Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-31

and James Macarthur, its scenes laid in
Alaska and on shipboard en- route, IS
announced for presentation at Man
ager Oliver MOrosco's Burbank the.
alter. beginning with a matinee per-
Torrance today The play is a drama
tiZed version of Mr.. Beach's novel,
similarly named. The story is found
ed upon fact, the plot involving the
love history of Roy Glenister and Helen
Chester, together with the attempts
of a little coterie of mining sharps 20
jump valuable mining claim.
The play engages the services of a
long speaking cast, together with
pear as dance hall girls, miners, sol
diers and sailors. The scene of the first
act is on board ship; of the second, in
a lawyers office at Nome; of the
third, in an Alaskan dance hall, AMI
of the fourth, outside the dance hall
and inside road house. It is a red
blood drama, 1.-The Spoilers" There is
nothing nambypamby about it. 1t is
melodramatic because life in Alaska
at the period was melodramatic, and
1t shows conditions as they actually
existed when Mr.. Beach was himself
a figure in the scenes he depicts.
ORPHEUM-The Orpheum offers new
acts and new settings, constituting
practically a new show for the week
beginning tomorrow afternoon. Wilfred
Clarke heads the bill with a good COM
pany in his own farce What Will
Happen Next?" In the realm of myth
comes De Biere, a magician and IL
lusionist.
Les Salvaggis and the Rooney sisters
offer dancing acts, but Of widely differ
ent character, holding interest for the
admirers of both the artistic and pic
torial in dancing The Salvaggis are
PARTISAN dancers of the whirlwind tyre
with acrobatic stunts, while the Rooney
girls, Josie and Julia. are the daughters
or Fat Rooney and offer an exception
ally artistic dancing act
Gus HILBERT and Fred Warren are
billed as THE pianist and the dancer"
Edwin Lattel, who appeared several
weeks ago in his Dull Care" sketch
Will return, offering the sixth new act
The two followers are the Gus Ed
wards School for Boys and Girls" and
Rogers and Deeley in THE Singer and
His Valet"
GRAND-"Tar and Tartar" Ferris
Hartman's selection for this week at
the Grand opera house, is one of the
bright musical pieces which brought
fame to Digby Bell. 1t should prove a
good vehicle for the Hartman talents
as it will give him an abundant oppor-
tunlty for fun making in a suita BILE
role. The management promises that
It Will be well mounted, as to scenery
and costumes.
Hartman will be seen as Muley Has
san, lugubriously funny role in which
he is most at home. He will be as
sisted by Josie Hart, the shrewish wife,
Muggins Davies in a soubrette role,
and Anna Little, the prima donna, who
will appear as Farina, the Circassian
beauty. Charles Airing, Walter De
Leon, Joseph FOgarty, Robert Lett and
Emil kruSchke, Edna Robinson and
Flora Norris all will appear in promi-
nent parts. 1.-The Girl from Paris" will
be Mr.. Hartman's next Offering.
LOS ES-Announcements for
the week at the Los Angeles theater
show a program of good diversity, the
bill being headed by Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Esmonde in their bucolic comedy
drama in one act, 1.-THE Soldier Of Prop
Vile" This sketch is said to be UNI
usual, and has been accorded an enthu-
siastic reception on the Sullivan &
Considine circuit. In it Mrs Nsmonde
appears as down-to-date young news
paper woman in search of a STORY"
She comes to a country village and
there falls into conversation with "Old
Jim," chore boy at the hotel and sole
member of the village fire department
The colloquy is marked by much home
ly philosophy and dry wit until at the
end there comes suddenly a change to
pathos, when the newspaper woman
discovers the old man to be her own
father.
The Royal Musical Five, four young
men and young woman, will contrib