Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

sometimes misleading. In proof
~ of that assertion permit me to say
to you, Mrs. West Adams Street, there
is nothing incrlminating in that allur-
ing silken garter which fell from
| Hubbys pocket as he leaned over to
crank the machine, preparatory to his
trip to the office this morning. Natur-
ally, when you saw it you had visions
of THE Girl, the Man and the Ali
mony." Probably you speculated in
dignantly upon the Girls character,
though you may have thought there
was little room for doubt on that score.
Doubtless you planned a bad quarter
of an hour for the Man; and If the
Alimony entered into your calculations
at all it was merely as an unimportant
detail.
But you are wrong; wholly wrong.
Hubby came by that garter, perfumed
though it is, innocently enough. No,
he didn't pick 1t up on the street. He
wouldn't expect you to believe a tara
diddle like that. And, yes, it has been
worn. OF course it has. Who would
think of keeping as a souvenir garter
which never had fulfilled its proper
destiny? Yet, 1 repeat, there is moth
sion of this lavender-colored entice-
ment.
A Cause for Grievance
Your only just cause for grievance,
Mrs. West Adams Street, is the fact
that Hubby didn't take you with him
when he went to the Grand last night,
for that garter was thrown at him by
a pretty girl on the stage, and he would
indeed have been ungallant had he
not given it pocket room, Yet after all,
that first vision of yours was not so
far out of the way, for the Grand show
this week is called THE Man, the Girl,
the Alimony," and the garter is merely
an incident in one of the musical num-
bers.
Mile. Charmion, believe. was the
first young woman to popularize the
garter souvenir on this side of the
Atlantic. That was considerably more
than a decade ago, and since Char
mion'S day there have been many
young women who have distributed
silken elastic favors to admiring mas
culinity. At the Grand this week there
are six of them. They toss off their
garters while swinging high above the
heads of the front rows, which doubt |
less will make front seats popular even
If 1t has no other effect upon attend |
ance.
A Hot Weather Show
1.-THE Girl, the Man, the Alimony'
is merely 81 frivolous, hot weather
show, with a plot so attenuated that it
is scarcely worth the trouble of dis
CONeIy. AHdIdCI6TS HI Il6 COIItQy
come upon the stage at intervals and
talk. For the most part the talk is in
TsIJ9lBWmI puB luBAeI9III 'lu9l9dmoo |
Then they make their exits. Musical
Director Benedict Kirk Patrick waves
his baton, the chorus cavorts and |
carols and the audience forgets, tenn
porarily, it's grievance against Weather
man Wollaber.
There are something more than
bakers dozen of musical numbers in
the show and one bit of acting, con-
tributed by Miss Elise Schuyler, that
Is good enough to frame. Harry War
dell has q Louis Mann makeup and a
Louis Mann part Aubrey Carr wears
a uniform and is supposed to be a
captain of something or other. Libby
is a wife whose husband is in
love with her. who dotes on cats and
who is not averse to a jolly little fiirta-
ton, when the opportunity offers.
Charles Gyblin provides the oppor-
tunity. with results that make him
much envied by men in the audience.
Thomas Haverly is a senator whose
speeches indicate that he must have
been elected on a tidal wave, their
humor is SO exceedingly wet. Edna
Sydney is pretty girl, and that's about
all there is to the plot.
The Musical Numbers
The best of the musical numbers are
Stupid Mr.. Cupid" sung by Miss
Schuyler; an operate and familiar
medley, allotted to Mr.. Wardell;
Thomas Haverly's II Want Everybody
to be Happy" a pathetic ditty in which
Mr.. Carr explains that he must have
lot of little girls around him-and has
them; a ballad of the young woman
who was good because she didn't know
how to be bad, sung by Miss Blondell;
'They Say He Went to College," eff
fectively delivered by Mr.. Gyblin with
the aid of the chorus, and the "Yama
Yama Man." by Miss Sydney and
chorus. Feature numbers are the
swing song, with its sartorial and gar
terial display, and the "See Saw" num-
ber, which serves as a finale to the
first act.
The costumes are good, and in the
case Of the ponies sufficiently varied.
The chorus, however, prances nimbly
the two acts without a single
change, and two of the girls who have
speaking parts, important to the de-
velopment of the near-plot. play their
roles in chorus costumes. which is more