Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25
CHOCOLATE CREAMS
STAR AT MASON
RAUCOUS VOICE OF VENDERS
JARS ON AUDIENCE
Seems Blot on Evenings Entertain
ment After Seeing Dramatic Per-
formance Worth While,
Says Observer


They say than in New York city,
while the second act of The Climax"
was being concluded, they carried sew
eral persons out of the theater on more
than one night-persons whom the
| tenseness Of the drama (for it is that
at this point, at leasD had overcome.
One wishes they might do that at
the Mason this week. one wishes that
some rough parsonage, with no con-
sideratiOn or delicacy of feeling, and
with the brutality of a two-horse
team driver dragging a bull from La
Plaza de TorO-Would seize by the
scruff of the neck and eject from the
back door the young person whose
raucous voice proclaims Chocolate
caramels and creams; get a box Of
choice candies"
1t is too bad that one should leave
the theater after witnessing d real
play, a living, vital, heart-story and
should think first of the entre-act
| furnished by the rough necked youth
! who proClaims as from the housetops
| the unquestioned excellence of his
wares.
Relieved of such a burden, one gets
into a Crtism of the Locke comedy
drama i'm its second week at the Mason
with great joy. 1t is a pleasure to
write of that which gives pleasure
and there is not a moment of the
time while one is listening to the story
of the tragedy of dh ambition con-
! quered by love- when the four people
/ cast do not give the keenest pleasure.
| Sometimes-often, in fact-it is the
/ pleasure that comes with frightened
| heart-strings and quivering lips-the
/ delicious pleasure of pain. But the
/ playwright is so true to his art, the
/ lines so true to him, the players so
/ true to their parts and the whole so
/ true to life, one wonders when the
curtain falls whether divine wrath will
not descend on those who applaud.
1t is hard TO say just what effect
! on a production full house might
/ have when one leaves an almost empty
| one, a trihe disappointed. There We're
| times last night Ga very poor attend
! anCe reWaTding the efforts of the COM
pany when the comedy dragged and
| the drama palled. Particularly at the
! close of the second act-When Adeline
/ discovers beyond peradyenture Gas she
! thinksD that her voice is gOne-that
/ her ambitions are forever blighted,
! when the man behind you coughs, the
woman across the aisle looks into the
! boxes and you see for the first time
! that the bass Viol is bald.
! When a young girl is staring into
a ruined life, her hand resting on the
| horn handle of a stiletto, you do not
want to notice the color of the dress
/ she wears And if there is a fault in
/ this strong play, that pulls so at your
/ heart-strings and makes you wish you
/ were a woman that you might put an
arm about the heroine and let her
cry her trouble out on your shoulder.
/ or that you might, if "a man, 80 up
and take even that faithful and con-
/ sistent lover blythe hand and wish him
/ WelI-if there is a fault in this play,
| il is that the climax of the second
| act is too long. Perhaps one should
not judge when the excellent company
/ of four was looking out on half
filed house.
/ OF the individuals i'm this remarka BILE
| little cast much has been written in
/ this city and little may be added with
out redundancy. Miss Bridges leaves
/ little to be desired in her intcrprcta-
/ ton Perhaps her voice does not come
/ up closely enough to the standard Of
/ the dear old professor. Lugii GolfantL
/ But she could not hope to have beauty
and vivacity and feeling and artistic
/ intuition and dramatic power and be
a Patti She is so intensity real one
oyerIooks a trining Inconsistency. She
is unfortunate in being painted a
great singer before she opens her
mouth.
The boy. Pietro, out-boys a boy
He is all boy. He acts as a boy would
He talks and thinks as a boy would
talk and think. In the climax of the
second act he makes the audience
laugh in spite Of itself by his boyish
heroics as he tears the music of Tho
Song Of the Soul" in shreds and hurls
IL from him-and with it his hopes and
his dreams of love. one would eN-
pect to find in his room posters de
picting actrcsses-in his watch the
photograph of Addie and in his words
the fmpetuous frankness of boy. You
know him we'll the minute you see
him and he is all boy. That is art
Of the two others in the cast, moth
ing need be said. Good things of them
have been repeated time and again.
1t is a pity such company with such
a play cannot receive the generous
support it deserves in Los Angeles.
And it is a pity we cannot pass an
ordinance matchmaking chocolate
,reams w. j. II.