The herald., 1897-09-21
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the entire theater including stapdine
room was gathered last night to witness
what turned out to be one of the most
enjoy BILE programs of the season. Not
that it contained any feature of over
shadowing importance, but ii was gen.
orally little above the ordinary STAN
clard OF excellence for which the house
has a reputation. The new features
were Little Leola Mitchell, "the small
est woman on the American STAGE" and
Stanley Whiting, "the celebrated mu-
sical artist.
Leola Mitchell deserves her sobriquet
of "the living DOLL" seeing that she pre-
sents the appearance of Partisan ar
ticle of that kind. Her figure is plump,
tive and her acting is decidedly chic; in
other words, she is clever diminutive
woman with good voice and thorough
| ly acquainted with stage business, and
especially the business belonging to her
part She is also sweet whistler, but
apparently does not dance, which is the
reason perhaps that she sings so we'll
Her baby" scene was mildly applaud
| ed, but she received tumultuous ap-
| plause for her other songs, ard, in fine,
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coon songs with the assistance of a
piano and coffee colored gentleman in
the balcony who has a phenomenal
mouth and very expressive eyes. Mr..
Writings act caught on. and he corr
sumed about ten minutes time in de-.
clining an encore, for reasons that were
| not plainly apparent.
The blonde, Lillian Leslie, and the
brunette, Don M. Cam, appeared in a
change of costume and In songs differ
ent from those they sang last week.
Miss Cam sang "The Old Folks at
Home" instead of ben Bolt" and the
change was not an improvement. The
| audience appears to prefer the Trilby
/! favorite. Their other songs were great
ly applauded. and the fair Leslie, who
has some OF the May Irwin characteris-
tics, made quite an impression.
Smith and Campbell, the dialogical
| comedians, did something that has not
before been done here by men in their
speciality, and they deserve a good deal
Of praise for 1t, seeing that the thing
! rs SO uncommon, that is to say, they
gave an entire change Of dialogue from
last week and much Of 1t was very
funny.
| The strong woman, the cats and dogs
and the exceedingly clever gymnastic
trio, the Adolphis, rounded out very in
| teresting program.
| An extra, down on the bills for last
| night only, was the transmission by long
| distance telephone from San Francisco
of the music of the Hungarian band,
but the result was not of a kind to make
one hungry for repetition. The sounds
were heard but the phonograph effect
ually obliterated their musical charac-
teristics. A similar experiment was
tried from San Diego, which was more
audible though not a bit more musical.
The experiment had not been tried be-
fore in public, and the attempt Of the
management to furnish novelty de-
serves appreciation. sa-
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BURBANK THEATER.-A nautical
drama entitled 1.-The World" was pre-
sented at this house last evening to
fair-sized audience. The performance
was not up to the Burbank standard,
but that is more the fault of the piece
than of the players. The story which
was given at length in the advance no.
tice in these columns concerns an heir
ess, her lost brother and villain. The
events are few and the attempts to
string them out to six acts proves tire
some. Pietro Sosso made a manly
American sailor and will doubtless I'M
prove as he becomes more familiar with
his part. James M. Ward gave a capital
Irish impersonation and was very
amusing. Charles Thornton infused the
necessary amount Of villainy in his part.
Jor rfoIr to-
hams, Whitechapel Jew, was excel
lent, and his limitations Of the 100 per
cent" broker were we'll received, though
not intended to have local application.
Edwin Brice, new addition to the COM
pany, made the most out Of the captain.
The part Of the heiress was filled at
short notice by Katie Pearson most ac-
ceptably. Hattie Foley did the best she
could with a role to which she is physi-
cally unsuited. The piece Is we'll mount
ed and the scenic effects showed that
neither labor nor expense had been
spared in perfecting them. There was
the bay of Naples with Mt Vesuvius in
the distance, afterwards the wreck and
the ship coming to the rescue, and the
revolving panorama by which the spec
tator is enabled to see the different
shores as the sailor rows past them, fl
nally bringing UP in moonlight view of
Bridal Veil falls.
Senior Ramirez gave couple Of very
pleasing numbers on the mandolin,
which were much applauded by the peo-
pie down stairs. but hardly appreciate
ed by the gallery. The act including Irish
selections by Florry Freeman was not
good enough for a Burbank audience,
which is critical in. such matters. Alto
gether the piece is more to be praised on
account of it's scenic effects than be-
cause Of any interest aroused by Its
story. N.nu.kkAikN,
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MUSIC HALL.-The first rendition Of
''The Union Spy" was witnessed last
night by an enthusiastic audience Of
sympathizers and friends Of the Bart
lett-Logan w. r. c., for the benefit Of
which post the entertainment was given.
The participants were mostly amateurs
and made up in zeal what they lacked in
experience. A succe ssior. of scenes and
| tableaux illustrative of military life dur
| ing the civil war was introduced. "Thc
Union Spy" will be repeated tonight and
| tomorrow night.
Awarded