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The herald., 1898-12-18

almost alteration of the judicous. Her en-
gagement just closed at the Orpheum in
San Francisco has been highly successful.
A comedy feature of the sort which is
always given a hearty welcome at the Or
pheum, is promised from May Baker, an ex-
perienced operate singer, with Messrs. Sci
lery and Bartlett, clever men, who take part
in the presentation of a sketch called obi
vorces While You Wait"
Arnesen, an equilibrist from "The Land
Of the Midnight Sum-" is said to be the
finest performer of his kind in the business.
He was imported by Roster & Bial, the New
York vaudeville kings. His engagement
there was successful, and more recent Sc
ries of performances in San Francisco was nc
less satisfactory. His tricks are new and
performed with dash and skill unexcelled
by even the most daring acrobats.
Lille Western, the musical performer
who has been potent attraction during
the week, is retained as chief of the hold.
overs. She will vary her repertory consider
ably. Joe Flynn, the monologist, is also
down for lot OF new funnysms, and Emma
Carus, the female baritone" has a budget
of new songs. The Wilson family of colored
comedians completes the bill
Manager Myers announces that the Christ
mas matinee, which it is the custom of the
house to give, will be given Monday, the
day following Christmas.
The herald., 1898-12-18
Green Room Gossip

Pinero's delightful comedy, "Irelawny
of the Wells" has met with instant appre-
citation at the Lyceum theater where the
audiences are limited only by the capacity
of the house.
The latest addition to the growing list of
London theaters' is the Coronet, which has
just been opened. 1t is at Noting Hill, and
has the great advantage of having no op-
position establishment within easy dis
tance.
The London Comedy theater has been Sc
cured for the production of ga Lady of
Quality" in which Eleanor Calhoun will
assume the part of Clorinda Wildairs. Some
changes have been made in the American
version, which Mrs. Burnett thinks will
make the representation more effective.
The little English country town of South
borough is to have municipal theater, In
memory of the queens diamond jubilee.
A rich resident furnished half the necessary
cash. and the district council will find the
rest. This is the first institution of the
kind in the United Kingdom.
Henry Arthur Jones is reported to be
already at work upon new comedy for an
important London theater.
Charles Cartwright is at work upon a
stage version of Dumas's "La Dame de Mon
soreau.'
''Share and Share" is the present name of
the new play which Conan Doyle has writ
ten for the London Garrick theater.
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Personal

M. Coquelin is to appear soon in another
of Dumas's characters, that of Chicot the
Jester.
The latest reports from England indicate
that the recovery of Sir Henry Irving is
likely to occupy some time, and that it is
doubtful whether he will be able to take
any part in the present provincial tour of
his company.
Mr.. George Alexander is reported to have
made great hit, in the English provinces,
in Walter Frith's new play, "a Man Of
Forty"
Willie Collier, the QUAINT" comedian, is
to be at the Los Angeles theater on Christ
mas night in "The Man from Mexico, a
very funny farce.
John G. Richie is Janet Waldorf's new
manager, and has a five-year contract with
his star in that capacity. Mr.. Ritchie may
be trusted to lore no opportunity to advance
the ladys interests. In fact his advance
notices are SO fervently committa that for
fear they should melt the types portion at
Least has to suffer blue pencil indignites.
That wonderful old woman, Mrs. Kelley,
has just celebrated her ninety-third birth
day in London, and received the congratula-
tions Of hosts of friends with her accus-
toned vivacity. She appears to be exempt
from the ordinary infrmities of age.
The picture of Sam b. Dewey may be
found in one of the groups Of the Dramatic
Mirrors correspondents in it's Christmas
number. Sans supply of pictures was ex-
hausted by his fair friends, SO he had to have
new one made for this purpose. 1t is a
speaking likeness.
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Cyrano's Nose Discounted

"Punk," was the criticism OF one gamin to
another as they left the top gallery of
down town theater one night last week. They
had laid themselves out for seats to see a
performance of "Cyrano de Bergcrac.'
Its what / calls a brace game. Never
saw such show bills W at lied so thunderingly
as dem about dat fellow Beerback's nose
Why, / knows beaks down on Clark street
dat can give dat nose of his cards and spades
And dey're de real ting at that Ils'n amt
got no color tot at all. Some of dem I'm
quainted wild are good huff for de art
gall'ry or for Christmas gifts
Say" said his companion, "dey's cops on
de beat over on Halsted street where Inc
bunk is wat have smellers dat can give dat
handle of Brckabracs a mile and den dis
tance it, And the idea of the bloke chewn'
de poetry rag vile he's fightin'. After dis
me dough is only goin' to be coughcd up
for Murdered be his Mudder,' Dead, Yet
Alive, or some of dem real dramas watts
got de hot stuff in DEM
"You bet, acquesced the first critic, "dey
can't never con me no more with pickchers
of swell smeller. r."-Chicago Chronicle.
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Mrs. Kendall Drools

That extremely imprudent lady Mrs Ken
dial has been talking once more, for publica.
ton, on the drama, music, and kindred sub
jects. Here are some OF the pearls of wis
dom and sentiment with which she is cred
tied: 81 think that, like all arts, the stage
should aim at elevating. Music was meant
to elevate and soothe, though it has bad
effect on some minds. | am told that the
Wagnerian music is so popular because it is
so sensual, but l don't believe it. And yet
some people tell you that to hear Gounod
or Beethoven is to have everything that is
evil awakened in you. l utterly repudiate
such an idea. On the contrary l think such
music has distinct moral influence. L don't
think you can hear good music. or see good
play, or read good book without being ele-
waited. When see lovely bit of sculpture
like Chantrey's Sleep of Children, burst
into tears. When, in Venice, l visited Ca
nova S grave and saw the beautiful sculpture,
| cried. And why should my profession he
considered enervating any more than
these!"
The herald., 1898-12-18
Of Vests Minstrels, at the Los Angel es Theater.

Stage from all quarters, and are meditating
project by which some sort of diploma or
certificate shall be conferred upon novices
who have proved themselves to be possessed
oi some degree of capacity. They say that
the whole profession is falling into bad re.
pute in the provinces, owing to the bad per-
formances given by scratch combinations OF
various kinds, and that something must be
done to clear the stage of social and other
pretenders. Nothing could be more bene
fetal to theatrical art than public revolt
against the indecencies, inanities and pueril-
tiles offered as entertainment by certain
class of theatrical spectators. They, and
not the mock actors, are responsible for the
disrepute in which the stage is often held,
and nobody need pity them if they are be-
ginning to feel the consequences of their own
greed and ignorance. Only the bad shows
are neglected The managers of the better
class. with brains enough to know play or
an actor when they see one, have not been
so prosperous for many years as they are to-
day
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from certain individual distinctions that
have been called mannerisms, and with dash,
spirit, elan creates character full OF the
most delightful surprises and artistic con-
trasts. His Cyrano is neither an elocutlon-
list nor a comedian. He is a bravo OF the
seventeenth century, man of hurried, ner-
vous, swashbuckling characteristics, but
and intense suffering. lmpetuous, un-
studied, direct, he talks with the unbridled
fevorof Gascon and fits his varying moods
to words that now crowd his tongue and
then come slowly and painfully as the end
approaches. The very torrent of utterance
TO which some have objected is the absolute
index of varisemblance. 1t accents the
character to the life, gives it new meaning
and provides the means for those brilliant
contrasts of manner indicating the genius,
fertility and versatility Of the artist. A
commonplace Cyrano spouting Rostand' S
poetic and imaginative words with the calm
accuracy of an elocutionist would be absurd
No such a creature could have dominated
any scene or figured as anything more than
temporary bore at dramatic recital.
1t is by indvidualizng and accenting the
various scenes of Rostands play, each in it's
own manner and all with mpetuous aban
don, that Mr.. Mansfield creates the tre-
mendous effect that he does, carrying the
play along with accumulatng interest until
it reaches that most pathetic climax in the
last scene.
No doubt there are minor bemishes
Nothing on earth was ever perfect, but in
the grand sweep of artistic effort we cannot
afford to daily with trifles. A great and
splendid creation is worthy of all praise
and such masterful genius rs Richard
Mansfield deserves that recognition in which
there is no alloy.
The theatrical situation in New York has
grown to encouraging conditions. The Post
of that city says:
Most of the local theaters are enjoying
just now period of great prosperity. 1t is
a Long time since $40 many successful pieces
were running in the city simultaneously.
More than one of them could be kept upon
the boards until the end of the season, if
necessary, and nearly all of them posses,
artistic merit in some substantial degree
The present theatrical outlook, indeed, is
uncommony gratifying, in spite of the abom-
Unable vulgarity and stupidity current in
some of the second, andi third-rate houses"
G. A. DICKINSON.
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without scenery and costumes, without the
lascivious pleading of lutes, without any.
thing in substantial way to appeal to the
senses except the actors, we cannot imag-
inc. To read Antony and Cleopatra" is
another thing altogether. For poetic die
tion is to be found in its lines just as an
actable' drama is not. 1t has always seemed
TO us that Shakespeare wrote the story Of
Egypts enchantress as a romance for the
library. Last nights performance of the
play by the gifted Modjeska at the Grand
opera house in no way changed our opinion.
Perhaps if some sympathetic and reverent
adaptor-not an iconoclastic Daly-were
to adapt the play for the stage of today,
eliminating the deadly front scene alto
gether and dovetailing the episodes of the
play into something like continuous action,
"Aptony and Cleopatra" might be made
something more than series of romantic
and up to a certain point historical tableaux
vivants As it stands in the shape it as
sumed last night, the scenic artist and the
inventor of startling stage effects are abso
lutely necessary to its success. When Sar.
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Bernhardt as Medea

Sarah 'Bernhardt has lately appeared in
the Paris Odeon as Medea, in a new version
OF the old classic tragedy by "Catulle Men
des" A correspondent of London news
paper says that she presented a superb pic
ture in the opening scenes with Creon, and
acted with wonderful charm and delicacy
while listening to the protestations of Ja-
son. She created profound impression also
in "the difficult scene where Medea bids
her children tell her all the details of Creu-
sa' horrible death, over which she gloats
with the fury of unquenched hate, and 40
the tragedy moves quickly to it's close, with
the sorceress seated in the chariot that is
to bear her through the air, launching her
parting curses at her perjured lord and
prophesying the manner of his death on
board the ship Argo, that brought them to
the Corinthian shore"
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The king murdered Hamlet's father, ETC.,
etc. You'll find it's very funny later on,
when the grave digger comes on. -. :.
Yes, awfully long, isn't it? And rather
monotonous. Fourth-Apropos OF Mr..
Trees revival of Julius Caesar at Her
Majesty's, the writer of pages From Pri-
vate Diary" recounts the following story:
1T was only at the beginning of the year
that certain journal celebrated the solemn
season by asking distinguished people for
notices, and Sir Edwin Arnold chose the
desolate speech of Brutus: % that a man
might know the end of this days business
ere it come But it sufficeth that the day
will end, and then the end is known On
which contemporary, which / will not
name, commented thus: we wonder from
which of of his fathom-deep buddhist books
Sir Edwin Arnold disinterred this CHEEKY
chirp."
The herald., 1898-12-18
Coming Attractions

THE BURBANK.-(Ad Announce
ment.) The Henderson and Carter compa-
nies make their final appearance at the Bur-
bank theater tonight in the double BILL
"Our Regiment" and Under the Dome
The Carter company will also present I'm
der the Dome at a special matinee this af-
ternoon. The theater will be closed during
the week and will reopen next Sunday at
tcrnoon, Christmas day, with strong holi-
day attraction in the OFT Brothers, with
their big farce-comedy success, "All
Aboard" merry melange OF laugh-provok-
ing specialties, jinglng songs aud comica-
tiles conducive to mirth. AS laugh pro-
voker, "All Aboard has proved decided
success. The company includes such artists
as Phil and Matt OFT, Barry Maxwell, John
Donahoe, j. Fredrickson, Thomas Cook,
John Addison, Fred Scharpi, Nellie Sen.
nett, Lillian Burnham, Leonie Deuth, Gus
sic Gardiner, Susie Dokes, Jessie Arm
strong, Mabel Davis and Others, who appear
jointly as stellar attractions.
The advance sale of seats for "All
Aboard" opens Friday morning.
Manager Shaw says that the New Years
attraction at the Burbank will be "The
South Before the War" with its pickanniny
band, plantation singers and dancers and
old-time southern scenes The company
he says, comprises over fifty people
THE LOS ANGELES.-Janet Waldorf
repertory this season includes "Romeo and
Juliet, ""As You Like 1t, ""Twelfth Night, -
"The Lady of Lyons" and Camille" Her
engagement at the Los Angeles theater is
for three nights and a Saturday matinee,
commencing next Thursday evening, at
which time CAS- You Like IT. will be given
and repeated as the bill on Saturday after
noon at matinee Friday evening is the
beautiful Twelfth Night" and the engage
ment closes Saturday night with Romeo
and Juliet" The remembrance of the very
clever work of this charming actress last
season still fingers in the memory of those
who desire good acting and excellent work,
and surely her friends made then will be
her staunchest admirers during this engage
ment.
w. H. Vests troupe of minstrels ap-
pears tonight for the last time here. The
company has been most warmly received
and the various specaltes introduced have
made the show genuine hit. Mr.. West
has realized the fact that in order to make
minstrelsy attractive in these days it must
be backed by genuine talent, and this talent
is supplied in abundance.
0 O O
CONGRATULATIONS Announcement J
High art, indeed, the highest art, is conspic-
uous in the program of entertainment at
this theater during the coming week. Ca
milla Urso, whose fame as volinist is
worldwide and enviable, will be the star.
A generation has called her great, and de-
spite the lapse of years, all of the magic
which won for Nine. Urso the title of '"The
Foremost Woman Viohnist of the World y
is still her own peculiar gift, and evidently
as potent as ever in winning the regard and
The herald., 1898-12-18

OF all their troubles is likely to prove boon
far from priceless. Though the benigbted
fanatics who scorn protection against small.
poX can wave the himsy rag of 'conscien.
tious scruple' in the vaccinators face. and
put him to humiliation and hasty flight. vet
they cannot turn facts into thin air, and,
though parliament may ignore science and
experience, insurance companies and doc.
tors will not. The result is that the British
crank may go unvaccinated if he likes, but
If he does he becomes bad risk" and must
pay big excess charge when he applies for
policy on his life. Concerted action on this
point has been taken by the English nsur.
ance companies none of whose managing
officers, apparently, believe that a ICON.
scientious scruple" will ward off disease,
and therefore there is much angry excite.
ment among the anti-vaccinators. In the
cruel conspiracy against them, too, are all
the doctors employed by the fraternal organ
izations, large and small. These officials say
that they cannot afford to serve at regular
prices people who wilfully invite epidemics.
and that all such persons must either in.
crease their dues materially or leave the
societies. Thus does folly bring punishment
upon itself, and thus is victory over reason
turned into dire defeat New York Times.
The herald., 1898-12-18
Shakespearean Notes

Forbes Robertson is meditating a six
weeks professionally in Europe with
Romeo and Juliet "Nlagda," and Ham
lot.
Miss Genevieve Ward, an intellectual ac-
tress of whom very little has been heard
lately, has joined the Shakesperean COM
pany of Mr.. Benson, and Nlll appear soon
in Manchester as Volumina in revival of
"Coricianus." The part is associated with
the memory of some famous actresses.
Julia Arthur's first appearance as Rosa
lind in ''As Y ou Like It, occurred last week
at Wallack's. Ada Rehan's Portia in the
Merchant of Venice at Daly's is another
interesting event to lovers Of the legitimate.
The herald., 1898-12-18
A Juvenile Benefit

The 6-yearold child actress, Bessie Bus
kirk, is to have testimonial benefit, for the
purpose of raising funds to assist her educa-
ton. For the past three years the little
one has appeared at the Burbank theater
in various dramas where child IS wanted,
sometimes as Little Eva, sometimes in East
Lynne or other lachrymose dramas where a
youngster has to be sobbed over. Bessie
is a precocous little one and deserves a
good education. She has large circle of
friends and the benefit should be hand
some one
The herald., 1898-12-18
A Kissing Rhapsody

"Cyrano de Bcrgerac makes ordinary
oscuation pale in the light of his amorous
description. Here it is a la Mansfield:
A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
An oath sworn nearer by; promise made
With greater certainty; vow which seeks
To make itself more binding; rosy dot
Placed on the 'i in loving; it's secret
Told to the mouth instead of to the ear;
A moment of the infinite, which makes
A sound like the humming of bees wings;
A greeting like the sweet breath of a flower;
A way to feel the heart beat for a space,
And taste the soul moment on the lips.
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Acts and Crafts society which proposes to
revive the ancient entertainment of the
masque. Walter Crane and Selwyn Savage
have written the book, which will be called
Beauty Awakened" and will have tul
charge of the scenery and dances. Several
thousand dollars will be expended upon the
and the affair is to be patron.
lied by all the lights of the fashionable
world
The herald., 1898-12-18
Modieska's CLEOPATRA

Did Shakespeare ever see his "Antony
and Cleopatra" acted? We doubt it, says
the Chicago Chronicle. although at this
moment We are not at all sure but that some
record of its performance in London is ex-
tant. How it could have entertained or in
any way satisfied the audience of that day
The herald., 1898-12-18

structed to shut out as much noise as posi-
BILE, and the stage will be provided with IA
powerful sounding board, while the car
itself will Dc made to conform in appearance
as much as possible with the regular thea
ter. The stage is to be fourteen feet deep,
and will be lighted by electricity. The seats
will cost eight shillings for the most desir-
able positions, and six slNllings for the
ot hars
The herald., 1898-12-18

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Legislation That Reacted

Legal enactment, as has often been demon.
strated, is no panacea for all human woes,
and the anti-vaccnationists of England
have already discovered that the legislation
which they recently welcomed as the end
The herald., 1898-12-18

dos took up Shakespeare's theme and para
phrased his lines in the drama which the
amented Fanny Davenport found so profit
able he did well to fall back upon the ty-
phoon as his chief dramatic engine. Shake
speare, unhappily no doubt for him, came
rJou
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The Drama on Wheels

A London newspaper announces that a
railway car fitted up with stage is now
being built for theatrical manager, who
intends to provide entertainment for rail
road travellers. The car will be ready for
use early in the spring, contracts having
been signed with several railway companies
by which it will be possible for these per-
formances to be given at the same rate as in
the regular theaters. The car will be CON-
The herald., 1898-12-18
Amateurs and Incompetents

1t is said that the London managers are
taking alarm at the hosts of amateurs and
incompetents who are rushing upon the
The herald., 1898-12-18

DR.. William r. Brooks, director of the
Smith observatory, Geneva, N. Y, has
reached his majority" in cometary dis.
covery, the comet recently discovered by
him being his twenty-frst.
The herald., 1898-12-18
Revival of the Masque

An interesting performance will be given
in London, early in the new year, by the
The herald., 1898-12-18

And now it appears that Blanche Bates,
instead of joining distinguished eastern
company, in which she would occupy, at
best. but a second-rate position, has bios
somed out as the ful-fedged partner of the
.amiable 7. Daniel Frawley. Miss Bates
mamma has purchased the interest formerly
held by Gottlob, Marx & Co. in Mr.. Fraw-
ley's theaterical venture, and has installed
her charming daughter as her representa-
tive. Hereafter the fair Blanche may be ex-
pected to take exclusive care of the center
of the stage.
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All prices of wall paper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom. S24 South Spring street.
The herald., 1898-12-18

Large assortment Of iron and wooden
toys; reduced rates. 1872 s. Broadway,
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