Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
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LOCAL PLAYHOUSES

BELASCO-The Belasco theater this
week will give the first local produce
ton by a stock company of Clyde
Fitch's play, Beau Brummel" This
is the play in which the late Richard
| Mansfield scored his first and most en-
during success. 1t is a comedy OF
manners, pure and simple, and viii
| give the Belasco players another splen-
did opportunity.
To Howard Scott in particular will
come the greatest chance of his local
| career in the title role, The play ad-
mits of elaborate costuming and in this
! particular 1t is claimed by the Belasco
management that the production will
| be on a scale of unusual splendor. The
/ costumes have been specially made
and the stage pictures give every
| promise of being uncommonly beautl-
| full.
Following the production of Beau
Brummel" the Belasco company VIII
| give the first performance by STOCK
! company of Eleanor Robson's success,
| "Merely Mary Ann" Miss Florence
Reed. the new Belasco leading woman,
will be found in the name part, While
Lewis S. Stone will have the principal
male role This will be Mr.. stone $
| last appearance before he starts on ms
three months vacation. The produc-
ton of Merely Mary Ann" promises TO
! be one of the Belasco companys most
ambitious efforts,
MAJESTIC-Kolb and Dill will con-
Time to present the second of their
| laugh shows, playing the Ponies' TOT
another week, beginning Sunday night
and including the regular Wednesday
and Saturday matinees. The piece mace
! a pronounced hit in its opening week,
and the house was sold out for prac-
tically every performance. Playlng
the Ponies" will be withdrawn at the
close of a fortnight's run. The engage
ment of Kolb and Dill at the Majestic
| is limited and long runs are not posi-
| ble. as they wish to present their en-
! tire repertoire before leaving Los An
geles. ,..
"Playing the Ponies is comedy
with a melodramatic plot and collec-
ton of delightfully."- catchy muslcal
numbers, prominent among when are
the telephone song, sung by Misses
Baker and Alzora, Messrs. Kolb and
Dill and a chorus; Beautiful Eyes,
Beautiful Lies" by Miss Olga Stech;
Summer Girls" by Mr.. Chase and
chorus: EASY Money" by Mr. Bron-
son; Queen of the Boulevards' and
Something Seems to Say You Love
Me-" by Miss Rafter.
Kolb and Dill appear as Germans IN
search of an heir, and with money to
burn. They find the heir and chance
for the conflagration at the race track.
In the end the Germans come out on
ton. but their misadventures keep the
audience in roar throughout two acts,
incidentally there's a football game
in which Dill proves his ability to kick
high C by sending the ball into the
second balcony, and crockery smash
ing episode in which Kolb and Dill and
Miss Rafter figure, to the intense de-
light of the audience.
ORPHEUM-For more than a week
now the Orpheum has been preparing
for it's headliner attraction, which opens
its bill beginning Monday matinee, May
24-the famous Grigolati aerial ballet.
1t takes a carload of mechanism and
twenty-four men to operate this act,
though only seven girls appear in 1t,
and it's installation is very comph-
Gated piece of stagecraft The slightest
slip of a wire means disaster TO the
act. Seven pretty girls fly out over the
audience, scattering flowers, while a
flock of fifty white doves perch on their
shoulders. The Grigolati ballet orig
mated in Germany, and Germans still
operate and appear in it. 1t long has
been a feature of the big London pam
tomimes, and has come here direct
from the New York hippodrome, Where
it created a sensation. 1t is quite apart
from any similar attempt at nylhe
ballets, and so careful are the proprle-
tors of their secret mechanism that
the operators actually sleep beside 1t
that none may steal their ideas
Lillian Mortimer and her players
will present a sketch from her own
pen. whose title "Po' White Trash
jimmy" indicates its character. 1t deals
with the poor whites of the south and
Miss Mortimer has taken her types at
first hand making a special study OF
them
The four AWAITS sisters are big
musical feature. These girls, Kaethe,
Gisela, Bertha and Valerie are making
their second American tour. They per-
form on two pianos, doing classic num-
bers, and also sing; Gisela has range
of three and a half octaVes, going 20
B in altissimo. The act is refned ana
attractive.
Knight brothers, with Marion Saw
telle. are dancers and singers who have
pleased eastern audiences.
The followers include Paul Sanders
dog cirque; Hawthorn and Burt, in
their comic patter; Arcadia, and FREQ
Rays players in Roman burlesque,
with new pictures.
MISUNDERSTANDING oliver Moros-
co.'s elaborate production Of 1.-THE Cir
Gus Girl" will go over for another week.
In its opening week the comedy de-
lighted uniformly large audiences by
the conference of its story, the absurd
ity of its humor its tuneful airs and
picturesque stage pictures
\ The musical hits are "My Honeymoon
Balloon" sung by Blanche Hall and
chorus; when Strolling Down Boule-
ward" by Charles Giblyn and chorus;
"a Wet Day." Henry Stockbridge and
chorus; IF You Only WILL" Agnes
Cain Brown and chorus Clowns" by
Miss Mango buffet. Henry Stockbridge
and the pony sextette. and "A Little
Bit of String" sung by Miss Hail. with
f1lll chnrIls of hnfh male and female !