Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-15
FORTUNE TELLER IS
GOOD MUSICAL PLAY
MISS NIELSEN Is BECOMING
DECIDED FAVORlTE
Piece Is ExcelIentIy Staged, and Both
Individual and Chorus Num-
bers Show Vast linz
provement
BIZ LEMUEL PARTON

| In 1.-THE Fortune Teller the Grand
opera house company offers musical
| production considerably better in sing
ing, acting and staging than any yet
given by the present company. Miss
Christine Nielsen becomes luminous, al
most incandescent. in her delightful
rendition of her song numbers, and
her work last night was highly pleas
ing to even the most fastidious musical
critics in the audience. Miss Niedsen
does not merely emit songs; she sings
them, coloring them with a piquant
charm of voice and personality. Edgar
Walsh, the new tenor, has fewer oppor-
tunities, but uses them well, showing
perfect mastery of a good voice, with
good stage presence and excellent musi-
cal technique. Charles Airing and Wal
| ter De Leon worked hard and success
| fully in the picturesque roles OF gypsy
and a dancing master. The chorus Is
unusually radiant and the costuming
| is exceptionally good.
| Ferris Hartman, one OF the gypsles'
sings a bright little song about the re-
call, ending something like this:
Everybody in this town
On account of scandal must bow down.
| Last week he had this one:
| 1 would like to bet somebody good cigar
That next mayor Will be Harper
| You will observe, If you look closely,
that cigar rhymes with Harper. Clever,
| isn't it? The audience seems to real
| ize that Mr.. Hartman writes these
songs himself, and Is sympathetic.
| Composing these bright little ditties
shows very commendable enterprise on
| Mr.. Hartman's part. Last night the
| audience was in doubt as to which one
of the gypsies was he, but when ne
sang the song, everybody knew. MT.
TT zl.1 I~f Ann pn this.
and by continuing it may spare the
! audience his usual perspiring enorts
by which he tries to differentiate HIM
| self from the other spear carriers.
Even Mr.. Hartmans stringhalt meter
and contortionist rhymes are prefera-
BILE to his comedy. Mr.. Richard Carrie
| says, "As a Romeo, 1 am an onion.
| A clever line for Mr.. Hartman would
| be, LAS a comedian, l am ounce.
| Since John Blackwood assumed the
management of the Grand, the COM
pany has been improving steadily, and
with little more suppression OF the
| sad Mr.. Hartman should be able TO
give a line of musical attractions never
| eoualed in Los Angeles. Next weeks
offering, Tales from Hoffman,, is a
| comic opera of rare merit. IL VIII GER
| tainly pack the house, as 1t has be-
come known that Hartman will have
but three lines.
With a 60-horsepower voice and some
60 candlepower jewelry, Black Patti is
whooping 1t up at the Majestic TINS
week. Aided by company of clever
| comedians. this vociferous colorea
singer is giving an entertainment that
can be heard clear over to the Meth
odist church. You get more for your
money than at any one show at the
| Majestic for long time, with singing,
dancing, blackface comedy and noise
very noisy noise-let loose with the
happy abandon of ruction between
| delegations from Donnyprook idir
and Celtic picnic.
| The company includes some excep-
| tionally good colored comedians, among
| them being Tim Owsley, who appears
| as the manager of the Blackville stroll
lers, and "Shoo Fly, dusky knight
of the road" In ADDITION 10 P, sssa
Patti. less impressively billed as sis
serreta JONES'" there are number OF
good men and women singers, notably
sarah Green, who has an excellent
mezzo- soprano voice. the song NUM-
bers are bright and there is not slow
minute In the show.
The Auditorium will open tomght
with a burlesque of Uncle Toms CAB
in" The management promises
dazzling pantomime spectacle with
plenty of live comedy. The Auditorium
productions show an improvement eacn
week and the three comedians should
be able to squeeze a lot OF laughs out
of their subject:
The Mason opera house will be dark
| this week, to open next week Win
Richard earle in "Mary's Little Lamp.
W.. A. Brady telegraphed George
Broadhurst yesterday that Tine Doliar
- \ !, Re Hrct New YORK
presentation at the Savoy theater the
first Monday in September. Mr.
Rroadhurst has arranged with the
management of the Belasco theater TO
have the log cabin, which is a really
adroit bit of stage carpentering, sent
to New York for the metropolitan pro-
duction. 1.-THE Dollar Mark will enter
upon its second week at the Belasco
tonight and the box office reports are
| to the effect that the performances tnls
week are pretty certain TO De even
larger than those of last week. NO
other stock company IN the county
will have a chance to use me Doilar
Mark" for at least three years, as 1t Is
certain to remain on Broadway for an
entire theatrical year, and after the
Gotham engagement will be good Tor
two seasons in the larger syndicate
houses of the country.
Florence Oakley is entering upon the
final week OF her engagement as the
leading woman of the Belasco COM
pany. Miss Ora Gardner will assume
the chief feminine role in Shore
Acres" which is scheduled to occupy
the Belasco stage next week unless the
,, immense business of THE Dollar
Mark" makes it necessary to continue
the Broadhurst piece for a third week.
Miss Oakley states that her plans for
the future are somewhat indefinite, al
though she has received a number of
very fiattering offers.
Have Narrow Escape
FRANKFORT, KY, March 14.-Gov-
arnor and Mrs Wilson and their