The herald., 1896-05-17

While Trip to Chinatown has not be-
fore been presented in Los Angeles, yet
our people have become thoroughly ac
Quainted through the medium of the
press and the music stores with its most
telling hits, and therefore their enthu-
siasm was not quite up to the standard
accorded entirely new productions
However, they did their best to simulate
what was wanting in proof of which
was the way The Bowery was encored
after having been dinned into the ears
of every Angeleno for the past three
years, until it has gone down to pos
terity in the same category as Annie
Rooney and Two Little Girls in Blue
only another proof of the good breeding
and kindly manners of our people.
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Young Chalfant of the team of Colder
and Chalfant, who have been one of thu
features of the bill at the Orpheum dur
ing the past week, possesses a voice
that is wonder in its way. Ofremark-
able compass there are some notes that
are as sweet and dulcet as the song OF
nightingale. The time worn song.
Sally in Our Alley, never was sung vita
greater sweetness than Chalfant sung
it this week. In fact, it would add
greatly to the strength of the bill We're
Chalfant to do more singing. particu-
larry with the good old fashioned bal
lads, His voice is just suited for this
sort of work. Those who heard him
during the week We're fascinated with
his sweet singing and felt that life was
better for the hearing.
Mr. Arthur Moulton is a most versa
tile and entertaining comedian. who
keeps Burbank audiences in an uproar
of laughter all the time he is on the
stage. The audience anticipates his
coming and the moment he appears .
smile Is seen to oNerspread every coun-
tenance. Whether as hen-pecked hus-
band or dOmineering uncle. Mr. Moul-
ton is equally happy in exciting the
disabilities of his hearers. and it is To
he presumed that We're he to assume
tragic roles his audiences would still be
amused, as they seem to expect that he
must never be taken seriously. and that
he is always TO be depended upon to
give them cause for a good hearty laugh.
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Harry Conor of the Trip to China
town company, is one of those magnetic
comedians who from the first moment
OF his appearance on the stage has his
audience completely in his hands. There
seems to be sort of psychic under.
standing between them. They under
stand by his slightest gesture the mean
ing he intends to convey and are in
thorough sympathy with him all the
time His laugh is thoroughly infec-
tious. and everybody goes down before
1t. There is such an air of bon camar-
;adere about him that one feels he must
be as good fellow off the stage as his
appearance on it would lead one to sus-
pect 1t is confidently expected that
his air of goodfellowship may be even
able to cause the sluggish current Of
English blood which perVades the Aus
tralian colonies to flow more geniallV
along, and beyond that could wit ac-
compliSh more?
Miss Rosie Rendell, the popular dan
seuse who has been delighting Orpheum
audiences this week in what might legi-
timately be called the poetry of motion,
Is a conscientious performer. Miss Rem
cell has apparently been brought up in
q school which has for it's motto. do
your best all the time" There is a dash
about Miss Rendell's performance that
speaks OF some experience among met
1opolitan audiences. where chic and
style count for everything Her cos
tunes are very pretty and she makes
series of pictures that are pictur-
esquely fascinating.
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1t is well known fact among theat- |
rical people that Charles Hoyt has q.
good eye for beauty, and the truth of
the assertion has been proved once more
nv sight Of the wnn,an who oomnoee !