Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-15
PLAYS AND PLAYERS,


The following notes are from Dunlap's
Stage Notes.
Haydn Coffin arrived in New York on
Tuesday incog as Mr.. Carter.
Poor Jennie Reiffarth has again been
robbed of her diamonds, this time $500
worth.
Fanny Rice says she has "salted"
$28, 900 this season out OF A Jolly Sur
prise.
Henry Irving is said to have recovered
the use of his peculiar. voice at the sea-
side and has resumed work at his
Lyceum theater.
Modjeska opened to 800 house in
Pittsburgh on Monday as Rosalind. and
John L. Sullivan in another house in the
same city and on the same evening
scooped in $1,000.
Gotham is to have two summer resorts
this summer. One is Eldorado on the
Palisades. where Egypt Through Cen
turies will be done, the other South
Beach, where The Fall of Plevna will be
illustrated by A. Waldimar Solamensky
Eldorado is also advertising for $1,000
beauty.
The Willipus- Wallipus mentioned in
the New York Sun is known in theatre
calls as in politics. In some places in
the north it is known as the Cenoxaph-
ella, while in the West Indies it is called
the Gongolo, and in South America
Cocka6ne. He belongs to the Shark
family, and is very much like the BIZ
gum.
John l.. Sullivan talks of heading a
farce-comedy company next season, as
he wants to try the humorous. Hubert
Wilke says he is tired of comic opera,
and wants to 60 in the legitimate. J.
B. and Marion have christened their
dovecot at New Rochelle "Manola
Villa" Maud Harrison is to retire from
A. NJ. Palmer's company at the end OF
this season. She has been on the stage
nigh on to twenty years, but never
worked for any other manager than Mr..
Palmer.
j. w. Jennings calls his new play
Hosea Greenleaf, of Jerico, Vermont, a
mono como dram. 1t is comedy drama
in which Mr.. Jennings plays twelve
parts all by himself. Mr.. Jennings
says alec that his play is the evolution
of our cid respectable friend, the mono
logue; and that no play like it has ever
been tried. Each of the twelve parts
has a distinct individuality and the
pretty story told is filed with pathos
and humor. The play will be done next
week at Watertown, Conn, after which
it will be brought to New York city.
The season of '9l-'92 has been waited
| into the ewigkeit, and Broadway is
| again crowded with returned Thespians.
Some of the old-timers look as if it had
been a very hard season. and the we'll
known beauties-well, they ought to do
as did the famous beauty in Paris,
Countess de Castiglioni, Of whose lowell.
ness most fabulous records remain. She
has lived for many years in the closest
seclusion in the heart of Paris. As soor
as che saw the traces of fading charm in
her face, she pulled down her Venetian
blinds, and allowed no one to approach.
| So long has she thus exied herself from
the world that many people believed
her dead.
Major Pratt, of Pratt & Ogden, who
have been producing the Herald prize
plays at the New York Madison Square
theater, took the company to Buffalo
after the performance, 9th. He opened
at the Academy of Music, 28th, and
business not being as good as he expect.
ed, he Immediately skipped to New
York on the first train, leaving the COM
pany in the lurch to get home the best
way they could. Not penny was given
the company for the four performances
| given, although Mr.. Pratt said he was
guaranteed by the manager of the Acad-
emy. A gentle, Buffalo pawnbroker
helped the company out of town, and is
now the proud possessor of numerous
theatrical souvenirs.
Lizzie DAILY, the jig dancer, has secured
divorce from her husband, Michael J .
Delehanty, the minstrel. and Minnie
Price Dow has filed suit in Denver
against Clarence Dow, SON of the presi-
dent Of the Commercial National bank
Some theatrical marriages seem to be as
uncertain as were the marriages among
the slaves before the war. When they
married in those days, the mans friend
held one end of broomstlcK and the
woman's friend the other. Then the
bridegroom and the bride jumped over
and kissed, and then began the iolli6ca-
ton. But alas, parting came soon after,
one being taken from the other, and 90
many buck married by the broom
stick fashion thirty or forty times dur
ing his checkered career and multiplied
his race to the extent of half hundred.
Alexander Salvini had a most brilliant
opening for his Boston theater engage
ment on Monday. The cordial reception
which awaited his appearance denoted
the popularity which has been growing
since his extended engagement there
last spring. He made his entrance or
this occasion as D'Artagnan in Ths
Three Guardsmen. A notable feature
in connection with this engagement ii
the appearance of William Redmund
who has been associated with many O.
the successes of the Boston theater stock
company. Two carloads of entirely new
scenery were brought on to make the ole
romance true to life. Manager VIM. M
Wilkinson will manage the handsom,
star next season.
A Texas Steer has actually cleared
SAL ,642 this season for Hoyt & Thomas
and it's success will delay, the production
of Mr.. Hoyt's new play, A Man Born Ii
Missouri, which was written for Mrs
Hoyt and Tim Murphy, and which viii
be put on the road again next season
His active brain has, however, alread,
concocted new musical comedy, whicl
deals with our battlescared soldiers o
peace, who join the army to avoid jur.
duty. This new play will be finished
during the summer, while Mr.. Hoyt j
supposed to be resting at his rural hom
in New Hampshire, but what with hi
political aspirations and his play writin