Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11


There will be no Wagner opera in Bay
reuth in 1893.
Ernest Rossi, the Italian actor, has
published volume on European actors
and actresses.
Patti is proud of her needlework, es-
pecially Of her darning, but it's cold
day when the diva works.
Albini cultivates the domestic arts,
makes splendid apple dumplings and
writes entertaining lettere.
Nine. lhodjeska plays Chopin, speaks
half ozen different languages, includ
ing English, which few can understand,
and reads the best literature in them all
"Aunt Louisa" Eldridge is busy ar
rang ng for her yearly Christmas festival
for the children of the stage, which she
hopes to make the crowning event of her
life.
Lole Fuller has been dancing the SER
pentine dance, in which she appeared at
the Hoyt Madison Square theater, be-
fore president and Madame Carnot at
the Elysees.
Henry Itving's company has present
ed MIN with statuette of himself as
Matthias, as reminder of the twenty
first anniversary of the first production
of The Bells.
Maascagni's new opera, Rantzau,
produced at the Teatro Cost angi last
week, had 80 reQalle. The subject is
Romeo and Jnliev, in tanner form and
with happier ending.
James j. Brady offers Later On fol
sale, and it ought to be bought by some
old collector of rare things as the very
worst play ever written, with the pos
sible exception of The Idea.
John w. Hamilton has resigned his
position at the New York Fifth
Avenue theater, and will manage the
Baroness" Blanc in place of Frank
Cotter, who will bring suit against the
star.
Nellie McHenry lie fond OF the wom-
anly employment Of knitting, and says
of it: "You sit aud think your own
thoughts and nothing hinders; you are
infinitely lazy and yet you are accom-
plishing good DEAL"
Charles Barton, late of the New
York Casino, who went to Europe solely
for pleasure two or three weeks since,
has secured the American rights to
The Outsider, Forbes Dawson's melo-
drama. He has also purchased two
steeplechaeers, which are to appear in
the last scene of the third act of the
play, and he ls coming back as swiftly
as an ocean racer can carry him.
j. M. Scanland OF the Los Angeles
HERALD warns theatrical managers
against the production of highly-sea-
soned drama entitled Ruth, or Mormon
Marriages. About one year ago, he
says, he entrusted the manuscript to a
Mrs. @. H. King in Chicago, and his ap-
peals for its return are unheeded. Scan
land proposes to sue managers for civil
damages who produce it except on his
authority.
Salvini has no rival today on the
formances are eagerly looked for. Since
Charles r. Thorne and Fechter nobody
has taken exclusively to the field in
which The Musketeers and similar
romantic plays are exploited. Salvini
and his manager, Mr.. w. M. Wilkison,
have secured number of novelties
which they will present the coming
season. A powerful new play by Dumae
is one Of them.
A circus advertising agent says he has
canvassed the opinion of all (?) the
dramatic critics between New York, the
Rocky mountains and Texas, and that,
without single exception, they have
expressed it as their belief that Modjes-
ka is not only the foremost artist of the
American stage, but the greatest actress
who plays classic roles in English-no,
not English, but Gibberish! Foreign
stars no longer shine brilliantly in the
rarefied atmosphere of the new world.
The night before election Mr.. Keene
played in Aurora, ILL.,, directly after his
successful engagement in Chicago to the
capacity OF the very handsome theater
there. During the performance the
manager was surprised to receive a
package of printing from the local man
ager (Which ON investigation proved to
be the entire shipment requisite for the
billing of Aurora, minus one three
sheet) With the remark "When it came
time to put the printing out the entire
house was sold out, 80 what was the
use."
The actor who tears down the Ameri-
can flag in The Ensign had aAlittle ex-
perience during the production of the
play in San Francisco which was not
very pleasant. The men who repre-
sented the sailors were obtained from
the navy yard and were all tough old
tars. One of them, an old fellow, with
tanned and SCARED face,
stood in the wings, watching
the scene with intense interest,
evidently forgetiul of the fact that he
was on the mimic stage. When the
stars and stripes were torn down
and tramnled nnon nv the villain
with an accompanying curse upon
flag, the sailor made one jump for
the actor, and with terrible yell which
could be heard all over the house, caught
him around the throat and proceeded to
throttle him. Several members OF the
company interfered and the irate sailor
was finally made to understand that the
insult to the American flag was only a
part of the play. Jack Tar was dubious
about the matter for time. He was
relieved from further duty. The Ensign
will appear at the Fourteenth-street
theater, Monday evening, December 9th.
There is perhaps no other man in the
theatrical business whose name offers
such chance for a joke as that of
Colonel Sim. Nineteen years ago,
when he first entered B ooklyn as a
theatrical manager, the question was
asked: "Why is Tom Donnelly like the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher?" Answer
because he is trying to drive Sim out
of Brooklyn" The joke was good,
everyone laughed, and since then it has
been dished up in various forms, ap-
pearing last year in New York paper
as entirely new. In order that the new