Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-20
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ly, Will present her classic dances at
two matinees to be given Tuesday and
Friday afternoons at the Auditorium.
Los Angeles will be the fourth city in
the United States in which the countess
has appeared. Her performance in
San Francisco last week was witnessed
by 1000 persons.
In the Countess Thamara de Swirsky
the stage has a. disciple of the barefoot
cult in classic dancing, new to Amerl-
can audiences, and she has been widely
heralded as a dancer whose grace of
movement and beauty of face and form
are combined with a rare and poetic
expression of sentiment and tempera-
ment. Her dancing is represented as
possessing all of the freshness or
youth. The wholehearted abandon ev-
ident in her more spectacular numbers
and the beauty and naturalness dis
played in her many poses are said to
constitute an artistic triumph.
When with her title and her bare feet
she first skipped on the European stage
there was a gasp of horror. Many
danseuse, it was true, had been made
countess, but few countesses had gone
a-danCjng and none who had done so
without the conventional dainty satin
shoes. But she insisted in following her
profession as she saw fit, and the hor-
ror following this distinct violation OF
all conventions was quickly changed TO
sincere admiration of her art.
The style of dancing is all her own
for like the other famed dancers of the
world, she has her own idea for the eX-
preston of particular sentiments. In
the more spectacular phases she be-
lieves in giving way to her natural
beauty and grace to act as the neces-
sary check from being regarded as riot
Gus.
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged for the countess appearance IN
Los Angeles, and will include Dvorak
Slavic dances, Grieg's Peer Gynt
suite THE Tanagra," in which the
countess revives old Grecian dances,
and which is a series of beautiful little
COMPOSITIONS from Gluck, Rachmanl-
noff. Strauss, Delibes and Glazounon.
The strauss "F'ledermaus' and the diz-
w "Bacchanal'' of Glazounoff are
among her most remarkable dances
She also has an extensive program TAX
EN- largely from Chopin and Rubin
stein, The countess brings her own
symphony orchestra OF sixty pieces
RELASCO-Leila Burton Wells new
military play, "The Case of Sergeant
Wilde" will have it's first production
on any stage at the Belasco Monday
night.
An extraordinary amount of local in
terest is centered upon the presentation
OF Mrs Wells play, and the assem-
blaee that will view the initial per-
formance will not only be one of the
largest of the year, but it will represent
the social element of the city.
Much secrecy is being maintained
concerning the story of THE Case OF
Sergeant Wilde" and the only informa-
ton that emanateS from the Beldsco
management is to the effect that the
play is founded on fact; that the story
has to do with the sentencing of a
colonePs son by the father, and the
subsequent escape and ultimate saliva
ton of the boy through the efforts of
the girl to whom he is engaged. the
first act of the play happens at Fort
Meade, North Dakota, While the sue
ceeding three acts are located at Fort
Mckinley in the Philippines. The seen
ic norton of the production will repre-
sent the best work of Artist Brunton
of the BelaSco forces, and the military
atmosphere will be reproduced with
exceptional fidelity. :.
Lewis S. Stone will have the role OF
Julian Allen, the son of Col. Allen' IN
command of Fort Meade and afterWard
at Fort Mckinley. William Yerance
will be the Col. Allen of the perform
ance, while Frank Camp will be cast
as CAPT. Desmond, his adJutant. Ell
eanor Gordon as the heroine of the play
will have a capital chance to do some
uncommonly telling acting. Helene
Sullivan will have the most important
part that has come to her during her
career at the local Belasco. Richard
Vivian. Charles Ruggles, Charles Glib
lyn. Adele harrington, Emma Lowry
Herbert Rawlinson. Harry Andrews
and the others of the stock organlza-
ton will all be in the cast of The case
of Sergeant Wilde" while the play Will
T1h = ON q
a regular member of the Belasco FORCES
BURBANK-Two plays are linked
inseparably with the name of the great
character actor, David Wartield-'The
Music Master and "A Grand Army
Man" The latter was his second sue
cess, and it will be played at the Bur-
bank this week for the first time by
any stock company.
The spirit of the G. A. r. runs
through the play from the beginning
to end. The scenes are laid in VII
lage in the middle west, where the
q. A. r corps and the Womens auXil-
iary are the centers of all social actiV-
ity. Wes' Bigelow is the Grand Army
man. beautiful character, gentle and
optimistic. He has his enemies, how
ever. and when "a boy whom BigeloW
has adopted and loves as his own son
misappropriates some money belonging
to the corps, having been buncoed on
n trip to the city, these enemies insist
upon the prosecution of the boy. one
of the most pathetic scenes ever de-
vised is where the old veteran, having
scraped together sufficient money to
nav the boys shortage, learns that
money cannot save the lad and the
law must take it's course. The transi
ton from the old mans happiness at
getting the money together and his
heart break at learning the truth is
one of the supreme situations in the
dramatic literature of all time.
But there is comedy in the play, too,
and the spirit of patriotism, so that
it is not all tears and grief. All the
Quaint characters of the little village
in the middle west combine to form AS
effective a picture as can be imagined.
A. Byron Beasley, who has been MAX
ing a close study of the role of Wes'
Bigelow during the two weeks of mu-
steal comedy just ended, will play the
Warfield part, and il should be one of
the greatest things he has over done
in Los Angeles as it is a remarkably
drawn Characterization, and also
makes a strong appeal to the sympa-
thies of the audience.
There will be a special matinee on
Thanksgiving day.
GRAND-Ferris Hartman and his as
sociates will offer for this week. COM
mencing with the usual Saturday mat
inee, 1.-THE Spring Chicken"
"The Spring Chicken" is as good as
it's title. 1t was first produced byI
George Edwardes at his London Gaiety
theater, and after a triumphant tour Of
England and the continent it was Sc