Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-10
The Theaters


There should be a long line at the
box office of the Mason opera house
this morning when the sale of seats
opens for the engagement of "The
Round Up which will be given next
week, beginning Tuesday.
In making this production, Klaw &
Erlinger have omitted no feature
which would in any way contribute to
its detail. In every respect the play is
true picture of the rugged life of the
Arizona plain.
The story is interesting and will keep
the audience keyed up to the highest
pitch from start to finish. The cast
includes besides Macyn Arbuckle. AL
bert Phillips, Joseph M Lothian, Sidney
Cushing, Elmer Grandin, William
Conkltn, S. L. Richardson, James AS
burn, Jacques Martin Ogden Crane,
Grace Benham, Marie Taylor and
Matinees will be given Wednesday
and Saturday.
Miss Ida M. Leonard will give the
second OF her course of three readings
tonight in the auditorium of the
Her subject tonight will be "Peileas
and Mellsande." This drama was pre-
sented here several years ago by Con-
stance Crawley at one of the literary
matinees given at the Belasco theater.
Martin Beck and william Morris
sailed for England on the same boat,
Morris deciding to go about six hours
before sailing time. Harry Lauder was
also aboard. Figure it out yourself;
there is no answer.
John l.. Sullivan has scored another
knockout in England. 1t is on the
stage where the big fellow is amply
making good.
1t is reported that the Orpheum,
which. singularly enough, is the Will
liam Morris house in Cincinnati, is to
close through poor business The
Orpheum circuit house there is the
Columbia.
Remember Rajah, who used to do
the 'hooch" down at Venice in the
days of the Midway there? She has
been a sensation I'm New York for
months, but recently she decided to
do her act in Yonkers, and dozen
policemen, a private detective and the
town marshal-all the protection Yonk-
ers has-attended the performance to
stop it If ii was naughty. Meanwhile
the town suffered a regular epidemic
of rohberies. And the show wasn't
stopped, either,
Alice Lloyd has an imltator in houses
about New York. who goes by the
name of Lloyd and claims to be sis
ter. Sister Marie Lloyd is in Europe
making a pot of money. The Lloyds
always were thrifty.
Annette Kellerman, the diving
beauty starts on Orpheum time in
July. SO do LeClair and Sampson, the
best burlesque aerobats in the bust
ness.
The Orpheum circuit is getting out
books of stamps for the benefit of the
actors fund fair in New York. They
will be utilized as were the Red Cross
stamps last Christmas.
'The Arabian Nights" are to be con-
densed into a spectacular twenty min
utes and sent out in vaudeville.
Mike Donlin, who was a tremendous
Orpheum hit last season with Mabel
Hite, his wife, is to return to baseball,
while Mabel does the theatrical bust
ness for the family. Mike never could
act.
Bird Millman. the best wire walking
girl i'm vaudeville, has married, and is
forming a new act with her husband
and two more. They win be on Or
pheum time shortly.
Lottie Williams. in Edmun Days very
clever sketch "On Stony Ground" is
soon to be at the orpheum here.
Ma Gosse" (My sister. an ex-
ploitation of the Apache dance, with
4 company of twelve, is headed this
way on the Orpheum circuit.
Bert Leslie, the king of slang" will
be at the Orpheum within a few days
in a new skit, Hogan in Society"
Miss Blanche Hall. who was operated
upon for appendicitis at the Sisters
hospital, was reported doing well last
night. Miss Hall is well remembered in
Los Angeles as the former leading
woman Of the Burbank theater.
George Broadhurst's famous laugh
ing play, What Happened to JONES'"
which will positively be given at the
Belasco Monday night by Lewis S.
Stone and the Belasco players, bears
the distinction of being the only play
connected with which a person ever
spent nine months in prison at hard
labor.
This all happened in Australia, where
company headed by Charles Arnold,
who played the role of Jones in the
London production of the farce, had
gone for an extended tour. Upon their
arrival in Australia Arnold found that