Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-07

i the end, however, think both players
/ would do better 20 put more feryor into
/ their lovemaking. Theirs is no kinder
| garten passion and it deserves a more
emotional expression than was given
| 1t last night.
Miss Hall and Miss buffet wear sew
eral unusually line gowns in this play
| ting of the first act, repeated for the
| third. being especially good.
| Several members of the Belasco COM
pany, who will themselves play parts
| in another version of the same play at
| the Belasco theater tonight, saw the
Burbank production yesterday after
noon as guests of Manager Morosco.
The Gayety company at the Grand
revived their recent success, "Gayest
Manhattan, a Cocktail in Two Sips,
Yesterday afternoon, and apparently
the thirst for this spicy concoction Is
still unslaked, for the first sip OF the
cocktail was swallowed with just the
correct judicial approval, and the sec
ond with undisguised delight.
The revival serves to introduce some
new lines, q few new stories ana, no
tably, q new leading woman, Miss
Helen Goff. who has succeeded Miss
Edna Sidney.
Miss Goff comes from most sue
cessful season in concert work through
the middle west, and her appearance
In musical comedy is a step toward
the attainment of her ambition for the
operatic stage. In the bill this week
she has little to do, but was kindly
received by patrons of the house. She
has a pair of languorous eyes, a vi
vacious and graceful figure, and these
surely may be counted as aids in max
ing a success of her stage career.
She was not quite familiar with her
lines yesterday afternoon, but that Is
a detail a few more performances Will
remedy, and with the accession of
little more confidence Miss Gof may
be expected to take her place among
the favorites of the company.
The bathing girls repeated their sue
cess of a few weeks ago, and Charles
Giblyn in his character of the old actor
brought tears and laughter to the lis
teners as he gave the serio-pathetic
recitative Those Were the Palmy
Days" The mining stock transaction.
in which Mr.. Giblyn sells the gold
brick, is also funny bit, perhaps fun
nier to those who have not needed the
insidious stories of mining and real
estate agents.
Miss Blondell made her usual hit in
all her songs and in this weeks bill
she has a good number. Miss Schuyler
as the country girl and later as the
bride with her Needles and Pins"
song was quite as funny as ever.
The remainder of the cast is the
same that drew crowded houses to the
Grand for three successive weeks ear
lier in the season.
The melodrama season opened auspi-
ciously at the Peoples theater yester-
day afternoon. The house, closed for
several months, proved too small to
accommodate the matinee crowd and
many persons were turned away. The
play, 1.-THE Montana Limited" proved
to be a genuine thriller and the audi
ence consequently whistled, cheered
and applauded through four acts.
There was this difficulty, however,
hero and villain, twin brothers. were
played by one man and occasionally
the gallery had some difficulty in de-
termining whether it was proper to
applaud or hiss, despite the fact that
Harry P. Dewey, cast in the dual roles.
really acted two characters instead of
one, differentiating them skillfully.
OF course the bad twin holds up
railroad train; equally, of course, the
good twin is suspected of the crime.
Finally he is arrested, his sweetheart
believes him guilty and seemingly
everything is going to the dogs at
once when the bad brother is provi-
dentially shot and all ends happily.
There is a comedy Indian in the cast.
Ordinarily Indians are not comedians.
Seldom indeed, are comedians Indians.
This comedian tries to be because the
authors script seems to require 1t, but
he doesn't succeed to any marked ex-
tent.
"The Montana Limited" will continue
through the week, with matinees this
afternoon, Wednesday and Saturday.
1t Is a good show of its kind, we'll
played and adequately staged.
Manager Blackwood Of the Lewis S.
Stone company is the first person Who
has been known to complain that the
Auditorium Is too small. Saturday aft
ernoon, with S412 admissions paid for,
the sale of tickets was stopped and
more than 1900 disappointed persons
were turned away from the box office
because the police demanded that no |
more be allowed to enter the spacious
house.
This is believed to establish a new
record for matinee attendance at local |
theaters and confirms the frequently |
assertion that the Auditorium
is about the best matinee theater in the
country.
The Stone company will continue
1.-THE College Widow for this week
only, with four matinees = today, |
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
I'VE could keep The College Widow |
on for three and perhaps four weeks to
crowded houses" said Mr.. Blackwood |
yesterday, "were it not for the fact |
that we feel convinced the theater-go-
ing public of Los Angeles wants to see |
members of the Lewis S. Stone COM
pany in other plays as quickly as pos
sible. OF course they know just about |
what sort of work Mr.. Stone himself |
can do, but they want to see Miss Oak
ley Mr.. Farren, Mr.. Standing, Mr. |
Southard, Miss Lewis, Miss Noyes and
the others of the organization in line
of stage endeavor totally different from
that displayed in The College Widow
And of course it's up to the manage
ment to give the public as near to
what it wants as is possible"
Frederick Belasco, asked last night
what he meant by the statement in his
that his theater is pro-
ducing "the only original New York
version" of 1.-THE Devil" said: II refer
you to the cast Of characters Of the two |