Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-31

A pre1iminary meeting will be held
tonight at 419 South Main street to
form local branch of the White hats
of America, the big vaudeville ofSanl-
zation. The meeting has been called
by James p. Lee of the Unique the
ater. who organized the San Francisco
local and who has been commissioner
| to perform a similar duty here. All
vaudevillians are invited to be present.
Herr Fischer. who already has the
! largest collection of theatrical cos
tunes in Southern California, If not
upon the entire coast, made an I'M
portant addition to his supply last
week. Now he is looking for a place
in which to put the gaudy apparel. You
might argue, of course, that the
clothes of a chorus girl should not
occupy much space, and they don't
when they are upon the girl However,
when 1t comes to packing those same
costumes away, in a place Wnere
neither moth nor dust can corrupt ana
where thieves cannot break in to steal,
the case is somewhat different.
The Teuton manager already has sew
eral thousand different costumes-hun-
dreds of sets-and his costume rooms
are filed. However, collecting cos
| tunes is a hobby with him, and now
| that there is no more room in which to
put them he is looking about for addi-
tional space.
Frederick Belescao, who came down
from San Francisco week before last
for the avowed purpose of stopping
the run of 1.-The Girl of the Golden
West" and who failed to do so, left
for home Friday. Mr.. Belasco, how
ever. expects to return in time to as
sist Hobart BosWorth In staging The
Rose of the Rancho" some time next
month.
PLAY plans at the Belasco are un-
certain lust at present, owing to the
illness of Miss Alice Treat Hunt, the
conpany's leading woman. MISS Hunt,
however. is expected to be able to re-
turn to her work next week, in which
case 1.-THE Christian will be presented,
with 1.-The Wife"sto follow. Then will
come the Belasco-Tully play.
The SECOND edition. of THE Girl with
the Golden Vest will be issued from
the Flournoy press at the Theater
Royal tomorrow night The first week
of this traVesty broke all house rec
ords and consequently it will be con-
tinued The first act will be retained
in its entirety, but the second act has
been somewhat rewritten. All of the
musical numbers will be new, and the
chorous will be strengthened by the ad-
dition of several young women former
ly with the Edgar Temple Opera COM
pany at the Auditorium. among them
two of Temples Ponies"
The matinee at the Royal last
Wednesday was attended by consid'
cradle number of professional play
ers among them a little party from
the Belasco. The Belascoites, by the
way, seemed to enjoy thoroughly the
burlesque of play in which they hao
appeared continuously for some sew
enty-odd performances.
The day before they left for the
east James Nell and his wife, Edythe
Chapman Neill, were entertained by
Robert Morris and Elsie Esmond-
Morris on an automobile trip through
the actors colony at Glendale. In the
,party were Mr.. and Mrs. oliver Mo-
rosco and their son, Mrs. Jane A.
Cockrell, Mrs. Ryder Mr.. and Mrs.
Neill and Mr.. and Mrs. Morris. Stops
were made at the homes of Mr. and
Mrs Duffield, Mr. and Mrs. Stock
bridge, Mr. and Mrs. Mestayer, Mr..
and Mrs. Glazier and at the home of
Mr. Stone, the costumer.
William Bernard, formerly a member
OF DOCn IIe 6uTUdUk anu beldSCO COIi-
panies, paid short visit to his family
in this city last week. leaving Wednes-
day night for San Francisco, where he
will play a special engagement of one
week in Mrs. Temples Telegram. 7"
Later Mr.. Bernard will join the Neill
stock company in st. Paul as stage di-
rector and to play the 'heavy" roles.
Harry D. Cottrell will come to Los
| Angeles within a few weeks to assist
oliver Morosco in the completion OF
1.-THE Man from the South.' a play
which they began to write two years
ago, but which was abandoned tenn
porarily in favor of "The Halfbreed.' -
f. P. Foot, musical director at Fisch-
el's theater, is in Red Wing, Mimi.
where he was summoned a few days
ago by the serious illness and subse-
quent death of his father, S. B. Foot
During his absence Fred Gambold is
acting director of the stock company.