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Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
GREEN ROOM TALK
AND TATTLE

MISS EDITH ELLIS, author of
N Mary James Pa" will return to
AA the stage next year and star in
a drama by herself to be entitled
"Vespers." So she told Chicago
friends. The next day she went to De-
troit and was married to c. b. Ferness,
which may or may not complicate
matters.
Miss Ellen Terry, with her husband,
James Carew, is now a confirmed Lon
don first-nighter, frequently attracting
more applause than the stars she
comes to see.
|, Margaret Anglin has returned to
America from her Australian tour.
Advance sales aggregating but 50 to
the box office summarily ended the
lascivious career of THE Narrow
Path" The only reason for noting this
tiresome fact is that it happened in
New York-at the Hackett theater.
"Phormio;' or 1.-The Scheming Para
site" one of the six eXtant comedies
of Terence, was staged by the North
western University Dramatic club,
probably for the first time since its
premiere in Rome, 162 B. c.
Edwin Emery has quit the legitimate
for a role in 'Piff Paff Pouff.
For the last two weeks the Heilig
theater in Portland has been closed by
municipal order until made safe, 1t is
the high-priced attraction playhouse
of the city
Conan Doyle (prehx the sir if you
like) has written what he calls "mor-
tality play dealing with the problem
of suicide A man is tempted to self
destruction and succumbs The later
acts show the folly and futility of his
course. The idea appears to be that
of the authors short story, The Pot
of CaWare," amplified.
The Chicago branch of the Actors
Church alliance has voted to discuss
publicly each new attraction and fur
nish playgoers the result of its iudg-
ments. Just how unanimity will be
obtained is not stated.
oliver Herford is making the Eng
lish adaptation of "Glueck bel F'rauen,"
the Viennese farce which Henry w.
Savage will produce next season under
the title of "The Lady Killers"
Otis skinner Kyrle Bellew Miss
Lena Ashwell, Charles Hawtrey. Mrs.
Langtry, Miss Rose Melville and Vio-
let and Irene Vanbrugh are the chill
dren of clergymen.
Lillian Nordica, in a London inter-
view, announces that she viii marry
G. w. Young of New York next spring,
and will then retire from the stage.
Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern are
continuing their Shakespearean VEN
ture in a transcontinentaI tour play
ing in Romeo and Juliet" "Hamlet" ,"
1.-THE Merchant OF Venice" Twelfth
Night and "The Tanning of the
Shrew."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
GOSSIP OF THE
LOCAL BOARDS

N HE Princess Theater company of
San Francisco will open the Ma
n sons musical comedy summer
season June q in "Piff Paff Pouf.'
pretentious grand opera engagement
succeeds them in the Frisco playhouse.
Following "Piff Paff Pouf" at the Ma
son will be seen Peggy from Paris
and "The Umpire The entire PrlnceSs IS
chorus, under Stage Manager Ed T.
Temple and Musical Director Selli ST.
monsen, is promised.
Miss Grace Rauworth, who will play
the heavy feminine roles with the new
Grand stock company, is the possessor
of a wonderful wardrobe which COM
pletely fills nine large trunks.
Among the songs to be introduced
in "A Milk White Flag" at the Bur
bank are Good Night, My Little Daft
fodll," which Henry Stockbridge sang
so conquerngly in the same piece last
year: Don't Be Cross, Dear; I'm Hav-
ing Lots of Trouble with My Smile,'
Margo Duffet; "Down at the Huskin'
Bee" Blanche Hall and Henry Stock
bridge, with double mixed quartet;
Il Won't Be Home Until Late, Dear"
A. Byron Beasley. In addition Charles
Giblyn and Harry Mestayer will in
troduce songs not yet selected.
So much praise has been accorded
Florence Reeds appealing interpreta
ton of the slavey in the recent Belasco
production of Merely Mary Ann" that
the management may arrange for a re-
vival of Zangwills delightful little COM
edy-drama in the near future.
Harry Girard viii make his first Los
Angeles stage appearance in "a Milk
White Flag singing MY Prairie
Land" words by oliver Morosco, music
by himself. Mr.. Girard has opened a
studio in the Majestic theater building
and in his leisure time is at work on
a comic opera. He is the composer of
voice of good range and fine quality.
Seven real redskins from the Indian
village, and seven live cowboys on
horseback have been engaged for the
coming production of "Bunco in Ari-
zona,' which will follow mo Mother to
Guide Her." which will open the sum-
mer season at the Grand this afternoon.
Oliver Morosco has obtained "a
Message from Mars" and the play will
be presented at the Burbank shortly,
its first time in stock anywhere.
Manager Bovyer of the Los Angeles
theater tried a graceful sdestep yes
terday when somebody whispered the
word "matrimony." Evidently some one
has his number Time. six months
hence; place. San Francisco.
Florence Oakley, formerly leading
woman at the Auditorium and more
recently leading woman of the Valen-
oia theater stock company, San Fran
CISCO will be leading woman of the
reorganized company which is to oc-
cupy Ye Liberty theater I'm Oakland.
Cal Stewart who will appear at the
Los Angeles theater this week with his
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Grip them, hold them, trample on their
conventional stage IDEAS if you must
or uplift them in a burst of poetry
But don't give them a chance to dis
cuSs you in the theater. Let them go
home and argue about your naturalism,
your theatricism or your dramatic bru-
tality While they watch you act, en-
slave them. No pope ever laid claim
to the degree of infallibility which the
meanest player must constantly sus-
tain, if he is to hold his own in the
battle of the footlights.
Barrie understood this dualism of
all art when he drew the character of
John Shand, which l consider the
highest form of satire. 1t pokes fun
at man-and does it seriously. And
the satire is so serious that you hate
the character. yet, paradoxically, you
love him, too. 1t is the Barrie stiletto
instead of the Ibsen broadaX of The
Dolls House.
Like many recent observers, Mr..
Bennett sees an ebb tide in the infiu-
ence of Ibsen on the drama For the
occasional inroads of the prurient play
he blames the public more than the
managers. and the managers more than
the actors, which was the only plati-
tude he uttered in our half hour OF
rapid fire conversation. More than all,
he blames the itch of curiosity in the
modern playgoer, to assuage which we
suffer the infections of Three Weeks
and THE Girl from Rector's." Yet
he takes the unbiased view of the
artist as to the portrayal of immoral
ity as such, on the stage.
1.-The Easiest Way is no more use
less than The Hypocrites' was neces-
sary" was his somewhat cryptic utter
ance on this point, "and by that /
mean that either, or any play, is not
futile which lifts us out of the sordid.
money -grubbing pit of materialism. In
this view of it, a play not in itself
moral might produce in it's auditors
moral state of mind. Not every doc
tor who gives poison kills his man.
Often the only way for young
dramatist to hit his audience between
the eyes is to throw mud. He can
wash his hands before he writes his
second play. And then, again. the
second play may fall fiat. / sat in a
box at THE Cirl from Rector's" in
New York cursing every minute at
the double entendres the players put
into their lines There was decent wit
enough in the situations to make the
thing go without a particle of i'm
ported smut.
II don't believe the American public
ever will take to the French farce.
Perhaps we take our plays too serious
ly, as some suggest, but, after all, why
shouldn't we? Why, farce itself has
got to be played as tragedy with the
loud pedal on, or it collapses. And
the American public, in the main, still
refuses either to be shocked or to
laugh at ornate nastiness. Whatever
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Il
current bills in Los Angeles theaters)
MASON-Winsome Marie Doro in .'rhe
Morals of Marcus by W. j. Locke, who
has turned his own novel into the play.
How youth and beauty combine to rouse a
doting bookworm to the rudder, humaner
facts of life is told in a vein of mingled
satire and sadness. The result is more
than comedy. and comes painfully near
being a philosophy of life People who
afraid the theater will preach them a
sermon without their knowing it should
stay away, First appearance here of botn
star and play Monday night
BELASCO-"The Lion and the Mouse -
Charles Klein's strong human play of
modern business life opens Monday night,
with the most brilliant of (the younger
group of American actors, Richard Ben
nett in the role Of Jefferson Ryder. You
are bound TO hear from Mr.. Bennett very
often in the next five years, but that is no
excuse for missing one Of his strongest and
biggest successes.
BURBANK-.'A Milk White Flag" at the
usual sunday matinee, Will open the new
week. The versatile members of the
company Will interpolate several song
specialtles, Of which all who remember
their first grade work in "The Chorus
Lady" VII be appreciative in advance
MAJESTIC Lonesome Town" will leave
the Majestic that way after next satur-
day night This week we may pay our
regretfn adieuX TO Kolh and Dill a pair
of honest fun makers who have given us
many merry moment.
GRAND--Whether melodrama of the older
sort has seen its best days will be demon
strated pro or con, in the reception to be
accorded "No Mother to Guide Her. one
of the best known of the ancient thrillers,
from the pen of Miss Lillian Mortimer.
Care has been exercised in selecting the
company and we hold our breath pending
the issue Opening Sunday matinee,
ORPHEUM-Flo Adler and Countess Rossl,
in their respective acts give promise of a
varied bill The Lulu Beeson trio VIII pre-
sent "A Night in Ell Paso" which is rather
loveier than that Texas town ever ap-
peared to travelling salesman.
LOS ANGELES--You can guess we'll as
the compiler of this column who and
what Williams and walkers Chocolate
Drops" area and how good. Mr. and Mrs.
Forbes offer a sketch. "a Wild Rose, "
and Cal Stewart will whittle 1oshes at
the corner grocery
WALKER-Muslc, comedy and dancing. in
about the usual vaudeville ratio, promised
for the coming week
EMPIRE-Make It two.
UNIQUE-Muscal comedy. with occasional
specialties.
FIsCHER's-"of Course Love MY wife,
but Oh You Kid" scheduled as a song
for the coming week, impresses us as only
mildly wicked for II is natural for a
father to love his child. lf you insist on
taking musical comedy seriously, don't so.
AUDITORIUM Mournfuly dark, with only
echoes OF salvation NelPs" sermon to
haunt the untenanted flies.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

it's other sins, the American mind is
still a virgin as to art.
"The American playwright who will
last is the big. virile native son, not
the foreign imitator."
DO yeu think your eighteen years
on the stage have cost you any of the
candor and sincerity which many think
an actor must forfeit In his private
life to succeed ?"
For sole answer he showed me a
picture of his big roomy home on the
Palisades-deserted now, while with
Mrs. Bennett he enjoys a vacation" of
hard work in stock.
Il like to act" he said. simply, but
my real life will begin again when we
can get back there, with our garden.
dogs and horse. / was a wanderer for
years before and after l went on the
stage, and know the meaning of the
word home.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
4 D/N STANTON is
X MAJe Sic" u

Uncle Josh yarns, has just completed
contract with one OF, the big talking
machine firms in the east whereby he
will furnish them with seventy-five diff
ferent records of nothing but funny
stories, told in his amusing manner
During his stay here he will tell some
of his latest stories to local firm for
use on the talking machine.
Percival Aylmer. who came here
last year with Nary Shaw in Ibsen
repertoire, and who stayed after Miss
Shaw's departure staging Ibsen and
Shakespearean plays with society
opening his season in New York in a
play by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, new to
America.
David M. Hartford will be back on
the stage Monday night for the first
time since the close of the Belasco's s.
wonderful run of THE Dollar Mark"
In which he played the part of Carson
Baylis, originally fashioned after the
late Henry H. Rogers. In "The Lion
and the Mouse" Mr.. Hartford will play
similar role.
Wallace Munro, we'll known here,
and whose daughter and her family
live at Long Beach, will manage Olga
Munro piloted Louis James. He is the
youngest grandfather among the
Friars
After twenty-one years of Irish
comedy and twenty years of waiting for
good chance at the legitimate drama,
Charles Murray, who for the past seven
weeks, with Ollie Mack, has been hold
ing the boards at the Grand, has real
lied his dream. Manager Blackwood
has engaged Mr.. Murray to play Bub
Hicks in the Belascos coming produc-
tion of 1.-THE College Widow" which
will follow The Lion and the Mouse"
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. CHM (the latter
better known to Burbank frequenters
as Miss Maude GilberD have purchased
a home on Staten Island N Y Mr.
Ginns mother will leave Los Angeles
soon to join them there. Mr.. and Mrs.
CHM have, as neighbors Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Morris, both former familiar
figures at the Burbank, where Mr.. Nor
ris was stage director and Miss Elsie
Esmond (since Mrs Morris) a popular
ingenue.
Carol McComas, Los Angeles
girl, daughter of Assistant District
Attorney McComas, has been engaged
as leading woman of the Page Ben
jamin stock company at Richmond
Va.
Novel electrical effects are said to
add materially to the scenic beauty in
vesting "A Night in Ell Paso," tie
sketch in which the Lulu Beeson trio
will be seen at the Orpheum next week.
Ward and Weber, in black velvet Mex
ican costumes and seated in a canoe,
serenade Miss Beeson underneath the
window of an adobe hut. Varied dane
ing follows by all three.
Fred Mace, who will play Pouff1e in
'Piff Paff Pouf' at the Mason week
after next, went on the stage after the
failure of his suit for the hand of an
heiress, whom he had saved from death
after she had been seriously injured in
an automobile accident, Mace acting I'm
his former professional capacity as a
surgeon. Mr.. Mace plays the Sandman
in "Piff Paff Pouf." comedy role
seems ironic enough in the life of a
man who has lived such genuine
tragedy.
Mary X. Taylor of The Morals of
Marcus" cast has played many Shake
spearean roles and was a member OF
Continued Page Ninel
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
BITS OF EPIGRAM FROM w. ].
LocKE'S MORALS OF MARCUS"

Many a insists on comradeship mas
querading as consuming passion.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

One of the many advantages of being a man
is that when you sell your soul to the devil
you that you get the proper payment
A woman is paid in promissory notes which
are dishonored when they fall due
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Rumor has II that a new play by Edward
Sheldon, the youthful author OF Salvation
Neil' has been accepted by the manage
ment OF the New theater of New York city
as the opening attraction OF that play
house. which will have its inaugural prob
ably next fall.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

A coquette is abandoned woman who
faunts her sex as bullfghter does his red
flag, TO infurate helpless animals
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

"A discerning woman friend to Sir Marcus)-
My poor MarcusA go back to your dim cen
turtles and play no more with actual things
You either break them like a woman's heart
or they too dangerous for you you can't
allow for their lronies. woman gave you
her soul and you took 1t for smile A girl
gave you her smile and you took it for her
soul. You brought a lamb into your house
and set it to feed with a wolf. and now you
call the wolf to aid you TO recover the
lamb the wolf himself has stolen.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Talking to Antoinette is pure joy If she
woke up one morning and found she had a
mind she would think il a disease.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
NOTES BY THE WAY

George Bernard Shaw has written a play
on woman suffrage for Forbes Robertson
Look out!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

The women men are crazy to marry are not
those they particularly delight to converse
with.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
FIRST AID TO THE
PUZZLED PLAYGOER

(Being few lines of gentle counsel anent
current bills in Los Angeles theaters)
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Every man is a hero to his cook.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Lillian Nordica, in a London inter-
view, announces that she win marry
G. W. Young of New York next spring,
and will then retire from the stage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Julia Marlowe and E. II. Sothern are
continuing their Shallespearean VEN
ture in a transcontinental tour. play
ing in Romeo and Juliet" Hamlet"
1.-THE Merchant OF Venice" Twelfth
Shrewp
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Novel electrical effects are said to
add materially to the scenic beauty in
vesting "A Night in Ell Paso," tie
sketch in which the Lulu Beeson trio
will be seen at the Orpheum next week.
Ward and Weber, in black velvet Mex
ican costumes and seated in a canoe,
serenade Miss Beeson underneath the
window of an adobe hut. Varied dane
ing follows by all three.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Carol McComas, Los Angeles
girl, daughter of Assistant District
Attorney McComas has been engaged
as leading woman of the Page Ben
jamin stock company at Richmond,
Va.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Manager Bovyer of the Los Angeles
theater tried a graceful sidestep yes
terday when somebody whispered the
word "matrimony." Evidently some one
has his number. Time, six months
hence place, San Francisco
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Mary X. Taylor of The Morals of
Marcus" cast has played many Shake
spearean roles and was member OF
CONTINUED on Page Nine)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-04

Advertising church services has been
tried, systematically, to be sure, but for
some cause Or other there seems to be a
sentiment against it. Just why this
should be so is not apparent. If adver-
Using will attract crowds to the theatre
and to the stores, why not use the same
means to attract crowds to the church?
In these days of business competition
and stress the business man who fails
20 advertise is not usually business
man for long. And certainly the church
should be conducted on business lines.
Wherever the experiment of church adj
vertising has been tried it has proved
successful. One of the latest examples
is from Barre, Vermont, where Rev.
Francis A. Poole is pastor of the First
Congregational church. Rev. Mr..
Pool is firm believer in newspaper adj
vertising and used it to good effect.
When he took charge of the church
three years ago, it was moribund Or
ganization. Mr.. Pool started with adj
yertisments in the Sunday morning
papers big ones, a page when he had
the money, and three or four columns at
other times. He took big, black type
and told the people what was going on
in the church, what the sermon would
be about and who would be there. Gas
. result, says Mr.. Pool, "the congrega-
tion has qaadrupled in three years and
at meeting of trustees we decided to
enlarge the church building to twice
it's present size" Some pastors and
elders who are wondering why more
men do not attend church might have
their wonder set at rest by iudicious
Investment in printers ink.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-04
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Children and delicate women should
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-04
THE DEMOCRATIC PROSPECT.

That the Democratic party has a
bright prospect to carry the Presidency
in 1912 with control of both houses Of
Congress is the only logical answer
that can be given to reader who
wants candid opinion upon the
future of the unperishing party that
has been led to popular victories by
Jefferson and jackson, Tilden and
Cleveland.
Though defeated in recent president
iai elections the democratic party is
victorious in many things even now.
There has not been year since popular
attention was diverted from questions
Of home politics by the Spanish War
that the republican party, in order to
hold the power it won upon false pre-
lenses, has not been increasingly busy
in doing the work which the democratic
party demands shall be done.
By the dynamic force of democratic
4 principles the democratic party has
steadily driven the republican party to
abandon it's ruinous policy Of Civil War
Sectionalism until at last a republican
president elect is looking hopefully for
needed support to the very centers of
democracy in the old south.
The democratic party has driven the
SIOpuOAlCdu OGEs6LlAdOlOu W o. uCCldFdUlOu
3 Of q tariff policy which almost overlaps
the democratic principles that every
law for tariff taxation should hold out
the square deal and the equal chance
for consumer and producer. Democracy
has driven republican leaders to the
enactment of laws in the interests of
the whole people laws such as the
special interests which control the re-
publican party have resisted with all
their might and still resist.
But the republican party is not united
upon these concessions to democratic
principles, and its line of cleavage
upon them is certain to widen with
every week that the new congress re-
mains in session. A Babel of confusion
is threatened in it's councils. the one
faction understanding not the language
of the other.
Democrats know what their party
wants and they know that a vast ma
jority of the American people want the
same things. Mr.. Taft is noncommittal
upon many of them. In the new con-
gress democrats have only to stand
stnrdily for everything democratic, no
matter by whom advocated or opposed.
in order to make themselves the most
conspicuous figures in the legislation of
the next two years. And with record
3 like this, set against the chickering's of
republican factions, nothing is more
likely than that the democrats will
carry the congressional elections of
next year. paying the way for the pres
idency in 1ol2.-St. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-04

Problem: If it takes 40 Missouri
mules to tote twenty seven Missouri
ColoneIs in the Taft inaugural process
sion, how many lions, hitched Marc An
thony fashion, will it take to haul the
Roosevelt chariot through the jungles
Of African st. Louis Republic.