Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
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BELASCO-After having devoted a
fortnight to high-class melodrama, the
Belasco company will Monday and all
the week turn it's attention to farce
comedy as exemplified in "Billy."
BILLY" is one of the Shubert's recent
New York successes. At Days theater
and with Sydney Drew in the chief role
the part to be played at the Belasco
by Richard Vivian-"Billy" was an un-
qualified laughing hit and ran for seven
months.
The farce has to do with the adven-
lures of Billy Hargraves, young col
lege football coach. During football
game Billy's molars have been ruined,
and an artificial set has acted as very
acceptable substitute until he starts on
a trip to the Bermudas on the same
boat that carries a young girl with
whom he is very such in love. She is
accompanied by her mother, who suf-
fers the same dental Indictment as does
Billy. The loss of Billy's store teeth
makes it impossible for him to pro-
nounce even the name of the girl that
interests hm-her name is Beatrice
Sloane-let alone make love to her, and
his misery knows no bounds To fur
ther complicate what is already very
complicated situation Beatrice's mother
suffers a loss similar to that of Billy,
and as this happens in the last act, the
final moments of the comedy go with
whirl and a snap that make the Billy"
show a continuous laugh from begin
ming to end.
BURBANK-"At the White Horse
Tavern" quaint comedy translated
from the German by Sidney Rosenfeld,
will be the attraction at the Burbank
by the Burbank stock company for the
week beginning with the matinee to-
day.
This beautiful play has for it's stage
setting a summer tourist hotel in the
Alps. This hotel is owned by an at
tractive young woman, Josepha, ana
her chief aid is Leopold, her head
waiter. The waiter loves his mistress,
and she is in love with a young law
yer The latter is enamored of the
daughter of an opposing litigant, While
this young woman is betrothed by her
father to a more friendly youth This
complication of love affairs furnishes
an amusing situation for the genera
groundwork of the play and for
variation an unusual number of unique
tourist who drinks water the year
round that he may take his daughter
on long trips in the summer. There is
his daughter, who lisps and is silent
before strangers rather than display
her infirmity of speech. There is a
gruff German, a mountain climber, a
guide, a beggar and many other in
cidental passers-by in addition to the
people about whom the main plot
centers. The piece shifts back and
forth continually from nonsense to ten
derness, the pretty story being always
kept we'll in the foreground, for it is
primarily play, the comedy being IN
cessant and delicious, but only as an
embellishments
Miss Marjorie Rambeau will come to
the front again as the landlady of the
inn. David Hartford will play the
part of the lovelorn waiter. John
Burton will reappear after consider
able absence from the cast as the tour
ist with the lispng daughter, the lat
ter falling to the lot Of Ethel Won
Waldron. David Landau, Harmon
Marks, Frederick Gilbert Gavin
Young, Louise Rov"e, Myrtle NoHe
and Cleo Madison will all have interest,"
ing roles
BRISTOL PIER-Swan Wood, the
dancer; II. Hamilton Graham. Aus
tralan baritone and operatic singer;
Carmen Phillips, operatic soubret;
Happy Van Allen, popular song star;
Evelyn Bach, clarinet soloist; Honore
Bach, cello soloist; Olive Hurlbut,
violin virtuoso, and Miss Lillian May
Lancaster, pianist will be among the
artists making up the new bill at
Bristol Pier cafe this week, the per-
formance beginning with a matinee
today.
Mr.. Graham comes to America with
a splendid professional reputation. He
was star of the Musgrove Opera COM
pany of Australia, and afterwards
scored in principal roles-as member