Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
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afternoon with the first stock presen-
tation anywhere in the world OF Booth
Harrington and Harry Leon wilson $
finely romantic American play, Caueo
Kirby" An outline of the drama
plot will be found on the opposite page
The Morosco-Belasco enterprises have
paid $500 for the use of the play in
six different cities-won out in the end,
and now the Burbank patrons are to
be the gamers.
In the Burbank presentation of 1he
play A. Byron Beasley will be seen in
the name role and Miss Frances Nord-
strom as Adele Randall Others who
have been cast in important parts in
clude John w. Burton, David NJ. Hart
ford, under whose slxillful direction the
play will be produced; David Landau,
Harry Mestayer, Willis Marks, Henry
Stockbridge. H. S. Duffield, lowell
Alice Taylor Louise. Royce, Ethel Won
Waldron, Florence Oberle and dainty
little Ollie Walter, who will play Ike
General. a hero worshiping boy not
yet in his teens.
BELAsCO - George Broadhurst's
play, 1.-The Man of the Hour" con-
tinues to attract audiences of The ca
pacity order to the Belasco theater,
and in view of the hundreds that have
been unable to get tickets during the
fortnights run of the play Lewis S.
stone and his associates of the Belasco
company will be seen in the Broad
hurst work for a third week, commenc-
ing tomorrow night.
Nothing that the Belasco orsaniza-
tion has offered for long time has
achieved the same degree of success
that has attended the production of
"The Man of the Hour, either i'll an
artistic or a financial way. For the
greater portion of the past two weeks
the Belasco orchestra has been r9le-
gated to a position in the rear, while
the space generally given up to the
musicians has been devoted to aug
menting the seating capacity of the
playhouse. Even George Broadhurst
himself. after witnessing the work of
ten different companies playing THE
Man of the Hour voices the opinion
that with the possible exception of the
original company that presented the
play for two successive years at the
Savoy theater, New York, he has never
seen such a splendid all-round per-
formance of his play as is being given
by Mr.. Stone and the others of the
Belasco company.
That's Magrane will remain with the
Belasco company during the local ca
reer of 1.-THE Man of the Hour and
in every particular.
MAJESTIC-Max Figman begins his
annual Los Angeles engagement at the
Majestic theater tonight, continuing
throughout the week, and with
Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
when he will present for the first time
in this city MARY James Pa" a mod
ern comedy y-drama by Edith Ellis.
The hero of the story is a tramp
printer who has deserted his wife and
children for eleven years, and returns
at the most inopportune moment. He
arrives destitute, and his wife, who
does not want to turn him away COM
pletely, offers him position in her
household as a cook, thinking his man
hood will prompt him to refuse. His
first impulse is to do so, but the nov
city of the situation suggests great
possibilities to him. and he accepts.
His wife does not reveal his identity
to the children or the public. and as
a result a number of comedy and dra-
matte situations and complications
arise that keep the auditors in d con-
stant state of amusement and eXpecta-
ton. Mary James Pa eventually re-
deems himself and becomes warm IA
vorite with everybody.
MASON-After a week of darkness,
the Mason opera house will reopen
Monday night with one of the best at
fractions of the season in Marie Cahill,
who will present her newest musical
success, 1.-The Boys and Betty" Miss
Cahill comes to Los Angeles after an
absence of two years, her last appear
nnce at the Mason having been made
in Marrying Mary" with which she
scored a big hit and established her
self as a strong favorite with local
playgoers, With 1.-THE Boys and Betty
Miss Cahin succeeded in amusing New
Workers for the greater part of last
winter, her engagement in that city
lasting for four months at Wallack' s
theater. with the critics united in the
praise of her new vehicle.
THE Boys and Betty is by George
" Hobart, former newspaper man, who
provided the book and lyrics, with
music by Silvio Helm, one of the
youngest of Americas composers. In
addition to 1.-The Boys and Betty" Mr..
Helm has two other musical successes
to his credit this season, he having pro-
vided the score for DeWolf Hopper S
"a Matinee IDOL" and THE Yankee
Girl" with which Blanch Ring has in
augurated her first starring tour.
oRPHEUM Eight dainty Geisha
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coyness and oddity of their race, will
headline the new Orpheum bill opening
Monday matinee. These Geisha girls
are the first ever to leave their native
shores, and the first really to perforrs
outside the restricted limits to which
their native life confines them. They
are not the teahouse Geshas. eX-
plotted for every tourist-quite the con-
trary for tourists never see this variety
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themselves. reared to furnish enjoy
ment in songs and dances to the very
wealthy, looked up to and admired,
and from amongst whom many of the
leading mobiles take their wives Ma
turally they are hedged about by all
the safeguards, and this tour is made
a special feature to advise western
civilization as to just how exclusive
and well thought of the genuine Gel
sha is.
Jean Clermont is one of those Ger
man animal trainers who can do things
with animals no other seems able to
accomplish. He brings here his bur
leske cirkus," an aggregation of dogs
and ponies, which do most remarkable
stunts.
Brown, Harris and Brown are trio
of entertainers who say their act Is
"Just to Laugh-Thats All"
The Doherty sisters abroad were
known as "those ginger girls and
while the appellation was not always
understood there it is too good Ameri-
can slang to fail to land here. They
sing, dance, wear stunning costumes
and entertain in generous fashion.
Arturo Barnard. the quick change
artist; the Willy Panther troupe, Mr.
and Mrs. Vbeker and Una Clayton and
company, with new motion pictures
remain TO make up we'll rounded bill