Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31

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AUDITORIUM - 1.-THE Ringmaster,'
Miss Olive Porters drama of wall
street life, will come to the Auditorium
tomorrow night. The plot reflects the
authors practical knowledge of the
scenes she depicts. John lie Baron, jrr
living a contented life of idleness, finds
that he is in love with Eleanor Hillary,
daughter of the much feared ring
master. She returns his affection,
promising to marry him on condition
that he will go out into the financial
world and win place for himself, as
her father and his family have done
TO this he agrees and opens an office
near the stock exchange. HIS poIcy,
as he has adopted it, makes it neces-
sary for him to become the chief imam
cial enemy of Hillary. In the war Tor
control which follows, EleanoTs father
is exhibited as an unscrupulous
fnancier, but Eleanor nevertheless re-
proaches her lover for being in direct
opposition to her father, though she
forgives him in the end. A financial
battle ensues to gain control of certain
smelling interests, in which the King
master tries to buy a railroad of when
LIE Baron is the principal shareholder
In gaining this he expects to raise rates
in shipping supplies to certain plant
thereby forcing it in order to meet
competition to come into the comDlna-
ton LIE Baron refuses to become d
party to the scheme. supplementary to
this main plot is a love affair between
Peter Stuyvesant Cobb, a young re-
porter, and Rebecca Love, a very friV-
olous and efferVescent young woman
Miss Porter, it is said, once worked in
the office of a Wall street financier in
the capacity of Stenographer, gaining
in this way much material for the play
1.-THE Ringmaster" will remain here but
one week.
MASON-Every year. in the fall the
young bankers of Los Angeles come
before the public as Thespians, usually
with a minstrel show, to raise funds
for their chapter support. Their eff
forts have the backing of the banks to
the fullest extent and the support Of
society in general. This year they
make a signal departure and fall in
line with their chapters in the east, IN
that they present a complete locally
written and produced opera. "When
the Gringo Came" is the title of this
work; it is from the pen of Charles
Saxby, with music by p H. Kaufman
and interpolated numbers by Mamie
LoWenstein. Harry Girard is the dlrec-
tor and e. c. Kammermeyer is musical
director. The show will be given three
nights at the Mason opera house, NO
vember 4, 5 and 6.
The story of the opera concerns the
discovery and later the rediscovery Of
San Diego, first by the Spanish and
later by up-to-date Angelenos. 1t
abounds in comedy, the juXtaposition
of mission days and the times of the
flying machine in themselves attordlhS
fun. and it abounds in clever musical
numbers The atmosphere is distinct
ly of this region, and professional
production of the work is beng con-
sidered
In the production of the opera only
the hank bows and their young woman
friends have parts, though the com
many numbers upward of fifty. Inc
society girls who have gladly given
their time to it are numerous. The
cast itself includes Taqti4tz, an Indian
chief, Charles Thomson; Acuhuana, an
aged sauaw, William Ream, jr; AL
farata, an Indian maiden, I. j. FLYNN;
Manuel Enchilada, a Mexican o11cer'
II. C, Packer; Father Gutierrez, X. Z.
McComas; Don Gonzales, governor OF
Alta. Cal, Ray Church; Carmenclta
O'FIaherty. a cook A. S. McKinnin;
tradegian, C. F. Seidel; messenger boy,
Ed Punch: Nine. Estrella, a trance
medium, Olive Moser; Hooper Rupp, a
Los Angeles booster Ray Padrlck;
Inya, an Indian singer, lone Gale
Francisco, a caballero, James Parker;
Teresita, Pepita, Anita, Lolita, senorl-
tas. Helen Bosbyshell, Lillian Ossng,
Georgia Morton, Edna Spaulding; Pc
dro. T. Fl. Mccormick; Shiquita,
dancer, Maud Lawton. In the chorus
are Misses FLORENCE Bartlett, Candee,
Leland, Mcpherson, Neil, Reusselot,
Warner and Wagner while the men s
chorus contains Messrs. Bolton, De
Barr, Van Cleave, Grove, Hunt
Breese, Carlisle, Chapman, Hammer
never, Long, Slavin, Watson, Will
liams, Burroughs, Gibbs Hammel, Ber-
l1owitz. Schock, McComas and others.
SpeciaI scenery has been painted for
the production in it's entirety, and the
costumes all of the period, have been
made for the occasion. A long list of
s,ciety women and business men are
patrons.
BURBANK-"Br of Harvard" a
NAV which aims to portray life at Cam
bridge as "Strongheart" did at Column
bia: "On the Quiet" at Yale, and THE
College Widow at any one of score
of inland colleges, opens for the week
at tOdaY'S matinee. Inc usual llldlluSe
will be given Saturday. The piece has
proved very popular. Written by Rlda
Johnson Young, it was used during
several seasons as a starring vehicle
for Harry woodruff, who first played 1t
in Los Angeles and whose leading
woman was that clever California
actress, Laura Hope Crews. Brown
of Harvard" is not a football play. It's
hero is an oarsman, a member Of the
varsity eight who is called upon to
stroke the Crimson crew to victory in
a. race against British eight and who
does so in the face of all sorts of diff
ficulties. The play, however, concerns
itself chiefly with a love story, the boat
race being merely one, though de-
cidedly exciting incident of the plot.
Tom Brown, Harvard undergraduate,
is in love with Evelyn Kenyon, stu
dent at Radcliffe, and she with him,
Trouble obtrudes itself however, Eve
lyn's brother having got himself into
difficulties from which Brown seeks to
extricate him, only to be himself sus
pected of having committed the fault.
In the end matters are explained salts
factorily and Brown of Harvard not
only wins the boat race, but the only
girl as WELL A. Byron Beasley will
play the title role. with Miss Blanche
Hall in the part of the girl. Others in
the cast are John w, Burton, Harry
Messenger, II. S. Dufield, Willis Marks,
Henry Stockbridge. Wayland Trask,
David M. Hartford, under whose direc-
ton the play will be staged; Louise
Royce, Mango buffet and Lowell Alice
Taylor. There are twenty-eight speak
ing parts, in addition to large number
of extra characters representing col