Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18
OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST-NIGHTER

DStu SSltGItu iS tDI OptIllH6 dtbi hNNtc't
for the remodeled Los Angeles theater.
formerly the Hotchkiss. The opera
will be presented by the San Francisco
opera company, which begins four
weeks engagement at the Spring street
house September 1. The bill for the
second week will be "The Singing Girl
| These two announcements will serve
to give some idea of the policy Of the
Cort & Heilig management. Calvin
Heilig, who is now in the city, says
that the theater will be given over
largely during its first season to "musi-
cal shows" 1t will be the home thea
ter for the San Francisco organization,
| but will also be open to travelling at
fractions, a considerable number OF
which already have been booked.
Later in the season the Pollard Juvenile
opera company, which last year played
at the Grand, will come to the Los An
| geles for several weeks.
| Just at present the interior Of the
house looks much like lumber yard.
Scaffolding has been erected and deco
rators are at work retinting the walls.
BY the opening date, however, all Will
| be in readiness and the Los Angeles
will take its place among the all-the-
year round theaters of the city
The present managers have taken
FIVE years lease on the house. Also,
though 1t is not generally known, they
| nave taken an opium Ou VI eiiC
| local theaters, which they may exercise
when the present lease expires In Sep
j TENDER of next year. Now, IL you are
good at guessing you know all about
| It, To save worry however, VIII tell
you that 1t isn't the Mason.
| That good old bird, the stork, has been
making things rather lively around the
Grand opera house of late. A fortnight
/ he To-, In rd naid a visit to the
home of Leslie King, stood first on one
leg and then on the other, peered through
his wise old spectacles, saw that all was
| well, and departed.
| few days later he turned up at the
home of Joseph De Grasse, stage direc-
tor of the Ulrich company, and repeated
the same performance
AS for the future, well, shoe, shoe!
/
i At the opening performance of Her
Own Way" at the Belasco last week, the
butler was sent off the stage in the first
act to get a New York morning paper, the
scene being laid in that city. He returned
with copy of the Saturday Evening Post,
color side out. This seemed mildly humor-
Gus to some of us, and Tuesday night l
secured copy of the New York Times,
folded it neatly and took it to the Black
wood headquarters, where presented it
W
a little speech that was meant to be
funny, whether it was or not.
Blackwood usually has a comeback and
the assembled bunch waited with bated
! breath to hear what he would say. They
. didn't have to wait long.
"You newspaper men know it all, don
. your" he remarked amiably. Now, If
: my property man did a trick like that he'll
. get called down for it, but I'll bet there
weren't dozen people in Inc house that
knew the difference. Sunday l read in
) your column that Henry Miller was the
husband of Margaret Anglin, and every
one who read that knew you didn't know
what you were talking about.
You're not the only one, either There's
Steve, now" Steve is the original ex-
ponent of the nil admirari cult in Los An
geles and he's still working at it. Steve
; said Sunday that somebody was going to
play Benedck in Belasco production of
Tanning of the Shrew." Probably he
couldn't spell Petruchio. AS for me, I'd
rather not know SO much than to know so
) blamed much that isn't So"
Gal" Heiiig-he spells that first name
; out when he signs contracts-knows that
there are as good fish in the sea as ever
ever caught. He left one of 'em there
himself, though it wasn't altogether a
matter of his own volition.
Heiig has been over to Catalina. He
returned to Los Angeles Tuesday and
Tuesday night with a party of friends
wandered into a place where they serve
; it in mugs, if you order that kind.
On the wall was an artistically en-
balmed specimen of the genus orcynus
thynnus, which, translated into Califor-
MIA lingo, means tuna. The returned fish
erman looked at it a moment, and then
sneered.
Huh" he said, 'that isn't much of
fish. Now had one on my line yesterday
; that would make that fellow look like
microbe. He must have weighed"
"Got away, didn't he?" interrupted John
Blackwood.
Heilig looked at his questioner sadly,
but made no reply.
Myrtle Selwyn of the Ulrich stock COM
pany was the unhappiest girl in Los An.
geles one day last week. Shep was lost
and his owner didn't know where to find
him. More she doubted very much the
expediency of leaving him alone to come
home, bringing his tail behind him.
Now. Shep is dog of a pedigree unmen-
tionable. He is likewise a<mascot. Every
| time anything pleasant happens to Miss
selwyn she. feels grateful to Shep,
whether the pleasantly comes in the
! shape of basket of flowers from some
ardent admirer or good notice" in the
paper from a hard working critic.
Contrariwise, when i'll luck befalls, she
| summons Shep to her assistance. The
other day everything went wrong and
when Miss Selwyn went TO look for Shep
she couldn't find him. In tears she APP
pealed to the theater attaches, and a
minute later everyone around the show
shop was seeking the missing dog.
What sort of dog was he?" asked an
usher who had not enjoyed the favor Of
Shops acquaintance.
"Oh, he was a beautiful dog" replied
Shops owner, land so tiny. Oh, my heart
is broken"
IT know began the usher sympathet-
ically, but what breed was he?"
why" returned the fearful Miss
Selwyn. ''Why, he was little silver dog.
Didn't you know that? 1 used to carry
him in my purse"
1.-THE usher dived down into his pocket
and produced tiny toy dog, nothing re-
markable to look at Miss Sewyn fairly
snatched the trihe from his hand.
"Oh, thank your she cried. Thank
your And that usher positively laughed.