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OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST NIGHTER

=" ENRY MILLER telegraphed to
New York last week instructing
~ his representative there to send
1.-THE Servant in the House" to Los An
geles for the week of July 20. The play
will come here with the New York cast
and will come direct, making a jump all
the way across the continent. Thus
Los Angeles will be the second city in
the country to see this modern morality
play which has been acclaimed the tri-
umph of the past theatrical season.
Mr., Miller himself will return to the
Mason the week of August 3. He will
offer a revival of THE Only Way" and
will present Percy Mackaye's comedy.
mater" which is to have its initial
production in San Francisco in a few
days.
1.-THE Thief" with Margaret Ellington
in the leading feminine role, comes to
the Mason for the week beginning July
10. May Robson, in 1.-THE Regeneration
of Aunt Mary" will occupy the same
stage the week of July 27. These at
fractions, SO far as present bookings
show, will complete the current sea-
son at the Mason. The fall season
opens about the middle of September
with '"The Girl Question" big musical
comedy bearing the Askin & Singer i'm
print.
Frederick Belasco, who is in Los An
geles to direct the forthcoming produce
tion of 1.-THE Rose of the Rancho" at
the Belasco theater, is enthusiastic re-
garding the work Miss Jane Grey, the
company's new leading woman, has al
ready done in rehearsals. He told me
the other day that he was willing to
stake his reputation on Miss Grey's
success in the role.
II will go even farther" he added. 81
will predict that she will make a sensa-
ton You can say 1 said so, and then,
If she doesn't make good, you can col
lect any kind of a bet you care to
make"
Naturally l didn't bet 1t never is
wise to go against another mans game.
When he was here three months ago to
Beiasco made a similar prediction re-
garding the work of Miss Alice Treat
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enthusiastically and demand to know
when she returned home. This thing
has been going on now for two years.
but it was only recently that Miss Gil-
bert discovered the identity of her un-
related twin.
When Henry Miller was at the
Mason a fortnight ago Miss Gilbert
went to that theater to visit friend In
Mr. Miller's company. Harry Bell was
taking tickets at the door. AS Miss
Gilbert approached him he looked at
her and then started back in surprise.
He hesitated looked again, blushed as
nearly as press agent can blush. and
stammered BY that time Miss Gilbert
had passed inside the theater. Doubt
less she wondered what was the matter
with Bell. Later she found out.
Through the foyer and into the audi
torium went Miss Gilbert. From there
she hurried to the stage - greet her
friend. On the stage she ran into
Charlie Garfield, stage doorkeeper.
Now Garfield is an exceedingly BASH
full young man. but when he saw Miss
Gilbert walking toward him he made
for her, his arms outstretched.
The Burbank actress lodged instinc-
lively. Then Garfield repeated the Bell
performance. He looked and he wilted.
Too embarrassed to apologize he took
himself off and Miss Gilbert passed into
her friends dressing room.
When she came out Mr.. Bell was on
hand to be introduced. He explained
that he had mistaken the actress for
his wife, though he knew at the time
that Mrs Bell ewas in Chicago. He
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Bull operators appear confident and
seemingly have good grounds for their
position. The market here is bare and
they assert with confidence that San
Francisco is in no position to come to
Los Angeles relief. Furthermore pre-
dictions are made that oliver Morosco,
whose occasional flyers in that stock
have done much to disturb the market
in the past, is preparing again to en-
ter the lists. In fact it is asserted with
confidence that Morosco has been
caught short of the market and may
be badly squeezed. Heretofore he has
been able to borrow through Towle
enough of the stock to tide him over
difficulties, but that brokers' present
affiliation with Drown, Baker, Lytell
& Co. has placed him in a position
where he will be unable to meet the
demands of his older customer. In
order to swing his ''Parlor Match" deal
Morosco must buy chorus girls pre-
ferred and in a market that is SEEM
ingly swept clean of that stock
The houses of Hentz & Zallee and e.
A. Fischer have been unable to fill
present orders, even at "a substantial
advance over current prices.
The bull campaign began quietly
three weeks ago. Since then the mar
ket has shown a constant upward
trend. There have, of course, been
predictions of a slump. but firms which
have backed that opinion with cash
have lost their money
Miss Evelyn Hall. the young and
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he told 1t to me and as l now pass 1t
along to you.
Tabloid opera has proved its value
at the Unique and will be continued IN
defiitely. Director Fredericks Is now
reorganizing his company, formed
originally for the presentation OF mu-
steal comedies. Last week Miss olga
Stech Joined to sing soubrette roles.
Next week Millar Bacon, an old ia
vorite with Unique audiences and VINO
recently has been in San Diego. Will
step into the tenor parts. Mr. Fred
ericks also expects to introduce new
baritone to Los Angeles audiences
within a short time. The chorus Is be-
ing strengthened gradually.
Olga Stech, the new soubrette. is re-
garded as a find" She Is pretty
girl, still in her teens and the pos
SCISSOR of voice of good volume and
much sweetness. Moreover she can
act. Under competent direction Miss
Stech should develop into the best
stock soubrette heard in Los Angeles
in a long time. She has. of course,
much to learn, but the possibilities are
there only awaiting proper instruc-
ton for their development. Miss Maude
Beatty has taken the young woman
under her care and should be able to
do much for her.
Hugh Metcslf, at present a member
of the opera company at this house,
will be transferred next week to the
comedy company. Lew Dunbar will
retire from the organization. Both Mr..
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she never will marry. These assertions
are made with all the solemnity and
fixed determination BETTING the young
woman's youth. OF course they are
immutable. When was young and
pretty girl ever known to change her
mind on such subjects?
Save the lure of the footlights there
is no reason why Evelyn Hall should
go upon the stage. The charming
niece of her no less charming aunt is
Independently wealthy In her own
right. AS soon as she attains to her
majority she will come into the control
of an estate situated in Indian terri
tory and which will be amply suffi-
cient to supply her with every luxury.
However. the lure is there and just at
present it is the important thing in
Miss Evelyn Halls horoscope.
The novice ever prefers the odor of
grease paints to the scent of orange
blossoms. though years sometimes
bring wisdom.
returned home Thursday from the first
GROUPING" expedition ever undertaken
by the company. Driven out of their
home theater by the brief engagement
of Mrs. Fiske they played one night In
Riverside and two nights and matinee
in San Diego. presenting THE Girlsof
the Golden West" in both places.
The week was a strenuous one for
the company, quite apart from the
travel involved. The Wednesday mat
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Thus, as you may surmise, Miss Grey
is something of a diplomat as we'll as
a leading woman.
AS predicted following its first per
Torrance, "A Society Pilot" the new
Morosco- Bachman play, will continue
at the Burbank for a second week.
There seems to be a striking unanimity
of opinion that this is the best play
ever written either by Mr.. Morosco or
by DIR. Bachman, alone or with col
laborator. It's story is both new and
interesting.
It's climaxes are cleverly contrived
and effective and it has besn given
fine production. No such tagging has
ever been seen at the BIZ bank. The
women of the company fe costumed
the play lavishly, but v IN admirable
taste. In all twenty-five owns are dis
played and not few s them are tri-
umphs of the modiste' raft.
Rialto market re ,Srts indicate a
strong bull movement in chorus girls
preferred. The recent heavy supply
thrown upon the market by the failure
of the Edgar Temple opera season has
been absorbed and the curb is now bare
of it's usual adornment. During the
last week the house of Drown, Baker
Lytell & Co. experienced some diff
Guilty in filling orders, though every
effort was made at the beginning of
the bull campaign to cloak the identity
of the firm involved, trading being
carried on through George Towle, a
local broker who makes a speciality of
this commodity.
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Metcalf and Mr.. Dunbar, however, will
have roles In paul JONES' to be sung
this week. Next week the company
will offer a tabloid version of said
Pasha."
Mrs. Tom Oberle, widow of one of the
best beloved actors Los Angeles ever
has known, has become a regular men,
Der of the Burbank forces. Mrs. Oberle
played her first part with that organi-
cation last week and before the week
was over arrangements had been made
for the future. Her stage experience,
1 believe. has been largely in musical
comedies, though she played small
parts occasionally during her hus-
bands lifetime in the dramatic stock
organizations of which he was a mem
Der.
1t is reported, too, that Mrs. Harry
Mestayer may soon be seen upon the
Burbank stage. Mrs. Mestayer never
has acted professionally, but like the
late lamented Barkis, she Is willin'. In
fact, she is even somewhat insistent
that she be given an early opportunity
to make her husbands profession her
own. Just how Mr.. Mestayer will view
this move Is not known, but Mr.. Mo-
rosco will give Mrs. Mestayer chance
IL she wants 1t. He has promised as
much.
Tony Rider, whose trained monkeys
were a feature of the performance at
Fischer's theater last week, Is a resi-
dent of Glendale. Mr. Rider came here
a wear ago in search of climate, bought
home and settled down, in a. small
way, as proprietor of a monkey ranch.
In the fall season he takes to the road,
exhibiting his monkeys at fairs all over
the east and middle west. In the sum-
mer he exhibits occasionally in the
aters.
The Rider monkeys present one of
the best known acts of its kind now
before the public. Formerly they were
feature of the Hagenbeck show.
Rider himself is an old circus gym
mast. He first became interested in
monkeys with the Wallace shows in
1891, when he bought Chip" as a pet.
The average life of monkey is not
more than sixteen years, but Chip" is
still with him and is now nineteen
years of age.
This monkey was the first animal Mr..
Rider ever trained. He says, too, that
Chip was the most difficult to do
arything with. 1t was a month before
the monkey would pay any attention
to his master. 1t was year before
he would perform tricks at word Of
command. Ordinarily, Mr.. Rider says,
a monkey can be trained IN SIX months.
with "Chip" as start, Rider deter
mined to become a monkey trainer in
stead of a gymnast. His troupe now
numbers eight, the others being annie
Rooney" who is IS years old Dude"
Happy "Bude," "Igorrote," "Koko"
and "GoldieH
Monkeys, Rider says, are subject to
the same diseases that attack humans.
He denies that they are predisposed to-
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charming niece of Miss Blanche Hall,
leading woman of the Burbank stock
company has definitely decided to
make acting her life's profession. Her
aunt, who fought against the idea from
the start, now confesses herself van
pushed and has withdrawn her oppo-
sition. Last week Miss Hall was given
her first part, the role of maid In "A
Society Pilot" The play continues
this week and consequently she con-
tinues in the character. Moreover
Manager oliver Morosco has promised
TO cast her frequently in other plays,
to be presented at the Burbank with
in the next few months.
Miss Hall is a decidedly pretty girl,
still In her fifteenth year. However,
she is a young woman with q mind of
her own and she says her mind Is
made up irrevocably in favor of a
stage career. More, she declares that
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inee in San Diego was an extra per-
Torrance. Returning home the COM
pany presented THE Girl" at the reg
ular Thursday matinee, Thursday night
Friday night and yesterday afternoon
and night. Friday noon the Belasco
players presented THE Critic before
the Friday Morning club. Tonights
performance of 1.-The Girl" will mark
the termination of the brief revival
Miss Florence Smythe is playing the
role created locally by Alice Treat
Hunt, with Lewis S. Stone and Howard
Scott in the parts they played when
the melodrama was first acted here.
Maude Gilbert of the Burbank stock
company has a double. The resem-
blance Is so strong that the womans
husband and her brother have both
been deceived. Frequently Miss Gill
bert is stopped on the street by friends
of the other woman, who greet her
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ward tuberculosis and says he never
has lost an animal from that cause.
The last monkey he lost died as a re-
suit of appendicitis In the past two
years there have been no deaths In the
Rider monkey family.
Diet, the trainer says, is the all I'M
portant feature of caring for his pets.
He avoids peanuts and popcorn so far
as possible. For breakfast the. mon
keys have a cereal food, cooked with
milk or water. At noon they are given
vegetables, with occasionally little
fruit, and in the evening they have
corn, wheat or sunflower seed.
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THEATERS REOPEN
FOR THE SUMMER

H HREE theaters closed for the past
month, will reopen their doors
Il this week with new attractions.
The Auditorium will offer Nance O'Neil
and her company in THE Fires of st.
John" and "Magda." At the Grand the
Gayety Extravaganza company this
afternoon will present THE FOUNDERS
of the Great White Way" for the first
time on any stage. Vaudeville, moving
pictures and music by the Royal Ital-
ian band, under the baton of La Mo-
naca, will occupy the Los Angeles
stage.
Chief interest naturally centers in the
premier of THE FOUNDERS" at the
Grand The company, recently organ
lied in the east, is new to Los Angeles
both collectively and individually so
far as the principals are concerned.
Its debut, too, marks change of pol
icy in the house management, the
Grand becoming a stock home for ex-
travaganza and musical comedy, bor-
dering upon burlesque. The stay of
the organization is indefinite, depend
ing upon its reception at the hands of
local theatergoers.
1t has been some time since local au-
diences have seen Nance O'Netl out
side of vaudeville. Several years ago.
however, she played an extended en-
gagement at the Burbank theater,
"Magda" then being included in her
repertoire. ! venture to say that her
interpretation of the Sudermann role is
still remembered pleasantly by those
who then saw it,
There is one curious thing about Miss
O'Neil as an actress. Either you like
her tremendously or you do not like her
at ALL Cultured Boston acclaimed her
foremost of American actresses. New
York turned upon her the cold Shout
der She is a native daughter, having
been born, L believe, in one of the San
Francisco suburbs. Her sister, known
professionally as Lillian Lamson and
who, in private life, is Mrs. William
Desmond, is a resident of this city.
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also explained that his brotller-in-law,
Charlie Garfield, had mistaken her TOT
his sister. Then he produced pnoto,
graph of Claire Garfield Bell ana
passed it over for Miss Gilbert's IN
spection. The Burbank player admit
ted striking resemblance. even though
Bell declared the photograph failed 70
show the strong likeness that exists
between the two women.
Mrs. Bell, who is well known in Los
Angeles as contralto singer, mas peen
in the east for the past two years
studying under Nine. Eta Edwards:
She is now in Chicago, where Mr.. Bell
expects to go early in August to visit
her.
Just how it happened that Bell never
saw Miss Gilbert until two weeks ago.
notwithstanding her long service as a
member of the Burbank company, ne
Goes not explain. He does, however.
vouch for the accuracy of the story as
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UNIQUE-"Admiral Paul Jones,
with Maude Beatty in the title role
ana with national airs interpolated as
a fitting reminder of the day we celel
brate, will be the tabloid opera at the
Unique this week. Miss Beatty VIII
sing 'Ever and Ever Thine" Olga
stech. as Yvonne, VIII H. oner . ,Ie,
Hueh Metcalf. George REIN, Lew
Dnnbar and Billy Onslow. The comedy
conInanv viii present James p. Lees
farce SThe Professors Dream" the
cast including In addition to Mr.. Lee,
Charles Perley, Marie Barber, Make
Mitchell. George Morrell, Rose REIN
and Walter Fredericks.
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Hunt as 1.-THE Girl" How abundantly
Miss Hunt made good his assertion of
her ability is recent theatrical history.
Miss Grey will make her Los Angeles
debut in 1.-THE Rose of the Rancho"
When that piece is taken off she will be
seen as Glory Quayle In THE Chris
tian." Certainly these two roles will
constitute remarkable test of the new
leading woman's versatility. If she
succeeds in both her future locally
should be assured.
Miss Grey is petite and young. She
admits to "a years, six of which have
been passed upon the stage. Her first
real opportunity presented itself when
E. H. Sothern produced John the Bap-
list" Miss Grey having a small part in
that play, which, however, was short
lived Next she went to the Alexandria
theater stock company In Toronto,
where she remained until the company
disbanded to make way for an English
organization.
Naturally she declares that Juanita in
1.-THE Rose of the Rancho" is 1.-The most
beautiful part" she has ever studied,
and that Glory Quayle is her favorite
among roles she has already played.
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Thus, as you may surmise, Miss Grey
is something of diplomat as well as
leading woman.
The Ordway new era., 1908-09-18
When the Minister Scored.

A country clergyman, while recently
advocating the support Of charitable
object, prefaced the circulation Of the
plate with the following address:
From the great sympathy have wit
messed in your countenances, there is
only one thing am afraid of-that
some OF you may feel inclined to give
too much. Now. 1t is my duty to in
form you that justice should always
be prime virtue to generosity;
therefore. wish to have 1t thoroughly
understood that no person will think
OF putting anything on the plate who
cannot pay his debts" The result was
an overfowing collection.
The Ordway new era., 1908-09-18
Night Sweats & Cough.

E. w. Walton, Condr. 8. p. Ry., III
Van Ness st., San Antonio, Tex,
writes: "During the summer and fall
Of 1902, my annoyance from catarrh
reached that stage where 1t was actual
misery and developed alarming symp-
toms, such as q very deep-seated cough,
night sweats, and pains In the head and
chest. experimental with several So
called remedies before finally decided
to take thorough course Of Peruna.
"Two of my friends had gone SO fer -
to inform me that tho thing for me to do
was to resign my position and seek .
higher, more congenial climate. Every
ono thought had consumption and I
was not expected to live very long.
"Having procured some Peruna, I de-
cided to give 1t thorough test and APP
piled myself assiduously to the task Of
taking 1t, as per instructions, in tho
meantime.
"The effects were soon apparent, all
alarming symptoms disappeared and
my general health became fully as good
as it had ever been in my life.
81 have resorted to tho use Of Peruna
on two or three occasions since that
time to cure myself Of bad colds"
The Ordway new era., 1908-09-18
PLANT TRAMP BY INSTINCT.
California Cactus Blows Around the
Desert for Months.

Curious among vegetable growths
and one which Is seldom seen OF men
is the ootless cactus of the California
desert, says the Technical World.
This plant. round. compact growth.
rolls about the levoi fioo- Of the des-
ert for some eight Of hine months OF
the year. tossed hither and yon by
the winds which blow with fierceness
over all Of California's sand plat dur
ing those months.
At the coming OF the rains. or
rather the cloudburs,s, which sweep
the desert In its sprinst!me, this cac-
tus takes root wherever 1t happens to
have been dropped by the last wind
OF which 1t was the plaything and I'M
mediately begins to put out all around
1t small shoots, which In turn become
cacti. exactly like the parent plant.
These young growths increase in
size rapidly. sucking the moisture
both from the parent plant and from
the surrounding earth. The roots do
not penetrate the soil deeply. but
spread often over circle whose
radius is not less than ten feet. These
roots. too. are small, but practically
innumerable. and they get every bit
Of moisture and plant food TO be had
in the territory they cover.
The Ordway new era., 1908-09-18
EYEsIeHr WAS IN DANGER
From Terrible Eezema-saby's Head
Mass Of Itching Rash and Sores
Disease Cured by cutieura.

"Our little girl was two months old
when she got a rash on her face and
within FIVE days her face and head
were all one sore. We used different
remedies but 1t got worse instead Of
better and we thought she would turn
blind ard that her ears would fall on.
She suffered terribly. and would
scratch until the blood came. This
went on until she was five months old.
then had her under our family doc
tors care. but she continued to grow
worse. He said 1t was eczema. When
she was seven months old started
to use the Cuticura Remedies and in
two months our baby was a different
girl. You could not see sign OF q
sore and she was as fair as a new
born baby. She has not had sign Of
the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke.
LeSueur. Mimi, Apr. Is and May Q. '07."
The Ordway new era., 1908-09-18
Colorado Mining Convention.

Denver-The federal forest bureau
was placed on the griddle Friday after.
noon and sensational charges, directed
chiefly against rangers In the employ
of the department, flew as thick and
fast as the speakers could utter them.
The whole forestry policy OF the gov
ernment was denounced as fraud and
graft and serious menace to the
mining men of the West. Forest rang
ers in Colorado. 1t was charged, are out
to sell timber, cut on public domain.
from which they are vigilant to bar 9th.
ers, at the best price, In order to make
a record in Washington. with the result
that, through their own destruction.
five and ten times more timber Is now
being cut on reserves here than be-
fore the present policies OF the govern
ment came into force. Oppression of
the prospector by tyrannical demands
and ignorance is preventing hard work
ing miners from securing patents to
valuable stakes, according to some
speakers. The policy Of placing forest
reserves above timber line was scoffed
at. Lively debate on the subject was
brought out by the charges and the
convention was about evenly divided
on the value of the forest service.
The department and Mr.. Pinchot
were not without their friends in the
convention.
"In century from now," said James
F. Callbreath, Jr., when the full ini-
portance of the present policy to pre-
serve the nations forests is realized,
the name of clifford Pinchot will rank
next to that of George Washington as
a public benefactor."