Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-09

where most of the action takes place.
THE search for the pole is the keynote
of the play and its finding the finale.
Meanwhile. however, one gets faltn-
ful and realistic portrayal of ll1e IN
that northern region. There are scenes
showing the great ship caught by ice
bergs and ground to pieces; the camp
on the ice foes, with the six months
night and the amusements utilized 10
pass the weary hours, the rescue across
the ice pack and the final discovery Oh
the r,ole itself, with the aurora borealls
in the background. tremendous
snow storm is another feature OF much
interest in this snowless region.
Incidental to the stay on the ice are
a number of specialties showing how
the marooned people pass their time
in the six months of darkness, ana
these will bring out Carrie Clarke
Ward Florence Barker, Frank Beam
ish and Hugh Metcalfe. Miss stone,
too. does some clever character work,
as, in order to rescue the party and
bring it to success, she has to disguise
herself as a negro cabin boy, backing
up--a complete change from the Lon
don social pet which she is portraying.
BELASCO-Ihe Belasco stock COM
pany will this week give the first per-
Torrance on any stage of a new farce
melodrama entitled 1.-THE Energetic Mr..
West" 1t is the work of Edgar Sell
Wyn, we'll known playwright of the
east, who has a number of conspicuous
successes to hiS credit. THE Energetic
Mr.. West is a new departure in the
play line, as it combines the rollicking
humor of farce with the more Sensa-
tional episodes of high class melo-
drama.
The central figure of the play is a
man, Percival West, who is in possess
fion of a frigE fully bad memory, so
bad, in fact, that he forgets his own
wedding, which causes his millionaire
father to send Kim out into the world
TO make his own living. The young
man comes to & western town, where
he goes through a series of incidents
that are exciting. to put it mildly. or
course, everything comes out all right
Ill the end, with the young man eleVat-
ed to the office of sheriff and in pos
session of a fabulously rich gold mine.
The play is iii four acts. The first
and last are laid in New York city,
while the other two are in a small
western mining camp. Lewis s. Stone
will play the part of the young Mr..
West and Dorothy Bernard will have
role of more than ordinary Importance
as bOnIY 0d1utA SOIl1 utCI VI kOAlCA-
If Bill Sanderson.
Following 1.-THE Energetic Mr.. Wset"
the company will offer 1.-THE Education
of Elizabeth" spirited comedy that
Is being played st the Criterion theater,
London, where 1t has been successfully
presented during the past year.
URBANK-Manager Morosco an
rounces a revival this week of one of
last seasons biggest successes, Home
Folks" play in four acts by c. I.
azey, author of I'm Old Kentucky,
and If the advance sale of seats may
he used as tho rmometer by which to
Judge the warmth of it's popularity the
piece will surpass even the record es-
Ia blished upon the occasion of the last
presentation by the same company just
one year ago.
William Desmond will be seen in blue
jeans and brogans and the style of role
that goes with them, and it might be
well to state that he is very fond OF
the part he is tc play, that of an hon
est, upright country lad with a heart
az big as his hand. Blanche Hall will
he seen in the role previously essayed
by Miss Mary Van Buren,, while Maude
Gilbert in bare feet and Elsie Esmond
as the slavey will have important parts.
The main portion of the comedy Will
be carried on the shoulders of Henry
Stockbridge and John Burton.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"Why
Girls Leave Home" or "a Danger Sig
nal in the Path to Folly" is the title
of the weeks melodramatic Offering at
the Grand. 1t is the story of another
good girl gone wrong, and as such
will be highly appreciated by those
who like that kind of thing The COM
pany is headed by Francis Boggs, an
actor well known and we'll liked here.
The play is said to be founded upon
a tragedy which took place in an east
ern town in the autumn of 1903, but
the announcements do not give any
further details of place or event. The
main incidents are the quarrel between
a brother and sister which ends in the
kidnapping of the wounded sister by
the villain, her recovery in a suburban
resort" and her sensational escape
Just in time to prevent her brother
from committing suicide in remorse
for having, as he thinks, killed his
sister.
LOS ANGELES-Th theater is dark
this week. Next week will come 1.-THE
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