Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-06

size from s rs to % and sing a few
songs that really are funny as well as
melodious.
The Imperial Russian dancers, three
| in number, give a graceful exhibition
of ballet dancing which, however, is
not remarkable for its novelty.
The holdovers include the "Old Sol
dier Fiddlers." 1.-THE White SLAYER"
enacted by Mckee Rankin, Lionel Bar
rvrnore and Doris Rankin; Frank Nor
rell, black-face comedian, and the Gus
Onlaw trio, a novelty wire act. Two
Aims of motion pictures complete the
bill.
The Baader-L -LaVelle troupe, comedy
cyclists. pleased q large audience at
| Pantages last night. Both the men and
the women are clever and the stunts
| they perform are new "A Bit of Au-
tomobiling' will certainly prove
strong drawing card.
Vic Finn and Bert Ford introduce
lot of new steps into their eccentric
dances. Their agility is noteworthy,
and the attitudes they assume comical
in the extreme. The Hamilton brothers
are knockabout comedians. AS light
ming painters of artistic canvases their
impressionistic work is not at all bad.
Guido Gialdini the silver-throated
whistler MARBLES and chirps enough to
make canary bird jealous. Catchy
little ditties, old songs remodeled and
pieces that sound suspiciously like
grand opera seem easy to this master
of the art of whistling.
Frederick Bigelow has an offering
that will provide amusement and en-
tertainment for the most sophisticated
theatergoer in his troupe of six merry
youngsters, whose singing and dancing,
interspersed with frolics and take-offs
on the school teacher, produce lot of
laughs Hamilton brothers, comedy
acrobats; Romanelli, a novelty violin
ist, and new photo plays complete the
program.
Blanche Walsh will be seen here soon
in "The Other Woman" a new drama
by Frederic Arnold Hummer. Past
successes have brought Miss Walsh
much fame in the dramatic world, and
the production of THE Other Wo-
man" will accordingly be awaited with
interest. Miss Walsh comes to the
Mason next week.
Lewis S. Stone and the members of
the Belasco company opened last night
in William Gillettes famous detective
play, Sherlock Holmes" Holmes is
part that Mr.. Stone has always wanted
to play, but one which has been denied
him heretofore. The production last
stage. 1t will be reviewed tomorrow.
Sullivan & Considine opened their
new bill of eight acts at the Los An
geles theater yesterday. The bill pre-
sents the names of such well known
vaudeville performers as Harry Van
Fossen, the minstrel man. T. Nelson
Downs, famous for his manipulation of
coins, and Campbell and Yates, appear
ing in Edmund Days sketch 1.-TWO
Hundred Miles from Broadway" Be
sides these acts there are five others.
A review will be printed tomorrow.
The theme of "A Matinee IDOL" the
latest success of De Wolf Hooper, in
which he will be seen at the Majestic
next week, is more than $50 years old.
1t was evolved as long ago as 1851 by
Moliere, the greatest French playwright
of his day. Yet last season in New
York city, where "a Matinee Idol' ran
for more than four months at the
Lyric and Daly's theaters it proved
more potent in its appeal to the in
terest and risibilities of the present day
audiences than most of the comedies
of modern times. No doubt this was
owing in a large measure to the fact
that Messrs. Armand and Barnard re-
juvenated the original, though these
playWrights generously lay the credit
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the feet of De Wolf Hopper and Miss
| Louise Dresser.
The divorce satire, IAN American
Widow" will be given at the Burbank
only this week, and will be followed by
the novel drama of interplanetary ad-
venture, "a Message from Mars" a
seasonable offering for the pre-holiday
time, with its propaganda of unselfish-
ness.
1.-THE Evening STAR Spelled Back
wards" is the way the Charles Alphin
Amusement company is billing the We
hicle of fun and music which the clever
Olympic players are using this week,
and the billing isn't so far out of the
way after ALL For not only the title
but everything in the play is topsy-
turVy from start to finish, and the
threadbare plot at the beginning of
the show later develops into a near
dramatic labyrinth. It's all about a
Hebrew astronomer, who has a vision
of falling evening star, and so firmly
does this idea become fixed in his sub
iective mind that he takes a Teuton
traveller for a native of that decadent
planet. Jules Mendel has the role of
the German with the mistaken identity,
and handles it well. Monte Carter,
who plays the astronomer, runs Men
Qel a close BeCOuus Nl1llS bchNC uipl -
and Walter Spencer figure prominently
in the cast. An unusually large num-
ber of musical specialties have been in
| iected into this traVesty, in which Mar
garet FaVar and Dorothy Raymond are
| especially worthy of mention, as well
as Spencer. Miss Favar's dainty dane
! ing is a hit.
A Hebrew who would pass himself
! off as a Partisan and the troubles he
meets with in his attempts to master
French furnish the basis of the fun in
"Cohen, the Frenchman," the Offering
of the week at the Princess. There
are lots of laughs, lots of songs and
lots of pretty costumes in this breezy
| burlesoue. AL Franks takes the title
role. and he extracts lots of comedy
/ from it, Others prominent in the cast
are Robert Ryles, Rose Mendel, Frank
/ lie Preston, Bonnie Browning and Jack
| Howard.
! Frankie Preston sings "Open Your
| Eyes" in most fetching manner,
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