The herald., 1897-05-23


sailed for Europe last week.
John ]. Donnelly has been engaged by
Daniel Frohman to manage 1.-The Pris-
oner of Zenda" company next season.
Announcements
LOS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Announce
ment.) Tomorrow night will be devoted
to production of Gilbert and Sullivans >
English comic opera III M. S. Pinafore, :"
under the auspices of the jubilee celebra-
tion committee of Southern California
The profits will be devoted to the local
Victoria endowment fund, for the pur-
pose of endowing bed or beds in the
city hospitals as a memorial of the
queen'e jubilee. The prima donna is
Jessie Padgham- -Conant. who will ap-
Il pear as Josephine. Minnie Hance will
be Buttercup; Lille Scanlan, Hebe. Rob-
ert Dunbar, who was here with the Grau
opera company, will appear in the char
acter of Ralph Rackstraw; Tom E.
Rowan, jr., as Captain Corcoran; Dick
Sullivan as the Admiral. George A. Dali
ton, the original Dick Deadeye, and who
created the part in the old-time Palmer
opera company in New York city, will
play that part in this production. Harry
Mabin will enact the Boatswain. and
Will Manning the Marine. Little Lillian
Belcher will be the Midshipmite. The
chorus is composed of thirty voices. The
special scenery for Pinafore, painted by
the late Forrest Seabury, will be used.
ORPHEUM - advance Announce
ment.) The vaudeville outlook for this
week is full of promise. Fleurette is the
name that odorns the top line of the pro-
gram, followed by the four "Fleur de
Lis" The nationality suggested by the
names is said to be even more apparent
in the spicy turn which they render.
Their act consists of a melange of cong
and dance and novel specialties, con-
Guiding with sensa ational angling scene,
in which the four Fleurs try their luck
with long fishing rods and lines cast in
the audience. This last coup is said to
produce more than a ripple in the i'm
aginary pool. Altogether the Partisan
quintette seem to be bright lot.
Ed Latell, whose name next appears
on the bill, Is a comedian of the ancient
order of musical fools. For the real fun
creating faculty this artist has a wide
reputation, gained from several years of
eastern successes. Latell's engagement
in San Francisco is reported to have
been most successful one.
A pair Of comedians whose return will
be welcome are the Andersons, than
whom no better colored un-makers
ever graced the Orpheum boards. They
are az diverting pair as one could wish
to see.
No comment is necessary on Adgie and
her lions. One week has sufficed to es-
tablish them as prime favorites, and a
repetition of their sensational act will
be as good an attraction az anything
new that could be imported.
The Midgleys' clever Juvenile charac-
ter work has already been praised in
these columns, and it needs only to be
announced that they are to appear In
new turn to draw big crowds at this
house.
In the acrobatic line, there are Mar
zello and Millay, who mix up deal of
laughable knock-about with their very
clever feats on the horizontal bar. Herr
Grais and his intelligent little donkey
and baboon jockey complete the list.
The two usual performances will be
given today, the new bill going into
effect tomorrow evening.
BURBANK. - advance Announce
,nent) This is the family amusement
house of Los Angeles, and the past week
a dollar attraction has been presented,
and that successfully, at half the price
at which 1t has ever before been pre-
sented in this city, by Katie Putnam
and her excellent company. When
Charles T. Dazey looked around to Sc
secure the foundation for a play, he
CHANGED upon the vehicle first employed
by Mark Twain on the Mississippi river,
its type of men and women and the
country through which 1t flows. He
took the rugged scenery Of the country,
the rough, honest inhabitants and their
straightforward ways as background
for his plays. That they were success
full the enormous receipts of 'In Old
Kentucky" and 1.-THE Old Lime Kiln"
will testify. Commencing tomorrow
night, play by this author will be pre-
sented, Love Finds Way" The scenes
are laid in Southeastern Missouri on
the banks of the Mississippi, and are
full of moving Incidents There Is love
ard hate, passion and revenge, trustful
women, brave men ana the usual viii
lain. There is comedy, pathos and mu-
sic, with bright new songs. The scenery
is new and beautiful. apd the company
has been strengthened by the arrival of
several new members from the east.
There will be the usual matinee Satur-
day, but for the summer the Sunday
matinee will be discontinued.
"ExCELsIOR, JR."-(Advance An
nouncement) =. E. Rice's musical ex-
travaganza, " Excelsior, Jr.," will be pre-
sehted for the first time in the city, at the
Los Angeles theater next Wednesday.
Thursday and Saturday matinee and
Saturday evening. The managers have
spared neither expense nor pains to en-
gage a cast that will give II in finished
way. Sadie Martinot IS well known, and
upon returning to her favorite line, that
of burlesque, she finds field in that of
Excelsior. Jr.," that suits her decided
talent Joe Cawthorn, Johnny Page,
Carrie Behr, Nelly Strickland, David
Abrahams, Neil Mcneil, George Olm!
and a number Of others equally we'll
known in their respective lines, have
been engaged for this production. The
chorus is very large one. Excelsior,
Jr.," Is the kind Of an entertainment
that the theater-goers Of Los Angeles
na natrouiza most 1fheraI1v THE sole 10