Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-26
Holding the Mirror up to
Nature in These Days.
A Dull Week This in the An
gelic City Theaters.
The Alcazar Company Next Week and
H. NJ. Stanley Later On.
Points on Plays and Players from Many
Lands, with Some Notes on Skirt
Dancers and the Senoritas.


ception of Thursday night, when the Los
Angeles theatre will be opened by the
Cakes speciality company, who will ap-
pear for the benefit of Treasurer w. w.
Conant and Head Doortender Captain
Moody. Both gentlemen held their
respective positions for a long time at
the Grand opera house during H. G..
Wyatt's management. After Mr.. Wyatt
had given up the lease of the Grand and
taken the New Los Angeles theatre, they
were transferred to the new theatre,
and now occupy the same positions.
This is the fret testimonial benefit
either of them ever received, and the
house should be filed with their friends.
The company that has kindly volun-
teered to play Tor their benefit come
well recommended by the press OF the
country, and is one of the Oldest organ
ixations now travelling. They were es-
tablished in 1877, and have been on the
road continually ever since. They are
known as the original Swiss bell ringers,
and give very pleasing and novel en-
tertainment. The box Office will open
Monday for the sale of reserved seats,
and which can be secured without extra
charge.
At the New Los Angeles theatre, Mon
day evening. February I'd, will be pre-
sented for the first time in this city
Augustine Daly's successful comedy The
Magistrate. This play was the original
property OF the late John T. Raymond,
who made the hit of his life. The piece
was successfully produced by the Wal
lenrod & Stockwell company at the AL
cazar, San Francisco, and was conceded
by the press and public as one OF the
best things ever done at that theatre.
1t will receive the same original cast
here as played in San Francisco, even to
the smallest part. The second play on
Wednesday and Thursday nights will be
another of Augustine Daly's plays,
70-20-S. This play has also proved one
of the Alcazar comedy successes. On
wins comedy, Turned Up, will be pre-
Magistrate will be repeated. After the
engagement here the company will make
a tour of the Southern California circuit.
It is now an assured fact that the
African explorer, Henry M. Stanley, will
lecture in Los Angeles. Colonel John
+. Bragg, of San Francisco, who repre-
sents Mr. Stanley, has obtained from
various citizens guarantee sufficient to
warrant his completing arrangements
for lecture here, which will be the only
city in Southern California in which he
will lecture, as Mr.. Stanley returns
directly east from this place. A very
large attendance is already assured, the
subscription being very large. All the
adjacent cities have responded freely.
He will be accompanied by his charm
ing wife and several of those who ac-
companied him into Africa.
On the 28th instant, at Simpson
Tabernacle, the Hild-Park concert COM
pany will give an entertainment. The
artists are Herr Carl Hid. the great
German violinist Miss Ella Jocelyn,
the famous New York contralto; Fred
eric Gillette. the we'll known and popu-
lar baritone; Mrs. Carl Hid, accompa-
mist; Miss Annie Park, the greatest
living lady cornetist.
Divide Musin and new company, with
the exception of Mrs. Tanner, will visit
California again in March, and will
open at the Los Angeles theater on the
18th of March, playing there for two
nights only. HERALD readers will un-
doub edly remember the great success
that Musin had in our city four years
ago.
Professor Short has a fine crayon
portrait of the late Emma Abbott in the
window OF Sprigs-street store, which
attracts great attention.
There are more uliets on the stage
than there were Richmond son Bosworth
field. Here is another: Miss Louise
Montague, the pretty burlesquer, has
an ambition to play in tragedy, and
proposes to give her ambition full swing
during the season of 1892 or 1898. She
wants to play Juliet, and says she has
received much encouragement from
leading actors and actresses of this
country. In an interview Miss Monta-
que said: 81 have long cherished de-
sire to do serious work and have been
urged by people of good judgment to try
it. For years have studied and adj
vanced in my work, and / feel now is
the time to go straight at the task be-
lore me. l have an uncomfortable
tragic tendency, and am determined to
give it vent. wonder if the public will
smile when they learn that 1 am anx-
ious to play Juliet?"
Julie Rosenwald writes this about the
late Emma Abbott: Our daily journals
forget the fact that something more
than mere praise for her singing is due
to Emma Abbott. She was public
educator. Theodore Thomas cultivated
the public taste for classical orchestral
music, and Emma Abbott educated the
masses to the appreciation of legitimate
opera by giving them opportunities to
hear such works as Romeo and Juliet,
Paul and Virginia, King for Day (and
others especially translated for her), at
admission rates within the reach of all.
/ was associated with her for three
years. and during that time never knew
her to display any arrogance or haughti-
ness toward any member of her COM
pany. Besides being a conscientious
musician, she was a good woman, an
honor to the stage, and her loss will be
sincerely mourned by many.
s'While all the talk about skirt dane
ing is going on, and so many people are
studying its history" said well-known
theatrical man, "it seems to me that it
might be well to recall the real origin
ator of that dance. She was not only
the first skirt dancer, but she is still by
long odds the most graceful, successful
and accomplished of them. refer to
Rosina Vokes. The dancing che origin
ated many years ago combines all of the
grace OF the present skirt dance, with
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