Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
COMING ATTRACTIONS

attraction, LICK Ferris accedeS to two
demands; one for another stirring love
story In which he himself appears, and
| the other for an adequate and wholly
complete production of The Sign of the
| Cross" which. by being deferred one
week, will receive the attention its mas
| siveness requires. "Graustark' was one
of the big Ferris hits of last season. and
on its opening night made the then rec
crd of the Auditorium, playing to close
to 5000 persons. 1t is a close dramatiza-
tion of the George Barr McCutcheon
novel. Mr.. Ferris proposes to put the
play on In the same lavish fashion that
marked It's production last season. He
| will retain the title role while Miss Flor
ence Stone will be seen as the princess,
the part she filed so delightfully."- before.
Fitting roles are assigned to Harry Won
Meter. Frank Beamish, Miss Eleanor
Montel and the others of the company,
while Florence Barker will make her long
deferred temperance with the Ferris
organization, wherein she made her debut
a year ago. The play will run through
the week. with the usual matinees and
will be followed by "The Sign OF the
Cross"
BURBANK--Mr. Morosco will offer the
Burbank theater company in a produc-
ton of Ethel Barrymore's recent success.
Sunday" for one week beginning with
a matinee this afternoon. The title of the
play is somewhat misleading as Sunday"
Is an out and out western play of great
strength Of plot and unusual beauty of
story. It's action is laid for the greater
part in the west with all the customary
western surroundings Blanche Hall will
be seen in the Barrymore part of Sun
day the loveable girl who has grown up
with her boys In the west and whose love
IS divided equally among the four. Will
liam Desmond. Byron Beasley, Henry
Stockbridge, John Burton, Harry Mes
tayer. Elsie Esmond, Maude Gilbert and
the other favorites viii be in the cast
Announcement is made that during the
Sunday week Manager Morosco will Of
fer Mace Greenleaf, Harry Mestayer,
Brenda Fowler. David Edwin and Maude
Gilbert in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts The
production will be under the personal
direction Of Harry Mestayer. The Ibsen
performance will be given on the after
moons of Wednesday and Friday.
BELASCO.-Augustus Thomas play,
I'm Mizzouri," will occupy the attention
of the Belasco theater stock company
this week. This is the play In which Nat
c. Goodwin made one of his greatest
successes. 1t Is like most of the Thorn
as plays-American in theme and senti-
ment, and Is peopled with good, rugged
American men and women. In Miz-
zouri" tells simple, direct story of the
love of Jim Radburn. the sheriff at Mex
leo, Mo-, for a young girl whose heart,
he thinks, has been given to another man.
The cast will find Lewis S. Stone in the
role of the sheriff, a part for which the
Belasco leading man is admirably adapt
ed, and Hobart Bosworth as the big,
husky blacksmith.
Every member of the company will be
in the cast and the production, 1t Is
promised, will be of exceptional merit.
Following the production of In Miz-
zouri" the Belasco players will give
big revival of Shakespeare's Julius Cae-
sar."
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.-Mr. Lee
Willard and his company will present "A
Texas Ranger" at the Grand for the week
commencing with today's matinee. This
play, in it's fifth season, has grown in
popularity each year and is now meeting
with greater success than wheA first pro-
duced In the east five years ago. 1t has
ali the elements of a permanent success,
pathos and humor, tears and laughter,
skilfully interviewer with the story of
real people, mostly honest and the man
agement, 1t is claimed, has given careful
attention toY every stage accessory. "A
Texas Ranger" is not merely another |
cowboy play but a play in which hu |
manity ig painted in the garb of the |
plainsman.
LOS ANGELES-lt is asserted that |
the comedy y-drama, "a Message from |
Mars which begins an engagement of |
one week at the Los Angeles theater |
this evening, breaches an eloquent and |
convincing sermon against the sin of self |
ishness. Moreover the sermonizing Is not |
even sugar-coated, but is administered |
in clear, large and repeated doses. "A |
Message from Mars" brings about the
reformation of the most selfish man on |
earth. Individually, people do not like |
to be criticised. More probably it is the
other fellows human nature that is de-
picted, according to the opinion of each
spectator, and it is the discipline. repen-
tance and reform of tine other fellow that
makes "A Message from Mars so enter
tanning.
MASON-The remarkable success that
s. Miller Kent has made as 'Raffles. the
Amateur Cracksman," which will be the
at the Mason opera house De-
cember 5, and 7, proves him to be one
cf the best young romantic actors In the
ct untry. He is a graduate of Purdue
Indiana, and was intended
by his parents for the law. While still
at college, however. young Kent made
up his mind to go on the stage. He made
his first appearance in New York with
Neil Burgess in Vim" and his first
starring venture in Clyde Fitchs play,
1.-The Cowboy and the Lady" This sea-
son. in 'Raffles.'' has been the most sue
tessful he has ever known. The SUD-
nortine comDanV ia said to be adeuuate