Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24

| Cling.
! "Phasma," the goddess Of light, with
her beautiful dances is another Splen-
did feature OF the new bill. Phasma
works much on the order of the late
Loie Fuller, and is said to be equally
| as good A skllful and artistic offering
will be given by the Holdworths, who
sing, dance and are clever manipulators
of the banjo.
Tom Haverley and Evelyn Wells are
distinctive entertainers. Their work is
lively and full of those little surprises
that always delight an audience, whlle
| their eccentric mannerisms are catchy
and original
Completing the bill are the three Ne
varros, European comedy equtlibrists
and acrobats, and new comedy motion
pictures on the Laugh-o-Scope.
MAJEsTIC-Arthur Wing Pinero's
intense drama of modern life, The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray,' will be Vir-
ginia Harned's Offering for the second
week of her engagement at the Ma
testic theater for the week beginning
tonight.
Like all of the plays of this great
dramatist, The Second Mrs. Tanque-
ray" teens with brilliant epigrams and
sparkling lines. Pinero is fond of
dealing in the hard, frequently unjust
facts of real life, of which this play
|
Paula Tanqueray is a woman with a
past" She hesitates long before mar
rying Aubrey Tanqueray and just be-
fore marrying him she offers him a let
ter in which she has written every
thing pertaining to her past life. Her
| husband-tO-be, however, refuses to
read the letter and she goes with him
to begin life over again in his home, in
company with his beautiful and sweet
young daughter. Paula tries in vain
to make the youung girl love her, but
the daughter always holds aloof. Fin
ally it transpires that the girl is deep
! ly in love with a young man who at
one time figured very prominently in
! Paulas life. To save her beloved
stepdaughter from marriage with this
worthless young man the second Mrs.
! Tanqueray gives up everything and the
play is brought to a strong and i'm
pressive end.
Miss Harmed will have the difficult
| and highly emotional role of Paula
! Tanqueray, William Courtenay will
/ play Aubrey Tanqueray and the rest of
the excellent company will be suit
ably cast.
ORPHEUM-Persons who delight in
seeing brought to life on the stage
things or beings familiar to them
through the printed page or in other
methods of depletion will certainly find
the Orpheum bill, opening with the
Monday matinees July %, quite to their
liking. For it's two principal features
are thus to be described. In other
words, Annabelle Whitford, the head
liner, brings to life the Gibson and
the Brinkley girls" while the Five
Olympiers depict in the flesh what
some of the worlds most noted sculp-
t rs have done in cold and rigid mar
BILE.
Annabelle Whitford was the original
| stage Gibson girl, just as she was the
! artists model for some of his best
| known types. Later she was the model
for Nell Brinkley's frOwsy-haired
Betty" and her; also she transported
to the realm of mystery back stage"
| Thousands have been familiar with
! Miss WhitfOrd on paper, as the Gibson
and now the Brinkley girls are all the
rage. but few except New York hab-
! itues have been enabled to see the girl
herself, or her representations of the
| types she sat for Miss Whitford has
| been a leading feature of the famed
! Anna Held "reVues' in New York for
| the past three years, but, of course,
| has not been on the road at all in that
! time. nor has she even been to this
| coast before. Her coming is therefore
of more than ordinary significance, and
her portrayal of the girls" she sat for
! will be witnessed with the keeneSt in
| terest She also depicts the newest of
| all the "girls"-but that is a secret
| not told beforehand.
The Five Olympiers are poseurs pos
| sessed of superb figures and marked
| facial beauty, especially on the part of
I the women. They have acquired the
| faculty of standing for long periods
| without semblance of motion. and as is
| required in such cases. the pose as rep
resentatives of celebrated sculptures
| without the least sign that thew are
| human. A hint of flesh and blood
| would, of course, transform the artistic
at once into the nudity and sensation
| ality of flesh But there is nothing
| about the act that even prude could
! find fault with--it is all beauty, worth
| and high art.
Frank White and Lew Simmons. two
of the greatest of blackface artists.
| come with "The Band Wagon" There
| need be little more than the mere an
nouncement--this pair is too welI
known to need more
DeLion, whose cOgnomen begins with
double %. leaves one with mind
full of such queries. With his two
hands and twelve billiard balls he does
some of the most remarkable Juggling
ever thought out. No one can de-
scribe it or explain it: it is simply a.
case of "now you see it, now you
don't"
The dainty, cool and beautiful Fin
Girls, the 'MernaluS, remain an
other week, as do Donald & Carson.
Lewis McCord & Co. and Zertho's
wonderful dogs, and new motion pic
lures make complete a well rounded,
versatile and thoroughly comprehen-
sive bill.
RINCESS-"Hotel Topsy Turvy" is
the second of the new producers.
Charles Young, musical playlets which
will go on the boards of the Princess
during the coming week beginning with
Monday matiness. This play is an
other of Young's distinct successes and
should prove even more of a hit than
"A 100 to 1 Shot," with which he
opened his regime. All the comedy of
the farce takes place in a hotel cor
ridor, the hotel having been left
young man by his rich uncle. but no
running expenses were included in the
will Fred Ardath, the Princess prln-
cipal comedian, will have the big role
of the show. He is posed as the man
hired by the nephew to run the hos
telry, and the errors he makes in its
management give opportunity for some
big comedy situations which the clever
Princess comedians are sure to take
advantage of. To his already compe-
tent forces, Manager Elmer Workman
has added two new faces, the comedy
team of Spalding and Hall, dialect
comedians. The pair have just finished
a successful vaudeville tour and VIII
only remain in Los Angeles during the
rest of the SUMMER awaiting the open
ing of the eastern theaters in the fan.