Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
BY SHIRLEY OLYMPUS

DEE Ssys :a' hard work Of stock acting
~ Ask That's Magrane, Florence
Reed. That's Lawton and Lillian Albert
son and a NEST positive affirmative an
sWer will be received, for these four tai
ented young women have stepped from
Main Street, Los Angeles, to Broadway,
New York. l said four. 1 should have
said three, for Miss Magrane has not
yet taken the big stride. She Is just
preparing to do so.
Now, it may not be that acting in
the Belasco theater, Los Angeles, is
responsible in the last analysis for the
successful advancement of its leading
women, but it is a fact that nearly
every woman who has made good in
leads at the local playhouse has been
called to New York, almost immedi-
ately, for some big production. Miss
Magrane is the last one. She will leave
Los Angeles in few days to appear as
the eXtravagant wife in Porter Emer-
son Browns THE Spendthrift." Fred
Thompson, one of the few managers
who will eat a. dramatic lemon before
he will pass it to the public, will pro-
duce the new play which had its pre-
micro at the Belasco theater, Los An
geles. THE Spendthrift" will be a sue
cess, say all who are supposed to be
will come into her own after many
months of toll. She was a hit in the
Los Angeles production and will be the
same in New York.
1t must be satisfaction to Manager
Blackwood to know that his judgment
anent leading women is proved good
by their being taken away from him.
Also it must be little annoying to
him, for it Keeps him on still hunt
all the time for new talent. He is a
kindly soul, however, and is ever ready
to forward the interests of any player
in his company. Never yet has it been
recorded that he has attempted to dis
suade a leading woman-or man, for
the matter of that-from accepting an
offer coming from the east.
Stock companies are the best places
for the development of stars. A player
gets more experience in one month in
a stock organization than in a year on
the road. Nowadays many stars are
made over night by some doting man
ager. When a stock actress graduates
into stellar roles it is acclaimed as one
of the marvels of the day Not so
many years ago New York had one or
two stock companies in which a num-
Der of today's permanently great stars
played. And they were mighty glad to
play there. tool
Morris formed a combination?
Such is the question being asked in
New York, and, judging from what
some of the eastern papers have to
say about it, there is reason to believe
the two audeville magnates have
gotten together" and will no longer
fight for supremacy. If the combina-
tion really has been effected it will
mean that Beck will soon have his
own theater in New York, will cease
using the United Booking office as the
means of supplying his theaters with
talent, and will do to eastern vaude-
vile what he has d me to the western
portion of the United States-control
it absolutely. Also it will mean that
Morris will cease trying to tear Or
pheum territory into shreds.
Beck and Morris-quite by chance,
it is said-met in San Francisco while
the Orpheum genius was looking after
his interests on the Pacific coast and
Morris was seeing to it that Harry
Lauder got all that was coming to him.
New York believes that while the two
vaudeville kings were in the Golden
Gate city they made an agreement
which means much.
Beck has never been fully satisfied
with the talent provided for him at
times. There is no hostility between |
the United and the Beck interests, but |
sometimes all has not gone as well as
ii might. If the Orpheum circuit |
breaks away from the United agency
intense business rivalry will result. |
Maybe Beck plans to combine all -vau-
devile interests except those of Sui |
livan and Considine, then wage a war |
of determination Who knows? At
any rate, there seems to be something |
brewing in vaudeville circles worth
watching.