The record-union., 1899-02-05

Janet Waldorf and company. who
created so fine an impression when here
in December, return to the Clunie
Opera house Wednesday and Thursday
nights next, presenting .Ingomar," and
.As You Like It." The Los Angeles
.srimes" well says of Miss Waldorf:
'She is possessed OF the art that con-
ceals art in a marked degree IL Is
very seldom that Shakespearean
actresses can speak the blank verse
without declaiming, thus robbing the
lines of their naturalness; but one OF
Miss Waldorf's greatest charms OF ae-
livery is her manner of reciung the
lines as though blank verse was her
habitual method of giving voice to her
thoughts"
Janet Waldorf is winning golden opln-
ions in the interior cities of the state.
The Record Union believes her to be
one of the most promising legitimate
artists of the time. The Los Angeles
Herald says of her: Few actresses
have the power of moving an audience
to tears without apparent effort. ia
net Waldorf has this power in highly
marked degree. Her pathos is so nat
ural spontaneous and effortless that it
touches the heart whether you will or
no.
Mrs. A. M. Palmer doesn't intend
that Nine. Anita Vivanti Charities
shall have a monopoly in bringing law
suits about THAT Man" Nine. Char
tres, who wrote the play, has secured
an order of court forbidding Mrs. Palm
er, who produced it. to present any
thing but the authoress' own version
Mrs. Palmer has now brought ssult
against Nine Charities for $4,000
damages for certain statements which
she alleges Nine. Charities has made
or inspired with the intention of injur-
ing the play and Mrs. Palmer's good
name as manageress.
Some enterprising manager has con-
sceived the idea of Willing away the
tedium of travel by providing vaude-
vile entertainments on trains running
between the large cities, and it is said
that special cars are now being pre-
pared to carry out the scheme About
the same prices will be charged as at
the regular theaters, and it is expected
that the plan will prove profitable This
offers a new opening for vaudeville tall
ent, and performers will no longer feel
; shy about accepting engagements on
the Orpheum circuit on account of the
loss of time in going to and from Cali
fornia. They can book their passage
on the vaudeville train and make as
much as they would if they were WORK,
Z ing in regular theater, while at the
their destination. Versatile perform
: ers, or those who have a large rener-
! toire, will be most in demand. as it
would never do to spring the same acts
on the same audience day after da p
on a five days run. By the Tina the
ROCKY Mountains We're reached the
vaudevillians would find themselves
playing to empty seats unless thew
made daily changes of bill. soubrettes
and monologuists will be in great de-
mand for these car theaters as the
stages will be so small that elaborate
sketches and spectacular acts could NOT
be used
The New York Dramatic Mirror -
always sound upon every principle that
makes for the betterment of the drama
has the following editorial upon nres-
ent conditions: 'sThe operations of a
CLASS OF managers whose own instincts
as TO amusement are vile, that tend to
deoauch public taste while catering to
the absolute of metropolis, have of
late been so notorious that the need of
some hindering measure cries from the
tongue of decency. There can be no
temporizing with a disease. It's work
may be slow but if is ineyita ble ,,nlacc
a cure is effected. 1t is true that in
the larger cities outside of New York
there is yet no public that will sup
port stage indecencies. It is true that
generally throughout the country stage
1ndecencies that have profited in New
York have been rejected or poorly pat
ronized. AS the Mirror has repeated
~ explained, the large floating popula-
ton of this city, composed of persons