Arizona republican., 1905-10-31
\ CROWDED HOUSE
 SAW THE CHAPERONS
The Big Audience was Pleased With
 the Presentation.

! The Chaperons was presented at the ! Doris theater last night by the Kings | bury theatrical company to a crowded l house. the first, by the way. seen in l Phoenix for many a day. The house
 was not only crowded but was also appreciative. Of all this the Chaper- Hns was highly deserving.
 The bill is a rOllicking program of music with just enough dialogue to ! carry the thread of a comedy story. 1 whose scenes are laid in Paris and Egypt, with Americans for leading characters. And in the nature of things | the cOlloquys are mostly humorous or ridiculous. which is another form of humOr when found in such a setting
 There is a wealth of jokes and puns, and it is nc small praise to say that most of them are fresh from the fOun- dry. In respect of the singing, there were numerous solos of exceptional
 merit, suited to each of the four parts in music, followed by choruses of sweet harmony, perfect time, and more
 than usual volume This reference to chOruses very properly brings up the question of the chorus girl, who oc- cupies an humble position as compared to the exhalted position in which the stars abide, but who nevertheless is eagerly looked for by every patron of a performance that has a chorus. The Chaperon show girls are more than usually pretty and they can sing well and fit gracefully across the stage. There is only one thing more needed i in the reasonable perfection of a cho- rus. That is pretty clothes, and the Chaperon girls nave them. No com ment concerning the apparel of the I leading performers is necessary. That | is all right in even a poor company, and a suggestion of that sort in crit iclsm of a good company would be rude
 The performance is presented with special scenery, a very exact repro ductiOn of that shown on the bill boards, hence the idle talk that the l troupe is practically without baggage goes for naught. Baggage is no small 1 item in the transportation expenses of | this production, and none of the trunks 1 are carried for empty show. The com 1 pany consists of between forty and 1 fifty people, and they are well dressed l we'll fed, apparently, and altogether the most creditable aggregation of theatrical artists in the line of musical l comedy that has visited this city, if | memory serves. since the passing of | the Burgomaster and the Silver Slip 1 per a year ago. A brief newspaper ar | ticIe such as this must necessarily be | allows no space for technical criticism l of the special musical abilities of this l or that performer and none will be | attempted. IL can be briefly put by | saying that the entire performance | was satisfactory and the audience | was getting it's moneys worth else | there was more hypocrisy in front Of | the fOotIights than behind them. for ! the applause was frequent and almost | every special musical feature was en- 1 cOred, sometimes repeatedly.
 A word about the knocks. The Los l Angeles Times mas been roasting tho l ChaperOns. not Tn a critical, but a gen eraI sort of way. This is how it has | come about: The Los Angeles Times ! has for some time been engaged in q | campaign against the management of | the Mason opera house. Concerning the merits of this controversy few | people here are informed, and. what | IS more, they care less. The Times | therefore, to suit it's own purposes. ac- ! cepts no faVOrs from the mana cement | buys it's tickets and roasts its attrac- l tiOns, slamming the manager over tho i heads of those who chance to he for ! the time bemg doing business in part 1 nerShiD with him. On occasion, it is | claimed by those who know the | Times will give good mention to an | exceptional company, just to leave the | impression that it is trying to be fair, | a foxy gradpa play that is understood | by the knowing ones, but which is | taken at its face value by many of the | readers of that widely circulated and |