The herald., 1897-01-04
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life, The Police Patrol, at the Burbank
Manager Pearson has added few more
seats to the auditorium to accommodate
the many patrons who were turned away
last week. The steam heater (the only
one In theater in the city, makes the
house very comfortable these cool even
ings The orchestra is rapidly improv-
ing in its work and 1t is a pleasure to
listen to the excellent music furnished
by Prof. Krauss and his assistants. The
Police Patrol is a drama founded upon
life in the great city of Chicago. The
plot Is drawn around those great metro
politan events-the Smell murder, the
HaymarRet square riots and the An
archist plots. The scenes are varied. oc-
curing in a parlor of the Bond mansion,
amid the elite of society, then rapidly
changing to the police station, with its
grim interior, thence to the open air,
showing typical metropolitan street
scene at the corner of State and Madi-
son streets. Then the tenements of the
poor give an insight into the darker side
of city life, the patrol barn, the horses
and wagons, the swift alarm, the officers
of the force, those magnificent horses
known as the famous White Patrol"
the Haymarket square. the scene of the
great Anarchist riots, showing the police
monument erected to the memory OF the
dead heroes. and the grand finale In the
happy home, thus giving a panoramic
view of actual city life In this great west
ern beehive The scenic effects promised
are OF the best and all the stage accesso
ries are typical of the scenes portrayed.
Those desiring good seats should order
them early Next Monday night a week
will be Native Sons night.
ORPHEUM-The Orpheum has
booming big bill of vaudeville attrac-
tions tonight, and the forecast indicates
one of the best shows ever seen in the
city. The attraction In chief will be
Clermont's animals. OF this interesting
company the leading man is the much
talked-of piano playing poodle. He is
the only animal in the world that has
mastered a tune on any instrument and
on that account will be a big drawing
card. A couple of talking roosters add
another strong feature to the turn, while
an acrobatic wild boar enlivens things
with his clever antics The clown Of the
little troupe is a long-eared comedian
called Balaam, who performs no end of
ludiorous tricks. Clermont's animals
will virtually be whole show in them
selves.
The three pretty Dunbar sisters give
promise of being team Of favorites, as
they have the reputation of being the
prettiest song and dance artistes on the
stage. Their impersonations are said to
be decidedly clever and their dancing su-
perb.
Galetti's monkey comedians will re-
main to furnish another roaring act like
their big hit of the past week Cushman
and Holcombe have new operate
sketch, with late songs and sparkling
dialogue. These accomplished artists
can always be depended on for splendid
bit of entertainment. Stuart, the phe
nomenal male Patti, is still with us and
will add a pleasing number to the pro-
gram with new songs and fetching
gowns. One of the enjoyable features Of
the bill will be the acrobatic and contor-
tion work of the marvellous Kaoly. The
lively RONALD brothers will conclude the
excellent program with daring equi-
libristic turn.
LOS ANGELES THEATER.-C. B.
Jefferson, Klaw Il Erlanger's big spec
tacular production, Palmer COx's
Brownies, which will be seen at the Los
Angeles theater this week, beginning
tomorrow, with matinees Wednesday
and Saturday, will have the most elab-
crate extravaganza that has ever been
brought here. In New York, where it
ran for $50 nights, and in Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston and other large
cities its novelty and splendor have
created a. sensation, and enormous
crowds have been attracted to it. The
Brownies Is a case of The Black Crook
outcrooked and the famous Kiralfy.
kiralfyed, for nothing so gorgeous
has ever been seen on the stage before.
To make The Brownies the stupendous
success it 1t, the managers, c. B. Jeffer-
son. Klaw & Erlanger, have spent a
large-siZed fortune. They have Sc
cured the highest-priced specialties, the
most unique and magnificent ballets
obtainable, and the largest and most
expensive organization travelling, over
100 people being carrie@ en- tour. The
scenery, embracing twelve gorgeous
sets, will be the richest ever displayed
to an audience here; the situations as
picturesque as any ever conceived by
the artist mind, the girls as pretty as
ever gathered at one consecutive time
by a theatrical manager and the cos
tunes as varied and beautiful as one
could wish for. Palmer Cox, the famous
Brownie man." has not only written
the greatest spectacle before the pub
lie, but he personally supervises every
performance, and to his skillful man
agement is due much Of the success of
the production. 1t is no easy task to
transform seacoast scene into a mag
nificent palace interior a bevy of
beautiful water nymphs into band
Of rollicking ballet dancers in few
seconds, yet Mr. Cox accomplishes all
this, and without conflict with the au-
thorities, and in his ability in this di-
rection lies the success of The Brownies.
HAZARDS PAVILION-The bicycle
craze is aptly burlesqued and panto-
mimely illustrated in this years produce
tion of Charles H. Yale's Forever Devils
Auction. which will be presented at
Hazards pavilion Wednesday and
Thursday evenings and Thursday matt
nee, January 6 and Z. The sale of seats
opens this morning al 10 o'clock at Reeve
& Cos. book store 257 South Broadway.
Manager Yale is to be congratulated
upon the immediate hit of his successor
to his Trolley Car pantomime, which
has created no end of laughs the past two
or three seasons. The main point in the
success of The Bicycle Craze is that it
is timely, While the subject itself is
treated in such an absurd manner as
to prove more than funny to the most
blase theater-goer. 1t deals with the
rather startling and realistic experiences
of that genus homo known from
Maine to California as. the Hobo in an
an attempt to secure by fair means or
foul a number of the "Silent Steeds,"
and in their inability to do so they pranu-
facture a few home made machines
from different articles which are OBJ
tanned under most trying circum-
stances. A number of very funny
characters and incidents are aptly in
troduced and the entire episode goes
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