Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-26

see it shattered against really big
role. l believe the result would be
some vigorous and purposeful acting
which the continual assuming of ju-
veniles can never achieve. Mr.. Marks
did a good bit as the magistrate, and
has the art of makeup at his fingers
ends. Mr.. Heap doubled handily in two
dissimilar roles, and impresses one
more favorably every week by his APP
parent sincerity and progress in small
parts. Mr.. Young looked clerkly and
spoke his one good speech like a gall
liant underling who really couldn't help
sliding in a tribute to Beauty despite
red tape and the proprieties. Warren
Ellsworth helped Mr.. Mestayer supply
the comedy of the first act. Among
purely character parts, however, first
laurels must go to Mr.. Frayne, whose
French chef was a delicious compete
of the Gallo national culinary genius.
His scene with Miss buffet was a
trihe of fetching household humor
which defed hostile analysis.
Miss Hall finds her true meter in
light comedy roles such as that of
Betty Annesley, with it's constant OPP
portunity for the bright display of a
merry woman's wit and the little dis
guises and subterfuges which make UP
so large a part in the gayeties of life
among the most honest and whole
hearted of her sex. Miss Hall took
pains to make it clear to us from the
first that she penetrated the disguise
of her athletic groom. In the inter
play and equivoke of the situations with
the man who had won her love, her
personality and method were pleasing,
and acted as a helpful spur to the work
of her fellow players.
Miss Taylor poses prettily in her brief
scene and makes much of brief oppor-
tunity Miss Royce, in a part which is
little besides a dramatic peg on which
to hang necessary conversation, did all
that in reason could be expected. Miss
buffet, as the latest of a bewildering
succession of maids, bears up wonder
fully we'll under the strain of being
constantly addressed as My good girl
and sent on innumerable errands, act
ing, in fleeting moments, with promise,
and making up with commendable
moderation and a dependence upon ma
ture which is an Improvement over
last week.
There are some bright lines in THE
Man on the Box" When some one OBJ
serves to the young reporter that his
sort of newspaper men make their liV-
ing by telling lies the readers of the
yellow journals in the audience were
heard to applaud as If from experience.
A minor fault in the dramatiZation of
the novel is its failure adequately to
explain the reference to saunders IN
act II, as referring to the former
groom whose discharge made the lieu
tenants masquerade-and the story
possible. 1t was a little thing, but it
illustrated vividly the constructive diff
ficulty in making over into play. the
most dramatic story imaginable, which
the McGrath novel, clever and breezy
as it is, is not.
Another interesting feature of both
nd Mo &c 10 a
of class lines which they reveal as an
accepted part of our national life. The
story proceeds on the theory that there
would have been nothing either wrong
or unnatural in the heroine's bullying
her groom, if he had really been a
groom and not a gentleman" While
this shows how unconsciously our So
ciety has accepted the old world class
ifications of master and servant, there
by tacitly conceding the principal
thesis of MARKHAM Socialism, 1t is Curl
ously matched by the significant fact
that the gentleman" becomes man
by very virtue of his masquerade as
laborer. Toll ripens his manhood. In
suit and ignominy and suffering for the
woman he loves refine his callow cad
dishness. This evolution of character,
by the way, Mr.. Desmond showed dis
cerningly, and it was by far the best
feature in his chara cterizatiOn. For to
the credit of the authors basic democ-
racy it must be said that the Man on
the Box is a good groom-far better
than the subservient, sinking creature
his employers seem to demand-a CAPT
tai groom, though a somewhat indif-
ferent butler.
Next Sunday the Burbank stock conf
pany will make the first presentation
anywhere of THE Greater Claim" by
"
wright.
The state undertakers, who meet here
in August have taken 200 seats at the
Orpheum for the night of their con-
vention.
A bevy of young women from Pres
colt Ariz., guests of the Journal Miner
of that city, will be in Los Angeles to-
morrow and Wednesday on their way
10 the Seattle exposition. On Wednes-
day afternoon they will be guests of
the Orpheum at a box party. j. w.
Mines, business manager of the paper,
is in charge of the. party.
Mike Donlin, lately appearing at the
Orpheum has deserted the stage for
the diamond 1t is reliably reported
that he has signed with the Philadel-
phia team of the National league, being
unable 10 come TO leIlllS Will INC
Giants Mike and Mable Hite, his wife,
will likely be on the Orpheum circuit
again next fall.
"a Runaway Girl" entered success
fully upon it's second week last night
at the Majestic, Harry Girard assum-
ing the role of Guy Stanley, and Percy
V. Bronson Withdrawing from the cast
to open with the Princess company in
San Francisco one week from Sunday.
Several new songs have been interpo-
lated into "A Runaway Girl" which
appeared to please last night.
At the Mason tonight THE Merry
Widow" will have its local premiere,
One week from tonight the Interna-
tional Grand Opera company will open
it's local engagement of two weeks.
The Belasco will begin it's second
week of THE College Widow this even
ing. The Grand will offer In the Shad-
ow of the GalloWs"
The Orpheum's bill, which opens this
afternoon, will include Laddie Cliff, the
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