Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26

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Montgomery and Stone, with Ethel
Johnson, are offering THE Old Town"
an Ade-Luders musical comedy, in
| Chicago. It describes the adventures
! of two lads who run away to a circus
| and are glad to get back home.
An observer in the New York Tele-
| graph assigns the rise of the automo-
| bile craze as the rival deterrent which
has kept eastern theatrical business
below the Joy point.
] Claiming Pollock got his idea for
such a Little Queen" from a friend
who showed him clipping relating
to the employment of an impover-
| ished Greek prince as a newspaper
man in New York at SIS week. Pol
lock paid his friend 800 for the idea,
which the other had proposed to use
for a short story.
| Laura Nelson Hall, idol of Cleve-
| land stock company patrons, recently
| produced play, and not bad one,
| but she says she never will again.
During an entr'acte she was found in
| tears. She had discovered that she
was critic, not playwright. The
| first act is one long talk" she walled.
THE second is cat fight, and the last
is a case of measles" She was the
most surprised woman in Ohio when
it scored a hit.
The Academy in Chicago, for years
devoted to melodrama, recently staged
| Romeo and Juliet" and may follow
with other Shakespearean revivals.
Henry Miller will star Laura Hope
Crews in Maggie" Edward Peples
new Irish comedy.
1.-THE Gates of Eden,' play of some
years ago, included a character admit
tedly modelled after the late e. H. Har-
| riman.
Lionel Barrymore has Topped from
the legitimate into vaudeville.
Booth Harrington may write a new
play for Cissy Lotus, now Mrs. A. H.
Waterman.
Henry Norman is in 1.-THE Chocolate
Soldier"
Walter Catlett, seen here recently
with the Princess theater company, is
now with the Ferris Hartman company,
which will play the Grand opera house
some time this fall.
The Shuberts are using the same "su-
pers" for several of their musical at
fractions playing coincidently in New
York theaters. The plan is apparently
transplanted from the English music
| halls, where variety players often APP
pear in two or more playhouses in one
night.
Shubert attractions soon to be seen at
| the Auditorium are Corinne in Mile.
Mischief" Girls" 1.-THE Wolf; Louise
Cunning in "Marcelle," Havana"
| 1.-THE Ringmaster," and Eddie Foy in
"Mr. Hamlet of Broadway"
Because the husband of Miss Blanche
Ring does not like Baltimore, II Is said
that actress will omit the Maryland
city from her tour in THE Yankee
Girl" The husband is a dramatic crit
ic; the reason for his dislike is not
made public.
William Faversham opened his sea-
son in Albany September 13, playing
THE World and His Wife"
Grace Hazard, known to vaudeville
as five feet of comic OPERA" appears
to have scored a hit as the star of 1.-THE
Partisan Model"
Mary Mannering will star in "The
Watchers" by Cora Maynard.
The Golden Gate Professional club
will give benefit for its new Califor-
mia actors home project this evening
at the Belasco theater. New York.
Stuart Robson, jr.. has gone on the
stage. He will make his first appear
a, ir,t " Cidfaaxy ayufg "a rTire
vehicle.
Mrs. Fiske is resting in the Adiron-
dacks after her arduous tour in SALIVA
ton Nell," which she will revive next
| season.
Charles Klein's latest play, 'The Next
of Kim" attacks the bequeathal OF
money to those whose only claim to 1t
is their relationship to the testator.
Henry B. Harris will produce it early
in November.
Oscar C. APPEL formerly of the
Princess theater company, has been en-
gagged to produce the coronation spec
tacle at the Asbury Park carnival.
Wilton Lackaye's real name is Will
liam A. Lackey. His father was a
prosperous tailor in Washington, D. c.
Leland Stanford students produced
Twelfth Night" last evening in the
assembly hall at Palo Alto
Robert Hilliard has written a play in
collaboration with the mayor of Syra-
cuse. N. Y, entitled THE Swimming
Master"
Charles B. Hanford. the veteran
Shakespearean actor, is in New York
arranging his repertoire for next sea-
son, He will add several new revivals.
1t took Charles Klein two years to
write 1.-The Cipher Code" which failed,
and three weeks to write THE Honor
able John Grigsby," which was a sue
cess. He spent a year on 'Mr Pick
wick" which was almost a failure, and
two months to construct "El Captain,
which was a triumph.
Dope" the tragic picture OF the
cocaine evil by Joseph Medill Patter-
son, is being presented in vaudeville.