Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01

ever captured a giggle, from Hoyt to
Broadhurst.
Mr.. Wunderle was the most typical
collegian in the outfit. His laugh was
infectious, and his impersonation gave
US an odd sense of rea4ity in all this
whirl of grotesquerie, which made us
curiously sorry when he lost out, con-
sistent villain to the plot as he is. Mr..
Pierce was not impressive as Coving-
ton, failing to lift the part out of the
commonplace rut of the fashion plate
college boy Mr.. Allworth's frenzy at
his entrance to fix the race was too
studied to convince us. He did not
seem to be in a hurry, but merely to
be trying to convince himself that he
was. Mr.. Browne and Mr.. Brokate
were vivid pictures. In no case did
the acting of any of the women of the
cast rise to the height of the unusual
or the distinctive, although it was
uniformly befitting the commonplace
character which the authors of the
play evidently assign to the American
coed.
A word of remembrance is due the
realistic sunrise effect through B the
windows of the bunkhouse in the third
act, and the chaste and Addisonian
verbiage of Mr.. Charlton, as the fore
man. The musical numbers by the
orchestra were well chosen, being for
the most part happy reminders of col
lege days and ways.
Going Some" is a good show, aptly
named. There is not a hopeless moment
in it. and few dull ones. It is a capt.
I'll digester for our dear old friend, the
tired business man" of the manager
ial rogue's gallery.
To plagiarize one of Richard Carries
worst, one may fairly say that the
best performer on the Los Angeles
theater's bill this week is not Al, but
canine Pausing moment while the
angry shouts subside, it may be added
that his name is Ben, and that he
poses for a series of living pictures
with Miss Alice Loretta. He has to
breathe, of course, but otherwise he
| is as utterly motionless and impas-
siVe as an auto forty miles from home.
He is a pretty dog, white and clean
and strokable, and we are glad to note
at the conclusion of the act that he
can chase an apple around the stage
with the same eager Vindictiveness
which characterizeS the frolicsome
moods of any common pup. He's not
a bit of a cad is Ben, albeit some
thing of a bounder on occasion. My
only grief is that he can't read this
criticism. Perhaps he can; the alert
Los Angeles press agent says he isn't
sure.
Next to Ben, the best things at the
Los Angeles this week are Carita Day
and her two dancing boys and the
Carl Damman troup of acrobats. The
former are nimble and timber, and the
latter by no means so profane rs 4
careless handling of their name would
infer. In fact, both acts are of the
better type Of sultry season Vaude-
ville-gay and pleasing and but slightly
taxing to the intellect
John J. Black and company present
a fairly written skit entitled 1.-THE Ad-
vance Agent" which is acted execrably
in spots and now and then tolerahly
we'll Mr.. Black is effective IN the
main, as the squire, but Mr.. Hami,-
ton rants and paws the air far too
much to suit the memory of any ad-
vance agent l ever met. 1 have found
them commonly most courteous and
affable gentlemen-that's why they're
in advance of the show. Miss Pearl
Foster impresses only for the remark
able taste in fashions with which she
endows her character. OF curse,
country girls are swift to follow the
latest lead from Worth, but to see one
of them wearing a tube gown stretches
our sense of the fitting, however little
the fit may be stretched.
John p. Reed is a pleasing, though
by no means a first rate mOnoiCgist,
lacking in variety Of resource and con-
tinuity of interest. Sados jugGles
things, and gets by us without leaving
any particular sensation, either Of
pleasure or dislike. At least he makes
us forget that it is hot, and that is no
negligible boon. The same general OBJ
servation will apply to this weeks mo-
tion pictures.