Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-20


entrusted the manuscript to a Mrs. G.
ID. King in Chicago, and his appeals for
return OF the manuscript are unheed-
ed. Scanland states that this is the
third time that his confidence has been
abused in reference to this drama, and
proposes to sue managers for civil dam
ages who produce it except on his au-
thcrity.
NOTES FROM DUNLAP's NEWS,
Annie Pixley's new play, The Stormy
Petrel, was tried in Providence last
week.
Ernst Won Wildenbruck'a new play.
Master Balzer, produced in Berlin, ia a
failure.
E. S. Willard is to appear at the
New York Star theater on November
21st.
A receiver has been appointed for
larry Lacy IN the action begun against
him by Elsie Lombard for $500.
Rose Coghlan will not produce The
Checkbook in New York this tina
owing to the great euccess of Diplomacy.
Henry Dxey has begun ehearsals on
his new" play, which is Gunter's Pollv
Middles switched into Mr.. Dodd of Chi.
cago.
Max freeman is slowly recovering.
He was very i'll when the newspapers
began writing his obituary, and that
cured him.
The name of the new play Baroness
Blanc will present at the Fifth Avenue
in January is Deception. 1t is literal
translation of play by Dumas.
| Charlotte Walker, New York girl.
| has made successful debut at Covent
| Garden as Airline in The Bohemian Girl.
She is dramatic soprano of great abil-
ity.
Clara Morris produced play called
Claire in Omaha last week. It ia an
adaptation from the German, made bv
herself. 1t is an emotional drama and
does not amount to much.
Edwin Booth has returned to New
| York from Lakewood, but will winter at
| the house OF his daughter, Mrs. Ignatius
| Grossuan, and not at the Players club.
He was able to walk to the train.
Mr.. Lucius Henderson is astonishing
everybody by his wonderful piano play
in Frienos, and people who think they
are about being bored, when he touches
the ivories invariably demand two or
| three encores.
AAOulED w heSA6 LIS UlaVGu IEG Jltl0
role OF Ricnard III over seventeen hum
dred times. He is giving fine scenic
| reproduction of the tragedy this season
and in large cities uses over a hundred
| people in the battle scene.
Thomas w. Keepe is SWEEPING everv-
thing in the tragic line this season. His
business has been enormous, ard he ia
now playing two weeks in several of the
large cities. None of the other trage-
dians are Sin it" with him this time.
Sara Bernhardt is writing a play.
This is her first attempt at writing for
the stage. but she has already pub
liebed two books. the Voyage dune
Chaise and the noted Marie pigeounier,
reply to Marie Columbier's attack
upon her in the vulgar Sarah Barnum.
Rudolf Gott, the young native-born
American pianist who is to make his
debut during the latter part of this
month, is hard at work refearsing, and
those who have heard him understand
ingly say that he will create very great
musical excitement when heard.
Miss Emily Lytton, the clever leading
lady of J. K. Emmet's Fritz in Ireland
company, who has during the last sea-
| con been added to the queen of Amer
| lean stage beauties, is Californian by
birth. The coast, by the way, has fur
nished as many beauties of late as did
Baltimore half dozen years ago.
Frank Daniels is rehearsing his new
play, Blood Will Tell. By the by, they
! now cay on the Ralto that Frank and
| Edward Hugh Sothern are closer than
| the closest, and that Joe Murphy, John
ME Wild, "Cast Iron" Billy West, Billy
Crane and James B. Mackie are epend-
thrifts compared with them.
DR.. Augustin DAILY. after a lengthy
legal fight, has finally beaten William
A. Brady for infringing upon his copy
right by borrowing the railroad scene
from Under the Gaalight and putting it
in After Dark. William A. is to pay the
cost OF the suit, and someone is count
ing the number of times the railway
scene has been produced, with view to
damages.
Captain Alfred Thompson, the gro
tesquely incompetent English theatrical
designer, who made such fasco of the
Columbus celebration night pageant,
has sued the city CT New York for
Sill 500, He received $4,000 on account
| for the fzzle, and now q counter suit is
to be brought against him for bringing
his share OF a public enterprise into
public ridicule and contempt"
Essie Tittell has decided to drop her
girlhood name and Will hereafter be
known by her baptismal name of Esther,
deemipg 1t more consistent with the
dignity of her present position, as the
leading actress Of Charles Frohman's
Mr.. Wilkinson's Widows company. But
whether she is known as Essie or Esther
she will be just rs clever an actres ss snd
just as greatly admired.
Florindo Konger Herve, the composer,
died on Saturday in Paris, it is said,
from chagrin arising from the failurs of
his operetta, Bacchinale. In 1858 he
founded the Theater of Folies Nouvelles.
Among lis successful operettas have
been La Fanfare De ST. Cloud, LIE Hus-
sard Persecute, Les Chevaliers De La
Table Ronde, LIE Trone d'Ecosse, La
Marquise Des Rues.
Mrs. Daniel Bandmann writes that
she is coming to America to press her
claims as wife against Daniel Bandmann.
She says she left America in 1880,
broken-hearted and in Ill health, and
when che recovered she devoted herself
in Germany to the care Of her six chill
dren. He has never since cent her
cent, nor has he written her for over five
years, though he still holds her earnings
for the eleven years she worked with
him, and has them invested in his Mon
tana ranch. Concerning the report of
Mary Kelly the wife says: "It was
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