Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
NORTH TO CHEER
SAN FRANCISCANS
JAMES TRAvESTY STARS SAY
Go0D-BY SOON
N Tent on Van Ness Hill the Bur-
lesquers VIII Help to plspel
Gloom In the City by the
Golden Gate

When the curtain falls on the last
act OF the production OF the comic
opera OF "TIurly- Saturday night
Harry James and his travesty stars
who for the past six or eight weeks
have been furnishing excellent comedy
for the Mason audiences, will pack UP
their belongings and move north to San
Francisco to a miniature reproduction Of
the cid Ttvoll theater amid the ruins
OF the dismantled city.
James signed q contract with the
northern promoters Saturday night, and
4lready he has secured q release from
the Mason opera house.
His posters and bills OF the play an
nouncing the fact that Harry James
and his travesty stars will appear at
the Davis theater on Fillmore street
have already been pasted UP on the
back and tottering girders of the once
great buildings In the north, and so 1t
Is goodby to Harry James, and during
the coming week his many friends are
planning a little farewell supper for
him, when they will wish him we'll in
his rev and remarkable venture.
Eight Weeks Stay
James inaugurated the summer thea
ter season at the Mason opera house
about eight weeks ago. From the north
he brought Rice and Cady, the funny
German comedians, and with them
came Bobby North and Eddie CAL
lagher. The chorus was selected from
Los Angeles show houses and has been
one of the features Of the burlesques.
Now they are all to go and aid in the
upbuilding of new San Francisco, and
many will regreat their departure.
But 1t all might be forgiven If James
did not take Miss Rosemary Glosz away
with him. The winsome young actress
holds a great charm over the local
audiences, and during her brief stay in
Los Angeles has made hundreds of
friends, so that when she packs up her
innumerable trunks and goes tripping
northward 1t will be hard day for
local theatricals
The company, however will have to
perform the pioneer act l.. tie north.
The Davis theater, in which the
players are destined to shine, is great
tent near Van Ness avenue.
City Needs JoIIity
The members of the company will
have the scant satisfaction of poorly
ventilated dressing rooms and improper
sounding wires from the staging but
San Francisco, according to the reports
from the northern managers, needs
sorely some jollification, and the James
company is considered more than cap
able to aid in the healing of distressed
minds and in bringing back the laugh
ing wrinkles to the faces Of those who
have undergone so much.
And it will be strange rcene for the
people.
The new theater crowns the Van Ness
hill, and oct over the ashes and wreck
age of the fire and disaster the actors
and actresses will look as they sing
and dance and remind the people of the
north that the time for moping is over.
Manager James talks
1--WE have decided to go north and
start a theater" said Manager James
yesterday
"Siuce we have been in Los Angeles
we have received the appreciation of
the audiences and the press, but in the
San Francisco venture we have an at
traction that is hard to turn down, so
we have decided to go north.
"At present there are about 100000
people in San Francisco and all are
living in the neighbrhood of Van Ness
avenue and California streets.
"These people are urgent in their re-
quests for good live comedy in some
form or the other as a S "rt of diversion
for the hard working people there. We
will play in tent, but what incon-
veniences we may suffer we will gladly
put up with.
Leave No Bills
LAS for leaving Los Angeles in mid
season we would not have done SO
unless we had been able to effect an
amicable arrangement with Manager
Wyatt.
"As it stands at present we are in
splendid financial condition and there
will be no bills against us when we
leave.
1.-THE show at present has a wealth
of good scenery and costuming and the
actors and actresses have amply proven
here what they can do in the fun
making line.
81 have many friends in the north
and when the city comes out little
from the ruin and wreckage we will
build a show house of our own to take
the place of the old Vivoli, but until
then we will perform in tent and be
glad to be of service.
1--WE will start north Saturday night
after the last performance of Hurry
RurIU