Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

| name is accepted in Los Angeles as
an absolute guarantee of any produce
ton imported from the east. His new
| play, Her Husbands Wife" is farci-
cal in theme. The story of the play is
built on the vagaries of a hypochron-
| driac. A young wife, who is as pam
pered as she is pretty, persuades her
self that she is about to die. She de-
termines to pick out her husbands
second wife, consoling herself with the
thought that her choice will be. a girl
who is mice" but not apt to make her
husband forget his first wife. The
complications of the play grow in part
out of the fact that the girl to whom
she proposes is quite strong minded
and can be exceedingly pretty when
she cares to trouble herself about fem
mime adornments.
Mr. Miller will be seen in the role
of California millionaire whose keen
sense of humor impels him to plunge
joyously into the marital misunder-
standings of his eastern relatives. Mr..
Miller's supporting company includes
Laura Hope Crews, Josephine Lovett,
Walter Hitchcock, Charles Gotthold
and Laura Clement.
Preceding each performance of "Her
Husbands Wife" Mr.. Miller will offer
his famous one-act play, Frederic
LeMaitre," by the late Clyde Fitch
y
Millers famous romantic roles and
offers a most interesting contrast to
the character of the modern California
man of the world which the actor
manager portrays in Her Husband S
Wife" AS Frederic LeMaitre" is
played in twenty minutes, theater-
goers who wish to see the little classic
before the regular performance of the
evening should be in their seats not
later than S.15
MAJESTIC-One of the pleasantest
events of the season here will be the
temperance of that fascinating come
dian, Max Figman, in the big New
York comedy drama success, MARY
James Pa" by Edith Ellis, under the
management of John Cort. During his
engagement here at Hamburgers Ma
jestic theater for the week beginning
Sunday night, Mr. Figman will pre-
sent the complete original production,
with the original company, including
Miss Helen Lackaye, Misses Dorothy
Phillips, Helen Hartley, Nina Aims
coe and Edwin Chapman, Tony West,
Frederick Smith, Raymond Walburn,
J. H. Huntley, Charles Merriwall, A. O.
HUM and Edwin Chapman, jr.
The character of Hirman Perkins,
which Mr.. Figman plays, is one of the
most lovable on the stage. He starts
off badly, because it develops that he
has deserted his wife and children for
eleven years, but when he returns and
reveals the hold the wanderust has
had upon him and how it has broad
ened his nature and filled him with
philosophy and a wish for better
things, one begins to like him better,
and by the time he helps his wife get
out a political edition of her paper,
even when he knows that by doing so
it may mean the success of his rival
and the eternal separation of himself
and his wife, he has firm hold on the
sympathes. And when in the last
act he prepares to leave home and
the children he loves, but who do not
know him, there is many sympath-
etic tear shed for him. 1t is alto
gether one of the prettiest comedies
ever staged.
ORPHEUM - William Rock and
Maud Fulton. who head the bill open
ing at the Orpheum Monday, are con-
sidered the best dancing team on the
American stage. one thing is certain.
they are the most original. They do
not copy; they originate. They broke
into vaudeville from musical comedy
where they were real winners They
sing and dance and their songs espe-
cially that original one about the girl
and the ship. are as clever as their
steps, while their costume changes to