Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07

known for the hit he has made, not
only making it impossible for the man
ager to bring the same cast together
the second season. but also making 1t
possible for the little unheard-of guy to
get in and get a hearing.
Understand me. now, SO far as am
personally concerned, don't blame the
actor for boosting his salary; do the
same thing every season myself If
you don't believe me, ask Sam Harris"
Is the age of the horseless carriage
and wireless telegraphy to give way
to that of songless and wordless
! opera?
Count G.. P. Centanini, general Sec
retary of the Metropolitan Opera COM
pany OF New York. and husband of
the famous songbird and American
beauty, Nine. Jane Noria, evidently
believes so. He has Joined forces with
Max Rabinoff of Chicago, long the
western representative of the Metro
politan's only rival, to bring to- this
country next season the imperial Rus
| sian ballet of sixty members, to pre-
sent what they are pleased to term
ocular OPERA" or opera in action"
The ballet, headed by Nine. Anna
Pavlowa and M. Michael Mordkfn, the
| cZar'S 1aNOrlIe udnceTS anu dIllSlS VI
world wide note, proposes to dance the
operas, guaranteeing to make them
quite as understandable to American
audiences as when sung. All this is
delightfully."- new and novel in the
United States, but it is an old story
in Russia, where the ballet has ac-
quired recognition as the national art.
The imperial government maintains
schools where novices are trained for
twelve years before being granted a
public appearance. They are entered
in the schools at from to 10 years of
age, graduated at not more than 70
and retired on q pension for life at
32 Even a distinct literature devoted
to the ballet has sprung up in the land
of the Little Father"-dramas and
operas especially written for 1nterpre-
tation by dancers.
The experiment will have its premier
at the Metropolitan opera house, New
York. on October Is, followed by
coast to coast tour of twenty weeks.
The local engagement will be under
the personal supervision of L. e. Be
hymer during November at the Audi
torium.
For weeks there have been mysteri-
Gus hints and rumors in New, York
city to the effect that there was go
ing to be something startling happen
in vaudeville circles, and now the Sc
cret is out Here it is
Meetings of various theatrical man
ayers, hackers and allies have been
held in New York. Chicago and Gin
cinnati recently at which George b.
Cox obtained a controlling interest in
the Anderson -Ziegler theaters in Gin
cinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis
Thereby he joins hands with Morris
Meyerfeld. jr, and Martin Beck, the
heads of the Orpheum circuit, which
controls all the large vaudeville the
aters in the western cities.
Mr.. Cox, instead of retaining all OF
his holdings in the Anderson-Z -Ziegler
vaudeville theaters, has sold about
half of his new Interest to B. F. Keith
head of the United Booking Offices of
| America Mr.. Keith also becomes In
teresteds in the Orpheum circuit.
| The entry of Mr.. Keith into the
western vaudeville territory and the
! fact that Martin Beck has become in
| terested with Mr.. Keith in the latter s
| eastern vaudeville enterprises ends all
| possibility of row between the Orph-
| cum and the United Booking Offices of
| America. These two big vaudeville
circuits have been working in perfect
| harmony for nearly nine years, hav-
| ing made an agreement that neither
was to invade the others territory.
| Mr.. Beck and the Orpheum managers
| in the west agreed not to come farther
north than Cincinnati and to keep out
of the eastern vaudeville territory,
where Mr.. Keith and his associates
agreed not to purchase or control any
theaters in the south or west.
| This ten-year agreement will expire
a year from next September, but the
developments of the past few days
means that the contract will likely be
renewed for another ten years and
things will go along as usual. There
has been some dissatisfaction among
the eastern managers, rev OF tnem
threatened at times to vote against
renewing their agreement with the
Orpheum circuit; but 1t is thought that
the alliance between Messrs. Keith.
Beck and Cox will put an end to any
further possibility of the two circuits
invading one another's territory.
|
Henry B. Harris could give Diogenes