Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

again, has been postponed, though II
is promised definitely for some time in
July. Week after next the new Mo-
-Bachman play, "A Society Pi-
lot" will have its first performance on
any stage at this house. Soon after
Mr.. Morosco will offer a big musical
revival of "A Parlor Match" with the
largest singing chorus ever heard at
the Burbank.
Within week or two Los Angeles
will have lodge of White Rats. Last
week g preliminary meeting was called
by Jimmy" Lee of the Unique theater,
who organized the San Francisco lodge
and who now purposes to organize a
lodge here. The meeting was well at
tended by professional people, ten ap-
plications for membership being filed.
Mr.. Lee, in a brief speech, outlined the
aims of the order and tolu something of
what it has already accomplished for
vaudeville performers Willis G.. West
of Fischer's theater also spoke briefly.
A second meeting is to be held some
night this week when a date for initia-
ton will be decided upon.
When the Belasco company presents
Clyde Fitch's comedy, "The Girl and
the Judge" tomorrow night, Carrie
Clarke Ward-Brown will appear as
Mrs Carrie Brown. a boarding house
keeper. This realism in the matter of
names seems to have become a habit
| at the Belasco. Recently Jake Wallace
pla. ed h'~---lf upon the Belasco stage
during the run of 1.-THE Girl of the
Golden West" Now Mrs. Brown Is to
play Mrs. Brown, the part created by
Mrs. Mckee Rankin. who was a MEM
ber of Annie Russell's company when
1.-The Girl and the Judge" was first pro-
duced.
Joseph Galbraith, who played the
same role at the Belasco two years
ago, will again play the Judge; and the
comedy will reintroduce Miss Eleanor
| Carey, who has been out of the casts
at the Belasco for the past nine weeks,
her most recent appearance having
been in Facing the Music"
e. d. Leary, formerly dramatic edi-
tor of the Baltimore American, will be
in Los Angeles in few days. Mr..
Leary comes here in the interest OF
Minnie Maddern Fiske, who will pre-
sent Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" at the Be-
| lasco theater later in the month. Ar
thur Forrest, pleasantly remembered
for his fine work In the original Quo
Vadis'' company, is Mrs. Fiske's lead
ing man.
theater stock company will take an
eight weeks vacation beginning July
5. Mr.. Stockbridge expects to visit his
| family at the old home in Ellsworth,
Me. Ellsworth, by the way, is only a
| few miles distant from Bar Harbor,
so that If the charms of rural existence
pail the actor will be able to recreate
among the society folk of that highly
fashionable seaside resort. t,
Oliver Moroscos play of "The Half
Breed" was presented in Portland last
week by the Baker stock company and
proved one of the stroni est drawing
cards that organization has yet Of
fered the Portland playgoing public.
Fay Wallace, formerly ingenue of the
Belasco stock company. has been en-
| gagged to play ingenue roles in the stock
company which Walter Clarke Bellows
will manage at Elitch's Gardens, Dem
yer.
Angela Dolores, an actress we'll
known in the east, and who for several
| years was a member of the Pike the
ater stock company in Cincinnati was
in Los Angeles last week on a summer
| pleasure trip, which will include the
coast states, from Southern California
| to Washington. Miss Dolores work
has been almost entirely in stock or
ganizations. Therefore she finds re-
creation in travel, which to many of
her sister players is the hardest kind
of hard work.