Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-11

against whom the villain had evil de-
signs via the marriage route. The 9TH
er members of the company were a
little shy on lines now and then,
fault which will be eliminated after a
performance or two. If you want
real thriller this week, see the Grands
show.
The new bill at the orpheum which
opens with the matinee today has for
its headliner the biggest of the Or
pheum attractions for this season
Vesta Victoria This English comedi-
enne has been a perennial favorite in
the east for many years, and this is
the first time the Orpheum circuit has
been able to induce her to make the
tour to the Pacific coast. She has
great number of character song nov
elites, all in her own inimitable bur-
lesque style Grigolati's ballet, in which
live pigeons fit about the stage and
perch upon the shoulders of the cory
phees returns on it's second Orpheum
tour. Warren and Blanchard, comedi-
an and singers, are old favorites of
vaudeville audiences, and this year
have some new screams. II. Franklin
and the Standards will furnish the &C
robatic feature with a living rub
Der BALI stunt This will be the last
week of the dramatic sketch THE Code
Book" Paul Spadoni, the juggler;
Lyons and Yosco, the Italian musicians
and Hal Merritt, the cartoonist and
story-teller. There will be new motion
pictures.
Virginia Harmed Is expected in Los
Angeles today to rest for a week pre-
paratory to ner engagement at the Ma
jestic, which opens next Sunday night
with "An American Widow" a comedy
in which this favorite star made a
big hit In San Francisco. She will
bring her entire company, including
her clever leading man William Courte-
nay. The seat sale Will open Thurs
day morning at the Majestic box office
The faculty of the Institute of Mu-
steal Art at Venice will give a concert
tonight at the institute, In which Miss
Lillian Adams, Miss e. Elizabeth Par
ker, Hans Albert, the C. S. DeLano
mandolin and guitar club, Leonard
G. Nattkenper and Miss May circuit
will participate. Albert is a brilliant
violinist who Is gaining quite follow
Ing, and the others are we'll known in
Los Angeles and the beach cities.
The biggest entirely new bill that has
ever been seen at the Los Angeles the
alter will open this afternoon with eight
new acts instead of seven, the number
usually contained on the program. 1t
will be the highest salaried aggregation
of vaudeville talent ever assembled on
one bill at this house, and from the at
traetive appearance of the acts it prom
ises to be the best diversified and most
entertaining bill that has been seen in
Sullivan & Considine's temple of vari-
ETY. in many months.
Heading the new bill are two big
acts, w. j. O'Hearn and his company
presenting the delightful Irish play
"A Romance of Killarney" and Dick
Crolius, the we'll known Singer of
slang" in the racy sketch entitled
Shorty" Others are the Trocadero
nette Dupree, the charming singing
coincidence; Boutin and Tiilson in a
Yard of Music" and the Lavails. AS
a special added attraction Senior En-
rique Robes, Spain's champion bull
fighter and the toreador who will enter
the ring at Tia Juana next Sunday,
will appear on the new bill. Senior Ro-
bles Is not only bull fighter OF fame,
but an accomplished musician and the
possessor of a fine baritone voice.
Wade Montfortt's famous racing
melodrama, 1.-THE Missourians," will be
the next attraction at the Grand opera
house. This is a story of life in rural
Missouri in the seventies and a play
constructed very much on the order Of
I'm Old Kentucky" thrilling racing
scene furnishing the principal climax
of the play. Rehearsals will commence
on 1.-THE Missourians" this morning.
"Via Wireless" the Paul Armstrong
Winchell play, will have its first pro-
duction on any Los Angeles stage to-
night at the Belasco theater Via
Wireless" is expected to prove one of
the most successful of the Belasco's
summer offerings. The big scene in
the fourth act depicting the wireless
operators room on a Ward liner en-
route from Porto Rico to New York
is said to be one of the most sensa-
tional scenes the native stage has ever
known "Via Wireless" is frankly
melodrama in it's highest form, and as
the piece had a pronouncedly success
full career in the larger cities of the
east, Los Angeles playgoers ought to
find it much to their liking.
Following "Via Wireless" at the
Belasco this week Mr.. Stone and his
associates of the stock company will
give the first production in this city
of the Shuberts' comedy success,
Billy" This is the play in which Sid
ney Drew appeared for seven months
at Days theater, New York. Billy"
was in rehearsal at the Belasco last
week until Manager Blackwood sud-
denly decided to substitute Via Wire
less" for this weeks attraction.
The Players Country club will give
its first annual reception July % at
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