Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-26

| emma, ana since them she mas peen
practicing tray manipulation.
Some friend suggested the cafeteria
! idea, and since then she has been a con-
! sistent patron of some one or the other
of those restaurants where every guest
Is his own waiter Now Miss Bernard
has become adept In the art. She can
pile a tray high with cafeteria delica-
cies and navigate 1t safely through
cafeteria crowd. Hence she expects no
further trouble in her stage work along
these lines.
After protracted season of unprofit-
able one-night stands, Frank Healy
and his San Francisco opera company
seem at last to have come into their
own. Hediy closed II three weeks sea-
son in Portland last night, during
which he presented "Fantana," "Floro-
dora" and THE Belle of New York;
with gratifying financial returns. Ted
, dy Webb is back with the company
again, as well as ever. The organiza-
tion has had several prima donnas since
| leaving here, the present one being
Miss George Campbell, niece of May
Irwin.
agent stage director. musician, racon-
teur, and half a dozen other things as
well, Is telling new story. Being
press agent, Joe's story naturally serves
| to advertise his wares, but Ii isn't
bad yarn, and so here it Is
The Montrose headlight, 1t seems, was
shining refugently the other evening
against a similarly tinted mahogany
background, in place where they
serve it in mugs If you order that kind.
Next to him stood a sailor from the
Connecticut. flagship of the fleet. With
the sailor was a landsman. from his
talk resident of Los Angeles.
T1ic uoana set Ioa at this nOint I'm his
narrative becomes a reported, and de-
tails the conversation he overheard, as
follows:
Been here long?" asked the sailor.
Bout two years"
Good town.
hFair, but they're awfully slow here.
The theaters give plays / seen in New
York eighteen months ago; and yes
terday my tailor offered to sell me
suiting Jimmy Tasker tried to hand me
half a year before l came west. why,
PHILIPS live one compared to this
burg. The songs are so old out here
they got whiskers on EN-"
1--WE got good piece on the ship,
the other day.
80? What was it?"
my Yankee Sailor Boy"
That's just it, D'you know? heard
that thing before left New York. It's
SO old back there they've forgotten all
about it,"
Montrose gulped down his Bartlett
water and made a break for the door.
He had composed the music of that
song himself only a few weeks ago.
while Oliver Morosco had written the
words He says they've got 1t in New
York now. but 1t only reached there
last Tuesday The former New Yorker.
however, is probably still telling his
friends what a dead slow place Los An
geles really is.
Tomorrow nights presentation OF
"The Geisha" will be the first of that
tuneful opera locally in several years,
and 1t should receive a cordial welcome
even by the Japophobes. The opera
will give Miss Eleanor Kent the best
opportunities she has yet had In this
city. as several delightful solos fall to
her share. Moreover, 1t lends itself
readily to elaborate mounting and cot
tuning. and when the curtain rises
upon the first act tomorrow night
striking stage picture is promised.
For the following week the Edgar
Temple company will revive "Erminie:"
It has been many years, too, since this
fine old work has been heard here. In
it Fritz Fields, Harry eastman and
Laura Wallace will have the comedy
roles, and as "Erminie" is essentially O
comic opera, there should be something
doing in the way of innocent merri-
ment
Several hundred persons called at the
Auditorium box office yesterday to Sc
cure seats for some night next week,
expecting to hear "Florodora." They
expressed surprise when told the opera
was to be withdrawn Saturday night.
The withdrawal, however, 1t in accord
with the company's newly adopted pol
icy. One week runs will be the rule
hereafter
James Neil and his wife, Edythe
Chapman, are expected to arrive in
Los Angeles tomorrow from San Diego
They will remain here a week, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Morosco.
and then will leave for st. Paul, where
they are to head summer stock COM
pany.
Dick Ferris and Florence Stone are
going to Minneapolis about the same
time, and 1t is likely the four will make
the trip together. Under an arrange
ment Just perfected, Neil will play in
st. Paul this summer the same plays
Ferris presents in Minneapolis, and the
two will exchange scenery, thus cutting
that expense in half. Minneapolis and
st. Paul are only ten miles apart and
the only surprising thing about this
plan is that nobody ever thought of it
before.
Dick tells me that he will do 'The
Girl of the Golden West" Heidelberg"
! SUNDAY" and other plays that have
made large successes locally.