The herald., 1894-07-29


gether with the wailing cadences OF a
love-song, which spoke of lips like pome
granite blossoms and OF girls like young
oedars, and she commenced the first
muscle dance given in Los Angeles.
A lone policeman stood and watched
Fereda as she gave her preliminary wig
giles. She ia tall, lissome young
woman. of lighter skin than her asso.
ciatea, and she has o control over the
muscles of her body from her chin to
her hips that rivals that OF horse in
hytime. The music grew faster. the
girls and the men gave queer shouts and
calls that seemed to excite the CULVER
ing girl, for her twitching and wiggling
increased and made the policeman blush.
He went to the manager and ordered it
to stop.
"Mais monsieur, par la barbe du pro-
heite, c'est la dsnse du ventre. She must
wiggis Eat way or she cannota danae,
voyez donc." replied the befezsd
ticket taker.
II don't care" replied the moral Off
Ger, that last wiggling don's go; 1t is
vulgar"
As matter OF fact the last wriggle
the streets of Cairo, but Fereda toned
down her abdominal gymnastics for
while. But other officers came in and
seemed to enjoy it. and the wiggles be-
gan to make themselves conspicuous
again, and there were no more orders to
stop; the audience shouted with delight
and the affair was success.
One little bedezinad girl gave an ex-
hibition OF her cleverness as q swords
woman with one OF the mon. Cimeters
flashed and resounded on bucklerH in q
most exciting manner.
Altogether the entertainment was de-
lightfully reminiscent of the midway,
and the men enjoyed it greatly. There
were two women in the audience who
had never been to either the White or
Sunset city, for they walked out soon
after the curtain went up.
x*x
The Pyke Opera company will be
heard again very soon under better cir
cumstances than have prevailed before.
Mr.. Pyke Is full of energy and Ss-
nources, and does not allow contre-
temps to disturb his plans.
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The author OF the score of Bluff King
ing that the critics here must know very
little about music to find fault with HE
opera for not containing topical songs.
He says it is not a comic, but roman
tic opera, and refers to the Bohemian
Girl as not containing topical verses.
Very true, it does not, but it does contain
a wealth OF melodies which touch ones
higher sensibilities, whether one is a
musical scholar or merely an ordinary
thestergoer. Has King Hal any melody
that touches the heart? There are 5ome
excellent passages ia the work, it is
true, which are of q very high order of
competition, bat depressing heaviness ie
it's Chief characteristic. The suggestion
that was made about interpolsting waltz
songs and topical verses was intended
to convey the TACT that, as it is, the opera
ia neither grand, romantic, or comic, be-
ing simply dull, and that such inuova-
tions might make it the last, for nothing
could make it the first, and it has few
features of the second classification.
x*.
It is but one step, or soon will be,
from Stamboul to Dahomey, for the
Turkish dancers will be succeeded next
week by dusky Dahomey damsels who
will show how Behanzin's Amazons
found the best use to put man to, WAS
to scientifically spear or sabre him.
Announcements.
On August Sth Mr.. John Drew will
commence an engagement at the Los
Angeles theater in Csrleton'a play, The
Butterflies. The San Francisco Exam
iner says of the performance John
Drew is the principal figure. heroically
speaking. He plays the part of young
man who has run through his fortune
and continues to run through it, 80 to
speak, when it is practically gone. A
good hearted millionaire, bymaking his
creditors press him and disclosing his
ruined condition, opens his eyes. He
eets to work and retrieves himself, after
heroically paying off the debt OF a so.
ciety lady who has insulted himself and
his money, but whose daughter he is in
love with. There is bad son in it,
rather strong and original in his way,
who is sent to sea. Mr.. Drew is very
clearly the leading actor OF the society
comedy today. His methods are faoile,
his reposc ia attractive, he knows ell the
little tricks OF the high comedian, and
his personality is only stronger when he
appears as the central character. Maude
Adams is versatile actress.
In the role of young society girl she
plays with delicacy and grace, and at
the same time with point and effect.
She has acquired little affectation
since che became so well known, but it
ia not very much, and it is sometimes
an additional attraction in Miriam.
Kate Meek is stiff and rather hard as
Mra. Stuart-Dodge. Mrs. Adams, an old
favorite, WAS quiet end natural as Mrs.
Osaien. The part which carried the
audience, however. was the daughter OF
the millionaire. 1t is one of the most
original and entertaining comedy char
acters We have seen--brightly witty, in
fectiously gay and characteristically in
genuous. Miss Belmont made every
point with delightful freshness. Mr..
Herwood was excellent as the old man,
playing without the fainteet exaggera-
tion OF the roughness of the old fellow.
Mr.. Baker is clever, too, in Andrew
Strong. and one would not have recog
nized Leslie Allen in the New York
tailor, he was go unlike his usual self
Arthur Byron displayed decided talent
in Darlington, and Mr.. Lamb played
Coddle excellently.
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Held by the Enemy is billed for the
Grand opera house next Friday and