The herald., 1896-05-22
AT THE THEATERS

LOS ANGELES THEATER.-Very
few Englishmen achieve greatness in
the realm of humor. To the American
mind what passes today as the English
coin of wit, has braSsy glitter and a
dull, saddening ring. When one remem-
bers the abstruse speculations of George
" anent the dumplings. and his es-
pecial wonder as to how the apples got
into the dumplings, fair conception
can be had of the racial characteristics
with regard to that scintillating humor
which springs SO spontaneously in the
sister isle, and which is so aptly appre-
ciated on this side of the Atlantic. Brit
ish humor is heavy these days, and the
Strange Adventures of Miss Brown has
more than it's full share of this mind
depressing quality. AS matter of fact.
the only Identifying feature about the
production is the superior excellence Of
the players. There was fashionable
audience a. this theater last night. and
they are fond of Eddie Foy because he
is always clever. and II was a
pleasure to those auditors to note
the fact that Mr.. Foy has lost
none of his subtle touches that
place him in cordial sympathy with
playgoers. 1t was equally qualification
to them to note that he was surrounded
by company beautifully balanced but
it was somewhat in the line of cajoling
Raphael into the ignominious function
of embarrassing pig pens, or Fra An
gelico paining patent medicine signs.
The play was painfully ineffective. but
the players are men and women of sterl
ing merit and their respective lines of
conscientious work lend to The Strange
Adventures of Miss Brown an interest
and an excellence which 1t would not
otherwise possess. Mr. Foy, as we have
said, made the most of the role of Cap
tain Courteney. and Mr. Harry Brown
as Major O'Gallagher, with Lizzie Con-
way as his Celtic spouse We're worthy of
praise for their good work Mr.. Sulli-
van as the music teacher and Mr.. Gas
ton as the solicitor and Miss Morgan as
the school mistress gave three typical
character assumptions that We're graph
| ic and real in their we'll balanced poise
Miss Dinsmore was winsome as Angeli-
ma, and Miss Graham as Miss Jones and
Miss Larkih as Euphemia Schwartz
were notably good. Others of the cast
confirmed all that has been said Of the
high standard of excellence of the COM
pany. and lent emphasis to the wish that
actuated the large audience for more OF
the players and less of theplay.
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THE ORPHEUM-For an evening of
complete enjoyment no place of amuse-
ment offers better opportunity than
the Orpheum. The attractive program
which is running this week is composed
of number of excellent features, all of
them bright and spicy and thoroughly
enjoyable. Those who constitute the
bill are: Rosie Rendel. the captivating
International transformation dancer;
the Guatemala Marimba players; Col
den. Chalfant and Golden, trio of jolly
comedians with an all-round turn brim-
full of fun; Essie Clinton, character vo-
calist; Hayes and Post. acrobatic dan
GERS; Dixon, Bowers and Dixon, the
three Rubes, whose original fun has
been creating such merriment during
the past week
BURBANk.-That the public always
appreciates good thing is evidenced
by the delighted audiences which this
week are patronizing the Burbank thea
ter to witness the Davis Moulton COM
pany in their meritorious presentation
of The Lords of Creation. The COM
pany now appears to the best of advan-
tage and the most captious critic could
not caVil at the performances now being
given at Manager Cooper's pretty thea
ter For the balance of the week the
same bill will be retained, and on Sun
day evening the famous comedy, Turned
Up, in which Nat Goodwin starred, will
be presented by this company.