The herald., 1897-03-09
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comedy by the Broadway Comedians.
so-called, was furnished for the last
night to a fair-eized audience. The con-
coction was entitled Town Topics" and
might as well have been called Rural
Ramblings" for all that the name had
to do with the subject Of the piece. 1t
consisted Of a string Of funnyisms. some
of them quite moss-grown with antiq-
uity, and others with freshness of new
invention that raised q good many hearty
laughs, the mixture being interviewer
with a number of specialties, OF wnich
the singing and the dancing were among
the most attractive. Beatrice Norman
and william H. Mack do a clever skit
upon "The Modern School OF Acting
Nellie Sennett works hard as any two
Of the company and In conjunction with
John w. World does some agile danc-
ing mostly of the aorobatic kind. The
cast embraces the inevitable Irish po-
liceman, the negro, the confidence man
and above all the ubiquitous tramp. TO-
gether with the other types, more OF
less grotesQue, usually found In pieces
Of this kind. The young women Of course
wear short skirts. terminating at the
knee and 20 about their daily walks In
life without embarrassment in this cos
tune. singing and dancing with gay
disregard of the extremely low quality
Of their male associates. All or wnicn
Is not only possible In farce comedy, put
is really demanded In order that the
public taste may be fuily gratlnea
Town Topics Is fully as entertaining
as it was when last given here ana
Wilt be run for the rest Of the week.
BURBANK THEATER. Monte
Cristo" was put upon the boards last
night with George Montserrett in the
title role and fairly good supporting
company. The piece, though quite "a
miliar to the average play-goer, draws
like a loadstone yet, and the house was
remarkably we'll filed. IN the upper
portion especially. Mr.. Montserrett is
not an ideal Monte Cristo. eftner IN
wig that can best be described as SIM
ply awful, his makeup as the appe
was negligent and defective, while MS
rendering Of his lines was made painiui
to listen to by reason OF their Defng oe
livered In a stilted, loud unnatural ana
entirely artificial manner. The cnar-
acter belongs to the present century
the language Is prose, ant there Is no
necessity for such an exasgera.,on =,
style. Mr.. McGregor, as Fernano,
ana Walter Fessler as "Villefort," were
good. while Mr.. Tjader as "Caderousse,
while his costume az the innkeeper was
startlirRly fresh and new. IN the comic
opera style. yet acted his part with
cieyerness that ne de atonement TOT the
rest. James M. Wards deatn sEene
as the "Abbe Faria" Is an excenent
piece of work, and was much appiauoec,;;
Wilson Enos made gooo nnts Nu.ru %
In the title part. The women In TINS
niece have but little to say or 90. haue
Pearsen made the most OF Merceoes,
while Adah Sherman impaired the nee
essarv coloring to the part OF Car
conte." &h.t
The weakest impersonation was tnat
of "Albert Morcerf." by Mr. Sronson'
who is entirely unified Tor sucn par.
The niece was well mounted tnougn
.ha enachronisms were not few. Re-
voIvers were produced, matches were
snoken of. also dollars In the place OF
Srancs and similar lapses that mignA De
prevented by careful stage manage
ment.
NJ the week. The house was mace spe-
cialiy attractive last night by the pres
Court olive No. 80. and the Mexican
brass band.
oRpHEUM.-The usual crowded
bomse Witnessed the vaudeville perform
snce that continues to be of an excellent
chsracter. The Pantzer trio of contor-
tionists are among the new features of
the week, and an excellent one is their
stvle Of work. Titania, new dancer,
introduced in the ballet scenes has
great deal of ability in her profession.
The other ney features were also ex-
tranoeIv well received, and the large au-
dience was highly gratified at the bill of
fsre presented for the evening.