Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
DR.. AND MRS. WILLIAM j. BRIZIUS,
The latter formerly Miss Bessie
Quintin

Quintin
came the sincerest of praise. The play
is one it will do you good to see, and
you will probably have a fortnight in
which to accomplish it-but don't take
chance; see it today; it's worth it.
'sThe Love Route" which was revived
at the Belasco theater last evening,
serves as an excellent medium for the
full display of the powers of the new
leading players Miss Lowell Alice
Taylor is especially favored and those
who saw her last week and formed the
idea that her sole purpose in life was
to wear stunning gowns and conf1ne
herself merely to decorative art Will
be pleased this week to see her bring
her fist down on the table with round,
life sized, able bodied "damn!"
Miss Taylor last evening proved she
was more than an ornament for the
Belasco stage. She can wear khaki,
leggings and revolver belt and boss
Texas ranch with surprising vigor and
is far more pleasing as an active hesh
and blood young woman than she was
in the colorless autonoman like part
vouchsafed her in "Strongheart" last
week.
Van Buren, is also happily placed. AS
railroad engineer in Texas he has OPP
portunity to dress a part with clothes
that show his pulchritude and athletic
form to great advantage. He allows
no opportunities for heroics, with
which the play is filled, to slip by
without his full attention He and Miss
Taylor handle the scenes that verge
close upon melodrama in manner
that is worthy of highest praise.
The ensemble work and the stage
management are the same artistic dis
plays that made the play success at
the Belasco q few months since. Among
the supporting company there are sew
eral worthy of special mention. Doro-
thy Bernard is good as the frleno OF
| the heroine Charles Ruggles was the
secretary, and did as good a bit of
character acting as has been seen here
| for a long time. Ben Graham made
| hit as a cowboy, and the former Dox
| office man, Phillip White, earned his
spurs as actor in the role OF the Mexl-
can.
To the average mind the show Of
fered at the Orpheum this week is one
that lives up to the name, variety
It gives one almost anything one may
ask, save grand opera; there Is even
a burlesque of that.
Edna Phillips and her clever COM
pany are first favorites. They nave an
active sketch called Lost: A hlss IA
Central Park" which carries the audi
ence quite off it's feet. 1t is based on
the mixup of two advertisements, one
for a lost-oh, naughty!-"plnk trllle
called a garter in plain Engnsn-
though such a dainty one can never
be termed ''plain"-and the other Tor
kiss. Both advertisements are signed
Honey" and they come from a mis-
tress and her French maid. 1t is not
hard to tell which lost the garter
though both, probably, lost kisses. In
the finding of these come in an Italian
fiddler, lunatic, policeman ana
Jack" In the end, though the maid
gets her garter, Jack doesn't get ms
kiss, as the lunatic is too many 1or
him. The skit is one continual iaugh,
owing to the rapidity of it's playing
and the skill of the performers 1t is
given in the most beautiful setting ever
seen on the Orpheum stage-Whlch, py
the way, belongs to the house and not
to the company.
The Grassys have one novelty-an
illusion act which thoroughly conYinces
you that you are looking INTO a MIR
ror till the reflection steps out and
walks about with his double. There
is a bit of a dance to open the sk1t,
some acrobatic work interspersed and
some musical stunts to close it.
Carter and Bluford, Cubans, do songs
and dances in costume, ranging from
the "coon" through the Spanish and
the rube to the Indian, and do them all
well. Their Indian setting is gorgeous.
The Wilson brothers have skit they
call "a Padded Cell" though just why
does not appear. 1t is a mixture of
patter and song with some good yodels
thrown in, and it goes big. McPhee
and Hill, as 1.-The clown and the tired
man." have some good horizontal bar
,.t NfA loft. roc cir an n
throwing is excellent. They do the
double giant swing and few other
feats seldom seen outside of a circus.
They incidentally throw in some COM
edy CD pantomime that is bit fu-
nereal.
The other holdovers are the DeHaven
sextet; in new costumes; the four
Baltus in their remarkable gymnastic
work and Willie and Eugene Howard,
in new patter and songs. Good pic
lures finish the excellent program.
"Three of a Kind" at Flscher's
proved itself a very clever travesty on
1.-THE Three Twins" now running at
the New York Herald Square theater,
and last nights audiences at the little
First street playhouse were more than
pleased with it. Following, of neces-
sity, something of the plot developed
in the New York piece, Mr.. kelly's
travesty tells an extremely funny story
of complications arising from a SINH
larity of appearance between pair
of twins and young gallant Who dis
guises himself to resemble them that
he may visit his sweetheart Ben 7.
Dillon. cast as fussy old military
man, retired, is the life of the comedy.
Frank Vack and Max Ascher, as the
real twins, and Fred Lancaster as the
impetuous lover are all well to the fore
in the making, while Marguerite
Favar, a giggling girl, Nellie Mont
gomery, as a statuesque companion to
the generals ward, and Laurel Atkins,
as the weepy wife of one of the twins,
complete the cast. There are several
well presented musical numbers, nota-
bly, "Fanella," a serenade, sung by
Fred Lancaster and chorus; Rosy
Rambler" by Nellie Montgomery and