Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-18

CrOWding the tSelasco lneatoi o. SNy
performance and even during the past
week hundreds of people were turned
away unable to get admission
Since the first performance of THE
Dollar Mark" Mr.. Broadhurst has
made a number of changes in his play,
and two new scenes will be introduced
| in tonight's presentation. The cast re-
mains intact, with Lewis 3. stone
David M. Hartford, Howard Scott.
Richard Vivian, Dewitt c. Jennings,
| Adele Harrington, Beatrice Moves ana
others of the Belasco organization in
the principal roles.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES oliver Morosco
announces a revival of Paul Arm
strongs play, "Salomy Jane" at the
Burbank theater for the week begin
ming with the usual Sunday matinee
This is distinctly California play, its
scenes being laid in this state, and Mr.
Armstrong having taken his story
! from Bret Harte's tale of "Salomy
James Kiss" Upon its original presen-
tation in New York city the New York
World declared 1t to- be 1.-The model
among romantic dramas of western
/ life," and the verdict then pronounced
| holds good today. The character or
| Salomy Jane is as sweet and fresh as
the breezes through the redwoods; and
the story itself while frankly melo-
without sensationalism, breathing only
| the spirit of sturdy romance that en-
| tered into the pioneer life of the time
that period in California history which
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton so aptly term
ed 1.-The splendid, idle 'forties."
Miss Blanche Hall has played few
| characters more to her liking than that
of Salomy Jane Clay, while William
Desmond in the role of 1.-THE Man
| neither play nor story give him any
| more distinctive name; A. Byron Beas-
ley as Jack Marbury, the square
gamblers Henry Stoekbridge as Colonel
| Starbottle and john w. Burton as
Yuba Bill, all have roles well suited to
their abilities. All of these players, to-
gether with II. S. Duffield as Madison
Clay Salomy's father; David Edwin as
Red Pete, and Louise Royce as Mrs.
Red Pete, played the same roles when
| "Salomy Jane" was first presented at
the Burbank theater year ago. Other
assignments will present Charles Glib
Ign in the part of Larabee, formerly
played by Gerald Harcourt. and Fred
erick Gilbert newcomer to the Bur
bank stage, in H. ]. Ginn's old role of
Rufe Waters. The young and clever son
of the late Harry Glazier will play the
part of Willie Smith.
The play provides excellent opportu-
mites for scenic display, and pic
turesque production is promised.
|
MAJESTIC-"TheL Lightning Conduc-
tor" a six-cylinder comedy first pre-
scented in Los Angeles little more
than a year ago by Dick Ferris and
Florence Stone and their own company,
will be revived at Hamburger's Males
tic theater during the week beginning
with Sunday nights performance and
Including matinees Wednesday and Sat
urday, with Miss Stone and Mr.. Ferris
in their old parts, supported by spe-
cially organized cast, including Carrie
Clarke Warde in the role of Aunt Mary.
The production Is being made under
the stage direction of Sedley Brown.
1.-THE Lightning Conductor" drama
tized by Harry b. Smith from novel
of the same name by c. n. and A. M.
| Williamson is a motor car comedy, Its
story relating the misadVentures that
befall a young, pretty and rich Ameri-
can girl who starts upon tour of
France in an automobile, chaperoned
by her aunt. They fall into the hands
of rascally chauffeur, who first. robs
them, disables their car and then de-
serts them on the road between Dieppe
and Paris. In this predicament the
Hon. John Winston appears upon the
scene, repairs the car and, in order to
be near Molly, tells her he is an expert
mechanician and asks for work. She
employs him and the tour is continued.
AS Molly Randolph's chauffeur the
young Englishman finds plenty to do.
but is not kept so busy as to prevent
his falling in love with his employer.
In the end his true identity becomes
known, with a prospect of entwned
orange blossoms and strawberry leaves
for Molly in the not distant future.
Dick Ferris will be seen as the Hon.
John Winston, Miss stone as Molly
Randolph, and Carrie Clarke Ward as
Aunt Mary Others in the cast will in
clude William Yerance, Harry Mes
tayer, Willis Marks, Hale Studebaker,
Mango buffet, Carol Marshall, Jessie
Jordan and La Cigale Ferris, Dick Fer
ris' young, pretty and clever daughter.
whose stage debut was made at the
Majestic theater week ago in
Friends"
An elaborate and picturesque scenic
production is promised.
GRANDCHILDREN Carries successful
musical comedy, 1.-The Mayor of Toxic"
will be given this week by Ferris Hart
man and his company at the Grand
Opera house, the first performance oc-
curing at the matinee today. The
piece is a combination of modern
America and the picturesque orient,
and will afford a splendid part not only
for Mr.. Hartman himself. but for Miss
Nielsen. Mr.. Walch, Walter De Leon
and the other members of the Hartman
| company. lie COotuilllS Will NC Oh-
usually attractive, while the scenes of
the play, located as they are in Japan,
will afford the scenic artist exception
ally good chances for some effective
stage pictures.
The mayor of Toxic concerns an
American theatrical manager who has
taken his organization on tour
through Japan in the hope of reaping
harvest of yen in the oriental en-
pire In Toxic the theatrical people are
! mistaken for princes and princesses and
:, are received by the mayor of the city
with proverbial eastern courtesy. The
; mayor continually is bounded by
Japanese conspirator and his boon
companion, a Russian spy, who never
appears on the scene without a huge
India rubber bomb. The efforts of the
mayor to escape the loss of his official
position and the ludicrous experiences
that befall the American theatrial COM
pany make the basis of two acts up
roarious hilarity. There are many beau
tiful scenes In 1.-THE Mayor of Toxic"
while the comedy element is always
dominant.
Following 1.-THE Mayor of Toxic" the
Ferris Hartman company will conclude
its season of musical comedy at the
ut Happened in Nordland" The Hart
man engagement will come to an end
Saturday, May l, and the following
afternoon the summer season of the
Murray and Mack company will be
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