Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
ETA LockHART, "THE ALASKAN" MAJESTIC

THE Alaskan" with a great many
touches of color. Every prop, such as
a walrus hide canoe, has its signifi-
canoe. all of the fur costumes have
been imported from across the border,
and the remarkable sledge team of dogs
is introduced on two occasions. All of
these dogs won ribbons in a show in
Chicago, and every one of them has a
history on the frozen trail that would
make Jack London jealous. They are
! in charge of an Alaskan ''musher," Bill
Brady, who is a government mail car
| rier to points as far north as some
amateur explorers ever reach.
ORPHEUM-The Orpheum road
show. usually the acme of all that is
best in vaudeville, comes to the Or
pheum, beginning Monday matinee,
January II, under Martin Beck's per-
sonGl direction. The coming of the ag-
gregation is a yearly event without
parallel in local amusement circles.
The road show this year contains hVe
picked acts, each heading its own
class, and not one of them possible OF
view anywhere else. They are the per-
sonal pick by Mr.. Beck for the show,
which is the pride of his heart. The
sketch is "A Bit of Old Chelsea"
classic by Mrs. Oscar Berringer and
presented by special arrangement with
Harrison Grey Fiske. In it Mrs. Fiske
made one of her greatest hits. Miss
Ida O'Day and a carefully selected
company will interpret it, Miss O'Day's
last appearance in vaudeville, oddly
enough, was al a banjo SOloist. She
graduated from this into stock work
and rose steadily till she is now Vau-
devile leading woman. The little play
itself makes a powerful appeal, with
its odd contrasts of humor and pathoS.
The sensationally spectacular act is
furnished by La TitcOmb, known
abroad as La Belle Americainc" and
as La Chanteuse a Cheval." Miss Tit
comb, native Californian, is just that
the singer on horseback With the
aid of a superb white horse and clad in
tight-titting white, she makes a stage
picture, aided by light effects and
much Splendor of environment. She
sings several selections, gives a num-
her of posings and finally does d skirt
dance on horseback-an act impossible
of imitation. Her spectacular success
abroad. in Paris and London has been
fully equaled since she returned to
America at Mr.. Beck'S hehest. Maud
Rochez will offer the animal act, "A
Night in "A Monkey Music Hall"
wherein every actor is a Simian. A
miniature music hall, with stage. or
Chestrd pit and audience hall, is set up
and the monkeys not only enact the
stunts but play the music and look on
The orchestra leader is called the ST
mian tTeatOre. Mae Melville and Rob
ert Higgins will offer lust d. Little
Fun and their audiences will certain
~ take the adjective in a PickWickian
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piano. another California product was
with the last road show and is a fix
ture, as no one approaches him for
ptanologue humor. His Chicken
PATTI is u classic Holding over are
the Klein family, cyclists; Fay, two
Coleys and Fay, Ministries, and the
four Readings, hand balancers, with
new motion pictures.
Los NGELES-So great has been
the success Of Carlotta in her bicy-
cling loop-the loop that for the first
time in the vaudeville history of the
Los Angeles theater Sullivan and Con-
sidine have been obliged to violate
their time-worn rule of complete
change every week, and hold the dar-
ing young woman over for a second
big week This is without doubt the
most sensational act ever given at
this theater in recent memory and has
attracted great interest Another
headliner on the new bill opening
Monday will be Sydney Deane and his
company of singers in the vocal nov
city, christmas on Blackwelis
Island" This act was originally given
at one of the Lambs club gambols,
after which Mr.. Deane took it into
vaudeville, where it proved a success.
Other acts on the new program will
be the sensational EurOpean acrObats
the Brothers Damn; Kathleen DeVoie.
a dainty singing comedienne; George
III. Wood, a comedian with style all
his own, and Mr.. and Mrs. .. W.
OBrien in their nonsenscal sl<it, DO
ings of the Hour Exclusive of these