Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-05
merry Widow" Repeats
Its Triumph of Last Year

A CAPACITY house greeted "The
a Merry Widow last night when
"A she and her beaux appeared at
the Mason opera house after an absence
of year or So That's about the best
guarantee of the popularity of the
Savage Offering From indications "The
Merry Widow will do record business
this week, for Manager Wyatt says his
advance sale is something enormous.
All those who made "The Merry
Widow" so delightful when last it was
seen in Los Angeles are still in the
cast. A new Natalie, Sophie Barnard,
has taken her ploce with the company.
Miss Barnard has a beautiful voice
and makes a much better Natalie than
any of her predecessors.
There's so much real music In THE
Merry Widow" ii seems unnecessary to
speak of 1t. "Maxim's," villa" and
the Merry Widow waltz are unforget-
table. The strains of those beautiful
numbers will linger in the memory Of
the world for n generation or two. The
world will continue TO waltz because or
1.-THE Merry Widow"
Mabel Wilber's Sonia, Oscar Fig
mans Popoff, George Damerels Prince
Danilo. VIM. V. Strunz' Nova KoYich
cannot be improved upon. Miss WILDER
is beautiful and has voice of peculiar
attraction. Mr.. Damerel, who by the
way is a former Los Angelan, Is the
personification of grace. Together these
two exceptional artists give treat
which is enjoyed as often as witnessed.
From the standpoint of costumes and
scenery, 1.-THE Merry Widow today Is
as fine as it was before. Mr.. Savage
has not allowed his second-year COM
pany. which is second year only in
point of time, to show the raVages OF
time. The chorus is beautiful and the
gowns are works of the modistes s art.
The scenery is as fresh and striMns ,tII,Il
as ever. In fact everything about "The
Merry Widow" Is on as grand scale
as In years past.
If there are any in Los Angeles who
have not attended performance OF
1.-THE Merry Widow" now is the ap-
pointed hour to take advantage OF
situation. Those who enjoyed former
performance might attend again, for
they will find as much pleasure IN
second attendance as a first one
Florence Roberts, White Whittlesey
and a competent company presented
"Gloria," an artistically staged and
beautifully dressed comedy, at the
Auditorium last evening. The plot of
'Gloria" relates the tanning of lovely
Florentine shrew by travelling Eng
lishman. This Englishman, Sir Philip
Idlley infatuated by Madonna GloriG
Capnoni, is fooled by her into believing
she is Lucrezia Borgia, and is induced
as a test of his affection to bury the
alleged corpse of a supposed victim.
The corpse is that of a pig, and 1t is
when Sir Philip discovers the trick on
him and finds himself the laughing
stock Of Glorias set that his affection
is really tested.
However, instead of deserting Gloria,
he whips her, and James Bernard
Pagan, the young Irishman who wrote
the play would have us believe the
Englishman's thrashing compels the
Florentine Vixen's love. Miss Roberts
as Gloria and White Whittlesey as Sir
Philip Lilley made an uncommonly
handsome and we'll dressed couple, and
were as convincing as could be ex
pected To persuade an audience that
whipping a woman is q sure way of
winning her affection, and that tying
up man and threatening him with
reprisals will make him adore the fair
object of his chastisement is a some
what difficult task. Robert Stowe Gill
as Count Silvio Spini showed marked
and delineated a genuine COM
edy character without overdrawing it.
The other members of the company
were competent and satisfactory.
Florence Roberts plays are always
well rehearsed and run smoothly,
"Gloria" deserves a bigger audience
than it attracted last evening. 1t is
we'll rehearsed, and in
it's painstaking completeness, altogether
work, and merits public
support and appreciation.
Two of the new acts on the Or
pheum vaudeville program which
opened yesterday afternoon are ex-
worthy. One. a sketch en-
titled "On Stony Ground" is a classic.
1t gives faithful picture of life as it
is lived. The other, bicycle act, teens
with comedy which delights every
body.
The scenes of "On Stony Ground"
are laid in an eating place in the New
York slums. Lottie Williams portrays
n waitress in "The Fried Egg" as the
restaurant is called. She gives an
adequate idea of the pathetic exis-
tence. marked here and there with a
bit of humor of the average girl who
Is forced to live in an atmosphere of
and hungry men. The main
benefit of "On Stony Ground is the |