Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-03
AMUSE MENTS.

The advance sale of seats for the re-
turn engagement of the Emma Juch
Opera company, beginning tomorrow
evening, indicates very liberal patron
age. Miss Juch never occupied higher
position in the operatic world than that
which che occupies today, and her ap-
pearance here on Monday as Violetta
in Verdi's charming opera La Traviata
will be hailed with delight by the music
lovers of Los Angeles.
On Tuesday evening Rigoletto and on
Wednesday evening Romeo and Juliet
are billed. The company has been
strengthened by the addition OF Herr
Rubo and Nine. Garso-Dely.
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The Strolling Players, who will play in
the Los Angeles theater on April 4th,
9Th and 9th, are creating q favorable i'm
preston in every town they visit. Sir
Simon Simple, which is their first bill,
is being produced by them for the first
time on this coast, and in the vernacular
has caught on, and, judging by the press
notices during this tour, in turn repre-
senting agricultural, suburban and city
interests, it must be comedy suited to
the tastes Of all classes.
Fanny Young, who plays Mrs. Newell,
is perhaps better known than any &C.
tress on the coast, and her work has
been too often favorably commented up
on by the press and public to need any
further notice here; while her daughter
Nellie, who has played more than one
title role at the Alcazar theater. San
Francisco, with great success, plays Fe
licia and Isabel, who are very much
alike, and yet opposite of each
other; and it is perhaps the most sue
cessful study of all her performances.
George H. Trader, who will be remem-
bered in Los Angeles for his clever i'm
personation of the boy in The Magistrate
during the last tour of the Alcazar peo-
pie, has an excellent comedy part
entirely suited to his ability.
All the other members OF the company
have been selected to play the particular
piece, and the selections have been
happy ones, as is satisfactorily proved
by the way in which the audiences have
received their work.
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That bubbling comedy, All the Com
forts of Home, as interpreted by Will
liam Gillette, will be the bill at the
Grand the last three nights of this week.
This play gives an audience incessant
opportunities to laugh, and that is just
what audiences want. 1t had an enthu
siastic reception here last season. The
present company is the came that so
successfully presented the piece during
the long run in New York.
The idea on which the story is devel-
oped is both original and humorous, yet
not impossible. The many ludicrous
situations, entanglements, unlocked for
tableaux and happy climaxes are as well
natural as equally consistent. The story
briefly is that of gay and festive youth,
who is left in charge of his uncle's city
residence during the absence OF the
family in Europe, and who, as the means
of raising the wind, proceeds to let the
people of conflicting temperament.
nervous, broken down music teacher, a
young woman from the Opera Comique,
who played havoc with staid and re-
spectacle family from the country, and
a number OF other women, all of whom
sustain an equally laughable relation to
the progress of the play. II is the chief
merit of the comedy that while insensi-
bly, funny, it is in no respect coarse, and
that the dialogue is in no case open to
criticism ON the score of dullness or
mediocrity.
The play will be staged here with all
the original scenery and accessories.
The portrayal of the comedy is in the
capable of hands of s. Miller Kent, Fl.
A. Morey. Frank Lamb, Herbert Ayling,
Samuel Edwards, J. B. Hollis, Jacques
Martin, James f. Rickard, D. F. Sher-
wood, Misses Marble Haslam. Kate
Denim Wilso, Pearl Means, Goldie An
drews and Trella Foltz.
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The grand colored cake walk at Haz.
ards pavilion on April 7 and under