Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

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It would be unfair to the public and |
of no benefit to Miss Gale to say that
she is great actress, but it is only fair
to the young star, and of great benefit
to theater-goers to say that she is an un-
commonly good actress-one whose per-
formances, judged by her Juliet last
evening at the opera house, are thor
oughly enjoyable throughout, and whose
methods.showshard study and an excep-
tional power of completely merging her
own personality into that of the person
she is portraying.
Miss Gale has had the misfortune to
have been too thoroughly doomed in
commercial parlance. A number OF
critics, judging from some advance no.
tices which have been received here,
have done her the injury of posing her
as having arrived, as being of the great
est. 1t is by no means an impossibility
that this will be truth some
day, but until it is Miss Gale
will be welcomed and admired
and enjoyed by theater-goers as an at
tractive, beautiful, young woman, and
as an actress worthy OF the most liberal
patronage.
Her Juliet is delightful throughout.
Her voice possesses a sympathetic
timbre, and in moments of passion and
force, it is stirring,y sonorous. Her
methods showed the artlessness of true
art. She seldom pandered to the stage
traditions of doing this, that and the
other, simply for the purpose of scoring
a point extraneous to the requirements
| of the role. The crucial balcony scene
was very satisfactorily played, though
degree more of abandon in the more
| fervid passages would not be amiss.
In the eliminating scene OF the play,
she showed herself fully equal to re-
spending to the tragic demands of the
| situation. All through the evening she
kept the audience in full sympathy with
her she possesses remarkable powers .of
attraction, such as make her auditors
feel personal interest in seeing her sue
cessful.
Her support is fairly good. Mr.. Creston
Clarke was not an ideal Romeo, but
played evenly, at times forcefully.
Space will not permit of detailed
4 mention of the others in the cast,
though several deserve commendation,
though there are others who do not.
1t is probable that tonight her
Rosalind will be more enjoyable than
was her Juliet. Her individuality, it
appears to the writer, will fit more
easily into the part of the loving, i'm
pulsive, bewitching yet wise maid OF
the forest of Arden.
W.
Chas. Frohman's comedians from
New York, which plays limited en-
gagement of three nights and Satur-
day matinee at the Grand opera house,
!, opens Thursday. Allan Dale, the
,, well-known author and critic, expressed
, the following opinion of Mr.. Wilkinson's
, Widows on the occasion of its first pro.
: duction in New York: SIT is the fun.
niest thing Gillette ever wrote. 1t is
! one large, moist, vociferous laugh from
: the time the curtain rises to the time il
! falls. 1t is the kind of genuine, pulsat-
ing and humane fun that appeals al
!, irresistibly to the boxes as it does tt
] the gallery, for it springs from absurd
possibilities, expressed with such de
Iightful gravity that we are almost in
clined to look upon then
e as screaming probabilities. A maj
who could sit through Mr.. Wilkinson
9 Windows without laughing, ought tc
write few nice, meaty, sensational let
ters to his friends, explaining how h
: got it, and where he got it, and why h
got it, and slip athletically from dock
< [ don't advocate suicide as rule, but il
this case I think it might be justifia
3 ble."
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Alexander J. McIvor Tyndall is tn
, big name of the "mind reader" who il
| to be at the opera house for three nights
. beginning next Monday. Many people
here remember Bishop and bis puzzlinl
feats. Mr.. Tyndall can do all tina
Bishop does in such matters and few
more tests probably, On Sunday, a
IL O'Clock, he will start from the Hol
lenbeck, and, blindfolded, will drive {
committee, who have previously hiddel
some article, to the place where it i
and will pick it from its hiding place
He certainly does many mysteriou
t things. For instance. if a man will bea
in his mind the combination of his safe
Mr.. Tyndall will open the doors Of tn
strong box in jiffy. He is one OF tn
end Of the century problems which nc
4 body has as yet solved, and is accord