Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-09
GOSSIP ABOUT STAGE MATTERS,
Theaters, Plays and the World
of Mummers.
Attractions at the Local Places of
Amusements.
Mrs. General Tom Thumb and Yon
Yonsen at the Grand Opera
This Week-Notes and
Personals.


Personals.
The theatrical season is lust com
mencing; from now on through tht
winter the companies will be numerous
and the theaters seldom dark.
The reconstruction of the Los Angeles
theater by Mr.. Perry and progressive
policy adopted by the management oil
that beautiful house, will stimulate the
business, and as result Of active com
petition theater goers will reap the ad
vantage.
On Wedne sday afternoon and evening
Mrs. General Tom Thumb, in play
called The Little Countess, will play al
the Grand opera house, assisted by 9
company OF liliputians and comedians
On Friday and Saturday Mr.. Gut
Heege will presentthe dialect play Yon
Yonson, at the same house. The real
istic scenery of big jam, lumber
camp and railway station are said tt
be very effective.
NOTES FROM DUNLOP.
Sylvia Gerrish returns to London nexl
week.
M. B. Curtis trial has been set 70,
November 4.
Agnes Huntington will not come tc
America this season.
The Viennese seem to be killing Macs.
tro Mascagni with kindness.
Eloise Willis is soon to wed Alexander
B. Duncan, New York banker.
Carl Streitmann is singing at the
Theatre an der Wien, Vienna.
A. Y. Pearson's new play, The District
Fair, will be produced November 9TH.
John McNally's new play, AMad Bar
gain, has made very big hit in Boston.
Nothing but Money was presented at
San Francisco on Monday, and it is said
made hit.
Mrs. Newton Beers, known to the
stage as Jessie Lee Randolph, has in
herited $4,000.
A Temperance Town continues to
show the s. r. o. sign at Chicago at
every performance.
Alex. Comstock has secured for term
Of years the services of Edgar Selden,
and will star him in Irish plays.
Mile. Camilla Urso, the violinist, was
knocked down by bicyclist on Sunday
night in New York, and severely bruised.
!. Gertrude B. Nixon, professionally
known as Gertie Thornton, was last
week married in Chicago to H. I. Jones,
non-professional.
William G. Gillette arrived from
Europe September 22d. He will re-
hearse his new play, Ninety Days After
Date, which Chas. Frohman is to pro-
duce at the New York Broadway theater.
In spite of severe roasting" by the
London critics. Mrs. Langtry is doing
well at the Hay Market, with the Queen
of Manoa, and if that fails she is to do
an adoption of Sardou's Maison Neuve.
Helen Sedgwick has married Alder.
man Charles E. Candee, of Syracuse.
Mr.. Candee owns a hotel in Syracuse,
and is politician Of considerable infiu-
ence. Miss Sedgwick's real name was
Ella R. Brady.
The Lyceum theater, London, was
reopened last Monday, Mr.. Irving ap-
pearing in The Bells. Miss Terry's i'll
health has been exaggerated; she will
appear as Queen Katharine, October, 1,
in King Henry VIII.
Antonio Dvorak, pronounced Dvors-
chak, the Bohemian composer who is to
receive $15 ,00C year as director of the
National Conservatory of Music, has
arrived in New York. Mr.. Dvorak be-
came famous from his development ol
Geek national music.
Mile. Laclerque, a high kicker at the
Apollo, theater Berlin, has beensordered
to leave that city by the not very
squeamish police. She is to appear al
the New York Casino, and the high
,muck-a-muck of the Prussian police il
waiting to see what Superintendent,
Byrnes is going to do about it.
Miss Sedohr Rhodes, the young
American who will make her debut m
London, October 16, was born in Wauk
.egan, near the windy city, but educated
in New York; she was christenet
.Sedohr, which is Rhodes spelled back
wards-a whim of her parent Travis
Rhodes, who was an Englishman.
The influence Ibsen has acquired OF
the German stage is shown by the con
tinued attacks he is subjected to and tn,
many who try to initiate him. Last
week two new plays have been produced
in Berlin, due indirectly to his success
one at the Lessing theater, called 4
Blank Page, by Paul Heyse, and thu
other at the Wall theater, called Mia
by Arthur Zapp. Both failed to ''catcl
on"
Donnelly and Girard close this weel
at the Brooklyn Grand opera house,
season that has lasted for 81 CONSECUTIVE
weeks, during which they have been il
the four corners of the United States. A
every point their Natural Gas has beel
well received, and Manager Samue
Popular Cox proposes now to turn it ol
until the election is over. The star
and company will remain in the metrop
oils, and for the first time each an
every one Of them will be able to cast
presidential vote.
About the Fencing Master, Buffal
correspondent writes: Mr.. De Koven'
music is 80 radically different from hi
other works, that comparison wit
Don Quixote or Robin Hood would b
without point; nevertheless one notice
the exquisite chorus effects of Robi
Hood elaborated and on more artist
plane in this new opera. Altogethe
the music is of much higher order {
composition than any previously write
English comic opera, and of a distint
and originrl character.
Mr.. T. w. Keene opened the Walnu
street theatre, in Cincinnati, on Monda
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