The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-11
ABOUT ACTS and ACTORS
News and Comment of the
Player Folk
THE SHOWS FOR THIS WEEK
The Big Hat Is Now the Subject of
Legislation.
The New Bill at the Burbank Announce
ments for the Other Houses
Notes.

The Legislatures of several Eastern
states are attempting to regulate by law
the height of hats to be worn by women
at theatrical entertainments OF course
this labor is more than nonsensical, for it
would be just about as wise in trying to
legislate as to what women should put in
side of their heads as on top of them.
About women men are always more or
less-generally more-idiotic, and in this
hat matter they are simply uniformly
silly The fact is that men are obnoxious
to the orderly theater-goer a hundred
times where a womans towering hat is
annoying once. In theater there may
possibly be half dozen women with bon
nets whose gew-gaws and feathers inter
fere somewhat with the view of some
body; but there will surely be fifty or q
hundred men who between acts will climb
over people, step on corns, crush boufiant
sleeves, make you stand up to give them
room, and disturb the rest of the audi
once, all to go to a barroom to take a
drink that they do not really want. Then
after the curtain goes up and the stage
action has commenced, back they come
and the whole disturbance is gone
through with again. Nine men out OF
ten men do this; | do myself very often,
but, in mitigation of my offense, / always
take an aisle seat.
Then there are the men who chew to-
bacco. These are not as numerous as
those who go out to chew Glove, but
any of them are too many. man who
will squirt tobacco spittle about a public
place has not the sense of decency that is
found in dog. Yet you can always lind
several such creatures in theater.
If there is to be legislation in favor OF
decent people who go to theaters, let
law be passed obliging every man who
goes out beween acts, as well as the man
he goes to see, to be sentenced to drink
nothing but milk shakes for life, and the
tobacco chewers should be forced to be-
come public cuspidor cleaners.
4 + &
That poor little child who has been do
ing a dance at the Orpheum during the
week, shows the pressing need for Gerry
sociecy in Los Angeles. There is such an
organization | believe, here now, but it
appears to be dormant The child in
question is not over six or seven years old
and dressed as premiere ballet, girl does
a remarkable dance with all the kicks
and pirouettes that a coryphee would
envy. Her childish form and her really
sweet face are sadly out of place in such Il
performance. If her parents are unable to
care for her without obliging her to make
taken from them. In New York grim
Gerry would protect her in a moment.
Officer Wright of the Humane Society
here is very quick to look after older
girls whose inclination it is to trip along
the primrose path of dalliance, but he
seems to have overlooked this, and sim
liar cases which should have received
prompt attention.
4 4 4
London has gone monkey mad. A Mr..
Charles Mauri has appeared in a variety
hall there in a impersonation, according
to Darwin that word ought to be permits
sible) of chimpanzee, and has sue
ceeded so well in aping that animal as to
produce a decided sensation. | have
lately seen pictures of Mr.. Maur's APP
pearance in his makeup; his exactnesss is
something wonderful, and shows that it
may be possible to turn evolution into
devolution.
Seeing the popularity of Mr.. Mauri's
monkey act, another variety manager di-
vested his ballet girls of their spangles
and carleton and dressing them in imita-
tions of Mr.. Mauri monkey makeup,
produced simian ballet which is having
an immense vogue. That appears to be
the elimination of fin de seicleism of the
stage. Perhaps the next time Mr.. Hen
derson brings Aladdin here his 1.-THE,
round-limbed girls will appear as fetching
young chimpanzees and do a ballet dance
in tree tops.