Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
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AUDITORIUM-"AH Baba and the
Forty Thieves" will be presented sec
ond week at the Auditorium theater.
beginning tomorrow night. New and
novel features will be introduced. and
several stage creations never seen be-
fore IN Los Angeles will be produced.
Miss Maud Beatty and Miss OLGA. Stecb
will sing several special selections. The
comedians, Billy Onslow, Roscoe Ar
buckle, Walter Reed and Ben Sellar,
have new line of jokery. Ben Sell
lars song with the Dutch girls is one
of the hits Of the performance. The
crystal ballet, one of the most attract
I've stage pictures ever seen in Los An
geles, will be repeated The panto-
mines are proving especially attractive
10 maIlnee audiences, and 13, 1867 persons
paid admission last week.
Manager Crawford will give a spe-
clal matinee on Washingtons birthday.
Monday afternoon, for the benefit of
school children.
MASON-Clyde Fitch's play. Girls
will be presented under the direction
OF Sam S. and Lee Shubert at the Ma
son opera house this week beginning
tomorrow night.
The play deals with the adventures
Of three bachelor girls who have sworn
a mighty oath on an impressive hat min
that never, So long as they live. will
they permit themselves to be dependent
upon man. With this resolution firmly
fixed in their minds, but unfortunately
not so firmly fixed in their hearts. thew
start out to battle with the world. No
man is ever seen in their company and
I11l C hlH Hr,vx-
cite on their curtains. But the man
comes, nevertheless. He comes in the
night, seeking refuge from an irate but
mistaken husband, who has pursued
him down two flights of stairs into the
very den of the man-haters Subse-
quently the girls secure positions in a
law office, in which they are surrounded
by men. The inevitable happens. as Of
course it must almays happen, and has
always happened since the tragedy OF
the Garden Of Eden.
There is no question about the sue
cess of a play that is properly based
on the subject of woman. In Girls
Mr.. Fitch has avoided the slightest an
proach to problem and has made the
whole action of the piece breathe the
spirit of girls who are girls, and who.
when they become women, are women.
The cast provided by the Messrs.
Shubert is good, the members having
peen selected with careful eye regard
ing their fitness for the various roles
The production is very elaborate and
IS correct down to the smallest detail
The members of the cast are H. s
Northrup, Bessie Toner. Caroline
Locks, Ethel Terry, Suzette Jackson.
Merceita Esmonde. Charles Brandt
Hevlyn Benson, Karl Knapp, Pierre
Young, Fred Stanley and E. A. Locke.
A matinee will be given Saturday.
BELASCO-Lewis S. Stone and the
Belasco- company will offer "A Texas
Steer" another of Hoyts plays, this
week. HOyt's fame was based largely
on his work in "A Texas Steer" IT is
one of the best stage expositions of
American politics yet written. The
role of Maverick Brander, the sturdy
Texan who is sent to represent his
district in congress, offers great possi-
bilities to Mr.. Stone to display his tall
ents as a character actor. Brander is
a strikingly original stage figure The
part of BOSSy, Brander's vivacious and
lovable young daughter, will be played
by Florence Oakley. She has interpret
ed the part before and should bring to
the role the very charming feminine
traits that Hoyt had in mind when he
the colored politician who deserts his
Texas habitat for the purpose of Sc
curing the position Of minister to Da-
honey" will introduce James K. Ap-
plebee in a new line of work Hereto
fore Mr.. Applebee's efforts have been
less conspicuous, but in "a Texas
Steer" his colored politician ought to
prove one of the best bits of the per-
fOrmance. Every member of the Be
lasco company will be seen in the pro-
duction of "A Texas Steer" and Scenic
Artist Brunton promises a number of
unusually effective stage pictures.
Following "A Texas Steer" Mr..
Stone and the Belasco company will
give Capt. r. c. Marshall's comedy
drama, THE Second in Command
This play was scheduled for this weeks
Belasco offering, but difficulties in the
matter of having costumes made ne
c -sitated postponement Of a week.
MAJESTIC-Another musical play.
q Marrying Mary" will be given at the
Majestic theater, beginning tonight.
Besides the usual matinees on Wednes-
day and Saturday a special holiday
matinee will be given tomorrow.
Marrying Mary" will bring Miss
Gear to Los Angeles in tha
title role. Miss Gear will be remem-
bered for her good work in another
play in Los Angeles last season.
Divorce is the theme exploited in
Marrying Mary" and not an oppor-
tunity is neglected to poke fun at the
many-sided complications the very