Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
BY SHIRLEY OLYMPUS

johnson fight will be read from the
stage.
The Mason will be dark until
Wednesday night, when Margaret Ang-
lin will open a short engagement in
1.-THE Awakening of Helena Ritchie," a
dramatization of Margaret Deland's
popular novel. Miss Anglin will pre-
sent her greatest success, miss Danes
Defense" Saturday night. 1t was
through the great emotional drama
that Miss Anglin climbed to her pres
ent position as one of Americas fore
most actresses. Following her Los
Angeles engagement, Miss Anglin will
continue her world tour, upon which
she has been for more than year.
Harry Mestayer, the sterling actor
of the Burbank theater, will sever his
connections with the Morosco forces
when "Pierre of the Plains" completes
it's run next Saturday night. Mr.. Mes
tayer has been with the Burbank five
years or more, and in that period has
played every sort of a part imaginable.
1t is because of his ability and his
wide experience that Cohan and Harris
have engaged Mr.. Mestayer to create
a leading role in one of their new
plays to be produced in New York
shortly.
Virginia Harmed will be the next
star to appear at the Majestic theater,
which will be dark until next Sunday
night. 1.-The American Widow" will
be Miss Harned's initial offering.
William Faversham gave the Ameri-
can public an opportunity some time
ago to see one of the plays of the
Spanish dramatist, Jose Echegaray,
and now DIR. Medina OF Philadelphia
has translated and Manager Frank
Howe has produced another-"What
Women Say" The plot concerns the
efforts of an adventures to wrest forl
tune from wealthy woman by an
alliance with her son. Engenie Blair
had the character of the wicked wo-
man and gave it with much effect, and.
in fact, all the parts were we'll done
by the company at the Walnut street
theater, but still the performance
dragged little at times on account
of the long speeches, which revealed
too much of the plot and bored the
audience. 1t is conceded that the play
contains matter of much interest, but
it is not rightly developed.
Hattie Williams and G. P. Huntly,
the English comedian. will star to-
gether next season in a new play by
sfYa
To obtain a really unbiased opinion
of a short play which had been given
him by the author, Charles Frohman
recently undertook in London novel
plan. When "Chains" the striking
play by Elizabeth Baker, was tried at
a matinee before an audience of many
professional actors and actresses, there
was acted a piece which had been un-
announced, "A Slice of Life" The
little play had not even been men
toned on the program, and conse-
quently It's presentation was surprise.
However, it went off with great spirit
and was shown to possess unusual wit
plete success. and now it is disclosed
that the author is J.. M: Barrie.
Inspired by the success achieved by
his first effort at playwrightng, Rob
ert Edeson is writing anciiIar play. His
first bow as a piaywrigEe was made
in Boston a few weeks ago. with
where the Trail Divides" He played
the leading role and scored an un-'
qualified success. Mr.. Edeson is
busy at his summer home at Sag Har-
Dor on new play that he intends to
finish ere the commencement of the
coming season. AS a starring vehicle
for the season of 1901 this actor will
be seen in his dramatization of VIII
Iillibridge's novel. Mr.. Edeson VIII
go on tour about Labor day and will
20 to New York some time during
the middle of the season in order to
give the New York theater going pub
lie an opportunity of seeing him in
role that is a worthy successor to his
greatest success. "Strongheart."
According to a London letter, "the,
fact that the idea of 'Chantecler' Is
not original with Rostand, but is as old
as the proverbial hills. is familiar to
everyone who has made any study of
news that OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
theatrical annals In England. The news
that Sir Charles Frohman has tried
to prevent William Morris from pro-
ducing vaudeville musical piece called
'Chanteclair raised a laugh here,
where the piece in question has been
running for many months without any
interference from Sir Charles or
others. It is a matter of theatrical his
tory that a pantomime called Cock
a-doodle-doo; or, Harlequin, Prince
Chantecler,' was produced at Sadler's
Wells theater on December 26, 1865,
and the story, characters and costumes
are practically the name as those used
in Rostand's production in Paris. The
question has arisen here, and is being
considered seriously, whether M. Ed
mond has not received few hints from
this old pantomime,"
Pietro Mascagni Is going into training
for his forthcoming tour with the Bes-
sic Abott opera company. 1t will be re-
called that on the occasion of the great
composers last trip to this country, his
first. by the way, his notions of the
state of American civilization were
such that he felt it necessary to bring
over with him six dozen dress shirts,
as he was not at all sure the American
iaundries would not ruin any that he
sent them. He returns with a fairer
idea of our national resources, but the
intervening years have been unable to
efface the remembrance Of the arduous.
strenuous work required of him during
his last tour, which completely wore
him out. Consequently he will this
time add to his personal train one An
tonic Celia. a famous italian gym
mast and personal friend of long stand
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