Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
LOTTERY MAN SATIRES
NEWSPAPER CONTESTS
Crowd at Majestic Enjoys Hearty
Laugh at an Amusing
Farce

terry MAN. Anu thoSh 10 '"N 80
should be to make a farce successful
Sanity and possibilities are of the same
dramatic family. Thought leads to
heaviness and heaviness is. a synonym
for dullness. Everybody Will agree
that a farce would not be farce IL
there were any dullness therein or
caused thereby. The audience at Ine
Majestic yesterday afternoon was not
surprised but was pleased fully by
1.-THE Lottery Man" and the situations
into which he got himself by his desire
to gain sudden riches.
"The Lottery Man" is a satire or
newspaper contests, and especially con-
tests of sensation mongers. News
papers have given away nearly every
thing from darning needle and a per-
ambulator to an automobile ana
house and lot. But it remained for
Rida Johnson Young to discover the
possibilities of new kind of news
paper prize-a husband. Here's the
story. -.
Jack Wright, being in rather tight
financial straits, conceiyes the idea of
making himself the prize of news
paper contest. Tickets to the contest
cost a dollar. The money derived from
the contest is to go to the man. When
the contest closes one ticket Is drawn.
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ticket draws a husband, together with
all the money. Such q scheme looks
rather wild, but it has humorous pos
sibilities.
When Jack Wright thought Of the
scheme he was IN trouble, but not In
love, which caused him great deal
more trouble in tho end. His scheme
worked like a charm-too well, in fact.
Something like 10000 tickets were sold
fIa
meant $500, 900 for the lucky girl. One
of the conditions of the contest was
that If the man refused to marry the
girl all the money went to her.
Not thirty minutes after the contest
was fully arranged for and started
Jack Wright fell in love with an heir
ess. He couldn't back out of the con-
test and he couldn't fall out of love.
Time went on. he got more desperate
ly in love. The contest closed with a
riot and the winner proved to be a
human caricature-an old maid with
face that would make any man refuse
millions before he would marry her.
Her face would cause her husband to
have continuous nightmare. said
individual happened to be Lizzie Rob
erts, companion to Mrs. Peyton, aunt
of the orphan-heiress. All the blan-
dishments of Jack Wright could not
D6TSudu6
pective husband, even though she was
offered half of the 100000. You see
Jack wanted a bit of money so as to
make sailing with the heiress easy
At the very last moment, when all
hope seemed lost, II was discovered
Lizzie had stolen the lucky coupon
from a servant in the Peyton home.
A money settlement is made quickly,
Jack gets his heiress and everything is
lovely.
There's much to laugh at in 1.-THE
Lottery Man." not the least of which is
Lizzie Roberts face, figure, voice and
antics. Vivian Ogden does the role
full justice.
William Resell plays the role of THE
Lottery Man" He is a handsome,
youthful, lilkable chap and makes a
decidedly favorable impression all the
time His comedy efforts are so gem
uinely boyish and natural and spring
from a nature of apparently the cali
ber of 1.-THE Lottery Man" that they
ring true and show sincerity. Lucia
Moore as Mrs. Wright is sweet and
pleasing, and Sadie Harris as the heir
ess, Helene Heyer, makes a most ia
vorable impression from first to last.
Francis Gillen, May Donohue, Florence
Robertson, Fred Calvin and George
Roberts complete the cast. Miss Rob-
searching for beauty and the fountain
of eternal youth, gave picture of a
tendency entirely too prevalent today.
Miss Robertson did not overdo the role,
but was artistic and satisfying.
The twelfth year of the Burbank's
existence under the Morosco manage
ment is begun this week with the sec
ond week of Salvation Nell" This is
n eli RI
duction, as 1t is popular with the audi
ences and with the box office.
The theater has now been open for
572 consecutive weeks, or more than
5000 performances, but the statistics
collector refuses to estimate how many
acts and scenes this involves. The
theater is now more successful than
ever before, and a sign of its popularity
/ sthe fact that since the first of the
year there have been only five plays
which ran for less than two weeks, and
some have gone three weeks.
Wilton Lackaye, known as the most
prolific of story tellerS, comes to the
Majestic theater next week in new
play entitded 1.-THE Battle" dealing
with the problems of capital and labor.
Lackaye is personally one of the most
popular actors in the country.
Three capacity audiences witnessed
the opening of the new Sullivan & Con-
sidine bill at the Los Angeles theater
yesterday. The new bill is headed by
Tim McMahon's Ten Pullman Porter
Maids, featuring Ned (Cork) Norton
and his great song hit, believe Me"
A special matinee performance of
1.-THE Burglar and the Lady" will be
given at the Grand opera house Fri
day, Admission day. This play, which
served as a starring vehicle for James
]. Corbett, has proved the best pro-
duction of the Glrton companys sea-
son, and is nightly attracting large
audiences.
l"Hades Up To Date" is the offering
of Alphin & Fargo at the Olympic this
week, and proved most enjoyable to the
Labor day crowds which packed the
South Main street home of burlesque
yesterday. The Hades in question is
not the one described by Dante during
his travels in his Inferno, but refers
to the plight of two travellers who fino
themselves clad only in bathing suits
on the midway plaisance Of state
fair The two unfortunates, whom
Jules Mendel and Monte Carter por-
tray, have many comical miXups and
misfortunes in their endeavors to get
hold of suitable garments, and their
adventures with the midway freaks
and takers are many and ludicrous.
Menders work this week is really bet
ter than anything else he has previ-
ously attempted, while Carter's delin-
cation is up to his usual high standard.
Dave Morris scores decidedly in the
part OF an effeminate dude, and his
song THAT Chinatown Rag" is good
for four encores. Numerous comic