Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-31

many weeks he will try another comedy
from big stock OF plays he carries in
his grip.
DR.. Augustin DAILY has written an
original comedy of New York life, which
will follow The Cabinet Minister at his
theater, and Miss Ada Rehan will be in
the cast
There is a new wind instrument, the
"pedal clarionet." 1t is an octave below
the bass clarionet, and produces the
lowest note obtained by any instrument
except the organ.
Where is ''truthful' w. W. Kelly
and Grace Hawthorne that was to have
appeared at Palmer's after the run OF
Alabama? Kelly's creditors are waiting
to nab him as soon as he lands.
Harriet Avery Strakosch, the we'll
known prima donna, has been engaged
for the rest of the run of Hoyt's A Trip
to Chinatown, and will make her first
appearance at the Madison Square thea
ter, February 1st.
Some people, praise often does great
harm. Since General Beauregard, now
of the Louisiana Lottery, but formerly
poor old Little Tycoon and Baltimore
been money winner.
Phil Hunt is stage manager for Harry
Lacy's Jack Royal of the 92d company.
Jay Hunt is stage manager for Maude
Granger, under w. M. Wilkinsou's
management, and Richard Hunt is stage
manager of Charles Frohman's Thermi-
dor company. They are all brothers.
The attempt of the new management
of the Paris Grand Opera house to have
cheap opera, beginning at 5 p. M, has
been failure. The reduction of the
price OF stall from 13 francs to 21s
francs brought washerwomen and their
families and peasants and suburban
shopkeepers by the hundred; neverthe-
less it cost $2600 to raise the curtain, but
at the popular scale the house only holds
$1,000.
The oldest member of the dramatic
profession in the whole world died at
Nemours, France, on Wednesday last.
His name was Chollet, but it has natur-
ally long since disappeared from the
play bills, for its owner was born in
1898. He created the part of the POST
ilion de Lonjumeau, the part afterwards
made celebrated by Watchtel, and he
was also the first representative of the
leading character in Tampa.
The Said Pasha company disbanded at
Bridgeport last week after short season
of prosperity for the members of the
company, but an expensive season for
the hackers. Two young men of the
name of Pratt, who recently fell heirs to
over half million apiece, had been
backing the troupe. Both were Yale
boys under 20 years OF age, and they
both had good time until they got
tired of using their checkbook.
| Fred Gebhard, once ''Langtry's Fred
die," has gone to DIR. Kelley gold cure
institution near New York. Before 60
ing he filled himself full of champagne
and brandy in a box at Roster & Balls
dive with dizzy blonde. He is fatter
than when he belonged to "the Lily"
His face is bright vermilion, and one
side of his mustache is white. Those
who know the old, handsome Freddie,
would be unable to discover resem-
blance in the dissipated face and blase
air of the miniature distillery.
Nearly all the New York newspapers
commented last week upon David
Belasco's 'sslouchy linen" when he ap-
peared as witness in the supplementary
proceedings against Mrs. Louise Dudley
Leslie Carter. But the fact is that an
eccentricity of his genius leads him to
wear the kind of clothes that are most
comfortable. Starched linen is his
abomination, and he substitutes for it
the finest silk purchasable. A Broad
way merchant declares that the price
paid to him for these unstarched and
unstarchable shirts is about $15 apiece.
Three Neapolitan composers have sent
finished operas to the italian music pub
Usher Sonsagno. Umberto Giordano
has written Malavita in three acts, a
libretto taken from the drama of the
same name by Signors di Giacomo and
J Cognetti. francesca Cilea has written
La Tilda, also in three acts. and Ernest
Coop, who is of English parentsge on his
fathers side, has finished an opera in a
prologue and two acts entitled Teresa
Raquien, the subject being taken from
Zola's novel. All will be put on the
stage soon.
The divorce mill is again set in mo-
tion by James j. Beard, New York
Maiden lane optician, who wishes to be
cut loose from his wife, Maude Beard, at
present a statuesque blonde beauty at
Roster & Bials, who not long since was
brought up in court on charge of firing
two shots at man she said, "was about
to desert her." There seems to be q
good deal of the dive about Roster &
Bials. Maude's STAGE name is Russell
and she strikingly resembles Lillian
Russell (whose real name is Leonard), ,
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