Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-02

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ner nights the audiences were made up
OF visitors from all parts of the country
from Boston, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, even from Chicago and Cincinnati.
The Wagnerian operas were put on the
stage with all the possible means of
scenic splendor, and the performances
We're universally acknowledged to be
quite equal, often superior, to those of
the greatest subsidized opera houses of
European capital. In many respects,
certainly in the singers engaged to in
terpret them, New York did not stand
whit behind the historical presentations
OF the music-dramas in Bayreuth under
Wagner himself.
San Francisco theater-goers OF twenty
years ago will remember Kate Denim.
The following from the Call will interest
such people: Sitting before the admir-
able performance of All the Comforts of
Home, now running full in its third
week at the Baldwin, one cannot help
thinking of the changes lapse OF time
makes in the lives and fortunes of those
we know and have known. Take, for
example, Mrs. Kate Denin-Wilson, the
lady who so nicely plays the part of
Mrs. Bender. Kate Denim is remem-
bered in the minds of the old San Fran
cisco public as one OF the handsomest
women on our stage. Most of the years
of her young life were spent here. She
comes back to us now after all this space
with many intervening phases of stage
experience, not quite as fresh, perhaps,
but quite as apt in the discharge OF her
duties as when we knew her at the time
Tom Mcguire was in his pride of place
as the controller of our local stage, or
later than that when the old California
was giving its tone to the theatrical his
tory OF the country. We feel like say
ing to her as the English Harry the
Fifth in his wooing said to the French
Princess, You have witchcraft in your
lips, Kate" and the public to which you
appeal will never tire of hearing your
utterances.
On March I'd Mr.. Edwin Booth willr e.
join Lawrence Barrett at the Broadway
theater, New York, where they are to
continue for four weeks. General Sher-
man was to have dined with Mr.. Bar
rett at the Union League club few
days before his death. When the gen.
eral was taken i'll, he wrote to Mr.. Bar
rett that he would be unable to keep
his appointment. This is said to have
been the last letter written by the
famous old warrior. The general and
Mr.. Barrett were friends of quarter of
a century's standing.
George Barnes, in the Call, says: The
Clemenceau Case is drawing spotted
houses at the New Bush-street, where
the members OF the audience sit apart
from each other as if by their disassocia-
ton to show they were in the auditorium
under protest. What hollow sham,
considered as play, this piece OF bawdry
is, to be sure. Two persons lend it i'm
portance by their individual efforts-Mr.
Gus Levick as the sculptor who loved
not wisely but too we'll, and his friend,
M. Constantin (Mr. KENT, who comes
to the point where Izas morals are con-
cerned with remarkable bluntness, and
champions his deceived friend in a
straight-out way that there is no mis-
taking. The women in the cast, except
ing Nine. Clemenceau, are types of the
worst forms of the sex. The display OF
affection by liza is disgusting in it's
method, but scarcely more so than that
of the mercenarv selfshness of her
mother, of whom she is an apt pupil.
LA is not a model woman, either phys
ically or morally, and the individual
who personates her has not vet learned
stage technique. Mr.. Levick ought to
devise more effective death scene for
his light-o'-love, and rehearse her in it
thoroughly. The business as now pre-
sented is crude and awkward
A Mrs. Sadie E. Marten is preparing
biography OF the late Emma Abbott,
touching all the more interesting points
in her professional career, and contain
ing many incidents in the life of the de-
parted songstress. Within ten days the
manuscript will be in the hands of the
printer, and the work will be published
by the lst of April. Mrs. Marten is
specially qualified for this self-imposed
duty, the two having been intimate
personal friends for many years. The
work was commenced under Miss Alb
bott's supervision, and all the facts were
obtained directly from her. Mrs. Mar
tens abilities as writer are we'll known
in Minneapolis, and her long acquaint-
ance with the subject of her sketch in
sures publication OF rare interest to
Emma Abbott's friends.
One of the sweetest songs every sung
by the late Emma Abbott, one composed
for her by H. S. Perkins, OF Chicago, is
Singing, My Darling, for You. 1t has
been published by the composer, with
piano and violin accompaniment, and
bears on its title-page portrait of the
late Miss Abbott and a facsimile of an
autograph letter by her.
Max Maretzek, the veteran operate
impresario and conductor, tells the fol-
lowing story in volume OF his musical
memoirs just published: remember an
incident about Christine Nilsson that
may interest you. When she was in
this country under the management of
Max Strakosch, and l was musical con-
ductor, we travelled from Cincinnati to
Buffalo. On the road, about half way.
got out and bought big sausage and a
loaf of rye bread, and when the train
began to move again began to eat with
great relish. Nilsson, who sat almost
directly opposite, turned around with a
grimace of disgust on her face. "Who
is eating garlic, or sausage, or some
thing?" she asked bitterly. SIS it you,
Max? Bah!' And out she took three
or four facons and sprinkled perfume all
over the car. Couldn't you wait till
we get to Buffalo," added Nilsson.
"Must you buy such awful stuff No;
you had to buy that awful stuff and
make me siclz.' Nilsson continued in
this strain for some time. / put the
rest of the sausage into my pocket.
apologized. l felt rather sheepish.
Now, it happened that just as we were
few hours from Buffalo freight train
broke down, and we were hemmed in