Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-11


PRINCEsS-"ziz Gag Alley"
principal role at the Astor theater
and heads the company coming here,
which also includes Ned Finley, Ben
| Wilson, Hugh Cameron, William
| Wadsworth, Jack Sheehan, Madeline
Winthrop, Florence Robinson, Claire
Weldon and Norma Mitchell. 1t will
be a full-fedged Broadway cast and
production, and the troubles of the
! swell dinner party quarantined for a
| week will be told in the best possible
manner. There are many amusing
| characters in the comedy, but there
| is one in particular who provides a
lot of fun. He is the burglar, who is
caught by the quarantine and cannot
escape from the house he has planned
to rob. He is in the place for week,
undiscovered by any of the others.
Mary Roberts Rinehart's amusing
story, when Man Marries," forms
the basis of the play. She is also
tective stories, ''The Man in Lower
Ten" and 1.-THE Circular Staircase"
Avery Hopwood who collaborated in
the writing of the comedy, turned out
CLOTHES" and This Woman and
That Man."
OLYMPIC-For the week commence
ing with Monday matinee, September
IL, Alphin and Fargo of the Olympic
will offer their clever cast of musical
comedians in 1.-The Devils Grotto," an
other of those strange melodious and
| humorous fantasies that only Charles
Alphin can devise. This burlesque will
be the most pretentious affair that has
been staged at the South Main street
house this summer, as it takes three
different acts to tell the story, the three
scenes being an artists studio, a street
scene and the DEVILS grotto. The incl
dental music will be a special feature
of the bill, as Charles Alphin's two
new songs are given to the public. "The
Dainty Artists Modep' will serve as
solo for Tracy McDermott, while
Dave Morris will Cohanize "The Mill
tary Man" Another big musical num-
Z ber will be the Search for the Soul
KISS" in which McDermott and the
women of the company will take part.
1t is said to be a most alluring offer
ing and should please Olympic patrons.
Jules Mendel and Monte Carter will
play the chief comedy roles of escaped
convicts who, after entering sculp-
tors studio have to pose as statues
to keep from being discovered. Leonard
Brisbane will appear as the devil, while
Tracy McDermott will play the sculp-
tor and Dave Morris an eccentric gen
eral without an army
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES grand opera,
by singers of proper caliber, with
voices we'll fitted and trained and with
costumes, scenery and accessories be-
coming in every detail-this is what
the Orpheum promises with its head
line number for the week beginning
Monday matinee, September IL. The
| Operatic Festival" is the title of the
troupe of fifteen that Charles Loven-
berg sends, and every one OF the hf-
| -, ,iC limo grand
opera is rarity even yet on the
vaudeville stage, but not so much SO
as it was only a few years ago, ana
the very advance in taste which MADE
it first possible now makes 1t pop
ular and profitable and permits an Or
ganization such as TINS TO MAKE
countrywide tour Two operas will be
given, Gypsy Life" and 1.-THE Car
nival of Venice" and in both only
the highest talent will be recognized,
|, both in the music offered and in the
} voices themselves. An alternate caste
is carried also, so that no one voice
} NAV be wearied with constant use, ana
thus everyone will be found to be In
the best possible vocal condition.
| T. C.. Nugent, vaudeville's author
comedian, returns this time with skit
that is said to be so funny 1t Is pain
full "The Squarer" is it's title, and
, hut two persons have part in it, but
: thew are busy all the time. "The
Suuarer" after putting his friend in
. had" with his wife, tries to adjust
} matters, but being a bit the worse Tor
wear, makes a sad job OF 1t Tor a
: while, amid peals of hilarity, but IN
, the end, of course, all works out wen.
F1anagan and Edwards in their
/ blackface stunt, son and Off" have
contrived to strike a new note-a SEEM
. inor inpossibiIity. They have amid all
} their comedy inserted here and there
a tear of pathos and the result IS
; melange of merriment just sufhcienLy
tinged with pathos to make II all inc
funnier -
5 The Harvey-DeVora trio have new
> thing, too, in dancing acts. Bert
Harvey has originated all the steps
) used in the act. Mile. DeVora is an
, eccentric dancer, while little Jonn
{ Dough, the dwarf in size put glaht ~, ~
$ skill who helps them out, makes a Ioll
'aThe Police Inspector" a tremen-
= dousIv virile playlet, holds over, as 90
= Timnnie Lucas and the "Toyshop'' girls.
= stepp, Mehlinger and King and Lou
= Anger, "the German Soldier
S pRTNCEss-"Zig Gag Alley is the
Y offer of Manager workman and FRO
. ducer Ardath of the Princess during
v the week commencing with Monuay
matinee The piece is one OF Aruath
l best and will give each HeInpeF VI
C the cast liberal opportunity to display
2 his or her talents.
/ AS the name implies, the scene is laid
e in a tough alley and the residents OF
3 this street are the principal characters
in the playlet. An Irish cobbler and q
German tailor are the leading spirits
of the neighborhood, and the trouble
they have to live amicably near each
other furnish the basis for all the hu-
{ NOR. Their dialogue scenes are little
5 short of screams, while the adventures
of each with a rascally young swlndler
, create laughs at a rapid rate.
Ardath will be seen as the Hlbernlan
shoemaker. while Al Franks will por-
, tray the Teuton tailor. Earl Hall Will
depict the swindler, while Angie North
will appear as the cobbler's daughter
, in love with the young scoundrel. Bon
ME Browning, the new soubrette, who
has Just made such favorable impress
sion during her initial week, will be
seen as one of the tough girls OF the
alley. Both of these clever actresses
will be featured in song hits supple
mented by the augmented chorus IN
new steps and costumes.