The herald., 1897-09-14

and as she does not spare herself at all
it is wonderful that she manages to keep
up so arduous a task 80 perfectly to Me
very end. Her work in the third act
may really be classed as great, and wor-
thy to be ranked with that Of the best
actresses OF the day.
Theodore Roberts made strong i'm
preston as the scheming renegade,
Colonel Thorpe. The character admits
of considerable scope In the acting, rang
ing, as it does, from quiet, Iago-like
villainy to a powerful case of del. trem.,
and winding up with the death of mil
itary spy Mr. Roberts received ample
testimony of his abilities in the per-
formance of an ungrateful part.
BURBANK THEATER.-The first
performance of 1.-The Inside Track" was
giver. at this house last night to fair
sized audience. The piece is good one
of the melodramatic order. such as Is
always pleasing to Burbank theater-
goers. Norval McGregor as the scape-
grace showed unexpected ability as
comedian. The miller of James M
Ward was capitally done, being worked
up to the proper pitch in his most thrill
ling scene in the fourth act. Pietro
Sosso made a cool villain and Frederic
Tjader as his accomplice afforded quite
bit OF fun, as he always does. Charles
Thornton as Rev. Theophilus Denbigh
was good. Katie Pearson made her
first appearance this season and was
the recipient of much applause and
number of floral offerings. Oracle
Plaisted as Jerry Twaddle looked very
fetching in boys attire. She played her
part with her usual ease and secured an
encore when she sang "Therell Come
Time" The other characters were
competeptly filled and the piece went
very smoothly. 1t Is well staged; there
is a fine view of Londonn from the docks,
fire scene a real horse and cab, and
last but not least real donkey. or
the specialists, Miss Josephine Work
man gave very good whistling solo,
and Harry Dougherty did some clever
work with a baton.
The play is one of the best that has
been given here for some time, ard is
deserving of large patronage for the
balance of the week.
ORPHEUM.-In spite of the attrac-
tions at the other theaters last night,
the Orpheum held its own, and a full!
house greeted the new bill, which is a
star performance all through. OF the
strangers, honors are divided between
the Adophi Trio and Lillian Leslie and
Don M. Cam.
The latter are young women who
not only have particularly good voices,
but who know how to use them. One is
a contralto, the other mezzo-soprano;
both have power and wide range, very
musical quality that is nevertheless rich,
and both enunciate with charming dis
tinctness They first sang, last night,
descriptive duet, then Miss Cam sang
ben Bolt" with sympathy and artistic
discretion. Miss Leslie followed with
a coon song that was we'll done, and the
turn finished with waltz song that was
justly redemanded.
The Adolphi Trio are we'll named the
worlds greatest bar performers. They
are magnificently built and their work
is superb. Singly and in twos, or all to-
gether fhey perform the most difficult
feats with perfect ease and flawless pre-
cision. Their strength is tested in many
ways. their agility and neatness con-
stantly brought into play, and there was
no sneaking out last night during their
turn which was the last on the bill
the house sat to a man, and gave them
wild applause at the end. /.
Smith and Campbell are the other new
people who come on and talk against
time and occasionally perpetrate new
joke or a novel piece of business. 1t Is
all perfectly clean and harmless, how
ever. The gallery was charmed, and
they caught on with the whole house.
Another turn which was almost like
new was the Nichols Sisters, who did
their extremely clever burnt cork i'm
personation minus the cork. n In other
words, they appeared in white face, and
were discovered to be particularly good
looking, charming young women, with
fascinating dimples, refined faces, ruff
fed skirts and diamond rings. Alto
gether, their turn loses nothing of its
artistic cleverness. and the Sisters Mich
OILS gain great deal of piquancy and
charm without their disguise.
AS for the rest, Miss Arniotls carried
from one to five Of the attaches of the
therter about in her teeth and her arms,
smiling the while and looking as If She
liked it; Prof. Leonidas and his trained
cats and dogs repeated their really won
derful turn; and Johnnie Carroll told
more stories and delighted the house
with his sentimental and Irish songs
The same bill runs all the week, with
the Wednesday and Saturday matinees
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