Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-27


Next week E. S. Willard begins hi
third New York engagement at the New
York Star in The Middleman.
i Mart Hanley's steen birthday fell OF
election day, and, as he voted for Cleve
land. it was entirely a great day for him
Miss Phoebe Davies, a transcontinen
tai star, will try if che can glimmer New
York, at the Broadway theater, Janu
ary I'd.
Richard Golden has been elected {
member of the Alimony club, "tht
sweet singer" having secured her di
vorce.
The report that Sydney Rosenfeld il
to edit Frank Leslie's Weekly is not
true. Mr.. Arkell has been foolish
enough, however, to offer to print al
his plays for the next 10 years.
H. G. Miner has notified Col. Henry
Mapleson that The contract for the ap.
pearance of the latter's comic opera com.
pany in Fadette, at the Fifth-avenue
theater next month, has been dissolved.
| Mr.. Miner is not satisfied with the
| opera.
John Hoey, husband of Mrs. Hoey,
for many years Lester Wallack's leading
lady, died on Monday at Delmonico's in
New York. Mr.. Hoey was with MIR.
Adams and Mr.. Dunsmore, the creators
of the Adams Express company, and is
e.long friend of the profession.
Baroness Blanc's play is called Decep-
mas LIE Demi.Monde, and will first be
play is often used on the stage OF the
n al 10 Ero hoh har
oness will, no doubt, be slaughtered
when she attempts to play the leading
role.
Charles Alfred Brrnes's new opera,
Venus, for which Gustave Kerker ia
composing the music, is nearly finished.
Mr.. Byrnes has been doing some very
profitable and excellent work of late.
His Isle of Champagne, which will soon
be seen in New York, has made dig
tinct hit in other large cities; bis Venus
is already half way disposed of, and an
other opera, for which William Furst is
writing the music, will probably be pro-
duced by J. M. Hill early next season.
Nine. Melba, renowned for her al
legged amours with the empty-headed
young duke OF Orleans, in Switzerland,
and Mile. Julia Ravolgi pitched into
each other at Covent garden in trne
prima donna style during performance
of Aida last week. The cause was an
innocent bunch of roses laid at the feet
OF Melba by orders of Count Tolstoi, and
then the racket began, both OF them re-
fusing to "go on" Sir Augustus tenn.
porarily patched the difference, but
Ravolgi seemed strong enough to put
Melba out of the company.
The university man long ago invaded |
theatrical life abroad, and as q conse.
quence the social position OF the actor is
much superior in Europe to what it is
in this country, but even here the col
lege-bred man is beginning to make his |
influence felt, and it cannot but tend to
the advancement of all that is best in
with the stage. Edwin Mil
ton Royle, the rising author actor, is a
graduate of Princeton university and
University OF Edinburg. Lucius Hen
derson, who is making euch reputa-
tion, both as actor and musician, is a
man.
John w. Thompson is what Shake
speare would call Gallimaufry-
bad actor, and half, a vicious scribbler |
of unsaleable old-fashioned and vulgar
rot. He prys into the secrets of his |
fellow actors for scandals which he gives
10 newspapers Tin payment for puffs of
nimselD to which he is ashamed and
afraid to fix bis signature, or acknowl-
edge himself the author, and abuses
newspaper men (who refuses salacious
stuff to actors. In both cases he is q
dangerous man that both the writers
md actors should avoid. He is not to
% trusted in either of the professions in
which he has tried to enter, for as an
actor he ia not alone stick, but irrespon-
'ible, and as a writer, his work is stiff
md made up of go many spiteful lies,
md obscene suggestions, as to make it
yalueless. Thank heaven there is a
ewness Of the John W. Thompson kind
n either professions, but as 1 know the
nan, warn others, women and men
like, to avoid him.
The tragediennes and condolences at
he Franchise are deeply indebted to
he prompter. He is frst-prize man
It the Conservatoire, and able to
coach" in pitches OF the voice and in
onation, as he goes on. He is much
more needed for this than to refresh
memories in regard to mere worde.
he earns a very larg salary and has a
percentage on the profits, this being
way to keep him up to standard. No
,ody in the company studies 80 much
ls or more carefully than he does, or 10
more watchful in his peregrinations
through Paris for new and true vocal
fleets which might be supposed to give
est to play that is on, or soon to be
N, the stage in front OF which his box
8 placed. The actor or the actress need
nly study his or her own part, unless
n its relations with other parts, but the
must have an intelligent con-
eption OF every part taken separately,
II relatively to the rest of the play. He
las, therefore, to enter into each char
Icter, whether masculine, feminine or
nfantine; or tragic, comic, pathetic,
spiegle, or other. In this country we
lave no such man as yet.
And now science has come to the aid
II the actress who wishes to create
rue Cleopatra, by the statement of a
earned savant that she was hypnotist.
his is the unkindest cut of all The
Romans called her an Asiatic harlot,
whereas she was Greek (and should be
'layed white), and since then the world
las made her voluptuous beauty whose
ooks ensnared the masters of the
Roman army. Her attractive power
vas, however, not her beauty. Her
oins do not reveal a beautiful woman,
'ut broad -browed, thoughtful queen,
nd old man Pluta1ch, in describing her,
knew what he was aboar
gben he wrote: "The contact of her
'resence, if you lived with her, was ire.