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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
Coming Attractions

MASON OPERA HOUSE-There is no
theatrical event of the summer season
of more importance than the appear
ance here of Nat C. Goodwin. He holds
a place in the hearts of playgoers all
alone by himself and his genius has
kept this spot warm for these many
years. Mr.. Goodwin will appear at
the Mason opera house for five nights
and Saturday matinee, commencing
July TO- He will be seen Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings and
at the Saturday matinee in his new
comedy success, "The Genius by Will
liam G. and Cecil de Mile, in which the
comedian is reported to have scored a
great success. The play will be pre-
ceded with one-act curtain raiser
entitled "In a Blaze of Glory" Promi-
nent in Mr.. Goodwin's company is the
professional beauty, Miss Edna Good
rich; also Miss Suzanne Perry Mrs,
Louise Rial, Suzette Jackson, Evelyn
Walls. Neil O'Brien, Robert Patton
Gibbs. Fl. G. Lonsdale, Gordon Jonston,
M. b. Snyder and Cary Livingston. Mr.,
Goodwin will present on Friday and
Saturday nights when We Were
Twenty-one."
HOTCHK1SS-Tha those prime min
listers of merriment Kolb and Dill
would have to repeat "Roly Poly" at
the Hotchkiss for another week, Man
ager r. jeff White knew before Sunday
last was gone The bright conglomera-
tion Of music and nonsense has caught
on tremendously and If all who want to
see it can get into the theater this
week it will be a surprise all around.
Kolb and Dill, of course, in their char
actprizatiOn of the two Jockeys who
graduate into burglars, are inimitable
and Ben II. Dillon is their able assist
ant Maude K. Williams is delightful
Gs the widow and Lilly Sutherland's
part in the show is wholly hit, espe-
cially her sprlghtly "Hindoo Queen"
song with the chorus. Charlotte Vidot
is so bright In the spoon" song that
one scarcely misses the doll dance, and
the male quartet is pleasing nightly
Thus the whole show is all that could
be asked. and with the addition Of new
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
THEo. cAREW, oRPHEUM

gags nd Jokes at nearly every perform
ance is perpetual round of fun.
BELASCO - What Happened to
Jones" will be played this week at the
Belasco theater with w i'll r. Walling
in the role of Jones, the smooth tongued
young fellow who travels for a hymn
book house. This is one of the stand
ard American farces which is always
sure to attract attention. In the hands
of the Belasco people Jones" ought
to provide an evening of good enter
tainment. Miss Gardner, Mr.. Vivian,
Mr.. Scott MI. Yerance, Miss Marie
Howe and the other members of the
stock company will all contribute to the
fun. Following it the Belasco company
will present THE Pride of Jennice."
ORPHEUM THEATER-One of the
legitimate comediettas of the season
will be the farce presented at the Or
pheum for the week commencing to-
morrow night by Wilfred Clarke and
supporting company. Kelly and Vio-
lette, the Fashion plate singing duo"
return after a two years absence with
a new selection of popular songs, and
they probably will set the pace for
several weeks. T. Nelson Downs, King
of Koins," will present his act in money
manipulation. Hendricks and Prescott,
singing and dancing comedians, are
making their first visit to the coast.
The clever Kaufman bicyclists remain
for another week. Irving Jones will
change his comedy songs and the Gar
telle brothers will continue their
skatorialisms. New motion pictures.
Matinees daily except Monday.
BURBANK-"The Lady from Lara
mie'' will be the attraction at the Bur-
bank theater for the week beginning
this afternoon. The piece was written
by Mark E. Swan and is a comedy in
four acts with the first scene laid in
Lara amie, Wyo., and the other three in
England. Miss Jessie Mae Hall, who
starred in the successful comedy for
two whole seasons. has been especially
engaged to play her original role.
Every Burbank faVorite will be in
the cast and the production will doubt
less prove a winner with Burbankers
on account of its fresh and abundant
comedy.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"At the
Worlds Mercy" will be the melodra-
matte Offering of the Ulrich stock COM
pany at the Grand opera house for the
week commencing matinee today. This
is a pathetic play by Owen Davis,
writer of large proportion of the
successful melodramas of America, and
tells the story of two children who
suffered through the misdeeds of those
who should have shielded them from
trouble. Miss Muriel Fuller, the dainty
little girl actress, will play a promi-
nent part.
FISCHER'S-The bill this week at
Fischcr's theater will be a new musical
travesty entitled after Jones Got
Home. The plot is novel and the situa =
tions full of comical situations. Fred
L. Griffiths has written the travesty.
Richard Burton will be the Jones of the
cast and will introduce another new
song. Comedians O'Brien and West will
be provided with much material for
funmaking, and Miss Annie Bauman
will have a splendid role. Miss Nellie
Montgomery will have a congenial role
and sing a popular song. New vaude-
vile and latest moving pictures Will
complete the bill.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
NOTES BY THE
MATINEE MAN
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T E. BEHYMER states that we are
to have some very good things in
music for the coming season. Six
concerts by the Los Angeles SYM
phony orchestra, a series of recitals
by Nine. Schumann- Heink, concerts by
-oriz Rosenthal, pianist, three recitals
by Ysaye, a number of concerts by
Hekking, the ceIlist, concerts by Franz
Wilczek farewell recital by Ellen
Beach Yaw and quite number of
eastern singers, bands and orcheStras
are included. Evidently the seismic
troubles in the north will not incon-
venience Los Angeles in respect to the
coming of musical attractions to the
center of music of the Pacific coast.
Some one played joke on Manager
T. Jeff White of the Hotchkiss last
week, and if ever jeff finds out who it
was-well!
In "Roly Poly" Kolb and Dill do a
magician act. which requires the pres
ence Of a small black boy clad chiefly
in ballet skirt and a scared look. A
yellow pickaninny of proper size was
secured and was well trained for the
opening show, when, early last Sun
day. his nanny appeared at the box
office, her face grey with fright.
"Ah wants ma boy!" she shouted.
"Ah wants ma boy!"
Considerabl effort induced her to
calm down a bit. when it was dis
closed that she had been informed that
the theater folk were going to hoo
doc" her aspiring offspring, and she
was up i'm arms to save him She was
taken back and shown what the youth
had to do. 1t took free pass for the
week to secure her permission for the
youngsters appearance, and even then,
she went back every night and felt him
all over after the show, to be sure that
he hadn't been "witched away"
After a run of 593 performances the
exquisite story of THE Music Master
has ceased to- be told at the Bijou thea
ter in New York. 1t was the final per-
formance of the season, for David War
field is going to take summer vaca-
tion.
Mr.. Warfelds vacation, however will
not all be rest. for the actor announces
his intention of mingling with the pleas
ure of a trip to Europe continuation
of his ShakeSpedrian studies by several
weeks sojourn at Stratford-on-AVon
He will also spend some time in and
about London studying Shakespeare.
The mysteries of the early life OF the
poet are of the keenest interest to Mr..
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
New Play by Californian
CGT~IE LIGHT ETERNAL" ne
drama by Martin V. Merle,

E(T~IE LIGHT ETERNAL" a new
drama by Martin V. Merle, a
bright young Californian, will
be produced by Edward A. Braden in
October next. Mr.. Merle is a young
man who has a reputation all over the
Pacific coast for doing brilliant things.
While in college he developed AN un-
usual faculty for playwrting. He
left college, joined Frederick Warde' s
company and became an actor In order
to familiarze himself with stagecraft.
THE Light Eternal was first produced
last January at the Alcazar in San
Francisco for one weeks trial. 1t last
ed five weeks and created furore. on
Monday. April 16 last, 1t was put on
Tor a run at the Macdonough theater
in Oakland, where 1t ran for two nights
and then the great earthquake came.
Several producing managers of New
York heard of the success and opened
negotiations for securing the rights,
but Col. Braden plucked the plum.
"The Light Eternal deals with the
of Christians at the time
of Diocletian, the Roman emperor, who
preferred to live on a farm rather than
in palace, Mr.. Merle's method of
handling his subject shows novel Ideas,
and the new play, according to COM
petent judges. will prove valuable
contribution
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

TOR a brief week theater lovers are
to have a respite from a full dose
of burlesque, and all feel inclined
to be grateful to the kind fate which
sent Nat Goodwin to Los Angeles.
He comes lust at a time when all
have become rather weary of seeing the
fat man knocked down twenty times a
minute by the slim man and of hearing
the English language twisted into all
kinds OF objectionable shapes, so that
he would be a very poor Nat indeed
If he could not please.
For single afternoon last week we
were permitted to forget the Jokes
which have been hurled at us so un-
mercifully and to assume a literary
artistic pose for the sole purpose of
pretending that we were deeply i'm
pressed by that least excusable of Ib-
sens women, Hedda Gabler. Some of us
managed to produce a few tears and
some of us were so moved that we could
not cry. The whole thing served as an
antidote for Dutch comedanitis,
though, so we should say Amen" and
be thankful.
when We Were Twenty the
comedy produced by Nat Goodwin part
of this week, is not new, as Mr.. Good
win appeared in the same play on a for
mer visit to Los Angeles, and the Be-
lasco and the Burbank stock companies
have both produced it. "The Genius
is new in this city and in addition there
is the curtain raiser. I'm Blaze of
Glory"
Before long the literary matinees of
the Bnlasco will begin and then the
book stores and libraries will be
stormed for requests for Shaw, Ibsen,
Materlinck and several others of the
modern playwrights.
The Mason company of burlesquers
will leave Los Angeles for a week S
tour of the surrounding towns, but
Kolb and Dill, the Hotchkiss players,
will continue TO please packed houses
with the same sort of humor they have
been offering these many weeks at the
same old stand.
Jones will be brought from the
closet at the Belasco this week and
will permit a lot of things to happen
to him. Jessie Mae Hall will return to
the Burbank for a week. beginning this
evening as the lady in 1.-The Lady From
Laramie"
Following the tour of the west, south
west Qncluding Los Angeles) and north
west that has been arranged for Miss
Olga Nethersole in the fall, it is now
settled that she will play an extensive
SGdSOll III NtW OIh ClIy' Dy lIldL
early in the New Year, she will have
ready for presentation the dramatiza :
ton of Gertrude Aatherton's novel, "A
Daughter of the Vine"
New York managers of musical pro-
ductions report singular dearth OF
chorus girls. The show girl, different
product from the chorus girl in that
pulchritude rather than voice is her
capital, is said to be as numerous as
ever. But of about a thousand auxiliary
singing girls engaged at about this
time every summer for the twenty odd
singing organizations that annually
tour the country, the managers say not
a fourth has so far applied for places
David Montgomery is expected back
from the other side about the 18th OF
July. Rehearsals of "The Red Mill"
the new Victor Herbert Henry Blossom
extravaganza, for which Montgomery
and Stone have left "The Wizard OF
o." begin July %. The opening per-
formance will be given at Atlantic
City September /.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Warfield, and he intends conducting his
Investigations along his own lines, and
to form his own conclusions.
Mr.. Warfield will return to this coun-
try late in August ready to reopen THE
Music Master" on September 1 for the
third year. He will commence his tour
of the country in this same play early
in October.
Prof. A. F. Frankenstein, leader of
the Orpheum orchestra, is now able
to boast the largest theater band in
Los Angeles and one of the best. He
has under his baton bass Viol, piano,
cello, second violin. first violin CHM
self, flute, clarionet, cornet, trombone
and drums, making well balanced
organization for thea atrical purposes.
The second violin and the cello are
the recent additions. Eastern managers
have claimed that the theater orches-
ira is not appreciated by the audience,
and have threatened to dispense with
it altogether, but it is noticeable fact
that since the Orpheum orchestra has
been strengthened more and more peo-
ple remain in theis seats during the
intermission to hear the selections, in
stead of going out to-of course, 1t Is
their own business where they go and
what for.
Norman Haokett. who has under
taken to bring about memorial TO the
late Mile. Rhea, the once famous ac-
tress is succeeding we'll according to
advices received by Manager Drown of
the Orpheum. Rhea is an example or
the ficklessness of the theater-going
public. For years she was a popular
idol, and she made fortune after for
tune with which money she was gen.
erous to those about her. After the
failure of her Queen of Sheba," which
she presented about fourteen years ago,
the public deserted her. She lost all
her money, died in poverty and was
buried in rented ground. 1t is to pre-
vent the obliteration of her grave that
Mr.. Hackett seeks to raise funds to
purchase a cemetery plot and to erect
a monument to the noted actress.
History repeats itself wonderfully in
the theatrical business. 1his week at
the Grand opera house Frank Frayne
and Master frankie Frayne are 'ap-
pearing on the same stage. twenty
FIVE years ago two Frank Fraynes APP
peared on that same stage. They We're
the present elder Frayne and his faith
er i'm "Si Socum," regarding which
play The Herald published story sew
eral weeks ago. Little FRANKIE is an
actor himself, and he has two ambi-
tlons-to grow up big enough so that
he can lick his dad and to play Ham
let"
Manager Drown has received assur-
anees from the booking agents OF the
Orpheum circuit in Chicago that COM
mencing August the present tangle
will be Strengthened out, and It Will
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
JUST a Word of Defense
T is terrible thing that the in

7 7 is terrible thing that the insti-
tuition should always have to
suffer for the wrong doing of the
individual" said Maude X. Williams,
prima donna at the /Hotchkiss, the
other day in connection with a discuss
sion of the murder of Stanford White
by Harry Thaw at the Madison Square
roof garden.
"If Harry Thaw. Evelyn Nesbit and
perhaps a few of their friends could
be the only sufferers il would not be
quite so bad. but when one considers
that the stage as an institution must
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
The Weeks Bills

Mason-Nat Goodwin. in repertoire.
Bella sco-"What Happened to Jones" "
chkiss-"Roly-P Poly"
Burbank-"The Lady from Laramie" "
Orpheum-Vaudevil
Grand-"At the Worlds Mercy"
Observation-Disclosures
- -Chutes-VaudeVill
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Virginia Brissac closed her engage
ment with the Belasco stock company
last Sunday and Is preparing TO go 20
New York, Miss Juliet Crosby assumed
the role which Miss Brissac played in
THE Heart Of Maryland"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Edna Goodrich of Nat Goodwin's
company has commissioned Man
ager Murray to take a cottage for
her at Ocean Park, as she is going to
spend her summer vacation in this part
of the country. She is an inveterate
fisherman and good swimmer; is al
most as fond of the water as she Is
of the stage. She carriessher best loved
pet, a water spaniel, with her.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

girl than they are of womankind in
general"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

I beautiful women, was on trial in New
York for numbering the man who had |
: tired of her and was seeking to get ,
!. back to his lawful wife, she was COM
!. monty described as an actress This |
: was vehemently denied at the time. just .
I as it will be denied that Evelyn Nesbit-
! Thaw is an actress 1t may with equal .
! force be denied that they are repre-
!. sentatives of Woodworking, self-re- !
!. specting body of young women who |
I have become more or less we'll known |
{ to the public, at least across the foot
!. lights The Nesbits and the Pattersons
!. are no more truly typical of the chorus
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Manager Drown has received assur-
ances from the booking agents of the
Orpheum circuit in Chicago that COM
mencing August 5 the present tangle
will be Strengthened out. and 1t will
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
DECLINE AID
FOR DIRECTORY
POSTAL OFFICIALS TURN DOWN
BURKs' OFFER
Los Angeles Man rendered Services
Of His Force of compiIers in
Order to Readjust the Mail
Service in North

The force of directory compilers
which is employed by Dana Burks was
offered by him to the postoffice officials
at san Francisco recently.
The postoffice directory, which COM
prises some forty volumes in Los An
geles, is compiled annually by. the
force under Mr.. Burks.
Thinking that it would assist in the
readjustment of the postoffice facilities
in San Francisco. he offered his men
to the postal authorities in that city.
His offer was given through Motley H.
Flint who is now in that city.
The San Francisco postal officials
apparently thought that such a read
justment was unnecessary, as they de-
clined his offer.
Mr.. Burks stated yesterday that if
they had allowed him he would have
divided San Francisco into military
districts in which all the residents
would be compelled to register. Thus
the delivery of mail could be carried
on and the present chaotic condition of
the San Francisco department done
away with.
If his offer had been accepted it
would have meant delay in the issu-
ing of the Los Angeles directory, as
Mr.. Burks would have sent his entire
force north and also have given the
work his personal supervision.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
CITY COUNCIL
HANDICAPPED
GOVERNORS LEGAL HOLIDAYS
CAUSE TROUBLE
Board of Public Works Unable to
Proceed With Business and
Vrooman Act Work at
Standstill

The city council finds itself badly
handicapped through the continued
legal holidays declared by the governor.
Under the circumstances the council
is unable to transact any business re-
quiring an ordinance.
This means that all proposed i'm
provements, such as street work, sew
ers and other features requiring formal
red tape must wait until the cessation
of the holidays.
The council is not the only body af-
fected at the city hall. For ten days
all Vrooman act legislation has been
at complete standstill. The mayor S
desk is piled high with ordinances
passed by the council, awaiting his sig
nature, but he cannot act upon them
until there is business day in the
state.
The board of public works also feels
the effects of the holidays. 1t
has recommended the advertisement
for bids on more than fifty streets, but
this cannot be done until the bids can
be legally called for. A large number
of ordinances for street Improvement
which the board is anxious to recon-
mend cannot be passed for the same
reasons.
The board has had a hard time of it.
When 1t was inducted into office on
March there was already two months
work piled up, awaiting its action.
The members plunged in with a will
ing spirit and soon most Of it was
cleared up, but now come the holidays
and more piling up of work.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

who has made great name for himself
in the literary world. To teach great
moral as 1t does it would necessarily
have to be an uplifting and wholesome
play. That is what 1t is.
1t was placed on view for the first
time in this city at the Mason theater
last night and will continue for the
week. The large audience that saw it
fully appreciated it's beauty, its humor
and it's powerful lesson. It can be said
that the play made good" in every
respect.
The method by which the hero is
converted from selfishness to thought
full generosity is most convincing, and
calculated to have splendid effect
upon every community.
The Herald will continue to give to
self-confessed selfish men and women
fifty tickets for every night perform
ance. Men and women who think only
Of themselves and are without charity
in their hearts toward others are usual
ly undesirable citizens. The Herald
would like to reform all such, and be-
fore the week is ended it believes it Will
have reformed many If they see the
comedy, "A Message From Mars"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
lfoREcASTER FRANKLIN
TAKES LONG VACATION
MAY NOT RETURN TO SERVICE
IN WEATHER BUREAU
Holds Record of Twenty Years Con-
tinuous Work in Local Office.
Will Indulge In Protraeted Rest
In Mountains

II The last representation which George
llE. Franklin will probably ever give
ths a forecaster in the service of the
ILUnited States government was made
yesterday
After record of twenty years of
Eontinuous service in the Los Angeles
eIveather department., Mr.. Franklin
kpeaves today for the Sierra Madre
bhnountains, where he viii spend years
ID cave of absence, at the end of which
lIhe win probably resign from the serv-
Slice. Mr. Franklin took charge of the
Hos Angeles weather office in 1884, and
7 has since been constantly at work. AS
~ consequence of the years of hard
work, Mr.. Franklin's constitution has
slbeen undermined and he goes to the
lpountains in the hope of regaining his
r'health.
For the present his assistant, w. d.
Fuller will be in charge OF the work,
but A. B. Wallaber, who has been In
\ Portland with the weather bureau
there, will arrive within the next few
lays and assume the position of Of
iicial forecaster for Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Royal Court Entertains

Mrs. Harriet e. Tower and Mrs. e.
B. Pierce entertained the Good Samari-
tan club of the Royal Court with a pro-
gressive whist party last evening at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam ].
Chapel, 29SS Dorchester street. Dainty
refreshments were served and hand
some prizes were awarded the win
ners. A new assembly of the Royal
court was instituted at Redlands last
evening, with fifty of the leading busi-
ness and professional men as charter
members. Sam j. Chapel, royal chan
cellor; Gen. Frank c. Prescott, past
royal chancellor; DIR. Charles H. Carle-
ton, royal medical director, and Hon.
Mattison B. Jones, royal counselor,
from this city were present to assist
in the institution of Redlands assembly.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

There is no doubt about there being
quite a number of men and women in
Los Angeles who want to be cured of
their selfishness.
The Herald has purchased from the
Mason opera house fifty tickets for
every night performance Of "a Mes
sage From Mars" now playing there to
be given to those who will apply at The
Herald office, admit they are selfish
and desire to give evidence of trying to
reform.
"a Message From Mars" teaches a
Great lesson against sordidness and
egotism. While this lesson Is being
taught the play is nevertheless intense
ly amusing. 1t is comedy that has
been given high praise wherever 1t has
been seen. 1t appeals to all classes. II
Is sometimes asserted that the stage
has teterlorated, but those making
charges Of this kind are usually unin-
formed
Whether it is or not "a Message From
Mars" is one of the most elevating
plays that has ever been presented to
the public.
It's author is a scholarly gentleman,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Good
HandkerchiefS

An excellent opportunity to purchase
women's really worthy handkerchiefs un-
der actual value:
Al-linen handkerchiefs with embroi-
dered floral designs or dainty corner ef-
fects regularly 25c each; today zoe, 81
by the half dozen.
No store in town even pretends to sell
such fine all-linen handkerchief as we
do for l0c, SOC the half dozen.