Show c DllAMATIG AND LYRIC f The Feast of Fat Things in Store for Theatre Goers A CHATTY LONDON LETTER Diplomacy Found Lacking Emma Jnch Still Clings to Locke Emmets Son to Wear ills Mantle Notes INCE the Bot I torn of the Sea held forth on Thursday night j F E silence has reigned fin the corridors S of tho theatre and 4 1 it will continue t to reign for the 1 longest in t or urt tfj t witnessed here for a whole seaaor past Summer wheather and the lake have even more terrors for the theatrical manager man-ager than the old time circus used to exercise exer-cise and Mr Burton is not sorry that attractions at-tractions are few and far between from now till falL The few that do till in the warm nights however are of the highest S grade as the following list of coming attractions at-tractions indicates Frohmans New York stock company in Men and Women and Diplomacy July 17 and IS Palmers Home stock company in Alabama Ala-bama July 20 21 and 22 Lyceum company in The Charity Ball The Wife The Idler etc August 19 2122 City Directory August 27 23 29 The fall season may be said to open September Sep-tember 17 and IS with Lewie Morrison in Faust and after him the dates are filled up thick and fast with the following Midnight Bell Evans Hoey Thomas Keene Home Dramatic club fair and conference week Fanny Davenport Daven-port Sol Smith Russell Nat Goodwin David Hendersons attractions Rosina Vokes Babes in the Woods Straight Tip Old Homestead Dr Bill Grismer andDavies Devils Auction Herr manns Vaudevilles Leopola Family Mr Potter of Texas Willard tne great English actor supported by the Palmer company Roland Heed Carleton Opera company Stuart Robson Texas Steer Frederick Warde Hanlons Superba Wilkinsons Widows Patti RosaCorInneMina Gale Bostonians Milton Nobles Marie Wain wright Hallen aud Hart Power of the Press Effle Ellsler Comforts of Home Blue Jeans Rhea Francis Wilson Natural Gas Richard Mansfield Reed and Collier LOXDOS June 15 lS91To Dramatic and Lyric 1 was forcibly struck with the reflection re-flection that Evan Stephens and his choral society would think themselves in the seventh heaven of delight could they spend the next few weeks in London Talk of your monster choruses Here is the makeup of the chorus and orchestra that will appear in the Handel festival at Crystal Crys-tal Palace soon The cnoir consists of 750 sopranos 792 altos 69b tenors and 790 bassos a total of over 3000 singers The band numbers 560 executants made up of 114 tirst violins 103 seconds 65 violas 72 violoncellos 61 double 4 basses 13 flutes 9 clarionets 14 oboes 12 i bassoons 3 double bassoons 10 horns 7 trumpets and cornets 9 trombones 3 tubas 3 kettledrums 1 grossecaisse and a great organ in the skillful hands of A J Eyre organist to accompany The theaters in London are all doing rather badly now except the Haymarket where The Dancmg Girl is being produced pro-duced j American singers are in great demand and high favor here Belle Cole and Geraldine Ger-aldine Dlmar are booked at a matinee concert con-cert next week Miss Da Vere the rising i soprano who I am told you could have had for your festival for the same money you I paid Thursby and who is worth three times as muchhas been engaged to sing I in the Richter concert July 6 A Miss Kellog billed the American bird warbler appears at Florence St Johns benefit I dont know whether it is our old friend Clara Louise or not Next to Patti Albani is the great over towering European star Albani sings in Italian opera next winter in Chicago and New York under Abbeys management Pattis movements are as closely chronicled as those of royalty She has invited Mrs McKee Mrs Russell Harrison Miss Blaine and Edward Rose water of the Omaha Bee to her castle in Craig y Nos Thomas Wnifnn the English actor who has for many years been in America came home on the Servia last week for a short holidayS holiday-S Mary Anderson and her husband and brother are living at Tunbridge Wells in a pretty country house She looks well and is enjoying good health Francis Wilsons portrait will soon become known to Europeans Euro-peans as well as to American travelers His manager Canby has decorated with three short posters the piers at Dover Calais New Haven Dieppe Folkstone Boulogne and Queenstown the Giants Causeway the Lakes of Killarny and for all I know the rock of Gibraltar On these posters It is announced that Wilson will reproduce The Merry Monarch at the Broadway theatre October4 One occasionally sees notices in the papers here that makes him homesick We read that John W Young an eminent Mormon financier is in London on business busi-ness pertaining to Mexican railways Also in the record of the movements ol Americana Ameri-cana on the continent we see references to Mr and Mrs Jennings Miss Hooper and Mr Jennings Recent steamers have brought over a large number of Utah people peo-ple who are scattered through the isles from Edinburgh to Lands End We are rather discouraged with Emma Juch We had hoped that her years of experience ex-perience with Locke and the host of times he has written fiasco around his achievements achieve-ments would some day bring on a tall distrust dis-trust that would send her to another manager But Locke despite the recent collapse in St Louis is still solid with Emma as the following letter to the press testifies Finally I am glad to inform 0 you that the affairs of Locke and Davis are i being satisfactorily and amicably arranged ar-ranged and that hereafter we give our exclusive ex-clusive thought and work to the important 4 interests of the noble organization that bears the name of the foremost among American singersthat of Emma Juch Miss Juchs company will next year be larger and greater than ever before and it is now the intention of giving the music loving public of San Francisco an opera festival in Which Wagners works and at least two great compositions never heard In San Francisco will occupy prominent places in the repertoire It is true that the terms of Miss Juchs contract for next season are tbe largest yet paid any singer to sing In opera in tho English language and that the contract is clinched by a deposit with Miss Juchs bankers of 10000 Very sincerely CHAJILES E LOCKE Verv little or nothing has come over the wires regarding the death of Emmott the once noted Fritz In Salt Lake as everywhere every-where else over the country Fritz was once almost a household word and the lullaby and other popular songs were made famous through his interpretation Of late years his irregular habits had sent Emmett down the ladder a good many notches but though his plays had come to be the most trivial sort he still had quite a following in the East Emmetts eon who has many I times taken his fathers place when the latter lat-ter waa incapacitated from afHWArt ill take up the old lift of plays aDd Jill all the date contracted for This is aaitf to be geeabletO the local man Wi wkOla = WboOk8dtthe o laaf4te l h have inherited all his fathers singing and < dancing qualities We gather from the San Francisco papers pa-pers that theMen and Women compani fell somewhat short of the public expectation expecta-tion in their delineationof Diplomacy It drew immense business but San Franciso bad had Jeffreys Lewis Montague and others of the great original cast and playing play-ing against their memory could hard ly be < anything else but uphill work Music and Drama says of the performance Charles Frohmans company has not yet proved itself entirely equal to me uccasloa that Diplomacy makes uf all modern plays this is the most nearly perfect piece of doietallmg Abit of Japanese cabinet making is not more exact in the fitting of its parts and yet tile actual joinery Is no more in evidence than is the articulation of the bones in the body of a beautiful woman lo trlv < such a play its due a company must bo as carefully titled to the roles as the roles are to each other and to the purpose oi I the play This Ideal the Froham company is far mom satisfying although the performance given this weeK at the California Have been interesting In-teresting intelligent clover to a cerlain dc tree and adminicle in a low particulars There is so much more room in Diplomacy than there is in Alen and Momen that Charles Frohtuauo players coming directly from Do series of perfectly succesaiul representauons of the latter have not been immediately able to nil it up There is good reason to believe that some of them never will be ablebecause of natural or acquired incompatibility with the characters assigned them and among these unfortunately are two of the zoo Jt important the play Sidney Armstrong as ZOlka and rrlnk Mordaant us Baron stsln Against these may i be placed Frederic De Belleville who needs only a touch of lbhgraity and dignity In place of the touch French levity in eta was of managing his scenes with Zieka in ibo last act to uejuit what Henry Bcauclerc ought to be and Hand Adams woo with only a little t more force and levoi In tne telling scene between I be-tween Dora and Julian In the third act can baa ba-a rarely good as the Is already a rare tly charming Dora Nothing could be more modestly and sincerely and prettily I girlish than her management of her scenes with Orlofl her mother and Julian In the lirst act and after she had recovered mom tier ilonday eight nervousness the did the tryUlg third act scene with Julian very well indeed la spite of her Immaturity William Morris was very much in earnest and was mjdeatly successful suc-cessful as Julian although he did not fill out all the outlines oi the caaractsr Orrln Johnson with a shade less intensity of speecu and manner man-ner will be an admirable urloff John Back stone Is the very pink of Alges and Annie Adams is a sufficiently good Marquise Zieka ho eier who was so vividly represented by Jeilrtys Lewis In her prime that the memory ot it manes most other actresses seem pale in the part is not for Miss Armstrong whose personality i person-ality ability and mannerisms are all opposed I to tne sh nioter She overacts and the dab oration Is Ineffective She makes a charming I appearance but she cannot loot a cted enough for Zieka nor seem suffleientb passionate I enough for any such nature Mr MorUuunt has done so much tine and forcibe I work on the stage that he can afford a allure or two and he ma as well eel stem down for cue I He might make a partial success of it if he could uciuire an accent more like the German and cjuld be persuaued out of his slowness und his tendency to repeat effects A manlike Stein Is always on the aiert and isaccustomed to think quickly and to observe closely but rapidly rapid-ly sucn a man would not have been in a flurry bat he would not hare taken up so much time j in Interview with the Be uc ere brothers I and he would not have given them more than one opportunity to reject his proilerea hand There much to enjoy in the companys repre sentatioa of the play and the California theatre thea-tre has been crowded evey nfgat with people who did enjoy it but in an artistic sense it is hardly comparable with the best that San Francisco has seen Notes Henry Miller has altered his plans and will not go abroad this summer Haverly is back in Chicago He is trying to get a fresh start as a manager Bill Jfyes new play Is nearly finished It will be done at the Union Square In September Carreno the pianist and wife of Tagllapietra recently set Berlin In a furore by her playing A Bunch of Keys opens its tenth season in August This piece Is the Hazel Kirke ot musical dramas I Otello will shortly be produced in London with Mme Albani M Jean le Keazke and M Maurel in the cast Andrew Young who wrote There Is a Happy Land Far Far Away is eighty and due there Mutic and Drama Lewis Morrison opens in San Francisco tomorrow to-morrow night in Faust He has had great receipts everywhere along the road Fanny Rices new musical comedy which Is called A Jolly surprise promises to be one of the most important productions of next season sea-son This town Is ripe just now for a bit of Gilbert St Snllivanlsm The revival of the Pirates of Penzance In San Francisco has taken im men ely Little Wallie Eddinger has been singing In a church choir recently and is said to have been as successful In that direction as he Is upon the stage Mirror Antonio Galassl the baritone will come to this country the coming season to sing in concerts con-certs under the management of Hendy Wolf sohn He will arrive early in October The Inventory of P T Barnums estate reveals re-veals the fact that the great showman died worth J2T95J2 Of this l2SZ5p is In persons per-sons property and 2933933 in real estate Mr W C Cure has gotten out a new piano piece entitled Cedric March dedicated To my friend Mr Chas Castleton Mj Cllve and Mr Castleton are both members of MrCareless orchestra Unable to find native artists Tschonhadlgan the composer of the first Turkish opera has been obliged to have it translated Into French In which language it will b3 sung under the name of Femareh by a French troupe Signor and Signora Hajeroni who visited America some years ago were benefited at Her Majestys Theatre Sidney on the afternoon of May 6th and the amount realized for them was 2SOO All the leading professionals In the cIty took part In the performance and the governor the Earl of Jersey attended Maje rant is in the last stage of consumption and his wife also is in ill health Music and Drama That popular place of Innocent and healthful amusement Wonderland will after July 4 be closed until Saturday August 22 During that period the place will undergo a complete reno ration repainting repapering and generally remodeled For the coming week a particularly interesting programme has been arrangedcom ining such talent as the mathematical novel Sol Stone the prodigy In figures ProC Cook with his woodenheaded actors and the ever popular and talented Ueinhart family in their new and successful play entitled Mr and Mrs Thompson The coming week should receive liberal recognition from the theatre going folks |