The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-21
GOSSIP OF THE STAGE.


con at the Standard thearer, New YORK,
throughout the season.
r. A. Barnet is personally directing
reheareals, at the fremont theater, Bos-
ton, of his latest burlesqus, Excelsior,
ir., on which f. E. Rice has an option.
William Furst, the comic opera COM
poser and musical director, says that a
theater orchestra should not con- tain any
brass instruments excepta French horn.
With tho orchestra composed according
to Mr.. Fursts wishes, the audience can
hear itself talk.
During Marie Wainwright's recent on.
gageme nt at Dallas, Tex, Julian Magnus.
her manager and the co-author OF
Daughters of Eve, in which Miss Vain
wright is said to have made her most
Pronounced success, delivered lecture
on The Drama of Today before the
Women's league OF that city.
Freda Simouson, the child pianist,
who is protege OF Adelina Patti. and
who has played in Europe on concert
tour with Patti. will appear by special
permission of Commodore Gerry. in q
series o; forty concerts. i'll conjunction
with Juanito Manen, the boy vioinist.
They are both under contract to Leon
Margulies.
A paragraph has gone the rounds to
the effect that Reginald DsKoven is at
work on new opera to succeed hls ROD
Roy. Fred G. Whitney, manager OF the
Rob Roy Opera company, says that this
report has not the eiightest vestge oi
truth as. although he and Mr.. DeKoven
are on tue best OF terms, Rob Roy will
not need 81 successor for several aeasons.
The principals of the Bostonians gave
q minstrel performance in H. @. Barne-
bees apartments at the lmpe rial
hotel, New York. Mr.. Harnebee and
Mr. Mcdonald were the en3men, and
jessie Bartlett Davis wac the audience.
Ali jokes under 10 years OF age were
barred, and Mios Davis, who is a good
actress as we'll as singer. laughed inn
moderately.
A. NJ. Potter, who was in the manage
ment of the Union Square theater when
The Two Otpbans and Tns Lights OF
l. udon, both great melod fanatic sue
cesae4. were produced there, has written
thi, briet criticism on The Fatal Gard,
now making @ triumph at his theater:
the play is strong. The company il
beyond crticism. There ia no cast OF
he old days that can recall that aeema
10 INC to be better balanced than thij
one"
| care for my voice by not caring for
H." sAys jessie Bartlett Davis, the stat-
uesQus coptralto OF the Bo.toniaue.
"toms singers are always wrapping up
their 'hr1ais in boas And gargiing and
iussiug until the VOC a chords become
euscBptihis to everv Wind that blowa.
That ID al non 7ease! Leave fhe throat
open, throw say the big fur boas. let
tbe mir get at the throat, aud the anger
Ii soon get strong enough to stand a
Gl,le col without having DroEchits
every other week"
Beerhohm Tree, who was TO have
emitted for Amerira last week. has d.
layed mis- trap and Will pail with his
supporting company just in time to be-
gin his engagement ut Ahbey'd theatei
on JauuGry Is. He wil be accompanied
bY Mrs. Tree. an actress not unlike Mrs.
Beru.rd Bccrs. Mr.. Tree's lending
woman v Il he Lilly Ilanoury. u very
nslAiae raw young g,ri. whose photoiraphs
will prubably havs u vary large sale
while she Ii bee.
no biz Fringe Pro Tern 0. ere COM
ranv, unGer Inc managemeni vi Vi aries
l.. Rohhine, has been playing TO the
capacity VI the thtgiers On The New
England eiIcuit. Fred Lennx and jo-ie
sjad!er In the pr,ncipM comedy role5
have been enthu.ile tically commended
tor their .rote qqefie3, ana Madeline
Lack, Jessie BreuOury, Mabel Stanley,
George Lawrence and tho numerous
OTHER pre,,y girls in the cast make up
what Eiwnrd . Rec wonld call bright
heyy OF beauty Aitsr comp euny the
tour oi New England and pla,ins in
Canada. Bsrnet's mu ,ic4l iantasle viii
20 to phiadelphia.
Katherine Grey was especially com
meuded by the press at the national
capital for her impetuous perform II %
OF tie role nj Louka in Arms AND Tde
Man with r cnard Mansfield. Tie
Was hinxton Post said: The only
straightforward person in the piece Is
Leuka, the maze. She ia too wild and
untutored to play the humbug md SIM
ply iollows her natural instincts. The
part ID d l6cult one by contrast with
the others and is cleverly interpreted by
Miss Grey" The came paper says OF
Miss Grey's performance OF the Count
ess Maria Wo;enska. in Napoleon. AN
entirely different Kind of woman from
Louka; Miss Grey's Interpretation OF it
Ia great augury OF her future az an
actress"
Every star has three.iold audience
to coneder-the orchestra chairs, the
dress circle and the gallery" says
Thomas O. Seabrooke. "Uusually the
tastes of the gallery and the orchestra
chairs are about the came, while the
taste of the dress circle is quite differ
emit. In any event stupid lines must be
exchanged for good jokes and off.colored
expressions must be- eliminated sooner
or later-the sooner the better. A joke
that lacks the elements of good taste
may catch a laugh from an audiences
taken unawares, but the same people
will not laugh at such joke later, and
the memory of it frequently overs had
ows the really good and unobjectionu
able jokes to the pecuniary detriment OF
the player"
There was an incident not on the pro-
gramme that caused the audience that
attended the fret performance of The
Fatal Gard. at Palmer's, New York to
, laugh when it should have sat with q
sad face. 1t was scene mmedi ately
after a murder. and William III. Tn orhp'
con. one of the villains, who had hand
in the guilty act, took key, which was
q clue to the murder. from his pocket
and dropped it into the lake. At the
moment the key fell there was @ dis
tinct sound as Of piece OF metal com.
ing in contact with O board. Mr.
Thompson says he didn't drop the key
| at all and that practical Joker in the