Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-27

The main thing about the Master
Hand is Nat Goodwin. The play OF
fers him plenty of opportunity to oc-
cupv the stage and when Mr.. Goodwin
holds the boards it matters little what
the play is about. His personality
gives vitality to even the most stilted
lines. as his subtle comedy serves to
tighten the rather dismal tone of the
piece.
The epigrams which fall to Mr.. Good
wins share take on an unconscious
double entendre occasionally when the
playwriter has put into his role some
cynical remark anent women.
The audience is surely to be par
doned for finding extra cause for hilar-
ity in hearing him utter these phrases:
Where women are concerned l am
lamentably ignorant" years of dis
cretion-there is no such thing where
there's a woman in the case" and later,
Marriage is a d-n silly game" These
remarks and many others like them
gladdened the hearts of the audience,
who found a fund of humor too in the
adventures of the young millionaire
into the Wall street game.
Edna Goodrich carries her role of
girlish innocence we'll early in the play.
When she discovers herself the daugh-
ter of an insane woman who is confined
in a mad house, and at the same time
learns that her father has dishonesty
specialized and lost her fortune, her
assumption of grief was inclined to be
spasmodic. Her countenance became
sorrowful when called upon for active
participation in the play, but suffered
lapses to pleasant Indifference when
she was not speaking or directly adj
dressed. Miss Goodrich shows much
in hnr n n
scenes with Mr.. Goodwin especially was
very good She lacks entirely any self
consciousness which might be pardoned
in consideration of her youth and love-
illness, and wears gowns in which all
the costumer's art is bent toward en-
HANGING the beautiful picture.
Zeffie Tilbury and Arthur Behrens
are the best of the supporting COM
pany, which is at best only mediocre.
The scenery is shabby, and the prop
critics entirely out of keeping. The in
terror of the last scene, representing
the home of a rich New Yorker, showed
motley arrangement of mahogany,
weathered oak and gilt chairs in mar
velous proximity, while a plush divan
showed whole stretches of torn cord
hanging in distressful patches about
it's sides.
The theater was completely filled
with a brilliant audience, and the ap-
plause was enthusiastic upon every
occasion.
THE Master Hand" will be the bill
tonight and tomorrow, and on Thurs
day and Friday evening Mr.. Goodwin
will present "A Native Son." with 1.-THE
Fastener" the offering Saturday night.
The best act of it's kind ever pre-
sented at the Los Angeles theater and
one of the very best ever seen on any
turn of Les Georgettys, which closes
the bill at the Sullivan & Considine
house this week. Les Georgettys are
four in number-two men, a woman
and a boy. The boy is the star per-
former of the quartet. He turns SOM
ersauts from the shoulders of one
man and alights on one hand in the
appraised hand of another, maintaining
the position as though it was nothing
out of the ordinary. This is only one
of a considerable number of remark
abel feats which won enthusiastic APP
plause from yesterday afternoons
audience.
Don Leno's Happy Youngsters make
their appearance in musical sketch
called Denomination Day in Township
High School 81 The skit is amusing
and it's several musical numbers are
attractively sung. However, the ten
boys and girls show lack of training
in their ensembles that could so easily
be remedied by little hard work that
one wonders why it isn't done. Two
of the boys are exceptionally clever
dancers and the girls are pretty.
Elmer Tenley makes ten strike