Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-26

china, and since them she has been
practicing tray manipulation,
Some friend suggested the cafeteria
idea, and since then she has been con-
| s1stent 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 a 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 Heaiy closed Il three weeks sea-
| son in Portland last night, during
which he presented "Fantana." "Floro-
dora" and ''rhe 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 a niece of May
Irwin.
Joseph Montrose, composer, press
agent, stage director, musician, racon-
teur and half dozen other things as
well, is telling a new story. Being
press agent, Joe's story naturally serves
to advertise his wares but 1t isn't
bad yarn, and so here it is.
The Montrose headlight, 1t seems. was
shining refulgently the other evening
against similarly tinted mahogany
| background, in a place where they
serve 1t 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 a resident of Los Angeles.
| H.. cot Tna of 10 mint
narrative becomes a reported, and de-
tails the conversation he overheard. as
| follows
Been here long?" asked the sailor
"'Bout two years"
Good town."
'Fair, but they're awfully slow here.
The theaters give plays l seen in New
| York eighteen months ago: and yes
| terday my tailor offered to sell me
suiting jimmy Tasker tried to hand me
half year before l came west. why.
PHILIPS q live one compared to this
burg. The songs are so old out here
they got whiskers on EN-"
I'VE got a good piece on the ship,
the other day."
$50? What was it?"
my Yankee Sailor Boy" S
That's just 1t. D'you know? I 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 Ii in New
York now, but it only reached there
last Tuesday The former New Yorker,
however, is probably still telling his
friends what dead slow place Los An
geles really is.
Tomorrow nights presentation of
"The Gesha" will be the first of that
tuneful opera locally in several years,
and 1t should receive 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. it 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
1t Fritz Fields, Harry Eastman and
Laura Wallace will have the comedy
roles, and as "Erminie" is essentially
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 a summer stock COM
| pany.
Dick Ferris and Florence Stone are
going to Minneapolis about the same
time, and it 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 1t
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.