Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

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AUDITORIUM-Th reopening Of
this theater Tuesday night, August u,
will be signalized by the Shuberts
presentation of the comedy Gong
Some" by Paul Armstrong and Rex
Beach, play which has met gratify-
ing popular reception in the east ana
which will remain in Los Angeles Tor
two weeks The scenes are lald on
the Flying Heart ranch in New Mex
leo. j. Wallingford Speed, who is
four-fusher of the first order visits the
ranch accompanied by his trainer
Larry Glass. In order to win favor
with the young woman of the mousse
hold, Speed introduces himself as Eli s
all-around champion athlete. Inc
cowboys joyously select MN 10 VIII
back the lost honor-and talking
machine-of the Flying Heart ranch.
This is to be done by means of foot
race between this particular ranch anu
the Centipede outfit, and being an
"athlete," Speed Is compelled to accept
the honor and on his acceptance de-
nends most of the comical situations.
Speeds vanity is not entirely respon-
sible for his decision.
Not many miles distant is Culver
Covington, his friend. the intercolleg-
late one hundred yard champion. Inls
individual Is expected to arrive at the
ranch within the week and Speed plans
to ring in dark horse at the last
moment, Then comes the period OF
training. The cowboys compel Speed
10 do the most impossible things, such
b as taking ice baths at g. M, eallns
SAraw meat and onions, and worst OF all
Nyiving UP the compromising VI 'h0
lSoung women. ~ IL
NlThe Centipedes representative calls
at the ranch to arrange terms and stlil
Speed, relying on chance, determines
TO see the thing through. Inc autnoLs
have given a novel twist to the plot'
however by introducing an entirely
new stage villain in the person or the
Fresno Nightingale, happy go lucky
trouble maker, who trills for the girls
and between times pays very partlGu-
lar attention, to the unscientlhc traln-
ing of Spec .
The Nigh tingale puts the cowboys
"wise." and Speed, when confronted
with the charge that he Is heau
yeller'' and not runner. piuls llle
thing through and the final details are
arranged for the race ad 20 edAe erd P'qJ his
the following day. AS Speed anu ms
trainer are in their happiest frame OF
mind. Covington, the champion, ar
riyes at the ranch on crutches, hls M
toe has been broken. The penalty loF
losing the race is death. Specs Up. Up
moment
fastest runner between oceans. Wnie
the mock hero is planning to make MS
escape, the cook stealthily enters
sneeds training quarters and makes a
proposition to throw the race. Ihls Is
how the day Is saved Tor Speeu.
The cast has been personally selecteo
and rehearsed by the authors ana IN
eludes Eugene O'Rourke, FRANK Wun-
.s<srIee. James Spottswood and other
we'll known actors.
MASON-In the second season OF It's
+remandous prosperity Eugene Walters
"Paid in FulT' comes tomorrow nlshl'
I adding another testimony to the cur
rent tendency toward simplicity IN lhe
drama. There are but seven eharac-
ters in this blunt story OF contempora-
ry life, and all are familiar types.
A clerk in a shipping once h'i halileu
Brooks. lives with his wife in a srnall
apartment, grubbing along on ms pay
~ S1S a week Brooks is not an ad-
mirable character. He believes lhat
the world owes him a living, out ne
fails to make any one in the aualehce
apres with him. He suspects his en-
nioyeiSo of an admiration for ms
fBrooks) Wife Williams, the em-
nloyer, does not like Brooks and fallS
TO advance him. He goes away anu
leaves the clerk where it is possible TOT
him to steal $4,000, which he promptly
does. Upon Captain w
he discovers the loss and threatens Iile
guilty one with imprisonment. the
craven Brooks tells this wife (who mas
thought that her husbands pay had
been raised) to go to Williams and IN
fereede "You know how far to CO.
said he, without compromising your
self Every woman knows that" De
spising her husband, Mrs. Brooks does
as she is hidden, and is inSulted by
Williams, just as it is expected she
would be. She repulses him, and VII
Iams, delighted to discover her 10 De
a good woman, hands her paper ex-
onerating Brooks from any part in the
theft. When he is secured from legal
punishment the wife leaves him. That
is the barest skeleton of the story, but
it involves the principal element OF III
terest.
Wagenhals & Kemper have gathered
together cast which includes Louis
Morrell Sara Perry, Ned Finlay
Charles Regal, Rose Snyder. Gather
inc TaHnan and Allen Atwell.
The engagement at the Mason opera
house is for one week, with matinee
on Saturday only.
BURBANK - No recent American
play has been more generally praised
for it's virility, the interest of its story
and the genuinely poetic quality of ITS
dialogue than William Vaughn
Moody's powerful drama of THE
Great Divide" which Is announced as
the weeks attraction, beginning with
a matinee this afternoon and including
the customary Saturday matinee. 1.-THE
Great Divide" was originally produced
in Chicago a little less than three years
ago by Henry Miller and his very ex-
cellent company. Subsequently Mr..
Miller played it in Los Angeles, bring
ing here the original cast, with the ex-
eeption of Margaret Anglin. At that
time the play was acclaimed as an
unusually fine example of what is best
on the native stage.
Its story is in essentials a modern
rendering of the Ingomar legend, the
chief departures from the old love story
being merely those made necessary by
geographical and racial differences.
The play is intensely American; its
characters are finely drawn and it's
situe tions we'll contrived.
Unexpectedly left alone in her broth
er's Arizona cabin, Ruth Jordan,
young, pretty, of good education and
Puritan ancestry, is besieged by three
drunken ruffians, who finally break
down her door and start a game of dice
with the girl as the prize. In this des-
perate predieament, Ruth offers herself
in marriage to one of the trio, Stephen
Client, If he can contrive to get the
others out of the way. One Client buys
off The other he mortally wounds in
a duel Then he claims the girl, car
ries her off and makes her his wife,
The succeeding acts depict Ruth's