Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-01

PuuilC FoTulcC ID just.
Chas. Frohman's Men and Women
company opened the new Columbia
theater in Boston last week, and played
TO capacity every performance.
Victory Bateman has resigned from
Fred Warde's company on account of
poor health. Her place was filled by
Adele Belgarde, wonderfully clever
actress.
1t costs Fanny Davenport's manager
just $732 to bring the two carloads OF
scenery necessary for the production of
Cleopatra from San Francisco to Los
Angeles.
Henry L. Merritt, formerly critic on
the Tribune in this city and recently
San Francisco correspondent of the
HERALD, is now critic on the Music and
Drama.
Charles III. Hoyt has lately been play
ing the part OF Braasy Gall in his own
play, A Texas Steer. He is made up to
look as Josh Ogden, and Josh is as mad
as Texas steer.
Miss Eastlake's tour has ended. Poor
business and lack of funds to continue
are the causes. Miss Eastlake has ca
bled to London for money, and will
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Hanlons Brothers spectacular novelty
Superba, now touring the country a
second season, appears to be realizing
all the prophecies made for it. 1t is
said to be the best of all their produc-
tions.
Wilson Barrett will shortly appear in
London as Othello, and the performance
is being looked forward to with great
interest by the actor-manager' many
friends. The Desdemona will be Miss
Maud Jeffries, young American.
Mr.. Wheeler (Nym Crinkle) says that
he wrote letter giving Mr.. Arthur the
authorship OF Blue Jeans and The Still
Alarm, at Mr.. Arthur's request. He now
complains that Mr.. Arthur insisted upon
his believing it. This is too much.
Miss Marie Wainwright is nearing the
end of her long and prosperous engage
ment at Palmer's theater, New York,
where her fine production of Amy Rob-
sart has drawn very large audiences
from the start. She will be at the Grand
in January.
The Jefferson-Florence combination is
appearing in The Rivals at the Garden
theater, New York, to the largest audi
ences ever seen in that house. After
their engagement there they start for
this coast, appearing at the Grand in
February.
The first performance in this country
of Pineros comedy, Lady Bountiful, will
York, on November 18th. Herbert Kel-
cey, George Cayvan, w. j. LeMoyne
and Effie Shannon will have the impor-
tant roles.
During his engagement at Toronto,
Mr.. Robert Mantell appeared as Hamlet
to one of the largest audiences ever seen
at the Grand opera house. All the pa
pers the next morning praised the per-
formance, recognizing that his concep-
ton of the part was very able and that
it reflected great credit on the clever and
popular young actor.
Thermidor, which has called forth
storm of criticism, is doing a big bust
ness in New Yofk. Sardou, in cable
gram, has come to the rescue of Elsie de
Wolfe. He says she rehearsed her role
with him six weeks in Paris, and that
she plays it precisely as he intended it
should be played. He laughs at the
idea Of it's being part of Bernhardt,
Modjeska or Clara Morris, as some of
the critics insist.
Marie Halton, who some time since
gained notoriety by eloping from the
Casino with London diamond mer-
chant, has been compelled to sell her
jewels. They were said to be worth
$l2,0 900, but were knocked down under
the hammer for $4,000. The elopement
scandal brought out the fact that the
fair runaway was 45 years old, and the
mother of grown-up son hence her
difficulty in getting an engagement.
A company will soon start from New
York with the intention of playing
Hamlet in one night stands. The man
small towns have not seen Hamlet for a
long time, because the play is too ex-
pensive for any but towns in which they
are able to remain at least one week.
The Hamlet by this company will be
done by twelve people, and the scenery
will be carried in trunk and tackled
over the old scenery in the theaters
used.
The western papers say that it is an
interesting study in the problem of
heredity to see young j. K. Emmet.
The songs that have been endeared to
thousands by "Fritz" Emmet's singing
of them are still the feature of the new
Emmet production, the dancing that
seemed to be a part of "Fritz" EN-
NETS nature is still introduced, the by
play with children and the love of them
is still depended upon for the vitality of
the central character of the play, and all
of it is just as pretty and as attractive
as during the elder Emmet's palmy
days.
Cavalleria Rusticana is as full OF tricks
as the monkey on an Italian organ. 1t
is trick to sing the principal tenor song
before the curtain rises; trick to use
the church as contrast to the passion
ate scenes before it; trick to call this
singing pantomime a melodrama; a
trick to give the same soft, sweet, sens
uous Sicilian song over and over again,
as tenor, solo, as soprano solo, as a
duet, as a chorus--now in the minor,
now in the major, now as an intermezzo,
then as finale; trick to pass sud.
denly from piano to forte, from fortissi-
mo to silence; trick to add Wagneriar
orchestration to tunes that may be
whistled.
When Edwin W. Hoff, the youne
American tenor, who has recently made
big hit as Robin Hood, was boy, he
worked in a store in Baltimore, at "a
week. He was then also singing in {
church choir and had good alto voice
One day he fell down in the hatch iron
the third story and struck keg OF mai Ii
which part1u hrOka hic fall for he