Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
THE ONLY Way IS
MASTERFUL DRAMA
"A PARTISAN ROMANCE" HOLDS
BOARDS AT BELASC0
Harry Glazier Strong in Role of Baron
chevrlal - Dorothy Bernard
Makes a Delightful
Ballet Girl
BY LEMUEL PARTON

ton which only the Society for Psych-
zeal Research may answer. If Sidney
Carton were not such a gay dog, with
all his tragic heroism, he might be
merely QuiXotic. Why is it that the
unfortunate Wilton, and all the rab-
BILE of vagabonds who have come after
him-singers, players, poets and adVen-
turers-search out the springs of JOY
and the fount of tears when the truly
good and great, 1.-THE pillars OF society"
move only to awe and cold admira-
ton? We love to drape the gaunt
framework of our worka-day life with
the vesture of heroism and the drapery
of dreams, but we weave ourselves into
the imagery, and in this we find fell
lowship with frailty, especially when
redemption Is found in some great act
Of self-sacritice, as in Sydney Carton s
giving of his life for his friend.
Freeman Wells 1.-The Only Way is
d masterful dramatization of THE
Tale of Two Cities" and the production
of the drama now on at the Auditorium
Is fully as masterful in the playing. 1t
is easy to understand why Los Ange-
les has the best stock companies in the
country; so far away from the play
shops it must have, but the weekly
Stone productions, riValing in many
cases the originals, approach the phe-
nomenal. Mr.. Stones Sydney Carton
is characterized by almost photograph
ic faithfulness to the minutae of the
character, and a strong, vitalized, but
withal StoneiZed, conception of the
springs of action-impulses, if you
Choose-which point Cartons way to
the one great sacrifice.
Charles RuggIes at Auditorium
Charles Ruggles appeared for the
first time with the Auditorium compa-
ny in the part of Charles Darnay. The
fact that Mr.. Ruggles' resemblance to
Mr.. Stone is not so close as the part
requires detracted somewhat from the
effectiveness of his acting, and alto
gether Mr.. Ruggles did not seem to be
so well cast as he might have been.
Mr.. Stones support was so uniformly
good that there is little opportunity to
make distinctions or comparisons. 1t
is possible that Miss Florence Oakley
and Miss Beatrice Noyes might have
appeared to better advantage il their
roles, those of Mimi and Lucie Manette
had been interchanged. James Nell
son, who appeared as DIR. Manette, is
proving a valuable addition to the
Auditorium company.
In point of staging the production
could not have been improved upon.
Seldom is a more grotesquely horrible
and altogether thrilling scene put on
the stage than the tribunal of the re-
public in the third act.
The Los Angeles offers an unusually
good bill for the week, with a diversi-
fed list of first-class attractions. The
Leanders, pantomimic wheelmen-do
you get that ?--head the program. They
are all to the good in their pantomic
speciality. Al Coleman, a dialect story
teller, has a good assortment of yarns,
some old and some new, but all anus
ing, and Harry Thornton tears off a
few bars of piano music. his "Suwanee
River as Sousa would have composed
it being one of the best features of
the bill. The NeWsomes, a man and
woman, present clever equilibrist
act. Sam Holdsworth's picture ballad
makes a good finish.
Harry Glazier has scored a second
time in the role of the devil. When
the proprietor of hades became Ill he
evinced q tendency toward self-abne-
cation. But the old devil in "a Paris
ian Romance" Is game to the last. 1t
is this unwavering consistency in evil
doing, with the procurement of the
material creed at the end that makes
the role of Baron Chevrial artistically
strong. The least sign of wavering
with the approach of death would do
violence to the part.
Mr. Glazier achieves an admirable
bit of acting in the piece, which has
begun a weeks run at the Belasco the
alter. AS the very apotheosis of sensu-
atty, with the Machiaevellian gloat-
ing over the prospective ruin of the
women whose downfall he sought to
accomplish, Mr.. Glazier approached at
times, be it said without blushing, the
immortal Mansfield. He has spent
weeks in preparation for the role, and
the results of his work show in every
line. AS the remorselesS old Schemer
the utterly soulless hedonist and con-
scienceless Voluptuary, the character is
truly and faithfully drawn and as tru-
ly and faithfully acted.
Here is where we register proph-
ecy. Although 1t would not require a
Solomon, with his enviable record of
past performances, to dope out daz-
zling career for Miss Dorothy Bernard.
we are ready to make it a bet that she
is heard from within the next five
years. This small person is not merely
pretty. She "savvies." Watch her,
and above all see her as the irresistt>
BILE Rosa Guerin.
A. H. Van Buren, was far better in
"O1d Heidelberg" as a German than
he is as a Frenchman-naturally But
he is there with all his manly beauty
and his mellihuous voice, and he is by
no means negligible in "a Partisan Ro-
nance" Ben Graham as DR.. Chesnel
is almost too true to life. 1t makes
, you think that you have something the
matter with you and you wait for him
to step down and ask you to put out
your tongue. Mr.. Graham has been
good in every role in which he has been
seen at the Belasco, and the Doctors
part is one of his best.
The Gamut club will be out in a
body at the Grand tonight to give Fer
ris Hartman and his company a glad
hand welcome to Los Angeles. The
musical sharps have engaged nearly
the entire front of the lower floor and
will not be sparing in their responses
to the special songs and gags that will
be interpolated for their benefit. 1t is
more than likely that there will be
''doings" at the club afterwards.
Bird Millman, the very clever wire
artist at the Orpheum this week. has
been suffering for some days with a
sprained ankle, though no one would
guess it from her work. She twisted 1t
month ago in Portland, and strained
it again two weeks ago in San Fran
cisco 1t is progressing we'll and she
is doing her clever stunts, but it gives
her considerable pain.
nnA AAAEnN HanAIN NIItT-