The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-27
MAKES A Big HIT.
Hurd, The Conjurur, Giving a Fine
Exhibition al Ksith'S.
Remarkable Performance Of a Woman Aero
bal as Seen BY Miss irving.

IL isn't always the performers whose
names stare you i'm the eye In big type
who give the most pleasure and afford
the most entertainment in a vaudeville
show; and quite often some one whose
name is almost lost i'm diminutiye type
on the bills proves TO be a very clever
entertainer. | don't know the explana-
tlon OF IL; but of the fact | have had
practical evidence more than once.
Yesterday afternoon at Keith's / saw
a young man named Hurd. whose bill
ing" was extremely modest. and who
on the program was only announced as
"Hurd the cOnjurer" make "A big hit
with the Immense audience. His tricks
of legerdehdlh were none of them new
and all what are known in the pro-
fession as simple" bur ne has "a neat
way of performing them and a very
pleasing and effective manner that
added Immensely 10 the mystery of his
feats, and the spectators were 10th To
let him go. I'm which / was I'm entire
sympathy with the rest. Which goes
To show that II rs merit. rather than
big type, that counts after all and
likewise thaL II pays 10 get I'm early
enough, VI sAtAo lNIk enough TO
others tnan the Dig headlineFg.''
Another similar Instance was that az
Martinetti ana sutherland. also among
the "sInall typr performers but who
scored one of the notable hits of The
program. They put ON no airs ana
make no russ about their work: but
there II something So dainty and win
ming and pleasing about pretty Miss
"a
| bly, ludlCrous IN almost every move
made by her frisky partner. ana there
! Is such an ali OF nauralness and easa
! and good nature in all the efforts OF
\ both. that In the very few nintaas
| they are on the stage they entreuch
! themselves more securely in ponuIar
| favor than many a "headIiner'' 1 can
I recall has dohe IN half-hour attempt
| at II. Mr. MAI 1luetu is an exceptional
| ~ clever actooal' as we'll; and he does
| the famous drunken somersault', ~
/ O'Brien (of Bren and Haven so
! much more funnily than the latter that
| the two are hardly TO be compared.
Referring to Miss Sutherland as
! pretty reminds me, also. OF the strik
! ing lact Nhat there IS not q "plain''
| woman ia the entire entertainment:
| and il is rarely that one can 500 a -
pleasing face and figure i'm a single en-
| tertainment of this kind / wonder n
| this ~ something that affects tho -
| ceipts az an ! fancy that In MANY
cases, ~ one could really anaiyZe the
success OF vaudeville act. il woIIld he
| found mat pleasing manners and a
pretty race We're more responsible than
ehythlns else Tor the favor IL won-at
lsast' lnaA- -MllhnAI theM-it wetfld- have
| Ef
| the audience actually realizinp inst
what had produced the satisfying re-
\ suit.
Speaking OF women, what a wonder
| that attractive and substantial appear-
ing female member of the Florenz
! troupe OF acrObats is. Think OF a wo-
| man permitting men 20 jump through
| the air and land on her shoulders with
both feet and Welding no more under
me weight than if eather had fallen
| upon her neck. Remarkable as Is the
| Work oi the four men Of The troupe. the
| work Of this one Woman impressed me
! as the most marvellous acrobatic per-
| tormance | have ever seen at Keiths
! unless perhaps / except The feat OF the
| boy OF the troupe. who jumps from the
/ shoulders of one man 70 those OF an
other and in doing so not only turns a
| somersauit, but twists his body around
| twice laterally. IL is something not
| easy 10 describe. and may not sound
| wonderful TO read OF. but you just see
| IL once, and see II even then You don
( md IL impossible to convince yourself
| that the lad has actually turned in two
di1erent directions at once while pass
| ing through the air
Still talking about wcmen-how we
| do enjoy discussing our own seX-I
confess that personally ] don't at all
fancy the grotesque female mpersona-
ton or Saroney: but when | saw that
everybody laughed immoderately at It,
/ l was forced 10 admI, To myself that II
must be because really IL contains some
very sharp thrusts az some of our Pc
culiarities and foiblcs.
There Is some very sWagger dressing
70 be seen. notably the costumes OF
Frank Cushman and one " the black
race team of Boyce and Black-why
don't they devise some way To let one
know from the program who is who IN
these teams And Frank Cushman
makes about the best looking artificial
coon" I have seen recently. Although
ne is undoubtedly the hest singer OF his
! type. ] hardly expected. from recollec-
lions OF his former work IN Uinstrelsy
f-that he-trptfd -"fnakt-- sz-----4 n IA iee-
Vile TO any pronounced extent: but /
the aid NJ some really fresh material
and some old. which he utliZes 40 well
as 20 take the curse 0ff-he gets away
with a whole lot of laughs and comes
IN under the wire right in the winning
bunch.
I'm the ceaseless search FOR novelty,
Sheehan and Kennedy have gone pretty
near TO the limit with The introduction
or a monkey: and the monk really
makes hit. though his turn is ex-
ceedngly short. Ills owners deserve
a word Of credit for striving to give
tho public something new; and they are
much more entertaining than last sea-
son having improved their old sketch
materially
\ curious combination Of "iiving pic
turcs,' artistic statuesque posing ana
contortian work IL the act OF Latina,
whose attractive face ana plump and
round proportions play their part I'm the