Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
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WEEKS HEADLMER

A CCORDING to the billboards Fred
IN Walton is incorporated, and
"a it should require no frenzied
finance exploitation to persuade In
vestors that Walton stock is a good
thing to have in the family. Most OF
1t. however. is closely held In England,
and the profits which come In the form
of dollars and cents are paid out to
British stockholders In neat pound,
shilling and pence dividends.
Fred Walton is the headliner at the
Orpheum this week. He is panto-
mimist and he plays the part OF toy
soldier, one of the old-fashioned.
wooden toy soldiers you used to play
with as a kid. Walton's pantomime IS
immense. So far as America is con-
cerned pantomime is pretty much a
lost art. Outside of an occasional cir
Gus clown, who makes a stab at pan
tonaiming. we seldom see anything OF
the sort. Certainly never in recent
years have we seen anything like tna
Walton pantomime.
Esperanto would be of no use to Wall
ton. The little mixup that caused con-
fusion at the tower of Babel affects
him not at all. He can tell you a
story without uttering word. In all
probability he could order a dinner IN
a table d'hote restaurant and make the
waiter understand what he wanted
without referring to the menu and
without making q sound, and to make
a waiter understand is something few
diners can do successfully, no matter
what their linguistic ability.
Fred Walton's Playlet
The Walton sketch is called "Cissie's
Dream" Cissie falls asleep to dream
that her dolls and toy soldiers have
come to life. They do come to life,
too, but they haven't the power of
speech. There is the wax doll, the
dude doll and the toy soldier, and the
story they present is quite as intel
ligible as though it's dialogue were
spoken. Mr.. Walton is ably assisted by
Miss Mile Arbo as the wax doll and
Alfred Hemming as the dude.
In all probability you never nave
seen a cymbal just like Czinka Panna's.
The Hungarian cymbal is complicated
instrument. 1t has a box very much
like that of a baby grand piano, numer-
Gus strings and other apparati; and 1t u
played by the cyInbal virtuoso strik-
ing the strings with two wands, one
held in each hand. The result is
euphonious melody, though the attempt
at a description may not have suggested
as much.
On her cymbal this young woman yes
terday afternoon played one of the
List rhapsodies and played it finely.
Then she gave us several other selec-
lions of musicianly quality. Later she
played something or other on con-
certino and after that another selection,
this time on a violin. Czinka Parma Us
supported by two dancing dogs, but
she doesn't need them in order to make
her act go.
The Picchiani troupe of eight aero
bats have an act that is really different
in point of costuming, though the feats
performed have been duplicated by
many other acrobats who have visited
Los Angeles. The Picchiani work has
an air of finish about 1t, however, that
is highly attractive. Lacking novelty.
the stunts presented yet go better than
they have ever gone before at the
Orpheum; and the team work is of the
best.
Last on the list of newcomers are
Mr. and Mrs. Clark, banjoists. The
holdovers are the Melani trio, Adolf
link, Shean and Warren in Quo Vadis
Upside Down" and Harry Allister in
his character representations.