Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-25

steadily forging to the front, his work in
tbe dancing Girl at the Lyceum, being
| one OF the features Of that performances
iast June, when he astoDished his ad-
| mlrers py some clever work in light
comedy. lie ls now numbered among
tne three hgure actors, and has no
trouble in getting it.
Ii Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry ever
gets lnelde the pearly gate, the pretty
little pink-toed cherubs' will sing no
more, neither will they be permitted to
touch their golden harps.
A. V. Pearson's The White SQUADRON
has been playing to large business in
hocnester this week, and all the good
people living in the fertile Gepesee val
ley have been filed with an extraordin-
ary surplus OF patriotism which is let off
IN and around the theater every even
ing. The play is produced on the road
exactly as 1t was in the metropolis, and
with Few unimportant members the
company is also the same which made
the drama such success at the Four
teenth street theater.
A peck OF trouble is arising out of the
tar west about the new play, the New
South, which was done in San Fran
cisco last week. j. P. Grismer ia
said to have assisted Clay M.
Greene IN manufacturing it, but City
Editor Dick linthicum, of the Denver
Post, wrote play with a similar idea.
which he gave to Grismer to read over a
year ago, and which Grisner returned
only after repeated demands. A scrim-
mage will no doubt follow, and war be
declared, when the Phoebe Davies and
Joe Grismer company begin their con-
templated tour Of the east.
Alexander Salvini, besides being the
being the best swordsman on the stage.
is an excellent .all-round athlete. He
stands six feet high, and is built in pro.
portion. One day in New York last
month he was talking of the Sullivan
Corbett fight. He had tried in vaiu to
persuade his manager. Mr.. w. M. Will
kison, to postpone the opening of the
season 80 he might go to New Orleans,
but IN vain. 81 would like to tackle
some OF those fellows myself" said he,
"and If they would only do somethingto
make me mad, l think l could lick
them" Salvini is not pleasant person
to encounter when they do succeed in
making him mad, as he calls it. His
temper, which is very hard to arouse,
has occasionally been detriment to him
IN his profession. He has the greatest
contempt for lsziness and inat.enticn to
business, and he is prone to express it.
Last season, when playing A Child of
Naples, ne many times regretted speak
ing hsrshly to some incompetent stage
hand, for they would be rsyerged by
strewing the stsge With email tacks. ant:
as he played the part with bare feet it
was not very pleasant. During his en-
gagement at the Boston theater last
spring, he was rehearsing a mob of
supers, 20 or 80 of them, all selected for
their size, as they were to appear as
mueketeers in The Three Guardsmen.
Salyini is very fond Of rehearsipg;
supers are not. He had been INSTRUCT
ing them in particular bit of business
with great deal OF patience, and they
seemed determined not to learn Fin
ally, after many repetitiona. he lost his
temper. and one of them mumbled
come sort of a threat. Salvinj turned
on him like tiger. whats that ?''
said he, YOU? GWhy, I'll lick you,
and you, and you, as he pointed from
one to another, and what's more if I
have to try this again, I'll kill you. So
once more | ask you will you help me ?"
and like a lot of scared children they
answered in one voice: "We will"
They went through the business again
and did it right, but at night, when it
was time Tor the supers to appear, not
one of the whole mob had shown up,
and lines had to be cut and the piece
played without them.