Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-24


m HERE'S an animal act at the Or
pheum this week that is one of the
"A ,est things of the kind ever seen on
local stage. The animal is a cat,
the cat Is "Pinkie Prlm," whose ex-
ploits are depicted each week in The
IIerald's comic supplement, and the
man inside is David Abrahams. The
cat appears incidentally in Joseph
Hart's vaudeville novelty, Polly
Pickles Pets in Petland," but the cat,
nevertheless, Is the star of the act
Other characters in this Petland now
city are a dog, parrot an elephant
and Teddy Bear. in addition to Polly
Pickle, the little girl who owns the pets,
and a quartet of Buster Browns. The
act is we'll staged and the animals are
natural enough to amuse anybody.
Next on the list of newcomers is La
Sylphe, dancer. This young woman
contributes three dance solos to the
program; the first, conventional toe
dance; the second, a Persian Gigo-
lette," which, when translated into cur
rent vaudevillese, seems to mean merely
high kicking: and the third, contor-
tion dance, performed in Oriental cos
tune. and which is announced on the
program as "Salome," though the Incl.
dent of the seven wells has been care
fully expurgated. The Salome dance,
most remarkable of the three. is per-
formed not with the feet alone, but
with the dancers entire body. La
Sylphe turns and twists and comforts
until you are quite certain she hasn't
bone In her body and wouldn't know
what to do with one had niggardly ma
ture been' more liberal with her ossific
faVors
Fred Watson and the Morrisey sis
ters-two of them-present a somewhat
conventional song and dance act which,
however, went big with yesterday af-
ternoon's audience.
The Rosaires. a man and a woman.
work on wires; the man on a slack
wire and the woman on a tight Wire
Their stunts range from those ordinari-
ly presented in such acts to actual now
elites.
Numbers held over from last week
are Emmett Dewey and his company in
"In preamland." sketch evidently
based upon "a Message from Mars"
with a little Pat and the GenieS
thrown in for good measure les freres
Riego, equilibrists; Kara, modern Jug
gler, and James F. Mcdonald. singing
comedian and story teller.
The moving picture man breaks into
the program twice this week, the first
time with an exceptionally good spec
tacle of factory fire in France
Miss Mary Shaw. who this week is
playing Mrs. Warren's Profession"
will continue through next week at the
Los Angeles theater. presenting George
Bernard Shaw's candida" and per-
haps Major Barbara" which never
has been done here. Major Barbara"
has been in rehearsal for some time
past, but there is doubt whether it
will be ready by next week. If not,
the entire time will be devoted to o-"Can-
dida," play which will present Miss
Shaw in a role wholly dissimilar from
Mrs. Warren and which should provide
q conclusive test of her versatility.
"Candida,' it will be remembered, was
presented at the Belasco theater last,
year with Lillian Albertson in the name
part and Richard Vivian as the young
poet, Lewis s. Stone playing Candida's
husband.
"The Man from Catalina" presented
by the Unique comedy company this
week, is full of comical situations.
Ethel Thornton renders a yodel song
and Lola Radcliffe and Edward Tame
hill sing a Dutch dialect song. both of
which made hit last night.
The Unique Musical Burlesque COM
many presents "Gay Palm Beach," a
snappy little operetta in one act. Maude
Beatty, a dashing young widow. sings
Lucia; Richard Kipling. Good By,
Dixie Dear" and Lew Dunbar, Il
Picked a Lemon in the Garden of
Love-" Kate Carlson as the mechanic
cal doll George REIN as Patrick O'Cal-
lahan and Hugh Metcalf as the gay old
widower complete the cast. Between
acts Edward Tannehill sings Illus
trated songs and the Unique-o-Scope
projects new Maison Doree films.
Fritz Fields, one of the comedians of
the Edgar Temple opera company, took
his first look at Los Angeles yesterday.
He arrived in the morning, and he
hasn't vet got over marveling at the
city he found here. Also, he hasn't dis
posed of fur-lined overcoat which he
lugged along.
"Id like to give it away said he,
rather mournfully which is a. way
comedians have, but nobody wants the
durn thing. Imagine me going into the
Alexandria, where men were sitting
about without waistcoats. carrying a
fur-lined coat! shope / will be able
to raise the same laugh from the stage
that / did about 10:30 this morning"
Fields is just from Broadway, and he
says things are not looking good back
there.
SCORES of companies closed in the
east this season. and the Rialto is
swarming with Thespians at liberty
as we put it. They talk about their
hard times being over but they're not
yet. This is the most prosperous place
on the map; it does my eyes good to
see the swarms of people on the streets
and in the shops. This is real; back
there the people on the streets are
usually looking for work. And the
middle west isn't better; only last week
delegations from commercial bodies
were in Washington pleading with the
president for relief. Gee, but If New
York's Broadway looked like your
Broadway
Fields can't solve one Los Angeles
problem; Why the tall palms do not
shave. The long drooping boards Of