Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-29
PLAYS AND PLAYERS,

The following notes are from Dunlp's
Stage News:
Joseph Haworth is rusticating on
Long Island.
Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau
are in Vienna.
Paul M. Potter is writing new play
called The Duchess.
Otis Skinner becomes Modjeska' g lead
ing man next season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Robson sailed for
trip OF Europe last week.
William Mestayer is seriously ill at
his home in Red Bank, N. j.
E. L. Bloom is spoken of as the next
manager of Herrmann's theater.
1t is not true that J. M. Hill will man.
age Margaret Mather next season.
E. F. Nagle has been engaged for next
season with A Temperance Town.
Signor Perugini has returned to New
York from two years visit In Eng
land.
WV. Tollotson has become general
manager for the Abbott and Teal COM
panies.
Col. VIM. E. Sim has concluded not
to take Husband and Wife on the road
next season.
Pretty Miss Charlotte Tittel has
sailed for France, where she will pass
the summer.
The Emma Juch Opera company has
finally given up the ghost at Oakland,
California.
The net result OF the benefit to the
widow of Capt. William M. Connor,
amounts to $685. ,720.
Rubinstein's opera Moses, just finished,
is in eight acts and will require two
evenings to produce.
John H. Russell and Amelia Glover
were married in New York last Tuesday
and sailed for Europe.
Harry B. Smith, the author, has gone
TO Europe TO arrange for productions Of
Jupiter and Tar and Tartar.
There is talk of giving Gilbert & Sui.
livan operas at the New York Academy
Of Music during the summer.
Julia Whitmark, formerly Of The City
Directory, has become member of
Hoyt's A Trip to Chinatown company.
Jimmy" Powers was married to Ra-
chael Booth, in Rochester, last Wednes-
day, and will spend their honeymoon
abroad.
II is now practically settled that Mr..
Henry G. Miner will run for congress in
November, and his election is almost
assured.
Marie Halton, the giddy girl who
eloped from the Casino with q London
diamond merchant some time since, is
in Australia.
Mrs. Bernard Beere and her company,
including Isabelle Urquhart and Cora
Tianie, opened it's season in Melbourne,
Australia, March 10.
? Proctor and Turner are sharpening q
etick TO 90 for William Eleron, as they
claim to own the American right to- the
nasty French plsz from which Fleron
took Efysium. A--.sssS
Pretty Miss Lulu Klein, who is not
only clever actress but an authoress of
ability, has gone to Boston where she
will complete her society drama which
Manager Jacob Lift will produce next
season.
VIM. H. Crane has bought the steam
yacht Melissa, and rechristened it
entertain his callers with his we'll known
lavish liberality, while the yacht is
cleaving the blue Atlantic.
Albert Bruning has made q distinct
hit as Lychos in the one act tragedy
Pharrhasius which Mr.. Robert Mantell
has lately added to his repertoire. Mr..
Bruning is one Of the few young actors
who has this season climbed the ladder
of fame to any extent. He is careful
artist whose future is assured.
Mr.. Robert Mantell, the well-known
romantic actor, has been receiving un-
stinted praise this week from the Boston
newspapers. They say also that he is
supported this season by the best COM
pany he has ever had, and presents a
repertoire aH remarkable for its variety
as for it's strength.
Donnelly & Girard closed very
profitable weeks engagement in Chi
cago on Saturday, and started for the
far west, which they will illuminate
with Natural Gas during the summer.
They are booked for a long tour on the
Pacific coast, both as far south and as
far north as theaters are to be found,
and after that they turn their bright
faces towards the east, where they are
booked for q year in the larger towns,
between the big lakes and the Mexican
gulf.
The Windsor kennel has sent to J. X.
Emmett to notify him that they are in
possession of q st. Bernard dog ~
inches higher than the magnificent
specimen owned by the late ]. K. EN-
met. They want q Thousand pounds
down for him. He is the son of full
brother Of the other dog. Mr.. Emmett
has cabled them that if as represented
he will take the dog. It is only eight
cen months old and considered as fine Q
specimen az there is in the world. The
dog will undoubtedly be seen next year
in Fritz in Ireland. He is to be edu-
Gated to play regular part in the new
play that is to follow the succeeding
year.
Clever Fanny Rice closed her New
York engagement, as well as her first
season az star, at the Bijou, Saturday
evening, to an audience that tested the
capacity of the house. She has GER
tainly made genuine success, and
could undoubtedly continue for months
in New York. Time was offered her
managers in several theaters, but she
thinks thirty-seven weeks quite long
enough for one season. and SO refused to
play after May 14th. She will sail for
Europe next Saturday, and will spend
the greater part Of her summer in Paris,
where she intends to secure new cos
TUNES and novelties for her next sea-
sons tour. Arrangements have been
made for her to bring her new version of
A Jolly Surprise back to New York early