Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

AS for that water, thing, truth, you
know, is sometimes found at the bot
tom of well, and l shall live in hope
until the Bartlett return
Hugh Allen Saxon. temporarily re-
formed member of the craft in which
Bartlett is a shining light-no, not
mark-returned last week from San
Diego, where he has been boosting the
dramatic fortunes of the Gardiner stock
company at the Isis theater. When
Saxon started in there were three stock
organizations in the city -by-the- The
osophfStS. Now there is one, and that
one is at the Isis. His very first stunt
made the, San Diegans sit up and
abandon their Philadelphia habits. The
company opened in 1.-The Case of Re-
bellious Susan" Saxon got hold of
bulldog and trained the brute to carry.
Then he acquired a suit case, labeled
it THE Case of Rebellious Susan" and
started the dog on a stately promenade
around town. A bootblack tried to
steal the case and there was more ex-
element in half a minute than San
Diego had seen since the Bennington
disaster or the pursuit OF Dora Ben1is.
Tomorrow night Joseph Kilgour, for
merly of the Ferris stock company,
opens an engagement with the Gardiner
company in "A Pair of Spectacles."
Saxon tells me also that Henry Dug
gan and his wife, known professionally
as Anna l.. Bates, who have been with
the now defunct Garrick stock will
leave San Diego tonight for New York.
Like Kigour, both of them were men,
bers of the Ferris company during its
local season at the Auditorium.
Oliver Morosco has acquired control
of the Garrick theater and is playing
travelling attractions there. 1t is ru-
mored in San Diego, however, that he
intends to put melodramatic stock
organization into the house for the
summer. Likewise 1t is considered
probable that Henry C. Wyatt will have
new theater in San Diego before
many months. The house is to be built
by Spreckels and plans already have
been submitted.
There are folk who would joke at a
funeral, even an Ibsen funeral.
Passing out of the Mason Thursday
night after Mrs. Patrick Campbell's
fine performance of "Hedda Gabler'' l
overheard a man say to friend:
This character OF Hedda reminds
me of Willie Golfers conundrum,
What is 1t that has feathers, stands
on one leg and barks like dog?' Col
liers victim ordinarily gave 1t up and
the comedian would then reply, "A
stork'
Of course the other chap would i'm
mediately complain that stork doesn't
bark like a dog. whereupon Collier
would add: L know. / just put that
in to make 1t more difficult.
That's what Ibsen did with the
character of Hedda Gabler. He put a
lot of stuff in to make it more diff
cult and then, l presume. he sat down
and laughed at the joke he had played"
All of which is timidly submitted for
the indignant consideration of Harry
Mestayer, local high priest of he Ibsen
cult.
Encouraged by the large success of
"My Yankee Sailor Boy" which al
ready has sold 5000 copies in Los An
geles alone Oliver Morosco and Joseph
Montrose now are at work upon an
other song which probably will be
heard for the first time in public in
next weeks production of "A Bunch |
of Keys. at the Burbank theater. The |
famous Old farce is to have big pro-
duction, with a chorus of some twenty |
or more singers. 1t will mark the Sec
ond Hoyt revival at the Burbank with