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The Cream Sheet Life's Finer Side. Art and Artists Part III: 26 Page; CHURCH SOCIETY BOOKS. MUSIC 60N0 THE DRAMA. XXXII YEAR. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1913.

THE For rrmti sad Cfillr. For Teachers and Pupil. Cbeatcr3Pmu9ementgntcrtatnmenig THE NEW MOROSCO THEATER OPENS TOMORROW. TTTTAMBURQER'S MAJESTIC THEATER MATINEES WKDNESDAT AND SATURDAT. I ONE WEEK toS Now For a Thousand Laughs HENRY W.

SAVAGE OFFERS Py iwmm f(lnrtY3i'i 1 Bill-' 11 The Fun Success I rid ikr 1 all? f. 'fTOwi xcu PULLMAN CARNI IN 3 SECTIONS BY its A WITH THB PREMIER WILLIS P. AND THB) NSTW TORK Scats-Selling FHICE3 -Nights Popular Matinee ME VAL NEXT WEEK Beg. Sunday Night JAN. 12 THE ONE SENSATIONAL HIT OF THB PAST 20 TEARS WALK'E WHITESIDE THE TYPHOON' THE MOST TIMELY PLAT OF THB CEXTT7RT.

made notable by Mr. Sweatnam'B Inimitable ability as a delineator of negro types. in "Excuse Me" the entire action, of the piece takes place in the Pullman and observation cars of a fast overland limited train, traveling between Chicago and Reno, allowing an unusual series of stage settings and some remarkably realistic and enjoyable effects. The cast headed by Willis P. Sweatnam, and containing the- name of Reeva Greenwood, Rita Otway, Sidney Greenstreet.

Robert Fraser, La-live Brownell and others equally well known is. practically the Original cast that appeared here last season. There will be matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Following "Excuse Me," Whiteside will be seen at Vtha Majestic Theater In his new dramatio sensation, "The 66 Seat Sale Next Mall orders for seats from oat ot town receipt. Prices ooo to fs.vw.

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I Anna ac Ot the Most Beautiful Spectacular Drama of the Age, MAURICE MAETERLINCK'S THE Blue NEW THEATER (N. Y. PRODUCTION Exactly as recently presented OROSCO THEATER Phones: Main MATINEES THURSDAT. First Peek Into Xew Morosco Theater. At the upper left Is a view of one of the tiers of boxes, with a glimpse of he first and second balconies.

The fluted column on the right of this picture marks the beginning of the stage and the picture indicates the close relation between the occupants of the balconies and the players. At the upper right is a portion of the frieze over the proscenium arch and directly below it is the massive inverted light cluster in its baa relief The lower left picture shows the marble stairway from foyer tp balcony, while the large picture shows Oliver Morosco buying the first ticket sold in his new and model playhouse. THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW PLAYHOUSE. THE MOST MODERN AND FINEST THEATER IN THE ENTIRE WEST, WILL Open TOMORROW NIGHT WHEN THE NEW MOROSCO PRODUCING COMPANY WILL PRESENT WINCH ELL SMITH'S FAMOUS COMEDY SUCCESS. IN RUPERT HUGHES BLACKFACE COM EDI AW, SWEATNAM OATETT THEATER CAST.

and Saturday Matlnse, BOo to Wednesday, 60o to 11.50. Thursday Morning will Ira filled in the order of their 7tet4-- A MAIL ORDERS FILLED NOW 100 IN CAST In New York and Chicago. f.W 271 Home AS343. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. liter TKl THEATER Matinees Today, Thurs.

and tat M.rvrs Mnnnsrn. iua. 10, 10 and 00 cants. Matinees. 10 and 26c.

mslo drama, "THB FATAL WXDrrNO." Bird making all more Intimate with the players on the stage. The house Is richly decorated in Frenc hgray, gold, bronze and a very delicate green, wh'le the mammoth plush and carpeting throughout are of -maroon. The car Tie Fort VIM picture thatv Oliver Morosco Is going to offer us? The gradual ascent of this manager, from the early days of the Bur-bank to the opening of his new venture are too well known, not to prove that he possesses, to degree seldom found, the intuition of his profession. Oliver Morosco senses the favor of his audiences; his judgment in plays that draw has been seldom at fault. Loyal Los Angeles, wpero he was so successful, he proposes to make the Morosco Theater a playhouse of new productions.

He Intends to place our city on the dramatic map of the country as a producing center of new plays. No better publicity could be deviped to call attention to the fact that Art, besides alfalfa and citrus trees, flowers blossoms under our southern skies. happen to weigh over 200 pounds take your seats in row 6 and 7 and In the fourteen seats of series 101 and 102 of each side of the house; you will find arm chairs of ample size. No management was ever more thoughtful of us, who, with Increasing years, are inclined to embonpoint. The auditorium forms a wide open fan arrangement of seats, both downstairs and In the galleries, that give an unobstructed view of the stage from every point, and brings the audience closer to the players than in any other theater.

One can thus see well gestures 'and facial expressions and hear distinctly every word. The decoration Is new and modern and departs from the ancient canons of surcharged ornamentation, clumsy and meaningless. French gray Is the dominant color, soberly touched with dull gold and green bronze. Throughout the body ot the house the decoration In light green and old rose in flat tones is of extreme simplicity. Instead of the figures of Apollo and the Muses or symbolical personages tiresome to the eye and artistically com The Morosco producing company Includes such well known and brilliant players as Orrin Johnson, Harrison Huntir, Morgan Wallace.

Herbert Standing. Howard Scott, Robert Ober, James K. Applebee, Thomas Mael.arnle, William Wolbert, Frances King, Orace Valentine, Beatrice Nichols, Helen Robertson, James Nell (stage director) and others. THE ENTIRE SEATING CAPACITY FOR THE OPENING PERFORMANCE TOMORROW NIGHT ENTIRELY SOLD OUT. BUT THERE ARE MANY CHOICE SEATS STILL UNSOLD FOR THE REMAINING PERFORMANCES OF 'THE FORTUNE HUNTER." SEATS HOW.

ON SALE AT THEATER BOX-OFFICE PRICES Matinees Thursday. Saturday and Sunday, 25c. 35e and 50c. Nights, 25e, 60c and 76c (First ulna rows II.) Mali ami Tclcpbone Orders Will How is Received TO FOLLOW First production on any slsge of rul Armstrong's new play, "THE LOVE STORY OF THB AGES." Mason. Local theater-goers are looking forward with keen interest to the coming of "Broadway Jones" to the Mason Operahouse, Monday, as Mr, Cohan's new play created a sensation in New York, where it has been playing to capacity business for the past six months.

Mr. Cohan's latest effort ia a comedy devoid of slang, but it never theless contains enough smart and breezy chatter to' keep the four acts in which it Is written whizzing along at a pace that keens it astride the mark maintained In all Mr. Cohan's former efforts. At the opening of the play "Broad way Jones" is arriving home very late in a condition that could not be arrived at very Though he is popularly supposed to be very his continued attempts to "Burn up Broadway have cut big inroads into his fortune, until at the beginning of the play he is penniless and heavily In debt. In order to rid himself of his numerous obligations he engages himself to a old to his, mother, tUoiigh.

his friends try to break off the engagement they do not succeed. Then Jones, the hero, gets word that' his uncle has died and left him a big property In the shape of a chewing gum factor' In Jonesvllle, Ct, and here the real actioi. of the play begins. In the scenes that follow the young Is brought around from a desire to sell, his. factory and' continue, on his wild career, to an earnest determination to keep it for fhe good of the little Connecticut town of Tvhlrh.

it is the sole Industry, and 'Broad-way" Jones, money burner and man-about-town, -becomes Jackson Jones, factory owner and respected, man In his community. The cast Includes Webster, Ralph Morgan. George1 Schaefer, Carotin LllI, Edith Lucket, Oraca forrfssey, Marie Taylor, George K. Henry, Charles 1L' Henderson, Daniel Burns, George Staley, Dore Rodger-and. There will be a special popular-price matinee Wednesday and A regular matinee Saturday.

To follow, "The Rose "Mission Play." One of the interesting additions made by the author to the "Mission Play" at San Gabriel since IU prs-mlere last spring, seems to have been overlooked by; the reviewers of this 9en8on'a presentation. In the initial production there was no connecting link between the first two acts and the third act. other than that-of the historical relation. Th third act then Stood out purely as a historical aftermath. In the author's revision of this act he has Introduced a well-defined connecting link, from the first to the final act and without violating the historical accuracy.

One of the dramatic Incidents of the first act Is the buptlsm of the first Indian child at San Diego by Father Junlpero Serra. Tho suspicious snatch the babe from the arms of the godfather at the inomcnt holy water is being poured upon tha head, and retreat to their mounta! home. The baptismal rit however, hud been performed and the child was now a Catholic. This child Is In-troduced Into the second act 1 an libaldo, the Indian youth who Jni at mass snd whom Father Junlparo says to Ms colleagues should -not be chlded since be vu the Crt OROSCO'S BURBANK THIS WEEK'S FINE FUN OFFERING BEGINNING MATINEE TODAY Modern 'Artistic, EW THEATER IS FINE TYPE. MOROSCOS XEW PLAYHOUSE WELL DECORATED.

Iti-oadway Theater to Become Center of First Production of Xcw Tlays Convenience and Elegance Displayed in Xew Arrangement of tlie Auditorium. BY HECTOR. ALLIOT. Two things most people remember with a tenacious memory are the ship in which they sailed the seas and the playhouse where their deeper and better emotions were aroused. The currents of public opinion are very much like those of the ocean; they sometimes carry the playhouse swiftly on to the harbor of Fame: they are turbulent and tempestuous as well, however, and skillful Indeed must bo the captain at the tiller.

Like a sreat hull on the ways, the new Morosco 'Theater is about to be launched. Tomorrow night It will be christened. A careful survey of this new building, architecturally, marks the Morosco Theater as the type of the 1913 playhouse. It seems to fulfill, and that abundantly. the most exacting modern requirements.

It Is practically monolithic, belne; constructed of cement throughout, In front, in the body of the house and In the actors' and mechanics' quarters. Eight exits on each side open Into side alleys and permit of emptying the house in a few Instants; the dresKlng-rooms aro on concrete galleries leading to tiro escapes In the rear. The scenery and chairs are practically all the wood In the building. The safety of audience and players is thoroughly taken care of and so Is their comfort The' chairs used are of a new type, barrel-back, of great convenience, and thirty-two-inch spaces separate each row. Even the comfort of extra heavy patrons has been thought of.

If you peting of the entire, house and under each and evt seat is one of the nu mcrous exclusive features of the new playhouse, while, the ventilation and conveniences for patrons are un efiualed in any theater "America. The first play to be presented -is Wlnchell Smith's famous comedy suc cess, "The Fortune Hunter, recog. nlzed as the biggest comedy hit of the last five years. It will bo presented by the full strength of the splendid new Morosco Producing company, la- eluding such brilliant and well-known players as Orrin Johnson, Harrison Hunter. Herbert Standing, Morgan Wallace, Howard Scott, Thomas Mc-Larnle.

James K. Applebee, Robert Ober, James William Wolbert, Frances Ring. Grace Valentine, Beatrice Nichols and others. "The Fortune Hunter" provides excellent opportunities for every, member of the oast, and in this respect a bet ter vehicle for the opening could not hav been selected The play has been in rehearsal for three weeks under tne flirection or Mr. Morosco and James Nelll and a per feet performance Is assured.

The scenic production and great number of properties wore purchased out- rlpht by Mr. Morosco from Cohan Harris, who owned the original New York production of the play, The audience on tho opening nlaht will be a most brilliant ope, being representative of Los Angeles' social Sft. while a goeat numner or dox and theater parties have been arranged for the remainder of the first week's performances. There will be matinee performances at the now Morosco Theater on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, as prevailed at tna r.eiaseo Majestic. One of the distinctly fine theatrteal events of the season Is the ltresenta- tlon this week, beginning tonight, at the Majestic Theater, of Rupert Hughes's famous Pullman farce, "Ex-ruse Me," by 'all odds tho funniest farce that has come to the American stage In years.

In presenting this laughing success at the Rroadway playhouse for the second time, Venry W. Savage, is Again sending 'Mills P. Sweatnam In the rote of the Oolored portsr, a part Ths Burbsnlt stock company presents, for the first time fcy any stoek organization, Blanche Bates' recent big romantlo somedy success, 66 Nobody's Widow" TII1S COMEDY. BY AVFRY HOPWOOD, TS ONE OF THE REAL HITS OF THE LAST TWO SEASON'S. IT AFFORDS EVERY POPULAR MEMBER OF THB BCR-BANK COMPANY UNCOMMONLY FINE OPPORTUNITIES AND IH BOUND TO PItOVB ONE OF1 THE MOST DELIGHTFUL COMEDY OFFERINGS Oi' THE TEAR.

Matinees. 2S and cents. Nights. 25. SO and It cents.

NEXT WEEK'S EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION First production by any stoek eempany In America of Oorgo M. Cohan's rip-roaring laughing sensation. "GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD." Seat go on sale tomorrow morning. Tho Week. EW MOROSCO OPENS MONDAY.

"THE TORTUXE HUXTER" TO IX-TRODUCE XEW "Excuse Me" Returns to Majestic. Jolly Cohan Comedy la Mason's Offering Ada Reevo lleadllner of Orpheum' Bill Attractions at Stock and Variety nouses? The most notable theatrical event of recent years will occur tomorrow night, when the new Morosco Theater, on Broadway, between Seventh and eighth streets, will throw open its doors to tho theater-going public. Tho new Morosco Theater will be Los Angeles' most modern and beautiful playhouse, while it Is the finest constructed and safest theater In America today. The new theater is built along the lines predicted by Oliver. Morosco some time ago, as the theater of tho future, having an auditorium of unusual width and containing but seventeen rows of seats on the lower floor and but twelve rows of seata In the first and second balcony, bringing every auditor closer to the stage and' monplace, one sees only dignified motifs of classical design, relieved by a strong frieze of Kubenesque cuplda in relief encircling the.

stage, high up in the soft shadows of diffused light Hot or cold air Is brought under each scat. The house Is illuminated throughout by indirect lighting, which blends the soft grays, relieved by gold with the maroon tones of the plush curtain and of the upholstery. John Collette painted for the new house a very simple curtain representing English woodland in spring time, and, marvelous to relate, there are no figures in It nor cows. It emphasizes well the quiet and restful scheme of other decorations. Following the example of European playhouses given exclusively to the production of the drama, the orchestra pit wili have no orchestra.

A bank of autumn leaves will occupy the place where usualfy disturbing noise Is dispensed by Indifferent rrtu-Hlqians. Genuine drama of merit needs no longer the crcus syren between the acts to disturb the Intelligent discussion of tho play by appreciative patrons. In arrangement the Morosco Theater seems to fulfill all desirable requirements for the sane, convenient and effective presentation of the bet ter phases of the drama by a stock company In this pleasing frame what Is the rrf re tu to A Tier IT ICUIH IllUrtllt-rv DiCS FEBRW. Manager. THIS WEEK Beginning Matinee Today BARGAIN MATINEES TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.

TIM Lyceum stock company presents the famous rural comedy drama. The Bmry Frm TTUf TRFMENporSI rOTTT.AR PLAT WFU HAS DELIGHTED MILLIONS Cr AMKR1CA TRKATEnOOERS WILT. BB GIVEN A PRODCCTION OF KLAROnATKNKMH. ITS ONB OF THOSB OBNUINKI.T GOOD PLATS I TOU CAN'T AFKORD TO MIB8. Nights, 10, jotXT Krsmsrs gslsbrata.