Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-24


contributes some clever character act
ing as Mrs. Beckman Streete look
ing for a third"
The stage setting is good. Next
week the company will again revert to
melodrama in Charles p. Taylors
famous melodrama, "The Girl from
Alaska"
At the Belasco theater tonight Los
Angeles playgoers will have a chance
to pass judgment on the Shuperts
successful farce, THE Blue Mouse
In the east this adaptation of
French piece by Clyde Fitch was one
of the largest attended fun plays OF
recent product. 1t was Variously re
garled by variously attuned minds
To some the antics of the Blue Mouse
were .decidedlX frisky while to others
who entertained a due regard Tor that
good old adage, "Honi sol qui mai y
pense," 1.-THE Blue Mouse" was thins
of delight, theatrical JOY that had
no precedent and no antecedent, just
a rollicking sort of an affair with
lightness, frivolity, gayety and breez-
mess in every line, in every situation
in every episode.
John j. Kennedy, a character come
dian of much experience and reputa-
ton, left New York yesterday to JON
the Belasco company. Kennedy's hrst
appearance will be in "The Gay LORD
Quex," scheduled to follow 1.-The Blue
Mouse on the Belasco stage.
Henry Miller, appearing in his latest
success, "Her Husbands Wife," which
ran out the season last year in New
alone
attraction at the Mason opera house
all next week, beginning Monday
evening and including Wednesday ana
Saturday matinees. The play is built
on the eccentricities of the feminine
mind as instanced by a young wire
who, suffering from an acute attack
of hypochondriacism, persuades herselr
that she is about to die and sets about
to select her husbands second Wire
With a prestige of unlimited success,
"a Stubborn Cinderella" the musical
play of quality by Hough, Adams and
Howard, will open a weeks engage
ment at the Auditorium tonight. The
company is a large one, and the cos
TUNES and scenery are entirely new
and elaborate.
The coming of the Bevant opera com
pany to the Auditorium next week is
being looked forward to by all the
music lovers. The repertoire of this
company is extensive, including all
the standard Italian operas.
The headliner of the bill of vaude-
Vile opening this afternoon at Pan
tages theater is John L. Sullivan,
once heavyweight champion of the
world. John L. is on his farewell tour,
and this will positively be his last
visit to Los Angeles. With John L..
is his sparring partner, Jake k1lraln,
with whom he gives a brief exhibition
of the art of self defense at the close
of his monologue.
In addition to the headliner are Jack
Golden and company in 1.-The Quarrel,
Mason, Wilbur and Jordan in com
edy acrobatic act, the Florence Trio
in classic and operate songs, Elmore
and Raymond in a song and dialogue
turn, and the Pantagescope with new
motion pictures.
The first of the big Sullivan &
Considine road shows, several of
which will visit Los Angeles during the
coming winter months, will open at
the Los Angeles theater this afternoon.
The bill contains six new acts, all of
them good.
Perhaps the most important among
the newcomers is the Saad Dahduh
troupe Of eight Arabian tumblers in
their whirlwlnd phantasy of the desert.
This is the troupe's second tour of
America, having first appeared in this
country as one of the foreign features
of Barnum g. Bailey's circus. Man
uel Roman will make his temperance
after an absence of several seasons
with his company of singers in the
vocal oddity in two secenes called
"Before and After the Ball" Others
on the road show bill will be the We
netian street singers; Stuart Rollins
and his banjo girls; Harry Crosby and
Anna Lee in the rural comedy Back
Home;" and the Zerell brothers, Aus
tralian athletes. Exclusive of this list
of fine acts will be two new films of
comedy pictures:
The phenomenal rise of Eugene and
Willie Howard, the Hebrew comedians,
is one of the sensations of vaudeville.
After only two tours of the Orpheum
time they have leaped from obscure
positions into real headllners. They
come to the local Orpheum in this ca
pacity today, heading an unusually
good bill. with a new skit, "The Por-
ter and the Salesman" But it is still
Howard & dOWdru, 10 dll lHleHIS anu
purposes, no matter what the nominal
title of their vehicle may be. On the
same bill is "Baseballitis," a comedy
of the national game, now in it's height,
with the Evers- Wisdom company pre-
senting it: Tom Smith and his three
Peaches" in a novelty dancing and
singing act, and Fred Singer, "The Vio-
lin Maker of Cremona," in an unusual
ly fine presentation in a musical way.
Remaining another week is that little
vaudeville classic, "DinkelspiePs
Christmas" Waterbury Bros. and Ten
ny, Linton and Laurence, and Lane and
O'DOnnell while the fine run of mo-
ton pictures lately shown will be con-