Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-06
ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
The Coming Attractions at the
Local Theaters.
Margaret Mather, the Duff Company
and Salvini.
The Duffs to Give Miss Helyett-Mar-
garet Mather and Her Reper-
toire-News Notes About
Stage Matters.

Whlch appears al the Granu Oh IueeuaN
and Wednesday evenings, has a roper
toire this season of Cavalleria Rustic
ana, Trial by Jury and Miss Helyett
They will open Tuesday night with
double bill-Cavalleria Rusticana ano
Trial by Jury, and on Wednesday night
the musical comedy, Miss Helyett
which has had such phenomenal run
in London, Paris and New York, will be
given. Its music is by Audran, and the
book has been adapted from the French
by David Belasco. The dialogue in its
present form is very clever and sufficient
ly risque. The idea which permeates the
comedy is intensely Frenchy. Miss
Helyett, while staying at hotel, in the
Spanish Pyrenees, falls down noun
tain, and is picked up by an unknown
man, who does not see her face, as it il
covered by her cloak, nor does she see
him. None but the bold mountaineer
whose arms had eucompassed the fail
Helyett, and whose eyes had feasted
upon her trim ankles, when in COM
promising position on the noun
tain, must be privileged to mar.
ry her. The search for this
unknown hero, by herself and
her father, constitutes the main idea OF
the plot, and the many mistakes and
uncertainties into which they both fall
leads to many amusing situations.
The prima donna of the company is
Miss Helen Bertram, clever singer and
actress, and an exceedingly pretty
woman. Mr.. Charles Bassett is the
ha
pie in all, and includes, besides Miss
Helen Won Doenhoff, Miss Villa Knox,
Miss Minnie De Rue, Miss Drew Dom
sldson, Mr.. J. H. Ryley, the comedian,
and Messrs. j. J, Rafael, William Ham
ilton, William Schuster, Mr.. Morris
Abbey and Mr.. J. d. Dupuys.
MARGARET MATHER.
For those OF the amusement-loving peo-
pie who delight in the solids of dramatic
food, there will be much of pleasure in
the announcement of the comingof Mar
garet Mather TO the Grand opera
house next Friday and Saturday, for
four performances.
Of Miss Mather herself and her fame
for capable, clever work, it is perhaps
unnecessary to say but word. She
has been seen here before, and of that
former visit nothing but the most pleas
ant memories survive. Since that last
visit she has been constantly on the
stage and is said to have gained, in the
range of her experience, that mellow
ness and ripeness of portrayal that can
only come from practice in the field Of
endeavor.
Her repertory as announced is one
that should contribute greatly to the
pleasure OF her visit.
For the opening night she lists John
Tobip's ever charming comedy, The
Honeymoon-really another version OF
Shakespeare's Tanning of the Shrew-in
which she has, as Juliana. achieved
more than a small amount of laudatory
notice.
For Friday night she promises her
first great success, Juliet, in Romeo and
Juliet, the role in which she is so pleas
Rntly remembered in this city and the
one in which she last appeared here.
For the matinee performance Satur-
day she offers the dashing, svivacious
romance, The Lady of Lyons. In this
she is given opportunity to display all
the emotions of the human mind, and
in it has been eminently successful.
For her final appearance Saturday
night she offers her new comedy curtain
raiser, Nance Oldield, the petite comedy
which Charles Reade wrote for Miss
Ellen Terry, and which Miss Mather
purchased from tine fair English woman.
With this she groups her latest tragedy,
The Egyptian, which is said to be a
close and faithful copy of all the strong
points of Victor Hugo's soulful novel,
The Hunchback OF Notre Dame.
Her company. which includes such
well-known people as Joseph E. Whit
g, II. A. Langoon, Frederick L. Power,
emma Cushman Tuttle, Mrs. Sol Smith,
Erskine Lewis and Royden Erlynne,
numbers 2l people.
ALEXANDER sALvINI.
Manager Wyatt OF the Los Angeles
theater has secured that noted young
actor, Alexander Salvini, for series of
his best known plays.
As Don Caesar, D'Artagnan, and SINH
lar roles, Mr.. Salvini stands unap-
preached on the American stage. He
has inherited all the talent of his father
and will doubtless in time achieve as
much greatness. The engagement will
be notable one in ali respects.
NOTES FROM DUNLAP's STAGE NEWS.
Patti Rosa tried her new play, Miss
Dixie, at Topeka, October 22d.
Effie Shannon has been granted her
divorce from Henry Guy Carleton.
Ramsay Morris has signed contract
with Elsie de Wolfe for five years.
The tour of The Old, Old Story has
been cut short, and the cause is the old,
old story.
Lottie Collins will soon join the Miss
Helyett company, dancing between the
acts as she does in Jane.
F. II. Sothern is taking lessons in
tough slang from Steve Brodie, to be
used in curtain raiser.
William Vaudeville and his wife,
Dickie Martinez, are members of the new
Larry the Lord company.
Nine. Maurice Bernhardt, daughter
in-law OF Sarah, has applied for divorce
from her husband in Paris.
Sydney Rosenfed is to write plays for
.ermann's theater. which will become
IN Anne ican Palais Royal in January.
Fred Solomon will in future be fix
tuIe at Roster & Balls, where he has
been engaged to stage all coming pro.
ductions.
Lizzie Hudson Collier is now leading
lady in Nat Goodwin's company, which
is to appear in The Gilded Fool at the
New York Fifth Avenue theater Novem-
Der 7th.
Last spring Bernard Dyllyn was fined
$299 at San Francisco for beating a
chorus girl and last week his victim met