Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-19

known actor and the other the small
est singing comedian extant. The play
takes on startling actuality from this
contrast. That the children may come
into contact with the personif1catlons
of their own classic fairy tale, the man
agement announces a reception on the
stage after each matinee, when the
giant, Jack and the rest of the COM
pany will be pleased to greet ana
shake hands with all children and
hand them souvenirs.
The Joseph Hart Bathing Girls"
are headed by Glenwood White and
Pearl Hunt, and there are seven
others. They make an entrance in
surprising fashion, and continue the
unexpected through several scenes
with many changes of costumes, end
ing with realistic battle in the SURF
The act is said to be ahead OF any SO
far sent out here.
Carson and Willard, who come as
1.-THE Dutch in Egypt" let the caption
of their act largely explain IT. Ihey
personify two Teutonic tourists in the
land of the sphinx and the pyramids,
and their patter and songs are German
burlesque. The team Is well known
and has many admirers.
The Thalia quartet is a singing or
ganization known to the English music
halls. Its members are individual
holders of many medals and double
grand prizes for triumphs in interna-
tional contests This is their first
American tour.
The Curzon sisters remain for an
other week, as do World and King
ston, Mack and Walker and Herr j.
Rubens, the painter, while the motlon
pictures, all new, are especially of in
terest to the children,
GRAND-"Across the Divide" new
| five-act melodrama by ]. r, Sterling
will be the offering by the stock com
pany this afternoon. The story OF the
play opens in the offices OF Schwart2
& Burke two young brokers or Ne"
York city. The father of young Brokel
Schwartz at the time of his death was
the owner of valuable mining property
in the west, and when he died he left
the property to a friend, Won stern
burg who in turn was to care for the
son, Emil Schwartz, until he became
of age. Won Sternburg had been sepa-
rated from his wife and baby daughter
in earlier days. and at the time OF ms
death left everything to his daughter
proyided she could be found within q
year
Knowing that a search for the gir
would be made by the friends of Vor
Sternburg, young Schwartz locates the
girl in a small western mining town OF
Paradise Gulch where she has beer
cared for since the death of her mother
| by widow Mrs. Schmidt. Here the
child has come to be known among the
rough men of the camp as sunshine
and it is here that young Schwartz
after trying to marry the girl, attempts
| to get rid of her to prevent the authorl-
ties from finding her, in which case the
property left to the girl would fall tc
| him. The young broker is finally killed
George Webb will be seen as Jack
Burke, while the role of his unscrupu-
| ious PARTNER, Emil Schwartz, will be
PLAYED by Robert Leonard Harry
| Oakes will again be in the cast as Tip
peley, private detective. The leading
! feminine role, that of the daughter
Sunshine will be taken by Grace Rau-
worth and Lillian Hayward will re-
appear in the role OF Marion Burke.
LOS ANGELES-Twenty years ago
when the farce-comedy Natural Gas
was known throughout this country
and the principals, Donnelly and Cir
ard, were very popular, Eddie Giraro
was playing the role of the eccentric
| policeman. Tomorrow afternoon the
same Girard, with Jessie Gardner, viii
appear as the headliners on the new
hill at the Los Angeles theater, anc
Mr., Girard will again be seen as the
policeman. The new sketch is entitled
''Dooley and the Diamond" and has
been popular ali along the Sullivan and
Considine circuit.
Another interesting offering will be
| Tom MCGUIRE in "A Bit of Scotch" Ar
act much out of the usual run OF