The herald., 1895-12-24
AT THE THEATERS

ORpHEUM-It had been announced that
the greatest vaudeville show ever presented
at the Orpheum was to be put on this
week. Whatever hopes may have been
raised by such an announcement were fully
realized last night when the full Christmas
week bill was presented for the first time.
Every act was star OF the first magnitude
and encores were in order time and time
again. Taken as whole the bill is worthy
OF unstinted praise and there is little that
the most critical could find fault with. Will
! Jams and Walker, the cleverest colored
boys on the vaudeville stage, opened the
program in new sketch in which they in
troduced a parody ON Yankee Doodle in
which reference is made to England's bluff
and Growers answer and serves to bring
the house to its feet.
William Roberts is billed as Americas
greatest equilibrist, and after seeing him
last night one cannot but conclude that he
has good grounds upon which to base his
claims. He certainly does some wonder
full balancing and with startling effect.
The Judge Brothers were at their best, and
their double somersaults caught the house.
The attractive feature of their work is not
only what they do, but the easy, graceful
way they do it. To anyone interested in
athletics the work of the Judge Brothers
and William Roberts is particularly at
tractive, and yet 1t 10 of such skill as to be
| quite as pleasing to tho public in general.
The Allisons introduced some new business
and the best OF their sketch of last week,
and were we'll received.
| A pleasing innovation was made at the
intermission. Mr.. Dion Romandy played
by special request vislin solo. The Sc
lection was Mazurka de Concert, the fav-
orite of Divide Musin. Mr.. Romandy's
rendering of the Nazurka was exquisite. of
delicate touch and quite up to the high
standard set by the master--Ovids Musin.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Romandy will
continue to introduce such work into the
| musical end of the program.
| Th8 sisters Anderson do some marvellous
foot juggling. Their work is really won
derful, and they display q skill in handling
globes, barrels and various objects with
their feet that il simply marvellous. They
arc very shapely young women, which
| gives an added charm TO their work. Tho
only fault of the act Of Ducrow and Bush is
that there 10 not enough Of it. A trapeze
| performers they are very entertaining, and
their double feet swing is quite thrilling
| The Doltorelli brothers prcduce one OF the
clevorest of comedy musical acts. Their
work with strings of bells is away and
| dLOaQ Oh 4nyulIlE ever seen mere DeIOr6.
| Their musical boxing bout. in which bells
again play an important part. was very
funny, but the makeup of tho little clown
| at the close of tho sketch was excruci.
ating!y funny. As side-splitter their
sketch 10 success.
The star act of the evening is that of
Granto and Maud, eccentriqucs on tho
tight wire. Granto's antics on the wire are
funny, yet displaying o skill that many
acrobats might envy. He turns semer-
saults, stands on his head, dances and does
many other things for whi.h an acrobat
might be classed as clever if done on the
stage, much less on tight wire. Granto
| price of admission to see. The bill should
pack the house, as it undoubtedly will.
Los ANGELEs THEaTER The attraction
at the Los AMI eles thsater, beginning to-
morrow night, will bs Miss Lewis in her
production Of Cleopatra. A cast which in
cludes several artists whose names have
appeared in The casts of the finest classic
| productions seen in this country supports
Miss Lewis. The actress his staged this
drama so lavishly that it ID in reality a
| dramatic spectacle. The much-talked-
about barefoot ballet as danced by the six
barefooted and bare-limbed young girls
will be seen in the third act. This charac-
teristic advertisement has given rise to
This appearance of Miss Lewis az Cleo
patra in big spectacular production of
that play will be the most important dra-
matte event of the week and is awaited
with no little interest.
The important features in Cleopatra are
the storm scene, of which so much has
been said that 1t can justly be called
famous; the vision of Cleopatra as the
Goddess Isis in her royal barge on the
River Cydnus-ths Is a reproduction of the
poets description; the tableau in the Tenn
| pie of Hymen Sacrum in Statuary square,
is an imposing picture. 1t is Cleopatra .
vision of Antony's marriage to Octavia,
and reproduction of painting entitled
The Roman Bride. Eleven beautiful
women and four men are required to pose
in this.
The costumes worn by the chorus, the
ballet, the premiere and the ladies' of the
| cast are Orientally voluptuous and char
acteristc Of the time of Cleopatra. Those
| worn by Miss Lewis are beautiful enough
to awaken the envy of the Egyptian en-
chantress herself, could she see them.
This will be the first presentation of
arrangement with the Los Angeles theater
prices will not be advanced. Seats are
| now on sale.
| THE BURBANK-A good sized audience
was present last evening to witness the
| second rendition of Youth, and the produc-
ton was given in more satisfactory man.
ner than on its initial presentation The
scenery and mechanical effects are proving
features of the piece. The same play will
be given all of this week, including Sunday
evening. There will be grand Christmas
matinee tomorrow afternoon, when ladies'
gold watch will be given away, and on
Thursday night eentlsman's gold time
piece will be awarded tn some lucky ticket
holder. On Monday evening Milton No.
bles and Dollie Mobiles will commencs an
engagement in their celebrated play of
Sire and Son. in which Mr.. Mobiles and his
wife have made big hit in the principal
cities of the country.
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| Los ANGELES THEATER-R' ce's big 149 2
will be the attraction New Years week.
| The orGaL ization, which includes the orig
inal Kilanyi living pictures, the great Bes-
sic Bonebrill, the wonderful Richard Har-
low, doublg orchestra, adequate scenic en-
~vironment, mechanical and calcium feat
ures, comes direct from it's three weeks
successful engagement at the Baldwin
theater, San Francisco.