The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-21
Vaudeville at the Grand.

This weeks bill of vaudeville at the
Grand Opera House has unusual interest
and the acts are of a good average. The
strangers are the Meredith sisters, singers
and dancers. and Dorsch and Russell. mu-
sicians. The Misses Meredith sing both in
Spanish and English, and their grace, sense
of rhythm and style exhibit Spanish train
ing They are handsome girls, we'll cos
TUNED and their dancing is distinctive.
Dorsch and Russell set the stage as a tele-
graph station on a railroad. The operator
makes a cornet out of a lighted lantern, and
the stick of a tramp's old umbrella proves
to be a piccolo. A picket fence and set of
switching levers turn out musical instru-
ments. The music itself is not OF better
quality than that usually produced by
trick players.
over the use of the ons-and-the-Christians
poem that she recited last season, and now
she begins her contribution to the bill with
years ago by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
got prominence in use by Oliver Doud
Byron in The Plunger. Helene Mora
and Miss Rice. 1t tells or the race between
Salvador giant In racing history, and
Tenny, and is a very good bit of descrip-
ton. Miss Rice is carried away by ii and
speaks so fast that her audience catches
back of the footlights, and the incidental
music. combined with her quick, faulty
enunciation. makes the poem almost unin-
telligfble. 1t fails to arouse enthusiasm,
though, properly done, 1t used to raise a
roar of applause. Miss Rice has a pleasant,
modest personality and a fund of clear
humor, and her work with the doll figures
In the cabinet, which forms the main part
OF her act, is charmingly done. For this
she needs a new set of figures and some
new dialogue and songs. The old ones are
ter-goer.
Josephine Sabel. quick, bright and vigor-
GUS, retains her French song open
Ing, gives her Imitation of Cissy LOTUS
In an imitation of her" and ends with
rag-time song and dance. Few persons
here know Miss LOTUS and they do not
care whether or not she ever initiated
Miss Sabel. No person is interested in
Miss Sabel's family affairs, glimpse into
which she gives when a member of the
orchestra initiates child's cry. mot
Her other jokes are of similar burden. II
Is puzzle that she. like some other
smart women I'm vaudeville. will not exer-
else good taste. Her ability is unusual
her personality magnetic and with the ad-
dition of as much discrimination as the
average woman uses in entertaining heI
friends. Miss Sabel would go high in the
vaudeville scale.
Cole and Delosse show their routine OF
tricks on the slack wire Delosse is prin-
cipal and his feats of balancing are won.
derful. His partner also is skillful, but
he has the old-fashioned brand of tramr
comedy. They should be silent and wear
pleasantly attractive costumes, and thus
give their work the sign of Importance that
IL deserves. This is a fault also of the
De Forests. who dance gracefully and gel
a great deal of applause for a "whrl
wind climax. and then spoil the good eff
feet by giving a number of so-called imita
tions. The man expresses the sort of IA
miliarity with the audience that breed:
contempt for him.
Fields and Ward, two of the cleveres
comedians in vaudeville, return with som,
a work ef
there is a great deal of it the audienc,
likes II all. These men use good grammar
speak naturally and seldom offend will
vulgar suggestion. If they continue tC
| freshen and refine their material they are
surely established in prosperity. The bio
| graph closes the show.