Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-20
ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS,
Conclusion of the Alexander
Salvini Engagement.
The Appearance of Miss Julia Mar
lowe This Week.
Other Attractions Which Are Booked to
appear Very Soon - Notes
and Gossip About
Stage Folk.

The engagement of Alexander Sal
vini, which closed last night at the Lo
Angeles theater, was one OF the mos
brilliant ever played in this city. The
young man is certainly the greatest
actor in his line on the American stage
today, and there is apparently no limi,
to his possibilities. He has genius and
II he has ambition he will soon be among
the few great.
All his company commended them
selves to the public. Miss Berolde, his
leading lady. is exceptionally beautiful,
and where she was given the opportuni.
ties proved herself to be a wonderfully
forceful actress.
And little Miss Dixon charmed every.
body. She is biiou actress, so to speak.
Nothing could be more delicious than
her Lazerillo in Don Cesar. Arch,
bright, expressive and easy, she deserves
the highest praise.
Manager Wyatt should be credited
with due praise for bis efforts in mount
ing the plays and furnishing music
which was treat in itself.
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Mr.. Perry has made many most com.
mendable improvements in the beauti-
ful Los Angeles theater since he pur.
chased it, and intends 10 make many
more. He has increased the seating
capacity by several hundred, and proved
himself to be theatrical architect of
decided ability. When the changes he
intends to make in the foyer and balcony
are completed the theater will be one of
the most beautiful and best appointed
on the coast. Mr.. Perry seems to be
perfectly informed as to the theatrical
business, and is bound to make sue
cess.
On Tuesday evening Miss Julia Mar
lowe will make her initial appearance
before Los Angeles audience at the
Grand opera house as Rosalind in As
You Like 1t.
Her engagement is for three nights
and Thanksgiving matinee and will
prove notable one. Miss Marlowe has
created o furore wherever she has ap-
peared. She was born for the stage.
Its painted scenery, its assumed emo
tions, its prose and poetry Are to her
like the realities and form great por-
ton OF her waking life. Young as she
was when she first encountered Shake
speare she encountered him in her own
world-the theater. The meeting found
her serious minded, with an imagina-
tion too vivid to accept the crude pre-
sentatlons OF juliet and Viola that she
saw, but go stimulated by them that the
atmosphere of Verona and Illyria
seemed to encompass her.
She has succeeded in pleasing the
public and her critics. Her engagement
in San Francisco at the Baldwin theater
has been an artistic and financial sue
cess.
The Examiner speaks as follows of
| one OF her productions
ut is rare intellectual treat indeed
! to witness Shakespeare'H most brilliant
comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. as
it was produced last night at the Bald
win theater by Miss Marlowe and the
admirable company of players that sup
port her. We have had so MANY per-
formances in which the audiences were
called upon to overlook the weakness of
one or more characters, that it was with
unusual pleasure the play was received
last evening. It was in every particular
a most finished and artistic production.
"While Miss Marlowe is the central
figure as Beatrice, and her delightful
personality pervades the play through
out, the effect OF her splendid acting is
etil further increased by the intelligent
work OF her associates. The men in
particul ar aya natural and manly, in
fact, they are chivalric gentlemen, and
wore their doublets and hose with the
ease and grace of courtiers.
Miss Marlowe's Beatrice is the en-
bodiment Of arch and merry young
womanhood. She appeals to the hie her
and purer emotions, and, withal, there
is sparkle and brilliancy in her por-
trayal of this lovely character that
shows her at her very best. Iu the
scenes between Beatrice and Benedict
Miss Marlowe is by turns merry,
coQuettish, modestly shy and ever the
volatile, changeable, eprightly and
fascinating creature that Shakespeare
| intended Beatrice to be-"
AS You Like Il will be given Tuesday
and Much Ado About Nothing Wednes.
day night. At the matinee Thanks
giving Twelfth Night will be presented
the engagement concluding Thursday
night with Ingomar.
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On Thanksgiving day and the day fol
lowing Fowler & Warmingto toms comedi
ans will appear at the Los Angeles the
ater in the well-known comedy, Skipped
by the Light of the Moon. This is one
Of the most popular of farcical skits
and although it has been before the
public a number of seasons, it is appar-
emily ss fresh and vigorous as when il
was first brought out. This is owing in
great measure, no doubt, to the fact
that the management is constantly in.
PRODUCING new songs. dances aud Other
epecial'iee into the piece, as we'll as new
faces, and in this way the funny play ii
never allowed to appear old, but man
ages to retain the freshness and vigor O
youth. The company this season il
said to be one of the best that has evel
appeared in it here, and the play itsel
has undergone a thorough revisal
There is enough comic element ir
Skipped to supply half dozen ordinary
plays, but the managers think thei
patrons cannot have too much OF gooe