Arizona republican., 1914-12-27
News of the Theaters, Music,

will be kept intact to produce new plays every month. The BandboX theater will be their permanent home. Joseph Physioc has built the seen cry and several artists interested in
 the new theater have given their eN pert advice as to the detail of the
 studio scenes.
 The Bandbox theater has been made into a cosy and vet entirely
 practical theater for the presentation
 cf most any play lhe company shall decide upon producing. It has been refurnished throughout. and while it
 has not been elaborately decorated,
 there is the intimacy maintained be
 tween the theater and the stage
 which fits in with the purposes of
 the now organization.
 Lopokova Acts
 Lydia Lopokova, who has charmed
 New York and all the great cities Of
 he United States and Europe with
 the wonderful beauty of her dancing,
 las forsaken the terpsichorian world
 to shine as a brigh; light among the dramatic stars She appeared at the Playhouse last Tuesday in Just Her self comedy by Ethel Watts Num-
 ford. It is a long jump from premier
 danseus of the Imperial Russian Bal let to star on the English speaking stage; but there is every indication that winning little Lydia" will make it successfully for Just Herself is an amusing story of an unconVen tional girl, who, among group of sham society people and social climb CTS is-just herself. and 1T calls for her to display all her skill as dancer and to anybody who has ever seen Lopokova that is an assurance of delight.
 The Steamship AiinneWaska as she made fast to her dock in New ' orll last Wednesday proved to be re production. with certain glarins mod cfnisms. of the good ship Ark" which Captain Noah lost control of in the cosmic ocean in some indefinite per iod before the Christian era Each ship carried the most won derful collection of wild animals in existence at their respective time of
 :; fling. the principal difference being i in the motive power of the vessels and in the fact that Captain Noehs animals were untrained. non-perform- ing stock. while the Bostock animals
 are all highly skilled performers. i The reason advanced by Captain : Noah for the embarkation of the ori- ginal species was ito save them from { death and extinction by drownng,"
 and the heavy inundation which inn
 mediately followed seem to prove that without his extraordinary foresight the Bostock animal actors never would have been born.
 The object of bringing these lineal i descendants of the Noah troupe to
 America was scarcely less humani | tarian The Bostock animals have i long been recognized as legitimate
 actors, and fate, in the shape of mor : ing pictures. has been most unkind ] to all who practice the Thespic art i whether they chance to be of th= i smooth skinned and bifurcated class
 or the natme-ciothed quadruped.
 The British government dispossess- 1 cd the Bostock animal acIors from
 their big amitheater, known as i White City" in London, to make 1 room for Belgian refugees. thus mak- 1 ing themselves, and so Harry Tudor i who has managed the interests CT Bostock, the Animal kng, for many
 years, came post hast to America to see what could be done to keep the
 troupe intact.
 David Horsely, head of the Centaur ] Film Company, conceived the idea of making movie actors of them. The | purchase, which is said to have in l volved a hundred thousand dollars
 was quickly settled and the whole
 troupe-about 115 in number. was
 crowded into iron barred staterooms
 on the Mnnewaska, bound for old 1 New York
 | In taking possession of this un- matched aggregation of mute per 1 formers which has shown in everv | large city in the world. David Hors 1 ley adds the title of Animal King i to that of oldest independent motion picture producer" for the entire rights
 to the Bostock name went with his purchase
 A moving picture machine was on ] the pier to "can" the antics of the animals as they were transferred 1 from the ship to it's baggage cars i which waited alongside on railroad i floats.
 The actors had been on 2 very light l diet to reduce the possibilities of sea l sickness during the voyage and their lavenous attacks upon the great slabs of beef which served as their feast of welcome to America, furnished i some unusual material for Big Bin ! Reinhart, the camera man, to worl,
 on. One trainer was caught off i guard by a huge polar bear whose nimble paw made it necessary for ] him to borrow Mr. Horsieys ulster
 until a new pair of trousers could