Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-05

- WHIMS.o
The First Appearance of Raymond
Holmes and Company.

The First Appearance OF Raymond
Holmes and Company.
1t has been q long time since we have
had the pleasure Of seeing 30 large an
audience at the Eureka Opera House as
appeared there last night to witness the
performance of "Whims." The house was
literally filled. There was not an unoccu-
pied chair to be seen in the gallery or on
the hall floor, while the benches below
were alive with spectators and cat-calls for
the business to begin. From s o'clock
until half-past 10, the curtain falling but
twice, and only for a few min utes each
time, there was comicality coming on
the heels of comicality without stop or
stay, and the great crowd laughed until
their sides ached and the tears came. Ray
mond Holmes is a genius of unaffected
humor. No silt or saving with him, but
every gesture and word suggestive and
lively. There were eight persons besides
himself, and they supported him and
stood for themselves at the same time. As
has been said before, there was not a
''stick" in the company. 1t would be
difficult to describe the acting or its effect
except in a general way. The name of the
performance indicates its character
"Whims." A whirl of fun from begin
ming to end. Mr.. Holmes overlooked
with rich new things, and what few old
things that were utilized were dovetailed
in nicely and came to the surface fresh again
with new sound and new meaning. Miss
Nellie Stowe (Bessie) is a graceful, pretty
stage figure, if one SO piquant in gesture,
not to mention speech, can be in any sense
called a figure except, perhaps, in the
sense of those figures in art which tell
whole histories yet never breathe or move
the lips. Burt Haverly 'Growled" well
aud responded admirably to Holmes
Jingle" Miss Jennie Bradie (the fairy
Anastasia) captured the crowd as ladies
always do who play and play
we'll the dried-up, but still hankering,
though esthetic, old maid. The others of
the company were not lacking in manner.
action or pleasing costumes, which cos
tunes, in all instances, whether elegant or
f~arcical, added remarkably to complete
the whimsical effect Of the entertainment.
The song 1901, /" by Mr.. Holmes and Mr..
Haverly, brought forth storms of laugh
ter and applause. 1t was full of rich
lOCAl kdSbt huu WCut w bdO CntC
with every shot. The illusions to the
Hartnett suit for 10000 shares, the
County Commissioners, Black Wallace and
one or two of our legal ~''mashers," and
and their probable condition in the first
year of the next century, struck the sppre-
ciative crowd, SO to speak, where they
live." Similar shots with similar humor
and effect will be turned loose to strike
where they ought to, tonight. We speak
with some enthusiasm, perhaps, with
some "gush" of Whims, but this is par
donable when the speech is in reference to
what has kept one laughing two hours and
a half and made him feel better towards
himself and everybody else for the diver
sion. With due reference, Of course, to
the light. airy, popular character of the
performance, we do not hesitate to say
that it proved the most generally satisfac.
tory, and was, perhaps. the best ever
given in Eureka. "We'll say no more
about it,"