The herald., 1897-11-28

pN Si'50o~N'
Julia Arthur is playing to more money
at Wallack's theater than it has ever
seen, even in its palmiest days Miss
Arthur Is the most successful and most
politely doomed artist that ever came
into New York, says an enthusiastic ad-
mirer.
Coming Attractions
LOS ANGELES THEATER.-[Ad-
vance Announcement Frank Lane
heads q company from Hoyts theater,
New York, and will be seen at the Los
Angeles theater Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings in Charles H.
Hoyt's comedy, "A Trip to Chinatown"
The excellent reputation this play en-
joys, both in this country and in Aus
tralia, and the fact that Hoyt and Nc
Kee allow it to be presented only in the
very best manner and by the very best
people. Is a guarantee Of a good per-
formance and should insure a full house
Mr.. Hoyt is one Of the most prolific con-
tributors to the farce-comedy stage.
His "A Trip to Chinatown" makes no
pretense to what it does not possess, but
is certainly all that it is designed to be-
q string of rich fun from the rise to the
fall Of the curtain. A lot of young peo-
pie start out on lark and wind up at a
masquerade ball. An eccentric charac-
ter, Well and Strong, who imagines that
he is dying man, manages to join the
party, and they try in vain to shake him.
They are also eluding an old bachelor
uncle and guardian to one of the girls
of the party, who is shyly trying to carry
on a Irritation with a pretty widow, but
is cut out by Strong. Upon this basis
of story, the play is built up of ludc
rous situations, just suggestive enough
to be spicy, but not bold enough to be
wicked. and a lot Of ingenious special
ties are woven in which give to it de-
lightful variety. The people who sur
round Mr.. Lane and dance and romp and
sing through the chain of funny situa-
tions are all clever and adapted to their
respective parts.
BURBANK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Announcement Beginning tomorrow
evening, November 20, Leonard Growers
New York and London success, Lost in
New York" will be given. The piece is
an original one, and is realistic in the
extreme. Nothing has before been pre-
sented here that is quite its equal. An
enormous tank will be employed in the
piece holding more than $4,000 gallons
Of water, faithfully depicting New York
harbor, with all it's familiar sights and
sounds, sailing vessels, a real steam
launch, rowboats. etc. Another very
natural and thrilling scene will be that
Of great fire, where real flremen re-
spond to the alarm and extinguish the
flames in the regular way with water
thrown from real fire hose.
The plot of the piece. briefly, is as fol-
lows: An unnatural brother tries to de-
fraud his blind sisters and the rightful
heirs out of vast fortune, and by en-
listing the aid Of certain disreputable
persons endeavors to have them per-
manently removed from his path. By
trickery and forgery he succeeds in hav-
ing" -his sister placed in lunatic asylum
on Randalls Island, but through the
assistance of her daughter, whom she
supposed to be dead, she escapes by
menas of a-rowboat.
The presence Of this enormous tank Of
water ON the stage has been taken ad-
vantage of, and Dana Thompson, the
champion diver of the world, has been
specially engaged to make one of his
wonderful exhibitions. He will jump
from the ceiling Of the theater, a dis
tance of more than fifty feet, and dive
headlong into depth OF only four feet
of water-a most startling feat, consid-
ering the inconvenience attending a
dive in so limited place as theatrical
stage. Mr.. Thompson has made some
very high dives, and difficult ones, nota-
bly, q jump OF 1876 feet, turning three
somersaults in the air and diving into
only IL feet Of water, coming up unhurt.
This great dive was made in Seattle in
July last. MI Thompson Is not only
great diver and swimmer, but clever
speciality artist as well, and he will show
his abilities in Lost in New York. in
some original work as the tramp. The
piece will run the entire week, with the
usual matinee on Saturday.
ORPHEUM. = Advance Announce
ment.] There will be a regular exodus
Of vaudeville artists from the Orpheum
next week. Five new attractions are
billed to appear Monday night, which
will combine variety and quality OF
talent rarely seen on one bill Probably
the chief attraction will be A. o. Dun
can, the very greatest ventriloquist ever
presented to the Los Angeles public.
Not alone does Mr. Duncan excel in
his ventriloquial powers, but his wit
and originality combined make him the
king of entertainers in his line. His
dummy figures are said to be wonders
of mechanism. AS Mr.. Duncan leads
in ventriloquism, so does Mile. Leo
poldine, another high-class artist, lead
in aerial performances. Her feats upon
the aerial parallel bars. single trapeze
and flying rings are said to be daring
and graceful.
One of the greatest exhibitions of rifle
shooting is promised by the Misses
Cook and Clinton, announced as '"The
Worlds Greatest Sharpshooters." Their
skillful exhibition Of firing at still and
moving objects, together with the play
ing of melodies upon a xyiophone with
rifle shots, Is made more enjoyable by
their use of smokeless and noiseless
cartridges.
Another leading feature Of the bill Is
the Tobins. in refined musical specialties,
vocal and instrumental They perform
duets on slide trombones. ballad horn
and llelicon barytones, the latter new