The morning call., 1893-01-31
AT THE THEATERS.
The Midgets a Hit at the
Baldwin.
" Siberia We'll Received at the Stock.
we'll" Carmen Crowds the
TivOli.

siberia" is busy, rafting melOdrama,
with good deal of original and some Dor
r0wed stuff in Ii, especially the last act,
which is reminiscent of an old play. "The
Gunmaker of Moscow" now out of date.
But the audience at the SfOckwell last night
did not care for this. for they took it all in
with avidity, and there were many ready to
bless the memory Of dead and gone BARLEY
Campbell. who wrote it. The piece
was we'll mounted - scenery, costumes,
weapons, ornaments all correct, and
some OF these had a brilliant and stage mag
niicence seldom attained. Miss Lillian
Beddsrd, young English lady. was in the
lead and made, on this occasion. her first
stage appearance in the United States. She
played Sara, a daughter to David. by a
Christian mother, and she had an applaus-
i've welcome on her entrance that lasted
fully minute-a minute is n long time when
one is greeting a new actress hands up.
Miss Beddard has nice stage APP
pearance and reads we'll her utter
ance denoting her English stage schooling,
She VIII probably prove a fayorite at the
Stockwell. Miss Ethel Brandon played
most effectively Sara's sister Marie. aft
anced 10 Ivan NOrdoff; Miss Bebe Vinlng.
as Vera, made picturesque hOwergirl.
George OsbOurne, L.R Stoekwell and Henry
X. Jewett had the three principal parts.
ely-Michael Sparta, Michael Troll
sky and NicOaia Naigoff. These players
were placed where they did the most good,
for strong acting Is required from all the
characters, and it was there.
It was a fOregone conclusion that the
Baldwin would be full last evening, but the
most sangulne expectation did not reach
the extent of the crowd that was present,
and made up, too, of the representative
people of the city. 1t has been many a
night since this auditorium was so compact
ly filled The LlllipuiIans. who are quite up
To the mark OF every line written IN their
favor, were received with such an ELUSIVE
warmth that it must have made
their tiny hearts glad within their little
breasts. Everything tkev did in Candy"
was watched with earnestness and rewarded
| by general laugh. For. let il be borne in
mimi that those pocket editions of humanity,
Franz Ebert and Adolph INK. are SURPRISES
of talent, and might teach lessons in Wis
c0mlca To persons who have twice their
altitude. To see Ebert rs Tom kIapps the
bootblack, and Zink as handle the news
boy, Is 10 enjoy neat natural acting as free
in its giving out rs the flow OF a limpid
brook There is no smell Of the lamp about
these little ones, no marks of the drill; that
Is, their motions are so easy and uuStralned,
and Their by-play seems so much the Sug-
geston of the moment. that 1t all appears
gift OF nature requiring not the inte:ven-
ton of training nor of rehearsal. Ebert
may be called the low comedian of the par.
He moves slower and speaks less emphat-
ically Than his colleague, but there Is heap
OF fun to the square inch OF this midget.
link, as the newsboy, is model; he is ami
nation itself, and his song ard dance,
Papers! PapeIsl ] Call With All Fly
Force" so light aud airy was it, that the
audience rose TO him. paradoxical as II
may seem-ln a storm o t applause. There is a
good stage setting, splendid scenery, brilliant
. ..g;, anu many gtscelut oal,eas ~
ing of Klapps (EberD and HANDLE (Zink)
is, putting aside all the Stage glorles OF the
piece. we'll worth anybody's money and
time 10 see