The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-24

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The theaters have closed another sue
cessful week At the Orpheum the
standing room only sign was very huch
in evidence although with one or Two
exceptions the bill was identicai with
that of last week. The MIRANDA players
proved a great drawing card. Iheir IN
strument reminds one at times OF the
harm. Then there are sounds suggestive
NJ rood Instruments and mandol1nS,
with now and then beautiful. deep
tone. with all the fullness and depth OF
the pipe organ. The audiences partlcu-
larly admired the rendition of the Span
ish airs. for which this instrument seems
to be particularly adapted.
Golden, Chalfant and Golden make a
great team. Nothing like Miss Golden
dancing has been seen here before. She
seems to be quite homeless, and the way
in which she twists and turns those
limbs of hers regardless of their bony
structure is wonder. Chalfant, I'M
like the usual style of singer, seems to
quite understand his voice, as is proved
by the style of songs chosen by nm
His voice is particularly we'll suited TOT
for ballad singing. There is patheuc
cadence about it that reaches the heart
and well accords with the sentiment
with which such songs are usually re-
plete. Golden has nothing of the sweetly
nathetic about him. His business in life
is to make people laugh. to excite their
risibility not to touch the little tender
places in their hearts. His turn goes
with a snap from the moment of his
first appearance on the stage, Wheh ne
lust twists that funny mouth OF ms ana
makes everybody laugh, till the moment
when he has yodled his last note. All in
ali a more entertaining trio has not APP
peared at this popular house for some
time.
The three Rubes do a very amusing
turn at the Orpheum, which is made all
the more so by being done in panto-
mime There is a tiresome sameness
about most of the so-called humorous
stage dialogue that makes cnange
from its monotony particularly refresh
ing.
The Burbank. with Pink Dominoes
under the name of The Lords of Crea-
ton, has given one more proof OF what a
clever company can do with a time
worn piece. Among the people who
serve to make this company popular Is
Miss Rose Stuart, who assumes many
leading parts with great evenness In her
delineations She is an attractive wo-
man, with a very pleasing manner and
a remarkably sweet voice. To add to
this she has a genius for dressing her
self in exact accordance with the re-
uuirements of her part. Her costumes
last week as Lady Maggie We're very
handsome and she carries herself WITH
the well-bred bearing that distinguishes
educated English women.
Eddie Foy, the darling of eastern au
liences, the king of extravaganza com
edians, Eddie, the comedy pet of Hen
derson's greatest successes, Eddie
without whom it was prophesied the sale
Henderson successes could not continue
to exist. yes, the wonderful Eddie, has
been with us, and. well, to put it mildly
we were not electrified by the brilllancy
of his performance. True he had nc
chance How so bright man as he Is
could possibly have expected to make q
success of anything so slow as The
Strange Adventures of Miss Brown is
one of those problems that must forever
remain unsolved. Americans, with the
exception of a few Anglo-maniacS
whose intelligence is not sufficiently
bright to know what they really do like
are fond of a nimble wit and nimble il
must truly be to meet their require
ments. What would prove very funny
to stold English audience, with 6
taste conventionaliZed by centuries o
precedent, would scarcely provoke {
smile among our people of the Stars ant
Stripes, whose palates are satiated Will
the constant catering to the feVerisl
struggle for something new. New /
must be- and brilliant, too. or American
will have none of it, That Eddie Foy il
an entertaining comedian was evince(
by the use he made of the very few op
portunities the piece afforded him. lie
us hope the next time he faVorS us witt
his presence we may have an opportun
ity of observing the best that he can do
which, be it understood, is very good in
deed.
John DreW's stay in New York cit.
through its entire dramatic season, play
ing there continuously to crowded
houses. has called new attention to thi
clever actors popularity. No other sta
on the American stage can hold the me
tropolis in dramatic enchantment as Nh
Drew can. In his season there he mad
two great Ses-ChriStOpher, il
and The Squire of Danes, in both o
which he win be seen soon at the Lo
Angeles Theater.
The extraordinary popularity of MI
Drew is not to be accounted for by con
his intimates say he has no genuine low
for tobacco. he does not play cards, h
has no taste for horse racing or yacht
ing, he is not a club man in the genera
sense of the term, he does not give din
ners or suppers. he escheWs the Rialto
does not consort with his brother actors
and could not swear good round oatl
il he tried. Probably there never was
young man better fitted for the position
Of Sunday school superintendent, TIL
writer has known John Drew for year
without discovering a single vice il
him. MI Drew is a devoted husbdn
and an affectionate father, and he al
Ways goes home to his tea. John DreN
is an anomaly. There has never bee
any suspicion of scandal attached to hi
name yet he is a supreme faVorite wit
the ladies; he is the beau ideal of sap
headed young fellows in the Calume
club, and yet he maintains the homes
friendship of the cleVerest men in tn
country; he is at once dandy and goo
fellow. The hiatus between fashionabl
society and the stage is appalling, We
John Drew is no less welcome in tn
New York Metropolitan opera hous
boxes than in the Players club. We hay
no actor like him in these particular
No other country except England has
player that resembles him. John Dre'
is the young Henry Irving of America
Yet there was a time when this sue
cessful comedians future presented
melancholy problem. He began his pre-
fessional career in his mothers com
pany at the Arch street theater in Phil
adelphia. Curiousy enough, the actres
with whom his subsequent success wa
identified commenced her histrionic eff
forts at the same time and on the stage
Ada Rehan and John Drew were bot
about IS years old when Mrs. Drew pu