Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Brown" Swan Wood, Marguerite
Walker, Florence Leslie and others are
capably cast, and the large chorus
shows steady improvement.
| Manager Crawford will introduce
| several new and novel features for the
/ second week, beginning tomorrow even
| ing, and promises one of the most
| gorgeous pantomimes ever seen in the
| country.
! MASON-"The Red Mill" which is to
! be seen in Los Angeles for the first
! time at the Mason opera house Mon
! day evening, is declared by the man
| agement to be one of the best of the
| seasons offerings. The music is by
| Victor Herbert. The book is by Henry
| Blossom, who has written clever dia-
| lCgue in the past, ard the company
engaged is said to be a good one. The
| scenes are laid in Holland in a little
| Dutch village. THE Red Mill'' will be
| presented in Los Angeles after a sea-
| sons run at the Knickerbocker theater
| New York, with engagements of three
months in Chicago and Boston, where
| ii proved to be a success.
| The story is simple. Con Kidder and
| Kid Connor are two Americans strand
| ed at a small Dutch inn in a little
| Holland village. They have come to
| the end of their financial resources and
! are in debt for a weeks board. They
| are about to make their escape by
! means Of a blanket rope from an up
! stairs window when they are detected
| by the burgOmaster, and only saved
| from imprisonment when they offer
| to work out their Indebtedness. Kid
| der, who processes to be somewhat Of a
| l1nguist, is made interpreter at the inn.
| and COnnOr becomes a waiter. Kidder
| has but scant knowledge of French,
| and when he is confronted by an irate
| French countess who does not under
CT md 1icIo
| sation are laughable.
| The company engaged includes Wal
ter Wells as Con Kidder; Neil Mcneil
as Kid Connor; w. H. Brown, Fred
W. Huntley, Milton Dawson, Frederick
MCGEE, Maurice Lavigne, Eugene P.
| Arnold, and the Misses Anna McNabb,
| Marguerite Fry, Sadie Kirby, Edmace
dc DreuX, and a chorus Of fifty, in
Guiding the Dutch Riddles and an or
| chestra Of twenty
BELASCO-Lewis S. Stone and the
Belasco theater company will revert to
the frivolous and frolicsome style Of
stage entertainment this week when
they will give the first stock company
performance in Los Angeles of Charles
Hoyt's play, "A Stranger in New
| York.
The American stage has never known
a more prolific writer of farces than
|
works none has proved more popular
with theatergOers than "a Stranger
in New York The play has all the
dash that characterizes the Hoyt farces
and in the hands of Mr. Stone and his
fellow players at the Belasco theater
1t ought to prove one Of the most di-
verting offerings of the year
| The members of the Belasco company
will introduce a number of songs.
Lewis S. Stone will sing one of the
comedy song hits of the current New
York season; Florence Oakley will have
| a new song called "Just a Little Walk
with YOu," the words and music Of
which are by Victor Shertzinger, the
we'll known and popular musical di-
rector of the Belasco theater orchestra.
Miss Oakley's singing voice as revealed
in the Stone company's performance
of "Forty-five Minutes from Broad
way" is decidedly good and in the Hoyt
play she should appear at her best.
Charles Ruggles will sing meet Me in
the Rose Time, Rosie,' Beatrice Noyes
will sing Mother, May 1 Go Out to
Swim,'' Harry Oaks will contribute a
song and incidentally a dance and Fay
BANTER will offer a musical number in
which her dancing will be featured.
Following the production of Hoyt's
! ga Stranger in New York Mr.. Stone
and the Belasco company will give
the first stock performance in the
world of Richard MansfeId's greatest
success, "Beau Brummel," with Mr.
Stone in the Mansfield part.
| MAJESTIC-Beginni with a mat
inee today Sunday and with the reg
ular matinees on Wednesday and Sat
urday and a special matinee on Fri
day Manager Morosco announces as
! the attraction at the Majestic theater
this week the musical extravaganza
! ''Babes in Toyland." The production
will be seen as it was produced in
| New York for two years and in Chi
cago for nearly year, and will be
produced under the stage direction Of
Julian Mitchell
Although described as an operatic
extravaganza, BABES in Toyland" is
said to take rank among real comic
| operas. The score by Victor Herbert
| is one of the most pretentious works
of this talented musician. The libretto
is the work Of Glen McDonough, who
| has provided a more ambitious achieve
ment in book and lyrics than in any
| of his successes. The lyrics are said
| to be above the average Offering in
modern light operatic entertainment.
| ''Babes in Toyland'' will be presented
| here in precisely the same manner as
! during the recent metropolitan run.
The scenic, electrical and costume
| equipment is costly, including an elab-
| crate investiture of stage embellish-
ment. There is good cast Of twenty
principals, including Eddie Redway,
Gus Pixley, Gene Ormond, California
girl, who was last seen here with the
San Francisco opera company; Helen
Mcleod, Beth Tate, John M. Ward,
| Ida Ward, Norma Cameron, Leon
Mayo, Hugo Marks and others.
! Included in the musical numbers are
Barney O'Flynn," Beatrice Bare
facts" Little Bo Peep" "Just the
Proper Girl ''Silvery Moon," Before
and After" "Jack and JILL and others
! This is the first appearance of
Babes in Toyland' in Los Angeles.
| BURBANK-None of the stage
classics afford wider opportunity for
| the display of modern stage ingenuity
and craftsmanship than Goethe's i'm
mortal drama of Faust which is an
nounced for revival at the Burbank
| theater this week, beginning with a
matinee performance this afternoon.
For the past fortnight the electricians
and scene painters of the Burbank
force have been hard at work upon
this production. New effects have been
devised for use in the famous Brocken
| scene, showing the revel Of demons.
An artistic stage picture has been de-
| signed for the apotheosis and else
where results have been attained, as
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