Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-13
OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST NIGHTER

TIME Mason opera house, dark for
several weeks past, will reopen
II tomorrow night, presenting 1.-The
Time, the Place and the Girl as the
first attraction of the new season. The
piece is a musical comedy from the
shops of Askin and Singer. 1t was
remarkably successful in Chicago,
where it ran, I believe, for record
breaking period at the LaSalle theater.
At the Auditorium the Lewis >.
Stone company will present big re-
vival of 1.-THE PITT play in which Mr.
Stone has appeared here and in which
he scored a remarkable personal sue
cess, the role of Curtiss Jadwyn PROV
ing one of his best parts Hence the
chief interest of the revival will con-
Germ the supporting company, which,
as vet, is untried in a play demanding
anything outside of light comedy.
Both the Burbank and Belasco thea
ters will continue 1.-The Devil Tor an
other week at least. Meantime the Be
Iasco's new leading man will enjoy
weeks vacation, while the leading Wo-
man will have time to look about her
and to visit with her family before
taking up her work. Mr.. Van Buren,
arrived in Los Angeles last Tuesday.
Miss Lowell Taylor is expected to reach
mere elIneT IOIuOIIOW VI lllC doJ 49,
Manager Oliver Morosco of the Bur
hank still is looking for leading Wo-
man to succeed Blanche Hall. The list
of possibilities was considerably aug
mented last week, but no selection has
yet been made.
At the Grand the Gayety company
will again present 1.-The Typewriter
Girl" piece which was ~Nown there
only a few weeks ago and which is
rather colorless affair at best. The
trouble at the Grand seems to be lack
of good material. The company Is
competent, but it's success is being
jeopardized by trashy comedies, SO
hopelessly unfunny that Weber and
Fields themselves could not make them
90 IT is said that the management
has realized this, and that the next
new piece to be seen upon the Grand
stage will be along somewhat different
lines than those which have preceded
it. 1t may be, however, that another
.revival" will follow THE Typewriter
Girl"
At the Peoples, May Nannary will
make her first local stellar appearance
in several years as Parepa in "At the
Old Cross Roads," a melodrama OF
the south, which is too familiar to Los
Angeles theatergoers to require com
ment In Miss Nannarys supporting
company are three young women who
may justly CldliIl 11Oo NAitoc - 1900
home city. They are Miss Helene
Griffin. a member of one of the ole
families, whose brother, Jasper Griffin
was formerly sporting editor or THIS
paper; Miss Winnie Baldwin, Whos'
home is at 1856 North Ohio street, anC
Miss Marion Tiffany, who in priVat
life is Mrs. Gerald Harcourt, ant
whose husband Is member or tn
Burbank stock company.
The Orpheum and Los Angeles VII
offer the usual change in their Vaude
vile bill AT the Orpheum the BIZ
City quartet is announced as the head
line act. At the Los Angeles, Grim
minis and Gore, presenting a new ske et;S
by Paul Armstrong, author OF TN
Heir TO the Hoorah," hold the place o
honor.
Fischer's will offer "Mr Planet o
Mars" The Unique and Empire vii
make their usual weekly change in bill
beginning with matinee performances
tomorrow.
Oliver Morosco claims to be the frs
manager in America to have produced
THE Devil" in stock. Locally he woI
out by just tWenty-four hours, and his
agents in the east have wired hin
that his lead elsewhere is considerably
more than this. Several cities are tC
have their first view of the play, il
stock, this week. In others it is being
announced for next week. The play
hasn't struck San Francisco yet, blu
Frederick Belasco expects to put 1t OF
at the Alcazar theater just as soon a!
tine run here is ended. Meantime Hen
ry w. Savage is hurriedly organizing
road companies and sending then
scurrying around the country in al
effort to keep some of the dollars tn
play is making for himself. Savage
through his business affiliations, wa
able to protect "The Merry Widow,
but he has found "The Devil" differ