Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-30
GRAND TO OFFER
1.-THE FOUNDERS"
ELKS' WEEK TO SEE FINAL
PRINCESS SHOW HERE
WYATT WAVES CONTRACT BAN
AND DEAL GOES THROUGH
Burt Sheppard at the Los Angeles
Theater Snaps the Whip, but Is
Not Necessarily a Whip
per-Snapper
BY w. HERBERT BLArE


AS exclusively announced in this
column yesterday, the Princess theater
company OF San Francisco, at the COM
pletion OF their three weeks Mason
engagement July II, will move over to
the Grand opera house for a week 8
frolic during the festivities of Elks
week. Manager Loverich has chosen
1.-THE FOUNDERS for production at the
Grand, an offering in which the Prin-
cess people are said to have rivaled
their current success in Peggy from
Paris in the critical judgment of
Frisco playgoers.
The Identical cast Of fifty-seven
which will present 1.-THE Umpire" at
the Mason next week has been retained
for the Grand appearances, including
Fred Mace, Zoe Barnett, May Boley
and the other favorites. July Is the
company will board train for San
Diego, where the last week of their
present six weeks Southern California
tour has been contracted for.
From the beginning Manager Lover
ich has desired to make his local stop
a clean month, having entered into
unsuccessful negotiations with oliver
Morosco and the Auditorium for the
open week after Manager Wyatt of
the Mason had found his Polly of the
Circus booking forbade a fourth week
of Princess comedy BY Mr.. Wyatt 8
express consent his contract forbidding
the Princess company to exhibit in any
other Los Angeles house during the
current season was waived and the
Grand obtained the booking.
This is the inside history as 1 have
II from Mr.. Loverich himself. 1t is
presumed that the lapse from melo-
drama at the Grand is only temporary
and that another Mortimer play will
succeed 1.-THE FOUNDERS the week of
July 10.
Anderson and Burt furnish we'll
written and well-acted comedy sketch
which Is one of the pleasing things In
the Los Angeles bill this week. The
humor of domestic quarrel is the inn
polling force behind the playlet, which
is appropriately named Home, Sweet
Home" Burt Shennard puts out a
lighted candle and then a match with
q blow of his whip. He also slices a
postcard, a cigarette and an apple
in two, ficks the ash from cigar
and winds up by an apparently brutal
drubbing administered about an inch
from the bent back OF his pretty girl
assistant Zena Keif looks about II
when she comes out, a diminutive elf
to sing, but as she dances she appears
to grow up Her act is pleasing
Harry Burgoyne surmounted medioc-
rity in but one imitation-that of Lon
don Hooligan. The rest of his act is
waste time Harry lie Claire imi-
tated several actresses with more or
less fidelity and concluded with a
highly realistic stimulation of Faust's
Mephisto in song and representation
The Cameron company present q patri-
&C act without much dramatic ex-
cuse, but with one or two fine chances
for male quartet singing, which were
improved. The Laugh-o-Scope is true
to its name.
''The Servant IN the House is due
to follow "Polly of the Circus" at the
Mason July 10.
The Union League club theater
party for new members, 200 strong, will
see 1.-THE Umpire next Tuesday night
at the Mason.
Rumor has 1t that Charles Giblyn
will fill Dewitt Jennings shoes at the
Belasco. The latters contract expires
soon.
Peter Donald, with his wife, Meta
Carson, now at the Orpheum, were
made honorary members of the Gale
DOMAIN society at its meeting Monday
night in Caledonian hall Donald was
present in his kilties and did some
songs and dances. The Caledontans
have agreed upon Friday as Scotch
night and will attend the Orpheum In
q body.
The Texas Bankers association.
which will be here on an outing July Z
and s, has reserved $50 seats at the Or
pheum for the latter night.
At the end of an indifferently poor
line of monologue Joe Goodwin, at
Fischer's this week, is giving two
recitations which are received with
undisguised pleasure by everyone who
listens to them. The first Is Kipling's
"Gunga Din" carefully enunciated and
brought to its .crashingly strong eli
max with genuine emotional appeal:
Later Mr. Goodwin recites a bit Of
italian dialect, entitled "Rosa," famil-
iar to most patrons Of vaudeville, in
a remarkably effective way. IF Mr.
Goodwin would get a few new jokes,
eliminate three-fourths of his old ones
and build his act around the recita-
lions he would have a real headliner.
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