Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-05
BURLESQUE WINS
HEARERS HEARTS
MANY DELIGHTFUL SURPRISES
AT MASON
Everybody Gets Praise and Flowers
at Production of "Fiddle-Dee-
pee"-Miss Glosz Well
Received

Rice and Cady, with their troupe of
burlesquers, have made good Their
opening at the Mason last night was
one continual series of delightful
surprises, happy episodes and hearty
ovations, To a packed house. they pre-
sented Fiddle Dee-Dee," and every
incident in it was all that anyone could
have asked.
Few eastern shows have ever been
better put on, more heartily received or
more thoroughly justified in the appre-
citation shown them, and no locally
given affair has ever excelled this one.
The principals. the excellent chorus
and Harry James. the master spirit of
1t all, are entitled to sincere thanks
for making a decided oasis in the bar
rem waste of darkness that has hung
about the Mason so long, and not one
of the heaps on heaps of flowers which
everyone received was undeserVed.
There is no need to describe the skit
which serves as a vehicle for this Or
ganization to disport It's charms
"Flddle-Dee-Dec" is too well known
and has been given here too often to
need diagramming now Weber and
Fields used it in their palmy days;
other burlesquers and knockabout
Deutschers have exploited themselves
in it, and it has been given in good,
bad and Indifferent style by many
others.
Bobby North Is Welcomed
So far as Rice and Cady personally
are concerned, they are one with the
usual type of Dutch comedians. They
are all well known here for excellent
work in the past and to say that they
outdid themselves is all-sufficient COM
mendation. 1t was like coming home
to them, and the uproar which greeted
oh boI IN bo
tions of all, With them was another
favorite, Bobby North, who in the
Hebrew character, was also thoroughly
at home, and almost as loudly well
coined.
James r. Kelly followed close at their
heels, and Ed Gallagher showed talent
and ability enough to satisfy anyone.
In Rosemary Glosz, the company
has treasure. 1t isn't often that an
organization of this sort can secure so
good a singer, but when it is added
that she is an actress as well, and has
a charming personality, one can see
what a great hold she will soon make
for herself.
Lille Sutherland of course, is al
ready established; it is enough to tell
that she cinched her hold on the pub
lie and added many new friends to her
already long list.
But after all, the real basis and eX-
cuse for a show of this sort is the
chorus, and in this respect Harry
James has fairly outdone himself. Such
a collection of agile, shapely and sing
able beauties, even the best of the
travelling companies can seldom show.
They are numerous, they warble like
nightingales, they can wear clothes
from tights up. like those to the manor
born, and their faces are as fair as the
flowers for which this blessed land is
noted, That chorus in itself would
drive an anchorite to the theater, and
, make St. Anthony renounce his VOWS.
The play was given with every ac-
cessory of costume, scenery and eff
feet, being splendidly mounted, and it
was full of ginger, snap and go from
overture to finale. 1t made a hit, and
should be the important factor in Les
Angeles theatricals from now on.