Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-04

Angeles curing the ilNe WcSho Pc
formances of 1.-THE Dollar Mark" and
has personally supervised all of the
presentations, is to leave for New
York city at the end of this week, and
has announced to the Belasco people
that this must be positively the last
week of his play, as he cannot protract
his stay in Los Angeles any longer.
MAJESTIC-Manager oliver Morosco
has made arrangements with Dick Fer
ris and Florence Stone to head spe-
cially organized company which VIII
occupy the Majestic theater during the
week beginning tonight. with the usual
matinee performances Wednesday and
Saturday, and which will present at
that house Edwin Milton Royle's COM
edy drama Friends" which has not
been seen on a. local stage in several
years. Friends is the play that made
Royle famous both as playwright and
actor Later he added to his renown
by writing other successful works,
notably 1.-THE Squaw Man; but to
Friends" he owes his initial success.
It is a comedy drama, with plot of
absorbing interest. and with its lighter
passages skilfully contrasted with
periods of pathos The story has to
do with the great friendship of two
young men, neither of them any too
well provided with money, but both
staunch and true Their friendship is
of such fine fiber that when one OF
them, John Paden, Jr., discovers that
the other, Adrian Karje, is in love
with the woman whom he himself
loves. he promptly steps aside. The
woman Is Marguerite Otto, prima donna
at the Metropolitan opera house, who
also Is herself sought by the unScrupu-
lous director of that institution, and
who finds herself sadly beset through
love of her unfortunate, weak and be-
tho
plays upon the fathers weakness,
threatens him with exposure of a crime
which the old man really has not conf
mitted gives him liquor and keeps
him stupefied with opium. all in an
effort to carry his point with the
daughter. In the end. of course, his
Vaccinations are defeated, and karje,
who has become blind, wins the love
of the woman for whom he has striven.
1t has been more than a year since
Dick Ferris last faced local audi
ence, and several months since MISS
Stone made her last appearance at
the Burbank theater. Both players
are tremendously popular with Los
Angeles audiences and both may be
certain of a cordial welcome upon their
return to the local stage, even for so
brief a period as one week
ORPHEUM-Real American drama
will be the headline offering of the
Orpheum, beginning Monday matinee,
April 5. 1t will portray the life of the
aborigine and will be played by Amer
lean Indians. "A Modern Pocahontas
is the title of the play, and 1t has at
tracted widespread attention and
praise since it started out from Salt
Lake on the Orpheum circuit. Sho-
shone Indians, with the exception of
two white characters, give the entire
III lodi hxr a hn1IOhfAr
Shoshone chief, who, unfortunately,
goes by her Carlisle school name of
Emma Rainey. Miss Rainey is
graduate of that school, speaks and
sings in English and is an educated
and refined young woman of vast his
trionic power.
Another bit of color and foreign at
mosphere is offered by the Kitabanzai
troupe of Japanese acrobats and Jug
plers, who are said to have no peers
for daring and skill.
The "Six Little Girls and Teddy
Bear" will amuse the youngsters as
well as interest the grownups. Everett
Scott we'll known animal imperson-
ator. is the Teddy bear, and the six
girls, together with Scott, give high
" diverting melange of dances and
songs.
G. Herbert Mitchell, the fourth of
the newcomers, is raconteur of much
fame, formerly of the operate duo of
Mitchell and Bernard. He is a singer
and story teller and not monologist
of the hackneyed sort.
their very funny 1.-THE Spring of
Youth" Agnes MARI, the dancer; the
very clever rubes, Bowers, Walters and
Croker and Connolly and Webb, with
new motion pictures.
Sultan of .Sulu" George AIDES
popular comic opera, will be given this
week by the Ferris Hartman company
at the Grand opera house. This will
be the first time the AIDE musical piece
has ever, been given by any organiza-
ton except the original company, seen
in the syndicate houses throughout tle
country, under the direction of Henry
w. Savage.
The play is full of good musical num-
hers with fun the predominant keynote
of the performance. The role of HI
Ram, sultan of Sulu, one of the chief
islands in the Philippine group, will af-
ford Ferris Hartman more and better
opportunities for fun making than any
part he has had during his extended
season at the Grand.
1.-THE cocktail and the constitution
follow the flag" says Mr.. AIDE in the
"Sultan of Sulu," and he may well have
added that laughter and merriment fol-
low close on the heels of both. There is
no let up in the fun that AIDE has pro-
vided from the beginning to the end OF
the play.
Christina Nielsen will sing "Since 1
First Met YOU" with it's catchy chorus,
and she and Mr.. Walch will be heard
a duet, 1.-THE Message of the Red, Red
Rose"
Following "The Sultan of Sulu," the
for the first time in Los Angeles the
successful musical comedy, "The Tour
ist," In which Eddie Foy is being seen
In the important cities of the east
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