The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-10


THE BURBANK--The Frawley company
won new laurels by its production of Bron-
son Towards delightful drama, Young
Mrs. Winthrop. at the Burb nix last night.
One might haunt the theatre for an age
without finding more charmingly tender
and pathetic story of modern home life.
The everyday trials and sorrows and mis-
understandings and arrangements that
beset the lives Of busy and cultured and
well-meanng ambitious people are told in
the most touchingly pathetic manner.
The ambitious husband whose busy life
compels him to go everywhere in great
city, the loving and lonesome and appar-
emily neglected and really jealous wife, are
portrayed by masters. The deep feeling
and sustained tenderness and delicacy of
touch manifested by the Frawley company
a. last nights performance should guarail-
tee them great success with plays of
character similar to that represented last
night.
Representations of deep and sustained
and heartfelt tenderness are altogether
too rare OF late The public comes back
to them after season of safety caused
by other dramas as it comes back to
Hamlet and Othello and Romeo and
desperate Irritation with dozen butter
flies of a day.
As Douglas Winthrop, the busy man Of
affairs and estranged but loving husband,
MIR. Maclyn Arbuckle's work last night
was in every way excellent. His stage-
signs are as real as ii he had run through
the whole gamut of human experience and
were but sighing at the sad recollection.
There are signs of feeling and sighs of ex-
piration of empty air. Mr.. trbuckle'S
signs would convict him in 'upid's court.
AS Mrs. Winthrop. the loving wife and
patient sufferer. Miss Lansing Rowan sus-
tanned her part excellently.
In the pathetic scene following the death
of her child she combined love and sorrow
and rage and jealousy in glance and
gesture that were thrilling. Mr.. Charles
w. King essay.d the part of Buxton Scott,
the lawyer aud business man and match
maker, and succeeded admirably. Miss
Belle Archer as Mrs. Richard Chetwyn,
society woman of today, was as gay and
flippant as Newport belle of half dozen
seasons. As Edith, the blind sister of
Mrs. Winthrop, Miss Hope Ross added an
other to her list of affecting roles. =.
MIR. Frawley did bit of charming work
as Herbert. the nephew of Mr. Winthrop
and lover of Filth. Miss McAllister as
Winthrop's mother, Mr.. Thompson as the
butler, and Mr. Bosworth as DR.. Melbank
did excellent work in the brief parts as
signed them. A good house was present
last night.
Young Mrs. Winthrop will prove a strong
attraction during its continuance. After
Thursday night it will give place to Cap
tain Swift.
ORpHEUM-Taken as whole OF cash &C
considered separately and the bill at the
Orpheum this week is a very strong one.
To begin with MIR. Dion Romandy has pre-
pared some choice musical numbers. His
violin solo -Serenata from Moszkowsky--
was rendered az only Romandy can do it,
and brought down the house.
The vaudeville opens with Topack and
Steele in blackface knockabout act.
After seeing this team last night, one can
hardly help asking why they ever at.
tempted anything other than blackface
acts. They were success from the start,
and were accorded the reception due to
artists. ALI the way through their act the
spirit manifest toward them was in
marked contrast to their work of last week.
In a blackface act Topack and Steele have
be n rivals. and it is question why THEY
risk the narrow escape from frost in put.
ting on anything different. Thinking OF
variety people who depart from their forte
to attempt something out of their line,
leads one to the Ammons-Clerise troupe.
This trio as musicians are clever people
Their singing is excellent and the young
ladies are experts with the violin, mandolin
or harp, but the comedy of the trio is a sad
case Of misplaced confidence. Mr.. AIM
mons as dude is an impossible creation
and utterly devoid of a spark of humor.
His work is just enough ovcrdrawn as to
render it impossible to consider sci iously,
and without huInor it is not good carica-
ture, ahd therefore falls fiat. If the trio
would do straight musical turn, without
an attempt at comedy, they could score
h Ia trtrt q If hr tv,iC-
with little tutorage might make a come
dian, but Mr.. AmmOns never.
hogart Brothers, with their trained
grizzlies, were interesting. While the
bears do little out OF the ordinary, they
are fine specimens and their movements
are closely followed by the onloukers.
The grizzlies are really worth seeing for
the novelty of it alone.
Ando and Omne may be classed among
the features OF the bill. IS jugslers and
necromancers the y have few equals. Not
only is their work attractive from the skill
displayed. but everything is done SO easily
and gracefully that new charm is added.
The weakest part of their act is in that
there is not enough of it, for one could
watch the clever balancing of Ando and
the tricks OF Omne through a whole
evenings entertainment. ater Ando ap-
pears again with Little Alright, who does
somec,ever contortinn feats and baiancing
OH the breakaway ladders,
Clifford and Huth, as might be expected.
received All ovation. They Introduced
some new dialogues and songs and a |
were rendered with the finished touch of
artists. Frank Moran kept the audience
in an uproar of laughter with his witty dis
cussion OF the issues of the day. Sadi
Alfarabi is a marve as an equillbrist. His
balancing is start ing, so much 40 as to at
times hold the audience quite breath ess
until the feat is over. He is graceful in
appearance, Which makes his work the
more acceptable The bill, is a strong one.
and altogether OF unusual merit. 1t should
pack the house all the week.
4 4 y
Los Angeles Theater-Herrmann, the
prestidigitateur, aided by his charming wife
and large corps of assistants, will per-
form three nights and Saturday matinee,
beginning Thursday newt. Herrmann's
programme this season is more elaborate
and highly varied than ever. In addition
to many new surprises in sleight of hand,
his programme includes his latest and