Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
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Crawford will offer Babes in the
Wood" at the Auditorium. and it will
run all this week. An extra force of
men have been working day and night
o. the production. Miss Maud Beatty
will be seen in the part of Robin Hood,
with several vocal selections of merit
Miss Olga Stoch, for the first time at
the Auditorium theater, will imperson-
ate boy. Billy Onslow and Walter
Reed are cast as the bandits; Roscoe
Arbuckle will be seen as the Baron.
Hugh Metcalfe and Ben Sellar both
have good parts in which to display
their talents. Manager Crawford will
introduce for the first time in this city
the Aerial Ballet. Many new and novel
effects will be added to this production
to make it the most complete and gor-
geOus offered at the Auditorium dur
ing the season.
BELASCO-''The Three of U.s. the
offering at the Belasco theater for this
week, is western play, with scenes
located across the Nevada line It is
the work Of Rachel Crothers, and was
one of the successes of the New York
season two years ago. The play is a
simple one, with a number Of big
scenes that approach the melodramatic.
who is left to bring up her two younger
brothers on very limited income
There is a strongly developed maternal
devotion for the elder brother, and
when he gets into trouble by selling
the secrets of a newly found "strike"
that promises great things, she comes
to the lads rescue. Florence Oakley
will play Rhy McChesney and the role
ought to give her good chances for the
sort of dramatics at which she has al
ways been most successful. Lewis S.
Stone will have the part Of Steve
ToWnley young miner who is in love
with Rhy, and the news of whose rich
claim the brother peddles to a rather
new sort of stage villain, to be played
by De Witt Jennings. Charles RuggIes
will play Glen McChesney, the elder
brother. Ida Lewis, Ora Gardner,
Howard Scott, Richard Vivian and the
other favorites of the Belasco organiza-
ton will be found in 1.-The Three of
fs.''
Following the Crothers play, the Be
lasco people will give for the first time
on any stage, George Broadhurst's play,
1.-THE Dollar Mark Just as this
authors earlier success, "The Man Of
the Hour" dealt with prevailing condi-
lions in metropolitan political condi-
lions, so does 1.-The Dollar Mark have
to do with financial matters-only in
the case Of the new piece it's appeal
is not bound by any narrow Manhattan
confines, but is a question that init
mately concerns every man, woman
and child in the entire country. Mr..
Broadhurst is in Los Angeles and is
personally assisting Stage Director
Hartford Of the Belasco company in
making 1.-THE Dollar Mark" ready for
the initial presentation. The play will
be given it's New York premiere next
September at the Savoy theater under
the management Of William A. Brady,
who will come to Los Angeles to wit
ness the performance at the Belasco.
MAJESTIC-Harry Beresford says:
you don't have to sit on a hornets
nest to get stung." And that applies to
the show business quite as strongly as
to anything else. But when a comedy
is Endorsed by New York, Chicago and
London as the cIeverest that has been
seen in those cities, and when the same
laudatory comments are made Of a
star and his production in our own
nearby cities, it is safe to say that it
is good.
BeresfOrd has been a success, and when
this company opens at Hamburger's
Majestic tonight it is promised that
theatergoers will have the opportunity
of seeing a genuine comedy hit.
The managing director, Mr.. Edgar
Forrest has surrounded Mr.. Beresford
with almost the same company and the
entire production as was given in New
York during it's phenomenal run.
Prominent in the cast is Miss Edith
Wylie, young woman well known to
many residents of Southern California,
having spent seven years in school in
Los Angeles.
BURBANK-With expectations keen
ly aroused and with assurances of
crowded houses all week, the Burbank
stock company, beginning with a matt
ness performance today will make it's
long promised production of ''Peter
Pam" J. NJ. Barrie's fanciful fairy play,
with Miss Blanche Hall in the name
role, Miss Jessie Mae Hall as Wendy
and all the members of the Burbank
company, together with many extra
players in the cast. No stock produc-
ton ever presented locally has entailed
the expense required to raise the cur
tain on the first performance of this
play. The royalty charge alone is
$3.50 a week.
Peter Pam is in five acts and seven
scenes. Two of the scenes show an
interior in the home of the Darling
family; others, the mysterious forest,
where Peter and his friends, the Darl-
ing children, meet the lost boys; the
underground home of the boys, the
deck of a pirate ship; a street and
Peter Pans home in the tree tops The
story is whimsical, delightful, charm
ing. 1t is a realization of juvenile
imaginings, penned with mastery skill
and with sympathetic appreciation. In
addition to the humans concerned in
the story there are numerous animals,
including Mana, the faithful dog; a
lion, a crocodile which has swallowed
a clock, the ticking of which always
gives notice of his approach; an os-
trich and a pack Of wolves. Then, too,
there is Tinker Fell, a fairy, who ap
pears merely as a ray of light.
''Peter Pan should Icove one of the
most delightful stock productions Man
ager Oliver MOrosco ever has offered
his patrons. No expense has been
spared to make it so, and the Burbank
actors would seem to be particularly
we'll equipped to give a satisfactory
performance of what is in many re-
spects the most remarkable play Of re-
cent years.
ORPHEUM-Lovers of the beautiful
will find pleasing act at the Orpheum,
beginning with Monday matinee to-
morrow. Seldoms Venus is the way
it is billed, but that is merely a tenta-
I've title. While the Venus figures
largely in it, there are others, and she
merely gives a title to the act. M.
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