Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-22

by Helen Beresford, Ulric Blair Col
Inns and Josephine Clairmont 1t IS
entitled "Polly's Surprise" and tells
in the famed Vernacular of Gotham
how a wife cured her husband Of over
sportive tendencies by donning a pan
taloon skirt and discreetly initiating
his bibulous habits in the seclusion OF
their own hreside. One cannot CAL
the sketch precisely decorous, but II
has moments that are amusing, de-
spite an occasional touch of sugges-
tiveness in dialogue and situation. IL
Is acted with spirit, but too loud ana
too fast. Less strenuosity and fury,
particularly by the French maid, would
leave us equally confident that it was
all taking place.
Motion pictures and orchestra num-
bers added materially to the enjoyment
of the bill, which, with all incidental
defects, is worth seeing for its dancing
and acrobatie features.
Miss Lowell Alice Taylor has discov-
cred n new dressmaker, highly I'M
portant discovery to an actress. In
case you are interested. the woman
of the needle is a Digger Indian squaw,
whose tepee Is out at Eastlake park
on Antonio Apaches reservation. Next
week Miss Taylor plays the role or
! WeWkle in the Burbank theater's pro-
duction of David Belasco's THE Girl
of the Golden West" Wewkle is a
! Digger Indian. Last Saturday Miss
Taylor went to the public library to
read up on the tribe and secure, If
| possible an illustration of their dress.
There she met a friend who suggested
a call upon Antonio Apache. The lat
ter recommended a Digger squaw, and
yesterday Miss Taylor went to the
| reservation to try on her dress and
moccasins. There wasn't much fit to-
! either of them, but both are correct
| from the Digger standpoint and may
be said to represent the latest wrinkle
| in Digger fashions. The costume Is
not handsome, but obviously durable.
The seat sale for Bailey & Austin
and their company of seventy-tive
players in THE Top of the World"
will open at the Majestic at o'clock
| this morning.
The first complete dress and scenic
rehearsal of Gertrude Nelson Andrews
new play, Through a Window" was
given on the Belasco stage yesterday
afternoon under the direction of the
author. Great pains are being taken
! by the mechanical and electrical de-
partments of the Belasco in working
out the effects for showing the burn
ing of San Francisco in the drama.
From now on the company will give
one performance of the piece every
day, in the effort to make next Mon
days premier perfect in every detail
All the children of the Jewish Or
phans' home were the guests of Ferris
Hartman at the matinee yesterday of
"The Toymaker" at the Grand opera
house. All of the little ones received
toys from the management and showed
their appreciation after the first act
by chorus of cheers.
| The seat sale will open tomorrow for
the third annual engagement of Olga
| Nethersole at the Mason opera house.
Nethersole announces a special revi-
val of "Magda" in response to numer-
GUS requests. She has not played
"Magda" since her engagement in
Paris. The actress is enjoying a brief
vacation before coming here. She has
ordered that her private car, the
| "Nethersole," in which she is making
the continental tour of America, be
| sidetracked in the Arizona desert, and
Ell Paso friends have invited several
Indians to be her guests on Christmas
day, when, it is believed, there will be
mutual features Of entertainment.