Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-12-12
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night, "The Bachelor" Clyde Fitchs
comedy of love and business life, in
which Charles Cherry, The English act
or, assumes the leading role, will enter
upon its second local week. special
matinee will be given Wednesday ana
the regular matinee on Saturday. The
story is that of broker, Who on &C
count of his confirmed distaste for mat
rimony is known as "the bachelor.
The first act finds him eXpounding MS
theories to a friend who Is about TO
marry. The bachelor, however, little
knows that he is gradually falling IN
love with his stenographer. OF course
the girl returns the feeling Matters
would adjust themselves in natural
manner, but Mr.. Fitch capriclousiy IN
sists on making us acquainted win
the warm-hearted and Anticipated
young brother of the typewriter. The
brother believes that his sisters EN-
ployer has compromised her; the bach
elor thereupon agrees to marry the girl.
Meantime the sister learns OF her
brothers. interference and calls the en-
pagement off. MI Fitch does not leave
the audience there however, for before
the fall Of the curtain he has brought
the two lovers happily together. Inc
comedy ran for six months at the Max
inc Elliott theater in New York. Last
weeks performance has been the hrst
west of Chicago. The cast includes, in
addition to the star, Ruth Maycliffe,
Lillian Paige, Alice Ri1er, F. PerciVal
Stevens, Ralph Morgan and Charles
Latte.
MASON 49, Three Twins" which
comes tomorrow evening for an en-
gagement Of one week. with the usual
saturday matinee, had a run Of five
months in Chicago at the Whitney OPP
era house, and one year at the Heralu
Square theater in New YORK, where ~
pleased many lovers of musical coIneuS
with its music and electric novelties
The company is said to be deliberately
costumed, including eight Parlslan dl-
rectoire gowns which Joseph NJ. Gates
purchased in Paris especially for TINS
production The company is very
large one, and owing TO the heavy cleo
trical equipment and scenery requires
two baggage cars TO transport 1t. Inc
electrical aerial swing weighs 4eOO
mounds and is illuminated with 1000
electric lights, and when revolving with
six beautiful show girls In the basket
il is said to present an ample ana eN-
hilarating picture. There are many
musical numbers "Thc Cuddle Song,
showing the "seven ages OF GUIDING
is advertised as one of the most elaD-
crate and sentimental stage pictures
that has been produced in recent years
nv clown stunts are distinct novelty
,orhree Twins" cast is headed by Vic
tory Morley, who created the title role
when the show was produced at the
Whitney opera house in Chicago and
includes Bessie Clifford. Florenz holD
w. II. Woodside. Frank smith, f. p.
Bowers. Harry Hanlon. Albert LIVING
ston. Harry Johnson, Minnie Allen, He
lena Salinger Ada Clifford Ada Bate
man. Lillian Sadler and a chorus OF
sixty people. The orchestra is under
the direction Of Ivan Rudisill.
BURBANK-The popularity Of "St.
Elmo" the past week has induced Man
ager Oliver MoroscO to continue the
play for another and its last week, be-
ginning with a matinee this afternoon
and including the matinee SATURDAY.
The play, dramatized by Willard Hol-
comb from Mrs Augusta J. Evans
widely read novel of the same name
has proved one of the most popular
offerings made at the Main. street
house this year.
It is not often that Los Angeles play
goers are given an opportunity to see
a current success before New York au-
diences are accorded similar priVl-
lege, but this has been the case with
st. Elmo" which is now being played
in the east by four road companies and
which will open its first New York en-
gagement at the Academy of Music
tomorrow night. Following its first
western presentation at the Burbank
every newspaper reviewer in town
praised the lavish manner in which it
was staged and the able acting of the
company. The verdict of the audi
ences has been consistently approving.
The cast for the coming week remains
unchanged with a, Byron Beasley and
Miss Hall in the leading roles.
BELASCO-Cosmo Hamilton's new
play, "The Master Key" which will be
presented this week at the Belasco the
alter by Lewis $. Stone and his assoc
Ciates, has to do with a struggle be-
tween the forces of capital and labor.
In the end the master key" which the
author terms his love interest, unlocks
the door to a happy climax and the
curtain deSCends on a pair of happy
young people, even if the SOCIOLOGICAL
problem that has engaged the attention
of the players for three acts is lost
sight of for the moment. Mr.. Hamil-
toms play was produced a the BijOu
theater, New York, by William A.
Brady five months ago and was re-
ceived with much critical praise. Its
production Monday night at the Be
lasco will be the first production of the
piece on any western stage. The story
has TO do with a young man whose ia
Their has left him d large foundry, the
employees Of which are engaged in what
promises to be a long and determined
struggle for higher wages and better
living conditions. The young owner Of
the foundry is unknown to his Workmen
and with q desire to personally inVes-
tigate the conditions thai govern his
men he goes among them incognito and
readily passes off as one of his Cer-
ical force. He meets a charming girl
teacher, who has lost her father, a
doctor, and who has an ardent sym
patty with the struggling workmen
about her. The foundry owner WoOs
and wins the teacher, not however,
without competing on equal terms with
a young workman who contents him
self with a victory for his fellows in an
entirely different and more practical
direction. The part of the young fOun-
dry owner viii fall to Lewis S. Stone,
while the role Of the school teacher win
afford That's Magrane an interesting
character study. Frank Camp, William
Yerance Richard Vivian Charles Rug
gles James *. Applebee, Charles Glib
lyn, Grace Gardner, Beth Taylor and
the other Belasco players Will assume
the other roles.
Following THE Master Key the Be
lasco company will produce DIETRICH
STEMS well-known and always pop