Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-10
ACTORS WILL GIVE
BLACK FACE SHOW
Matinee Idols Will Appear in a
Benefit for the Country
Club
WILL PARADE IN STREET
Rival Stars to Play on the Same
Stage in Behalf of Novel
Organization

A real treat In minstrelsy viii be
afforded Los Angelans Tuesday and
Wednesday afternoon, when members
of the Players Country club Will dec
crate their faces with burnt cork and
give a minstrel show at the Belasoo
theater Proceeds from it will be de-
voted to furnishing the recently opened
country club, the membership or Whlch
is made up of actors and newspaper
men.
Tho idea of a country club for ac-
tors is absolutely novel; Nowhere in
the world, except in Los Angeles, does
there exist such a club; nowhere
could such a club be possible except
in Southern California. The two local
stock companies furnish the larger
portion of the membership. AS Man
ayers Morosco of the Burbank and
Biackwood of the Belasco theaters, en-
gage their players for several years
at a time, the delights of a club, and
especially a country club, may easily
be enjoyed to the fullest, by the STOCK
company actors.
In order to carry out the ideas ad-
vanced for the club 1t has become
necessary to give some sort of a bene-
tit performance. The club members
hit upon a minstrel show because of
it's general appeal to all classes and
because every other sort of benefit
performance has been given in times
past.
All the actors in the local stock COM
panies will bo in the cast. When the
curtain rings up on the minstrel first
part next Tuesday afternoon 1t VIII be
the first time in the history Of thea
tricals that two leading men playing
in rival stock companies appear in the
same sketch on the same stage at the
same time. The two leading men are
A. Byron Beasley and Lewis S. Stone,
the Corner of the Burbank theater and
the latter of the Belasco.
Manager Blackwood has donated the
use of the Belasco theater free of all
charge. All those taking part, even
the stage hands, have donated their
services for the good Of the cause.
The minstrel show win be In three
parts. The minstrel first part will be
musical and under the musical direc-
tion of Harry Girard, author of THE
Alaskan" and other we'll known musi-
cal successes. Harry Andrews will act
as general stage director David Hart
ford now playing "The Lion and the
Mouse" will be the interlocutor. Mr..
Beasley and Mr.. Stone will be the
premier end men, Mr. Charles Ruggles
and Henry Stockbrldge, the secondary
end men and Charles Giblyn and
Frank Camp the third pair OF end
men. Each of the end men will render
songs of the most approved minstrel
sort Charles Farwell Edison and
Harry Girard viii sing ballads and the
entire company will close with a grand
chorus.
The olio will be opened by the Play
ers' Country Club Musical Five In a
unique instrumental and comedy act.
Harry Girard will do "a few minutes
black face" Mr.. Stone and Mr.. Beasley,
assisted by Richard Vivian and Harry
S. Duffield will present a sketch en-
titled p'The Coming Man." and James
Swinnerton and George HERMAN will
conclude with some lightning cartoon
work.
In the grand afterpiece there will be
fifty characters, masculine and feminine
all portrayed by men. The sketch was
written especially for the minstrel
show by Charles Giblyn and Charles
Alphin. It is entitled Bargain Day"
and is said to be riot of fun from
first to last. The scenes are laid in a
local department store.
Without doubt, the greatest sensation
Of the entire show will be the
street parades Tuesday and Wednesday
afternoons. All members Of the COM
many will parade the downtown
streets prior to the performances. The
procession will be headed by Chiafar-
relli's Venice band. Mr.. Stone and Mr..
Beasley will follow the band and after
them will come the other minstrel men,
all dressed in high hats and long frock
coats.
The performances should not fail of
their purpose and it is confidently eX-
pected standing room will be at a
premium at the Belasco theater next
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.