Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03

after an absence of two weeks. The
play is in four acts and fourteen
scenes and Scenic Artist Wallace of
the Grand has been busily engaged for
the past two weeks in preparing for
the production. "A Fighting Chance"
is one of the more recent melodramas
and has never before been presented in
the west.
ORPHEUM-Stella Mayhew, "the
care-free coincidence" is at the head
of the Orpheum bill for this week.
She talks and sings and is assisted
by Billie Taylor Helen Bertram, well
known operatic singer, is the second
name on the list. Miss Bertram is no
stranger here, but this is her first
vaudeville appearance. She will Of
fer a program ranging from grand
operatic selections to popular songs.
The Keane-Briscoe company will
satirize the "llmited marriage" theo-
ries Their comedy is entitled "A
Trial Marriage" Leo Carrillo is COM
ing back and will be heard in his ini-
mitable dialect and mimicry. Leo,
whose home is in Los Angeles, has
made good on Broadway and is now
more familiar to New Yorkers than to
Los Angelenos. Cole and Rags, &C.
centric jugglers complete the list of
new acts and the bill Is rounded out
by the retention for second week of
Frederick brothers and Burns, Bertha
Pertina and the Dunedin troupe of
sensational bicyclists.
EMIRE-Statuesque, magnetic Juliet
Mahr Is the headline attraction at the
Empire next week. Miss Mahr who
has always been a favorite locally,
brings several new songs and a joke
or two" and will doubtless find a well
come. De Verne and Van will present
a comedy sketch and Miss DeVere, an
nounced as "the lady with the real bar
itone voice." will sing several numbers.
AL Franks has turned out another melo-
dramatic farce for the stock company,
"The Undertaken" which promises well
in the way of fun. The Sisters Hill
with illustrated songs, new motion pic
lures and a novelty act will complete
the bill.
FISCHER'S-For this weeks show at
Fischer's VIII Carleton has produced
new type of comedy, bordering more on
the romantic than have any of his plays
to date. 1.-THE Land Of Dreams" tells
pretty love tale of "Genevieve and
Gordon, dreamers," who wander through
Etheria absorbed in each other and
their love. The wicked king of Etheria,
who is really a usurper, falls in love
WlIn 1eHSVlcV0 anu tHTedleIS 10 IIldke
trouble, but the sweethearts avert the
threatened disaster and live happily
ever after" in the usual light opera
fashion. The opening chorus of the
operetta-comedy, Land of Etheria,"
was written and composed by Mr..
Carleton. Other musical features are
Dreams of Delight" sung by Miss
Bessie Tannehill; "If There Hadn't
Been an Apple on the Tree" by Herb
Bell and chorus; "One Little Sweet
Little Girl" by Evan Baldwin and
chorus, and "Flirty Eyes" by Miss
Nellie Montgomery and chorus. A new
of motion pictures and the
usual vaudeville act precede the playlet.
UNIQUE - Gilbert and Sullivan's
merry opera, ",rhe Pirates of Pen
zance," done over into tabloid form,
will be c. T. Wippern's offering at the
Unique this week. Lew Dunbar will
have the role Of the major general.
Billy Onslow will play the sergeant of
police and George REIN the pirate
king. Maude Beatty and Lola Rad
cliffe, in important parts, will sing
several musical numbers.
The comedy company will present
Richard Cummings farce, "Retribu-
tion." which will offer Cummings him
self, Willis West Charles Perley, Jack
Katherine Merley. Make
Mitchell and Ethel Thornton in the
cast. Illustrated songs by George REIN
and moving pictures by the Unique-o-
scope will fill in the time between acts.