The herald., 1898-11-18


active in provoking the general hilarity.
kitte Hawthorne is very clever in her spec
ialties with various musical instruments.
Kitte Beck does some capital dancing, and
the Trumbull Sisters make the most OF their
opportunities as harpists and in other ways.
They were loudly applauded and recalled.
The cake walk at the close of the second
act was a great feature and captured the
house.
For lively, spirited, clean performance,
"Finnigan's Ball' deserves praise and no
one, not even the most inveterate grumbler,
ought to complain of not getting his moneys
worth.
The sale of seats for "Hogan's Alley" opens
this morning.
THE BURBANK.-"Fa FallSa," Chassaigne's
comic opera, was presented for the first time
on the Pacific coast at this house last night,
and it is not surprising that the piece en-
joyed a run of upwards of three hundred
consecutive nights in New York city. The
music is tuneful and catchy, that of the first
act introducing much of the charming bolero
movement, and pretty solos and sprightly
ensemble numbers are scattered with gen.
erous hand throughout the piece. The cast
includes the entire company and excellent
opportunities are afforded the principals for
effective solo work. "Falka" is handsomely
costumed, artistically sung and very we'll
staged. The cast is as follows
Folbach. h.................. George Broderlck
Tancred. Dan Young
Arthur. ........................Ha Harry Davis
Brother Pelicon...., Stanley Felch
kOnrad Carrie Ward
Tekeli. ............... VIM. Loughran
Boboky. y......................M Maurice Whish
Boleslas. Sylvan Langlois
The Seneschal.. Frank LawtOn
Falka ...................Adele Harrington
Edwige. Fanny Myers
Alexinade Kelkirsch.. Mary Darlington
Minna.. Katherine Goodrich
Janotha... Eva Beth
The action passes in Hungary in the middle
of the last century. Folbach, military
governor in Hungary, is promised by the
emperor patent of nobility on condition
that he can show a male heir, direct or
collateral, on whom the succession can be
settled, and it is on this endeavor to estab-
lish an heir that the plot of the piece hinges
Folbach has nephew, Tancred, whom he
has never seen, and whom he summons to
take his place as heir presumptive, as his
only hope of title. On his way Tancred
is waylaic in the forest by a Tzigan band
and bound to tree. He is rescued from his
plight by Edwige, sister of the Tzigan chief
Boleslas, on condition that he, marries her.
This he promises to do, but on finding out
who she is fees, landing in his unces town,
pursued by the brigand and his sister. In
the darkness she has not seen his face, and
the comic embroglio of the piece proceeds
on this fact. Her only guide to recognition
is the voice and certain words he used The
governor also has niece, who further ravels
the skein of events by eloping from her
convent with student named Arthur.
They come to the same inn where Folbach
awaits his nephew and are tracked by
Brother Pelican, doorkeeper at the convent.
TO escape him Falka dresses herself in a
suitof Arthur's, and finding that her brother
has not arrived, as expected, decides to
escape by impersonating him. Everyone
is conveniently deceived, but Pelican finds
the discarded convent dress, and suspecting
that Falka has disguised herself as a boy,
arrests Arthur and insists upon his dom
ming the convent garb and returning to the
convent, leaving Falka in hussar uniform
to win her uncle's forgiveness and consent
to the marriage. In the meantime Tancred
appears in the costume of footman to watch
over his own interests. Complications arise
which forces Falka finally to confess that
she is a woman and the real Tancred is dis
covered, through the utterance of certain
words which are overheard by Edwige.
Arthur is brought back from the convent
and owns to the exchange of dresses. Fol-
bach, in order to carry out the emperor s
will, arranges marriage with his nephew
and Alexinade Won Kelkirsch, an heiress,
which, however, does not come off, as, on
the real facts of the, case becoming known to
the uncle, the eloping lovers are reunited,
the little heiress marries her brave chieftain
and Tancred unwillingly falls to the lot of the
chiefs sister, all receiving the spluttering
blessing of the old governor in the end.
George Broderick made up excellently as
the military governor, his conception of the
part meeting with hearty approval and his
rendering of German drinking song gave
unusual opportunity for a display of his
fine lower notes.
Dan Young as Tancred and Stanley
Felch as Pelican have the mirth-provoking
features in their hands and they handle
them in their own inimitable style
Adele Harrington in the title role made
a charming impression in her impersonation
OF the opposite sex, covered herself with
glory and gained, incidentally, rounds of
applause for her solos, and later on in the
duet, ''Slumber, o Sentinel,"i which she
sang with Harry Davies, who so grace
fully impersonated Arthur, and whose
sweet tenor voice was heard to excellent
advantage all through the piece.
Mary Darlington has a light part, but
she was in excellent voice and captured
the audience with her sweet singing.
Fannie Meyers was eminently suited to
the part of Edwige, which she imperson-
ates without room for criticism.
Sylvan Langlois made picturesquely
loud and fierce Chief Boleslas. His make
up and singing were both good
The other parts were acceptably filed,
the whole rendition being artistic, from the
first breezy, swinging bar of the chorus to
the closing notes of the ably-conducted or
chestra.
"Falka" was greeted by well filled house
and deserves the best in the way of at
tendance that may be accorded by the