Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Perhaps the best varied combination
OF vaudeville acts ever presented To-
cally by the Sullivan and Considine
people is shown this week in a rafting
good bill at the Los Angeles theater.
Opening with Dewitt Young and sis
ter in a college dressed juggling act,
full of novelties from curtain to cur
tain, the bill runs the. gamur of the
vaudeville scale winding up with
Polly Pickles Pets" and act which,
though especially designed for children,
is of more than passing interest to the
groWn-ups.
Jugglers may come and jugglers may
go and in their coming and going carry
with them stock tricks to which the
public has become accustomed. De
Witt Young, however, offers an act
which is replete with surprises.
Flo Adler, assisted by two sweet
voiced youngsters, has the audience
with her from her entrance. Flo is not
getting younger, yet Withal she realizes
it and in goodnatured manner takes
the joshng of the lads who assist her.
Lind provides a piece of female inn
personatiOn which is we'll sustained to
the time he tears off his Titan tresses
to the accompaniment of a roar of APP
plause. The costumes used in this act
are brilliant.
Pistol and Cushing will take you
back to the days of Mcintyre and
Heath in THE Georgia Minstrel Their
blackface comedy is clean-cut and not
overdone. Tom Mcclure in Harry
Lauderisms seems to catch on. His
repertoire of Scotch songs was we'll re-
ceiVed by yesterdays packed house.
The greatest novelty on the bill is
"POlly Pickles Pets in Petland," the
feature of which is not the singing nor
the dancing, but the antics of a cat,
dog, parrot and Teddy Bear imperso-
| mated by men. -Four pretty girls form
chorus supporting Miss Eulalie
Young. The climax of the act "The
Jack-O-Lantern Man" was a distinct
surprise.
So great were the throngs that de-
manded admission to Pantages Mon
day that it was found necessary to give
| five performances in order to accom-
modate everybody. The bill proved
a good one for the holidays in that it
appeals especially to children. OF
| course Schepp's dog, pony and monkey
circus pleased them most. The CANNES
| Waltzed upon their hind feet. turned
somersaults, rode Shetland ponies and
| accomplished other remarkable feats
| which the little ones wildly applauded;
| monkeys are natural born comedians
and the ponies proved as interesting as
| they always are with the big Circuses.
The Morgan brothers, comedy aero
| bats, are all that and then some for
they seem to take their lives in their
hands with their slap stick athletics.
| However. they win much laughter and
| that is the purpose of their act j.
Aldrich Libby and Kathrine Trayer,
| singers of famous ballads, introduce a
few new ones that meet with favor.
Their comedietta, entitled, "The Man
ager, Buffalo Bill and the Prima Dom
ma" is farcical in the extreme and al
lows of unlimited opportunities for the
introduction of fun-making dialogue.
lie Tragede de Egypte'' is quite a
pretentious little production, admirably
adapted for vaudeville purposes. 1t has
| setting of the Nile for a background
and tells tragic story to the accom-
paniment of the dances of Mile. Mer-
| cerau. The music, lights and costumes
prove potent help in the presentation.
Woods and Green amuse with their
chatter. parodies and nonsense. The
Hawaiin Quartette of singers, musi-
| clans and dancers, introduce as dainty
dusky maiden as has ever been seen
| locally. In her Hull Hull dance she
exhibits dainty grace. The men make
| harmonious music with their guitars.
| First run motion pictures close the
show.
"Mr. Santa Claus, Jr," which Jules
Mendel and the Olympic players are
presenting this week, is distinctively
holiday offering, as we'll as being
the most pretentious and elaborately
staged production the South Main
street home of musical comedy has
nX L ha ;to,,N NI,y
that it might be for children alone,
but the grownups who packed the
house yesterday evening seemed to
find laughs as readily as could the
little ones. The setting is laid in
Santa Claus workshop at the north
pole and most of the characters are
those familiar to readers of Mother
Goose. Jules Mendel as the mischiev-
Gus son of Saint Nick furnishes no end
of fun by his antics, and scores with
his foolish question speciality. He is
aided in the comedy making by Monte
Carter as the candy kid, and Dave
Morris, a jack-in-the-box.
Margaret Favar, who looks more like
the mechanical doll she impersonates
than real live actress, leads the
chorus in a SNOWFALL fight with the
audience. Beautiful Rag" sung by
Dorothy Raymond and the chorus, is
really the big musical hit of the piece.
There Is No King hut Santa" takes
well, while Dave Morris singing "Jack-
in-theBoX" has some encore verses
decidedly worth while. Walter Spen-
GER as DR.. Ciok sings i've Pinned the
Stars and Stripes to the Old North
Pole
Lots of laughs, lots of songs and lots
of dancing is perhaps the best way to
characterize "On the Quiet" A Christ
mas concoction by Producer Ben Sell
lar, which the musical comedians of
the Princess are using for their holi-
day week Offering. The entire Prin-
cess company appears to advantage in
the playlet, which in itself possesses
many comical situations enhanced by
the dialogue of the comedians.
Ben Sellar plays the young nephew,
while Fred Ardath. Louis Miller Jack
Howard. Frankie Preston. BOnnY