The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-20
AMUSEMENT CALENDAR.
Thursday. Oct. 24-sLouisiana
LOU"
Friday. Oct. 2s-@Madame
Sherry"
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MARDi eRAs GAY IN
A MUSICAL COMEDY


The efforts Of two pairs of young
lovers to o'Itwit their elders by MAX
ing use ~ the fun and gayety of the
Mardl Vras festival form the minor
roman0e Of "Louisian Lou which
VIII be seen Thursday, October "a, in
tn1 opera house. This Is the first time
me famous ante -Lenten carnival of
the Crescent City-a carnival that
takes the hundreds of thousands Of
visitors there every year-aas been
put upon the stage.
The authors of louisiana Lou" did
not go to New Orleans for their scene
nor to the Mar6i Gras for their color
simply with view Of being pictur-
esque. Their plot is so entwined with
the Mardi Gras maskings and fun that
1t will readily be seen why the Chi
cago critics have heaped high praise
upon Louisiana Lou as a play as well
as in its aspects as a show.
Louisa Lou and Jack Konkarney
have been betrothed since childhood
as sentimental reflection of the
warm friendship between Jacob Lid :
offski. Louisa Louis foster father, and
Roderick Konkarney, Jacks dad. But
the children will otherwise She
that old Lidoffsld is her real father
Jack Is fine big fellow, but finds
himself, on the very eve of his we'd
ding, deeply in love with Della Fair.
who is really his aunt by marriage,
although she is girl OF II years.
Louisa Lou has met in Paris, where
she was at school, Nixon Holme. Jacks
chum and business partner, and fallen
II. l<<r1 rr~4kI. I.fx
But the latter says nothing in the
matter, believing that his pal. Jack,
loves Louisa Lou. 1t is when all four
learn that the game of cross purposes
played by Fate need not be carried
out II they be wise and active that the
plot to outwit the parents begins
Jack is chosen king Of the Mardi Gras
through the influence of Konkarney
and Lidoffski, who naturally expect
him to make Lou his queen. But Jack
passes the official sceptre to Nixon,
who, when he seeks to use it, finds
the ideas of Konkarney and Lidoffsli
are not to be so easily shaken.
Such pretty girls in such pretty
clothes-such clever girls-this town
has not behld in many, many years."
wrote James O'Donnell Bennett in the
>5ntO06O OL sept. 4,
1911. the day following the Chicago
premiere of Louisiana LOU" the La
Sale opera house success.
The thirty-two pretty girls whose
singing, dancing, grace. beauty and
skill caught Mr.. BENEFITS fancy on
the opening night of the long Chicago
run of this great Chicago success will
be the girls who will be seen when
Louisiana Lou is given here. The
Chicago La Sale maintains a school
for singing and dancing girls; that is
why the Harry Askin casts are always
so admired en- tour for the skill of the
merry merry"
When it was decided to send out
travelling cast of Louisiana Lou"
the girls "at school In the La Sale
were put in, one by one. at the home
theatre, until complete new body of
thirty two choristers and dancers had
been installed, while the original thir-
tytwo were given a fortnigat's vaca-
ton, with pay, while the principals of
the travelling cast wen. to rehearsal
So Mr.. Benefits pretty, clever. we'll
dressed girls will be seen here and
heard here in Louisiana Lou" Only
the pretty clothes will be new, every
stitch OF costume, as every inch of
scenery. will be fresh from the makers