Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

playing 1.-THE Devil' and "She Stoops
to Conquer in San Diego, San Ber-
nardino, Santa Barbara and other
nearby cities.
BURBANK-Beginni with matt
nee this afternoon Manager Morosco
will offer the Burbank theater stock.
company in a presentation OF The
Road to Yesterday a play that has
hitherto never been seen in stock
house anywhere nor at prices less than
three times those in effect at the Bur-
bank. The story of the play involves a
romantic young girl who regrets the
chivalrous days gone by when gallant
krights defended their ladies fair with
sword and lance The first act tells
this portion of the story while the
next two bring the young woman back
several hundred years to the romantic
period she so longed to see and place
her in the legendary environment.
In these acts the story of the play
is taken up with comedy stroke that
is said to be simply Irresistible and
which forms the real reason of this
clever plays popularity with all
classes of. theatergoers. The last act
brings the young woman back from
her dream, for such it is, and ends
the story.
.',The Road to Yesterday" is one OF
the biggest offerings the Burbank has
had upon it's stage in a long time,
and Manager Morosco is giving the
piece a production that Is promised TO
compare favorably with that made In
the east. Blanche Hall will portray
the romantic young girl and William
Desmond the modern lover who in
the dream becomes a gallant knight
Of old. The management states that
one week is the time limit on the new
piece.
notwithstanding with matinee
today the Gayety company will enter
on it's farewell week at the Grand
opera house, presenting 1.-THE Girl from
Over Yonder," in which the company
has made one of it's greatest successes.
While it sparkles with good music
and Is full of fine stage pictures, un-
doubtedly, the big features of "The
Girl" have been the series of living
pictures posed in real fountain, the
"Sandow' number with the girls in
their physical culture exercises, and
the finale. when the fair Amazons, IN
soldier garb, parade through the au-
dience, the while the ponies, as drum
mer boys, lead them, and Libby Blon-
dele in the orchestra pit directs the
whole. The acting also has been made
the subject of much favorable COM
ment. Especially does Charles Gyblin,
az the Hot Scotch" come in for high
"Carissima," and Elise Schuyler as a
dusky dame Is extremely funny. Miss
B ondelle has again recovered her
voice, and the whole company is at
it's best for the farewell.
MASON-"The Girl Question:" new
girl show under Askin & Singer man
agement and with Paul Nicholson at
the head of a considerable cast, comes
to the Mason for a week, beginning
with a performance tomorrow night.
A more extended notice of the at
traction appears elsewhere in this sec
tion of the paper
ORPHEUM-The Trapnell family,
who head the Orpheum bill for the week
beginning with matinee tomorrow,
are unique tumblers. A new thing In
a tumbling act seems we'll nigh i'm
possible, but the Trapnells are new,
both in appearance and in work. In
the first place the three women men,
bers are said to be remarkable for
beauty of face and figure and to have
none of the hardened look most aerial
lists and tumblers have. Their stunts
are declared to be different and all
their own.
Fred Warren and Al Blanchard are
both well known performers. Warren
is an old minstrel man who latterly
has been a feature of high-class musi-
cal comedy. AL Blan :nard is scarcely
less well known, and as a team their
combined talents make for the liveliest
interest.
The Three Moshers are expert
cyclists, and one of them also merry
maker of ability. The wheel stunts of
these Moshers are distinctive and have
won them acclaim il Europe and the
east as well.
Edna Phillips and her company re-
main another week, with their bright
sketch, Lost: A Kiss in Central
Park; the Grassys will continue to
mystify and entertain. Carter G. Blu
ford remain with 1.-The act beautiful"
The Wilson boys in their nonsense and
McPhee & Hill in their "clown and
tired man" act, with new motion pic
lures. complete the bill.
LOS ANGELES-Barney Fagan, a
vaudeville star of the first magnitude,
comes to the Los Angeles tneater this
week as the headline feature of new
bill which will open at that house with
matinee performance tomorrow.
Since the Los Angeles was added to the
Sullivan & Considine chain of theaters
it has presented many strong acts, but
none, perhaps, better known than the
entertaining oddity" which Pagan
and his clever little wife, Henrietta
Byron, will offer there next week. Bar
ney Fagan is a graduate of the min
strel school which turned out such
well-known performers as Primrose
and West Mcintyre and Heath and
Schoolcraft and Goes. At various
times he has worked and shared hon.
ors with all of thesL celebrities. He is
known as a skillful and graceful
dancer, while his success as a producer
of novel minstrel effects has won fol-
him the title of "The Minstrel Kiralfy.'
Other features on the bill include the
Transatlantic Four, a male quartet
of ability; Lindstrom and Anderson
Gillen, monologuist, well known al
over the country as "Finnegan's
Friend; Eleanor Blanchard, who will
give limitations of prominent actresses
and Sam Holdsworth, the silver-toneo
veteran tenor. New motion pictures
will complete the program.
'EMPIRE-Wilfred, the hand bal
ancer, with his wise little trained dog,
Lottie, are billed as feature attraction
at the Empire for next week. Wilfred
is no stranger to Los Angeles. He
climbs stairs, jumps hurdles and, In
fact, walks almost as easily on his
hands as the ordinary man walks on
his feet. Dan and Bessie Kelley will
offer their sketch, Troubles" includ-
ing besides much comedy, singing and
dancing specialties of merit. Henri
French, juggler and impersonator, will
give limitations of famous personages
as we'll as his exhibitions of manual
dexterity in juggling. Two new Illus
trated songs, one of them by a Los
Angeles composer, will be introduced
by VIer and Nellie Hill, and there Will
be the usual motion LECTURES. FOL