Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-07

lno management claim LnaC sport
McAllister is farce comedy which has
q plot. Theatrical managers, it seems
to me, are willing to take all sorts OF
chances in making assertions. but the
following is said to be the plot. There
looking for it when the piece is per-
formed:
jeremiah, or "Sport McAllister' is an
Irishman OF fleisure with sporting procliv-
tiles and an ambition for political hon
ors. He receives the nomination for
the Office of sheriff of the city of New
York from the Democratic party and at
once proceeds to canvass for votes in
opposition to Dennis McGinty, the Re-
publican candidate for the same office.
The latter is game, however, and shows
fight. The electioneering tricks resorted
to by both sides in order to secure the
popular vote are immensely funny.
"Sport" calls meeting of his followers
and his rival who lives opposite to him,
calls an opposite rally. "Sport's" son
writes up speech for his father to be
delivered from the balcony on the night
OF the meeting and while prompting his
father on that occasion, he transfers the
manuscript to his dudish stepbrother
Percy, who gives the old man a protec-
tion speech instead of the proper line.
A volley of bricks and other missiles is
the result of the mistake, and Percy is
sent off in disgrace. "Sport' is not
daunted by the accident, however, and
invites the bosses of the foreign vote to
a grand banquet, where by his clever
diplomacy he becomes master of the sit
uation. Many fine specialties are in
troduced in the second act, which is
the most unique of the three.
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Plot or no plot, everybody knows by
this time what a farce comedy is. and
whether they enjoy it or not. Another
promise OF the management is plenty
of black stockings and pretty girls.
What more can any one ask?
**x
On Tuesday evening Mr.. Wyatt. at
the Los Angeles theater, will open a
short engagement of A Texas Steer, Mr..
Charles Hoyt's latest comedy, in which
Flora Walsh, who created the "lunch
counter girl" in A Hole in the Ground.
will play lead. A Texas Steer is de-
scribed as a legitimate comedy, the
most ambitious which Mr.. Hoyt has
yet produced. The young manager
playwright, who made fortune by ex-
changing newspaper work for his pres
enG occupation, will accompany his
company and direct the production.
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Why is it that American play-writers
still have to go to Germany or France
for the themes of their work? Mr..
Gillette has made a delightful comedy
out of Mr.. Wilkinson's Widows, but ali
he did to the original play was to cut
out the risque lines. There was an en-
tire absence of any American tone or
color, or of originality about the comedy,
delightful as it was. 1t is to be hoped
that Mr. Gillette will not become mere
adapter.
The Owl club will, on the 18th at the
opera house, play Every ybody's Friend,
for the benefit of the local lodge of Elks.
Mr.. Martin Lehman, the only semi
tropic comedian, as Major Wellington
De Boots, part in which he won much
praise when as boy he essayed it, will,
| can safely predict, give..a most admira-
BILE performance. He possesses excep-
tional talent as comedian, so much so
that he has been wise in deciding in
the future to head comedy company
in play written around his own line Of
work.
The cast is as follows:
Felix Featherby. .......... We. Pile
Major Wellington De Boots IN. Lehman
TEap Mra Featherbv Miss E ertrnda Manspwssl Poser
Mrs. Swandown. Miss Gertrude Graham
Mrs. Major De Boots Mrs. f. A. Pineree
Fanny......... .............. Miss Bertha Sharp