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course upon "The Heroines of Shake
speare-Triumphant."
Miss Terry will be presented to local
audiences by Frank {. Egan, presloeiiit
and director of the Egan Dramatic
school. Miss Terry landed in New
York about three weeks ago, and after
her New York and Chicago appear
ances hurried to the Pacific coast
from which she will gradually work
her way eastward, appearing IN 1orty
cities before she returns to England
Los Angeles society will make much
of Miss Terry's visit. \ reception
committee of forty leading society
women will give her reception upon
the Auditorium stage, and LieutSGen'
Adna r. Chaffee will present her a
golden laurel wreath in token OF es-
TEEN.
Miss Terrys lecture has been care
fully prepared by her anG in II she en-
deaVors to bring out her inner thought,
the retrospections Ct an active lltetlthe'
upon the great characters she essays.
what does she do, and how does she
do it?
This question can best be answered
by quoting from the column comment
in the conservative New York Trib-
une of November 3:
'It was when Miss Terry came to
Portia. to the trial scene, to the 'qual-
itv of mercy speech, that the listeners
and watchers realized what the IN
carnation of poetic harmony meant to
the stage, and what loss the stage
today sustains. The gestures Which are
Ellen Terry's alone, the lifting voice,
the movement swift as thought and
graceful as the flow of sparkling
stream, the nobility and radiant wit,
the play of face and tone, the elo-
n nal
what is there but to thank all the gods
that be, that Ellen Terry still brightens
the glimpses of the sun! And why is
she not acting now? everyone asked
Yesterday. What are dates save in
struments of confusion to dull souls?
This marvellous woman, with the gift
of youth, made all her hearers young
again. While she was once more re-
vealing Portia some of us thought of
that night thirty-one years ago when,
at the Lyceum theater in London she
first played Portia to Henry Irving's
Shylock. Yesterday she made that
faraway night of hallowed memory
seem as near as night before last. Yes
terday she looked, spoke, moved as
she did then; the rhythm of her, the
music of her. the unmatched charm
of her swept away the decades She
said she had played Portia half
she said she had never played Rosa
lind. But if missing Rosalind was
loss to her, how much greater a loss
has it been to the world"
AUDITORIUM-Last year Manager
Behymer heard of a wondrous enter
tanment given in New York at the
Metropolitan opera house, where
music and poem combine to charm
the senses. An entertainment con-
sidered as ocular opera" so full of
beauty and magnetism that the en-
tire country began to comment upon
it and gave honor to the time when
the age of the horseless carriage and
the wireless telegraph would introduce
Wordless opera.
The greatest attraction coming to
Los Angeles this year is that of the
Russian dancers with PaVloWa and
Mordkin accompanied by their Rus
sian ballet and the Metropolitan
Opera House orchestra, playing at
the Auditorium next Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights
with a special matinee Thursday
afternoon and a regular matinee Sat
urday afternoon.
The Los Angeles public probably is
not aware of the tremendous en-
thusiasm shown these people through
out the east and Europe In London
$50, 900 was paid to secure a release
of a four weeks engagement in Paris
last summer, and the entire seating
capacity was sold weeks ahead. There
is hardly anything more truly beauti-
full in this world than the Bacchalian
dance performed by Anna Pavlowa
with Millial Mordkin to the gorgeously
inspired music of GlazounoW.
Here is q vision of love and forest
revelry, Of fauns and rhapsody, and
chiVied wood nymphs wild and shrek
ing in some pagan saturnalia;
splendid figure is the man, like a
Greek athlete; the woman a symbol
Of life and femininity and beauty Art
can go no farther than this, while
back of it looms the frenzy, the
hravura, the magic Of music and
rhythm, and the fierce rush the joy,
the sheer mad beauty Of grace and
motion as transmitted by the ballet
and the solo dancer, a thing which
reels into the senses, and this is the
offering Manager Behymer brings to
his public and gives them the greatest
of all modern entertainments, ocular
opera"
A change of program will ho given
nightly.
REI,ASCO - Wheu Jules Erkert
Goodmans play, "Thc Test had its
first presenta tion ON any stage at the
hands of Lewis s. Stone and the Black
wood company two years ago. It was
greeted as ono of the best written and
strongest plays Of recent product. This
Los Angeles verdict was later made
still more emphatic when Blanche
Walsh presented THE Test in all the
important cities of the country. "1he
Test" will be playtd this week at the
Bclasco with Mr.. Stone in his orgi-
nal role Of Richard Tretman. The
play will give tho different members
of the Belasco company fine chances tO
distinguish themselves in a series of
exceedingly interesting and well writ
ten roles.
Emma Eltynge is the principal char
acter in the play. Ten years before
the opening Of the play she had loved
one Richard Tretman, who had stolen
from his employer, Frederick McVane,
to provide for her. lie is discovered
and Emma agrees To sacrifice herself
if her lover is permitted to 60 free.
McVane fails to keep his promise and
Tretman goes 10 prison. Afterwards
Arthur Thone a novelist goes down
into the slurns and eNerts such an in
1uence for GOOD upon Emma that she
loves him. Then n ctman returns from
prison, Thone's sister and McVane OBJ
iect to Thone's marrying Emma which
is exactly what hC is about to do at
the fall Of the final curtain. The test
of love does not fail.
The role of EMMA 4ltyngc will he
played by Eleanor Gordon and it will
give her one Of the finest opportunities
for emotional work that she has had
during her career as leading woman Of
the BelasCo organization JafAoS X