Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST NIGHTER

NHE week in local theaters offers
but one novelty OF Importance, the
presentation upon the Burbank
stage of Masters of Men," political,
sociological drama from the pen OF
Avery Hopwood, author of Clothes"
The Auditorium and Mason are dark.
The Los Angeles and Grand offer repe-
titions of their last weeks attractions,
and at the Belasco the stock company
will revive 1.-THE Wife,"
Rehearsals of the Lewis S. Stone
company, which Is to occupy the Audi
torium beginning with August 81 PROB
ably will begin some time this week.
The company is expected to reach here
today, under the chaperonage OF John
H. Blackwood.
The September kaleidoscope probably
will bring the musical organization
now at the Princess theater, san Fran
cisco, to the Grand here, while the
Gayety company, now here, goes on the
road, and Kolb and Dill, now at the
Los Angeles theater, occupy the
Princess stage. Managerial verihcation
of this program Is lacking, but the
statements made probably are correct.
So far as the Kolb and Dill plans
are concerned, have them from Mr..
Kolb himself, who told me the other
day that he and his abbreviated part
ner would open at the Princess Sep
tember % for twenty weeks. They
plan to present revised versions of
musical comedies and burlesques new
to the coast but which made good IN
New York last season. Certain of
these pieces will have to be recon
structed in order to give play to the
well known Kolb-Dill style of humor,
but that feature presents no very great
difficulties.
Booking arrangements for the Cay
Hafr or
the agents have not been asked for
time for the Princess organization,
which seems to indicate that the Los
Angeles engagement already has been
determined. The Princess theater and
company, by the way, are under Or
pheum management; Wnlle the Grano
is managed by Clarence Drown, an i'm
portant figure in the Orpheum corpora
tion, and local manager of the Los
Angeles Orpheum.
Recently the Princess company has
presented such pieces as THE Girl
Bridal Trap" and 1.-THE Song Birds"
oIt Happened in Nordland,'' "The
Kingmaker," and Tar and Tartar"
In the organization are May Boley,
William Burress, Arthur Cunningham,
Zoe Barnett, Sarah Edwards, Evelyn
Frances Kellogg, Walter de Leon, wal
ter Catlett, Charles E. Couture and
Oscar c. APPEL.
Manager oliver Morosco has just
signed contracts for the early produc-
tion at the Burbank theater OF a num-
Der Of plays which have met with con-
siderable success during the past sea-
son. A few Of these plays already have
been seen in Los Angeles at the Ma
son. Others never have been presented
here. Among them are MY Wife"
which John Drew and Billy Burke
played at the Mason a few months ago,
and Caught in the RAIN" clever
comedy which Willie Collier showed
us upon the same stage. Others are
''The Jester" in which Maude Adams
scored one of the greatest artistic sue
cesses of her career, and Her Sister,"
successfully played in the east by Ethel
Barrymore.
my Wife" will be the first Of these
plays to be presented at the Burbank
1t will be used during the farewell
week of Miss Blanche Hall, as the
Billy Burke role seemingly will fit Miss
Hall as though it had been written for
her.
Elise Schuyler Of the Gayety company
at the Grand was asked recently to
usurp the prerogatives of the beauty
doctors and draw up a set of rules de-
signed to preserve for apprehensive
femininity that greatly desired peachi-
ness of complexion ordinarily attained
by women on the stage, whether in
the spot lights path or the back row
of the chorus.
Now Miss Schuyler is of a somewhat
whimsical turn of mind, but she appre-
ciated the seriousness of this request
and set herself to work to snatch their
laurels from the charming heads of
the always-young women whose habi-
tats are the advertising pages Of the