Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-28

jestic last night as the guests of Man
ager Morosco. In the party were the
Misses Margery Mines, Phoenix; Alice
Stivers, Jerome; Arizona Ford, Pres
colt; Matte Price, Mayer; Josie Van
cite, Wickenburg; Eva French, Pres
colt, and Grace Davis, Winslow. With
them was Mrs. John Mines, who acts
as chaperon.
Miss Evelyn Foshia, whose dancing is
feature of "A Runaway Girl" at the
Majestic, has been engaged by oliver
Morosco for 1.-THE Greater Claim" Lin
ton Tedfords new play, which will be
given it's first performance on any
stage at the Burbank next Sunday af-
ternoon. At a masquerade dinner given
by Colonel Stone in a private dining
room one of the advertisements is a
dance, on top of the banquet table,
The dancer appears suddenly from out
the heart of great orange and, CARRIED
In diaphanous draperies, performs her
speciality.
Harry Girard and his talented wife,
known professionally as Agnes Came
Brown, are going to Catalina next
week on a fishing expedition Mr.. Gil
rard, who is a member of the Wash
ington Waltonian club of Seattle, hopes
to return with one of the gold buttons
awarded those anglers who land a big
fish with light tackle.
1t is a clean, creditable production of
musical burlesque that the Allen Curtis
company is presenting at Fischer's
theater this week. The outline of the
one-act offering is from the Weber and
Fields repertoire, but with this is inter
polated some new comedy antics by
Arthur Clamage and Lou Dunbar and a
batch of snappy song numbers which
are as UP to date as the pretty faces
of the chorus girls. "Jakey, Mickey and
key is the rather unilluminating title,
which, however, means quite as much
ter" two of the older Weber and
Fields captions.
Allen Curtis presents his familiar
and drolI version Of the Hebrew as
amusingly as in his earlier days In
burlesque at the old Orpheon, Chicago,
which some fasteners may recall as
the house of many owners and the
scene of some clever musical produc-
tions. Curtis Jew is a clean-cut, hui
man creature, and he keeps his comedy
commercially free of vulgarity and the
suggestive. For this restraint, also,
Messrs. Workman and Conner, the new
Fischer's proprietors, deserve a word
of hearty praise. There is abundance
of fun in the weeks Offering, but moth
ing that should deter any patron of the
house from bringing his best girl along
to see the show.
Charles A. Figg has a strong, service
able voice and sings his solo numbers
pleasingly. Jean Hathaway and Mayme
Prayer play the principal woman parts,
and both sing also, the former in way
that won repeated encoreS last night.
Perhaps the catchiest of the musical
numbers are "a Night, a Girl, a Moon"
and when Highland Mary Did the
Highland Fling" not forgetting the
hilarious discord of the Sousa band
finale.
The chorus is sprightly and dances
briskly. A little more training in some
Of it's ensembles would improve the
general effect In general the produce
ton is a worthy one and apparently
launches q playhouse of many Vicissl-
tudes upon a career of honest, deserved
success.
I missed the first murder at the
Grand last night, which was hard luck
but picked up the plot of 1.-The Shadow
of the Gallows' without great trouble
and with not a little hearty enjoyment
The piece is English melodrama, con-
trolled by Miss Lillian Mortimer, but
of a very different sort of manufacture,
which was refreshing for change.
There are several fairly we'll drawn
y
which is Zolla ST. Mar, the natural
daughter of an English nobleman and
wandering gypsy. She is the brains
of all the villainy in the play, and Miss
Grace RauWorth developed a surpris-
ing degree of Righteousness in enact
ing her. There is some poetic justiti-
cation for her rage against her half
brother, and her smile in the scene in
the prison is as sill1ily deVilish as Ches-
ter Stevens face ever dared to be-
Chief among the thrills of the piece
are the attempted murder on the break
water over the Thames and the final
ride to save the innocent condemned
man from the gallows. We see the
engine scooting around through the
back scenery while the death moose is
adjusted and the priest is saying the
ment last night there was washout
on the line, and the engine threatened
to slide off the scenery. But all went
we'll, and the good humored laugh
which the incident aroused did not mar
the climax. George Webb is saved
once more, and I hope the cold in his
throat will moderate as promptly, He
spoke hoarsely last night, and there
was a stiffness in his acting at times
that did not aid the illusion of the play.
OF the others, James Dillon, Carl Berch,
Fora Bates, Sylvia Ashton and Gertrude
Claire acquitted themselves WELL the
latter giving very simple and appeal
ing picture of Sister Cecilia. Alice
Lewis shows some versatility in a
comedy role many leagues removed
from "Bunco," and Robert Leonard is
making rapid strides in the direction of
perfect stage wickedness.
"The Shadow of the Gallows" is gem
timely enjoyable to any one who has
not outlived his childhood taste for
penny dreadfuls. And I sometimes
think that the man who has outlived
that relish for the genuine sensational
is an exile alike from the kingdoms of
Romance and Morality
Next week the Grand company will
essay 1.-THE Octoroons," by Dion Bouci-
cault