Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-24

here at the Burbank will he the first
the drama has had In the west. IL 1t
meets with the success expected Mr..
Morosco will then present Ibsen's So
ple," said to be along similar lines.
In a recent letter written by John
Daily Murphy to one of his friends in
the Belasco company, Mr.. Murphy says
he is having the time of his life riding
to hounds In the east Just az present
the former Belascoite Is visiting
friend who is member of one of the
swagger hunt clubs. He admits that
few of the club members have been
able to show him a trick or two in
cross country riding, but says that he
has managed to uphold the dignity OF
the Belasco riding club with fair sue
cess to date. Incidentally Mr.. Muir
ply has found the theatrical situation
in the east even worse than he ex-
pected. Thousands of actors are lat
liberty" and there seems little pros
pect of Improvement for some months
to come.
Jessie Mae Hall, sister of Blanche
Hall of the Burbank company, Is to be
starred next season by AL Trehearn IN
musical comedy called 1.-THE Cutest
Girl in Town" Some time ago Miss
Hall wrote to Manager Morosco for
copy of the Morosco-Montrose song,
MY Sweetheart In the u. S. A." and
last week she again wrote, saying that
she had decided to feature" the song
in her new production.
my Yankee Sailor Boy has now
arrived at the canned music" stage
and may be had on either the Edison
or Victor photograph records. together
with THE Merry Widow Waltz and
other current successes.
Both of these songs have already
attained wide popularity and both are
doing considerable to advertise Los
Angeles in the east and elsewhere.
Friends of James P. Lee gave him
an enthusiastic welcome upon his re-
turn to the Unique theater last week.
On the opening night Mr.. Lee was
called to the footlights and presented
with so many flowers that he looked
like a comic edition of La Fiesta de las
Flores. Lee has succeeded Cummings
at the Unique and has charge of the
comedy company. staging his own
pieces. His friends called for speech
on that first night and they got It,
though the comedian proved he wouldn't
be of much use on the stump in
heated political campaign.
r. p. Foot, musical director at Fisch-
.
Wing, minn., by the serious illness of
his father, who is prominent boot
and shoe manufacturer of that little
town. Mrs. Foot, known professionally
as Bessie Tannehill, did not accom-
pany her husband.
1.-THE Girl of the Golden West" will
bank her Sunday receipts from the
Polka saloon tomorrow morning and
will pass from view temporarily
Doubtless she will return later. For
the present, however. tonights per-
Torrance of the play at the Belasco
will serve as farewell.
The play has broken all records for
| continuous run locally. It's seventh
week will end tonight and tonight's
performance will be the sixty-fourth of
the Belasco melodrama in this city, one
special matinee having been given.
Frank Pixley who has been in Los
Angeles all winter. expects to leave for
the east this week Mr.. Pixley will go
to the Yosemite and will make a short
stop in San Francisco, however. before
entraining for New York. II shall re-
turn, though" he told me yesterday
Southern California Is the nearest ap-
proach to the place want to go when
1 die that I've found anywhere-and
TIE peduty VI IL 10 you uoH nave W
wait in order to come here. Moreover,
l seem to work better here than any,
where else.
Gustav Luders now is in Berlin.
Our new opera, 'Marcelle,' has been
completed and will be produced next
fall. Then I'm coming back here to
begin work on another one."
So 1t Is merely Eau revoir" as they
phrase 1t in Paris, where 1.-THE Prince
of Pilgln' iS running noarrtlU tn
the increment of the Pixley-Luders
bank account. Here's hoping, too, that
the present style in coiffures will sur
vive the summer and that Mr.. Pixley's
latest work may ride to success next
autumn on a Marcelle wave of popu-
larity.