Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-22
ludicrous, though the play was great

ludicrous, though the play was great
ly enjoyed by a colored audience.
The negro who impersonated the
Savior was as black as cinder, and
was robed in white. His "Satanic
Majesty" wss decked out in black and
COW horns. During the closing act
the negroes representing "Christ" and
the "Devil" got into fight. The lat
ter got the better of the former, and
afterwards appeared before the foot
lights and demanded of the audience
that they should henceforth follow
him.
William M. Constable, OF Wash
ington, D, c., kindly reminds us that
Herminie produced by the Red
mund-Barry Company in New
Orleans, La, recently, and by them
billed as a new work by Mr.. Red
mund, is really over thirty-six years
old. AS Marianne, the Tiudndiere, it
was originally acted at the London
Standard, February 3, 1881, the
author being L. Phillips. AS A
Strange History, with the authors
billed as Slingby Lawrence and G. j.
Mathews, it was done at the London
Lyceum, March 20, 1858, Mr.. Mat
thews, T. Cooper and Nine Vestris
being in the cast. The plots of all
these plays we may add, are identi-
cal. Doubtless Mr.. Redmund has
considerably revised his version Of the
original.
A consignment Of animals arrived
from London, England, for the Bar
mum & Bailey Show, January 9Th, viz. !:
Two tigresses, two lionesses, one al
paca, one zebra, two kangaroos, a lot
of monkeys and some smaller animals.
All we're in boxes, and will be for
warded to the winter-quarters at
Bridgeport Immediately. A previous
importation consisted of girraftes,
rhinoceros, hippopotamus, leopards,
six walrus (Russian), three hyenas, a
number of panthers, horned horse,
sable and cow-faced antelopes, nyl-
ghab, llamas, white deer, black box,
sea lions, etc. The giraffes are the only
ones in the country owned by show,
their delicate nature deterring show
men from buying them. Other ship
ments were expected on January 10Th
and February 1st, by which time all the
animals burned at the winter-quarters
will be more than replaced.
All of the stirring scenes and inter
esting incidents possible to get out of
"Called Back" as Hugh Conway
wrote the story, are made use of in
the Grsmer version. AS it was pre-
sented to a packed house yesterday
afternoon and last night, he adheres
very closely to the text, and the story
does not suffer from changes or omis-
sions. In this respect it excels, as
the dramatizer generally considers it
necessary to change the ideas and
situations of the author, even to pro-
viding new ones, and even MIR. Con-
way found this necessary in preparing
his own popular story for the stage.
Mr.. Grismer, however, has been more
complete, and at the same time has
not allowed any of the points
or climaxes strong in dra-
matte production to suffer. In
presenting his play Mr.. Girls
mer has made a careful selection of
his company. Heading it himself as
"Gilbert Vaughn" he has put every
minor part in at least fairly capable
hands and others in good hands. No
fault can be found in his presentation
of colbert. In the blind scene he
is very good, but the strongest dra-
matte talent is shown in the second
and third acts. Miss Phoebe Davies
also presents her character, Pauline
March," very faithfully. Miss Davies
has strong emotional powers; her act
ing is very smooth and her speech
plain and unaffected. She is very
pleasing in the last act. Mr.. Albert
Breuning, as "Macari," makes very
perfect william. Called Back will run
through the week, with Wednesday
and Saturday matinees.-[St. Louis
Globe Democrat.