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BURBANK THEATER.-The clever
company at this house has reverted to
play of the kind for which 1t is best
adapted, and. leaving the people OF
fashionable society severely alone this
week, has taken up melodrama OF the
good, old-fashioned kind, in which pic
turesque costuming, battle scenes, guns,
swords, chains. hairbreadth escapes and
other exciting incidents form the CHIEF
Ingredients The piece is Michael Stro-
goff," the hero whose adventures nave
furnished entertainment to young and
old for a number of years and Will likely
do so for years to come. Norval Nc
Gregor one of the new members OF the
company, takes the part of the brave
courier and does it with much effect,
seeing that he is a good-looking man.
with soldierly bearing, and knows how
to carry out the character he assumes.
Mr. Montserrett is the hateful villain Oh
the piece, and seems more at home tnan
when he is pretending to be amiable anu
virtuous In fact, Mr.. Montserrett can
make up and act out the part OF very
deep-dyed villain with g. sort/of juicy
Intensity that betrays his preference in
the line of character delineation.
Wilson Enos, another good acquisition,
played two characters and made them
both prominent. albeit the czar OF Rus
sia, In his hands, showed a little nerv-
BUSINESS, not to be expected from the au-
tocrat afortsa
Miss Jessie Wellburn was Maria Stro-
goff and played the character with all
her wonted force, gaining considerable
applause, which she we'll deserved,
The comedy of the piece was furnished
by Messrs. Jader and Bronson, as the
rival war correspondents, OF London and
New York respectively. Their scenes
were a little crude and somewhat too
much drawn out, and can be much i'm
proved when they settle down to their
work The incident of the telegraph
Office, for instance, would not impose
upon a 10-year-old child.
Katie Pearson made a very pleasing
Nadia. The staging of the play was al
that could be desired, especially in the
sensational scenes.
The lovers of rnelodrama will get an
evenings amusement out OF Michael
Strogoff" at any timeduring this week.
| ORPHEUM.-The new bill at thls
| house last night was witnessed by the
usual large crowd. In fact, since the
| advent of the Kiralfy ballet, the stand
ing room only" sign has been regular
| feature for each performance. Inc
dances were the same, with slight yaria-
ton, as those which have given so much
pleasure during the past week. A
"danse excentrique" was introduced, in
which Arnold Kiralfy and Miss Fanny
Brown took part The aerial flights of
fairies, the skirt dance and the gyra-
tions of the active, 1.-THE -limbed young
women furnished an entertainment that
kept the audience a little later than
usual.
The other numbers. in addition to sew
eral good turns furnished last week,
included the statuary work by the Faust
family, Ward and Curran two clever
song -aud-dance artists; the two Glea-
sons, capital dancers, and the -Four
Cohans," who appear in an alleged skit
in which two of the combination person
ate automata with much success. All
told, the bill is we'll up to former furnish
ings by this house.
TONIGHT'S OPENING. - Louis
James opens in the play Of 'Spartacus.
the Gladiator" at the Los Angeles the
ater tonight. The scenic preparations
for this production, which will be given
for the first time in this city, are on an
extensive scale. Tomorrow, at the mat
inee, he will play Romeo, and in the
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