Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-16
FROM PSYCHOLOGY
TOFIGHTAT ORPHEUM
WIDE RANGE IN BILL NOW
RUNNING
Israel ZangwilI and Tom Wilson Share
Honors in Unusually Good
Show-Women Prefer
Fight
ny LEMUEL PARTON

Tom Wilson's prize fight sketch, AT
the Sound of the Gong" shares the
honors with Israel Zangwill's psyche
logical playlet, 1.-THE Never, Never
Land" at the Orpheum this week Inc
two skits afford an interesting oppor-
tunity to study the taste OIL locai
audiences. At the performance yes.
terday afternoon the applause was all
for the prize fight. The strangest part
of IT is that the women like the fight
and the men like the Zangwill spasm.
Both are unusually good NUMBERS
limiting the two extremes OF UNI
formly excellent bill.
Imro Fox was declared by many
who saw the performance yesterday to
be the cleverest '1llusionist" eyer seen
in Los Angeles. Mr.. Fox does ms
mystifying with a pleasing patter OF
light talk, doubtless useful in divert
ing the attention of the audience, but
none the less entertaining ON that ac-
count Some of the tricks are Old
but there are several new ones, the
best of which is the Zenbe trick OF
making any card named hop out of a
deck. reposing in a glass lumber
The bill includes two good gymnas-
tic teams. the Amoros sisters, and
Tony Wilson and Mile. Heloise. The
two latter are foreign performers, con-
siderably better in their line than the
average Americans appearing in TINS
work
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is the offering
at the Auditorium this week. 1t is
given in form Of dramatic and
musical pantomime, but there is
close adherence to the strictly dra-
matte form, with all the old charae-
tiers in evidence. The version varies
in frightening out the escape busi-
ness at the beginning, but follows the
regular lines in the closing scenes.
Mr.. Roscoe Arbuckle is a very
serious and ponderous Uncle Tom, but
gets by nicely with the pathetic bust
ness. Miss Dee Loretta appears as
Eliza, Miss olga Stech as Topsy, Miss
Olive Dumond as Eva and Mr.. Ben
Sellar as George Harris.
The Auditorium productions always
are good in staging, but still are
marred by bitches in the scene shift
ing and generally bad stage manage
ment, especially in changing the
scenes without lowering the curtain. 1t
destroys the ice illusion in the river
scene, when you see the stage hands
putting the blocks of ice in place.
"Peter Pan" is filling the Burbank
for the third week. Mr. Morosco's
sound Judgment in theatrical matters
frequently has been vindicated since
his entry into the theatrical business
in Los Angeles ten years ago, but
never so decisively as in case of
"Peter Pan" The tremendous royalty
demanded for the play and the ex-
pense of securing New York proper
ties made the venture decidedly a
risk, but it has been more than sue
cessful "Peter Pam has become a
classical part of the lore of American
child life, and the child who does not
see it loses part of its heritage.
Florence Reed, the new Belasco
leading woman, will leave New York
for Los Angeles this morning. MISS
Reeds initial appearance will be made
in Henry Arthur Jones' play, 1.-THE
Dancing Girl" in which she will have
abundant opportunities to demonstrate
her talents as a Coincidence as we'll
as her powers as an emotional actress.
Last season Miss Reed played the
leading feminine roles with e. H.
Sothern in the eastern engagements OF
this well known actor. She terminated
an engagement with the Shubert COM
pany in "Girls" at Days theater, New
York, last Saturday night. Miss Reed
has never visited Los Angeles, although
many of the local theatrical colony are
familiar with her work in the east.
The BelaScO JneaLer company last
night entered upon the second week
of 1.-THE Dollar Mark" and if the size
of the audience and the enthusiasm of
the assemblage may be taken as fair
criterion of the worth in which the
public holds this Broadhurst philippe
against existing financial conditions,
the Belasco will be too small to ac-
commodate the crowds during the re-
mainder of the week. The work of
Lewis S. Stone, David H. Hartford,
Dewitt c.. Jennings and Beatrice
Moves continue to call forth much
praise from everyone that witnesses
the performance.
The Belasco company was enter
tanned very delightfully."- by George
Broadhurst at supper at Levy's after
the performance of 1.-THE Dollar Mark
last night. The entire cast, as well as
heads of the mechanical departments
of the theater, were the guests of the
playwright.
The Los Angeles theater offers an
unusually good bill this week, six new
acts making up the program. Watson
and Little, in "a Matrimonial Bar
gain" have an unusually clever sketch,
particularly good in its dialogue, which
sparlles with laughs throughout.
Lewis McCord and company offer
"TIer Last Rehearsal" farcical sketch
written round a clever idea, but which
could be vastly improved by strength
ening the part of Juliet's mother and by