Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

1enJ W Jaii ii ne 1aQ D0en D0rn In Franco
instead of America.
Our Angel, new play by f. J.
Swartz, was produced at Philadelphia
| on Monday.
John T. Kelly will start out next sea-
con with new farce comedy called Nc
Fee OF Dublin.
| Henry Greenwall is to remain in New
York as resident manager OF the Union
| Square theater.
Katie Emmet's new play, Killarney,
is to be produced at the New York Star
theater in August.
Shore Acres Sub Division. Mr. Herne's
new New England play. is being re-
hearsed in Chicago.
Charles De Forrest, the actor who
tried to brain Manager Ernest Hutch
inson, got nine months for his pains.
w. H. Pope, clever actor and elocu-
ZIONIST who has been seriously ill for
nearly seven years, will shortly have q
benefit.
Max Figman has recently retired from
the cast Of Elysium. Lew Rosen and
Edward Hoist have formed q play
writing partnership.
The supreme court of New York has
for alimony in her suit for divorce from
Barclay E. Warburton, and the suit has
been withdrawn.
The fourth generation Of the Wallack
family in America was increased on
Monday last by the presentation to Mr.
Arthur Wallack of bouncing twelve
pound baby boy, to be known through
life as Lester Wallack.
In a week Mr.. Robert Mantell will
bring the most prosperous season he has
ever had to an end, and in June will sail
for England for a short rest Of q month.
He returns to what will probably be his
greatest triumph, q long run at the New
York Twenty third street theater, in the
early autumn.
The production of Friends at the
| Standard has been treated to polish.
ing up since the first performance, and
it has materially benefited thereby.
Certain little crudities have been effaced
and the result is that very pretty.
morally wholesome effect as whole has
been reached. One or two things still
remain that could be dispensed with, for
there is no necessity at all for the mas
querading in woman's clothes in the
first act. Mr.. Royle is too clever not to
be able to overcome this incongruity
with something that does not belong
strictly to Humpty Dumpty.
Donnelly and Girard shut down their
eastern storage tanks and boxed up
their meter, and started for the west
last week, where they are to establish
their new plant and proceed to illumin-
ates those darkened regions with the
brightest, funniest and most cleverly in
terpreted farce comedy of many and
many season. Samuel Popular Cox,
as usual, is in the vanguard of the pro-
cession, and has made preparations to
light up the entire far western circuit. q
trip which will take up the entire sum-
mer. The public keeps right on coming
and seems perfectly satisfied with the
bill, probably the only gas bill that ia
paid cbeerfully. not to cay gladly.
Mr.. Nixon, musical editor of the Inter
Ocean, says that Edwin w. Hoff is un-
doubtedly the best on the light operatic
stage, and that he essayed his original
creation, the title role in Robin Hood,
singing with more finish and fervor than
ever, and acting with manly dash that
gave the bold outlaw due share of
prominence. Mr.. Nixon as usual is cor
rect, for Mr.. Hoff is indeed an ideal
tenor. He is manly in appearance, un-
affected in action, and has voice r0-
bust in the lower register. clear and
true in the upper, and warmly exp.es-
sive, Mr.. Hof is at present with the
Bostoniane and is esteemed by New
Workers. He has numerous offers for
next season, but proposes to enjoy q
long rest during the season-the first he
has had for seven years-before he de-
cides. a
David Henderson's American Extrav-
aganza company will present their latest
extravaganza, Ali Baba, or Morgiana'
and the Forty Thieves, at the Chicago
opera house June I'd. This will be week
earlier than the appearance of any pre-
vious production by the same company.
Rehearsals have been in progress for
nearly two weeks, under the direction of
Richard Barker, and the company, cho-
rus and ballet are already thoroughly
easy in their respective parts and duties.
The scenery, which is in nine sets and
four tableaux, is by Frederick Danger
field, who painted the beautiful canvaees
of the revived Crystal Slipper and Sin
bad. Ali Baba, it is promised, will sur
pass in pictorial display any OF Hender-
sons famous scenic pieces. The cos
TUNES OF the production have been
made from designs by Howell
Russell of London and Baron de
| Grimm of New York. The greater
part of them have been made in
Chicago, in the wardrobe rooms of the
Chicago opera house, by Madam Elsie
Freisinger, assisted by Madam Prinz.
About one hundred Of the garments,
however, were brought over from Eu-
rope, where they were made by Alias,
the celebrated London costumer. The
imported costumes comprise tho
dresses Of the Forty Thieves and those
of one ballet. They are described as
the most magnificent and expensive set
of stage garments ever seen in this
country some of them, to be worn by
minor characters and dancers. costing
5000 and $500 apiece, while the dresses
OF one or two principals run as high
as 5000. The lyrics of Ali Baba are
by Harry B. Smith, John D. Gilbert
and Francklyn Lee. The music is by
w. H. Bachelor and the ballets will be
put on by Signor Filiberto Marchetti.
The ballet will be composed of sixty
coryphees, led by Fri. Martha Irmler
Signora Madeline Morando and Fri
Henrietta Rosche. Character dances
will also be introduced by Paul Marks
of Dresden, and Ali and BENZ, Arabian
acrobats. The cast will be the strongest
ever engaged in any of the Chicago
opera house pieces. Some Of the princi
pal people are Edwin Foy, Henry
Norman, Arthur Dunn, Dan Hart
Charles =. Crawford, Harry McKisson