Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-14
THE Right of Way" Shows
Man in CruCible of Life
BY SHIRLEY OLYMPUS


task of all-introspection After you
have seen the play go home and take
down Gilbert Parker's novel. Read the
last three chapters or So You will
have a fairly good idea Of how soul
may be found, if you do.
1t is really too bad "The Girl from
Paris" ever left home. She was dull.
| embarrassing and exceedingly ragged
when she appeared yesterday on the
! stage of the Grand opera house. At
times she managed to liven up enough
to cause a laugh here and there, utter
one or two witty epigrams and let
few worthy songs pass her lips. which
! helped some. This does not refer to
any particular girl. but a musical COM
edy named THE Girl from Paris"
There always is more or less excuse
for players not being letter perfect in
their lines the initial days of stock
production. Critics give the players
much latitude in this respect. But it
Is stretching it bit TO give them lati-
tude and longitude as well. Every
member of the Ferris Hartman COM
pany CROPPED about for his lines yester-
day until the production dragged like
a rake i'm tall grass. As result nearly
every joke was as fiat as stale beer
Studying isn't the pleasantest occu-
PetAlbll III TIC NOIlAi. nut II NOulu Dt-
hoove the Hartman forces to burn
bit more midnight oil.
1.-THE Girl from Paris" mixes up hus-
bands. wives, sweethearts, officers. a
hotel keeper and others in what looks
like endless difficulties. Played prop
erly. the offering would be delightful.
Let's hope there will be numerous i'm
provements before tonight
AS Julie Bon Bon, the girl. Miss
l.
one of the few bright spots of the two
hours and a half spent listening and
watching. Miss Mason is an artist.
sings well. and without her 1.-The Girl
from Paris" would be rather dismal
"Muggins' Davies as an English slavey
shared honors with Miss Mason. When
she sang "Sister Mary James Ton
Note" Miss Davies received a half
dozen encores which were generously
given and well deserved Joseph Fo-
garty did well with the part of Eben-
eyer Honeycomb He put a good deal
of good business" into his character
izaton, and had he been 4 little surer
of his lines he would have made a
better impression. Thomas Persse over
acted the part of Major FOrsdyke. He
pranced about like n colt on a cold
morning. No self-respecting officer.
even on the comic opera stage, would
do such a thing. Ferris Hartman aid
ed Just a trifle, for he was I'm the sec
ond act. He appeared as the proprie-
ter of mountain spa. His accent was
bad. Walter De Leon as French spy.
bent on kissing everybody who came
within his grasp, was all over the
place. There was not a great deal of
comedy in anything he did.
Is being in love n bar against being
in mourning? Judging from the dress
Miss Myrtle Dingwall wore in the sec
ond act, it is. She appeared with her
mother and others in the mountains
searching for the body of her father.
who was reported to have been killed
Her mothers gown was ideal musical
comedy mourning-bewitching black.
Miss Dlngwall wore gown the shade
of which was a cross between old rose
and pink. And her father supposedly
had been dead four days! outside of
that Miss Dingwall was very good,
especially in her waltz song, 80 Tender
Remembrance"
Harold Reeves, a new baritone, made
his initial appearance yesterday as Tom
EVerleigh a British barrister. Mr..
Reeves has an excellent voice, which
showed to good advantage,in the "Stein
Song" He is a fine addition to the
Hartman forces.
One of the most enjoyable numbers
of the entire production was a sort of
glorified cake walk by the "broilers" of
the chorus. 1t is on the program as
carnival dance, and is all too short.
The new Orpheum bill, opening this
afternoon, viii be headlined by Bert
Leslie known as 1.-THE king of slang"
LaVeen, Cross and company, with their
Roman sports and pastimes; Thorne
and Carleton, THE SOubrette and the
Yap." and Emma Francis and two
Arabian tumblers are the other new
numbers.
Martin Beck has cabled from London
that he has secured Vesta Victoria for
a tour of the Orpheum circuit, opening
April 10.
The newcomers at the Al Levy cafe