MORNING, 8, 1010. I'ART IV 2 LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MAY NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES Art Notes ELIZABETH WAGGONER offers a repertoire of melodies in a most The April number ot Alt and Progress, | published by the American effective and pleasing federation of manner. Kit* at Washington, D. C, contains on A portion of the program that will j article by Mr«. B. Henrietta Housh on "The prove exceedingly Interesting to the Beneficence of Art." win. her loyalty to the little ones as well as the older people art Interest! of Southern California, Mrs. Stlckney'g dog lloush. In Fi"'ukliiK of the work Of the Fine is Louise and pony cir- ' Arts league, says: CUB. "Somn of us (tie making a great effort to With a line of fast and funny chatter [ get an art home here In our own loved south- put together under the title of "The land. Our Idea Is that the plto shall be j our that will make possible Doctor and His Patient," Helm and an architectural j effect. Tim building* will be pure In stylo, Cozens will contribute much of the fun ; probably classical. They will be dignified by on the new bill. sculpture, and adorned by pointings. Build- Closing will lie an unusual offering j ings and grounds will make a splendid pic- There will bo proper proportion, in L. A. Street (not meaning a Los i ture. the tho correct distribution, the unity, of effect. The Angeles street, but merely the 1 erform- planting, .the lines leading Into the picture, er's name), who offers p. unique act In all the details will be beautiful ami pic- the skillful juggling and manipulation turesque, yet subordinate, the whole making of lubber balls. one grand effect with a. great central Mm \u25a0 There will be schools of expression, colleges • • for art training, rooms, auditorium, MASON-Charles Frohman will pre- lecture an a great organ, a symphony hall and a place sent Maude Adatna at the Mason opera \ where children may receive lasting Impressions house for an engagement of five nights from laaona Inailllrd by artistic dramatlo beginning Tuesday in J. M. Barries pi.-st iil.illou. Our first aSort will be to cn- trim comedy, "What Knows." oouniKe the art spirit In our own com- Kvery Woman munity, to brlnn about n battM undorstandliiK The announcement will awaken antici- and a keener appreciation, Of III.) good work pations of muili pleasure in the minds that In being done among our own people of countless theatergoers for reasons Our first collection will probably be a group 7POyC£Z. of works by our too numerous to mention. LOUISE own artists." < * * The scenes of the play are Scotch, \BCfJr>t/F>E, jf ing of the galleries. The main picture gal- countrymen. The scenes, however, his lery Ik well lighted, and with its largo wall might be laid anywhere, in the wide ryri/LO*e. 585®^ // rot &**?siSS. spaces oners an excellent opportunity for dis- world wiit-re mere are stubborn, thick- rrprNGKast . y^^ '\ playing some of the more Imposing- things In headed husbands and clever, witty * the collection. . Among these is a figure study by Frederick Frlescke that Is strongly In- manage on C. wives to them—and where tprtaining sort, from Europe. Athletics, dividual In treatment and especially delightful the footstool doesn't that condition ex- dancing, fun and other features com- in Its tonality, a landscape by lti'iijamlii up. bine to make it \u25a0-- '\u25a0\u25a0 ist? I v. B^F^ '... .n'-tA™ujHjJUnaMMUm Chambers Brown that is one of the finest Marguerite Without any ado one it taken right Haney with her clever we have seen from his brush, a number of little company in "The Leading Lady," characteristic landscapes by Wylies. dranvillo Red- into the domestic circle of the Kdwln Holt & Co. In "Tho Mayor and mond, a striking rich toned autumn by There are three brothers and their shy the Manicure," Charles F. Semon and John Johanson, In contrast to the spring colors and timid sister, Maggie. The "boys" Barnes & ('rawford, with new motion In the landscape ,by William Merrltt Post; pictures, make up the rest of the ad- delightful have been the owners of a quarry, and \u25a0*, ff i—\u25a0 «'\u2666 , a study of a seated figure In an mirable bill. *s?p\»> j r%^^MKjs&>i pia/J interesting interior.painted by Marian win- as as money goes may K**w far be termed • • ton; a figure piece by John Ilubbard Rich • * comfortable. Having had no time In OLYMPIC—Many have been the and many others by local artists as well as early life to secure an education, the pleasant surprises which Alphln and the representative painters of the east. brothers miss it and greatly admire it Fargo have pleased their patrons with, • • An arts and crafts• afternoon was given John Shand, their neighbor, bu< the pleaaantest was tho presenta- in others. tion of Bunyea, the new prima Monday at the Ebell club at Long Beach Mable \u25a0 has no money, some learning and an dnnna. who made her debut to Los I • Vi« m I'M m :^Mb- \b'* ;.\u25a0;- l»r<*^!W?* \u25a0 I oW*l'iM mM* under tho direction of Mrs. R. H. Jackson, ardent thirst for more—a thirst that Angeles last Monday. Her Immediate '» * chairman of the arts and crafts section of the club. i The principal paper the day drives him to break into the Wylies' li- success, due to her entrancing beauty of was dflLglitful charm, coupled read by Miss Jessie Wushburn of INew York city exhibited china, and tapestries old-fashioned ringlets. But she is so fornia. Unfortunately, the barrel con- and Mrs. Alice Bromley portrait sketches In shy and bashful that somehow or other taining the Chinaman becomes mixed Ink. Mrs. Annie Kmeraon and Miss Jones the young fellows have overlooked her. with a barrel of chop suey Intended of the Ceramic club accompanied the exhibit Here is a man who would make for her for a party given by the chief of the from that club. ; i a good husband. custom house, who gets the Chinaman -i • ; • \u0084 • Having digested the matter, the Instead. Then the trouble for the two One of the water colors by Marion Kava- brothers proposed to Shand that they Germans begin and doesn't end until naugh Wachtel, sent on to New York for the puy his way through college if ut the tho finale, a fire In the custom house, forty-third annual exhibition of the American end of five years he will marry .Mag- due to an Indian uprising, proves the Water Color society, has been awarded the gie—If she wants him then. A most heroism of the little Dutchmen and all honor of reproduction In the catalog of the interesting and enturtaining scene fol- ends happily. Jules Mendel will be one exhibition. A letter from William Merrllt lows, In which the matter is discussed, little German and Pete Gerald will be Poet, one of the Jury of selection for this Maggie, herself, having a word. It the other. Walter Spencer, Leonard exhibition, speaks most enthusiastically of agreeing *r' "\u25a0 • '•'\u25a0 it Interest ends with Shand to the prop- Brisbane. 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And then for three acts Harrie tells, ten new singing and dancing novelties, • • • as only Barrie can tell, how Maggie should prove captivating. Herbert Hallett, who has recently come to makes a great man of her husband Los Angeles from New York city, intends to without ever letting him know what PRINCESS THEATER-"The open a new art gallery In the Blanchard $50,000 will she is about until the job is finished. Beauty," with Vera Blair Stanley in building, where ho show only the rarest Incidentally, too, she saves him from th" title role, is the merry and finest works of art, displayed in ap- melodious awaiting an "affinity." musical melange to be presented by propriate settings. Mr. Hallett Is Jt is not hard for one to imagine with the Princess musical comedy company the arrival of some valuable rugs and hang- what whimsical humor and gentle pa- next week. The company' has hem Ings from New York before formally opening thos Barrie could work out such a plot. supplemented by the addition his gallery. of Alfred : Neither is it hard to imagine with what St. Johns, a pleasing- Juvenile. An ex- <* • ?- • • exquisite touches Miss Adams brings cellent rendition of this popular oper- The California Art* club enjoyed one of th« most organisa- out the beauties of a character that Is etta Is promised. To enliven the ac- i delightful meetings since Its a gospel on wifely devotion. There is tion of the piece, which in itself is tion In the meeting on Saturday evening it good deal more In the play than farcial and laugh-producing, several with Ralph Fullerton Moclne at his studio on ghows on its surface. Between its lines specialties' the picturesque old breakwarer at San Pedro. thought. attractive musical will be there is a world of matter for introduced. Perhaps the most novel Important plans for the club -were discussed The company surrounding Miss Ad- of these is a burlesque Florodora sex- at length an.l announcements are expected to ams is one of strength and balance. tet, participated in by the Taylor sis- follow. Richard Bennett plays the part of ters and Miss Bessie Hill and Messrs John Shand. Character parts are in Sellar, Arbuckle and Ardath. It is CAUGHT MATHEWS Carter, said OMAN KNOWS," ADAMS' MASON OPERA HOUSE. the hands of R. Peyton David to be little short of a scream. FINAL SCENE IN "WHAT EVERY W MAUDE OFFERING AT THE English Torrence and Fred Tyler. Others in Charles tMathews, the famous the cast are Dumsden Hare, W. H. Gil- a.-tnr, once Indulged dipastrously In his wpH land theaters and their own chain of to be blazoned long over the portal, though no member of this prominent known taste for mimicry. The ridicule on more, Wallace Jackson, .1. L. Carhart, won Miss Foiliott Paget, Miss Lillias Wal- houses, out -" far as Kansas City, the Five years later when the brilliant ca- American family has laurels on this occasion was at tlie expense of Mr. Shuberts already in full fledged reer the Wallack stock company j the stage, it is only natural that there degrave and Miss Lillian Spencer. are of Tattersall. during a sale of Wood stock Matinees will be given Wednesday operation. ended and the house passed under new j .should be theater sites, as well as lux- What Is by past showing, are management, among hnge conducted by that well known auctioneer. and Saturday. Martin Beck's Aim? The Shuberts, A. M. Palmer rubbed out urious hotels its real es- not personally the big men that the name Wallack and substituted his tate holdings. The Belasoo likewise "The first lot. gentlemen." said Tatter- • * * handling requires. John own. takes the owner, though, bay (illy by Smolensko." MAJESTlC—Beginning tonight, Kolb such a circuit But the house never prospered its name from eall. "la « MARTIN BECK aiminpr, Cort has only worked In the west, and under the new name, and when Mr. , when it first opened—and it was among "Tho first lot, gentlemen," echoed Mr. and Dill will offer their greatest and with good to keep a house going one season. As hews, the same tone of voice, "la prospects being the middle west, southwest and east Palmer surrendered the lease, the name j the first to mark the departure from Mat In funniest burlesque, "The Merry Widow of success, at the competition with the Orpheum circuit a bay filly by Smolensk^." IS master of legitimate theatricals, as nil; are terra incognito to him. Who knows Wallack's was restored. Broadway proper and ftart Forty-sec- looked somewhat annoy- and the Devil," a combination musi- and Beck, Morris Is as opposition map, west, north as an The auctioneer and satirical travesty, lie is of vaude- the wing vaudeville, he is the whole east and One other well known theater—Daly's ond street amusement center—it ed, says the writer of English Comedians of cal produced in now admittedly czar to eastern of on both sides of the big a man ' was called the Republic. When David the most lavish style. Kolb makes his : ville7 formidable. That is a point also to be and south,, —bears the name of distin- the I'ast. but proceeded: Preposterous, pond? Martin Beck. gufshed In the world of make believe. I' Belasco took over the property as a "Well, what shall we begin with?" greatest hit as the "Devil," a bur- it would seem at first remembered. chang- begin lesque glance. to know," No one has asserted that it is Beck's As the name was given the theater ; home for Mrs. Leslie Carter, he "Well, what shall we with?" of Molnar's satirical creation, Yes; but one "in the When the Barrasford tour upon Bar- Ameri- during owner, can- Belasco, replied the echo. as who has the very rapid rise in was ambition to be the dictator of the lifetime of its It ed the name to the and from vexation, and the exponent of the wily, cyni- followed rasford's death England for can not, course, a spe- day kept name Still endeavoring to conceal his cal Satan, and quick moves on the theatrical theatricals in all its branches. No of be considered as that it has the of the Inquiringly called out: rendered with his inimitable I sale. Beck and Morris were after it. one suggested that he had It In great stage producer in the pub- Mr. Tattersall lias rial honor bestowed In commemoration, fresh \u25a0 German accent, he cannot fail to have i chess' board of this newest Napoleon of Beck had the cold cash and got it. "One hundred guineas?" jt mmd —out loud—least of all himself. but must rank with many other the- Ho eye. His newer theater Is rather guineas." echoed the audience right with him from the i amusements, isn't anything like bo He didn't even ask the eastern mag- [ "One hundred Mathews. Impossible part, nor Beck does things first and talks after- aters In New York which are named awkwardly called the Belasco-Stuyve- "Thank you, Mr." said Mr. Tattorsall. start. a dream on lii.s nates to go in with him. It is re- 1 wards, as in tin Orpheum habit. Taking them alpha- ] Kant, combining the stage down the hammer with a bant;. "The Devil" in its original form is i nearly so chimerical in accomplishment. puted that Beck has plans made for a after Individuals. thus of to- bringing Remember, not years ago Hut IP that is Martin Beck's aim. he betlcally, the Astor comes first, and day with New York's earliest history. "the filly Is yours." . ' '\u25a0\u25a0''> ' replete with that half humorous sar- twenty New York Orpheum. AH points to be certainly sight \u25a0 looks nearer in of it casm which lends itself particularly there was no Orpheum circuit, and remembered. was the than ho ever did before, lit- certainly well to burlesque, and when Inter- Martin Beck was a waiter. He The biggest convulsion in theatricals getting control of theaters mingled comedy Inspiration and tho moving force in of was hasn't been with the and music late the announcement that flocks—four in Los Angeles for In- of Lehar's "Merry Widow," also spreading (he Orpheum tentacles till John Cort had broken with the syndi- in now cover country stance—just for fun or for the sake of travestied to suit the occasion, the they absolutely the cate—X. & E. and had gone in with blowing revenues 1 in even west, class — the enormous the High _ combination i. one of the strongest j from Cincinnati In hlKli the Shubertfl — don't love Is- the Orpheum circuit. Over . things in the way of a laugh producer | vaudeville, and are unrivaled. Hi : man, but now get on without him. of Slarraa and put stage. lately extended long arm B Watch Martin Beck! that has ever been on any I only a Just previous to that it was given out, Great Salt Lake. Dill takes the part of. the Devil's Jan- the sea, and through the Barrasford- with all due solemnity, that the Cort Itor-in-waitlng, and is a scream in Butt tour has secured score after score houses, about 150 in number, would The Coolest War I ; 'Q the part of the terrorized underling of of foreign houses. Ha Is so big that bo dovoted to \Vm. Morris vaudeville Satan. the "magnates" in New York, with —a joke on the face of It. That this circuits, seem dwarfs Naming Theaters Maude Lillian Herri has a fine part their puny like was a blind everyone who knows Cort, that "Merry compared to him, aim their power is a the Shuberts or Beck la certain to be- in of Ponla, the alongside his. by a Widow," and has a choice bit of joke And all this lieve. In building a new theater nothing comedy in her scene with man who w&s unknown less than twen- The Cort house In Los Angeles Is the Ingenuity of the owner so the Devil ty years ago, past taxes the where he tries to exert his wiles upon and who is but little Majestic, leased first by Oliver Mor- much as to find for it a narno which her. Her song "Sylvia" gives her fine 40 years old, would hardly seem to be osco, and later in which Martin Beck shall be once distinctive of his powers or ambi- at appropriate, voice an excellent opportunity. tho' limit even bought a half interest. This was done nnd attractive, of all the lour score San here, Francisco Percy Bronnon plays the part of tions. last spring, when Beck was and theaters in Greater New York, it is ..' Prince Dundilo, and with Miss Berri Beck never dabbled in the "legiti- the reason guessed at was that Beck singular that only one was nami a after dances the famous waltz, which is mate" I'M once. He had a show on the did it to keep Morris out of here. grent stage celebrity of tli- past. ftt one did well with it. a afterward burlesqued by C. William road time, and Bock on the same trip bought the lease This one exception in the Oarrlok, and Kolb and Olga Stech. But he ran up against the K. San Francisco. i houie ho did not Insist on giving the think that the management would not K. & K. dabbled In vaudeville —once. two In City and a site be so apt to boast that the incoming It has Kansas house his own name, as other .stars In it cost them, expert at the theatrical for a third. And so on. Why? vanity, nave done, but decided to bill is superior to It, Bui the asser- game are, before they their is confidently as they $2,500,000 Figure it out— tin' cities, with the honor 'he memory of one of the great- tion made that the pro- \u25a0 ould gei out alive Beck was the main Francisco, where the gram to be offered for the be- exception of San . i players the English speaking stage and week Instrument In the sell-out to the allied owns more than luit) Chicago Orpheum or Beck Louis known—David Garrick. St. ginning Monday matinee will be a rec- I ! vaudeville Interests. That is a point to one house are non-Cort towns, And li;is been, and is still, urd-breaker. in It a common leber. One of the clauses the San Francisco is big enough to have custom for actors and managors to Heading the newcomers Is Nellie nt was that no one concerned in Bhubert-Cort-independent houses. Nichols, the only Greek player and two name their theaters after themselves;. it K. vaudeville same, should go it impossible or chimerical to «up-sup- in this city have comedienne on the vaudeville stage. .. vaudeville, any or Is Two theaters been "Owl," from Los Angeles daily at 6 p. connects with luxurious back into In .shape pose that it has entered Martin Beck's as Wallack'B. The first house The m. this But, though of Athens, this fair maid form or fashion, for ten years. When known Oakland, travel. homo in English mind that by welding together the by that num.' was built by James \V. train at Hoth are strictly for first-class vl-:»?.-, is completely at hu- the Shuberta the first time broke with own indepen- mor and fun. and her songs, actions, BhubertS, Cort and his Wallack In 1861, on the northeast cor- K. iv- i: one ol lh< Ir strongest men dent houses, he ner of Broadway and street, dances and patter will amply prove ismaii or non-vaudeville Thirteenth of Phili When would have a legitimate circuit that Kirn, \u25a0 and \s\wn later, his Lester Wal- that even native born artistes have Hi d to come, t lirough they dirty nothing when sur- wouldlid make K. & E. look like a lHi k. following the Uptown movement, "on" her it com to red, When William Morris' broke full deck? cleverness. with the d vaudevll! deucecc inIn a dedicated the new theater at Broadway Unlti In the Igure It out before you laugh. Cort and Thirtieth street, he felt that he. "The Four Dancing Bugs" is the east om of i la reputi d bai kers was houses and everything it tM it odd title of a quartet of steppers That has 170 controls owed to posterity endow with ame luman. Is whj a suit between Denver and the northwest name. But, alas, the name not who will bring with them the latest for a forfeit of 1250,000 la pending his was Southern coast, San Francisco. He has - I down to in fancy dancing. Two men Pacific and two against [sniun, by the tern \ __ eai his own in that city; lie and 000 South Spring _. ' girls, they will offer singly magnates, why a house of Morosco-Egan Dramatic and Information ticket* and en- villo also thi re \g n o bonks the Majestic here, and the Shu- i»'#'''" dancing i- street, B»7 SoutK Spring street, Arcade Ma- M -m semble that it will be hard !o\ for Ismail. b^rts book the Auditorium; he could Operatic I j.-j g~\-\V% /~* 1M 1/~* equal. .Morris, School Angeles, M~^/*l to William in his so-called Inde use the old Orpheum in Salt Lake, the tlon, Los 148 East Colorado street, \_J § £l>\JF I•V JL %Jw\SWM \u25a0kC*' Walsh, Lynch & Co. will have a pendent vaudeville, h,:s something of a Auditorium in Kansas City, and so on, A practical achool of atafa training, con- new thing In the way of a dramatic, clrculi in the eaal , M" has nevi r ducted under the direction of competent In- Pasadena. down the line. It would bo a more structor.- Fencing:, Dancing, Vole* and almost melodramatic pla.wt of rural touched Orpheum territory with the compact western circuit than K. & B. si«e« Htmospher<\ Technique. For full Information apply achool entitled "llmkins' Run." IS save in Ww ever 1i.i.1. and in the cast, what with quarters, toi< floor Majixtla Tb«at«r bulldlnf. The Plquays come in an act of en- prlcans, where alono he lias managed the recent acquisition of the New Eng- Ualn 1911; mil.