Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-25
THEATRICAL NEWS AND GOSSIP,
The Los Angeles Theater to Be
a Beautiful House.
The Junior Partner the Next Play
at the Opera House.
Mr.. Perry Making His Theater a Most
Attractive PIace-Coning Attrac-
tions-Notes From Dun .-
lop's News.

The Los Angeles theater is being
made a marvelously beautiful place
under the ski'lful direction of Architect
Woods. Mr.. Perry has decided to make
it as attractive as money and good taste
will permit, and will doubtless find
himself we'll repaid. Manager Wyatt
will this fall find himself in charge OF a
jewel of a house, one which the public
will be delighted to patronize. A series
of strong attractions have been booked
for the house which will be credit to
the management.
| THE JUNIOR PARTNER.
One af Charles Frohman's companies
will play an engagement Of two nights
and matinee at the Grand opera house,
Friday and Saturday September 3Oth
and October 1st, appearing in The
Junior Partner. The company includes
Mr.. Henry Miller, Miss May Irwin, Mrs.
Mckee Rankin, Miss Emily Baucker,
Mr.. Hugo Toland, Mr.. Thos. Ryley, Miss
Phyllis Rankin, Mr.. f. B. Strong and
others. The Junior Partner is comedy
in three acts, by the French authors,
Bessin and Care. authors OF Mr.. Wilkin-
sons Widows, DR.. Bill and other sue
cessful plays. and il alleged to be the
climax Of farcical fun.
Clyde Fitch's one-act play, Frederic
Lemaitre, will be presented as curtain
raiser.
NOTES FROM DUNLOPS NEWS.
The Rice-ized ''1492" has caught on
in Boston.
Arthur c. J. Dazey is ill in Chicago
from overwork.
Addie Cummings has made big hit
in Me and Jack, in Boston.
Hoyt's A Temperance Town has caught
Cincinnati very strong this week.
A Trip to the Circus Is having mon :
! key and parrot time of it in st. Louis.
John w. Thompson is no longer a
member OF Wllkison's Widows company.
| DR.. Augustin Daily and Ada Rehan
will arrive in New York September 18th.
During its first week en- tour, A "Trip
to Chinatown road company, played to
$5957.
A new farce comedy, called Plum Pud-
ding, is soon to star. on the road from
! st. Louis.
The San Francisco courts decide that
Mckee Rankin has no legal ground for
fadivorce. = Is --4---------s-a
A wag has it that Fanny Davenport is
shooting Welsh rabbits from the win
dows of her castle in Wales.
Sims and Raleigh's new comedy, The
Guardsman, will be produced at the
London Court theater, October 1st.
Pauline Hall begins a seven weeks
engagement in the Miner Fifth-avenue
theater. in New York, September 10th,
in Puritania.
Frank W. Sanger and Gus Bothner's
The Voodoo, has made Distinct hit on
the road. 1t will prove big money
winner.
John A. Stevens was married last week
to Tessie Butler, but his last wife says
she has not yet been divorced, and great
big trouble is looming up for John A.
Robert Downing is playing to top
heavy houses in the west, and if they
were not we'll braced every one he has
so far played in would turn upside
down.
Miss Kenyon Bishop, who last season
m ade quite success as Cad Wilbur in
The Still Alarm, has returned to the
city fiom her summer wanderinga. She
is one OF the clever soubrettes of our
day, and her resemblance to Marie
Tempest, by the way, is very striking.
John g. Towers, who calls himself the
"great American tragedian," was ar
rested in New York for stealing a bicy.
Gle. He is the author of Lille or Wife, in
which ne proposes to star this season.
He admitted his guilt, and told the
judge he stole to get money for his
starving wife and children in Middle
town, N. Y.
John Russell's new play is called ga
Society Fad," and will soon bs pro.
duced. John is pretty hard man to
sell play to. a fad which the author
knew, for one day, the manuscript was
thrown over the transom of Johns door
at the Gilsey house. He found it on the
floor when he returned, read it that
night, and owned it before sundown
next day.
General Manager Frank Mckee looked
over the Trip to Chinatown company,
at the Hoyt Madison Square theater in
New York on Monday; on Tuesday
night he was at Chester, Pa, watching
the Hole in the Ground company, and
on Wednesday he was in Boston with
the road company, playing A Trip. For
two weeks he will continue to 'live in
his trunk" and then he comes back to
New York.
Katie Emmett, in Killarney, has been
filling Pope's st. Louis theater to over
flowing during the week. The unani-
nous opinion of the western press agrees
with the metropolitan in this, that Kill
larney is the best Irish play yet pro-
duced, and that Miss Emmett deserves
great credit for having raised it out of
decided conventional rut into great ex-
cellence. Miss Emmett is sure OF bar
rel OF money before the roses bloom
again.
Donnelly and Gerard's Natural Gas,
after remarkably successful tour of the
west, extending to California, return to
Brooklyn for week. The merry play
has been tremendous money winner
from the start, hut the clever stars have
80 often interpolated new and bright
things that the present is an en-
tirely new version of the original play.
In fact, 90 often are changes made that
Samuel Popular Cox, the manager, often
fails to recognize it after weeks abb
sence.
Wright Huntington has been secured
by Manager Price to head his Imagia-
tiOn cnmnauv the eominc noaeon This