Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
The Theaters
COMING ATTRACTIONS

Temple opera company at the AUDI
torium. This is the operas first sea-
son in stock, and its gorgeous music
and florid arias, not to mention the
sextette, will give members of the Tenn
pie organization ample opportunities.
both in a local way and in point of
acting. "Florodora s. recent run at the
New York Casino is still untouched,
and the hit made then by the seXtet
remains unique in the theatrical his
tory of late years. The cast includes
Harry eastman as Gilfain, Fritz Field
as Tweedlepunch, Eleanor Kent as
Dolores, Edna MaisOn as Angela,
Laura Wallace in the role of Lady
Holyrood, Alfred MacGahan in the
tenor role Of Donegal, Willard Clawson
as Abercoed and Grave Vance as Val
leda. This being fleet week, naval box
PARTIES have been arranged for every
night and especially will the Jolly jack
targ be catered 10, as the sailor girls
VIII wear their RIBBONS and will sing
Tor their special edification.
Following "t'lorodora" will come
"tThe Geisna," another opera new to
stock.
BELASCO-DeVid Belasco's Califor-
mia melodrama, THE Girl of the Col
den West" Will continue for a third
week at this house, with Miss Alice
Treat Hunt in the role of the girl. The
play has packed the Belasco at each
performance during the past fortnight,
a remarkable record for the closing
weeks of Lent
1,rrT1 u MI ATouooo,. Morosro
provided many extra features for
Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown" which
opens at the Burbank this afternoon,
TO begin with there is a chorus of
twenty-four pretty Los Angeles girls,
who have been rehearsing songs,
dances and marches for the past fort
night. lie will present also double
quartet, and,N as a special feature, the
champion jiu jtsu wrestler of the
world, who will demonstrate the TRICKY
art at each performance, his wrestling
partner being a local Japanese, HIM
self well Versed in the japanese style
of wrestling.
"a Trip 10 Chinatown" is the most
successful farce Charles Hoyt ever
turned out. 1t has been several years
now since it was last seen i'll Los An
geles and the revival is to be made
upon a scale commensurate with the
song numbers will be introduced,
among them a parody on the Merry
Widow Waltz" sung by Blanche Hall,
Henry Stockbridge and chorus; The
Girl Who Threw Me Down." two new
songs to be sung by A. Byron Beasley;
the new Morosco-Montrose song, MY
Sweetheart in the U. S. A. and MY
Yankee Sailor Boy by the same Tyr
icist and composer.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-The visit
ing officers anG men of the fleet will
be welcomed at the Grand with THE
White SQUADRON" a naval romance
that claims the honor of being the only
naval play to score a success since
armor plate superseded ribs of OAK"
and "shiver my timbers' ceased TO
have q meaning. 1.-The White Squad
ron" demonstrates that the navy of
today holds just as much of romance
as in the days of Perry and Farragut.
Its story relates the adventures that
befall a young American commander
= while attending a peace congress OF
nations at Rio. With his ship, the
Chicago, anchored in the bay, the cap
tain is lured inland by a cut-throat
band of guerillas, who use his love for
the beautiful daughter of a Brazilian
general as a bait. The general is
bandits, who have terrorized the coun-
try, and meets an appropriate end.
There are two love stories running
through 1.-THE White Squadron" that of
the American officer and his Brazilian
sweetheart and the other between an
officer of the Brazilian army and
young girl of his own country The
third act of the play Is particularly
brilliant in it's setting, with the COM
of a Ap1ariPnn and fOrnipn
ships attended by their suites, all in
full naval dress on the stage. Incl
dentally, =. George Clancy will sing
a new naval patriotic song, Sailing
Around the Horn"
LOS ANGBLES-Miss Mary Shaw
will produce THE Whirlpool" for the
first time on any stage at the Los An
geles theater tomorrow night. The play
is Miss Shaw's own adaptation of
French drama by Maurice Donnay, a
member of the French Academy. 1t is
sex problem play, the problem, 1t is
said, being viewed from a new angle.
Miss Shaw viii be supported by Mace
Greenleaf, who has been engaged to
create the leading male role in the
play, Miss Gertrude Rutledge and other
local players, in addition to the COM
pany which appeared here few weeks
ago in her support.
MASON-Wilton Lackaye, returning
to Los Angeles after an absence of
more than two years, will be seen dur
ing the week beginning tomorrow night
in the Mason opera house in Hall
Gaines most recent play, The Bond
man." the Manx authors own drama
tization of his well known novel of that
title. 1t is now little more thap twenty
years since "The Bondman" was stimuli
taneously published here and in great
Britain; and that a play made from IT,
should be successful two decades after
ward is very good proof indeed that
this novel has held it's own with the
most popular fiction of the day.
AS a play "The Bondman" was first
made known on September 26, 1906, in
Drury Lane theater London. 1t ran
there until mid December when, forced
off by preparations for the Christmas
pantomime, it was transferred to the
Adelphi theater, where the run was
continued until May 81 last.
MIR. Lackaye's role in The Bondman"
is, Of course, that of Jason of the
North, the huge Icelander whose inher-
ent saVagery and inherited thirst for
vengeance are turned to a spirit of all
consuming self-sacrifice by the uplift-
ing power of love for a good woman.
ORPHEUM-At the head of the bill
this week Is Master Gabriel, the orig
or (1ah-