Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
SULTAN OF SULU' IS
REVIVED AT GRAND
CATLETT GETS HIS
FIRST GOOD CHANCE
Seats for Bankers Big Show Soon
Will Go on Sale-New At
fractions Come This
Evening

"Ine sultan or Sulu began the NSSh
at the Grand at yesterdays matinee.
The first part of the play is bit drag
ging, but the fun is infectious, when
il comes The lines came a tritie slow
at times yesterday, but this fault
doubtless will be eliminated after
performance or two.
The plot of the piece concerns the
troubles of the sultan with his numer-
GUS wives When the United states
troops arrive on the island and polyg-
amy becomes a crime, he is In a sorry
plight. However, kind judge adVo-
cate general, sent over from the states,
relieves him of all but one of his
wives via the divorce route. This only
makes more trouble for the law al
lows each divorced wire alimony to the
amount of half her former husbands
income. The puzzling question for the
sultan to solve is how he is going to
ray one-half his income to eight differ
ent women. Unable to solve this rid
die, he goes to Jail and is released only
when dispatches arrive from Washing
ton instructing the troops to withdraw
from the island
As the Sultan, Ferris Hartman did
well. His private secretary however,
carried the comedy of the piece
through This role was portrayed by
Walter Catlett, and to say he was good
is only half expressing it. Miss Mug
gems Davies, as one OF the WIVES was
as chic and vivacious as ever, and
wore some stunning costumes cleverly.
Big Oscar Welsh, as the ever present
army man, sang song or two in a
creditable way, while Josephine Is
lieb's trilling song in the last act
brought round after round of applause.
The chorus was snappy and pretty and
managed to get a good deal of action
into some of their numbers. Their cos
Tunes however. were q fTifiG old and
worn.
The music of the piece is not very
tuneful, with the exception of one or
two numbers, but these were capitally
done. Following a rather ordinary first
act set, the last scene was a clever
piece of stagecraft. and the designer
of 1t deserves credit for his work.
V. E. F.
Edna Aug, the impersonator in an
act called Types" will headline the
new Orpheum bill opening this after
noon Les Myosotis, two pretty dane
ers of the Munich grand opera ballet;
Henry Give, with the assistance of
Mai Sturges Walker and the Big City
Four. are the new attractions Guer-
zero. the pantomimist: Murray & Mack,
Tom Waters, and Spaulding G. Riego,
remain. The pictures will be new.
AHdTleS L, luS performing monkey
which Martin Beck obtained abroad,
is on his way west, and due here soon.
The Orpheum road show is assem-
bling in the east, preparatory to it's
annual tour. This aggregation is the
special pride of Martin Becks heart
La Jolie Titcomb, a Partisan sensation
in the posing line, will head 1t this
year. 1t is due in Los Angeles in
January.
Seats for the coming presentation of
when the Gringo Came" the locally
written opera which is. the Bankers
show this year, will go on sale at the
Mason Thursday next. The sale of ex-
change tickets has been proceeding for
some weeks, and is so heavy that
though the show is on for three nights,
arrangements for a special Saturday
matinee are already in hand. These
advance-sale tickets may be ex-
changed for coupons Thursday also.
The show will be given in the Mason
on November a. and 6.
Sousa and his band will arrive at
noon today by special train and will
give their first concert at the Audito-
rum this afternoon at o'clock to
enable the pupils of the schools to hear
the entire program. After today matt
nees will begin at 2:30 o'clock, even
ings Sis.
Lewis S. Stone and the Belasco the
alter company will open tonight in
George AIDES successful comedy
drama, 1.-THE County Chairman" with
Mr.. Stone in the role of Jim Hacker.
The opening tonight will also serve to
introduce to the Belasco patrons Miss
Beth Taylor, the new ingenue, who
will appear in the role of Chick
Elezey, an orphan who works for the
village boarding house keeper. Howard
Scott will be seen in the excellent
character role of Sassafras Livingston,
the touch of local color" as Mr.. AIDE
describes him, while the remainder of
the company have been cast in series
of parts that will allow many good
character drawings. The comedy is
one of the breeziest that has come
from the pen of this humorist and
should prove one of the best offerings
of the Belasco fall season.
One of the most attractive and GER
tainly the best diversified bill that has
been presented at the Los Angeles
theater in many weeks will open this
afternoon, headed by Hall and Stark's
miniature minstrels, an act brought
direct from New York to this coast to
open Sullivan and Considines new
Majestic theater in Seattle three weeks
ago. 1t is composed of twenty young
comedians who give an entire first
part of a minstrel show and is a dis
tinct novelty on the vaudeville stage.
/ Other features on the new bill will be
Boutwell, Browne and company, offer
ing Cleopatra's live snake dance; Mon
dane Phillips, the girl with the many
voices; John and Matt, Blanche Sloan,
sister of the famous jockey, Tod Sloan,
and VIII Morrisey, the college boy
comedian.
The third of the musical successes
| to be offered by Ferris Hartman and
his opera company will be James T.
Powers recent hit, THE Blue Moon"
opening next Sunday afternoon at the
Grand This will also serve to intro
duce another Of the Hartman prima
donnas, Miss Dorothy Morton. Both
Miss Morton who will sing the lead
| ing prima donna role, and Miss Islieb,
who has been winning much praise for
| her work in 1.-THE Yankee Consul and
1.-THE Sultan of Sulu," will be seen in
the cast, while Ferris Hartman will
play a role distinctly different from
any he has ever appeared in before a
| Los Angeles public. He will play the
English Tommy Atkins, originally
taken by James T. Powers, and one in
which Hartman won much praise dur
ing his recent engagement at the
Princess theater in San Francisco. The
seats for 1.-THE Blue Moon" will go on
sale this morning.
Following 1.-THE County Chairman"