The herald., 1896-08-30

I Shrek of laughter from start to finish.
These two plays will constitute the
evenings program.
On Thursday night the bill will be
changed and Leonard Growers famous
comedy, My Son-in-law will finish the
| week. This comedy has received
/ degree of commendation quite equal to
| that of Our Boarding House. by the
same author A run of over one hun
dred nights has been accorded it in San
Francisco. Both these comedies Will
be given for the first time in Los Ange
les. The casts will present the Ideal
comedians in some of ther.best charac-
ter work and will be the vehicles of in
Producing at the Burbank Miss Oracle
| Plaisted. Mrs. Fanny Young May Noble,
Nellie Young, Cora Belmont, Claire
Grenville, Edith Powers and Emma
Hess, Mr. Francis Powers, Charles
/ Bates of Frohman's Empire company,
Clyde Hess, Vincent Parke, George Ell
more, Harry Lane. Wilmer Barrymore,
Leonard Grover, Sr., and Leonard Gro
ver jr.
There will no increase in prices, which
will remain at Is, 20, 80 and so cents.
The only matinee will take place on
Saturday a 10 and % cents.
And now, in the Dulcie Laronde of
Henry Arthur Jones, in his play, The
-hdSt We nave lldu All e&dllDIt
of the enI of the nineteenth century
conception of a stage heroine. Mr..
Jones is clever, even if degenerate, there
can be no question about that He is
apt to be a little diffuse in his diction,
but he presents his subjects carefully,
and makes close but withal cynical
studies of human nature in obtaining
his different characters That these
characters are not always exponents of
hest a of n {
true, but that they should be criticised
as impossible is absurd
A point in Mr., Jones favor is his con-
sistency in the evolving of the lives of
his characters. 1t works out like the
old rule Of three-'As given term is to
a given term. so is the third term to the
answer" As Mr.. Jones hath it, it would
run in this wise: AS a given man or
woman is to a given set of circum-
stances. so is time to the answer. And
now let us judge, O ye mothers of maid
ems and ye wives of husbands, of the
advisability of presenting to the world.
as either a warning or as clever stage
picture. which shall do credit to the
authors powers of observation, of a wo-
man like Dulcie Larondfe.
She is queer compound, this creature
of Mr.. Jones facle pen. a woman with
the love Of conquest, q yearning after
admiration and a desire for the possess
sion of the good things of this life dom
inant within her; yet who carefully re-
strains these instincts that they may be
INDUCED in without losing the suise of
responsibility. And yet, has she any vo-
, lition in the case? 1t would seem that
she never attempts to take her lifes
destines in her hands, but rather suffers
| herself to drift with the stream, uncon-
| sciOus or careless of where it is carrying
! her She is a selfish woman, too, seem
! ingly unconscously selfish, if one may
| so express it, who after the manner of
I consistently selfish people unconscious
ly so or otherwise, always manages to
| get great many of the gO2d things of
| life and ever when lfe's current sets
awry, to have the sympathy and love
| of true hearts to fall back upon. All
we'll they have their uses, these selfish
| ones They bring out all that is grand
and beautiful in the characters of their
! unselfish brethren.
! Seeing Dulcie Larondie one feels in
| clined to ask her ardent suitors, in the
words of Jenny Wren in addressing her
| backsliding parent, What do you mean
| by it?" And he feels sure that the only
consistent reply must be in the form of
! the eXtenuating answer Of the said