Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04

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great success that has attended MS
work proves.
sherlock Holmes" in it's stage form
is not new to patrons of the Burbank.
The play was seen there some time
ago with T. Daniel F'rawey in the
name part However, requests for It's
repetition have been many and lnslS-
tent
In the current revival William Des-
mond will be seen as the acute detec-
tive A. Byron Beasley as his arch
enemy, Prof. Moriarty, head of no
torous crime syndicate; H. S. Duftleld
as Dr. Watson, Holmes Boswell; Da-
vid Edwin as Foreman, his assistant,
and Blanche Hall as Alice Faulkner,
the girl the detective comes to love.
Others prominent in the cast will in
clude Harry Mestayer, Frederick Gill
bert, John w. Burton, Lowell Alice
Taylor and Margo Duffet. An effec-
tive scenic environment is promised.
GRAND-The stock company will
present Lillian Mortimers romantic
melodrama, IA Girl of the Streets"
beginning this afternoon, with Alice
Lewis in the principal part. George
Webb, Harry Earl George Field, Carl
Burk, Chester Stevens, Robert Leonard,
Grace Rauworth and Marjorie Dalton
MAJESTIC-With newly organized
company and a musical comedy new to
Los Angeles audiences the Majestic
theater makes a strong bid for pat
ronage this week. The piece is Ser
geant Kitty; the company, oliver Mo
rosco's new organization of singers
which it seems likely will remain at
the Majestic for several weeks.
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Girard and Agnes Caine-Brown, and
all of its productions will be made
under Mr. Girard's personal direction.
Mr.. Girard will sing the principal male
role in the opening bill. He has
resonant baritone voice of fine quality
which was heard to advantage on the
Burbank stage a fortnight ago in his
own composition, for which Oliver Mo-
rosco wrote the lyric, prairie Land"
Following many requests for its repe-
tition, Mr.. Girard has decided to in
terpolate it in Sergeant Kitty"
Miss Caine-BroWn made many
friends when she sang the part of "Fa-
vorita" in the Burbank production of
"The Circus Grip few weeks ago.
Last season she was in grand opera
in the east.
Another prominent member of the
company is Miss Marie Nelson, who
New York, under Shubert manage
ment, and who came west especially
engaged to sing the prima donna role
in Peggy from Paris when that piece
was put on in San Francisco. Mr. Mo-
rosco heard her sing it and was so
delighted that he at once engaged her
for Los Angeles.
The contralto of the company is Miss
Edna Maison, who is we'll known To-
oh
stage appearances. Others in the or
ganization include Miss Maybelle
Baker, the young woman who jumped
in a night from a show girls position
to prima donna of the Kolb and Dill
company following the automobile ac-
cioent which prevented Miss Adele
Rafter from continuing in her part in
Lonesome Town; Percy V. Bronson,
who was juvenile man with the Kolb
and Dill forces; Henry Stockbridge,
William Yerance, Charles Giblyn,
Louise Royce and Madeline Del Mar,
loaned for this one production from
the Burbank company.
There will be a chorus of close to
fifty voices, male and female. This
chorus, assembled locally, has been
built around a nucleus made UP of the
best singers in the Kolb and Dill ranks.
Sergeant Kitty" book by r. Fl.
Burnside and music by A. Baldwin
Sloane, composer of 1.-THE Gingerbread
Man" is of French origin, it's scenes
being laid in Montigny France. 1t tells
highly amusing story of an elopement,
marriage by proxy, a masquerade,
supposed duality of husbands and
confusion of wives. There are twenty
musical numbers,
New costumes have been made for
the production and a picturesque scenic
setting is promised. The piece will be
played for the first time at the Majestic
tonight and will continue through the
week with the usual Wednesday and
Saturday matinees and with special
independence day matinee Monday,
July 5.
ORPHEUM-The circus holds the
center of the stage next week-a typi-
cal representation of the old three-ring
affair of our fathers First. the eX-
terror of the tents will be shown, with
the balyhoo, the "pe-rade," with its
cages of animals and it's calliope, the
shell games and the thimble-riggers,
the side shows and all the accompanl-
ments of the genuine article. Then Will
be presented the interior of the big
top, with it's ring, it's grand entree, the
clowns the acrobats, the leaperS and
tumblers, the trapeze performers the
dinky, tuneless band and the grandil-
ouuent ringmaster, the rube and the
bumpkin not to speak of the fair rid
ers on the horses, hopping the hoops,
and the trick mule. The Ellis-Nowland
company present the act, which is en-
titled "A Night at the Circus
Cheridah Simpson, of pleasant "Red
Feather" and king Dodo" memory,
will be heard in a collection of her best
liked songs, to many of which she
plays her own accompaniment. She
will console herself for the lack of
tights by wearing some gorgeous
gowns.
A. l.. Pellaton and William Foran
present a sketch, "a Spotless Reputa-
tion," relating battle of wits be-
tween governor and a pugilist The
prize fighter wins, and the audience is
glad Harrison Armstrong wrote it.
The Novelty Dancing Four two boys
and two girls, headed by Johnny j.
Hughes, combine a variety of steps
with some novelties since their last
appearance, which was some time ago.
Ho. ling over are Hite and Donlin,
Claude Gillingwater and company, the
Vindobonas and Billy Van. Yes, there
will be pictures.
LOS ANGELES-Six new acts, two
of them head-liners, is the promise of
Sullivan & Considine for the week be-
ginning Monday afternoon. Nadje, the
Paris artists model will pose and
balance in a way which she is positive
will seem Incredible to tie audience
Weston and Young and a company of
five offer a skit entitled THE New Re-
porter" in which the troubles of a cub
are entertainingly related. Saona will
offer a series of living portraits of An
drew Carnegie, William Mckinley
Theodore Roosevelt and Others Siebert
Lindley and company have a comedy