The herald., 1898-11-15

THE BURBANK-The Grau Opera
company gave an excellent performance OF
Auber's romantic opera, Fra Dlavolo,
last night with the following cast of char
acters:
Fra Diavolo Sylvan Langlois
Lord Allcash ............ George Broderlck
Lorenzo Observation-Disclosures. Harry Davies
Blppio ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Stanley felch
Glacomo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Dan 1ounS
Matheo ................... Maurice Whish
Roberto Observation-Disclosures. Fannie Meyers
Lady Allcash .............M Mary Darlington
The work was given in its entirety, with
the exception of a few cuts, the most i'm
portant being Zerlina's opening song in
Act III and Fra Diavolos serenade in the
same act, which latter, although it comes
in at an impossible time, is too good to be
omitted altogether. Miss Meyers sings the
role of Zerlina with appropriate sprightli-
ness and acts it with becoming modesty,
in fact, with more of the latter character
istic than is usually displayed by other
singers in the part. Miss Darlington was
quite animated as Lady Allcash and her
delightful voice gave an added charm to
the music of the character. AS for the
spoken part of her dialogue she evidently
thinks it beneath attention.
The men were respectively well fitted to
their several roles and the chorus was thor
oughly efficient, good-looking and hand
somely costumed. The sextette from Lucia
di Lammermoor," which closed the second
act, was finely rendered and brought down
the curtain with great applause. 1t was
twice raised again in response to the de-
mand and a portion of the grand number
was repeated.
With the assistance of the excellent or
chestra the opera was capitally rendered
and will be repeated tonight and at the mat
inee and evening tomorrow. The house
was fairly well filled.
THE LOS ANGELES.-The new vail
deville performance was given again last
night to moderately fair-sized house and
will run until tomorrow night.
ORPHEUM: John G. Rice, erstwhile
companion Of May Irwin, assisted by Miss
Sally Cohen, opens the list of new attractions
| in a sketch called "Our Honeymoon
which was received with well deserved
laughter and applause.
| The tendency towards one-act farce OF
short, crisp, humorous character as an ad-
dition to the vaudeville performance is to
be commended, and Mr.. Rice's sketch is
constructed on lines which afford many op-
portunities for raising laugh, none of which
are neglected. ,-.-..-..-
No better exponent Of the magic art than
Carl Hertz has appeared on the Orpheum
stage, although his so-called illusion of pos-
ing human figure (that of Mile. D'Alton)
is not entirely new, similar production
having been given by Hermann. The use
of a hoop by the young person to show that
she is not suspended adds greatly to the eff,
fectiveness of the trick.
Raymon Moore, who is announced as an
author-vocalist, sings number of lugubri
GUS ballads in manner which but aggra
Yates his first otfense, that being, according
to the bill, the composition of "Sweet
Marie" Among the holdovers, Miss Maude
Courtenay sings the old songs as sweetly as
before, and in a simple, unaffected manner
which her more pretentious sisters woult
do well to make a note of. The Rossow
midgets, in their lilliputian prize fight, are
still travestying the manly art, to the great
amusement of the spectators. The perform.
ance closes with the "Newsboys' Quintette, -
a medley of singing and dancing in the pop
ular style. The larger boys are hardly of a
size to indulge in newspaper selling as a
means of livelihood, but their singing is not
to be despised for that reason.
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