Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-05

press was loud in their praises of the
performance. OF the original members
of the club, but two remainAMr. Dobin-
son and NJ. Lehman.
Mr.. Orrin Peck is in Paris. where he
has gained fame and wealth as an artist,
Mr.. James is cashier of bank in Santa
Ana, and Miss Hortense Sacriste is the
wife of Hon. Stephen M. White.
The Owls repeated Our Boys on Thurs
day and Friday evenings, June 10 and
IL, 1880, and then Immediately put the
comic-drama Lavater in rehearsal, and
produced it on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, December 16, II and 18,
1880, at Turn Verein hall. For cur
tain-raiser hey put on Balfso's one-act
operetta, The Sleeping Queen, in which
Seymour Locke, Orrin Peck, Mrs. Louise
Beeson and Miss A. f. George appeared.
On the following Friday the club went
to San Bernardino for two nights, where
they played to meager business. On
the second performance in that city it
rained pitchforks. 1t dripped all over
the stage. Finally tub was brought
in to catch part of the water.
The acme of the ridiculous was reached
when Martin Lehman came on the stage
holding an umbrella over his head, and
doing his part to perfection neverthe-
less.
On February 7, 8, and 8, 1881, the
club presented Courtship, with Mr.. H.
Sherwood, Mr.. w. Lander, Mr.. r. III.
ME Smith in the cast, in addition to the
regular members of the club. At this
time the management was in the hands
nc Mr. noyn
On Saturday, February 26, 1881, at the
authors carnival. in old Turn Verein
hall, an act from Macbeth was given.
Mr.. Dobinson played Duncan, ColonelJ.
J. Ayers was Macbeth, MacDuf was
Martin Lehman, Banquo, F. A. Gibson;
Lady Macbeth, Miss A. f. George, and
Fleance, Miss Emily Ferner.
The clubs next appearance was on
June 21st, 23d, and 25th, when they
produced another of Byron's comedies,
Our Girls, when the entire personnel of
the club changed, with the exception of
Messrs. Dobinson, Lehman and Seward.
In this piece Mr.. Tom Barnes made his
first appearance, as also did Mr.. Marc
Hopkinson, Mr.. Rudolph Weyse, Miss
Sonora Wetherell, Mrs. C.J. Titus, Mrs.
G. H. Edwards and Miss Stella Thomas.
The HERALD OF June 22d scored the
piece numerically, saving the situations
are very strained and the chapter of ac-
cidents impossible, but said that the
play, such as it was, was capitally
mounted and creditably performed.
Nothing was done by the club between
the latter date and Nov. 10th, when
they presented Covne's comedy, A
Widow Hunt, with Tom Barnes as Felix
Featherly. About this time Mr.. Leh-
man went to San Francisco to live, and
nothing was done by the club until he
returned four years later, when A
Widow Hunt was again put on with Mr..
G. A. Dobinson as Felix Featherly, Mr..
Tom Barnes as Frank Icebrook, Mrs.
Lehman as Mrs. Featherly and Mrs.
Barnes as Fanny. Up to this time, this
was the best performance the Owls had
given. On June 25th they presented
Miss A. F. Georges adaptation from the
German Deception, or as Daly's version
is called 7-20-S. In the cast were Mr..
Lehman, Miss George, Mr.. Gilbert, Mr..
w. E. Pile, Miss Alice Freeman, Mrs.
HI. E. Small, Mr.. A. P. Slate, Mr.. Tom
Barnes, Mr.. Chas. Scharff and Mr.. G.
A. Dobinson.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
May 5, and 5, 1899, the club presented
Our Boys and Everybody's Friend at
the Los Angeles theatre for the benefit
of local charities, to immense audiences.
This marked the first appearance OF Mr..
Chas. Vogelsang, Mrs. Wing, Miss
Mamie Short, Miss Josie Williams and
Miss A. G. Lyford with the club.
On July 9th the club rendered Miss
Short benefit, prior to her departure
for the east, at which time they pro-
duced Esmeralda, with Miss Short in
the title role. This lady, after finishing
a course at the Lyceum School of Acting
in New York, Immediately accepted a
position with Marie Hubert Frohman,
with whom she is still playing juvenile
parts in The Witch.
Last fall they again produced Es-
meralda with an entire change of cast,
excepting the part OF Old Man Rogers
assumed by Mr.. Lehman. They went
to Riverside for one night and were cor
daily received by very light house.
Their last production was Caste, with
Miss Gertrude Foster in the leading role
of Esther, and she received the highest
commendation for her work in this line.
Acting upon the suggestions of several
another emotional drama at present. but
to that end Young Miss Winthrop will
be put in rehearsal within few weeks,
for production early in September.
We congratulate the club on its past
success, and we hope to be able to re-
cord many more pleasant evenings with
them and to see many new faces amongst
it's members. There are few gifts so so-
cially useful as dramatic talent. 1t cul-
tivates memory, elocution and powers
of imitation, and a healthy dramatic
club is as much boon to community
as the degraded exhibitions sometimes
called dramas are curse.
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