Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes. wife of j.
G. Phelps Stokes. and well known So
ciallst champion of the working girls
of New York was an attendant and
enthusiastic applauder at recent per-
formance of Mrs. Oscar Beringer's
one-act playlet, "The Agitator," enact
ed by Helen Grantley and company at
the Fifth Avenue theater, New York
city
George Sutton. former 1872 balk-line
billiard champion, has been engaged
by Martin Beck for vaudeville ex-
hibition of his favorite sport. lie will
open in st. Louis and como west.
"The Lottery Man." which has
caused divers smiles to curl spirally
about the Bijou theater, New York, is
tho story Of u newspaper man who
offers himself as n lottery prize-"a
scheme" ne remarks. (which will
make Buster Brown look pale" About
30O. 900 women mail as many dollars as
admittance fees. Finally tho daring
editor falls in love, and the audience
is left TO conjecture whether or not
his bride has won prize. Mrs. Rida
Johnson Young, author Of Brown of
Harvard is the playwright.
on Monday Of New Years week Bir-
mingham, Ala, will become a link in
the Orpheum chain of theaters. The
Hippodrome will change its name.
Maxim Gorky is about to become a
stage manager. having written a play
which he intends to bring out in Rus
sia.
Miss Marie Doro is to play the hero
inc OF THE Climax" in London.
An Orpheum circuit bulletin declares
that Professor Merriam of the State
university at Berkeley became greatly
interested in Charles /, the chtmpan-
zee now rounding the whirl, and Of
fered to perform an operation on the
animals Uranium and throat in the
credulous endeavor to induce it to talk.
The Playgoers' club in London has
taken 100000 poor children to the
Christmas pantomimes. regaling them
also with Christmas dinners.
John Mason will soon appear in
new drama under the joint manage
ment of the Shuberts and Harrison
Grey Fiske.
William II. Thompson. while in Eng
land recently, purchased from the OK
ecutors of the late Sir Henry Irving
estate the rights to Sir Conan Doyle's
"Waterloo" He will play the old
soldier and Miss EVangeline Irving,
Isabel Irving's sister, will be seen as
the daughter.
The fathers OF Otis Skinner and
Donald Bowles were well known Uni
versalist ministers and college class
mates Mr. BoWles, who has always
shown a strong leaning to plays of
moral reform, will appear next week
in Guilty." at the orpheum.
Miss Eleanor Robson has obtained
the rights to a new college play by
Miss Marion Culp of the University OF
Kansas. 1t is entitled "The Flirta-
tious Frat" and Miss Robson will use
it after 1.-THE Dawn Of u Tomorrow"
has had it's last sunset.
Adeline Genee, whom to name is to
think of humanity's immemorial pas
time, declares that she sleeps ten
hours out of every twenty-four. This
is good news for folk who have always
suspected the author of "early to rise"
of being a priggish kill-joy.
On January II the statue of General
Lew Wallace will be unveiled in the
Hall of Fame in Washington. The
same week his real monument, "Ben
Hur," will be played at the National
theater.
The Western Theatrical Managers
association, covering points in the
states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Iowa. Missouri and Illinois, have
contracted to give the exclusive book
ing control of their theaters to Klaw
& Erlanger. The Syndicate" bulletin,
which brings this information, declares
that the surrender was due to failure
to get flrst-class independent attrae-
tlons for their houses.
The New York Clipper is about to
publish series of articles on Notable
Players of the Past and Present"
By lease the Shuberts have acquired
the sites for two new theaters or
Broadway above Times square.
The Shuberts will present George
Fawcett in new play about Janu-
AIRY Is.