Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25
BY SHIRLEY OLYMPUS

morrow when Alex Pantages will open
the new Pantages theater. situated in
Broadway. between Fifth and Sixth
streets. Vaudeville will be presented
in the new playhouse, which seats 1000
persons, and is thoroughly fireproof
and as comfortable as modern building
methods can make a structure. Three
shows a day will be given, matinee
daily at 2:30, and night performances
at 1880 and 9:10. Admission prices will
be 10, 20 and 30 cents. John A. john
son, for many years manager of the
Portland Pantages theater, will man.
age the local playhouse.
Can a woman make love to her hus-
band better than to some other man
Mrs Erwin Connolly who plays in
the little play "Sweethearts" at the
Orpheum next week, says she can.
"If you love your husband" she
says, ''you can put feeling into your
acting which will not come when lov-
ing another man."
That this pretty little actress means
every word she says is proved by the
fact that tears come to her eyes every
time "Sweethearts" is played. In the
act her sweetheart (Mr. Connelly) tells
her good-by, and they separate. They
next see each other as old folks and
revive cloves young dream" Mrs.
Connolly puts her soul in her part. AS
she is gathered into the arms of her
husband tears always come.
"There is an indefnable something"
Mrs. Connolly says, (which keeps one
from loving another man like she viii
love her husband. You can make be-
lieve' with a certain success. You
may act with more or less emotion,
but real, true love on the stage or
anywhere else can only be acted when
you are loving the one you hold most
dear"
Mr.. and Mrs. Connolly have been
married three years, and this is the
third year they have been playing
"Sweethearts." Soon after they were
married they began rehearsing 1t, and
they have been playing "Sweethearts'
ever since. She used to play in stock,
and she knows what it is to try to love
on the stage some man who is not her
husband.
Marc Klaw of the firm of Klaw &
Erlanger is in the northwest as the
result of a decision on the part of
Charles Frohman and Klaw & Err
LANCER to hereafter lease build and
operate their own theaters in that ter
ritory and such other points in the
west as they may deem necessary and
profitable Mr. Klaw will come to Los
Angeles in a short time to confer with
Will T. Wyatt of the Mason opera
house relative to the situation in
Southern California.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Twenty-five
bulky operate manuscripts repose in
the safe of the Metropolitan opera
house, the competition for American
composers announced a year ago by
the directors of the opera company
having come to an end last Thursday
There is a prize of $4,000 awaiting the
winner and a performance of his work
at the Metropolitan.
It will be some time before the name
of the successful musician is an
nounced, as the jury has not been Sc
lected to examine the scores. In about
q fortnight the board of directors Of
the Metropolitan will meet, and then
the jury will be appointed. 1t may find
that "the great American opera" has
been written.
Klaw & Erlanger will star n. c.
Goodwin in 1.-THE Captain" by George
Broadhurst and c. T. Dazey, opening
in Indianapolis in october. Mr.. Good
win will play therole of a globe trOtter
and clubman who has been an officer
in the national guard. He imperson-
ates a regular officer who was the
hero of the march to Peking. In the
action of the play he is called upon
to live up to the hero's reputation for
daring and bravery.
Margaret Ellington, who will soon
appear at the Majestic has taken the
public into her confidence and Laura
jeanlibbeyed about herself. The confess
sion was made in an address from
the stage of a Tacoma theater a few
weeks ago, when she celebrated the
escape from sock-darning aRd her re
turn to the stage in play entitled
"Until Eternity"
1t was after the second act, when
the chivalrous audience was clamor-
ing for author and star that Miss
Ellington Just couldn't make her emo
tions behave. The sweet peas, the
dahlias and the lavender beds of Ia
coma were given a great boost by the
actress, but Daniel Frohman didn't
get even a mention. The speech in
full follows. 1t is a gem Of its kind:
at makes me happy that you should
like our play" said Miss Ellington.
"We are going away on Sunday on a
long tour and will visit many cities
throughout the United States, and
many, many hotel registers will say
'E. ]. Bowes and Mrs. E. ]. Bowes of
Tacoma
II know the play is going to be a
success If you like it-and you do like
it. don't you? For we know out here
IN Tacoma, so that's final
At have been practicing this play for
months, and my only relaxation or
recreation has been my rides in a car
every day about clock in the
afternoon over beautiful Tacoma. I
know where all the sweet peas grow.
/ know where the dahlias are found.
I know the place where the roses grow
and I know where the lavender beds
are. Every day I have gone around
and checked up my flower garden
Tacoma.
1T do like Tacoma. I love Tacoma.
I love it. love it, love 1t! I love 1t
moro than anything else except my
husband. There are no words to ex-
press my-there are no words-no
words, that's all"
A real childrens theater, where none
of the actors or actresses will be more
than IA years old, is to be one of the
features of London's amusements next
winter. Miss Lila Field, who last Win
ter successfully presented at the Play
house 1.-THE Goldfish" a play acted en-
tirely by children, is the moving spirit
in the enterprise.
"My plays will begin in the middle
of October" said Miss Field, "at one
of the large West End theaters. 1t is
more than likely that a piece viii be
running at the theater at the time in
the usual way, but five afternoons of
every week the house will become the
sChiidren's theater,' and plays acted
by them will be presented there.
"For months I have been busy coll
lecting my cast of thirty or so chill
dren between the ages of 10 and IA
wears. 1t has been no easy task, I can
tell YOU. The girls | got without much