Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-22
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Liz following QramaLlc nOCee are from
Dunlap's Stage news:
Jacob Lift has changed the name of
his new play, in which Annie Lewis
will star, from A Nutmeg Girl to A Nut
meg Match.
Young Alexander Salvini is playing
to magnificent audiences in Boston ana
the newspapers say he never appeared
to better advantage than in The Three
Guardsmen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Robson having
closed the most successful and profita-
BILE tour they have ever had, are resting
this week in New York city.
Little Tippetts, an American French
farce, was tried in Philadelphia last
week and was not enthusiastically re-
ceived. 1t is said to be little bit too
suggestive.
The partnership between John L. Sui
livan and Duncan B. Harrison will ter
inmate in two weeks. Sullivan will be
sole proprietor as well as sole star of his
dramatic company.
Georgia Cayvan has gone to Japan,
her first vacation for ten years. Charles
F. Chatterton sails for Europe May 18th.
Dan Sully and his wife have gone to
Sullyville in the Catskills.
The buildings on the Fortieth street
lots in New York, where Sanger & Hay
mans new theater is to be erected,
have been torn down. The new house
will be called the Savoy.
Charles B. Hanford has left the Julia
Marlowe company, and is busy with
preparations for his tour next season as
Marc Antony with the Booth-Barrett
scenic production of Julius Caesar. He
has engaged K. r. Spencer to play
Cassius.
Clarence Dow, the husband of Mile
Price. has become private soldier in
Uncle Sans army at $13 month. He
was assigned to the band OF the First
United States infantry and will toot the
cornet, which, it is said, is about the
only thing the young man can do fairly
well.
Pretty Isabelle Coe has returned to
New York from her triumphal tour as
Niobe, and is resting at her town resi-
dence in Harlem, very pretty house
she owns facing Morningside park. Later
in the summer, che, her popular hus-
band, Frank Mckee, and pretty little
baby Mckee, may cross the ocean for
Daeath OF salt air.
On the Rialto, it is said, that next
week, Amelia Glover, widely known as
The White Fawn, will become Mrs, John
III. Russell. Miss Glover is sister of
Mrs. Henry E. Dixie, and the sunbeams
OF twenty-one summers only have
played and been reflected in her golden
tresses. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell sail for
Europe after the ceremony on an ex-
tended tour.
| Manager Henderson has engaged Bes-
| sic Cleveland for the title role OF Ali
Baba at the Chicago opera house. He
has also retained Ida Mule, Eddie Foy,
Emma Mule, Henry Norman, Dan
Hurt, Arthur Dunn, Babette Rodney,
Bessie Lynch, frankie Raymond, Annie
Dacre. Ada Davis has also been engaged.
Martha Irmier will be the premiere dan
seuse.
And now comes letter from Birming-
ham saying that the late Pat Rooney's
widow and her 21-year-old son are living
in that town, and that Pat was a bad,
bold bigamist. Rooney's American
widow, whose stage name was Josie
Granger, says that if the English widow
| is looking after money, this is the wrong
direction, as Pat didn't leave dollar,
and she had to buy plot OF ground on
the installment plan to bury him.
! The American Extravaganza company
has been rehearsing All Babi or, Nor
giana and the Forty Thieves, the great
burlesque to be given at the Chicago
opera house, beginning June I'd, and
running indefinitely, during their en-
gagement in st. Louis, which has just
closed. The scenery and costumes for
the great production, which are to be
far more elaborate than anything which
even the Chicago opera house has
hitherto done, are very near completed,
and everything is ready for the com.
mencement Of the dress rehearsals
when the company return to the opera
house at the conclusion of their western
tour.
Langtry is once more on exhibition in
London, where she is said to have made
hit in play called The Fringe of So
ciety, presented by Charles Wyndham's
company. In France the play is known
as Demi- Monde, but it has been NAL
treated by the adapter, who was asham-
ed to put his name on the play bill,
although the risky situation and the
racy epigrams have been expunged and
the original made dull enough to suit
the nebulous atmosphere of the English
metropolis. The story is of a woman
who, tired OF lonely life with her hus-
band in Madras, rnns away to lead the
/ life Of an adventures In the capitals ol
Europe. Here, after her divorce and
the death of her husband, she is about
to marry rich young Australian in the
hope of redeemiDg her past, when the
artist with whom she has been entan
gled steps in and forbids the marriage
for the purpose of saving the Australian,
in which he succeeds.
The stage is one Of the arts-precisely
what it always was regarded as, until it
occurred to playwrights to be moralists
and to critics to magnify their Office,
We have now come to this pretty pass
that, at the bidding of the enthusiasts
art is declared to be life itself, or, at any
rate, the only thing in life worth hav.
ing. Art is life, of course, for the artist
it is necessarily 80, and rightly so. II
is the calling at which he labors and by
which he lives. But it is not life for the
public. Life could be lived, if neces
sary, without the aid of art (and, may
add, parenthetically, without the aid ol
journalism). The artist-poet, painter,
musician, whatever he may be-is in
clined to think himself indispensa-
BILE, but he is not 80. Art is the
fringe, the ornament, the pleasure oi
life and indulgence in it braces US fol
our duties as citizens and men. II
sweetens life and reconciles us to it.
| And ia NOT that a on t4, ciopt1v croditahle