Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-06
GOSSIP OF THE
LOCAL BOARDS

The performances of Salvation Nell'
at the Auditorium will conclude
promptly at 1O:45, which will give out
of-town patrons ample time to see the
impressive final act in it's entirety.
Miss Helen Freeman, who will appear
with John Drew at the Mason as Rosie
Abbott in Jack Straw is one of the
luckiest young women on the American
stage. Miss Freeman made her first
appearance on the stage only little
more than a year ago as an extra
woman in peter Pan" when the Barrie
fantasy was produced in Paris. Charles
Frohman, who produced the play in the
French capital, saw her and, attracted
by her graceful manners and her
beauty, told her if she were coming to
New York in the autumn he would give
her an engagement Miss Freeman re-
ported and was assigned to role IN
Mr.. Drew's company Now she has
played with distinction what is virtual
ly the leG<ng woman's part in Jack
Straw" Miss Freeman was born in st.
Louis and moved from there at an
early age to Denver, where her father,
Benjamin N. Freeman, was a banker.
She went to Paris to be educated and
walked on" in peter Pan Very
modest in speaking of her sudden rise
in her chosen profession, she yet con-
fesses that she has ambitions.
The week beginning June IA the Be-
lasco theater company will offer for the
first time by stock company anywhere
Charles Kleins enormously successful
play, THE Lion and the Mouse The
Klein play will serve to introduce Rich
ard Bennett to local theater goers. Mr..
Bennett Saturday night concluded his
New York engagement as leading man
with Maude Adams in What Every
Woman Knows" He departed for Los
Angeles Sunday. In THE Lion and the
Mouse" he will be seen as Jefferson
Ryder Miss Reed will have the part
of Shirley Rossmore, while David Hart
ford will enact the role of John Ryder
a part. by the way, very similar to the
one that Mr.. Hartford played in THE
Dollar Mark
A brilliant piece of comedy writing Is
"The Morals of Marcus" which Will pe
given at the Mason opera mouse the
week of June IA. The author is w. j.
Locke. and the resultant dramatic pro-
duct is a sober but powerful demon
stration of the idiosyncrasies OF the
Vagrant heart in love- Marie Doro IS
a little girl who escapes from TURKISH
harem and falls under the protectlon
of Sir Marcus Ordeyne, who takes her
love with her in a few months. The
act of Marcus love is discovered by
another woman, who, for eight years.
has sought to win his heart. 10 pre-
vent their marriage this woman pre-
walls upon a man to run away WIN
Carlotta. Five months later Carlotta
returns to Sir Marcus, almost crushed
in spirit, but the ending of the tale IS
cheerful. Carlotta is always pathetlc
figure. Miss Doro's soulful eyes, De-
seeching mouth and tender smile pre-
serve the fragile illusion that the role
exacts. When she wrests a reciuse
from a dingy study one realizes that
Mother Nature is justified of her chi,
dren. Edward Arden is the stald
scholar and man of one hobby-the
ancient moralities-until the llttle
harem girl wakes him from his SUM
ber of research and arouses the pas
sionate nature of the man. Others IN
the cast are Marie Wainwright, Marion
Abbott, William Postance, Marie ray
Ior. Ann Meredith, Alice Cobourn, Fred
Tiden Fred Eric, George Gaul, MIL
dred Beverly, Ethel Morrey and Jane
Grey.
Mike DonIin, who looks better and
better to McGraw as the Giants lose
their pennant clutch is due at the
Orpheum some time this month WIN
him is Mabel Hte, his pretty soubrette
Wife, through whose lnllueilCS hihO "
serted the diamond for the footlights:
They have a skit called playing Ball,
which keeps Mike in touch with both
Careers"
Lewis S. Stone will make his last
appearance for three months on the
Belasco stage tonight and will leave
Tuesday for the hunting grounds In
Montana, where he will, no doubt, put
a large sized crimp in the records of
T. Roosevelt and Ike Walton. Mr..
Stone has gathered together one of the
finest equipments for a hunt of this
kind that money could buy and if there
is any big game in Montana he will
surely get his share.
Matinee girls are inclined to envy
M IS Marie Doro when they see her in
the role of Carlotta in "The Morals of
Marcus" in which she comes TO the
Mason opera house soon. In one
scene she is compelled, by an exacting
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