Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-29
PRINCESS TROUPE WILL MOVE
TO GRAND ELKs' WEEK
ciIlInqwater Sketch Shines Pre-emi-
nent In a Blaze of Clever Acts at
Orpheum-Tralned Monkeys
Romp at Flscher's

Walt Quackenbush, the village Joker :,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 'ASuuu 1a"ss
Jim Peasiey, the village station agent
.....,.,.,..,,...,. Walter Catlett
Putie Plummer, the village soprano. n MI;
Mrs. Homer Ketcham, the village news
bureau .......... Ellen Crane
Cicero j. Cramps, Napoleon OF the Ma.
M drama ,,,sh banker with private
ambition ...,.....E Edwin Il. Emery
Alexander Neryeen, eOllegian James Stevens
Reginald Hickey, a useful boy Budd hoss
NJ Hommard ................ Bert Phoenix
ar Toljes-Bergere .......... Walter Catlett
(of the Franco American ieague),
Peggy Plummer, known as Mile. flenr- =.
soD g,Ls Bot. Nile carameiio's maid -.
acknowledgements May Boley
Mrs. Montague Fish, wife .derle stanton
LILY Ann Lynch, the homegrown article
ReiI Boys, Amateurs, Collegians Autograph
Girls stage Hands, Chapples, Matrimonial
Guards, Married People, Clubmen, Etc.
BY w. HERBERT BLAKE
Barring a few discordant ensembles
and a marked tendency to grotesque
amateurishness in one or two of the
rural roles the Princess company
swung into the bright lines and lyrics
of Peggy from Paris" last night with
a gay abandon that promises Wen TOT
the. second week of the San FRANCIS
cans stay at the Mason. With some
thing approaching a real plot and the
fresh breezy comedy which only
George AIDE can create, the visitors oo-
viously found themselves more at nome
than last week. and this confidence
was reflected by the improved manner
IN which the lifting tunes of the Lor-
rajne score were sung. Apparently the
Princess company have struck thelr
stride and should reach their climax
of Vivacious achievement III Inc I'M
pire" next week.
"Peegy." as most footlight follow
ers know, is daughter of HICKORY
Greek. Ill who returns from Farls
and London stage success so enamoreu
Of the European hallmark that she
noses as Mile. Fleurette Carameile OF
Partisan birth. Haunting her dresslhs
room swarm horde OF comlcal ms
cellany in human form and among
them come her father, sister and old
sweetheart. To keep up the pretense
NJ foreign parentage, she repels them,
DENYING her relationship. The rest or
+he story details her gradual re-Amerl-
canization. with an incidental pairing
off of all the available couples.
Miss Zoe Barnett is Peggy anu d
sweet and winsome little traitor she Is.
Two ravishing gowns set OIL heT M M
face and figure in superb taste. In het
captiyating love songs last night
merry ewes and pouting lips We're mar
monious collaborators. Her uuets
with Mr. Stevens, who, by the way
has the best voice in the company
were the musical feature OF the snow
and that interpolated French atty
which won it's five encores hahuliy,
even warmed up Fred Mace, VINO
looked as sour as a lime when de-
-orived of the limelight. Miss Barnett
ts grace itself in her Dances ana mas
that modest knack so rare IN musical
comedv celebrities-of gaining her
Iaurels unobtrusively and without IN
the least attempting to monopo1ze the
attention of the audience. True arr Goes
NOT need 70 lug itself into the glare.
NOV Rolev was rather disguised
than made up as Sophie Blotz, but the
Are+ word of that buXom frauleln
1usc,ous lingo revealed her identity.
She sang "Henry" in good voice and
fetching by-play. She ought to make
sure by tonight, however, whether II
is trombone or bassoon that heI DC
iaved plays. He did both last night
Her ensuing dance Is ihost ai 1.a1,l,is
German version of the Salome Wopple
very. very mild, hasten to add,
mere suggestion, in fact, but the ghost
~ the sinuous writhe is there. In an
otbar costume Miss Boley resembles
~ animated version of the Fruits ana
FLOWERS waltz. Her color tones We're
always essentially Strauss-like' hence
the Salome parallel. .,,,,,
LITTLE Jennie Metzler was a pohny
ri with Budd Ross (who is simply
ACES Artie transferred to the stage)'
sba has the best song of the play,
..Ty 7 like YOU regret to say that
hotb of them marred its intended ef-
feet nv failing to give 1t sutficlent
volume to carry beyond the hrst SIX
rows of the orchestra MISS Metzler
had already won her spurs in her song,
. .alrI call us the Chorus, but We Are
+ba PRINCIPALS" accompanied by
sumntuous sextet in yellow.
Mr. stevens was at his best in ms
.o1o aeRare Old. Fair Old College Days,
one of the best lyrics AIDE ever wrote
An octet of lusty lunged collegians
supplied the chorus effects with als,
ciniined harmony. Fred Mace played
AZ smug. self-centered actor to the
life and sang my Emeline" anu
sISvervthing Depends on Money" with
good effect Budd Ross acted better
than he sang and dealt out the Ade
slang with glib readiness. Mr.. Emery
and Miss Darling worked consclen.
tiously. The same might be SAID OF
+he portrayals of Messrs. TraVers ana
lie Noir, but they shoulu aug " t liz
zeal knowledge of what sort OF creature
the rural Illinoisan really is. The work
IF both was jerlzy and crude last night
Cantain Plummer is no farcical char
acter but very human father, and
the Travers method robbed him not
onlv of the pathos of a good dramatic
situation but also vitiated the real hui
NOR In the role. Phoenix and Catlett
gave the French pair in good, careful
nantonime and won deserved recalls
The songs of Act II are sadly
bunched, even in the AIDE text, and the
Princess company last night departed
from this with several interpretations,
choking the last moments of the pro-
duction with a glut of musical num-
hers. A little furnishing of the cor
ners and the weeks offering will put
its best foot forward. The chorus does
already.
I hear the Princess company will
move onto the Grand opera house
stage at the completion OF their Ma
son engagement, July 12 and will dis
place the thrills and creeps of melo-
drama over Elks' week. The vehicle
for the Grand invasion has not yet
been announced. but it is said it UNI
doubtedly will be a later popular sue
cess than any of the three plays booked
at the Mason during the present en-