Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-31
&c The Theaters &c
COMEDY TEAM IS
HIT AT ORPHEUM

As a race track habitue expressed
Ia it, form players had a hard tiiiie
- at the Orpheum yesterday alter-
noon. Della Fox was sent to the post
for the Newcomers stakes an odds on
favorite. but fpished absolutely last
while Olympia Desval. strongly played
for place, barely succeeded in noslns
out the Montrose entry for third po-
sition in a field of five. Carroll ana
Cookies Man OF the Hour" won in
drive from 1.-THE Street Musician
after as close a finish as has been seen
here this season.
What happened was just this: The
audience picked Carroll and Cooke for
the headliners and apparently couluh
get enough of the Carroll-Cooke prano
of humor. The team was called, re-
called and called again until Cooke
finally had to beg off, assisted by the
light man who turned on the 1u1ce as
q broad hint that the act was over
The team sings a little ana nils III
with one of those old-time conVersa
tional stunts in which one man rags
his partner and Is himself faggeu IN
return. There's nothing new about IL,
except some of the jokes; but the act
made the hit of the bill.
MUSICAL ACT WdHCS GSSN
Sydney and Buckley are comedy
musicians. That is, both of them are
musicians and Buckley also is a
comedian. They have q mixed-up mess
of popular airs that is funny In itself
not a medley, but a conglomeration
of pretty much everything from grand
opera to waiting at the Church ana
Everybody Works, but Father" BY
the time you get one strain properly
Identified the music is several tunes
ahead of you and 1t is this musical
agility that constitutes the joke. The
act closes with a burlesque of the old
time minstrel performance when
would be funnier if 1t were cut by
about five minutes.
Olympia Desval presents number
of trained dogs and two trained ponies,
The dogs, however, are pretty mucn
the whole show. They are put through
their tricks by man trainer wnose
name doesn't appear upon the program
but who, it seems, should have credit
for the act. Olympia seemingly has
nothing to do but sit in cart and be
admired.
Acrobats Find Appreciation
The Montrose troupe of acrobats
have an excellent act, poorly cos
tuned and arranged. The feats these
men perform are really remarkable.
One of them does a double somersauit,
alighting three high" Another turns
a double somersault from the ground,
alighting on the shoulders of one of
his co-workers.
Della Fox sings three songs, one of
Night" which contributed largely toI
her success in wang" She is by no
means the Della Fox of old, but the
audience proved charitable.
The holdovers include La Syfphe In
her marvellous dancing act, Polly
Pickles Pets in Petland, and Fred Wat
son and the Morrisey Sisters,
"The Royal Nabob' held fortn at me
UNIQUE last evening and will head the
bill for the balance of the week.
George REIN as the ''Nabob" is really
funny and made a hit with his near
song, 'T Am the Nabob of Jamboree.
Maude Beatty interpolated Egypt and
Kate Carlson IAN American Girl" Billy
Onslow and Lew Dunbar sang II Knew
He Was a Sailor" Gladys North con-
tributed a dancing speciality.
''The Fireman's Wife" is presented by
the Unique comedy company. DICK
Cummings as the fireman and Kather-
inc Merley in the name part are well
backed up by Willis G. West. Jack
Howard, Charles Perley, Ethel Thorn
ton and Lola Radcliffe.
AS exhibitors of the arts sartorial
terpsichorean and vocal the Fischer
chorus girls are surely it this week
They have five or six costume changes.
and do their part toward making as
many songs worth seeing as we'll as
hearing. Miss Pearl Jardiniere's fancy
steps as introduced by the merry
merry are more than usually clever
But the chorus isn't by any means the
whole show. Evan Baldwin, bedecked
in immaculate yachting flannels, sings
sMazie" from "The Gingerbread Man"
capitally, while the Honey Time" of
which Miss Nellie Montgomery sings
appears to be most attractive chrono-
logical period. Miss Bessie Tannehill
sings a concert waltz song, "Senora."
And then by way of good measure
George Morrell tops off the musical
program with an absurdity called SAN
tiago Flynn" The skit is called
''Papa's Coachman," and the title
doubtless serves as we'll as any other.
Facing the Music" comedy used
in the east by Willie Collier. was given
its first Los Angeles presentation at
the Belasco theater last night with
Joseph Galbraith in the Collier role.
A review of the production will appear
in The Herald tomorrow.