Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-13

Billy Birch is to have benefit at th,
New York Bijou theater, November 18th
Bronson Howard is experimenting
the rehearsals Of Aristocrrcy at Palmer'l
theater.
| Mascagni's new opera, Les Rantzau
will be produced in Florence on Novem
ber 10th.
Henry Dixey's new Adonis II will b'
produced at the Chicago opera house
November 2Sth.
Hallen and Hart's new play, Tht
Idea, has more bad jokes in it than any
farce comedy on the road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall have leased the
| Avenue theater, London, for short
season, commencing in January.
| Rose Cohglan's revival of Diplomacy
at the New York Star theater has proven
successful b yond all expectation.
VIM. H. Crane produced his new com
edy, On Probation, at St. Louis October
Goth. 1t will have to be revised once
more.
Joseph Wheelock, for 20 years an ex
cellent actor, has retired from the
stage and gone intv the insurance bust.
ness.
The city of Brotherly Love, which has
not been wildly excited over any theat-
rical production this season, gave Jane
a $1100 welcome on Monday evening.
Joseph P. Reynolds, once Langtry's e
manager, was knocked down on Broad
way last week by horse car and one of
his ears almost torn from his head.
Captain Herne U. s. A. has not
sn
Dramatically, the play is far from novel
and contains great deal of clap trap.
John R. Rogers gives notice this week
that he will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by his wife, Minnie
Palmer Rogers, she having left his bed
and board.
II it be true that the best sealskin has
advanced at an extraordinary rate, $5
an inch being asked, the soubrettes this
Christmas will have to be content with
mere diamonds.
A Trip to Chinatown, at the Madison
Square theater, like Tennyson's brook,
seems inclined to run forever. On No
vember 9th the merry skit celebrates its
first anniversary.
A play called The German Soldier,
with James A. Reilly as the star, was
produced in Brooklyn on Monday. It
deals with the life of soldier in the
Prussian army during the Franco-Prus-
sian war.
A luncheon in honor of Mrs. Helen
Dauvray Ward was given by Colonel
Cody buffalo BilD at the Hoffman
been fellow-passenge OF Colonel Co.
dy's on return voyage from Europe.
U. S. Grant had it's first produ 'tion in
Brooklyn on Monday. It deals with the
more prominent battles in which Gen.
U. S. Grant took part. Although moth
ing etartlingly new is introduced, Mr..
A. 7. Treloar has made clever play
and the situations are well worked up.
Baroness Blanc, who is soon to
"appear" on the stage, has "been there
several times before" She was seen
some years ago in one of Sydney Rosen-
feld's failures called The Mystic Isle,
and she was then divorce known in
Philadelphia as Mrs. Bette Reigal.
The Dark Side of Great City made a
tremendous hit at the New York Wind
cor theater last Monday night. The
local sketches on New York life and the
great pile-driving scene were bits of
thrilling realism. Frederic Klages is
manager and Grant Parish business man
ager.
Mr.. Lucius Henderson, who has made
such strong hit in Friends, not alone
by his acting but by his remarkable
musical talent-having incidentally to
introduce a solo-is a graduate from
Harvard. Through force of circum-
stances he accepted the first opening
offered him after graduating, and it hap
pened to be theatrical engagement,
which he filled so we'll that he gave up
the idea of following music.
The theatrical profession, as usual,
came we'll to the fore when money was
to be raised for the sufferers of the Mil.
waukee fire. Edward Taylor, manager
OF By Proxy, gave one act of his play at
the benefit at the Milwaukee academy,
and bought box; Charles E. Rice gave
one act of McCarthy's Mishaps and
bought box, while Jacob Lift, Sher.
man Brown, I. s. Royner, and all the
theatrical people in Milwaukee contrib
uted literally.
Few people think, or care, how full oi
sorrow an actor may be at whom they
are laughing. For the past four or five
weeks probably more have enjoyed the
performance and laughed heartily al
clever Harry Conor in A Trip to China
town, at the Madison Square theater
than at any other actor in New York
| and yet during that time not moment
has gone by during which he has moi
expected a dispatch bringing the newl
of his aged fathers death. For many
weeks Mr.. Conor has rushed to the
Boston train after the curtain fell OF
Saturday evening to watch by the bed
eide of his father, only to return in tim'
| for the performance on Monday and Il
heart great audiences almost convulset
with laughter while his heart wa
breaking.
| J. X. Emmett has appeared in Fritz Ii
Ireland in the large cities in the north
ern part of New York state during tn
last week, and at every point his busi
ness has been ae large as it could posi-
bly, be-that is the theater was sold ou
every time. He is the king of stars, a
far as money making goes, and that is
pretty sure sign that he is not alone tn
best German dialect comedian on tn
road, but that his company and pla
pleases the people who flock to hea
him sing his pretty songs or do hi
graceful dancing. On November 2lst MI
Emmett makes his temperance in Ney
York, playing for one week only at tn
Columbus theater in Harlem and the
the gifted comedian goes westward, nc
to be seen again in the metropolis unit
April.
Impaired Digestion repaired by BEEcHAM
PILLS.