Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28
In the Spotlight

CtACKCLOTH and ashes are expected
~ to cause a serious falling off in
~ theatrical business this week, al
though so far Lent seems to have had
but little effect on local amusements.
The two dramatic stock houses have
been fortunate in having such unusual
~ good attractions that there have been
few empty seats. Arizona" Augustus
Thomas great play, which is being
given an excellent presentation by the
Burbank company, will run another
week The play has made a decided
hit with the Burbank patrons and is
well acted and well staged. In any 9TH
err season THE Dollar Mark" which
will be continued at the Belasco, doubt
less would have broken the records OF
the house. Mr.. Broadhurst's play, in
it's present presentation, is a consld-
erably better production than even that
of the first week-excellent as that per-
Torrance was. The Belasco company
has acquitted itself so admirably that
Mr.. Broadhurst says his only hope fol
a better production in New York lies
in securing characters fitting the types
more closely.
The Mason will be dark, but the 9TH
er combination house, the Majestic
in the east, in Classmates, with Nor
man Hackett in the stars part. Al
the Auditorium Manager Crawford
doubtless will be the center of interest
in his initial local appearance in an
important part in 'Whim Wham."
Carl Schlund scene painter of the
Belasco stock company. says he is
going to apply to the navy department
for a pension. Il have built boats
enough in the last year to rig up a
good coast defense al San Pedro" said
Mr.. Schlund yesterday within the
last few months | have made boat
scenes in four shows-'On the Quiet,
THE Fastener The Dollar Mark and
Miss Hobbs which will be put on
next week. I'm getting so l sing Fiji
teen men on the dead mans chest in
my sleep. They tell me I'm getting a
regular sailors walk, and I always
have to shift my quid before 1 say any
thing"
A new star in the person of Nor
man Hackett will occupy the stage
of Hamburger's Majestic theater dur
ing the week of March 2S. Mr.. Hack
ett's last visit to Los Angeles was
made in Louis James company. He
returns at the head of his own organi-
cation to play the leading role in
"Classmates," under Jules Murry's
management The opening scene of
classmates" shows a company street
in West Point, the central figure of
the play being Duncan Irving, West
Point cadet. From there the action
proceeds to a forest near the headWa
tiers of the Amazon and to New York
city. The play. written by son of the
late H. C. DeMille, David Belasco's
first collaboration, was used last season
by Robert Edeson and proved one of
the few genuine successes of the year.
Mr. Hackett is said to be supported by
a competent company.
Mrs. Frederick Andrews, a Los An
geles woman who has written a num-
Der of plays, one of which was pro
duced by Dick Ferris at the Auditor
ium, has finished another play which
will be used as a starring vehicle for
Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts.
Contracts were signed in San Francisco
last week.
Trick piano playing, as done by Jack
Connolly of Connolly and Webb, who
comes to the Orpreum tomorrow, takes
as much painstaking preparation as
concert piano playing, as is apparent
after Mr.. Connolly has explained just
how he does it.
"You see," he says, Gin order to play
Everybody Works but Father as
Liszt would have played if he had not
had the good fortune to die first, you
have to be able to play some of the
things which List did write, which is
only roundabout way of getting down
to the fact that I received the musical
training upon which all my trick play
.%.,f 44ISland CON
seravtory of Music.
when 1 was graduated from that
institution / was expected to begin
career as concert pianist. Unfor-
tunately the road to the realization of