Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-12
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Dunlop's Stage News: 3
Rhea sails for France June 11th.
Nat Goodwin calls for Europe next
week.
Jefreys Lewis has gone to England in
search OF new play.
| A mortgage on the Casino for 500, 900
has been recorded in New York.
1t is reported that e. j. Henley is
undergoing the Keeley treatment.
Pretty Courtney Thorpe of the Vokes
company sails for London, May oath.
Bob Fraser is to appear next season
in 9 new version Of Humpty Dumpty by
Will Gill.
r. E. Graham says he will go out
next season with his musical comedy,
Larry the Lord.
Col.W. A. Sim was last week relieved
OF tumor which has been growing on
his neck for the past seven years.
Gus Kerker, musical director OF the
Casino, sails next week for Vienna to
attend the theatrical exhibition.
VIM. A. Mestayer has been walking
Broadway every day this week, looking
as well as he has the past ten years,
hence the report Of his death is scarcely
true.
Sydney Rosenfeld's new farce, I'M
agination, will be brought out at Four
Immediately after the end Of the run Of
Polly Middies.
Will Mcconnell, the western humor-
ist, is in New York, the representative
of the Nstianal Publishing company Of
Chicago. He has had ieighty-seven Of
fers for next season. ss'
Miss Lulu Klein, one of the coming
great actresses of the American stage,
is sojourning at Boston but will return
to New York before she starts for the
Canadian streams on q fishing excur-
sion with party of friends-all expsrt
fishermen.
Leonora Bradley is enjoying rest
aftet the arduous labor of 3 long, hard
season, The dramatic profession, at
the best, il not . bed Of roses, and to
one of Mics Bradley = temperament and
conacientiousness It 10 always work.
This is what makes the clever lady sue
cessful. y
Sinbad, with all its beautiful accou-
trement Of female loveliness, it's scenic
splendor and its company of clever in
terpreters. will open . New York sum-
mer season At the Garden theater June
29th. That talented comedian, John
Gilbert. has been engaged, and this alone
will serve to draw host Of friends. "a
The Ibsen controversy in England
seems to have come to an end through
| the sheer exhaustion of the combatants.
and we are still in doubt as to whether
the master is to be ranked q little above
Moli6re and the immortals, or far below
the average theatrical hack who staoesa'
q new pot-boiler every six months.
The Vampires, . professional society
just started in New York, have leased q
top floor on upper Broadway, which
they have called Roost No. L. The
charming and refined names given to
the officers are: Chief ghoul, vice
ghoul, body snatcher, coffin mailer, dirge
chanter, bone polisher, and electrocu-
ZIONIST. At this meeting dirges are sung
by the graveyard monument quartette.
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JOS, Haworth is busily engaged in
selecting company and making gem
eral preparations for next season. This
talented actor will probably be seen
next in & new play, whose authorship
is credited to his brother, VIM. Ha.
worth, whose efforts in the play line
have met with much favor. Most of
| Mr.. Haworth's time is already booked,
and he says he has no terror of the
1 worlds fair and presidential year COM
bine against theatrical success. .s,
Edwin W. Hoff, the young tenor o.
the B0stonians, is winning golden opin
| ions from the New York press for hil
excellent work in robin Hood. !" It il
. pity, however, that New Workers will
have no opportunity this season to SCI
this clever singer and actor in othel
i parts in which he has made great sue
cess throughout the country. One O
these and probably the greatest b.
/ made-ie as Vladimir Samorloff in Fati
nitxs, in which he does particular,
effective work in an apostrophe to Amer
lea, which always stirs the audience tt
4 the profoundest depths Of patriotic en-
i thusiasm. Mr.. Hoff is undoubtedly th,
best American tenor on the stage today
4 ssWhat is the actor ?'' asks the Londol
Player. He likes to call himself pro
fessional man, but, query. is he entitled
to DO 90? A profession is busines
which 3 man processes to understant
l. w
earns his livelihood adding that i
must be superior to mere trade o
Y handicraft. livery much doubt whethe
acting can ever be termed 8 professicl
until some quail ification or degree is nee
essary before 3 man can style himsel
actor. The calling is open to any Jach
Tom or Harrywithout fear or favor, an
the term may be used by Mr.. Irving o
his stage carpenter if the latter choose
~ When Sir Walter Scott was abou
eight and twenty, he wrote play calle
The House Of Aspen, which was sent
London, according to LOckhart, put int
Y reheafsal and afterwards aband doned. Tn
lack Of encouragement may have bee
. happy circumstance, but someone hi
secured the MS. and the play will 500
! be produced. Apart from translation
Sir Walters works in dramatic forl
. consist of The Doom Of Devorgoil, Ma
.. duff's Cross, Halidon Hill and Auchil
drane; or. the Ayrshire Tragedy. Nor
of these was put upon the stage, and Il
only one Of his novels in which he hs
q hand in fitting for the theater, W,
, Guy Mannering. It was done to hel
: his friend, Daniel Terry, the acto
through whom his interest in the th
!. ater seems to have been mainly ke
: alive.
I Natural Gas has, under the pilotage
: Samuel Popular Cox, arrived at Il
Midway. station Of its long trip aero
the continent. June 4th will see the
Q in Denver. where the attraction has q
: ways been .record-breaker. The ho
I. that this amusing potpourri OF ~