Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-08
season of hard work at the Belasco.

You can't see the mysterious Apache
dance at the Los Angeles this week,
thanks to the discreet censorship of our
fearless police, but you can see a very
| graceful and amazing exhibition of the
latest trips and whirls which delight
the Partisan boulevardier. The brevity
| of their act is my only criticism of
| Hasse and Mariette, who glided and
sided and curvetted at the opening of
the new bill yesterday afternoon until
one wondered what the forbidden
| Apache could be like, if the dances
given were only a part of their roper
/ toire. I still have the suspicion that
we got few of the Apache steps-or is
it flings?-in the Montmartre and La
Croupionette. But pray don't mention
it to Capt. Dixon.
Mile. Marietta a demure little person
who speaks English gingerly like one
skating on thin ice, disclaims any in
tent at suggestiveness in the Apache,
which she and M. Hasse picked up
| from close study of the haunts Of the
cut throat ruffians of their natal city.
A holdup by quiet realistic Apache in
a dark Paris court suggested the idea of
reproducing the dance to M. HaSse, and
he has reaped fairly remunerative in
terest on the involuntary investment.
The gigolette--who is a sort of French
/ Nancy Sikes-tries to withhold her
variously gotten gains from her man."
and the dance is a pantomimic narra-
| tive of their battle for the money. At
| the climax of blows and repuses a
whistle is heard, the gigolette, fearing
a gendarme's appearance, yields her
! golden horde and the brief etching
from the Partisan underworld ends in
a blare of skirts and song.
| The dance is rather brutal than sem
sual. judging from Mile. Mariette's de-
scription and the reason for it's pro-
| hibtion by the authorities. who blandly
readily apparent. Certainly the dances
which the pair gave yesterday were
decorously diverting enough to merely
| enliven existence for the most bour-
geois beholder.
The Monetta Five have cultivated
voices and sing and play attractively-
! FL Barto offers an ingenious eXplana-
ton of his wizardry, which does not in
the least explain, and accompanies his
/ a gile hands with a line of CONVERSE
| tional small beer which is refreshing.
| Cowboy Williams juggles darts and
| cannon balls as If he enjoyed 1t. Car
| isle and England appear in singing
number and Lewis and Young are mild
~ amusing when they are not hatting
in vocal discord. The Bovyerscope lives
up to its name.
It's a good bill and a swiftly moving
one. With a short, snappy, one-act
playlet, its symmetry would be conf
! plete.
4 Miss Marie Doro declares the hardest
| thing she had to master in THE Morals
of Mascus," at the Mason next week,
was a tune for the two-minute dance
| in the third act After a frutless
search for the proper musical score she
invented one herself while Waiting
about her room In solitaire rehearsal.
| The air is said to be one of the catch
lest in the Occasional musical score
of the play.
The Walker bill this week is headed
by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lissenden in an
act replete with music and comedy.
Elmer I4issenden, in immaculate even
! ing dress, spins few dialect yarns
Jennie Lissenden charms with vocal
and instrumental numbers of her own
composition Kathryne Wayne has a
novelty offering, closing her act singing
La Paloma" in Spanish, with Spanish
dance. beautifully costumed. r. Leroy
| Carroll won much applause and laugh
ter by his caricatures of prominent
persons. He closes his performance by
drawing with his feet. Madaline Rowe
has a sweet voice and danced pleasing
| ly to last nights audience. Dixie
| Christy is a diminutive miss with a
pretty southern dialect, who plays oh a
variety of instruments. Joseph Manley
sang the late New York success, Lets
Get the Umpire's Goat" Beatrice
Whitney is a character coincidence who
effectively talks her songs. Her inter-
polated whstlng solo gained great
favor. The Travelette and the Walker
scope were entertaining. Director Nell
son has an attractive musical program
Colored performers, a full orchestra
brass band, motion pictures and Illus
trated songs by AL Franks make up a
lively bill which Manager Fulkerson Of
fers to Empire patrons this week. The
colored actors present "A Trip tc
1 Africa" q musical comedy full of fun
and crisp songs Isy Sharp, a CRATER
! (Sydney Carter), plots with Nose An
] drew Jackson Of Virginia (Robert Hen