Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27
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MASON-George Ades best musical
comedy, with music by William Lor-
raine, entitled Peggy from Paris,
will be the second production of the
Princess Theater company. AIDES lines
are the cleverest known to musical
comedy, and the tunes of Lorraine fit
the bright lyrics well. Contrary to most
musical plays. Peggy is endowed with
a carefully elaborated plot. The scenes
are set in and around Chicago and the
story deals with Peggy Plummer from
Hickory Greek, Ill, who, after gaining
some fame in Paris as a star in musical
comedy, returns to the Paragon thea
ter in Chicago as Mile. Fleurette Cara
mel, direct from Europe for the first
time" In order to keep up the pose
and assure her American success, she
is forced to deny her father and sister,
but In the end her artistic caddishness
is worn off by contact with honest
American ways.
Zoe Barnett will be Peggy, role
which quite suits her stature and abili-
ties The real fun of the play is fur
nished by May Boley. Fred Mace and
Bud Ross. As Peggy's German maid,
Miss Boley will invite your smiles. She
sings a song entitled "My Heinie, He
Plays the Bassoon." Bud Ross, as the
general utility boy, janitor, bell-hop,
etc, of the Paragon theater, furnishes
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grease paint and fantastic Pouffle cos
tune, is put on his mettle as a simon
pure comedian. Jim Stevens has some
pretty baritone selections in the char
acter of Peggy's sweetheart.
BELASCO-The BelascO theater
company will play THE Lion and the
Mouse" for third week, commencing
Monday night. The Main street play
house has been crowded to the doors
at every performance since the presen-
tation of this remarkable American
drama. No more thoroughly prepared
and conscientiously interpreted play
has ever been given by local stock
organization. Florence Reed as Sh1r-
ley Rossmore, David M Hartford as
John Ryder. Richard Bennett as JEFF
ferson Ryder and the other members
of the Belasco company contribute to
the delight of the performance.
The production of George AIDES COM
edy, 1.-THE College Widow" billed for
Monday night, NECESSARILY is again
postponed for another week.
URBANK-Manage oliver Morosco
will make one of the big comedy offer
ings OF the current stock season during
the week, beginning with matinee
today and including the customary
Saturday matinee. Francis Wilson's
starring vehicle, when Knights Were
Bold,' will be played for the first time
in stock. The play was seen here with
Mr. Wilson in its central role little
more than a year ago. AT that time
it was pronounced one of the finest
comedies of the season-original in
theme and diverting in it's development
of plot The piece proved Wilson's
greatest success since "Erminie." The
capable Burbank company will find in
it a work excellently suited to their
collective and individual abilities.
The story introduces Sir Guy de We're
and the friends and servants by whom
he is surrounded in his English country
home, among them Lady Rowena, with
whom he is in love- and Sir Brian
Ballymote, his Irish rival. The Lady
Rowena romantically sighs for the
good old days" when men were he
roes and maidens always fair. Sir
Brian sympathizes with her admira-
ton. Sir Guy, being English and with
out understanding of women, pooh
poohs her notions and declares the
present race superior in all respects to
the old, At the close of act one Sir
Guy, who is making small headway
with his wooing falls asleep and
dreams himself back into the twelfth
century, where he meets all his inti-
mates as their own forebears Thus
his butler becomes his seneschal; the
dean a monk; Lady Rowena's chaper-
one, tne mOLHer superior Oh lWelIIH
century convent; the Lady Rowena
herself a novice; Sir Brian, maraud-
ing Irish knight, and his facetious
friend, the Hon. Mr.. Widdecombe, a
court fool Amid all this surprising
company Sir Guy alone retains his
modernity. He wears dinner jacket
and monocle in anachronistic contrast
to the medieval costumes of those
around him. His English is the tongue
of Ammo Domini, 1909, and his greatest
tragedy the discovery that he is 700
years removed from another cigarette
There come to his castle the mother
superior and the Lady Rowena seeking
sanctuary from the assaults of the
marauding Sir Brian. And here fol-
lows Sir Brian himself, who challenges
Sir Guy to single combat. The chal-
lenge is reluctantly accepted and the
men go at 1t with broadswords, Sir Guy,
however, discarding his armor and
weapon later and knocking out his adj
versary in approved Marquis Of
Queensberry style! The third act finds
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