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The herald., 1898-11-27
Viola Allen Will Star

Viola Allen OF the Empire theater stock
company will star next season. She said
at the close of the performance of "The
Conquerors' last evening, says the New
York journal, when informed that Charlie,
Frohman had engaged Miss Jessie Millward
to succeed her as leading lady of the En-
pre- company.
YES, it is true that l am to STAR" said
Miss Allen. 81 cannot tell at present unde,
whose management / will be or what viii
be the name Of the play. That will be an
nounced later, so soon as my plans are per
fected.'
The Empire theater has been nurser,
for stars, and it is worthy Of remark tha,
all have won high position and made great
deal OF money. There is Henry Miller and
Maude Adams and John Drew and now
Viola Allen. The fact that all the stars
from this theater have been SO successful
speaks well for the system of training tha,
is pursued in the Empire.
Miss Millward, Miss Aliens successor at
the Empire. is one of the most popular ac.
tresses in London. She is also known r
this country She first appeared in New
York in 1888 in Henry Irving's company and
won great praise from the critics for he1
dainty and forcibe work
Viola Allen persistently denied for some
time thai shcintended to become a star next
year. But oablegram received last night
that contained the announcement of Jessie
The herald., 1898-11-27

Photographic champion belt, were ever
depicted in such an amazing variety OF
artistic poses.
Suddenly this stalwart, superb specimen
of womankind, actuated by one OF the mex
pllcable caprlces OF her sex, married little
sawed-otf, llliterate chap named Charles F.
de Garmo, who had won something OF a
reputation as hustler" while acting as
programmer for Haverleys Ministries. Moth
ing could be more absurdly grotesuue than
the physical contrast afforded by this
strangely assorted couple, and after her mar
riage the Alma Stuart Stanley craze sub
sided as quickly as it began The couple
drltted out to California and led a checkered
career, which eliminated with the bursting
up OF a farce comedy with the insane title of
'Paintin' Er Red. De Garmo hustled to n O
avail, even his inspired device OF arrest for
daublng the Lotta fountain with bright hued
vermlllon failing to catch the attention OF
indifferent San Francisco
Separation and divorce followed between
the long and short of it, as the couple were
professionally known. The peerless Alma
drltted back to London, where she formed
more aristocratic connections, and after
many vlclssitudes has loomed into command.
ing prominence. The little hustler, who has
charged his name to Colonel Charles de
Garmo Gray, is managing an exposition to be
given this month in Oakland, across the bay
from San Francisco.-Leander Richardson
in the Standard
The herald., 1898-11-27
A Career in Comic Opera

To read of the statuesque Alma Stuart
Stanley's recent comic opera triumphs III
London you would think her some new stage
divinity who had suddenly burst into bios
som. But if you are an ''old timer" and be-
ginning to get little shiny on the top OF
the head you will recall her readily enough
as brief but dazzling sensation in this town
nearly fifteen years ago. The peerless Alma
is no bud, but tolerably full blown.
When the English melodrama Youth
was first produced here and Alma strobe the
stage in the jaunty white flannels OF rakish
young London swell, there was buzz of adj
mration that had swelled into a chorus Of
adulation before the week was over. A more
perfect goddess OF a woman was never
created than this elastic. buoyant, siX-footer
OF an English girl, aglow with health and
vitality. She was Juno, Diana and all the
other NEUROLOGICAL beauties rolled into one
but altogether lacking in magnetism and
dramatic talent But for six months at least
the photographers made her famous. Not
even the Maude Branscomb of that period
or Dorothy Usner, the present holder of the
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forth dressed for the feast? Do not people
enjoy better play in which the attire is
very pretty and becoming, and in which, if
there are any barred arms and legs in tights,
they are not the limbs of big, fat men! The
play of "Antony and Cleopatra" last night
was beautifully staged; the costuming was
all that Shakespeare would have asked had
he been present to superintend the produc-
tion in person; and, though Modjeska and a
good company of players presented it, the
house was cold and the applause was rare
and listless There was only one curtain
call, and the audience seemed to have given
that with no other intention that to warm
itself up; the people seemed surprised when
Cleopatra and Antony were seen standing
on the stage bowling their acknowledge
ments. NIodjeska doesn't make good Cleo
patra, because the famous Egyptian was the
handsomest woman in the world, and Mod
jeska is too old for the part. The woman
who took the part of Octavia also showed
the ravages OF time, and Antony was too fat.
Other men in the east were bow-legged, and
their tights didn't fit. Very few men will
stand the test of an attire OF tights and
sheet over the shoulders, and Modjeska
didn't happen on any of them when she
made up her company"
The herald., 1898-11-27
The Tale of q Sofa

There was an hysterical moment during
Julia Arthur's final dress rehearsal this
season in Detroit, of "A Lady of Quality,
when it was discovered that w. S. Hart, who
this season takes the role of Sir John Oxon,
which was last year impersonated by Edwin
Arden, was somewhat larger in height than
his predecessor, and his corpse, after having
been stretched upon the floor by a blow from
the riding whip of the Lady Clorinda pro-
truded several inches from each end of the
sofa which is wheeled over him. 1t wouldn t
have been quite the thing for the Lady Clo-
rinda to have received her guests over a
sofa beneath which a gentleman's head and
feet, who had departed this earth, were
protruding, but it was in Detroit, away from
the centers where they manufacture gold
lounges large enough to accommodate the
cadavers of big men, and it wac the tight
before the production that this was discov
cred, with no time to lose to order another
sofa, so there was great and unmitigated
excitement. At last the fateful sofa was
sawed in two, spliced in the center and a
drapery put over the boards 1t was voted
quite a success till the opening night, when
the Lady Betty Tantillion has to sit upon
it, She did so unthinking. The audience
heard terrible creak, and the actors on
the stage expected to see the lady go crash
ing upon the floor. She recovered, how
ever, in time to save herself, as we'll as the
play.
There is larger sofa now used in "a
Lady of Quality" made purposely for the
corpse of Sir John Oxon.
The herald., 1898-11-27
"The Mercenary Song"

"Look here!" exclaimed the Greatest
! Headliner, fiercely; "here's an article in this
paper about popular songs Of the day, and
not word is said about the mercenary song
from the beginning to the end of it"
"The what song!" asked the Reformed
Minstrel.
"The mercenary song. The ballad Of
debts and creditors, and dollars and cents.
It's the most distinctively American style OF
song that has ever been perpetrated, and
you hear scores of them whistled and sung
wherever you go
81 never have heard one," said the Re-
formed Minstrel, "and don't believe such
thing exists. Why, how in the name Of
Immortal Vaudeville could man write
verses about such business matters and
make it singable?"
That's where the art comes in replied
the Greatest Headliner. "These poet chaps
get right down to the money grabbing spirit
of the day, wrap it up in negro dialect, have
the thing sung by black-face artist and 1t
touches the heart of the mercenary people
in the audience as no other sentiment posi-
bly, can. Here are some examples: L Don't
Like No Cheap Man, When Yo' Amt Got
No Money, Yo' Needn't Come Round,' Il
Wish My Rent Was Paid and Get Your
Moneys Worth The injustice of it all is
that the negro is not money grabber by
any means, and the white people put these
sordid lines into his mouth and then give
him the discredit of them. It's black
shame, sir!"-Dramatic Mirror.
The herald., 1898-11-27
Coming Attractions

THE LOS ANGELES.-(A Advance An
nouncement.) There has recently come into
the field of farce writing new author. This
man is Grant Stewart, an Englishman, a
graduate of Trinity college, Cambridge, who
several years ago chose the stage as his pro-
fession In a small way he turned his at
tention to dramatic writing, turning out
some sketches which proved remarkably
successful. His first important production,
however, was mistakes Will Happen"
which was given its baptism in Chicago early
in September and which made an instan.
taneous hit. The production was made by
Jacob Lit, and since the Chicago produc.
ton it has been presented in some OF the
more important cities in the country, dupli-
eating in every instance its Chicago success.
Mr.. Stewart is a believer in good, whole.
some fun, and while he makes no great claim
to any literary merit in his play, he does
claim that he has succeeded in doing what
he set out to do, to produce play that would
keep an audience in a continual laugh for an
entire evening. He has put together lot
of bright lines and funny situations, which
in these days of degeDeracy are happy re.
lief to the amusement seeker. Mistakes
VIII Happen" will open an engagement OF
three nights at the Los Angeles theater to-
morrow evening. The production is very
handsome one and the company is one OF
the best that had eveS been gotte i together.
Ii is headed by Charles Dickson and Henri
eta Crosman and includes such well-known
players as Charles Harbury, Carrie Behr, Ed.
mund Lawrence, Adah Eckert, Ben Deane
and Franklin Garland. The play is said TO
tell an interesting story and to have lot Of
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soft thing, and in that case the subject
matter turned in to the newspaper selected
as victim is wonderful to read. For in
stance, the gentleman who is administering
preparatory photographic medicine for the
public about the piece that is to open at
the Los Angeles tomorrow night is exploit
ing sort of Anna Held idea in the matter
OF baths. The public is supposed to be in
terested in Miss Henrietta Crosman prac-
tice as to the care of her cuticle and to be
ready to swallow with avidity Miss Cros-
mans prescriptions about the proper in
gradients for beauty BATH The whole
notice reads like one of Mrs Weaver-Jack-
sons advertisements. In the first place.
particulars are given about Miss Crosman' 5
clear complexion and the interesting fact
is stated that she takes every morning a
warm bath in which variety of Season
ing is first diluted, such as milk, bran.
The herald., 1898-11-27
Pickwick in Paris

A British adaptation of French play
manufactured by Russian journalist out oi
an English masterpiece-thi is what fate
may have in store for the London gods and
little critical fishes before the century ends
For Paris is presently to worship at the
shrine of Dickens! The thunderbot has
been launched in dozen words. This sea
son Mr.. Pickwick is to figure on the French
stage. Shades of the Genius of Cockney-
dom, how strange it sounds. Once upon a
time he cut his podgy capers in London
says NJ. A. p. James Albery strung few
scenes together for Sir Henry Irving, and
his Jingle, with his jaunty topper packed
with sandwiches, gaping armhoes and shah
by-genteel black breeches patched in the
seat with lavender cloth, enlightened the
classic severity of the Lyceum. But the play
now in preparation by NJ. Notovich Of the
Novosti is on more ambitious lines.
The herald., 1898-11-27
Lansing Rowan

Lansing Rowan, the heroine Of Eddie
Bald's new cycling melodrama, is the only
one Of the old "Heyett" girls to attain any
dramatic distinction, says an eastern jour
raj. Full eight years have elapsed since
Miss Helyett, and revealed a bunch OF
beauties that has never been rivaled since,
even by such experts in selection as Rice
and Lederer. So many exquistely lovely,
graceful and apparently aristocratic young
women were never combined in a chorus
before, and they fixed a standard that has
never been equaled. But Miss Rowan alone
OF that bevy of young women, who then oc-
cupied class by themselves, is appearing
upon the stage today.
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| oatmeal, starch. almond meal and orris
root. Then, receipt Is given for an Jung
| ent, so called, and salt baths are recon-
mended but these in Miss Crosman's opin-
mon should be taken at night just before
retiring Cold cream is also a good thing
for the completion" Finally it is related
that Miss Cro>man is great believer in
the use of fruit before going to bed
If any one remains in doubO as to the
lady's abilities as an actress after reading
this description of her hygienic rules, he
cannot have been properly impressed by the
rhetoric of the press agent.
The international opera company is in
financial straits, according to the following
paragraph in the Chicago Times Herald,
which says:
According to a dispatch received from
Kansas City last night the international
Grand Opera company, composed of 20
people, including some of the best known
singers of this country, as we'll as some of
European fame, is stranded there. The
company had been playing an engagement
at the Coates opera house. and was ready.
according to Romualdo Sap!o. its financial
backer and musical conductor to disband
Saturday night unless the houses for the
remainder of the engagement improved or
outside aid was received. One of the COM
pany started for Chicago in an endeavor
to raise f6nds. The cast includes Nine.
Clementne De Nere-Sapio and Nine. Sell
makronold Augusta Dado, Nirgilio Bellati
and Francesca Collenz. The company was
booked to appear at Omaha and at several
Pacific coast cities.
Late last night, however, it was an
nounced that Paxton & Burgess. the
Omaha theatrical managers, had made ar
rangements to take the company to Omaha
at the expiration of their engagement in
Kansas City.
Miss Florence Aull made her debut with
"Hogan's Alley company at the Los An
geles theater last night. The part she as
sumes makes no demand upon her histrionic
powers. but it may be regarded as a step
ping stone to higher things. Many theat-
rical star has graduated from the ranks,
and this pretty Los Angeles girl will doubt
less be heard from at future date.
Private advices state that Madame Mod
je>ka is doing phenomenal business at
every stopping place on her present tour,
fact that will be gratifying to her legion
Of admirers on this coast.
G. \. DICKINSON.
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Mistakes Will Happen

"How do you desire to take me?' languidly
inquired the naughty stage beauty, as she
flung herself carelessly into the great carved
antique chair in front of the camera.
Il think, if you do not object" said the
artist eagerly, as he withdrew his head from
beneath the enveloping folds of black dra-
perry. Il think | would prefer to take you in
the altogether"
How dare you:" she screamed, as she
leaped from her seat, her cheeks all afame.
You shall paw dearly for this INSULT" .
what l was about to say said the art
ist, calmly, ''f you will repress your emotion,
was that | would prefer to take you in the
altogether artistic and natural pose which
you had unconsciously assumed"
The herald., 1898-11-27
Shakespeare in Kansas

Here is a specimen criticism upon the
Modjeska production of Antony and Cleo
patra,' as viewed through the glasses of the
able critic of the Atchson Globe. lie says:
''Do people enjoy the kind of plays in
which the men are dressed like the hero OF
Quo Nadis' when ne shaved the hair eff
his arms, fastened a sheet on his shoulders
put few leaves on his head and sailed
The herald., 1898-11-27

Angeles-Monday Wednesday,
vaudeville Pauline Hall Flo
Irwin
BubankMonday Tuesday and Wednesday Matinee "ove"
Friday and Saturday Matinee MAR
THAI" Saturday. "The Brigand."
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Millward's engagement seems to have de-
termined her to become the head OF a COM
pany to be called by her name.
The herald., 1898-11-27

The advance agent Of travelling thoat-
rical attraction is a perennial source of en-.
joyment to a mind so constituted that it can
ignore the petty annoyances of life. Not
that advance agents are annoying; on the
contrary, they are almost without exception
very pleasant agreeable men, with extraor-
binary abilities in the way of fraternizins
and securing the desired notices for their
particular attraction
Here and there may be found one who
s'iscalculates his distance, or, in other
words, reclSons too readily that he has a
The herald., 1898-11-27

Private advices state that Madame Mod
jeska is doing Il phenomenal business at
every stopping place on her present tour,
fact that will be gratifying to her legion
Of admirers on this coast
G. \. DOBINSON
The herald., 1898-04-09

But have two opinions of this last matter.
1t may have been an accident, as l have al
ready said, and yet l sometimes think it
was ruse upon the part of Spain to divert
attention from its vicious and inhuman
fighting in Cuba"
That's right, friend, that's right; that's
the way ] like to hear people talk" and
several enthusiastic bystanders slapped the
first speaker on the back, while few 9TH
ers struck him indiscriminately over the
heart and on the stomach. But this, to a
street speaker is a compliment
"But about the war" suggested another.
"There won't be any, said a short fat
man with dirty collar and shirt and un-
shaved face, imperatively and as is the
custom of professional curbstone speakers
in tone conveying the impression that his
words were irrefragible, final and irrefut-
able This country is run by Wall street
and Mckinley hasn't much more to do with
1t than you or /. excepting that he has a
graft and we haven't. All these rich guys
Hanna and Morgan and that gang-have
money invested in Spain and in Cuba and
they won't stand for a war. You can gam
BILE that they come pretty near getting
what they want If they don't they'll shut
down every factory and bank in the United
States. OF COURSE, ifths banks dloss THAT
The herald., 1898-04-09
CURBSTONE POLfMICS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Eyes, sir, / tell you pwhat 1t is they az
be havin gunnery down to SCIENCE sait
Mr.. Michael Casey, who earns dollar ans
q half a day for excavating ground fol
sewer pipes last evening, as ne returned
from his work and stopped IN front OF Inc
Herald building en- route to his shanty' te
a crowd of willing listeners
sWhat has dat to do with the war
Casey?"
"Pwhat hasn't it to do" Mr.. casey re-
piled, sneeringly.
'Then tell us, Casey"
"You do be sayin' down with Wall street.
OATS what Michael Casey says-down WIG
Wall street-down wild monopolies-down
wild rich bues-down wild all but the honest
workin' man."
''Hoorah for Casey!'
sDat's me, friends: the workin' man
needs show, and down wild the others"
"What's dat to do wild fightin' SPAIN
Casey?"
"Whist, while I tells We. AS was a
sayin', they do be havin' gunnery down to
q science
"Rous NIT dat Irishman; he speaks me
FOOLISH"
IL do, eh, do I. You durty, creepin' Dutch
man, go home and make sissage. COMM
around here, the likes Of you, you durty
fooriner, and tellin' Michael Casey he's a
fool, Away wild yez, afore I loose me
hands,
go home and beat your wife, Casey"
mot much do be beatin' tho old lady
This week. Business do be rushin' in our
house and Mrs. Casey is a-helpin' of her
man to feed his young-uns."
ssR,,t Won saw they have gunnery down to
q science, Michael Casey?"
$50 they do, so they do, and history do
be repeatin' itself. Whist, while tells you
somethin' you don't know. History do be
repcatin' itself. it do, and they do be havin'
Sunnery down to science. Does you re-
member readn' dat the f1oytilliya ordered
from Madrid to Porto Rico was driven into
the Canaries by storm short while back,
The herald., 1898-04-09
POLICE COURT CASES
A Technicality Will Probably Free All
Jim From Punishment

John Turner and Wesley Wright, second
hand dealers of Main street, were before
Justice Morrison yesterday to answer to
charges of misdemeanor in having left a
quantity of their goods stacked on the
sidewalk. They were released on deposit
ing cash bail and their cases set for trial
next Monday.
Ah Jim, the Chinese who was arrested
recently charged with selling opium with
out a license, will probably be discharged
not because he did not sell the drug, but by
the grace Of a clever technicality raised by
his attorneys. They contended that the
complaint on which Jim was being prose-
cuted had been drawn under a city ordi-
nance regulating the sale Of opium. The
attorneys pointed out that state law
governs this matter, however, and regu-
lates by whom opium is to be sold. In
view of this the city ordinance had no
right to regulate the sale when the state
law did SO. Deputy District Attorney
Chambers admitted that this was a good
point and the case was continued until this
morning at $3.50. when the jury will be
present and the dismissal probably be
made.
Lesly Goff was found guilty Of fast driv-
ing across First and Spring streets yester-
day by Justice Morrison and his sentence
set for today.
A. E. Beanie was fined s. yesterday by
Justice Morrison for violating the milk or
dinance.
II. A Harris. the colored man charged
with keeping vicious dog, was discharged
by Justice Morrison yesterday, the COM
plant being dismissed. Harris paid for
the damage done to the young woman's
dress whom the dog attacked and also
killed the canine.
Jerome w. Shannon, who was arrested
several days ago by Detective Hawley,
charged with stealing a Mexican boys bi-
cycle, was fined 50 or three days by Justice
Morrison yesterday. The Mexican boy
failed to leave his name with the officer,
but went away, so it was impossible to
prosecute Shannon on the charge of lar
ceny.
c. Achterman, chronic beggar. was
given a six months floater yesterday by
Justice Morrison.
The herald., 1898-04-09
Won or I. What We care

amt going to hurt you or !. What We care
about is the factories"
what do you carer You haven't been
working for months"
but I have friends that are, and X they
lose their jobs won't have show for q
living. As L was saying Hanna and Nor
gan don't want war and lisa cinch we
won't have war"
.Tell you what" said a tall, angular,
middle-aged man, who introduced himself
as an ex-prosperous contractor. III we do
have war 1t won't last long"
"I amt sure about that"
"I am, and"
eyes, they said Spain wouldn't hold out
long in Cuba, but they did"
"Cuba and America are two different
countries" said the speaker who first sug-
gested this phase of the subject. IT think
the New York police department can lick
Spain in jtffy."
"You don't surely mean those flannel
mouth coppers?'
Understand that I'm an Irish-American
and proud of 1t and If you say" and here
policeman, who draws pay from the city
Of Los Angeles, dispersed the speakers.
The herald., 1898-04-09
FELL TWENTY FEET
Serious Accident to a Painter or
Bonnie Brae Street

A. W. Smith, painter residing at 81
North Douglas street, met with serious
accident yesterday morning about 10
o'clock. He was engaged In painting the
house at S11 South Bonnie Brae street and
was sitting on painters ladder suspended
by ropes. One OF the ropes broke, pre-
ciptating him to the ground, distance of
twenty-five feet.
He struck on his hips and back. Both
hips were severely hurt, but the most Sc
rious injury was to his back. Smith was
unable to move and was cared for until
the arrival of the ambulance, which con-
veyed him to his home. DR.. Morrison at
tended Smith and decided that his inju-
ries were not likely to prove fatal.