Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-02
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AUDITORIUM-For years Los An
geles has heard of Harry Lauder, the
widely advertised Scotchman. Nine
years ago he was a coal miner, and
during the interim he has become one
of the most successful of all vaudeville
artists His turn of thirty-fve MIN
utes in progressive vaudeville has been
heightened by encore after encore until
II mas become a continuous perform
anee of an hour to an hour and halt.
Now Harry Lauder is persuasively ad-
vertised as the highest priced per-
former i'm the world. He writes his
own songs and music, and his mono
logues are his own. HE is a genius
one that is born only in a generation
saws the press agent. He is forty-one
years of age and carries a company OF
forty-seven people. He has his own
private car and every member Of his
family is with him. He will not play
Sundays, and points to his rigid Scotch
training as the reason. He won't nave
an orchestra, but carries his own pipers
and dancers, because he wants to be at
home Harry Lauder received last sea-
son $4,000 a week for seven perform
ances and all expenses paid, with an
understanding that the turn should not
exceed one hour in duration at each APP
pearance The public broke that ar
rangement early in the game, but
there were not enough weeks in the
year to take care of the applications
that came in for Lauder even at that
price. He comes to the Auditorium for
two matinees and two night PERFORM
ances on January and 8.
MASON-The first local performance
of the Edwin A. Relkin Yiddish players
viii be in Joseph Latimer's comedy
drama, 1.-The Golden Wedding" 1t Is
the first production of the present sea-
son of Yiddish plays In this city. 1t
is an interesting combination OF com
edy. drama and music, in winch
definite story is told in a way said tn
be ineligible even to those not en-
dowed with a knowledge of Yiddish,
but who have the briefest kind of a
synopsis of the play THE Golden
Wedding is a favorite drama with He
braic theatergoers. The story Is that
of an orphan girl, who, having been ac'
cepted into the home of a wealthy Jew,
sacrifices her good name to save that
Of her benefactor's daughter, VINO, pc
fore her own marriage. had child
THE orphan declares that the child Is
her own and this causes her TO oe
stunned. At a time when she Is looked
upon as an outcast an unknown doctor
comes from America and fails IN loNF
with her. He has returned to his aged
parents ana Is III liillC W pe'A N'NAt'NN-
in the celebration of their golden we'd
ding The husband of the mother OF
the child proves to be a gossip, and re-
1ates the story of the orphans down.
fall to all who will listen to him. The
new arrival believes in her innocence,
and by a clever trick forces. the real
mother to confess. The latter IS Tor
given in the end and the young couple
are married amid great rejoicing.
David Levenson. leading man of the
company, will play the role of the
Russian Wanderer from America. Rosa
Karp will play the character of Fiegele,
his sweetheart. Miss Karp has several
interpolated musical numbers in the
third act A carefully selected com
pany supports them. in charge OF Ed
ward A. ReIkin. the Yiddish impresario
Mr. Relkin has the distinction of
developing such stars as Nine. Nazi-
nova. Fernando Eliscu, Jacob Adler,
Thomashefsky and Bertha Kalich.
Tuesday evening the company VIII pre-
sent a noted Yiddish play. a musical
drama, Fathers Love-" by the late
Jacob Gordan; Wednesday night, the
Lass performance, a comedy which had
the longest run in New York city at the
Peoples theater, 1.-THE New World" or
The Green Woman"
BURBANK-Capacity audiences have
induced Manager Morosco to continue
"The Girl of the Golden West for
another seven days, beginning with the
usual matinee this afternoon and in
Guiding the customary matinee Satur-
day Nothing in which the Burbank
company has appeared recently has
created so generally favorable an i'm
preston as this California drama from
the expert pen of David Belasco. The
play itself is we'll known in Los An
geles but that seems to have added to
its interest rather than to have detract-
ed from it. There has been an ap-
parent eagerness to compare the Bur-
bank production with others that had
preceded it. Miss Frances Nordstrom,
who made her local debut last Sunday
in this play, was received with marked
cordiality. 1t was a difficult test she
passed through the character Of THE
Girl traversing the whole gamut of
human emotions from grave to gay,
from supremest joy to keenest grief.
Frederic Belasco, who directed the
Burbank's production of his brothers s
play. is now associated in Los Angeles
only with oliver Morosco and the Bur-
bank company. The production has
proved a marked success, not alone in
point of acting, but for its scenic in
vestiture. Before he returns to San
Francisco Mr.. Belasco will direct the
production of 1.-The Heart of Mary
land" at the Burbank, in which Ethel
Won Waldron will make her local
debut.
ELASCO-Gertrude Nelson An
drews' new play, Through a window -
has proved such a popular Offering that
the second week of the play will be-
gin on the Belasco stage Monday night.
Its production by the Belasco company
has attracted wide attention, while its
subject is timely to residents on the
Pacific coast. Since its initial per-
formance a week ago, the author has
called several special rehearsals and
made many sweeping cuts in the dia-
logue, knitting the plot more closely
together, taking out a long speech here
and there. developing an even greater
earthquake and fire effect and
strengthening the characters them
selves, materially quickening the ac-
ton of the play. For many nights it
has been impossible to get seats for
this new play. It tells a powerful
story founded on the day before and
the day following the San Francisco
earthquake, and strikes a note Of keen
human sympathy. The production given
-ne piece by the Belasco has been
characterized by reviewers as a
triumph of stagecraft, while the work
of the players themselves has been
faithful and conscientious. Mr. Stone
will again be seen in the role of Brad
" Hamilton, Adele Harrington as Lii
Valera, That's Magrane as Phillipa
Costello, and William Yerance as Judge
Costello, and the other members OF
the supporting cast will remain the