Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
FERRIS HARTMAN KEEPS
UP THE FUN At GRAND
"The Office Boy" Has TunefuI
Bits of Music and Sew
eraI Good Hits


parisons are odorous," remarked
Mrs. Malaprop, but it must be said
that Hartman gets as many laughs
out of the part of Noah Little as did
Frank Daniels, who, while travelling in
the vehicle under discussion, tickled
the risibilities of a multitude.
"Muggins Davies captured the major
portion of the applause, performing in
her usual magnetic fashion. Myrtle
Dingwall sweet of voice, but with
tragedy-queen air (never-absent)
pleased in the solos she offered
Carmen Phillips in short scene with
Hartman in the first act seemed to
show that perhaps she is not destined
to remain in the chorus for any great
length of time.
Hartman never grows tiresome to an
audience. His face is his fortune, to
use a trite saw, but he would starve to
death on the stage with his voice as
q means of livelihood. The Hartman
face and cracked voice is a combna-
tion which makes box office men smile
and audiences to go into ecstasies of
laughter.
Walter de Leon in topical song
filled with local references took
numerous encores. The balance of the
company's favorites We're fittingly cast.
Ellen Terry, who will appear at the
Auditorium tonight under the manage
ment of Frank Egan of the Egan
Dramatic school, will arrive in Los
Angeles this morning. Her manager,
A. r. Priest arrived in the city yes
terday to make final arrangements for
Miss Terry's lecture on shakespeare
Heroines-Triumpha Gen. Adna r.
Chaffee will introduce the noted Eng
lish actress tonight. Following the
performance Miss Terry will be pre-
sented with golden wreath, the gift
80 f,n, .lz,ofv fra Ataar
John G. Mott will make the presenta-
tion speech, which will be ended with
n reading of Percy Mackaye'S poem
dedicated to Miss Terry.
From indications the Auditorium
will be jammed tonight. All the boxes
have been secured by well known so
ciety leaders. Twenty-four of Mr.
Egan's Jonathan club friends have Sc
cured boxes.
William Faversham returns to the
Majestic theater this week for his first
visit to Los Angeles in three years,
bringing a play never before seen here,
THE World and His Wife," adapted
by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger from
Jose Echegaray's drama, lei Gran
Galeoto." This will be the first ap-
pearance in this city of Mr. Faver-
sham's beautiful wife, known to the
stage as Julie Opp, who has won great
renown in the east and in England.
There will be the usual Wednesday
and Saturday matinees.
For this weeks bill at the Los An
geles theater, commencing with the
matinee this afternoon, Sullivan Sc
Considine are sending the most eX-
pensive bin of vaudeville that has ever
played this house. The stellar attrac-
tions are Rice and Provost, eXponents
of acrobatic comedy, who offer their
famous "Bumpity Bumps; the Carl
Panther trio of acrobats and contor-
tionists: Nat Leffingwell and his COM
pany, offering the humorous sketch,
"A Night at the Lodge; La Belle
Meeker the captivating physical cul-
ture maid John and Bertha Gleeson
and Fred Houlihan in a potpourri of
sorgs and dances; Bea Verera, the
-IGlian nightingale; Harry Bloom with
his ragtime melodies, and comedy mo-
tion pictures.
Sullivan & considine have just Sc
cured new theaters in Des Moines and
Omaha.
with an "all-star cast" the first in
vaudeville, heading its new list, the
Orpheum bill opening matinee today
takes a commanding position in the
weeks theatrical affairs. This cast is
composed of Lionel Barrymore, Nc
Kee Rankin and Miss Doris Rankin
They will present Mr. Barrymore's
1.-THE White Slave" which really means
the introduction of the problem play
dlers," four veterans, two of the blue
and two of the gray, will fiddle on
their wartime instruments the old
tunes popular to a generation agone.
Frank Morrell, the California boy, will
deliver himself of the latest kinks in
minstrelsy, and the Gus onlaw trio
will do wire work. Augusta Close,
Willard Simms and his wallpaper
stunt, Spissell brothers and their
continental Waiter" and Thurber and
Madison are the holdovers. New mo-
ton pictures will show the downfall
of King Manuel in Portugal.
"The Test" will be played at the
Belasco theater this week, with Lewis
S. Stone in the role of Richard Tret-
man, which he created when the play
was given for the first time on any
stage by Mr.. Stone and his associates
in this city two seasons ago. Since
that memorable initial presentation,
"The Test" has enjoyed a remarkably
successful career with Blanche Walsh
in the principal feminine role-the part
that Eleanor Gordon will play in the
Belasco production.
To the host of admirers of the jolly
comedienne, Sophia Tucker, there is
no one like her. The young woman
can "put over a coon song in such
manner as to have every man in the
audience whistling it as he files out of
the theater This will be Miss fuckers
final appearance in Los Angeles, for
she is booked for long engagements
abroad. other artists on the Pantages
bill for the week starting Monday aft
ernoon are the Schenk troupe of six
circus .acrobats; Charles Burke and
company, comedians, singers and
dancers, in the farce '"The Silver
Noon; Andy Mcleod, the Irish min
strel"; the London quartet and first
run motion pictures.
Alexander Pantages has taken over
the Pickwick theater property at San
Diego and is remodeling it into class
fireproof structure Mr.. Pantages
has accepted the plans for the house
to be erected at Portland, Ore, and
work will proceed Immediately.
It's pistols and knives and cowboys
and dialects from the broadest British
to the softest southern at the Burbank
this week, for Texas" that excellent
drama of the plains, is the bill. We
haven't been allowed to feel all the
elemental impulses surge through us
at the sight OF gunplay and heroics, in
some months SO Texas is a welcome
offering. Judging from the manner in
(which yesterdays audience laughed
heartily at the queerest of jokes, ap-
plauded the hero and heroine and