Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-14
In the Spotlight

m HE local offerings of new plays for
the week shows only one new
II show in the combination houses
Black PATHS Troubadors, at the Ma
jestic-although the week is by no
means thin one in point of quality.
George Broadhurst's great play, The
Dollar Mark" which has packed the
Belasco during the past week, will be
run a second week, and Peter Pan VIII
continue to please both small children
and grown up children at the Burbank
1.-THE Fortune Teller" will be put on at
the Grand, and in the hands of the re-
vamped organization should prove
good attraction. Miss Nielsen and Mr..
Walsh are working wonders IN
strengthening the musical forces OF
the Grand company. The Mason Will
be dark, to open next week with Rich
ard Carries frothy and entertaining mu-
steal farce, "Mary's Little Lamb"
.The Dollar Mark" and Peter Pan"
are two attractions which are seldom
eolaled and never excelled among stock
productions, and the Belasco and Bur-
bank managers have every reason 10
hope for another week of packed
houses g.,
The Auditorium will offer musical
burlesuue of "Uncle Toms Cabin
Manager Crawford has some good fun
makers, and the show should be a good
one.
Jessie Mae Hall, whose acting in the
role of Wendy in peter Pan at the
Burbank has made it difficult for per
sons in the audience to realize that she
Crir Of
or soon to reach them, was formerly a
regular member of the Burbank stock
company. During five months she
played ingenue roles with the Bur
bank players and was succeeded. about
four years ago. by Elsie Esmonde.
Miss Hall, who is an elder and
smaller sister of Miss Blanche Hail,
accompanied her sister from the east
especially to play this one part. She
expects to appear i'm peter Pan
when that play is produced at the Va
lencia theater, San Francisco, under
the management of Walter Hoff See
ley and will then return 10 her nome
in New York city
Jessie Mae Hall first came to Califor-
mia eight years ago in a comedy called
browns in Town" AfterWard, on the
road, she played the little girl in we
Jns of Tennessee and in New YORK
appeared under the management of
William A. Brady and of w. Il. Harris.
For a season she starred in the muslcal
comedy. "The Street Singer" and for
another season in another musical
comedy, "The Cutest Girl in Town.
Another starring venture, successful
both artistically and financially as All
of them have been introduced her to
the public as Abigail in In South
Carliny." The part is that of child
12 years of age.
Two years ago Miss Hall made a
brief visit to Los Angeles and while
here played at the Burbank in The
Lady from Laramie" and The Sign
of the Four.
In the interim between road engage
ments each summer she plays with her
own stock company through circuit
of towns on Long Island. She is feet
s inches in height weighs 40 pounds,
and wears an 111a misses size shoe
One of the most important bookings
for the Pacific coast cities this season
will be that of Nine. Ala NazlmoVa,
who has been so successful in New
York that she has remained at the
Princess and BijSI theaters steadily for
two seasons. since she became an
English speaking star, presenting lbsen
and the intellectual drama to over
flowing houses, she has been extensive
ly pictured and described in the mag
azines and public prints. She is a
Young and beautiful Russian woman of
much magnetism and an astonishing
talent and technique. The Shuberts
are presenting her outside of New
York this season for the first time and
have arranged a tour to the coast
which will include Los Angeles. She
will bring her New York company and
three cars of stage settings. Her rep
ertoire probably will include Ibsens
"a Dolls House." "Hedda Gabler' and
Roberto Bracco's "Comtesse Coquette."
Miss Helen Herndon, society girl of