Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

an iron foundry to the more esthetic
job of studying "art" four hours week
and playing football four hours day
at an Indiana college.
| There was nobody in the Stone COM
/ pany with the requisite ayoirdupois for
the part, and not only Manager Black
wood but Lewis S. Stone and Stage
Director Mason we're actually worried
as to where a Silent Murphy could be
secured During the second rehearsal
| of 1.-THE College Widow young Mr..
Trask who owns to standing 6 feet
inches in his stocking feet and pulling
the scale down to the 240 mark, made
his appearance on the stage of the
Auditorium and asked If they wanted to
hire any more actors.
Both Stone and Mason made dive
for Trask and dragged him to the cen
ter of the stage. No actor was ever
engaged in quicker time.
You're on" both shouted simultane-
ously, as Harry Spear thrust the part
of Silent Murphy into Trask's big paw.
TTask not only fulfills every physical
requirement of the gent" from the
foundry but he has a shock of hair
that poet might describe as the color
of sherry shot with sunlight''-in other
| words, Trask has red hair. This will
| be the young mans first appearance
with dramatic company, although he
was a member of Fred Eustis' musical
comedy organization presenting 1.-THE
Campaigners."
Maude Beatty whose musical COM
edy, 1.-THE Summer Girls at Ocean
Park" was successfully presented at
the Unique last week, tells me she
wrote the piece on a wager. 1 didn't
see the comedy and don't know what
stake was at issue, consequently may,
perhaps. be pardoned for expressing a
hope that the punishment was properly
designed to fit the crime.
Almost anybody can write a musical
comedy nowadays and Miss Beatty
can do so many other things so much
better than almost anybody that there
seems little excuse for her mixing her
fingers. 1 don't doubt that Jimmy Lee,
jr., being chip of the old block-not
blockhead, If you please-could knock
out a musical comedy in few hours
If he was put to it. I've even been
tempted myself on occasion.
However, those summer girls, by all
accounts seem to have been sportive
maidens and If they trod the cement
instead of the board walk" that is be-
cause their habitat was Ocean Park,
not Atlantic City. Fortunately your
genuine summer girl is not a creature
of geography. She is Indigenous alike
to the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts,
and even attains to a high degree of
moonlighted perfection at inland
watering resorts, where fireflies serve
as scouts for Cupid and where our
! heroine, with a dexterity born of long
practice, easily shakes her chaperone
} new CHM home.
1t develops that H. J. CHM. who Is
now on his way east to marry Miss
: Maude Gilbert in New York city Sep
tember Z, possesses a menagerie at his
West Adams street home consisting of
five felines of no particular brand,
! one shaggy dog, which Mr.. CHM res
, cued from the pound, two bantam
J chicks and one tree squirrel. These all
occupy a place in the actors heart
and he cares for them as If they were
worth a fortune.
1t is rumored that upon the return
of the happy couple the latter part of
September Mr. CHM is to build a
: house of his own. and there is every
reason to believe that the specifications
J will include fish pond, huge bird
! cage, several full grown trees for his
squirrels, a we'll stocked mouse pit for
his kittens and ample grounds IN which
3 to exercise his dog. While east the
young couple may pick rp something
| else in the line of a pet, and If they
: do place will be made for 1t in the
new CHM home. a.
! William Hamilton Cline. the hirsutic-
i ally heroic publicity purveyor of the
: Grand opera house, has entered the
) lists with Oliver Morosco as a libret-
, tist. Morosco is reported to be writing
) comic opera, for which Joseph Mont
! rose is to compose the music. Cline is
not so aspiring. He has, however,
: written the words to song which Miss
Elise Schuyler will sing at the Grand
I this week, and which Cline calls I'm m
, continue to owe the barber money as
long as Cline has owed him must be
granted certain wisdom. whether 1t
he regarded as an admirable or de-
s nlorable part of his mental makeup.
9 Ben welch. who at the orpheum is
: doing that remarkanle thlng Tor "a a ne, he
: of the New York east side. acquired his
: unioue characterization by actual study
\ of and contact with the people whom
= he initiates A year ago Weleh was
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