Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
The Theaters

A bill that contains a number of
features of unusual excellence is pre-
sented at the Los Angeles theater this
week. There are no real headlinerS,
as music and contortion vie for first
honors.
The three Keltons, who are quite
familiar to patrons of the Sullivan &
Considine circuit shows, inteCsperse
their musical offerings with a bit of
the terpsichorean Miss Gladys is the
feature of the trio, and her rendition
of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodie on the
xylophone was a truly artistic bit. She
and the ''old man" each did a little
dancing, the latter being called from
| his position as director of the orches-
| ira, the call from the house, whats
| the matter with the old man working -
| being cleverly arranged.
The Brothers whitman, contortion-
lists, present a scenic novelty and show
a development of physical elasticity
that is quite sensational.
Eckert and Francis, with their
wireless Telegraphy," pass fifteen
minutes with the audience that is not
missed.
Trainor and Dale have sketch en-
titled "a Prevaricating Hero" which
is a mingle Of comedy, pathos and
singing.
Gertrude Van Dyke, who has a voice
OF TWO ulSJlnCC QudllLlGS, is
able in that she meets the demands Of
vaudeville in being different from
anything else.
The closing number of the bill is
1.-THE Operator" which has been seen
here before and has some unusual
melodramatic situations. The three
roles of the piece are assumed as fol-
lows Tom Burns, the telegraph oper-
ator, Leo Cooper; Sally, his wife, Miss
Rosina Zaleska; Bill, brakeman
| William Moore.
In presenting "His Nobs," the current
offering at Fischer's theater, Billy Ons-
| low, who is producing the piece, Is CIV
ing the patrons of the First street house
| lots of good amusement. His Nobs'
| has to do with a travelling salesman
| who returns home unexpectedly only TO
| find that his wife is being annoyed by
| a dude. Just as he is about to int1lct
summary punishment upon the dude
| German peddler. who has been called
| in by the maid of the house to assist
| her mistress, arrives, and mistaking
| the husband for the dude, endeavors to
eject him. The situations are funny
and are we'll handled by the various
members of the company.
| Although over 200 mail orders have
| been received for seats by the Lam
/
! Wyatt of the Mason opera house states
! that in order to give everyone an equal
| chance at the best seats none of the
orders will be filled until after the seat
sale is opened tomorrow morning.
"st. Elmo" is the offering at the
Unique theater this week. The pro-
duction as given by the Earl company
| is a dramatization by Harry Earl and
Myron Leffingwell of the novel by Mrs.
| Augusta Evans Wilson, and taken as a
whole is excellent. Mr.. Earl as st. Elmo
Murray and Miss Rauworth as Edna
Earl, the two most prominent roles of
| the play, give q comprehensive inter-
probation of their respective charac-
ters. Miss Catherine Noel as Gertrude
is excellent. Herbert Cramer, Ernest
Winters. James Spencer Frank Frayne,
Mrs. Frank Frayne and Otto Peck are
ably cast. The stage settings are as
pretentious as anything yet attempted
by the crew Of the Unique.
With only two rehearsals Eileen
Enrol last night assumed the leading
woman's role of Dallas wainwright in
"The Man of the Hour" at the Belasco,
being succeeded in the part of Cynthia
Garrison, which she has playel since
the opening of this famous Broadhurst
piece by Beth Taylor, who has been
absent from the Belasco stage since
the opening of this play three weeks
ago. Both were letter perfect in spite
of the very short time in which they
had to learn the lines of these long
parts and that their work met with the
heartiest approval of the large audi
ence was evidenced by the repeated
applause after every situation.
Oliver Morosco yesterday secured
from Harrison Grey Fiske the exclu-
sive stock rights to Salvation NelI.'
the much discussed drama which Mrs
Fiske played at the Auditorium about
year ago. The play never before has
been entrusted to any stock company,
1t will be produced first at the Bur
bank and later win be seen in the
other houses Of the Belasco- -AIorcseo
lcircuit.