Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-10
ACTOR ATTACKS
MANAGER JAMES
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rushed and hit the stranger. Back
went the man, while James rained
blow after blow in his face and beat
his body wherever. he could find a
spot big enough to land.
By that time the men were on the
stage and there the stranger backed
off and eyed his opponent.
Girls Are Frightened
AS for James, he acted like man in
hts sleep. He moved forward easily
watching the man before him, while the
girls of the chorus crowded back
against the wall and clung to one an
other for protection.
.Battering down his opponents guard,
James drove in with his renlorseless
blows and Grandon went to the floor.
He managed to regain his footing and
James, standing off like a prize fighter,
rushed again.
By that time the frightened members
of the troupe had regained their self
control and they dashed toward the
fighters. Finally one girl bolder than
the rest managed to reach James, and
in a second, with a half dozen girls
clinging to him, James was borne back
to the ground, while his assailant was
hustled out of the stage entrance and
up the chute to the police station,
where he was treated at the receiving
hospital.
The story of the difficulty leading up
to the fight has been talked of many
times among the girls of the chorus
and a small fight in one of the dressing
rooms preceded. the fight on the stage
by scarcely twenty-four hours. &c.,
Z Report, Many Thefts
For some time past the girls at the
Mason have been missing their possess
sions. At one time Miss Glosz, the
leading woman of the company, lost a
considerable amount of money, and
later her dressing room was entered
and more money was taken. Then the
thefts were reported from the chords
girls rooms.
Time after time the girls mentioned
the loss to Manager. James, but he told
them they would have to settle the
trouble among themselves. .
Several nights ago Miss GeneyieVe
Ward missed Sc from her purse. Miss
Irwin and Miss Burns. also lost small
amounts: Then the girls began de-
tective system of their own and finally
began to suspect certain girl in the
chorus. They watched her carefully
and at last decided to talk the affair
over with her.
At every call for the girls to get on
the stage she was the last to leave the
dressing rooms and the articles of value
continued to disappear. silk stockings,
gloves, bits of jewelry and pieces of
lace and silk all disappeared in the
same way and they fixed their suspi-
cions on the same girl.
Friday night the girls held a meeting
among themselves and the girl was
called to one of their dressing rooms.
| There. it is alleged, she admitted the
leirr, 1a,sf 10 ~
to one of the young women whom she
was alleged to have robbed.
Girls Have Fight
During the discussion, however, it is
alleged the girl made personal remarks
about one of her. accusers, and the two
girls clinched in the dressing room, and
before the fight was over the accused
girl was suffering with a black eye.
/ 1t was that order for Sc given to one
of the girls by the suspected girl which
finally resulted in the fight between
James and Grandon.
According to the statements of thu
members of the troupe GrandoH, wh'
is the accused girls husband, went t.
Manager James and demanded to know
why the girl had been accused He wa
told that the girls had made the accu
sation and that he would have to go t.
them for. settlement. He then .wante'
the girl s salary IN run ana lau
signed order for the same.
James then stated that in the after
noon when he paid the rest of the em
ployes he would pay the girls salar.
with them, but in the meantime sh
would have to explain whether tn
money order for So would be paid ou
OF her salary. Thereupon the fight re
suited and following, the treatment a
the hospital
Grandon, who, il is said, is an acto
at a local theater. returned to his room
on South Main street, and at a lat
hour ne and the girl packed UP thei
possessions and left for parts unknown
while Manager James, after having
badly bruised hand dressed, rode I
Casa Verdugo. where he ate supper
and then returned TO his rooms at tn
Antlers hotel, where he spent the even
ing writing music.
James gave the following story c
the fight to The Herald last night:
"Forasome time we have been missin
! articles OF value from the opera hous
1t is hard for thing like that to. occy
, in so big company, for we can q
] nothing. There are forty people In ths
company and ! wouldn't have accuse
l any OF them of the theft Various thinl
were taken money silk stocking
, makeup and at last my entire folio q
J music disappeared
, ITO tell the truth. / rather suspecte
, ! that some outsider was doing the stea