Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
. NOTES BY THE
MATINEE MAN
JACK DIAMoND-PEoPLE'S
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we are having three new players
w at the e''H ne1sseo 90 this w Week and
w I'm tremendously interested
in seeing them make their bows. AS
to Louis Stone, the new leading man,
and Charles Balsaw, heavy, 1 shall
leave it to the critic to treat: actor
men don't interest me so terribly, any
how. But I'm anxious to, focus my
optics on little Betty Jonson, the new
| ingenue.
From Betty's pictures, imagine
| that she's a jolly little soul as piquant
as she is pretty. She ought to win a
| lot of hearts at the Belasco; that house
needs good ray of sunshine very
much. I'm only in hopes that she
| lives up to her pictures, which GER
tainly are fetching in the extreme.
| Then let Jack Blackwood get a few
snappy farces or clever comedies and
| give my Lady Betty a chance.
Mary Van Buren, takes exception to
my illusions to her as a leading
lady" She says she isn't. She is
| specially engaged and the Burbank
company is supporting her." Now,
1 ought to be up in all these fine-drawn
distinctions of the players; but 1t
seems 1 slipped up here, and 1 offer
the fair Mary my apologies most
| humbly.
1t is a matter of dollars and cents,
Miss Van Burne insists. A leading
lady may draw $75 to $10O week and
| feel that she Is amply repaid. Her
| name figures on the bill with the "also-
| rams" and she has no valid objections.
But "a star-that's different. She draws
anything from $500 up-in real money.
She has very big and black type when
! Iel ;c ~ h. ,f,.at hcr
| names comes last with "and" before 1t,
separating her from the common herd.
| She isn't one of the bunch; she's a
| star, and as such, carries honors that
a mere leading lady may never earn.
I And on 1.-The road'-ah, it's still more
pronounced.
Very WE'LL Miss Van Buren,; so be it.
If it gratifies you, it cost me nothing.
Hereafter, Mary. Van. Buren,, Star"
Nance O'Nel is to star this season
in Sardou's tragedy "The Sorceress."
made ia miliar to American playgoers
by Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Sarah
Bernhar6t. Her husband, Mckee Ran
kin, is to continue in the capacity Of
stage manager and personal represen-
tative for Miss O'Neil. She and her
Lyceum, New London, Conn.,, on
August 20 Miss O'Neil will also have
massive production of Macbeth"
a five-act classical tragedy written
around the life of Elizabeth, queen of
England, by Paolo Giaconetti and a
new mythological romance, the title of
which is 1.-The Story Of the Golden
Fleece" by Henry Kirk Californian
author. Miss O'Neil is still determined
to conquer Broadway, and hopes to
do more with these plays than she did
in Shakespeare. Her Fires Of st.
John,p was the best thing she ever
did, to my mind.
Our old friends Kolb and Dill
haven't struck very easy times up in
San Francisco; in fact, things have
gone decidedly badly with them. They
first lost out in "A Trip to the Cat
skils,'' which Harry James shook out
from under them; then Rice & Cady
put on the Lonesome Town" song
which the former had worked up here.
Kob & Dill had new skit ground
out of San Francisco playmill, and
announced to open last Monday. But
the street car strike came and now
they have postponed 1t indefinitely.
Too bad. Meanwhile, Rice & Cady,
with Bobby North and Rosemary
Glosz. are taking in scads of money at
a rival house. Ben T. Dillon, Maude
r. Williams and Charlotte Vidot are
with Kolb & Dill.
At the dinner given In honor Of Ed
ward "Evangeline" Rice in New York
recently In celebrating his thirtieth
i year as a manager We're present more
than a hundred guests among them
nearly all those players associated
with the lighter productions. Some OF