Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-24

ful prayer from the opera Stradella, ana
al aria from Verdi's Laforzadel Destino,
which has never been sung here. Mr..
Foran will certainly sing to the capacity
of the house. The accomplishments will
be played by Professor Hamm.
DuNLoP's NEWS NOTES.
Nellie Price Dow is in Denver raising
old harry with the young man who
married her last summer.
Elmer e. Vance, who was for one day
manager of Niblo's garden, says he loses
Just $4,000 and that it won't quite break
him.
thas been denied that the New York
real estate purchase recently made by
AL Hayman had anything to do with a
theatrical enterprise.
George S. knight is seriously i'll at
his mothers house at Philadelphia. He
was reported to be dying January 11th
and his wife was telegraphed for.
New York is soon to have another
daily newspaper, of which Mr.. Stephen
Fiske, a very able dramatic editor, will
be editor. The new enterprise has mill
ions behind it.
William j. Scsnlan has been removed
to Bloomingdale asylum; those who
know say that the indications are that
the actor cannot live many weeks more,
as his physical condition is growing
worse, as well as his mental.
Nicolini, the husband of Patti, is very
fond of billiards and daily watches Jake
Scha(er practice in a private room on
Broadway. Nicolini plays stiff game
himself, and aetonished one OF the Sex
perts" on Tuesday by beating him fifty
points.
There is no truth in the gossip run
ming wild in New York about Ada Re-
han leaving DR.. Daly's theater. The
doctor doesn't do things that way. If
any one is to leave the theater it's the
doctor that tells the story, and he acts
as quick in those matters as flash of
lightning.
Col. Robert Ingersoll will represent
Grace Filkins as. counsel in her suit
against Cecil Clay and Rosina Vokes for
her seasons salary. Miss Filkins re-
signed from the Vokes company in con-
sequence OF ill treatment at the hands of
Felix Morris.
Next summer Miss Nellie McHenry
takes her successful play A Night at the
Circus to the Pacific coast playing at
the theaters of Mr.. AL. Havman. She
opens at San Francisco in June, return
ing eastward in time to appear at the
Chicago Columbia theater in the latter
part OF August.
DIR. Hamilton Griffin, Mary Anderson
Navarro's stepfather, is in a very pre-
carious state of health. When he went
to Louisville some months ago, after his
brothers. death, he was sick and feeble
man. long rest here, trip by water
to Pittsburg and another rest in New
York improved him considerably, but
since his return to England another de-
cline has set in.
Marie Van Zandt gives the following
as the true version of the affair with
the Grand Duke Michael of Russia:
"He wanted to marry me, and in ac-
cordance with Russian laws, asked per-
mission OF the emperor. The emperor
said No. as | was commoner in Rus
sia. The grand duke then tried to per-
suade me to become his morganatic
wife, but the prospect of being a grand
duchess could not have induced me to
accept the offer. consider myself as
good as he is; in fact 1 consider any
good girl the equal of any grand duke"
This may speak much for Miss Van
Zandt's decorum but not for her usual
keen business ability, for, had she come
to this country as the morganatic wife
of grand duke, she would have made
such success that would have made
many other singers enviously green.
Johaun Strauss, Sir Arthur Sullivan
and Genee, seem all to have turned
their backs on comic opera and gone in
for grand opera with marked lack of
success, and the amusing style inaugur-
ated by Suppe and Strauss, at the pres.
ent, has hardly an adherent in the old
world. Celler was about the only one
in England able to carry forward the
standard, and he is dead. Suppe has
not been heard of since Glover, Delinger
since Don Caesar, and Millocker since
Poor Jonathan. In France, Audran is
said to be at work and go is Messenger,
while Victor Roger, Serpente and few
others are doing operates in the Ofen-
bach vein, but nothing great, and yet
this kind of comic opera is undoubtedly
the most popular. The young compos-
ers OF America are, however, pushing
forward. Furst with The Isle of Cham
pagne, Reginald De Koven with The
Knick bockers, and Gus Kerker and
Woolson Morse with unfinished operas
not yet named.