Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-02
NOTES BY THE
MATINEE MAN
Tow mans sins do follow him!
am moved to this trite excla-
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nation from the following facts.
Some years ago-and not so many,
at that, for this deals with a lady-I
wrote enthusiastically in an eastern
city of certain high school girls first
appearance In public as a singer.
Really she had marvellous voice. The
public agreed with me. She was given
a great benefit and on the proceeds and
help from wealthy aunt whom we in
terested, she went abroad and had her
voice trained. Melba liked her and
| made a protege of her. She appeared
in opera in France a couple Of years
ago with huge success and then in
/ London just as fortunately. And, two
seasons back, she returned for the first
time to that eastern city which she
| still called home, to enjoy real tri-
| umph, to greet the friends who had
made all this possible and to make
good" She and Melba, they came to-
\ gether.
The whirligig of time had taken me
| back there after 1 had wandered far
afield, and it fell to my lot to attend
the monster recital she gave and again
| to pass judgment on the voice that
saying 1t In all modesty-had discov-
| cred. / went and was carried away by
| the evening; in the exuberance of my
| spirits l acclaimed her in the choicest
words of my vocabulary and superla-
| tives stuck out over my page like
spines on cactus. Oh, fairly reveled
in EN-! She deserved it-when all the
| circumstances are considered-my dis
covery, her making good the home
| coming and the like, it was really very
tamely done.
Last week 1 received from my good
friend Behymer, now in the New York
milky way corraling the stars some
press dope. He has engaged this fair
young slnger-Oh, wait till you see and
hear her!-and among the credentials
he forwards, the longest, most enthu-
| siastic, hyperbolic and uncensored, is
my own stuff about her home coming.
So now 1t is up to my pretty friend
Bess Parkinson-Elizabeth Parkina,
she will be to you, to make good again
for me. And not only so, but it is up
to her, in way, to prove my own
| words true, for your benefit. Funny
situation isn't it?
Occasionally the well meaning but
| ill-advised efforts of the Humane So
ciety officers to protect children who are
being forced to work on the stage for
the profit Of their parents are so
groundless that they are absolutely
pathetic A case in point occurred
last week. Humberto Talako is the
boy Of the Lucania trio of acrobats at
the Orpheum and on account of his
| appearance Manager Clarence Brown
was hailed before Justice Austin Tues
| day. The hearing lasted about five
| minutes, the humane officer not being
able to offer any evidence in rebuttal
of the statement of father and son that
the boy was seventeen. 1t is a we'll
known fact that boys and girls engaged
L.
their youthful appearance almost in
definitely, on account of their health,
which must be good to enable them to
perform their feats. Appearances con-
sequently are misleading.
Our delightful and clever little vir-
ginia Brissac is going on tour with
Florence Roberts. She is hailed in the
east as a newcomer" They are so
ignorant In the east of real doings.
/ This is the news as 1t comes to me:
After touring with The Strength of
the Weak until January, Florence
Roberts will return TO Broadway with
a new play, possibly the Broken
Rosary by Edward Peple. She will
also revive some of her past successes,
such as "Magda." Charles Kent will
be Miss Roberts leading man and
Ruth Allen and Florence Robinson
will again appear in their original
roles while a new ingenue, Virginia
Brissac, win be a newcomer in her
support-at least. in the east-for Miss
Brissac appeared with Miss Roberts
two years ago during one of her
Western tours"
The street railway strike in San
Francisco has placed the Orpheum
theater there in an awkward position
The shows are put on at the Chutes
4 theater opposite Golden Gate park
three miles or more from the center
OF the city While there is large