The herald., 1896-09-15

completely filled the house, such wal
/ the first night at the Orpheum yester-
day evening.
The new bill was given ''send or
such as has never before been received
at this house. and it well deserved every
round of plaudits that was showered
| upon it. Every feature isexcellent, there
is not a mediocre act in the entire show
and several of the artists rank among
the greatest that the Orpheum has ever
introduced.
The Mullin sisters inaugurated the
new program with a number of exqui-
site selections on the cornet. These
charming little artists made their first
appearance last week and were quite
the darlings of the show. Last night
they repeated their former success by
Introducing new selections in their same
modest, the Mullin sisters, and they play
to perfection.
Favor and Sinclair followed with a
breezy comedy sketch, Cupid in the
Park Anyone who had seen either of
these clever people last week. in their
Irish role would not have recognized
them as the Bowery swell and Daisy of
the lao. With new songs and witty dia-
logue, forming complete change of
turn, Favor and Sinclair won the same
unqualified praise that they did at their
first appearance.
Trilby up-to-date, was given by Mill
dred and Sidney de Grey, identically as
it was a week ago and it lost none of it's
entertaining qualities by the repetition.
Sidney's songs are just as good and just
as enjoyable and Mildred as Trilby
could never grow tiresome. Her bare
foot dance is the acme of graceful dane
isg and though in reality an old Persian
dance modernized, it is novel to theater-
eoers and 1t took immensely.
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the audience that the saxophone is a solo
instrument as much as the cornet or any
or the conventional pieces played. His
contribution to the program was really
one of the most enjoyable of the even
ing. What Prof Magniel cannot do with
the saxophone can scarcely be accom-
pllshed 10y any other musician on any
other instrument.
The great Pitrot then came in for his
turn. and such a turn it was. He kept
the audience roaring every minute that
he was on the stage, and when after sew
eral encores he finally retired the ap-
plause was dcafening. Pitrot's imper-
sonations are perfect. His repetoire in
eludes many well known characters
OF England. each of which was exact in
its likeness to the original. But the
real fun commenced when he crossed
the Atlantic and appeared as the great
Tammany leader, David B. Hill. One
after another he presented Mckinley,
GARFIELD, Harrison, and when the manly
face of Bryan was introduced. the house
went wild with enthusiasm. Finally
after exhausting long roll in the facial
contortion line, Pitrot gave number of
remarkably clever sketches, the best of
which was the gentleman's first cigar.
Pitrot is a wonder. In the vaudeville
line he is complete success, and it is
no eXageration to say that no more en-
tertaining feature has been presented
at this house during the season.
A happy variety was given to the pro-
gram by the wonderful exhibition of
magic by the great Albini. This spooky
sorcerer juggled cards in way that
astonished every one, and executed a
series of seemingly impossible tricks
with such deftness and skill that no ore
could detect the slightest clue as to
how it was all done. Albini changes his
performance every evening, and dur
ing his stay promises to reveal some of
the mysteries of occultism and spirit
ualism.
The sweet character vocalist, Nellie
Mcguire appeared in her old role as
the Bowery woman and she did it with
all her old time dash and genuineness.
She made a splendid hit, and she de-
served it for she is altogether so engag-
ing and artistic in her way that one
fail to like her-even in a rough
character.
Herr Techow's wonderful troupe of