The herald., 1893-02-19
MATTERS FOR THEAATTEER THEAATTEERl GG00ERS G0ERRS,
Comment on the Events of the
Past Week.
A Long List of Announcements of
Coming Companies.
Drama, Lectures, speoialties, Comedy
and Opera Noted on the Theatri-
cal Bill of Fare Announced
by the Managers.

Mr.. Leavitt gives people their moneys
worth in his show The Spider and Fly.
1t lasts for three hours and is full oi
variety and shapely legs, but why does be
not have Miss Royce learn some new
songs? She sings we'll and her songs are
pretty. but they are the same ones she
gave when here over year ago. When
one reflects that she has kept them go.
ing every night since that time and is
likely to continue until she comes again,
the effect is fstiguing. She is charm
ing young woman physically and VOC
ally, but if she would only reach that
point where she could not sing the
old song she sang SO long ago. it would
be better for her and her audiences.
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Ole Olson is an amusing en- nough play,
and no fault can be found with the way
it was presented here. One OF tn COM
psny, Mrs. McAlpine, has ecided
fault, however, and is probably not
aware of it. She is charming until she
speaks, when she produces an exagger-
ated Yankee twang that goes ill with
her attractive appearance. If Mrs. Nc
Alpine will heed this admonition it will
be worth a great many dollars to her,
but the hint will probably meet with the
fate of all good advice.
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1t may not be generally known that
Mr.. James II. Skunk, the proprietor OF
the Ole Olsen company, 10 a resident oi
this city. He is talented, able pro-
duce, who besides Ole has the Calhoun
opera company and John Dillon and
other irons in the fire; though it is hard
ly fair to call John Dillon an iron in the
fire now. since he has taken the Kelley
cure; he should be termed q brand
plucked from the burning.
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Mr.. Perry ia having as much fun with
his beautiful Los Angeles theater ss a
boy with his first pair of boots. He has
recently fitted up in the basement, the
finest set of dressing rooms on the
coast. The profession will surely bless
him each time any Of them play at his
theater. He has already commenced
putting fine elevator in place, and
when he carriee out all his plans of i'm
provements, the house will be almost
literally new one. Fortunately he is
millionaire, and there is no nicer toy
in the world for those happy individuals
than thester. However, with a good
manager, such as he has in Mr.. Wyatt,
there is both pleasure and profit to b.
had by owning an amusement temple.
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The more or less glowing claims made
by the managers of the companies which
are now coming will be found below, to-
gether with notice of the Lilliputians.
A writer with an austere sense of the
dramatic proprieties might be pardoned
for objecting to the entrance of ':freaks'
on the stage as actors, as demoralizing
to its artistic progress, equally with
prize fighters and Divorces, but in the
case in question the objection would not
hold. The performance of the little
people as it was given last season at the
opera house was highly entertaining,
while Franz Ebert is as legitimate a
comedian as can be found, and decidedly
funnier than several stars in that line
not necessary to mention. The perform.
ance is one that can be safely recon-
mended.