Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-02

Glenn McChesney Charles Kuggles
Tweed Blk ....,......... .kIchard VIVIAN
Lortmer Trenholm. ......... HOWARD Soul
Hop Wing .......... Bennett Southland
Sonnie MeChesney. Master Peter Clancy
Rhy McChesney. Miss Florence Oakley
Mrs. Blk. Miss Ora Gardner
Maggie ..................M Miss Ida Lewis
by LEMUEL PARTON
Lewis s. Stone and the Belasco COM
pany present Rachel Crothers' play.
1.-THE Three of U.s." for the week at
the Belasco. The company achieved
notable success in its first presentation
of the piece year ago, and in point or
perfection of detail and general ex-
cellence of acting and staging tho
present production Is superior to the
first. The play is one of the best In
both dramatic and literary workman
ship ever given on the American stage,
and 1t is difficult to see how the Be-
lasco Interpretation could be surpassed.
In Rhy McChesney Miss Crothers has
and one which calls for the widest COM
pass of histrionic power on the part of
the actress.
To venture on the quicksands of SUI
perlatives, / believe Miss Florence
Oakley's Rhy McChesney Is the best
thing she has done. The strength, faith
and predominant womanliness of the
ant understanding and a subtle vicari-
BUSINESS of sympathy which 1 have
seen Miss Oakley exhibit in no other
role.
Kiss Ora Gardner, who is known to
Los Angeles theatergoers. returns to
the Belasco in the role of Mrs. Blk,
lighter character foil. but sketched by
Miss Gardner with skill and intelli-
gence. In her absence Miss Gardner
has improved noticeably in her work
and should prove a valuable addition
to the Stone cast.
The character of Steve Townley, in
which Lewis S. Stone appears, Is not
so clearly drawn and does not stand
out so vividly as that of the woman
Mr.. Stone plays it with a suggestion Of
masterful reserve, thoroughly in char
acter and yet apparently the creation
of Stone rather than the author.
Charles Ruggles repeats his success in
his first appearance in the part of
Glen, the raw, immature brother or
Rhy who Is brought to a sudden re-
generating self realization by the DOM
nance of his sisters love. Miss Ida
Lewis won much enthusiastic approval
in the comedy part of Maggie, the
faithful servant in the McChesney
family. De witt C. Jennings was
equally good as Louis Be-esford, Mas
ter Peter Clancy as Sonnie McChesney.
Howard Scott as Lorimer Trenholm
and Bennett Southland as Hop Wing,
Beresford's servant.
who's Your Friend?" clever and
entertaining farce comedy, Is the
weeks offering at the Majestic theater.
The play centers largely around Harry
Beresford, who appears in a character
istic dialect role, but 1t is a we'll writ
ten farce and is of considerable inter-
est In itself.
The play concerns an old inventor,
impersonated by Mr.. Beresford, who
faces ruin at the hands of a money
lender into whose clutches he has
fallen. The very plotty plot takes up
the decision of the inventor to sell his
soul, a la Faust, to secure money to
promote his invention. Mephisto ap-
pears OPPORTUNITY, in the guise OF an
old merchant, who afterward turns out
to be not at all Machiaevellian in his
designs. There is an inextricable mix
up, involving a villain of deepest dye.
distressed heroine and several good
minor parts. The dialogue is good, the
characters we'll drawn and the farce
wholesome and well devised.
Miss Edith Wylie, who appears as
Lila Hake, the daughter of the in
ventor, is a Hollywood girl and is well
known in Los Angeles. Miss Grace
Beebe as Rosalie, works hard in a
last nights audience. The cast is uni
formly good.
There are some good laughs and
tuneful musical numbers in the bur-
lesque at the Unique this week
"Wanted-An Indian" The plot has to
do with the we'll known ignorance of
our English cousins as to the geog-
raphy of the United States and the
"stringing" of a younger son who has
been sent there to calm down after
his college days. The young man has
a good time In New York, but to get
the necessary remittances, writes his
folks at home and tells them he owns
a ranch at Buffalo, N. Y, across the
river from Omaha To MIKE good he
brings an Indian home with him, who,
by the way, gets lost, and he has to
fake up another one-his friend, Andy
Lowe.
When Clarence Drown left the Or
pheum theater yesterday afternoon,
after the performance, he wore smile
which rippled out over his collar and
down his shirt front. He had a smile
coming, because the beneficent gods of
vaudeville have sent Mr.. Drown the
best bill seen at the local Orpheum in
many, many moons Any vaudeville
which includes Seldoms, Venus, Paul
La Croix, the Royal italian quartet
and Frank Byron may be safely picked
to make the average vaudeville lineup
look like a selling platter. There Is art,
music and melodrama, with general
interspersal of laughs, and you will
find Just the kind of amusement to
please you, no matter how whimsical
you may be in your tastes. There is
but one ounce in the collection, and
that could very easily be made into
an excellent number. Leander de Cor
dova all but spoils the wireless"
sketch by his perfervid and altogether
pathological spasm in the part of the
busy little wireless operator who is
going to put over a crooked wireless
deal, and then didn't do it because
he got a message that his wife and
child were on a burning boat in mid
ocean. Someone should take Signor
de Cordova, aside-judging from his
name he must be signor-someone
should take him aside and remind him
that the audience can see an exhibit
ton at the detention hospital without
paying admission.
THE Seldom's Venus number is con-
silerably above the average vaudeville
Offering in it's thoroughly artistic ex-
cellence. The poems in marble" in
clude a series of group posings, rep
resenting famous statues. They are
so lifelike as to be almost exact SIM
ulations of the originals.
The Royal Italian quartet was COM
PEELED to sing through Its entire rep
ertoire 1t was significant that the top
row of the gallery was as enthusiastic
in it's applause as the orchestra. The
Italian singers loosen a stream of en-
chanting harmony that would move
the soul of q cigar store indian. The