Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-06

I4t0, MI. JOuu DIoW ouo ilcS toh
mans company are to appear for eight
weeks.
Mre. Bernard Beere and John E.
| Sheridan were European arrivals last
week.
The title of the play written by Vie
torien Sardou for Charles Frohman is
La Belle Americaine.
Flora Walsh has made another very
great hit at Washington in A Texas
Steer, and was almost buried in roses on
Monday evening.
w. A. Mcconnell, the we'll known
comedian, has signed a contract to man.
age the tours for the next three years
for tragedian Downing.
The latest thing is 10.mile waltzing
contest, 'for the championship" an
nounced to take place at Madison Square
Garden on Thanksgiving eve.
Cal. Mccarthy and Tommy Danforth
will be a special feature of The Dark
Side of Great City during the coming
tour, which begins at the Windsor thea
ter. New York, next Monday.
Charles l.. Harris, the actor who died
in Chicago, best known by his splendid
portrayal of Chad in Colonel Carter of
Cartersville, was q native of Louisiana,
and the best American dialect actor in
the world.
Mabel Amber has closed as leading
lady of N. G. Goodwin. jr.'s company,
and has returned to New York. Mr..
Goodwin has Cancelled a week of night
stands, and will open at the Fifth Ave-
nue. theater November 9TH.
Miss Fanny Davenport may possibly
appear as Lady Gay Spanker and as
Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist next sea-
son. The actress is becoming quite
lissome again, and it is to this fact that
the revival of these popular roles will be
due.
Katie Emmett is making great deal
of money in Texas with Killarney.
Minna Gales sea on will begin in De-
cember. and somebody will lose "pot"
of money. The Councillors Wife, by j.
X. Jerome, will be acted for the first
time in New York, at special matinee
at Hovt's Madison Square, November
1lth, the Charles Frohman stock ap-
pearing in the cast.
Stewart Robson's handsome revival
of EShe Stoops to Conquer is drawing
more money in the south than the Hen
rietta ever did, and is one of the solid
successes of the season. This comedians
Tony Lumpkin ranks with Joseph Jeffer-
cons Bob Acres. and is one of the most
delightful impersonations made known
on the American stage IN many years.
Mr.. Robson has every reason to be satie-
fed with his venture into legitimate
comedy.
Something of a sensation has been
caused by the public learning that one
of the leading theaters of London only
engages actresses on condition that the
theater may cancel their engagements at
a weeks notice if they marry without
the consent of the management. 1t is
also arranged that the engagements
shall be Cancelled if the actresses become
engaged in any scandal. The legality
of the marriage rule is contested in
some quarters, and it is asserted that an
actress could claim damages should she
be dismissed because she married. A
woman leads in all outcry
against this clause of the contracts.
She declares that any wholesale re-
straint on matrimony among marriage
able women is obviously immoral.
Nellie McHenry and her clever COM
pany of players are now in Indiana.
Next week they will be at Chicago. Miss
McHenry's personal popularity is phe-
nomenal. 1t is quite possible that even
with poor piece she could draw fair
sized audiences, and with A Night at
the Circus she finds not the slightest
difficulty in playing to s. R. D. The
farce comedy serves an excellent medi-
UNI for the introduction of divertipg
specialties and timely songs, but it is
also intensely amusing on its own hook.
Thomas O'Brien, one of the mem bers OF
the company, is performing with great
intrepidity the feat of sliding on his ear.
A committee of western physicians will,
it is hoped, make an examination short
ly OF this wonderful freak.
J. K. Emmet is now touring through
New York state. That he is an en-
phatic success is indicated by the box.
office receipts, quite as clearly as by the
abundant applause that greets him in
variably on his first appearance on the
stage and that is repeated frequently
throughout the performance. The pub
lie never seem to grow weary of Fritz in
Ireland This is due to the same fact
that has made Rip Van Winkle, The
Rivels, The Old Homestead, Col. Sellers
and Our American Cousins, perennially
popular. The vogue of all of these
pieces is brought about because they
are fret of all human in their interest.
Mr.. Emmet's individual popularity is
by this time firmly established. There
is no doubt in the fact that he is Amer
ica's representative German dialect
comedian.
Thomas w. Keene is now in the Sec
ond week at McVicker's theatre, in
Chicago, and the size of the audience
that crowded into McVickers demon
etrated that there are still large num-
Der of people in Chicago who cherish an
affection for the Shakespearean drama
This tragedian's tour may be described
as one continuous ovation, and nowhere
has this been more clearly indicated
than at Chicago. The character in
which he has perhaps received the
greatest amount of praise from the
critics is Richard Ill; and here is
practical demonstration that the critical
and the popular verdict can coincide,
for the box-offce receipts of this attrac-
tion have been and are very large. Mr..
Keene has wisely surround d himself
with company of exceptional ability
man than Frederick Paulding, or bet
ter leading woman than Mazda Craigen.
Paddon Hall seems to be pretty much
of a failure in London, but there is
wonderful thunderstorm that people go
to see in spite of it's dullness. The hero
inc has resolved to elope with her best
fellow, and, in accordance with tradi-
tion, she steals away from her fathers