The herald., 1896-09-13

Wolves of New York. will receive a
| magnificent production. This play re-
Quires an entire carload of special
| scenery, machinery and effects. For the
last two week the machine force of the
| Burbank has been at work getting the
| production in shape. The scenery has
| come from San Francisco, where 1t was
| last used and where the play enjoyed
| the largest run known to the San Fran
cisco stage, over five weeks at the
| Stockwell theater
Some of the scenic gems are Canadice
lake and the village of Grafton, the
| Jardin Mabille, the great Bowery music
| hall, the old jefferson market city prison,
| the great pool room and the great SEN
| sation scene, the explosion and burning
of the old Tetlow oil yards and the lake
| of fire. No greater sensational scene
| has ever been staged.
The play reveals every hidden crime
and deception of the great metropolis
| and is shown as realistically as it is
| vividly true. The cast is superb one.
Leonard Grover, jr., enacts Robin
| O'Mally, the Irish lad of tickle fortune;
Leonard Grover, senior, the author,
| plays Pud Filters, the green goods
wolff" Francis Powers is seen as Hand
some Harry. the concert hall wolf; May
Noble as Maud the sly wolf; Oracle
| Plaisted as Milly Drayton, the country
| girl; Nellie Young as the blind sister;
| Fanny Young as Grandma Drayton;
Clyde Hess and the entire company in
the cast. There are over eighty people
| used in this great production. The play
| will run the entire week, including
| Wednesday and Saturday matinees. No
| increase in prices.
''The evil that men do lives after
| them" Aye and more often than other
| wise, It is something not so forceful as
the evil, that is so instinct with life. An
un1mDOrtant DOint a a
detail in the general surroundings, or
fortunate or unfortunate popularity in
personal appearance, will long survive
the fame of the individual in the public
memory. Especially is this true of the
creatures of the playright's pen. AS an
example, we may quote Trilby. When
this popular heroine of Du Maurier is
mentioned, does not the mind immedi-
| ately revert to the fact that she was the
possessor of the two prettiest feet in
Paris, rather thar that she was the
greatest singer the world has ever heard?
The latter fact is apt to come as an
after thought. Such is fame
Those whose business in life it is to
cater to the amusement of others, have
ever been quick to catch at the straws
which show the direction of the current
and seeing that lies pieds de la grande
Trilby" were likely to overshadow her
voice in popularity they took their cue
accordingly and the public has been
treated to a succession of bare-legged
dances for which the only excuse in
calling them Trilby dances, seems to be
that the name Trilby in connection with
any performance would be likely to in
sure its popularity. Trilby did not, in
sofar as we are enlightened about her
eventful career, make a practice of
dancing in her bare feet. nor did she go
about with them uncovered, except on
the occasions when she was posing in
some studio. But what do these facts
matter to those who are ever on the
alert for some novelty to keep their
name on the ear of a blase public? And
so the adherents of Terpsichore have
given us the Trilby dance.
1t is apt to be little startling Just at I
first, this dance. Society anticipates it |
with thrill of expectation. that now it !
is really going to experience shock to |
its sense of propriety. When it has been |
witnessed and people have had time to |
collect their thoughts and consider how |
they really regard such things, it very
naturally occurs to them that they have |
worked themselves up into a state of |
excitement over performance that
many great number of the human race
must go through, would they dance at
III. OF course these things depend on
he point of view, and why a dance
should be more improper because it is |
.ndulged in by woman who could wear
shoes and stockings if she would, than
~ one VINO naSen I any TO wear were she
Yer so willing. is one of the nice points
n the code of morals which it would re-
luire the genius of a Macheavelli to
'ut clearly before the public. And so
unused, and the greater number indif-
'erent until the whole thing will be for
rotten in the interest of a new sensation
Us is the case with everything on this
sphere of ours.
The Orpheum has Trilby dancer in
the person of Miss Mildred de Grey.
Miss De Grey's work is much above the
average of that of the Trilby dancers
that have been seen here and does not
depend entirely upon it's sensational
features for it's popularity, though in
the character of her dance as well as in
her fanciful costume, sown with gold
embroidery in quaint devices and en-
bellished with barbaric jewels, Miss De
Grey might rather be taken for the i'm
personation of the dancing girl from the
far east, than a denizen of the artists
quarter of Paris.
When the pen of the Frenchman is |
not occupied in scoffing at the stolidity
of the German, the obtuseness anl pro-
vinciality Of the Englishman, or the re-