Show t i AMUSEMENTS LA LOIEThere was a big audience at the theatre last evening and probably prob-ably 90 per cent of I went out of the doors cogitating on whether or not it had had its moneys worth The verdict ver-dict was heavily in the negative The general impression seemed t have been that the show was to consist of a specialty company with Loie Fuller sis s-is main feature The surprise was quite general therefore when people looked on their programmes and saw that the first part of the entertainment was made up of five or six concert numbers by local people who have been heard recently in recitals and concerts without any charge whatcvjr good a they are the public scarcely expected to pay 1 or 150 for JiscenJng to them They were mostly Madame Swensons clever lady singers The disappointment was not at all lesaaed when La Loie came on gave for dances announced thats all and backed off the stage deliberatey omitting omit-ting the last dance on the prograi ime It is to be feared that if La Lou 3 manager Mr Brady had happenel co be along he would have wltahecT a fair proportion of the 50 per cent nis star receives for the way she cue he progiamme As for her dane us it vas iuFt what we have seen Madame Hernnan and others do more brilliant in color and novel effects but not A all moie graceful The general opinion j ilt q f sufficed to set Paris aflame Paris must je made up of very inflammable ma erial La Loie goes on to San Francisco where she appears with one of Brad5rs other companies GRISMERDAVIES advance sale for Humanity opens at he theatre this morning AT THE GRAND Barnes of New York has evidently caught en There was a good house at thd second performance last evening and the improvement im-provement in the rendition was quite I marked TOWN TOPICS This farce comedy which has been doing a good business in San Francisco puts in a full week at the Lyceum opening next Monday night The advance sale opens tomorrow tomor-row P J Kennedy manager ofiithe company is now in the city DAYNES RECITAL The lower portion ion of the tabernacle was well filled by a very appreciative audience last evening the occasion was the piano and pipe organ recital by the pupils of Professor Daynes organist of the tabernacle The occasion was mainly interesting as showing the marked progress prog-ress made in the manipulation of the great instrument by such well known pupils of the professor as Mr J F > Iggs Mrs Kate Romney Stewart Miss Edna Coray and Mrs Crlssie Lawson All were generously applauded applaud-ed Other pupils rendered ambitious selections on the piano and all reflected lected credit on themselves and their teacher Miss Mary Romney and Mr Goddard the vocalists did excellent work and were heartily applauded MR ROYLES PLAY There fs considerable iderable curiosity manifested about the singular algebraic title of Ned Royles new play One Plus One Equals Three a title by the way that cannot be printed in figures by any newspaper in this country One wit has sugested that it is undoubtedly a problem play |