Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
At the Theaters
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surg by Arthur Cunningham, create
much enthusiasm Cunningham will be
seen and heard in the title role, and
those who keep tab on things theatrical
are aware of the fact that Johnny Is
Cunninghams best roles Hemmi will
sing Kate Pemberton. southern belle;
George Kurkel is cast as Jonathan
Phoenix, ne'er do we'll; Oliver Le'Noir
will sing the part of General Alien, Lii
liam Raymond will be Robert Pemberton.
Maude Beatty, Constance; Fred Rogers,
Uncle Tom, the old negro and that de-
lightful little bit of humanity Daphne
Pollard will play Cordelia. when
Johnny Comes Marching Home holds the
record for long runs at the San Fran
cisco Tivol opera house, having to It's
credit twenty weeks.
misunderstanding Pollock in his
dramatizaton of Miriam Michelson's pop
ular novel, "In the Bishop s. Carriage"
which will be seen at the Mason opera
house tomorrow night. has relegated the
business wing of the theatrical profession
to the rear by retiring Fred Obermuller,
who was Nance's successful stitor in the
book, to the rank of platonic friend, with
one eye to Nance's charm but the other
firmly fixed upon theebox office receipts.
1t is Latimer, the invalid of the story, to
end for wife; to Latimer, minus his in
validsm and plus a sudden and strong
interest in crimjnology. In handling the
character of Edward Ramsay, the bibu-
lous old rake, the playwright has con-
formed most closely to the book, and
wandered farthest from it in creating for
Ramsay a daughter, who Is in love with
-Latimer, thus tying a couple of hard
knots by way of complication in the af-
L fat <,f Nav nth ,Iou OF frr1n q G
undertaken the task of reforming Nance.
Messrs. Liebler & Co., who are RESPONSE
Bile for the. play, are said to have sur
rounded the star, Miss Jessie Busley,
with strong company. some members
of which are Halfett Thompson. George
CASTOR, Harry English, Mrs. George w.
Barnum, Virginia Reeves, Ruth Lloyd,
Maud Monroe, Pauline Palmer and
others.
MAsoN-Louis James this season has
confined himself strictly to the portrait
ure of Shakespearean comedy making
sumptuous revival of ''The Comedy of
Errors in addition to retaining his sue
cess of last season, 1.-THE Merry Wives
of Windsor In the former comedy he
will play the Two Dromios, an event here
tofore not recorded in the annals Of the
stage In 'The Merry Wives of Wind
sor," of course, he will play the part
that nature intended he should play,
Falstaff. Frederick Paulding and Aphie
James have been specially engaged to
support Mr.. James in his merriment.
Other players In the company are j. Ar
thur Young, w. Chrystie Miller, w. c.
Andrews, Frank Peters, Horace Lyndon,
| C. d. Burt, Kraft Walton. Anne Schae-
| fer, Eugene Webb, Ida Werseer and Eff
fie Weston. Mr.. James will appear as
| Faistaff Thursday and Saturday nights,
and as the Two Dromios Friday night
land, Saturday matinee.
FISCHER S-'The Lost Voice" is thu
Little of Fischers latest skit, written by
F. Clifford Harris. The play tells thu
story of an knpecunious Dutch captain
who is in love with the daughter Of
Corporal O'Toole There is also {
wealthy admirer, who holds a mortgage
on the corporaPs property. In order te
thwart the design of the old, grabbed
and wealthy land owner Dolly, the daugh-
ter, feigns loss of voice. Numerous doc
tors are engaged to give her treatments,
but to no avail. At last a celebrated
specialist is hired. BY humorous COM
bination of circumstances this specialist
does not appear and Hank, an Irishman,
mistaken for the learned M. D., attempts
to preserve the mistake. Jolly Zeb will
sing 1.-THE Bad Rag Mani" Natine Stuart,
novelty fencing song; Kate Carlson,
,"coon" ditty and duet with Lew
Dunbar entitled Are You On?" Arthur
Boyce has q tuneful ballad. Motion pic
lures ana vaudeville sketch also are
on the bill,
EMPIRE-The Nellie Elting Comedy
company in sketch will be the head
liners at the Empire for the week be-
ginning with the Tuesday matinee per-
formance. Other numbers on the pro-
gram include Cavana, slack wire walker;
the two Ponies, singing and dancing
soubrettes, and Ed White, the zone man
band" The Empire stock company will
present farce. Illustrated songs and
moving pictures complete the bill.
PEOPLE S-Starting Tuesday with a
matinee Manager Flournoy of the Peo-
ples theater offers a program headed by
Kriesseps famous troupe OF dogs and
CATS, and including Gilman and Castle,
blackface comedians, who will introduce
new specialties; Rome and Ferguson,
travesty stars; Oracle Orme, the elon-
gated comedienne, who is six feet two
in her hosiery and who is known as
the queen of burlesque,N and Homer Long
in new illustrated songs; the performance
concluding with theN Peoples comedy
company, headed by James p Lee in
his latest one-act farce Rooms to Let"
The usual Friday night bill is made up
of number of local professional acts,
in addition to the above lengthy program.
UNIQUE-The three troubadours who
sang before the king of Spain on the
occasion of his recent marriage will be
the feature of the coming weeks bill
at thesunique. They will be programmed
as Los Tres Manos and, dressed in typ
ical Spanish costumes of two centuries
ago. will sing some of King Alfonso 8
favorite songs. Lottie ellison and James
Defree are also on the new olio with
a sketch that is said to be out OF the
ordinary The third turn will introduce
Delmas and Martinette in sensational
Roman ring act. The Unique comedy
company will present Richards Cummings
."The Mistaken Identity" roaring farce
comedy. Tracy McDermott will sing the
Illustrated songs and the entertainment
will conclude with three moving pictures
on the Uniqueoscope. u