Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-24
MATTERS THEATRICAL,
What Dunlop Says Of New
York Plays.
A Great Lack of Success Among the
Productions.
Spooks Bad Failure-The Golden Lad
der Another That Don't Go-News
and Personal Notes About
the Players.

the Players.
OF New York theatricals Dunlop's
Stage News says, under date OF April
18th, as follows:
Winter has. as usual, been lingering
in the lap of spring, and the PERSISTENT
old chap has daily been stroking his
frozen whiskers, sending spray Of
feathery crystals that have looked more
like apple blossoms over the sunny
smiles of the maiden. This picturesque
tumultuousness in eight or ten success
sive squalls every day, and holy week,
have combined to make things theat-
rical exceeding queer, and yet on Mon
day two managers had the pluck to
bring novelties to town. Spooks, play
that has been seen on the road as
Cynthia's Lovers, is a series of New
England character bits with very thin
and conventional plot and no interest
outside the quaint personages who ex-
hibit an exaggerated form OF Yankee
peculiarities. 1t was writtensby Charles
Barnard, who is said to be the dramatist
of New Enaland, but as acted at the
Union Square theater, Spooks failed, and
the progress OF the American dramatist
had another temporary rebuff.
1t will, however, not damage the repute
of Mr.. Bernard badly, for the characters
are sharply drawn, and one of them
(Cynthia) was absurdly delightful. The
play, however, lacks interest in motive
and grows wearisome before it is half
finished. While all the dramatic editors
were looking at the newest dramatic
study of the Daown East on Monday the
most curious show ever seen in Broad
way theater was going on at the New
Park theater. The Golden Ladder, which
broke down in the middle of last week,
was to have been run through this, and
at the eleventh hour Manager Dunlevy
"filled his time" with composition
with the mysterious title OF O'Flynn in
Mexico. The play is so hopelessly bad
as to be amusing, and it illustrates just
how good natured metropolitan audi
ence is, or O'Flynn would have been
laughed off the stage. In justice to the
company it must be said that the New
Park theater orchestra was just as bad
as the play or players. O'Flynn NAV be
q success in Mexico, but in New York
he is dreadful frost.
NOTES.
A Texas Steer has so far cleared $42,-
600 this season.
Thos. W. Keene will open his spring
season at Chester, Pa.
Sara Stevens, (Mrs. John G. Heenan)
is playing at the San Francisco Alcazar.
Isabelle Coe has again made very
brilliant success in Niobe, this time in
Chicago.
Rehearsals of The Isle of Champagne
begin in New York next week under the
direction of Max Freeman.
Mr.. George Alexander wires all the
way from London that he is not to sue
ceed John Drew in Augustin Daly's
company.
McCarthy's Mishaps, a rollicking
farce-comedy that has made $50, 900 this
season for its owners, will he seen next
week at the New York Third.avenue
theater.
The rehearsals for the Herald prize
plays are on at the Madison square,
conducted by Louis Mitchell. Among
the first to be produced will be The
Model and The Cowboy.
Margaret Mather has filed billin the
Chicago circuit court, asking for a di-
vorce from her husband, Emil Haber-
korn, leader of the orchestra at the Du-
quesne theater, Pittsburg.
Lewis Morrison has purchased rural
home four miles from Peekskill, N. Y,
on which he is expending $4,000. The
home is in the center of seventy-five
acres and overlooks the Hudson river.
The play in which John w. Jennings
will shortly star, although a monologue,
is also play. 1t ia in three acts and
tells pretty story, although Mr.. Jen-
nings plays all the twelve parts that de-
velop the plot.
Miss Minnie B. Washburn, the young
Montclair society girl who created quite
futter among her fashionable friends
last fall by joining the w. T. Carleton
Opera company, has left Carleton and
returned to New York.
Olea Bull, a young Cambridge, Mass.
society lady, and daughter Of the fa-
nous violinist, will shortly join Julia
sonally attractive, tall, slender and
graceful, and is highly educated.
The name of Eleonora Duse, famous
Venetian actress, is in every mouth in
continental Europe. Her art and her
triumphs are the subject of endless
newspaper articles, and she is said not
only to have brought new life, new ideas
and new suggestions to that ever inter-
esting topic, the art OF acting.
Rubenstein, the great Russo-J ewish
tone master, is to make tour of Amer
lea next season, and is guaranteed $780,
900. He has been before the people for
fifty-three years, beginning as an infant
progidy when only 8 years old. At II
he was alone in the world, making his
living as music teacher; at 81 he pro-
duced his first opera at st. Petersburg.
Alexander Salvini has had an extraor-
dinarily good season and is rapidly ap-
preaching the east. Mr.. Salvini will be
seen in Boston late in the season, in re-
production and revivals of romantic
drama, among which will figure prom
inently the play from which Mascagni,
the now famous composer, took his
Cavelleria Rusticana, the original MSS.
OF which was presented Mr.. Salvini by
Nine. Adelina Patti.
Miss Fanny Davenport closed her two
weeks engagement at the Chestnut
street theatre last Saturday night to the
largest business ever known in lent in
that city. Last week Sarah Bernhardt
was playing against her at the Chestnut
street opera house, changing her bill
every night. Miss Davenport played
sCleopatra'' the entire week, and yet,
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