Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-29
Hoyts A Hole in the Ground next sea-
son under the management Of Bob

son under the management of Bob
Arthur.
Fanny Davenport is doing tremend-
ous business this week at the Chicago
opera house with Cleopatra.
Charles H. Hoyt has been elected a
delegate to the convention that will
nominate the next president.
The stockholders of the Madison
Square garden held their annual meet
ing May 10th, and reelected the old
board Of directors.
Maude Harrison denies the report
that she is to retire from A. M. Palmer's
company at the close of this season.
She is re-engaged.
Manager HI. R. Jacobs is said to be
engaged in forming syndicate to build
colossal new theater in Chicago, and
to have the same ready for the worlds
fair.
A copartnership has been entered into
by and between Mrs. Jennie Kimball
and b. r. Jacobs for the seasons of
1924, including the worlds fair, in
the management of Corinne.
Ali Baba ia being rehearsed day and
night at the Chicago opera house by
Manager David Henderson. 1t will be
produced by the Henderson American
Extravaganza company at that theater
in June I'd. 1t has three ballets and
there are 163 people in the cast.
LAMBERT, the famous singing teacher
OF Milan, is dead. Miss Leonora Brad
ley has gone to the mountains in North
ern Connecticut for few weeks rest.
Mics Alice LIVINGSTON will rusticate the
summer on the Virginia sea coast. At
the close of Mr.. Mantell's season, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Bruning propose, for
couple OF weeks, to whip the upper
Canadian streams for salmon.
r. A. Roberts, late stage director for
Charles Frohman's attractions and now
the resident stage director of the Hoyt
Madison Square theater will, by permis-
sion of Hoyt & Thomas, create the lead
ing role for Mart Hanley in the new
play Irish Inspiration. Mr.. Robert is q
Dublin boy and for two years PLAYED
Conn in'The Shanghran, before he made
his American success.
Judge McAdams, in the superior court,
directed that suit brought by George
Edgar Montgomery against Richard
Mansfield be placed on the calendar for
trial. Mr.. Montgomery had claim
against Mr.. Mansfield for $1,000, and his
suit was taken off the calendar on a
stipulation being made that Mr.. Mans.
field should pay off the claim by in
stallments. It is alleged that Mr..
Mansfield has failed to come to time.
The fatal thirteen again-Here's food
for the superstitious. Waite's Comedy
company, Premium Band and Orches-
ira, opened their season on Friday,
August 18th. On November 18th their
bill trunks and paper were destroyed by
fire in railroad wreck, and the agent
seriously injured. On Friday, May 18th,
the Grand opera house at Hazleton,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, in which the
entire property of the company was
destroyed.
Little Tppett, to be produced at the
Brooklyn Park theater May 3Oth, by the
! Abbott q Teal Comedy company, is the
English adaptation of Alexandra. Bis
| sous ssucoessful farce, Les Joesi de-. Ia
Faternitie. It deals with celebrated
trigamist case, in which Tippett and
Newton, two promising but impecunious
young lawyers, are involved in series of
exasperating complications over the
ownership of various babies.
David Henderson's Sinbad company,
which is to have q summer run ct the
New York Garden theater, beginning
June 10th, will begin Yehearsals next
week. The production will be entirely
new in every respect, and the costumes
are said to be more gorgeous than any
yet seen in the metropolis. Wemyss
Henderson, brother of the we'll known
manager, David Henderson, of the Chi
cago opera house, will direct the enter
prise, which will be on gigantic scale,
as 200 people will be massed on the
stage in one scene.
On Friday Hoyt's wonderfully sue
cessful play, A Trip to Chinatown, cele-
brated its two hundredth consecutive
performance at Hoyt's Madison Square
theater, and was duly souvenired. Its
continued great success has been the
talk OF tie town for at least q week. as
every seat in the pretty little house is
sold every night before the rise Of the
curtain. Its prosperity will continue to
attract the attention of everybody in
terested in things theatrical. At the
performance on Saturday, which was
the one hundred and ninety-second, the
receipts of the box Office for the run 90
far added up to $141, ,315.25, and the
management began already to talk Of
the next souvenir, which will be given
away Friday, July 9Th, making the
250th consecutive performance. Friday,
BY the way, seems lucky day for the
"Trip" and Hoyt & Thomas. It cele-
brated its 50th performance Friday, De-
cember 25th !; its Tooth Friday, February
18th; it's 150th Friday, April let; it's
200th Friday, May Goth, while the 25Oth
will be celebrated Friday, July 8th.