Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08

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MAsON.-The International Grand
Opera company opens its second anu
last week Monday night in 'FeooTa,
Interest in this company's eXcelleht
work has been cumulative CURING Ii Iiie
last week. and their announcements
for tbe next seven days whet the edge
of artistic curiosity and popular IN
terest Two novelties will be presented
one Of these is "L'Amico Fritz" Whlch
will be heard on Wednesday evening
for the first time in this city. The inter-
national company originally presehleu
this opera in San Francisco tnree
weeks ago and its success was SO gredt
tbat thew found il advisable to repeat
on five different occasions. Many
music-lovers consider Mascaghi ;
"Frltz'' superior to his "CaVallerla
Rusticana.7 AS in the former, TINS
talented composer introduces an inter-
mezzo, which is one of the gems Oh
the performance. -,
surprise is promised Friday even
ing. when "Otello" will be heard for the
first time during this engagement. sig
nor Samoiloff who was imported Dy
this company direct from Italy, VIII De
heard in the title role. Monday even
ing and at the Saturday matinee re
dora" will be given IN FaaSu and wtii st the he
Wednesday matinee I'll TroVatore
II will he heard. "Traviata" is the mid
week offering. The engagement Will
close Saturday evening with a com
posite BILL in which the entire compa-
nv will be heard The performance
aiu beein with the second act from
"Iucia." introducing the great sextet
and mad scene: followed by the sec
ond act from I'll Trovatore, ana con
Guiding with the entire opera Of Ca.
valleria Rusticana." scheduIe Oh
casts for the week is printed elsewhere
on this page.
RITRBANK. 49, William Desmond
Anal week as leading man of the STOCK
company will be devoted to an elap-
crate presentation of Otls skinner :
triumph, "The Honor of the taihlly,
first seen locally few months aso'
hut never offered in stock. Mr.. Des-
,aons viii have the Skinner role of
col. PHILIPPE Bridau. lie has been a
nonular member of the Burbank STOCK
company ever since the FORMING vi
the present organization. lie VIII re-
tire from the Burbank stage next sat
urday night and will be SUCCEEDED py
A. Byron Beasley. With MI Beasley
will appear Mace Greenleaf, who Is
we'll known to Burbank audiences, and
who will become a permanent memper
of the company.
Mr. Desmond long has been anxious
to play the Bridau part. The locale
of the play Is Issoudan, France; the
period, 1924 There are four acts pu'
tod In =
ting, a room in the house OF jean
JACQUES Rouget, a sexagenarian bach
elor with a pretty and unscrupulous
houselxeeper, who rules the old man as
completely as she manages the mousse
hold, and whose domination eXlenus
to such lengths that she makes neI
lover an inmate of Rougets home, the
two soon after forming a plot to Sc
cure control of the old mans property
In this circumstance arrives PHILIPPE
Rridau. Rougets nephew, a lieutenant
colonel in the army of the downtallen
Napoleon. PHILIPPE sets himself TO WORK
TO thwart the plotters, which he hnal-
ly does by killing the man in duel
and driving the woman out OF aoors'
thus restoring THE Honor of the Fam
ily."
prominent in the cast will be Henry
Stockbridge, William Yerance, Harry
Mestayer, II. S. Duffield, Frederick
Gilbert, David Edwin, Willis Marks
Gavin Young, Blanche Hall, Louise
Royce and Margo Duffet.
BELASCO-The special permission
of David Belasco enables the stock
company to repeat "The Warrens of
Virginia" a second week in response
to an Imperative popular demand. This
wartime play of William c. De Mile
is one of stirring interest and tender
sentiment, and has aroused much dis
cussion and criticism, both favorable
and adverse, by the problem 1t presents
of a young northern lieutenant forced
to choose between the rival claims of
love and duty to his country. The
staging and scenery are superb and
the members of the company, by care
full rehearsal, have made their roles
their own. AS Agatha Warren, Helen
Holmes has received her first real
opportunity for big emotional acting,
since her coming to the Belasco COM
pany. She makes a winsome and love-
ly heroine. David NJ Hartford is APP
pearing in Frank Keenans original
role of the bluff, hearty, fighting old
General Buck Warren. Richard Ben
nett will continue as the northern
lieutenant.
This will be the last week of the
play, owing not only to the fact that
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road again, but also on account OF
many big productions that the Belasco
company have contracted for.
ORPHEUTM - Beginning Monday
matinee "The Patriot" one-act tragic
opera by Stanislaus STANCE and Julian
Edwards, will headline the bill. Not
excerpts by a quartet, but genuine
grand opera company music, costumes
and all, is promised. OF course, 1t is
in miniature-runs only thirty minutes,
in fact-but its quality is said to be
distinctive and original. THE Patriot
Is its name, and Helena Frederick and
a company present it. The plot con-
Germs an incident in the Revolution
when, with a price of $4,000 on his
head, washington takes refuge in a
Tory house. The owner prepares to
betray him, but the loyal daughter
puts Washington in her own room, is
stabbed in his place and thus offers
her life for her country. The incident
Is said to be authentic.
A second unusual act Is "Tbe Com
stock Mystery" presented by the pro-
lNan player Charlotte Parry, who as
snnes eight different characters in
TWENTY-FIVE minutes. The play con-
Germs the unraveling of murder plot,
wherein are required all the household
as witnesses. Miss Parry portrays
every one of the personages in the
play. save one, making her changes
with incredible rapidity both of clothes
and manner.
The three Leightons are well known
here and their return in "a One-Nlght
Stand in Minstrelsy' Will be hailed