Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-07

lightful fairy fantasy, of all plays the
one best calculated to win their APP
probation.
No stock performance yer given in
Los Angeles has been received with
more warm and general approval.
During the past week audiences which
have packed the theater at every per-
! Torrance have declared their delight
in no uncertain terms. The profession
al critics have been unanimous in
their praises alike of the production
and of the acting. Manager oliver
Morosco has been heartily congratu-
lated upon every hand first for his
enterprise and courage in securing the
play and secondly for the lavish man
ner in which he has staged it. APP
parently nothing has been left undope
which can add to the success of the
venture. Money has been spent with
out stint, but the expenditure has been
intelligently directed and the result is
admirable in the extreme.
Gilbert Gardner, the official stage
director of the Burbank company. de-
serves much credit for the excellence
of the production, while credit like
wise is due the Burbank's mechanical
department. members of which worked
early and late to make the production
the success it has been acclaimed.
ORPHEUM-Mor than ordinary in
terest hedges about the Orpheum bill
for the week beginning Monday mat
inee, March 8, in that it will bring to
this city for the first time one OF the
most talked of affairs in vaudeville
today, the Israel zangwill play, Tho
Never Never Land with Helen Grant
ley and an excellent interpretive COM
pany, and will give Los Angeles and
Its vicinity a taste of the really high
class dramatic values in vaudeville
Mr.. Zangwill has based his dramatic
episode on the assertion that at the
moment of dying ones past is revealed
az in a fash, with its true import upon
ones life. Taking an English noble
woman, he shows in this fashion the
intensely dramatic event which turned
the course of her life a generation be-
tore, by means of bit of realism en-
acted on the stage. The tragic import
OF the event is especially brought out
and the intensity of the tragedy in
volved Is gripping and thrilling.
Quite in contrast to this serious por-
trayal of life comes an equally truthful
episode in shorty" which will be CIV
Ell by Dick Crolius and his company
Crolius, the original Biff in that vaude-
vile classic, Peaches" gives a glimpse
In shorty of the real race track and
its atmosphere. The skit is true to ma
ture Iull OF slang WltIlclSflS ana a de-
light in every way
The Farre-Taylor trio, consisting of
Frank FarrelTaylor, Blanche Daven-
port and a third Individual, give a
black-face minstrel bit, with great unc-
ton and much merriment.
Leon T. Royce, the fourth newcomer
is billed as the human orchestra" be-
cause of his ability to initiate almost
any known musical instrument.
The followers include Seldoms' We
nus, the great statuary act, the rollick-
ing Byron and Langdon, and Johnny
McVeigh and his college girls, with new
motion pictures.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-Ferris
Hartman and company will present
Audran's comic opera "Olivette" at the
Grand opera house next week, begin
ming with the performance Monday
night. Audran's work has not been
given on a local stage for over fifteen
years. In its day it was one of the
most successful of all operas comique.
Its music Is of the tuneful, whistleable
variety, while it tells a story of more
than common interest. The humorous
department of the opera in the hands
of Ferris Hartman ought to be espe-
cially diverting. "Olivette" will afford
exceptionally good opportunities for eff
fective costuming, especially in the
matter of the chorus, the members of
which should present decidedly al
Turing appearance in the Audran opera
The performance of "Olivette" will
introduce new tenor named Edgar
Walsh. He comes from the Interna-
tional opera company of Chicago, where
he alternated in singing the tenor roles
with Dominica Russo, well and favor