Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
GOSSIP OF THE
LOCAL BOARDS

GOSSIP OF THE
II LOCAL BOARDS
Miss Jane Grey former leading wo-
man at the Belasco is now playing
similarly in the ninth Edward f. AL
bee Stock company in Providence,
r. l.
ALI the girls and the working force
of the Grigolati act are German. Only
the manager speaks English. The
Awaits sisters can only struggle
bravely with the English tongue. Paul
Sandor-and presumably his dog cir
cus-speak German. A wanderer on
the Orpheum back stage this week
might have taken it for a cross sec
ton of the Fatherland.
The Sammy Box" to which Miss
Bessie Sutherland has persistently
sung you're Just the Boy for Me" all
this week, has a rival for popularity
at the Grand in Counting Corner"
where it is estimated there is more
undisturbed spooning to the square
inch than in any other place in the
city. Counting Corner, if you must
know, is that little niche in the last
row of orchestra seats on the left side,
facing the stage. There are just two
seats there, for the curve of the aisle
and the corresponding bulge of the
boxes prevent more. More than one
now happy couple have sat there in
the days when the stage wooing gave
timid Jack his inspiration for a sotto-
Voce proposal. 1t is noticed by old
timers at the Grand that Hi and
10, orchestra, are always occupied.
v,I he
tention of ones neighbors is riveted
on the stage, it's an ideal place to
make love, say those who know.
Talking of dramatic accidents"
said Clarence Hyde, advance agent for
Ethel Barrymore, who has been in
town this week, there never was a
better instance than Clyde Fitch's
trunk. In the days when Amelia
Bingham was struggling for recogni-
ton her representative went to Mr.
Fitch who was enjoying one of his
very brief rests in his interesting home,
with "a request for new play. Fitch
sighed reminiscently and went to big
trunk in corner of his workshop
A heap of rejected manuscripts APP
peared as he tilted back the lid Run
ming his hand carelessly among them
he took out one quite at random and
handed it over with the remark, Try
this" Miss Bingham tried" it, with
the result that 1.-THE Climbers" proved
her greatest triumph and the beginning
of her stage success. l have often
wondered how many more trumps Mr.
Fitch has in that trunk of discards.'
Ollie Mack is the latest recruit to
Theatrical Row." having just moved
into 1872 Benton way, next door to the
home of Lewis S. Stone of the Be
lasco and a stones throw from where
Messrs. Hartford and Beasley reside.
The two MeInotte girls, who come
to the Orpheum Monday, are twins and
so much alike as sometimes to per-
pick their best friends. Imagine the
quandary of Clay Smith. who travels
with the act and is in love with one
of them, we shall not undertake to
say which There should be ample OPP
portunity for impromptu comedy be-
hind the scenes when Clay mistakes
Coral for Pearl next week, or vice
versa.
John Drew, who comes to the Ma
son at the end of the Barrymore week.
Is already preparing the production of
Much Ado About Nothing for next
season.
A Spanish playlet full of life and
action, heart interest comedy and pa
thos, is LA Paloma," booked at the
Walker the coming week. A beauti'
ful love story runs through the piece,
which is enacted by Vernon's Versa
tiles. The little play is peopled with
real characters, beautifully costumed.
in true Spanish style and surrounded
by very artistic Scenic effects. One of
the features of this attraction is
splendid rendition of La Paloma, in
English by Dorothy Doyle, known
throughout the east as the Spanish
Nightingale" The opening scene is
realistic Spanish dance by the en-
tire cast. This little company comes
to the Walker crowned with eastern
laurels and promises its patrons a
pleasing production.
The genial Frankenstein, who leads
the Orpheum orchestra, has donned
toupee and the glitter of his shining
dome of thought is no more in the Or
pheum pit.
The coming to the Orpheum Monday
of Mrs. Horton Forrest Phipps-La
Valera-of San Franchises, with her
Spanish dances, is interesting local
social circles. Mrs. Phipps was so fas-
cinating at the recent Bay City kir-
mess that Frisco managers were at
once attracted. She has been remark
ably successful: has had social
squabble of magnitude UP north, been
sued by Nat Goodwin, her furrier and
her jeweler, and has split the Frisco
social world into halves, with an echo
of it all down here. Her dances Will
pass the crucial test here, where
real Spanish dances are known, be-
cause real Spaniards still dance them
or at least, their actual descendants
do.
Students of the Burbank school of
dramatic arts will give matinee per-
Torrance of Tom Taylors comedy, IAN
Unequal Match" at the Burbank the
alter next Thursday afternoon. This
will be the final performance of the
present school year. and will be given
under the personal direction of Mrs.
Phosa McAlhster Duffield. The schools
fourth season will open September 1.
"a Sermon for Snobs" might be the
sub-caption of Jack Straw" in which
| John Drew comes to the Mason a week
| from tomorrow, after a four months
New York success. 1t was the first
of the Vaughan comedies to win an
| American production, the English cast
being headed by Charles HaWtrey. An
eccentric Pomeranian prince who seeks
| adventure incog masquerades as
waiter in a swagger London hotel. A
snobbish woman guest has insulted
| sensitive fellow patron of the hotel,
also a woman, and the latters friends
nersuade our Haroun AL RasChid to