Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08
The Weeks Bins

The Weeks Bills
BELAsCO-An week. commencing Monday
tvening, Captain Jinks OF the Horse Ma
tines" Matinees Thursday and saturday,
GRAND-AH week, commencing THIS after.
noon, sis Hopkins" Matinees Tuesday and
BURBANR-An week, commencing this
afternoon, MY wife's Husbands Matinee
MAsoN-First half Of week, Shore Acres;
last half. The Sultan Of Sulu."
cAs1No-Vaudevine Bill changes Monday.
BRoADWAY-vaudeviile. Bill changes Mon
cHuTEs-Erery's band. Zoo
-. OR THOSE who have this season
- felt a hunger and thirst after
something truly artistic in the
theatrical line there can be found much
hope in the promise that Blanche Bates
will appear here shortly in THE Oar
ling of the Gods" The play is by
David Belasco and John Luther Long
and ranks high among the many fam
Gus productions of the former.
1t has been one of the most promi-
nent successes of several seasons. 1t
ran in New York for 342 performances
at the Belasco theater, and enjoyed an
engagement Of las performances in st.
Louis, where the play was one oil
the most important features of the
worlds fair 1t is asserted that the
profits from the play for Mr.. Belasco
up to December 81, 1904, amounted to
$147,S00. The gross receipts of the play
for the same period are reported to be
SSe7,542.
"The Darling of the Gods was sug-
gested to it's authors and written by
them as a result of Miss Bates success
in the one act tragedy Madame But
terfy," which she occasionally pre-
sents at special matinees. The char
acters are all japanese and the scenery
was painted by Ganjero Veto, Jap
anese artist. There is not pin, hook
and-eye or button used in the costumes
of 1.-THE Darling of the Gods" They
are all imported from Japan and tied
on in true japanese fashion. -Four
Japanese Wallets and six Japanese
maids were employed by Mr.. Belasco
for three months after the opening of
the drama to show the players how to
properly don their kimonos and the
0tner Japanese SdIHleillo'
The first picture of the drama is a
look into the garden within the va
shiki of the Prince of Tosan. The
Princess Yo-San and her maid, Setsu,
are binding together the tree poppies,
azaleas, irises and plum blossoms
which Yo-San has been picking. The
last rays of the setting sun fall ON a
- Vn-Snn n
proaches it a butterfly rises and flies
away. Yo-San, motioning Setsu to be
ouiet. tiptoes toward the bush. AS she
does so another butterfly darts up
ward She catches it joyously and
holds it in her closed palm When she
orens her hand to let the butterfly go
free. she finds that she has killed 1t
and in vain tries to make it fly, blow
ing it gently off her hand. But it only
falls to the ground. AS she looks at
it lying there an ominous peal of
thunder is heard. This poetic incident
is symbolic of the destiny awaiting the
happy little princess; a gentle, beauti-
full, harmless butterfly" of humanity.
Miss Bates will appear here at the
Grand opera house. This is explained
by the fact that David Belasco is the
bitterest enemy of the theatrical syn
dicate which controls the Mason the
ater. So far as can be seen the object
of Belascos ventures has been to give
splendid value for the money re-
ceived Those Of us who have suffered
from the lamentable lack Of this virtue
in the handling of the travelling COM
panies in Los Angeles will be gald to
rE1earn there is a possibility of David
3elasco beading an anti-syndicate
which will build line of theaters over
the country to accommodate it's attrac-
tions.
So far as Los Angeles is concerned
the public has always come out the
gamer in times of theatrical competi-
tion.
Let the war go on.