The herald., 1896-04-26


ing the past week. as the performances
have all been we'll attended. The din
and noise in the streets has driven
many people into the theater for an
evening of quiet enjoyment. Peter
Dailey's company at the Los Angeles
theater has been nightly greeted by
large audiences. The season of cheap
opera at the Burbank has about ended
with brilliant succession of big houses.
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There is no American actor who is
more interestingly reminiscent than
Frank Mayo, with eye as bright. step as
elastic. face as unfurrowed as a man of
forty, his half century and eight years
more are only proclaimed by the thick
fsuit of once brown hair which is now
-Silvery white" said Mr.. II. Martin who
ts here.
I'm MIR. Mayo's pretty mountain home
at Canton. Pa, his commodious dining
room is hung with photos and other
samples of the art pictorial, that sug-
gest to the student of the stage wealth
of reminiscence. There is plain featured
Charlotte Cushman; placid, dreamy
eyed Julia Dean Hayne; the strong face
of Junius b. Booth: the poetic head of
Edwin Booth: the lion-like countenance
of Edwin Forrest; then there is John
E. Owens, Charlie Thorne. John T. Ray
mond, e. L. Davenport, Mrs. Bowers.
Mrs. John Drew, and a hundred more
who have been contemporary with and
who We're passing out of sight when Mr..
Mayo was playing Badger in The Streets
OF New York. and was favorite in
other well-known characters, which he
played in support of the then existing
stars, long before he had gained fame
and fortune by his impersonation of the
great American frontiersman, Davy
Crockett
| wish [ could recall the many wise.
witty and sweetly pathetic things. an
examination of those silent features
of the dead and gone heroes and hero
ines of the theater evoked from the
kindly lips of Mr. Mayo during the time
we were looking them over one Angus,
afternoon when the company now play
Og Pudd nhead Wilson had finished one
of the rehearsals they held in Mr..
Mayo's big Pennsylvania barn.
said he, yes, they are nearly all gone,
but others are springing up who will
take their places and become idols of
the public in their turn. I am not one
OF those who live in the past; new things,
new ideas. and new people ever find fa-
For in my sight. l don't know that |
ENJOY anything more than to recognize
and do my part to develop and bring out
the budding talent | may see in young
actors and actresses. Right here in this
company | can plainly see this bud that
will Hover in time. I will not mention
names. but there are young people in the
company | am now rehearsing who if
they live. will give a good account of
themselves in the future
Still, our old idols are ever present in
our minds, and dear old familiar faces
will come, though unbidden at times.
and associate themselves with our
work.
I'm making a play of Mark Twain s
story. when | would study out situa-
tions and write lines for Dave Wilson,
he, whom his neighbors called Pudd'n-
head.the image of Mark Twain. was eV
er before me. doing and saying what ]
had created when I would put words
into the mouth of Chambers, the white
boy who is deprived of his birthright
and grows up with the taint of negro
blood supposed to be in his veins. and
is slave, he was, to my mind, James
O'Neill. and I should like to see what
that good actor could get out of the
quarrel scene at the old mill. Roxy
well, | could only see Agnes Booth in
Roxy, and in happy. loguish. romping
tun-loving Roxy, Lolita was ever pres
ent in my mind. Aunt Patsy is a repro
duction of Mrs. Mayo my beloved wife.
and so it went, my eyes ever looking
backwards while l was working for the
future"
There is June Booth he once kicked
me off the stage and out of the stage
door with a few kicks thrown in for
good measure after | was on the out
all he gave me. It was an excellent les
son for me, though l confess I failed to
see its educational tendency at the time
that came later, after my outraged
feelings and my sundry bruises had
healed. l had spoiled a scene for him.
My last sight of Mr. Booth on that mem
orable occasion was hurried and in
distinct one, glimpse caught over my
shoulder as he impelled me from his
presence with the toe of boot that
must have been mans size.
when | met Mr.. Booth again we sat
at luncheon in a Boston hotel and over
the table he paid me $500, my share of
my first weeks profits as a star in
Davy Crockett ] tried to recall to his
mind the incident of the past that had
happened out in California, in which he
had been the kicker and myself the
kickee, but of course he had convenient
ly forgotten it.
Mr.. Mayo opens at the Los Angeles
theater tomorrow evening in Pudd n
head Wilson for three nights and a
matinee Wednesda y.
BURBANK. - Tonight the Carleton
opera company Will appear for the last
time at the Burbank theatre. For five
weeks this excellent organization has
been AT Manager Coopers spacious and
pretty resort, and during that extended
period they have never failed to give an
artistic and in every way successful per-
formance. Tonight a grand farewell
program Will be rendered. The second
act of Fra Diavolo will be sung includ-
and the grant sextet finale. which ha :
been so well received: the third act of
Bohemian Girl, in which all the gems II
that beautiful. production will be intro
duced. including You'll Remember Nc.
The Heart Bowed Down, and The Fai.
Land Of Poland. Devilshoof's anusir..
scene in the boudoir of Airline is also in
this act
The bill Will conclude with the charm
ing comic operatta. The Charity Girls. il
which the entire company will partici-
pate. In this act the great Trilby song.
Ben Bolt, with the quartet accompani-
ment. will be introduced
The Carletons have been most success
full during their engagement and have
gained many friends and golden opiu-
ions. Their early return is hoped for
Following the Carleton company Davis
x MoultOn's musical comedy COMPANY
under the management of Joseph J
Dowling. viii appear at the Burbank.
This great allstar organization comes
direct from New York city in their cvr,
car and owing to some delay in rail
road connections will not arrive in tim
to- open on Monday. April 21th There
Tore the theatre will he dark from April
27th TO May Sd. On the evening of Sun
& day May Sd. Mr. Dowling's company
( will open in Niobe. The Davis & Moui-
h. ton musical comedy company is head