Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-11
VAUDEVILLE BILL
GOOD IN SPOTS
FOSTER AND FOSTER ACT Is
BEST AT LOS ANGELES
TEDIOUS REVIVAL OF LIVING PIC
TURE CRAZE ENDURED
Wyatt and Rice in Clever Day Dramatic
PIayIet and Black Face COM
edy Keep You Happy,
However
BY W. HERBERT BLAKE

I'm a house moVer-l move from
house to house." remarked Foster to
Foster yesterday afternoon at the Los
Angeles theater, and the crowd yelped
"Yelped" is the word, for anything so
staid and dignifed as laugh was i'm
possible during the performance of
THE Volunteer Pianist sketch mod
eled very much on the lines of hun
drcds of other acts, but presented with
much refreshing and original foolery.
Foster-Which, nobody knows-played
on the piano with mittens on his fin
gers, which was rather more interest
ing TO the mittens and the audience
than for the piano, judging from the
latter's smothered means. Then fol
lowed a miscellany of drolleries and
songs, in which both Foster voices sur
ViNed incredibly rough handling quite
amazingly The humor is brisk ANA
maddeninglY absurd, and the entire act
the most popular one of this weeks
bill,
Mabel Carow and company present a
somewhat commonplace musical act
including Instrumental selections
played with more din than melody, Il
rather affected child impersonation and
illustrated with moving pictures. Wy
att and Rice appear i'm Edmund Day s
We'll written plaYlet, THE TneXpect-
cd" familiar to most local followers of
vaudeville with its fantastic story Of
the magic bracelet which conferred
the gift of second sight upon its pos
SCISSOR The charm is applied to the
running of a horse race, with amusing
results While the sketch is not par
ticularly to be recommended for either
its scientific or its ethical treatment Of
the fascinating subject of gambling, it
is good fun, and well acted
Mile. Rialta and }. Louis Nlntz pre-
sent "The Artists Dream" i'm which
Mint dreams he sees Mile Rialta i'm
q series of statucsQuc poses. It is Il
bad dream. The only excuse for this
sort of thing is the artistic effect of
the poses and to that end both facial
attra ctiVencss and intelligent use OF
light and shade are necessary Both
were absent yesterday, and the result
was far from pleasing, being little be-
yond a tedious revival of the old "liV-
ing picture" idea. In addition, it was
not precisely an exhibition calculated
10 uplift the ideas of young children,
many of whom are to he seen i'm the
Los Angeles audiences from time 10
time To reply that Art excuses much
is no reply, for the simple reason that
there is nothing artistic about the
sketch except Mr.. Mintz singing. es-
pecially in italian. The drared pose
act has had its day, anyhow. Why Try
TO revive it?
GilIihan and Murray do some good
work in black face, and the LaueIl.o-
Scope presents some more ludicrous
French films The orchestra deserves
not a little praise this week, not only
for its excellent playing, but for the
cheerful way it helps Foster and Eos
To a. .
Il commission on the week MARTY.
The advance seat sale for "rhe eli
max" will begin tomorrow morning at
the Mason The two weeks engage
mcut opens Monday night
Tt i4 NOT often that play is seen
I'm a stock house before New York is
through with it, but that viii be the
case next week when the burbank
stock company presents John Drew s
comedy success Jack straw Mr..
Drew left New York with the play only
when he was driven ont by the hot
weather After that he played the
comedy i'm a fcw of the larger cities
Of the country Including Los Angeles,
closing his season only u fortnight ago.
His rest viii be hrief however, as
Charles Fr0hmm has gunom ed that
Mr.. Drew win resume bis interrupted
run in Jack straw hl the Empire
theatcr. New York September G, Be
fore that date Los Anseles theater-
Roers viii have had an opportunity to
see the comedy IN stock.
It is announced that "The Morals
of Marcus" will follow "Jack Straw'
at the Burbank theater week after
next, with Miss Blanche Hail i'm the
Marie Doro role and A. Byron Rcas-
ley as Sir Marcus Ordeyne.
Henry Sonneberg, former treasurer