Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31


Arnold Daily was seen in The Regen-
Grafton" and scored one of the sue
cesses of the season. The play was aC-
corded much critical praise, while it
appeared to possess those vital quail
ties that attract large audiences to the
playhouse In the Belasco production
of 1.-THE Regeneration" Lewis S. Stone.
will have the role of owen Conway, the
part that was created by Mr.. Daily.
Conway is the leader of a band of
ruffiians, and he also tries his hand a
Tammany politics. Introduced early
in the play are a crowd of slghtseers
and a young Stun worker and school
teacher, Marie Deering by name. The
story of the play Centers around the
efforts of this young teacher to further
the education and moral salvation of
Conway. The people found in 1.-The
Regeneration" are real types of east
siders, for the author, Mr. Kildare, is
of these people, and therefore knows
whereof he writes. He has been
termed 1.-THE Bowery Kipling," and in
that Kildare has laid bare the story of
his own life, very much after the style
in which Jack London has unfolded his
personal experiences in his newest
book. In 1.-The Regeneration" the
method is largely objective rather than
didactic. The regeneration of a hui
man soul is it's motive, and it nearly
spans the gamut of life in calculating
it. That's Magrane will have the i'm
portant role of Marie Deering, the
young school teacher, and Frank Camp
will have another opportunity to dis
tinguish himself in the part of Skinny,
typical member of an east side gang.
All the Belasco players viii be found
in the big list of character parts.
MAJESTIC-"Fifty Miles from Bos-
ton" which opens tonight, is called a
rural musical comedy in view of the
fact that the scenes of its three acts
are laid in the town of Brookf1eld
Mass, which is about fifty miles from
the Hub and the characters are
stage creations of different types who
populate that village. The story of the
play has to do with Sadie Woodie, the
pretty postmistress of Brookfeld, who
is the fiancee of Joe Wescott, HaT-
ward student and the crack pitcher of
the baseball team. Dave Harrigan, the
mild villain of the town, is also sultor
for the hand of Sadie, and has induced
her brother to borrow $500 from the
postoffice funds to bet against the final
big Harvard game of the season, and of
course he loses the money. To honor
Joe's home coming his fellow townsmen
declare a general holiday. He is met at
the depot by the entire population, in
Guiding the local baseball club, the viii
lage fire department and brass band,
and ts escorted in triumph to his home,
where an address of welcome is de-
livered to him, accompanied by hand
some silver loving cup. Sadie tells him
Of the unWelcome attentions of Dave
Harrigan and thereby precipitates a
row between the two young men, which
| is taken up by their respective fathers.
and then the excitement begins. Jed
Woodie, Sade's brother, espouses the
cause Of Dave Harrigan, in view of the
fact that Dave has promised him if lie
will induce his sister to break off her
engagement with Joe Wescott and
marry him the $500 stolen from the
postoffice funds can be replaced, as
Harrigan will loan him the amount,
thereby saving him the disgrace of be-
ing arrested by the inspector of post
office affairs, due to arrive on the NOR
row. On the eve of the inspectors visit
to Brookfield the postoffice is destroyed
by fire and all its records lost. OF
course no Cohan play would be COM
plete without music, and in this case
the yankee Doodle" author, actor
composer and playwright has been
liberal in punctuating his work with
solos and ensemble numbers. The cast
includes Grace King, Flossie Martin
Laura Bennett, Frank Buoman, May
Maurice, Dan Bruce, Robert Wagner,
Ben Bloom, Helen Young, Edwin Bel
den, Edward O'Connor, Richard Bart
lett Chester Young and James B..
Gentry.
ORPHEUM-Fresh from the '1eglti-
mate" comes James Young. who, with
his company, in "Wanted-A Sister" is
the headliner for the week beginning
Monday matinee. Mr.. Young last sea-
son was the leading man for Viola
Allen, and has played in Shakespear-
can roles. His present vehicle by Rida
Johnson, author of Brown of Har-
ward" and other comedy successes, is
really a tabloid version of that play
with the action accelerated within the
radius of a twenty-minute vaudeville
sketch. Mr. Young is assisted by Lo-
rayne Osborn and a company.
Mary Norman. as usual has some
| thing new. This season she makes a
special point of impersonating stage
| folk, before and behind the curtain,
though retaining her examples of So
ciety girls in different cities. She first
shows the emotional actress, all tenn
permanent "back" and all smiles in
front; then the villainess just the OPP
posite, and finally the Coincidence who
puts aside trip to a deathbed to play
| frivolous role. In all Miss Norman
is said to excel in naturalneSs, and her
gowns are carefully chosen.
Ed f. Reynard is a Ventriloquist, but
apart from the ordinary in that he car
ries a complete village of characters
with him. the wooden images enacting
a whole drama. His automata "speak"
and "act," and his own presence is
hardly suspected. They tell a story of
a daV in HicksVille the rural cOmmu-
nifty being carried from daybreak to
dark, with a spectacular run to a fire
by the village prides as a finale. 1t is
believed to be the biggest thing of the
sort eXtant.
Pilu is the odd name of a still odder
dog. presented by Signor d'Ancilotti.
This dog really seems to read minds
if he doesn't, hosts of people are so
cleverly fooled that they don't know
the difference. Perched on the stage,
with his master in the audience, Pilu
answers all sorts of queries without
motto cable collision between him and
the man. The dog is a foreign impor-
tation and unique
Edna Aug. with her TYPES" remains
another week, as do the Big City quar-
tet, Henry Give, with dainty Mai
Sturges Walker, in his clever nonsense,
and Les Myosotis, in their ballet dane
ing. New pictures complete the bill
Misunderstanding with the matinee
today, Ferris Hartman and his COM
pany win present, as the third of
their musical attractions, the first pro-
duction in this city by a stock organ
ization of James T. Powers recent hit.
'"The Blue Moon" The opening Sun
day win also be notable, as it will