Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-15
MARIE CAHILL
IS DELIGHTFUL
IN NEW MUSICAL PLAY SHE
SCORES HIT
"THE BOYS AND BETTY"
SPARKLES LIKE WINE
Geisha Girls One of the Excellent
Parts of New orpheum Bill.
Other News of the
Theaters
BY SHIRLEY OLYMPUS

mortal Bard will pardon paraphrasing.
Miss Marie Cahill is. She's a de luxe
edition of May Irwin, with a person
ality all her own. That's the reason
'The Boys and Betty" which had its
\ Los Angeles premiere at the Mason
last night, was one huge sue
cess. It's the best musical play Los
Angeles has patronized since the "Mer
ry Widow" showed how to win a man.
"The Boys and Betty is subtle
enough to appeal to the parquet and
broad enough to send the gallery out
on to the street whistling and singing
bars of it's catchy airs and repeating
bits of its clever repartee. It's dainty
and wholesome with the sparkle and
effervescence of champagne and none
of bad after effects. OF course were
it not for Miss Cahill there would be
no Betty who won her way to all
hearts. Hence I say, the plays not the
thing, but Miss CahilI is.
George Y. Hobart, whose pen is a
perpetual fountain of humor which
compels laughter in old and young, and
Silvio Helm, from whose finger tips
comes music which fingers in ones
mind, combined in making THE Boys
and Betty" The story-and strange
as it may seem, there is a story with
climaxes and situations-was taken
from a little French play La Pa
pillon." Now, that rench play may
have been a success as it was but as
1.-THE Boys and Betty" is an ultra-suc-
cess. Hobart and Helm could improve
most anything meant for the stage,
and they have proved it in "The Boys
and Betty"
A clever comedienne need not be
beautiful, especially so if she happens
to be Marie Cahill. To say that Miss
Cahill is bewitchingly beautiful would
be crime. She is neither bewitching
either or both. She is a clever mirth-
provoker. Not one little bit of COM
edy slips by her, and she is artist
enough to see to it that none of her
comedy slips by the audience unno-
ticed. She is inimitable and delight
full, wears daringly explanatory"
gowns that make women green with
envy and gives 101 cents worth of en-
joyment for every dollar paid at the
box office. Miss Cahill has an indi-
vidual way of making laughter. She
allows a clever point to slip by almost
unnoticed, and then quickly returns to
drive the point home. That is the Sc
cret Of her greatness as a comedienne
Others might study her methods for
months, but they would never give so
much as a fair imitation Of her, for
there is but one Marie Cahill
So much for her comedy. Now for
her singing.
Her voice is full of melody and has
a peculiar little break in it which
pleases immensely. There was not
nearly enough of "Auf Wiedersehen."
1.-THE Tetrazzini Family and "Whoop
La, La 1.-THE Arab Love Song is so
satisfactory as sung by Miss Cahill
that had she the strength she could
sing it hundred times and get
round of applause every time. When
Wallace McCutcheon and Miss Cahill
sang a duet, following it with dance,
he showed that he can do other things
than play bridge. He is graceful and
clever a worthy partner for the star.
OF Miss CahilPs satellites, Miss Ann
Mooney for her dancing, James Carson
for his character delineation of a Ger
man student and budding poet, Sam B.
Hardy for his Casimir Barbeau, the
husband who fancies himself a genius
but is really nothing but lazy loafer,
w. G. Stewart and Miss Hattye Fox
deserve mention. Mr.. Carson has a
way of carrying the comedy when Miss
Cahill is off stage and making things
smooth for her when she is on. If
memory serves me right he was
member of the La Sale theater, Chi
cago, and while there did one Of the
really artistic bits of "The Girl Ques-
ton" He has scored again in SINH
lar part.
Choruses while touring the country
are not criticised if their costumes
is omitted in such a case, highest
praise should be given chorus which
has fresh, beautiful gowns. Miss Ca
hills chorus is about the best dressed
and nearly the best drilled aggregation
of beauties Los Angeles has applauded.
There is not poor figure, a plain face
nor d poor dancer in the chorus. And
the way those Paris creations are
worn Well, to see is to know. Under
stand?
A glimpse of the mikado's realm
where the Geisha girls hold full sway
is one of the big treats of the Orpheum
offering this week. Eight pretty Nip
ponese maidens made an instant hit
yesterday when they presented their
unusual act of native dances and songs,
to which had been added a few bars
from MADAM Butterfly" and THE
Mikado." Unlike most Japanese maid
ems seen in America, the Geisha girls
who hail from Nagasah are beautiful,
animated and exceptionally fascinating.
The dull look of the east is lacking.
Their dances are ideally graceful and
lithesome and their voices are sweetly
pleasing. One is charmed by the Geisha
girls of the Orpheum theater in much
the same manner as travellers in the
far east have been charmed by the
pretty little maidens who furnish the
Nipponese with their chief amuse
ment.' The girls made a big. hit when
thew sang "Chink, Chink Chinaman,"
in what they supposed was English.
but what really was the most delight
full Lingo into which English has
ever been twisted. The stage is set in
keeping with the character of the
sketch, making it one of, the most
pleasing bits of vaudeville ever offered
in Los Angeles. One jarring American
note is noticed The girls wear too
much American ieWelry.
Brown, Harris and Brown open Just
to Laugh-That's ALL" No mistake has
been made by the printer, for from the
moment the trio appear on the stage
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