Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
that ranks we'll with "Charley's
Aunt" or "The Man from Mexico"


Another new bill of seven big acts
began the fourth week at Pantages
new vaudeville theater in South
Broadway yesterday afternoon.
Tim McMahon's Big Southern Re-
view is the topliner. The finale of the
act, showing a southern river steam
boat coming round the bend, is ar
tistic. The whole act, with its negro
faces, plantation melodies and picka-
ninny dance steps, savors of the sunny
south.
alias Trixie XIX" in which George
D. McQuarrie and company appear, Is
clever and pleasing college sketch,
Astounding in "rah-rah" atmosphere.
Albert Pench has a good line OF
comedy character impersonations. His
Jewish dialect is especially rich. He
sings a couple of good Yiddish par
odes on Mendelssohn's Spring Song"
and Rings on My Fingers"
Mintz and Palmer feature in mu-
sical Irritation, with appropriate song
and dance steps, while Piquo does
some rather clever and startling aero
batic feats, all the while amusing the
audience with a steady flow of comic
antics.
Swinney and Holmes open the show
with a song and dance act. The Pan
tagescope has new motion pictures
worth while.
"The Pickle Buyer Alphin and
Fargos latest creation, is at the Olym-
pic Jules Mendel is the chief con-
spirator in handing Monte Carter, who
plays the pickle purchasing role, lem
ons. In the play Mendel is supposed
to run a hotel, and the fun that he
gets out of the part is surprising.
Carter does some clever character
comedy work in the part Of the rube
from the country in quest of picked
products.
All the rest of the olympic cast, in
cluding Tracy McDermott, Leonard
Brisbane, Dave Morris, Gale Henry.
Hazel Douglas, Frances Paon, Rosa
belle Cohan and Vera Ransdale, nave
parts in the big production, which is
enlivened by the introduction OF sing
ing and dancing numbers.
Producer Charles Alphin returned
yesterday from a five weeks trip to
New York with number of new
Broadway productions along burlesque
and travesty lines, which will be pro-
duced at an early date In the south
Main street playhouse. During his ab-
sence Monte Carter has been staging
the plays, but Alphin will resume at
once his duties back Of the stage.
Zip Zap Zoo" the latest fantastical
musical burlesque creation of Pro-
ducer Al Franks brain, had its pre-
miere performance at the Princess
playhouse yesterday afternoon.
AL Franks himself has the principal
comedy role, and he gets all the com
edy the role affords. All OF the other
members of the cast, including Jack
Howard, Earl Hall, Mabelle La We're
and Lily Freed, have parts which
serve to feed comedy situations Tor
Franks. and from start to finish the
laughs fly fast and furious. Musical
speclalties ranging from coon songs
to late sentimental ballads are inter-
polated.
stella Adams, the new prima donna
of the company opened her engage
ment yesterday, and was accorded
hearty applause both in her song num-
ber and the role that she essayed.
Mabelle La We're and Lily Freed, the
trainers of the chorus, deserve credit
for the showing of the merry merrles
and their dances this week
Morning, Noon and Night" con-
coction of popular music and comedy,
was the Offering to a good sized au-
dience in the Auditorium last night.
The production makes no claim to run
with the sequence which its title might
convey.
The show opens with pocket edition
musical comedy, the finale of which
is a military drill by a feminine
platoon. The music, which is of the
popular variety, was greatly en3ayed
by the audience. fNa
The second act is designed tqSBive
the audience an insight into the man
ner of conducting a rehearsal. The
curtain rises to a stage cluttered with
portions of scenic settings and prop
critics. A bacchanalian orchestra
leader, provides sufficient horseplay to
keen the audience in a state of good
humor. The quartet adjunct of this
norton of the program sings a few
songs and cracks some minstrel jokes.
"New Years Eve at the Club" serves
as a vehicle to carry some quartet
singing The final act is a riot of fun
at Coney Island.