Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-06
REPRESENTED
IN LARGE AUDIENCE
Comedy Is Full of Live Humor GOOD
Situations, Color, Romance
and Action
by LEMUEL PARTON

tho beautiful woman in the German le-
eend of the "Ewig Proelich," VINO al
Iyavs stole into the canvases of the ar
fist of the story. 1t has peeh .,I Ioa16
time since Miss Russell hrsC tllppo 2
into American stage pictures ONE
time before the year of the pig Wiz VILE
and those who saw her last nlsn ~
honed that a good long drlIt oI yea
will pass before she leaves the stt.So' of
The first Los Angeles performance ~, VI
the new racing comedy, w lluii11' LIZ
George Broadhurst and George " "a
bart, was greeted by iarsN ro e,r'
onera house last night. The manage
ment is making every posslpie t S,no1
tn surpass the phenomenal san
cisco record of attendance, anu i iao'
riyht the box Office records more liiai,
ra9ched the mark. Miss Russell nao
excellent support, but her appeal "t ~ q
was restlessly awaited tnrousn. cot
exposition of the play IN tlle ~ oi,,oost
and when she entered, luminous alliio ~
90 The noint of incandescence ana da
fresh and colorful as the, Jacqullili no.
rose which she wore, the s dplIi'''''
broke forth like a pent up fresnet'
VI 4TVildfire, is the quintessential es-
serce of "the pomps and vanltles vi .,io
wicked world" which just now nv
same wicked world is busy reI reH,a,e
ing. There is life, color ae,no5 IN the
oo7adv romance and action III INC
80, uG With none of the drab, sermonlz-
no With which many of the plays INV
heinz sent out from New YORK az
frnigbted The story is brieny LOU
Mrs harrington, a fascinating Wiuow'
daz11inglv inpersonated by MISS rus
coli has been encountered by a raclns
stable by her husband. Sne AZ pa
So fT1G
the incubus gracefully, lettlnS IL 70
known that one John Duffy is tne ow tila
err of the stable. A man pe1line az
co mo name-hist! he's the vlllaln-ap"
nears and makes all sorts OF trouple'
Tohn Garrison and Fred SanuersUh,
the former a lover of horses ana tle
latter of automobiles. are poth sulI III
Gov +he hand of Mrs. harrington. De
iiav,np he is running his enemy, Garll-
son brvs Jack Daw for the sole purp,o,sso
of running the horse against L iiu
f,re." the pet of the harrington seapiea'
upon whom Mrs. harrington anu i1 9arA
SWoodhurst, who is to marry MRS. PAL
.,noton's sister, have staked all thelr
homes. Duffy tries to Rut over
nraoked deal. but is foiled ny Bud, the
s+ob1a how, who hears his CONVERSE
zion with a Jockey and tells Mrs Bar
rim oton. She sees the race from ti5e
window of the stable, waving d ILL.,
kerchief, according to a slgnal asio ~,
mon by Duffy and the jockey Wy
which the latter is to WIN tne I'll I'll
The third act is a pleasant ahtl-ciI-
80 in which the love stories are
nicely Strengthened out: p,d
viii Archie as the diminutlVe 6uu
is given an assortment OF gooo llIies
rarely handed out to an actor py even
tha most lavish dramatist and ms
a cling is I'D to the standard or the
lines. The character is that OF d staoio
hov-one of the chaps like August pei-
mont takes into service Tor SIX yeala
Of s1o month, with the emolumenl
&c c,,ndev school on the side. Mr.. Ar
otie makes the character not only up
roariously funny but genuinely appeal
inc and human in it's faithfulness 10
Miss Ellen Mortimer, Miss mary
,,i;anha+b Forhes and Miss Annie Buck
lev the women of the company, all are
happily chosen for their parts. Inc
first two have decided physical cnarlas,
and the third also, no doubt, altnousN
they are hidden beneath burnt cork, as
the voung woman appears as coloreo
Frank Sheridan sketches the
character of Matt Donovan, the trainer
at the Duffy stables. genuinely ana Ell
as does Ernest Truck that
of the English chappie, BERTHE Aims
worth. Every part is well acted ana
every detail of the staging all tnat
could be desired.
Mr.. Broadhurst attended the per-
Torrance and expressed hlmselt as
greatly pleased by the manner in when
fhe merits of the production have been
in the trip from New horh'
There are two striking and pleasing
numbers on the current bill at the
Orpheum which opened yesterday AFTER
noon. One is the Modern Pocanon1aS
sketch. exhibiting half dozen Iuu-
blooded Shoshone Indians, and the other
s Tyite hanzai troupe of Japanese aero
hats Roth are far above the average
If the vaudeville numbers, the former
N IT'S unique exhibit of picturesque IN
lians and the latter in the remarkable
JUGGLING feats of the accomplished
laps. a,,a+a of
he Carlisle Indian school, appears IN
he Shoshone sketch IN acting althouSLl
he sketch itself adds but httle u the
merit of the number.
The "three rubes," Bowers, WATERS
md Croker. are held over and repeat
their decided success of last week.
these comedy acrobats are raely eX-
1elled in acts of this kind. SIX httle
girls and a Teddy bear is an attractlVe
singing and dancing ski, Will o. 'ii,1
rrotesoue bear supplying the comedy;
i. Herbert Mitchell gives a singing ana
sketch and puts over JOKES
which are among the newest yet sprung
AZ the Orpheum. The other followers
are Harry Foy's Spring of Youth
sketch, Miss Agne Mahr. the tommy
Atkins dancer, and Conelly and Wepp'
in their cyclone piece
"The Dollar Mark" began the fifth
week of it's opening Los Angeles en-
yagement with crowded house last
night.
The Borsini troupe of equilibrists and
acrobats give an unusually good ex-
iibition at the Los Angeles theater
his week. Their work includes head
balancing, dancing on revolving globes
and the simpler forms of tumbling.
They come last on good bill and they
are we'll worth waiting for.
Tom Brantford, an exceptionally
clever mimic, gives limitations of must
,al instruments, of a train of cars, and
Of several different kinds of steamboat
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