Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-01
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

The following dramatic notes are from
Dunlop's Stage News:
Osmond Tearle is soon to produce
Julius Caesar in London. Poor Tearle
Poor London!
The classical rench school of dancing
may be divided into two branches: En-
ballonne and en- tacquete. The ballonne
had it's most perfect exponent in Tag
lioni; it is. lightness combined with
grace-the dance which seems to delight
in, and float on, the air. The tacquete
in vivacity and rapidity, it is the little
sparkling steps and measures on the
point of the feet in which Fannie Eiss-
Ter has never been equaled. Girls
destined to the. corps de ballet begin to
study dancing at the early age of and
never later than 10. There is great
deal to learn in the profess
sion and many dangers connected
with it. At one moment q
dancer will be attached to lines of wire,
at the next she will be seated on paste
board clouds, or disappearing through
the traps. In the first act of an old
ballet, La Peri, there was go dangerous
a leap that Carlotta Grisi risked her life
each time she executed it. The loss of
a moment in shifting trap door and the
famous dancer would have dashed her
brains out against the boarding. The
limbs of dansuese, if we admit that at
the age of they be in the right degree
of suppleness, enable her, with much
hard work, to attain at the age of 16
what is termed the ''lower quadrille. I"
It is only then that the form may be
said to have gained the roundness and
the flesh and muscle the firmness re-.
quisite to the artistic poses which often
create such furoree
Joseph Jefferson, who recently leased
the fishing privileges of the southwest
branch OF the Miramichi. the Clear
Water and Brent Hill rivers, in Canada,
will begin angling for salmon there
April Is.
Katie Emmet seems to be having a
very prosperous season in the south. At
every stand she is greeted with packed
houses, and her receptions amount to
perfect ovations.
Miss Siedensticker has brought suit
against the Hanlon Brothers for SIC, 900
for libel. The Hanlons say that they
found Walter Won Rosen, the leading
man, occupying Q sleeping berth with
Siedensticker, and Miss Siedensticker
says he merely sat on the edge of the
berth. One of the Hanlons recently
left the theatrical business to study for
the ministry. The company, although
engaged in a burlesque and ballet, is
very rigidly conducted.
Jefferson George, husband of Bertha
Rieci, the singer, died in Texas last
week, aged 80 years. Mr.. George was
newspaper man. and married Miss Ricci
about three years ago. but recently they
Subscribers to the Paris opera are ad-
mitted behind the scenes and the foyer
Of the dance is generally their retreat
during the entire actes, and sometimes
during the acts. 1t is q sumptuous
apartment, overpowered by painting,
carving and gliding, but internally gar
ish and meretricious. If one enters
about IL O'Clock in the evening he will
see scores of remarkably pretty cory
phees, and about a dozen duders and
corpulent old men of wicked mien chat
ting to the danseuses. A throng
of compares and dancers who have
not passed their final exams, vulgo
vecato, rats d'opera, are to be seen
clustered like 30 many peris outside the
portals of the paradisiacal foyer, into
which they are not privileged to enter
unless their salary exceeds a certain
number OF francs month. It is not all
gold that glitters, even in this auriferous
palace. The extras look as if they were
half-starved-a red egg, Brie cheese and
a few cents worth of fried potatoes are
their ordinary menu. But although
meagre, sickly, ill.favored and often old,
their dancing and posing is done with
wonderful mechanical skill and aplomb.
Sindbad continues to do very large
business in the northwest, where it has
played to more money than any other
organization this season.
Next season Gus Williams is to ap-
pear in new eccentricity called April
Fool.
George W. Lederer's company, play
ing Pompadour with pretty Sadie Mar
tinot as the star, went to pieces at
Philadelphia last Saturday. Most of the
company walked back to New York. az
no salaries had been paid for two weeks.
A dispatch from Monte Carlo states
that Sir Arthur Sullivan is suffering
from renal calculus. His pain is 80 in
tense that it is necessary to use NOR
phine to ease it.
The losses of Mary Eastlake, the act
ress, on her late tour in the United
States were go heavy that she has been
compelled to call meeting OF her cred
itors at London. Five shillings in the
pound has been offered, and will proba
bly, be accepted.
Charles Alfred Byrne and Archibald
Douglass Gordon have recovered judg-
ment against John R. Rogers for $4 ,959
as the result of protracted litigation
over q play written by them for Minnie
Palmer entitled Little Sweetheart; or,
the Prima Donna of. a Night. Byrne
and Gordon wrote the play for Miss
Palmer and were to be paid for it $4,000,
$500 of which was to be paid on the de-
livery of the manuscript and the re-
mainder in weekly installments of $3.50.
It was further provided that Mr..
Rogers could reject the play after q
trial of three and half weeks if it did
not suit him. The manuscript was de-
livered, the $500 was paid, but Mr..
Rogers never produced the play. At
the trial of the case Rogers set up the
frivolous pretext that he had attempted
to produce it in England, and that the
lord chamberlain had refused to issue
him license. The jury. after the abb
sence OF few moments, returned YER