Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-27

sation of horror which has held him un-
til then, for the cruel, whirring steel re-
mains buzzing it's teeth in the wood on
which Bascom reclined, showing the dan
ger and wounds he had so narrowly
escaped. This is perfect realism, and
could not have been obtained by all the
playwrights on earth without the aid of
the mechanics, of whom so little is ever
written and on whom praise is so sell
dom bestowed. Let us take another
example of modern realism and COM
pare it with kindred piece of alleged
realism of previous theatrical period.
This example is found at the Union
Square theater in Mr.. Neil Burgess's
production of The County Fair. mean
the racing scene, in which you have the
steeds straining every nerve to win,
urged by their jockeys and fecked with
foam, laundering over the track laid
down for them by the mechanics. The
horses are real, the jockeys are real, the
running, whipping, spurring and foam
f1ecks are real, and the race itself is
real.'
This is the way New York raves over
two lovely Spanish danseuses:
AS the people learn of the beauty, the
sympathetic and cultivated voice and
the sylph-like dancing of Otero, the tri-
umph of the Spanish dancer grows more
and more pronounced. Well-known club
men and ladies high in society 60 to the
Eden Musee night after night to see
her. Every seat is sold before O'Clock
in the evening, and the demand for seats
from the leading hotels is proof that the
fame of Otero has reached visitors from
out of town.
Carmencita's first appearance in pam
tomime will be made at Roster & Bial's
tomorrow night in burletta, entitled
The Dumb Girl of Seville. Besides this
interesting novelty, the programme will
be of unusual excellence. Marie Lloyd,
the English comic singer and dancer F.
W. Dale, musical artist; the Tissots,
tableaux vivants; Eddie Silbon, wire
walker, and King and Grapevine, gym
nastic specialists, will appear. There
will be crowd at Roster 4 Bial's this
evening
There is nothing prettier in boots than
Emma Abbott's feet. She is called the
queerest, best customer in the boot and
shoe business. Ii the cantatrice is going
to be married in opera she orders "a few
white ippers"-twenty pairs, as rule.
All the rest of the order is for boots
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last. They are made to measure always
Most women have their shoes made
for their feet. Miss Abbott has hers
made for her dresses-a pair for each.
When she is to be measured for new
stock of shoes she brings sample for
each order and wears never less than
three pairs of stockings. The last time
she had ON six pairs and ordered fifty
pairs of shoes to wear in her new opera.
Miss Emma Abbott is an economist.
She saves herself all the exeGtion possi-
BILE. She finds that it takes less time
to pull off than put on stockings be-
tween the acts. And so when she has
to change her boots, off comes pair of
stockings. This process OF shedding
hosiery is continued until the play is
over.
Within a short time it is stated that
reorganized Hendrix Hudson burlesque
company, headed by Anna Boyd and
Louis Harrison, will resume its tour I'M
der the management of w. w. Tillotson.
The authors are now at work changing
the burlesque to suit the abilities of
Miss Boyd and Mr.. Harrison. Pauline
Harvey, Charles Mack, Harry Standish,
Eva Randolph, Estella Mortimer and
Belle Thorndyke will be in the cast.
The eastern press will not learE that
Clara Morris is not a new star ON the
Pacific coast. The New York Star re-
Gently said: Tomorrow night Miss
Clara Morris makes her first appearance
in Portland, Oregon, at the new Maui
guam opera house, opening in Camille.
Her tour of the far west, where she had
never before been seen, is proving to be
very successful" Miss Morris has al
ready played two engagements in San
Francisco and one in Los Angeles, at the
Grand.
Mr.. Henry T. Finck has returned to
New York to his musical duties after a
summer spent among the Japanese,
where he has been studying the original
elements of musical culture. He comes
back to find that his publishers, the
Messrs. Scribner. have had to issue
new edition of his very thorough and
interesting book, Chopin and Other
Musical Essays-a work which shows
its author to have a deep insight into
the moods and the poetry of the great
Polish composer.