Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-01
THEATERS UNITE FOR
MANAGERS BENEFIT
EVERY PLAYHOUSE IN TOWN
REPRESENTED
Varied and Highly Attractive Program
viii Be Presented at the Mason
Opera House This
Afternoon

The Mason opera house will be the
Mecca OF the local player folk this
afternoon, when the annual benefit of
the Los Angeles Theatrical Managers
association will occur
The sale of seats, as reported at the
managers meeting yesterday, exceeds
all previous records for similar enter
tainments and the rare worth OF the
program makes 1t certain that the large
audience will be treated to an AFTER
noon of unusually good dramatic and
musical effort.
Promptly at / o'clock the orchestra
of forty men, supplied through the
kindness of the Musicians Mutual Pro
tective association and under the d.
rection of A. f. Frankenstein, Will play
the opening overture and from that
hour until o'clock acts from every
local playhouse will appear.
Eleanor Kent is coming down to the
Mason from the Auditorium in her
quaint Geisha costume, with eyes
aslant, with the Cupid's arch on her
Japanes-y lips and enveloped in a gor-
geous red kimono. Miss Kent Will sing
some of her most fetching numbers
from "The Geisha" and will vie for
vocal honors with Adele Harrington,
whose reputation as singer is not
so great locally as her fame as an
actress; but Miss Harrington is pretty
sure to surprise a lot of people VINO
forget that once upon a time--and not
so very long ago at that-she was one
of the foremost of the country's s comic
opera prima donnas.
Ida O'Day, the charming miss who
plink-plank- -plunks on the banjo. Will
render several selections, and Daisy
Harcourt the volatile little English
woman, will also desert the Orpheum
stage for the time being and add her
70 hn
other act from the Orpheum is Hoey
and Lea, who term themselves Song
manufacturers"-a phrase they have a
perfect right to use, inasmuch as they
write all of their own stuff"
"The Man on the Box"
Max Figmans droll comedy, as dis
played in 1.-THE Man on the Box, VIII
find many warm admirers when he and
his supporting company play an act
of the funmaking piece in which he is
appearing this week at the Los An
geles theater.
The entire Belasco company, as well
as a big force of stage carpenters and
property men, will participate In the
farce "The Critic"-one of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan's most brilliant dra-
matte compositions, in which two local
newspaper writers will make their IN
itial appearances as actors--actors for
an afternoon at least. "The Critic"
was frequently used by Augustin
Daly's company when Hobart Bosworth
was one of the prominent members of
that one time famous organization. and
the piece will be given under Mr.. Bos-
worth's personal direction.
Manager Moroscos players in an act
of "a Trip to Chinatown" will sing,
dance and otherwise amuse the audi
ence and show that their best work
is not always done in serious dramatic
endeavor. A sketch called 1.-THE Cook
Lady" probably based on a portion of
Home" will enlist the services of Car
rie Clarke Ward and number of the
Burbank players. The sketch is the
work of Sedley Brown, who will also
act as general stage director at the
benefit.
The Fischer company, headed by the
versatile Bessie Tannehill will sing a
number of songs and the Grand. opera
house company will offer an act of the
current BILL Forgiven" while Jack
Symonds will have a brief respite from
his work at the Empire to come to the
Mason and hand out budget of bright
sayings and new songs. The Strollers
quartet. an organization of considerable
local repute. will sing and Lola Quinn
will offer some new Indian songs of a
novel character.
Even the Managers VIII Work
While the actors will of course offer
the major portion of the entertainment
at the benefit, to the initiated play pa
tron not the least interesting sight will
be Charles York, manager of the Los
Angeles theater, taking tickets at the
door and Oliver Morosco and John
Blackwood handing out programs; and
then Harry Wyatt, the dean of the
local managers, threatens to make
brief speech for the purpose of ac-
quainting the audience with the fact
that the Theatrical Managers associa-
ton does much worthy charitable work
in a quiet, unostentatious and altogeth-
er untheatrical manner. Mr.. Wyatt
will offer figures that run considerably
above the 10000 mark as an evidence
of the charity he and his fellow man
ayers of the association have done dur
ing the past four years. while more
than an even dozen actors and ac-
tresses who will be in the audience
will bear silent testimony to the good
works of the organization.