Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
In the Spotlight

A BOUT the time the young mans
u fancy begins to turn to thoughts
- of love, the managerial fancy
turns with ease to the light and frothy
musical comedy.
The silly season thus seems to affect
a large proportion of the population,
and most of all perhaps it affects the
chorus lady. Los Angeles usually has
a great number of young, pretty and
clever girls, and a walk down Broad
way every day suggests the possibility
of many beautiful and seductive
choruses.
When the stage manager begins to
assemble these girls, however, he sud
denly discovers that several other man
ayers in town are contemplating mu-
steal comedy, and consequently the Los
Angeles chorus girl becomes so popu-
lar, so much in demand and so naughty
that she is enabled to walk rough shod
over the managerial neck, as 1t We're
Last year there was YerltaDle lam
inc of chorus material, and nearby
towns were secured in search OF the
youthful femininity for whom the nun
cry stage doors yawned.
This year the Majestic theater an
nOunceS q SIX weeks SedSOIl VI illuSiSol
comedy beginning today, when the
funny fun makers, Kolb and Dill, Will
occupy the boards These players bring
their company direct from San Fran
cisco, SO the local talent will remain
undisturbed.
This opening will hardly be we'll un-
der way before the Grand Opera mousse
will present the old-time favorites,
Murray and Mack, with an attendant
bevy of feminine loneliness.
Thus at either end of Los Angeles
Great White Way we may hear the
gladstone song of the "merry, merry,
and the patter and click of the frollc-
some French heels.
AS additional evidence of the man
ayers mad rush for musical comedy,
the Burbank is preparing another pre-
sentation along the same lines. Man
ager Morosco is determined to hold to-
gether the big chorus of pretty girls as
sembled for the Cay New York" pro-
duction, and have it in readiness for
the summer season at the Majestic.
Playgoers who care for something
more artictic and eleVating than mere
music and mirth have had an oppor-
tunity in the week just past to find de-
1ightful entertainment in the produc-
tions at the Auditorium.
The fame of the Ben Greet players
is already widely and faVorably known,
and his company has been seen here
before, but it is doubtful if any en-
closure could so well fit the require
ments of the company rs the stage
the Auditorium has done. The magnih-
cent dimensions of the proscenium arch
gave ample space for the display of the
simple and artistic scenic background
which has added SO greatly to the
pleasures of these productions.
1t has been long since the Auditorium
has held any such entirely adequate
and appropriate attraction a the Greet
organization. A company presenting
dignified plays and splendid music per-
manently situated in that theater
would be an attraction to conjure with,
and would admit of practically no COM
petition from the present musical and
dramatic stock companies.
The prolonged run of 1.-THE Dollar
Mark" has served to give many of the
players at the Belasco an unusually
strong grip upon the representations
they are called upon TO make, and
Howard Scott in particular has been
conspicuous almost since the opening
for his splendid rendition of the role of
young Stoneman, the pious and hypo-
critical son of the millionaire.
The eastern producers Of the play
have made Mr.. Scott SO tempting an
offer to play the part in New York next
fall that he may accept it. Mr.. Scott
has made several efforts to reach
Broadway, but the persuasive powers
of local managers have proved too con-
yincing every time. 1t remains to be
seen whether this last and most allur-
ing proposal will also be refused.
"They do things differently in the
music halls in England and Ireland"
said James II. Cullen as he stood
chatting at the Orpheum last week.