Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
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ACTORS BENEFIT-As has already
been announced, the annual benefit of
the Los Angeles Theatrical Managers
association will be held April Z, the
performance taking place in the after
noon and lasting practically from 1:30
TO 6 o'clock. The annual benefit of this
association has always ranked as the
biggest thing theatrically that takes
place in this city, and this year 1t will
be exceptionally SO, as practically every
first class house will have part in it,
representative numbers having been
secured from the Orpheum, whence
four special numbers will come, the
Mason which will present an act of
'The Merry Widow the Grand, with
Ferris Hartman's bunch of beauties in
evidence: the Burbank. with n scene
from the play then on; the Auditorium,
with Florence Roberts and her COM
pany in an act from The Transforms
ton" and the Majestic which will send
an act from its current offering, The
Prince of Tonight These. combined
with a number of individual acts, and
with a combination orchestra made up
of the best players from all the houses,
will make up bill that viii stand un-
equaled for worth, length and variety
Tickets, which may now be obtained at
the box office of any association thea
ter, will be the uniform price Of 81.
The object of the benefit is to recoup
the associations charity fund. 1t Is
expected that the benefit Will be one
of the largest ever held here, and early
reservations Of seats are deemed most
advisable.
AUDITORIUM-In THE Transform
ation" a new play by Rupert Hughes,
Miss Florence Roberts will have fine
opportunities to display her power as
an emotional actress of more than
ton" which has been taken from a
foreign source, by the way, Miss Rob
erts plays a dual role. In the first act
she is seen as Colinette, an innocent
little seamstress, who for love and love
only has married Count Philippe de
Sevigny, man Of noble birth, who has
squandered his fortune. They love
each other devotedly, but a fatal NAL
ady takes Colinette away, and Phil
ippe no longer caring to live in Paris
fees to America. one of his friends
however some years later makes
discovery of d ballet girl, llika Mares
cot, who bears a wonderful resem-
blance to COlinette. lie writes of this
to Philippe who Immediately returns
to Paris. He meets the girl but in
stantly realizes that while she re
sembles Colinette in face, form and
voice her soul is dark EliIa falls
desperately in love with the handsome
Philippe, but not i'm the way that Phil
ippe would desire. Gradually she
comes to feel the influence Of his
ideals and she appeals to him not TO
desert her He tells her that it viii
be impossible for him to continue with
her, and as a threat she declares she |
will return to her old life. Thereupon
she summons her old companions. but |
on seeing them with the eyes of her |
new soul she is disguised with what /
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against her former friends. Her for |
mer lover will not be turned down a |
second time and becomes involved i'm /
q quarrel with Philippe This ends i'm /
a duel Eika takes this as proof Of
Philippe's love for her, but he tells |
her she does not understand and |
leaves her in a chaos of hatred, love- !
terror and despair Philippe is seri- |
ously wounded in the duel and Elika |
nurses him through long illness, by /
which he comes to know her true soul |
and the pathos of her early life and |
the temptations. she has not become |
another Colinette but a transformed |
Elika, and Philippe now feels new
duty toward her.
Miss Roberts viii appear n the /
Auditorium the week of March IS, and |
tickets may be reserved on and after |
March "a.
BELASCO-"The Easterner" one of |
George Broadhurst's best as we'll a.
most successful plays. viii be played |
this week by Lewis s. Stone and the |
Belasco company 1t was this play that |
served for the temperance of Mr.. |
Stone and his fellow players upon the |
Belasco stage after the combination |
was made between the Belasco and the
Blackwood auditorium forces a year
or so ago.
Followine "The Easterner." Mr.. Stone
and the Belasco organization will give
th4 first production on any stage Of !