Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-16

ter character would have pronounced
girl "gell," but ! doubt It.
Comedian Kolb got some ones goat
last night after the Lonesome Town
solo. 1t was handed anonymously over
the footlights-a real, wild Catalina
article-adorned with CAV ribbons and
collar The attenuated German was toe
surprised to think of anything effec-
tive to say, which the audience at the
Majestic took as the funniest feature of
a very hilarious incident.
Three rafting good acts reward the
Los Angeles theater patron who is pa
tent enough to endure one tolerable
instalment of corner grocery jokes
and two team numbers whose often
siveness, in spots, invites the muck
rake Mr.. and Mrs. Forbes sketch
"A Wild Rose" is about the best play
let on any vaudeville stage this week,
as Fox and Crystal are quite the worst
Yiddish comedians I have seen lately.
Williams and Walkers Chocolate
Drops" aided by King and Bailey,
serve up a melange of songs, dances
and byplay that counterbalanees a re-
pulsive imitation of a drunken man,
given by the woman member of the
Grover Richards team. Dorothy
Bunch, recently of 1.-THE Circus Grip
chorus at the Burbank, was a fair
warbling symphony in blue and white
who seemed quite at home in vaude-
vile.
I Inferentially 1 called Cal Stewart
merely tolerable, and that Is hardly
just, for even his old jokes have some
of the relish of a favorite dish, and
he sang when You Get Paper
from Your Old Home Town" with a
genuine appeal. The crowd laughs tile
loudest at some of the longest whis-
kered quips, so what can poor Cal do?
One offensive song lifts the Fox and
Crystal act above the innocuous level
of the commonplace.
The Grover Richards number is hon
estly pleasing up to the jag simula-
ton, which only a superlatively clever
woman can carry off without offense
The Forbes sketch, relating the cure
of a neglectful husband by a pres
sure on the jealousy pedal, is clean,
brisk and clever. Mrs. Forbes gives
| an excellently restrained picture OF
the wife who regains her husbands
love by pretending to flirt with his
friend and by feigning frivolity he
is the first to condemn, after deplor-
ing its absence in a conversation
which his wife overhears The result
ing situation is well worked out and
we'll acted. except where Mr.. Forbes
fOrgetS the probabilities IN MS anX1-
ETY. to embody an effective matinee
pose.
The seat sale for the "Piff Paff
Pouf'' frolic by the Princess company
at the Mason next week, will open to-
morrow morning at o'clock. Edwin
T. Emery, who scores several of the
song hits in this production, was a
member of May Twins company in
"Mrs. Black Is Back" and later was
member of the Belasco Stock COM
pany.
The Bruno Kramer trio, styled Euro
pean gymnasts, hit the high places
with Unique crowds this week, and
Reisner and Cores have character
song and dance act which seems to
please. Virden and Dunlap present n
brisk act as the newsgirl and the
Swell" in the course of which Miss
Dunlap sings prettily. The comedy
company, under James T. Keily's d.
rection, stages the latter's one-act
comedy 1.-THE Masqueraders. The
following catchy musical numbers are
introduced: MAKE a Noise Like a
Hoop" Winnie Baldwin; when 1
Leave Town." Miss Baumann; "If No.
Met No. O." Jack Martin; "If You
Only WILL" Denton Vane and May
Parker. Vane sings the illustrated
song and there are the usual first run
motion pictures.