Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-14
NOTES BY THE
MATINEE MAN

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only real simon-pure press agent in
town-has Crouch. Bartlett says that the
newspapers only want fakes about his
showshops and that when he docs have
genuine story they won't print 1t.
IT never knew 1t to fall" says he II
can always land some farcical doings
about an actress or some yarn about a
vaudevillain, but let me spring real one,
| and-no go.
| VOW, here is I. choice, genuine, true
story about Countess Rossi, who has
been pursued from Russia by detectives
in her divorced husbands employ, the de-
tectives aforesaid being after her che-ild.
She went to the police about It, and Los
Angeles seuths have been watching her
all during her stay here. Do you think
a paper In town would print that even
| when offered to bring an affydavy from
Capt. Flammer? Not on your life But
| let me spring a tale about some girl los
ing her diamonds and see EN- bite"
| All of which is doubtless true. But. my
dear Bartlett, in recognition of your hard
work, here is the story in print, fake or
no fake.
Speaking Of press agents, Jack Black
wood says he wishes some theater in
town would get a real one.
| Then I'd have to go to work." says he.
|
am getting too fat"
| Which Mr.. Bartlett may or may not
! consider a personal insult.
Our erstwhile greatest soprano who
ever trilled' as Sparks Berry used to
| say, Ester Adalerto, prima donna of the
late Lambardi season, Is now singing in
a beer garden park in Kansas City, with
| Ferullos hand. Which rather sets at
rest the stories that Hammerstein and
| Conried were threatening to shed each
| others ruddy gore for her, and that
Henri Russell had engaged her for next
year. Singers who take primal roles in
| these companies do not sing out of doors
in the summer. to the ruination of their
voices, against the blare of brass band
They prize their vocal organs too highly.
Another member of the Californians
is to step out of the chorus info the
soloist ranks. Grace Marvin. the vourr
woman of rather more than usual bulk
in the merry, merry" will sing Dame
burden In robin Hood for the edlffca
ton OF the Venetians this coming week.
MISS Marvin has a good voice and her
figure is ideal for Burdens part and I
am sure she will make a success ir, Tbs
role. Here's my best wishes for her.
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incidentally. the Californians are DO
lighted at the continuance Of their sea-
son, and more than glad that they will
get two weeks by the snn,Itne OCEAN
They have hopes that the Santa Cruz
end Of it will also pan OUT IT will be
great to have two months vacation
drawing pay all the while. Wish I could
do that.
Lewis Stone reminds me of the London
; cabby. who. having a day off for the
first time In twenty-seven years. snAnt
IL rloing up and down on the box of a
feilow cabby's vehicle. He has a vaca-
ton now, and 1 swear I have seen him
and Mrs Stone margaret Langham) at
theater every night since his layoff
began. I don't blame them for seeing
Maude Adams. for Mrs. Stone Is much
MISS Adams sort of actress ott -1hv
should they go to the Belasco. where
he plays every night? Perhaps thew
wanted to guy their fellow thespians.
but I hardly think that
| T. Daniel Frawley's ex-players from
San Francisco were all in town on tb, r.
way back east this last week. I DOM
know why Tim brought them dow, her.
| first unless he wanted to show them a
real live town before they rc-entered the
great white way. Anyhow, they saw II
right. T. Dan is to be the drawing card
for the Burbank for few weeks 4o
come while "Bilr' Desmond seeks rest
and recreation.
Captain Hope. he may call himself. but
Captain Peacock he is to his friends
And lots of them have seen him at fine
Peoples the last few days in his new
sketch have not seen it stated that
| the captain is going 10 be a regular,
vaudevillian, but the stage has lots Of
room for actors as clever as he.
The rumor that Sparks Berry is to be
dramatized is officially denied. DR..
RaChmann ha hoc
| The latest about the old Hotcbkiss is
that 1t is to be the home of burlesnue.
that series of companies is to be orr
gained on the coast; that they will all
ternate between here and the more
northern cities, one giving two or three
| shows here for as many weeks Their
passing on to let another come. ana so
on. 1 do not know how autheffsic this
is. but give it for what 1t is WORTH. II
looks feasible; good companies wsth
plenty of pretty girls and some clever.
| comedians, ought to go well.
Ethel Barrymore is headed this vav
in her play of the old Gays. wherein fha
women wear hoopslSirts and the men
before de wah" toys. have seen this
play and can recommend it as CUTE
II nothing else. Then, 600, it is a study
TO see now women manage such atrcci-
ties as hoops, and the younger gene, s..
ton will find it full os interest
I didn't see one Peter Pan suit worn
at Peter Pan" Can IT be that Peter
never heard of that garb?
Also, where was Humane Officer Rev.
nolds when the kids came ut? Did
Harry Cashman's roast IN 'aThe Sere-
made" put him wise to his own ridicu-
lousness?
Dramatic Notes
Early in August Jules hurry will pro-
duce Cupid at Vassar," a new dramatic
comedy with music. The book is hy4
owen Davis, with music and lyrics BY
A. Baldwin Sloane and George Totten
Smith. Florence Gear. who played the