Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
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dramatization of Arthur j. Eddy's
powerful novel of business life, Gan
ton and Company" is entitled The
Great John Canton" 1t has had q
successful career in New York city
and comes to the Auditorium Monday
night for a stay of two weeks. George
Fawcett plays the leading role, thai
of a grim, crusty king of the packing
industry in Chicago, who has risen tt
wealth and power over the bodies ol
his economic victims. Will Canton
his son, imbibes democratic notions
from his college course and strives tc
induce his father to apply these Ideals
of justice and mercy to the conduct OF
his business. The old man RACES ano
SCOTS, finds the son strangely obdurate
and then coolly throws him out OF tht
business and dsinherits him. Tht
youth loves the daughter of his father
former business rival, whom the packer
has ruined. The girl invades the Office
of Canton pere, and bitterly denounce'
him for forbidding his son to marry
her. A strike follows at the yards, ano
the father is still further fnf1ameo
against the son by the latter's cham
pionship of the cause of the oppressed
Workmen, resolving the more firmly tc
starve them into submission.
Then enters a factor on which the
Great John Canton had not counted
The canker of his hate and his tyranny
A dangerous malady strikes him down
High-priced surgeons confer and calm
ly vote for an operation. There is
meager hope of success. Hearing the
message, John Canton relents, trans
fers his holdings to his son and con-
sents to the union with the child OF
his dearest foe. The old man staggers
into the operating room, and the aud
fence is left to guess the outcome.
The stage setting is said to be lavish
throughout. In the cast are Thurston
Hall, John Webster, Allan Fawcett,
Lucius Henderson, Fanchon Campbell,
Ruth Tomlnson and Elsie Scott. There
will be special Wednesday matines
and the usual one Saturday
MASON-Miss Billie Burke, we'll re-
membered for her gracious and win
ming impersonation of the title role in
my Wife," John DreW's starring
vehicle of a year ago, comes Monday
night for a weeks engagement in her
own play, Love Watches" a comedy
adapated from the French of MN. de
T1ers and de Gaillavaet by Miss Gladys
Unger. AS a Frohman star in this
play, Miss Burke appeared for many
weeks at the Lyceum in New York last
winter. She is an American girl but
her talents first found dramatic ex-
preston in London.
In Love Watches" Miss Burke plays
Jacqueline, a naive and impulsive
young French girl, who falls in love
with her cousin Andre. She tells him
so, with captivating candor, and after
three months of married life she does
not tire of the narration. But she
learns with instant jealousy that Andre
was bit of f1irt in his bachelor days,
and threatens If he ever backslides
into his earlier weakness, she will flirt
-discreetly-too Lucie, an old sweet
heart of Andres, cruelty arrives on the
scene, as If by magic, and has a faint
ing At. OF course Andre must see her
home. Jacqueline forgets prudence In
her retaliation and is innocently COM
promised by.visiting the rooms of an
other cousin, who loved her hopelessly
of old. The situations evolve mutual
discovery and eventual forgiveness.
The character of Jacqueline would
seem to fit Miss Burke's temperament
and method admirably. Her support
actor new to Los Angeles; Ernest Law
ford, Stanley Dark, Maude odell, Kate
Meek and Muriel Ashwynne. There
will be Wednesday and Saturday mat
inees.
BELASCO - What Manager Black
wood confidently believes will be the
most ambitious stock production ever
undertaken IN America will be given
Monday night in the revival of David
Belascos "Du Barry" the mammoth
dramatic spectacle in which Mrs. Leslie
Carter appeared throughout the coun-
try for four years, and which is still
part of her emergency repertoire. Be
sides Mrs. Carter and Florence Roberts
no native actress has eSSayed the role
which will give Miss That's Magrane
her first heavy emotional work in the
present company. The entire strength
of the stock company will be drawn
f1F0duafinn and 1b0
extra players have been engaged for
the minor roles. Beautiful light ef-
fects, scenery and costuming are
promised. The original investiture
which graced the eastern premiere has
the garden fete setting and the street
scene in which Du Barry is dragged to
the guillotine in tumbril, deserted by
all save Cosse- -Brossac and the faithful
Denys.
The scene is Paris just before and
after the Revolution. The wanton
whose meteoric rise into kingly favor
swayed courts and dynasties Is shown
as a milliner's apprentice, the faVorite
of Louis XIV. dethroned idol and
finally the prey of an outraged peoples
vengeance. A dramatic scene is that
in which she conceals her young lover,
wounded by the guard, in her own bed
from the search of the king. The
later scenes of retribution and the
march to the oscaffold sustain the
ethics of the whole matter rather more
flamboyantly than do the histories, al
though garbing the whole in glamor
of heroics which at times is not quite
true to life, in the opinion of some
critics. however appetizing to the
ravenous method of Mrs. Carter. The
last view which the audience gets of
Du Barry sees her in the death cart,
passing the very milliner's shop where
she lived In simplicity in the years pre-
ceding her fatal favor in the eyes of
the masters. lords and rulers" of suf-
fering France.
Mr.. Stone will play the young soldier
lover of the kingly favorite, Frank
Camp will be the king, Richard Vivian
will play Du Barry's faithful servant,
Denys, and Charles Ciblyn her un-
scrupulous brother-in-law. The play
Is of such unusual length that Manager
BlackWood personally requests every
playgoer to be in his seat by o'clock,
when the curtain will rise.
BURBANk-The stock company will
continue it's policy of presenting late
road successes in Lady Frederick" :"
w. Somerset Maugham's brilliant So
ciety comedy, beginning with today's
matinee and including the usual Satur-
day afternoon performance. This will
be the plays first American produc-
tion since Miss Ethel Barrymore's sue
cessful starring tour in 1t. Miss Lillian
Burkhart, now In the second week of
her special engagement with Oliver
Morosco's company, will have the
Barrymore part. Assisting her. under
the direction of Stage Manager David
M. Hartford will be A. Byron Beasley