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gracefully through the air, and the
sixty snow white doves which ffutter
about them. Up on the "gridiron,
ninty feet above the stage, four men
are busy sliding pulleys and carefully
adjusting the slack in the seven Tiny
piano wires, each of which supports
a dancer. In the wings eight men haul
away at cables which raise and lower
the dancers and cause them to swing
back and forth. To prevent sudden
jerks a section of rubber is placed in
each supporting wire. Contracted, the
rubber is six feet long. When the but
terflies are in the air is 1t nearly
twenty. Each wire hooks into the back
of a steel corset in which each dancer
is incased. The corset must fit per-
fectly and each hook be precisely halt
way between the shoulders to preserve
the accurate balance necessary to pre-
vent the dancers from spinning around
like tops. OF the lights which give tho
color effect there are five-two directed
from the wings on each side and one
from the balcony. The wings and
fluttering draperies worn by the dane
ers are of soft shimmering silk, es-
pecially adapted to reflect the bright
light.
DR.. Henry Van Dykes poeticall
drama 1.-THE House of Rimmon,"
Magazine last year, will be presented
at Cumnock hall by a student cast
Thursday evening, May u. 1t is in
four acts and deals with some imagi-
native expansion with the Biblical cpl
sode of Naaman and the captive maid
of Israel, through whose intercession
the Damascus captain was induced to
try the healing powers of the Jordan
at the bidding of the prophet. A quar-
tet of pretty dancing girls will be a
feature of the production, which is one
of the most pretentious the Cumnock
Hall Thespians ever have attempted.
The cast of characters:
Benhadad, king of Damascus. Esther Allen
Recon, high priest of the house Of Rim
mon '.... .'.:'.. ','''. hthel Bryan
'-l-''''i'' g ''''' - Emily standlee
Courtiers of Damascus
Hazael ............. Minerva I3ussenius
1zdhubah '''..'.'.'' Esther CuIn 9ainss
Rakhaz .................. Zella Woou
Gertrude Workman
Naaman captain of the armies of pa
mascus .................. Mary stevens
Ruahmah, a captive maid of Israel,
Harriet Candee
Tsarpi. wife to Naaman. Helen Bosbyshell
Attendants of Tsarpl- -.,..
Khamma ..........'''... 'hutn mar
Nubta ............. Eileen Kreimeier
soldiers-Mabel BURNER. Florence Herndon'
Hazel LaCrox and Marion Norris
EnVOys-LOu1Se Draper anu MARY lScHiii"A'
Priests-Amy Pope and Irene Ryan
Dancing girls-Merl Miller, Lottie Lawrence
Ramona Harrod and Helen Mansfield.
Joseph Montrose and Mamie Lowen-
stein have written a new aeroplane
song, which will be heard at the Bur-
bank production of Hoyt's "A Milk
White Flag" in a few weeks. Harry
Girard has been especially engaged to
direct the chorus.
A new principal will come to the
Grand next week in Bera Mclean, VINO
is slightly known to Los Angeles audi
ences for her work in the musical COM
edy field.
John Cort recently engaged Jane Co
coran as one of his stars next season.
June ~ Richard Bennett will open
in the leading role of 1.-THE Lion and
the Mouse" at the Belasco. Mr.. Ben
nett has been leading man for Miss
Maude Adams in her recent success,
What Every Woman Knows" His
work is marked by a technique and
attention to detail which mark him as
a coming figure on the national stage
John Cort announces that he has
booked forty weeks solid at the Ma
1estic next season. Mr.. Cort has just
secured the Colonial theater, San Fran
cisco, and is charging it and it will be
ready to book attractions in conjunc-
ton with the Majestic theater Septem-
Der /.
Lewis stone will open in pierre of
the Plains" at the Belasco early in
October.
oliver Morosco has secured 1.-THE
Traitor" new play by the author of
1.-THE Clansman." 1t is of the melo-
dramatic type and has many novel
scenes.
The Belasco stock company is to re-
vive that sterling old masterpiece of
James Herne, "Shore Acres" the first
week in June.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the first ball of the Theatri-
cal Treasurers association, which will
be held May 2S at the Goldberg
Bosley assembly hall, Sixteenth and
Flower streets. This organization was
formed only three months ago, but al
ready gives promise of a long and ac-
tive life. Nearly every actor in Los
Angeles has promised to attend the
ball, including the entire membership
of the Kolb-Dill and Murray Mack
companies and both the Belasco and
buTUdiIh BLUM SOliipdiilCS'
David Hartford of the Belasco the
alter staff is waking up these mornings
with the persistent conviction that he
must hurry down to that 10 o'clock
rehearsal. A moment later he remem-
bers that his ten weeks task in the
phenomenal run of 1.-THE Dollar Mark"
is at an end and that a vacation from
the tolls and troubles of an actor is
very welcome, even if it is spent at
the more prosaic employments of the
business office.
Miss Florence Reed of the Belasco
stock company has just received
new shipment of New York creations
in millinery and gowns, some of which
will grace the production of Beau
Brummel' this week.
When Howard Scott recites his OPEN
ing lines in Beau Brummer' Monday
night at the Belasco he will crafty an
ambition which he has long cherished,
to play the role OF that arbiter of
fashion, who negligently remarks to
Sheridan regarding the king of Eng
land, in a certain memorable scene:
SHERRY, Sherry, who is your fat
friend?" Mr.. Scott has devoted years
of study to the part and has spent
probably $3.50 out of his own pocket in
preparing himself for what he expects
will be the triumph of his career. He
will make up to resemble very closely
the late Richard Mansfield, whose
Brummel will long be a model for am
bilious enacters of the role.