Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

first tour of America. Dick Gardner
and Anna Revere call their act real
variety" They revive some of the
stunts of the pioneer vaudeville DAYS
and strive to lend to them modern
twist The holdovers are Hyams and
Mcintyre in THE Quakeress;' Hayes
and Johnson Cunningham and Marion
and Rose Royal with her posing horse.
There will be new motion pictures.
GRAND - Jean Barrymore's melo-
drama, 1.-THE Day of Judgment" will
be presented this afternoon, to run a
week. The play appears to be partly
based on some of the incidents in the
recent Thaw case. 1t is in four acts,
and has the requisite comedy relief.
The part announced as corresponding
in some respects to that of Thaw is
the Rev. Wilburn Wyndom, while Ford
ham Jamison and Lucille Perkins are
the names of characters supposed to
reproduce in a measure those of the
other two chief figures in the sensa-
tional trial. George Webb will be the
Rev. Wilburn Wyndom, and Robert
Leonard, Fordham. Arthur Whiting
will have the comedy role of Dennis
Maloney, Dave Silverman will play
Jonas Perkins, J. c. Bates will be seen
as Deacon Stout, Charles Yerba as
Deacon Short and Fred Morgan as
D6dcOn OllIIl. oeNGIdl GALL plcl9 Cl =
will fill minor roles.
LOS ANGELES-"Pals," the play
which provided vehicle for James j.
Corbett Hal Davis and Inez McCauley
three years ago, has been cut to the di-
menSions of tWenty-minute Vaude-
Vile sketch, and will be the feature of
the new bill opening Monday after
noon. Edwin Carewe will play the
Corbett role, supported by Madge Towle
and Campbell Stratton, two eastern
stock company players. Jere Sanford
has whistled on the stage for twenty
years, and Of late years not merely to
keep his courage up, either. Jere also
sings and yodels. He will combine the
three on the bill for this week. late
Sullivan and Considine importation is
that of the three Los Ploetz Lorellas
sisters They have presented their con-
tortionist act in continental music
halls. George E. Murphy, Walter Whit
man and Florence Horsfall offer Mr..
Murphy's comedy, "The Prodigal Girl, "
treating the subject of rural village
politics. Harvard and Cornelle have a
"comic singing oddity," called "The
Actress and the Dude" and the Clar-
ence sisters will sing and dance. The
films will flicker, too, but with due con-
sideration for your eyesight.
FISCHER'S - Charles Alphin and
company will offer "The King of Pata-
gonia" for their initial performance. 1t
is short musical comedy by MI
| Alphin, and a pretentiouS production is
promised. In the company are Blossom
Seeley, formerly with Kolb and Dill
and the Princess company, who will
play the soubrette parts; Maude Rock
we'll, prima donna, a well known Cali
fornia actress; Dave Morris, a Co
| hanesque comedian, who will play an
Italian this week. and a chorus
which will assist in the musical num-
bers. Among the latter are Spanish
song. Lolita" by Miss Rockwell; alsc
a number of late hits, sung by Miss
Seeley. Mr. Alphin promises that his
plays will be high grade comedy, with
real plots and librettos free of the vul-
gar or the hackneyed.
WALKER-This theater will be re-
| opened Monday afternoon bv the Allen
Curtis Musical company in "Jakey
Mikey and Ikey," a musical travesty
kcentering around three tourists, a Ger
man, Irishman and a Hebrew. The
character parts fall to Arthur Clamage
Henry Auerbach and Allen Curtis. The
latter's Hebrew is not only comical bui
has points of genuine originality. A
sprightly and comely chorus is prom
ised. Thursday night will be amateur
night each week. Each applicant viii
be given a preliminary tryout, and only
the best will be presented in the public
test A woman'S souvenir matinee viii
be given every Wednesday, with extra
specialties in the way of entertainment
Next Wednesday afternoon each woman
patron will receive an artificial chrys-
anthemum or carnation. Popular prices
will prevail and two shows will be
I-given nightly, with matinees Monday
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
UNIQUE-Hentz & Zallee have TAX
en- a temporary lease on the Empire,
East Third street, near Main, until a
new theater can be built, and the
Unique company will resume its policy
of mingling vaudeville with brief COM
edy tomorrow matinee. The three Oil
yers in repertoire of feats and Jack
Harrington, a vaudeville cartoonist,
will furnish the variety. Harrington
works rapidly and makes a speciality of
comic pictures. The stock company
will present a one-act comedy drama.
1.-THE Derby" written by AL Franks
The piece concerns plot to induce an
old negro by bribery to cripple his mas
ter's horse. The villain fails, and, des-
perate in his endeavor to win victory
for his own horse, drugs his rivals
jockey The negro discovers the trick
and rides the horse of his master to
victory. AL Franks will play the ne
gro, James Spencer the villain, Herbert