The herald., 1898-12-04

The departure of the Grau opera company
after very successful season of four weeks
at the Burbank is Il matter OF regret among
music lovers. The regret is tempered by
knowledge of the fact that the company will
soon play return date at the same theater,
when it is the intention OF the management
to make additional efforts to please the
large body OF patrons that have contributed
to make the present enterprise profitable
one.
After taking into account the variety OF
the work done by the company, it seems
little short of a marvel that every produc
ton has been so uniformly successful with
the public and at the same time gratifying
to the musical ear of those who pose peo-
pie of musical taste and discrimination.
The ladies, Harrington, Darlington and
Meyers, have been shining lights in each
of the roles they have severally undertaken,
while Harry Davies, Langlois, Broderick,
Felch and Young have each contributed in
an eminent degree to the general success.
There is no doubt that the company under
its present competent management and
with the same adequate orchestral support
will do well on return engagement.
Not the least among the causes that have
contributed to the kindly reception given
to the company has been the fact that the
chorus has in every instance been made up
OF people familiar with their duties and
equal to their performance. There has
never been an occasion when an opera com
pany playing here for the same length of
time has had such skilled and well drilled
body OF supporters. The season closes to-
night with "The Bohemian Girl"
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The successors to the opera company will
be the people composing the Henderson
dramatic company, particulars of which
will be found in another column. The COM
ing performances demand the best kind of
talent, when it comes to the presentation of
such dainty dramatic trife as "A Scrap of
Paper, piece that depends entirely upon
the intelligent Interpretation given TO it by
rather large cast which must be made up
of trained comedians. The Crust of Soci-
ETY. is another piece OF an unusual order
and will call forth the best efforts of the
company. The reports concerning the Hen
derson people are so entirely flattering that
it is only reasonable to expect good things
Of them.
'The Heart of Chicago is what Joe Pc
trich calls red fire play" 1t was booked
for the Burbank and has indeed been played
at that house under a former management
Mr.. Shaw, however, got rid OF his esponsi-
bility by shifting the piece over to the pa
vilion, where it will have congenial home.
To those who enjoy the style of lurid and
crimson tinted melodrama which has been
made popular by Lincoln j. Carter, this |
production offers an opportunity seldom
equaled and never surpassed, an oppottun-
ity to revel in scenes of excitement. TEEN |
ing with deeds of blood and tracking the /,
villain to his doom.
The offering of the Los Angeles for the |
current week is three nights OF the familiar
old Hoyt farce a Bunch of Keys" not
by any means the worst of that veteran |
many Preparations. While there is nothing
to the farce and there is no pretenson made
to anything, yet there is whole circus in /
the way in which the specialtes are done
and in this respect the present company is
believed to be thoroughly up to date.
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The stately, shapely and refined Pauline
Hall finishes her engagement at the Or
pheum tonight. The appreciation of her
performance, while it has not been so loud |
young men who played duets on the banjo
with the assistance of the orchestra, has
yet been infinitely more sincere on the part /
of the people who do not make so much noise
but who have the taste, nevertheless, to
properly discriminate artistic work. In ad-
dition to the charm of her melodious voice,
the fair Pauline has appeared in n succession
of stunning costumes and has caused no end
OF conjecture as TO the means she employs to
make SO many changes in so short Il time
Her whole act takes only fifteen minutes,
and she appears in four or five entirely diff
ferent costumes. As all but the first cos
tune arc in changed tights and other diff
ferent details too numerous to mention, the
wonder has been how the trick could posi-
bly, be done in fifty seconds, which friend
of mine told ME was the time actually con-
sumed by the lady in making complete
transformation.
The Lady Macbeth of Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell is thus interestingly described by the
London Spectator: "Her Lady Macbeth was
to us Il revelation, and should be to all who
have eyes TO see. All mannerisms and mod
ernisms disappeared here, and gave us back
the lmpulslve, passionate, dramatic figure of
lmpulsive, passionate, dramatic figure OF
1AUclPHl udys, sOIteneu ana matureu at once.
Here was for once a lady who combined in
herself, as we never remember to have seen,
the soft and winsome, beautiful and almost
girlish woman with a determined partner
OF her husbands ambition and her husbands
great first sin, who after that is never al.
lowed to show that she is anything but in
nocent of the knowledge of all the guilt he
bears The regal bearing, the wifely devo-
ton, the ascendency of the less wicked, and
therefore stronger spirit, the short and stern
rebuke and eagerly watchful love. are all in
Mrs. Campbell's acting turn by turn: and TO
us there was an infinite pathos in the famous
sleep-walking scene, with note in it of al.
most childlke forlornness and repentance
unutterable, which remain deeply on the
mind by the side of the terrified and furious ,
Thane, prey to terror and to passion, but
not to true remorse"
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The Chicago Times[Herald of Nov. 27 '
prints picture of '"Thomas" Jefferson as !