Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30

door and the stage manager looks
them over very carefully to see that
first of all they are well formed and
pretty or with features that can be
made pretty with grease paints. He
will take about twice as many as they
expect to use and then they are turned
over to the producer of the dances.
Miss Florence Leslie at the Unique
theater outlined the methods she uses.
Miss Leslie is considered one of the
best on the Pacific coast in her line OF
work.
at will be hard to tell you just how
1 produce a dance number" said MISS
Leslie. "as each one is so different.
Much depends on the ability of your
girls. If they can dance all kinds OF
step dancing, 1t is easier, as hand mo-
ton is not hard to teach bevy OF
girls. My experience has taught me
to be kind and patient with chorus;
a word of cheer will do more good
than a frown. l find the western girl
by far the best dancing girl. yet the
eastern girl makes the best show girl.
A chorus girl has more chances of ad-
vancement in Los Angeles than any
city l know of, on account OF the stock
houses, but were a girl to ask my ad-
vice as to whether she should try the
stage for a livelihood 1 would say no.
The chances of success are against her
hearsal after rehearsal, and then the
working of matinees. Long night
shows and late hours all have bad ef-
fects on the. chorus girl of today.
Miss Leslie will resign from the
Unique theater at the end of this Week.
as she will produce several large mu-
steal comedies at the Auditorium and
other leading theaters during the win
ter season, as well as big Christmas
festival.
The author of "The Clansman" may
we'll adapt Fletcher of Saltoun's IA
nous motto and say that he would
rather make a nations dramas than its
laws. One effect of this celebrated
play. which opens tonight at the Ma
son, has been to make the south con-
scious of it's own greatness. In the
mirror of the stage, men and women
of southern descent view the deeds Of
their fathers during the reconstruction
period. and they are proud OF the rec
ord. The heritage is a precious one
how precious many did not realize
until 1.-THE Clansman' came. The
peace and prosperity of the present
are founded on the heroic labors of the
Ku Klux Khan and the other secret
organizations that resisted the iniqui-
tous measures by which it was sought
to reduce the south into a mongrel
satrapy. "The Clansman" pictures the
Ku Klux Khan in a dark crisis of
south Carolina history. 1t shows them
riding to the rescue of the gallant Cam
erons, the high court of justice of the
Khan, the summoning of the order to
put down the carpetbaggers and finally
the Intervention of the Khan when the
mulatto lieutenant governor of the
state had almost succeeded in his pur-
pose to wed a white girl. The play is
true to historical conditions. though
the details are imaginatively conceived.
and it has created a profound sensa-
ton wherever 1t has been played. 1t
will be presented here with a we'll
balanced company and the noted Ku
Klux Khan cavalry of trained horses
and expert riders.
Henry Miller's most successful play,
1.-THE Great Divide" will be played at
the Auditorium this week, with Lewis
S. Stone in Mr.. Miller's original part OF
Stephen Client, and Florence Oakley as
Ruth Jordan. the part originated by
Margaret Anglin.
Eugenia That's Lawton, who will be