry
Mainhall played in this city on Monday
and Tuesday nights with Maude Grang-
er's company.
Nine. Patti-Nicolini has become
great favorite in her home in the Welsh
Mills. On Christmas eve she gave the
country people pantomime and real
old-fashioned English Yuletide feast,
where good cheer was abundant and
amusement ample. Now she has ar
ranged New Years for the 1900 school
children in the neighborhood of Craig
y-Nos. She will bring them together,
give them "treat," and then. organic
ing them into vast tonic sofia society,
lead them in singing a few delightful
glees and songs. The diva will have
plenty of time to devote to the little
tots, as she will not go to Russia unless
the imperial family makes some special
concessions to her.
The Miser's Will, a play by Tom
Craven, is to be produced in New York
on January 26th by H. S. Taylor, with
Lizzie Derious DAILY in the soubrette
part, which is said to be very strong
one.
Joseph Haworth is to star for the
next five years, under the management
of H. S. Taylor, in a new romantic play
by well-known American author. He
will also be seen in Hamlet and Othello.
Daily rehearsals of The Little Count
ess, written by John A. Harrington
John Carboy) for Ray Maskell, are TAX
ing place at the Union Square theatre,
New York, under the direction of Harry
Bell and the author.
A Straight Tip, the new farce-comedy
by John j. McNally, will be given its
first production in New York on jan
uary 26th at the Park theatre, where it
will be put on for run, with James I.
Powers, formerly Of the Casino, as the
star. The new piece has just finished
remarkably successful run in San Fran
cisco.
A companion play to The Private
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