Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-02

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Clyde Fitch's last play, kitty and
the Canary" left uncompleted by the
playwright's death, will not be pro-
| duced by the Messrs. Shubert by re-
quest of the late authors family. Much
of the drama is said to have been COM
posed while Fitch was motoring
through the country about New York
"a fact which has not decreased the
difficulty with which his handwriting
is deciphered.
Contrary to prior announcement,
Miss Louise Cunning will not act next
season under Dillingham; management
being under Shubert contract to ap-
pear in light opera by John Philip
Sousa, entitled 'The Glassblowers."
R. A. Roberts offered recently at
the American music hall, Chicago.
Cruel Coppinger," protean play said
| to be the historic foundation for Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde" Coppinger was a pirate
| of dual personality. His real name
was Paul Lavelle. His discovery, pre-
ceding his suicide by a good, satisfy
! ing dynamite explosion was made
through the girl he loved. Exposure
| by her father caused the catastrophe.
| Stevenson heard this story, said to be
founded on fact, and out of it made
masterpiece.
Walter Jones, who is playing the
coach in "Going Some" says that the
! jokes of the medicine show antedate
those of the minstrel. (That IS going
some.) The average life of a joke,
Walter opines, is twenty-five years.
Then it is laid by, and after time re-
discovered.
ssre ,o,, ,,,iel j.. - s,,,o,o,l ~, +1,o SO orc, ,,
says Miss Florence Bindley, due at
the Orpheum tomorrow, "smile." Miss
Bindley did not accompany the COM
mand with the emphasis of a derrin-
ger, as some stage celebrities are wont
to do in plays of the wild and un-
known west. Her own smile was dis
arming. She admits she has practiced
the art of smiling by standing before
mirror. Such an excuse!
Comedy will not travel over fifty
feet" remarked Lew Dockstader in a
recent statistical mood. "a joke is
good for a laugh from a man fifty
feet away. At siXty-five feet it will
draw a smile At seventy-five the
theaters small and cozy." Lew should
initiate Maurice Maeterlinck's new
perambulating theater, become a peri
patetic comedian and scatter his
quips, like confetti, in nimble transit
from main floor to balcony.
Speaking of vaudeville, why should
the modern variety actor stay on the
stage at all? Why not let him wander
up and down the aisles, casually
dropping puns between puffS of a big
stogie? Martin Beck has done every
thing else to the audience. Why not
make the player one of them in very
truth?
The shuberts' weekly bulletin in
forms us in stage whisper that miss
Laura Guerite is to shed her 'nuthin'-
nuthin gown which caused her to be
talked about even in Paris, for tights
plain silken tights" 1t will happen
| in "Dick Wilmington" Miss Laura
has certainly conferred an inestimable
boon upon a waiting world. The
"nuthin' -nuthin' gown" will kindly
take its place alongside Trilby's toot-
sizes in the limbo of well forgotten
sensations Various Girls from va
rious places will doubtless soon keep
it ghostly company.
Sam Bernard has a new way of han
ding the pass fiend. He has had per-
sonal cards printed, in the upper left
hand corner of which is written, "Pass
two, Wednesday matinee" When a
request for tickets comes Samuel in
closes one of the cards and chuckles
as he reflects that he has not played
Wednesday matinee in many, many
years.
Sam Bernard's idea recalls the well
known card on a certain Chicago
dramatic critics door, which denies
entrance to press agents. Also Jack
London's bit of ironical warning, once
prominently displayed outside his
writing sanctum: mo admittance ex-
cept on business" (And in the lower
left-hand corner), mo business trans
acted here"
Miss Beatrice Noyes, formerly
member of the local Belasco stock
company, has been engaged by the
Shuberts to play the title role in a
road company presenting 1.-THE Blue
Mouse" She win succeed Millicent
Evans.
Mary Mannering is seriously consid-
ering the chances of success &c mod
ern morality play, which she wishes
to name "Everywoman." The theme
is the complimentary one, that a man
knows very little of love, his idea of
it being largely passion. Every man
will surely be bound to see this thing.
There is nothing like learning how de-
praved one is, and nobody so capable
of telling us as "Everywoman."