The evening world., 1894-06-27
''iAllAROOkH" 1t MANHATTAN
Pains Fireworks Accompaniment
Makes 1t a Pleasing Spectacle
Lillian Russell viii Sign with Abbey
Stage News and Gossip.

"Lalla Rockh and the Fire Worship
pers." accompanied by Pains ingenious
fireworks. made themselves comfcrta-
BILE at Manhattan Beach last night. The
fireworks spoke for themselves as they
generally manage to do, in loud, fiery.
multi-colored and "O-o-h!"- eliciting
tones. The spectacle itself necessitated
book-er-the- words. as 1t is called. for
without one the unimaginstive spectator
could never guess that he was looking at
"Lalla Eookh." The spectacle might
just as well be called THE Fall OF
Babylon" or THE Destruction OF Je-
rusalem." 1t is quite as good and very
much the same as those given at Man
haitian in preceding years by Messrs.
Pain & Sons. The spectacle is ushered
in with selection Of airs from "A Trip
rather wicked anachronism, ana the
odalisques, dancing and striking GYM
balls do so to the air OF MA Jeannette,"
a song warbled last year by Miss Lottie
al in the employ OF King Aurungzebe,
and IL so powerful a monarch may not
order an anachronism. who may? The
scenery is very handsome and most
brilliantly lighted, and it is quite cosy
to know that the picture represents the
isles and islets of the Persian Gulf. an
GENTLY termed Omaus Sea, with the
city of ,Gombaroons in the distance.
The revels are mach the most interest
ing part of the proceeding, for the cho-
ruses and the action itself fall fiat The
clever acrobats and the pretty dances
who never tire OF that sort Of thing:
when THE Emir's tower ia rven with
fire. and the terror-stricken people and
s1ll Ga. - t1lxt ,lsl - .t,-
terrbe ny scshe of
means the beginning of the fireworkF
They are certainly most satisfying. Two
Of the set pieces are Is gorc eous as any
whole Enclosure Is illumined ny their
fiery glory. 1t Is worth the trip to Man
haitian Just to see these fireworks. and
the indications are that they VIII 10 ]
great attraction during the Simmer
cabling this week between Miss Iiiiar
Russell, at her New York home end
Henry f. Abbey at his !ouAon ori-s
i is not absolutely decided tH,t vt ma.
next season, bit a little birG ,ehlsrerr
that it will be so. Mr.. Abbey made r"r
an attractive offer, but the prirla iomnn
did not jump at 1t because-weii, +. -
always bad form for an ssOo-a-week pr'u-a
donna to jump at anything. Since Mir
Abbey has been in London Miss Rus
sell has cabled him that she would &C.
cept his terms II he would agree to pay
the expenses of any litiga ton that might
be caused by Mesrs. Canary IL Lederer.
Abbey has agreed to do this and II Miss
the contra, there. That is the very
latest state Of the case.
The serpentine dance Is settled at last
If it can possibly survive it's most re-
cent desecra ton 1t is a greater institu-
ton than people imagine. Miss Loie
Fuller's grand Invention is now executed
by dog at one of the Paris music halls.
serpentine gown just like that bought by
Miss Fuller in Fourteenth street-that
is to say. In India. Colored lights are
upon # and the dog log ,ns said .er to do
tine, done doggily to death.
Miss Pauline Hall, in Philadelphia. has
been treating the comic opera lovers OF
pictures. There have been no COM
plants Of Indigestion. and somethi ne
must be done, don't you know, during
these superwarm days.
BY the recent collapse Of the Inter
national Vaudevilles in San Francisco,
and the loss Of some SIS 900 by the
hacker, Nine. Amalia Materna. a pa
bition and managers bad manage
ment is revealed. Materna was to have
appeared in the far West, and Mr.. Am
berg leased a theatre for her in San
Francisco for ten weeks. When II was
time for her to, set forth. Mr.. Abbey.
who had her under contract refused to
let her go, and there was much con
sternation. Mr.. Amberg thereupon
suggested vaudeville company, to
he directed by Materials nephew, an
no work to do-o-o. The singer was anx-
ious that he should be employed. and
she backed the company, which he d.
berg engaged people that cost $500 a
week. and We're said to be worth $500;
Frisco, in the throes of its own little
fair, didn't care snap for vaudevilles;
the company jumped straight to Cali
fornia and back, and Nine. Materna,
also her nephew. feels very sad just at
present.
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