Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-18
CORlNNE CAPTIvATES
AUDIENCE AS lola
Charming Dialect Actress and lmper-
senator, with Good Comedy Sup
port, Is Making Success of
CHASER Failure
BY LEMuEL PARTON

Corinne made Lola and Lola made
Corinne. With Lula Chaser in the title
role of Lola from Berlin" the piece
was all but a failure, and it was not
until she found herself placed in the
| charming lialect role Of Lutchen Won
Beekenhaussett that Corinne became a
! star. The play is on for week at
the Majestic theater, and those who
saw the performance last night were
enthusiastic in their praise of both the
play and the star. There is sometime
so delightfully."- wholesome about Corinne
than any carping person who would
have ventured last night to suggest
that the play would not stand the test
of close criticism would be sadly out
of place. Weighed in an apothecary' s
scale or tested in a crucible, Lola
from Berlin" might not pan out enough
of the real stuff to save it from the
| junk heap, but If you are willing to
| take the laughs as they are handed out
to you, and you like happy, wholesome
fun and don't want to be worried by
an involved and intricate plot, the play
is more than worth seeing.
Mark Sullivan and Hazel Carlton
1.-THE villains in the play" iran away
with the show" in the phrase of the
professional. These two comedians
showed out more merriment across the
footlights than any comedy pair which
has appeared in Los Angeles for a long
long time. They appear as two black
mailing actors, Richard Winchester
Chorttle, and his niece, Dolly Chorttle
Their Villains in the Play" song was
a hit.
With the exception of the work OF
Corinne and the two Crushed" TRACE
dams, there is no particularly note
worthy achievement in the play. The
musical numbers are not exceptional
and the song and dance specialties are
not far enough removed from the or
binary to give them any especial dis
t1nct1on. Arthur Paget, lackadaisacal
novelist, in love with Lola, is played in
very drab style by Fred Scott Equally
colorless is Franklin Wallis Harry
CIarksen, a man about town, who is a
sort Of an assistant villain.
Lola, the very fascinating girl from
Berlin, meets the novelist in the steer
age when she is coming to America
and he is returning from. a trip in
search of material for novel. They
are separated, but she meets him again
at the home of John WesterveIt, a
wealthy lawyer, from whom she has
learned that she is an heiress and that
he is her guardian. There is a network
of complications, involving the love
affairs Of Mrs. Westervelt and the dare
devil Clarksen-he really didn't look a
steps in and rights things. In the last
act the author expeditiously straightens
things out, and all go home feel
ing that they have had the time OF
their young lives.
1.-THE Tenderfoot' is this weeks Of
fering of the Ferris Hartman company
at the Grand. 1t is advertised for zone
week only" but it stands a better
chance Of running two or more than
has anything so far purveyed by thai
organization. Given yesterday without
the presence of Hartman himself, he
being confined to his bed, it yet was SO
cleverly and amusingly done that
Hartman scarcely was missed Emil
Kruschke, who stepped into the Hart
man shoes in "Nordland'' Saturday
stayed up all Saturday night familiar
izing himself with the part of Petit
bone, and gave so droll an interpreta-
ton OF 1t yesterday that he was hailed
by the audience as a new star.
The offering served to bring to the
front the best soprano Hartman has
SO far put forth-Anna Little AS
Marion Worthington, the brunt Of the
vocal pyrotechnics fall to her, and she
displays wide range Of voice and de-
cided ability in acting.
Charles Airing also gets his first real
chance in this weeks bill in the ro-
mantle part Of Paul. Mr. Airing has y
good voice, but is not at his best ir
comedy, in which he has hitherto had
to appear. Now that he is in a roman
tic role he is much better placed.
Muggins Davies does not belle her
reputation, and Josie Hart has another
very clever character part which she
does we'll. Walter de Leon is as fUnny
as ever, and Viva MCNEIL shines in an
eccentric role. The rest of the parts
are In excellent hands. so that alto
gether 1t may be well believed that
The Tenderfoot'' is so far Hartman's
one best bet.
In ''The Heart of Geisha," the Bur
oank stock company offers a we'll
staged and well acted tragedy of Japan.
notable in it's delightful scenic effects.
and in it's evidence of intelligence and
adaptability on the part of the Morosco
players in stepping into the dialect
roles required in tht part The diff
Guilty of making play of this type
true to life is obvious, when it is re-
membered that the characters nust
speak In dialect as nearly like that of
Americanized Japanese, although they
are supposed to be speaking in their
native tongue. For the most part the
members of the cast impersonate Jana
nese admirably. Lon Beasley, wisely
lines in pidgin English, and it is not
easy to see that the effectiveness of his
part is lessened.
The story of the play is an old one.
but still a most excellent one 1Don
which to string the action of a tragedy.
A young attache of the American en-
bassy at Toxic falls in love with a fas-
cinating geisha girl. His sister induces
the girl to forSal1e him.; he returns to
An0nTiRo nd Oil
the bay at Yokohama. The geisha
girl is brought to make the sacrifice
when she is shown that her love for the
young man will be the cause of his
ruin
William Desmond, as secretary of the
embassy who falls in love with the
geisha girl, has an advantage over the
other men of the cast, not only in APP
pearing in the heroic role, but in being
the only American in the play The
audience is with him from the moment
of his first entrance. When he takes
leave of Kohamma San, the geisha, be-
lieving that she has been false to him,
Mr. Desmond achieves one of the best
bits of acting of the play.
Miss Mary Hall found ample oppor-
tunity for the display Of her powers in
both emotional and character acting.
So dainty and fascinating was her
Kohamma San that she would have
served almost equally well in the title
role Of Madam Butterfly" The part was
carefully and delicately shaded and in
the mixture Of moods, where Kohamma
first tells Horton that she must leave
him, Miss Hall revealed some Of her
highest talent.
The stage pictures of the play were
better in their composition than in any
production which the Burbank com
panY RECENTLY has given. although the