The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-20
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ORPHEUM-An audience that liter
ally reached the roof-they were stand
ing at the apex of the gallery-turned out
for the new bill at this house last night
an audience that was intelllgently dis
eliminating in its applause down stairs;
and was so well behaved upstairs that
it deserves commentator. AS for the
bill, it is quite the best that has been
offered for weeks; the hold-overs are
the cream of last weeks turns, and the
new ones are above the average. The
orchestra plays some especially pretty
and tuneful numbers, too, and alto
gether it is banner week.
Caron and Herbert are not strangers
here. They found a houseful of friends
who roared and howled with joy over
the cheerfully idiotic pantomime which
is thrown in in chunks between some
particularly neat tumbling and other
acrobatic work. The bill says their act
is "a revelation in resistless cachinna-
ton" Old Noah says cachinnation is
loud or immoderate laughter Caron
and Herbert lived up to their reputa-
ton, and they got the laughter, for their
turn is the funniest that has been given
here in many a day. But it must be
seen. 1t is beyond description.
Another of the new teams, Henry Frey
and Nettie Fields, gives side splitting
farce" which is clever in spots. Frey'e
makeup is that of a cross between an
undertaken in healthy climate and a
last years scarecrow; Miss Fields, on
the contrary, is handsomely gotten up
as to clothes and she does a buck and
wing dance that is seldom equaled any
where by black or white man or woman.
T. w. Eckert and Emma Berg do a
musical turn; the former first giving i'm
itations of various instruments on the
piano, following it with singing lesson
in which Miss Berg appears, and ending
with the great love duet, the tower scene
from Trovatore, which brought down the
house. For an encore they sang Tom
and Tabby back-fence serenade, which
was also loudly applauded.
Charles White, the Australian basso,
sang two rollicking bravura songs with
considerable spirit and very nice art.
His voice is rich, mellow and musical,
and he handles it with much discretion.
Alex HeindPs choice of numbers was
again popular rather than classical, but
is it no less credit to him as an artist that
he can make so much of SO little. In
Rubenstein's beautiful Melody in F."
Mr.. Heindl produced some noble tones
on his violincello and his modulations
were most artistic. In Offenbach's
dainty "Musette," where the theme is
repeated in harmonics, the workman
ship was exquisitely delicate; and the
little waltz which was given in response
to deservedly enthusiastic applause was
also delightfully."- played.
John Garfield and Violet Carlton re-
peat their successful turn of last week
with a change of dress on the part of the
lady and change of songs on the part
of BOTH Canfield's singing of Sally in
Our Alley" showed very sweet, smooth
tenor voice, and a repetition was de-
manded. Andy and Flora Mckee also re-
peat their good work of last week with
new business. Mckee reveals the mys-
teries of making up for black face by
smearing his face and hands with black
grease paint, and then dancing a hoe
down. and he convulses the audience
with his description of a buggy ride.
The same bill runs all the week with
matinees Wednesday and Saturday.