The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

A THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 3, 1914 A. MAYO BRADFIELD Offers for tlic I'"irst Time on the West Coast the Great Hoyt Tlieatrc Comedy Success. A BACHELOR'S HONEYMOON IV)sitivelv the Hest Farce Comedy ^h^t W'iW V>e on the Coast tliis Season. Live Managers Who Want a Real Show That Will Get REAL Money, Address A. MAYO BRADFIELD, Care Dramatic Review, San Francisco. Correspondence SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 30.— Charles Lc Mars, who appeared here this season with one of the circuses, later comint? hack to town, doing an advertisin£j .stunt for local business houses after tlie mechanical doll 'or- der under the title of tiie Smiless Wonder, was arrested Friday on sus- picion of being connected with a white slave case. The evidence on this charge was not strong enough but Le Mars broke down and confessed to holding up and robbing the Irvine Drug Store on South State Street, Christmas Eve, giving as his excuse that he was una1)le to get work and wanting money* to get a Christ- mas dinner "for his protege, a promjited him to the act. It is prob- able that a charge of highway rob- bery will be preferred against Le Mars. Christmastidc meant good cheer for the performers locally, if nowhere else, even though far away from home, and some of them were obliged to do extra shows, the Em- press and Pantages putting on four shows each, instead of the usual three. At the Utah Theatre, Williard Mack acted as host for his company to a nice little party, while Manager C. N. Sutton at the Em])ress acted in a similar capacity for the troujie playing his house. The big affair was planned and carried out l)y Manager L. D. Bruckart at the Orpheum, who not only sent out invitations to the artists and employees working at the Or- pheum. but invited all artists in the city. There was plenty of eats and re- freshments, and dancing and a fine program of amusements was the order of things on the spacious stage, the last participant leaving the house as the day was breaking. Delmar and King, who have for four months been producing at the Majestic gave a Christmas tree and reception at their hotel to the members of their com- pany and the attaches of the theatre, about 25 participating in a general good time. Manager George D. Pyper picked a strong Christmas at- traction when Margaret lllington in Within the Law was booked for the entire week. Though the length of the engagement was a little out of the ordinary for this house, good busi- ness was done each performance, the evenings being to near capacity. The play itself is by Bayard Veiller, and is in four acts. The settings are in keeping with the story and the pre- senting cast is one of exceptional ex- cellence for the depiction of the special characters. Miss lllington rises in her strength at the close of the first act and never for a moment does she per- mit the audience to become tired, her portrayal of the shop girl who became hardened through a prison sentence, being perfection itself. Frank F. Camp gives a true conception of Joe Garson, the thief, and Hilda Keenan is perfect as Agnes Lynch the black- mailer trying to be a lady. The fore part of tiiis week the Salt Lake The- atre is dark with Officer 666 closing out the week. Willard Mack, Mar- jorie Ranibeau and Company are offering The Virginian to big houses. Tlie Orpheum bill opens with l>eaux Arts, artistic posing against a beauti- fully colored picture screen; I lyman Meyer in liis piano offering following. -Austin W ebb and Company in Your Flag and Mine comes in for third l)Osition. Special interest surrounds tliis production as it is from the pen of Willard Mack, local .stock favorite. Mr. Webb is a finished performer and the sketch gives ample opportunity for his abilities and its lines are such as to hold extreme interest every mo- ment. Ellen Beach Yaw furnishes a treat to music lovers, being heard in several selections that display won- derful voice control and giving full .scoi)e to its brilliance. S. Miller Kent and Company in The Real Q have a mysterious playlet that is interesting to say the least and when presented by such a clever performer as Mr. Kent, is a treat. Joe Welch has a fund of stories in his famous Jew make-up that it taking the town by stomi, and Dupree and Dupree, cyclists, close the show in a series of awe-inspiring stunts on the bicycle and unicycle. Empress bill is made up of The Dunedin Troupe of Cyclists (headliners). The Lester Trio, Eddy and Roy, Lewis and Norton, Camp- bell and Campbell, and the Cullen Brothers. Pantages bill has an added attraction in the Murray Horses, two (juadrupeds that are making their initial bow on any stage. With an elegant plush background the dapple- grays go through their features with- out much coaxing, one of the horses seemingly being endowed with a hu- man brain, for she not only does arith- metical problems but can actually tell the time of day. Others on the bill are the Bottomly Troupe of Gymnasts, Wilson and Wilson, yodelers and singers, Richmond, Hutchins and Company in An Eventful Honey- moon, The Oxford Quartette (very good harmony displayed in well se- lected numbers) and the Five Piros- coffis, European jugglers. The Gar- rick last Sunday presented to over- flowing business the Balkan War pic- tures, the Greeks in town turing out in droves. Monday night a boxing ex- liibition was offered and Wednesday and Thursday an opera Love's Isle, by a local boy Rodney W. Hillam, will be given its first showing on any stage, Dillon Williams having general charge of the production. If rehearsals can be counted upon a very good produc- tion will be given, the music being far above the average and carrying a fas- cinating air. Paderewski will be heard in Salt Lake soon when he will appear at the American Theatre. The Ma- jestic Theatre closed down Christmas night for a general overhauling and widening out of the stage to give a good view from all seats. George Morell will have charge of the house when re-opened, everything being new but the price of admission which will remain at ten cents, the name to be changed to Princess. Musical comedy of 'the abbreviated order will liold forth. Delmar and King, who closed at the Majestic Christmas night after a four months' run, have moved with their company intact to Park City, wliere they will go into musical com- edy stock for a short run. The Co- lonial Musical Comedy Company whicli Earl Gandy installed at the Lyceum Theatre in Ogden for a stock run, due to very poor business at this out-of-the-way theatre, lasted but a few weeks now taking to the road south of Salt Lake City, their book- ings as announced to take in Provo, Lehi, American Forks, Tooele, etc. R. STELTER. VANCOUVER Dec. 29.—Avenue Theatre: Tuesday night. The Stan- ford Glee Club; Thursday night and the rest of the week, Otis Skinner in Kismet. Imperial Theatre: The Isa- belle Fletcher Players are putting on a superb production of Rol) Roy this week. Pantages Tiieatre: The Riding Costellos head tlie bill this week. Tlie rest of the fun-makers are Walter Terry's troupe of Fiji girls, six very clever dancers; Billy Gould and his New.sboys' Sextette; The Imperial Japanese Troupe, jugglers and acro- bats ; Allegro, violinist; Lyon and Cullum, song and dance artists and moving pictures. On New Year's eve the Theatrical Association wiU give a l)enefit performance. The bill will be headed by )Maude Leo|ie *ind Del Lawrence in Leone's playlet. The Get- away. The leading actors at all of the theatres have volunteered their ser- vices. Columbia Theatre: The bill here this week is composed of the fol- lowing artists: Mr. and Mrs. Thorn- ton Freil in an act called Economy Junction; Ross and Stuart, German comedy; Belle Gordon, lady bag- puncher ; Libby and Trayer, singing and cliaracters. Commencing Jan- uary 1st: Querry and Grandy, acro- bats ; Maude Spencer, singing comedi- enne : The Two Musical Casads; Jack and Mayme Cagion, comedy singers, and four reels of pictures. Empress: Once more we are having musical comedy. The present bill is musical comedy. The present bill is The Leone has the splendid role of Molly Kelly, the head nurse at the sanitar- ium, and Howard Russell is happy as Happy Johnny Hicks. Day Collins, Alf. Layne, Margaret Marriott. Daisy D'.\rva and Ed. Lawrence are all well ])laced, and Del Lawrence is bad as Del Lawrence. Vaudeville ^otes Arthur Shaw and A'era McCord will be seen at the Oakland Or])he- um next week. The ballet girls at the National Theatre of Mannheim, Germany, re- volted several days ago because the management demanded that they sign contracts to dance barefooted or barcletrged if this was desired. The girls' union brought suit, al- leging that the theatre management was seeking to impose terms deroga- tory to the dignity of the profession. The management dismissed the bal- let girls and the union put the thea- tre on the black list. Mrs. A. T. Williams, a 25-vear-old actress, tried to end her life early Thursday morning by shooting her- self in the side, following a quarrel with her husband. with\vhom she ajipeared in a local vaudev ilie thea- tre last week. Tiie couple liad spent New Year's Eve in the downtown cafes. Shortly before 3 o'clock they had words and Mrs. ^^'illiams left her husband and went to her room in the Cadillac Hotel. She called the night clerk and asked him to tell her husband that he would not see her again. The clerk asked if she was going to run away, and Mrs. Wil- liams declared her intention of com mitting suicide. "I am going to shoot my.self." she said, a second in advance of the report of a pistol. At Central Emergency Hospital the at- tending surgeon 'stated that Mrs. Williams' chances for recovery were good. Dorothy Davis Allen having filled her contracts over Pantaees time, is spending the holidays with her fam- ily in this city. While away. Miss Allen received all kinds of flattering notices, one in particular, written in Seattle, she prizes highly. It reads: cral excellence is at the Pantages "A splendidly balanced bill of gen- this week. Dorothy Davis Allen, a former Seattle stock favorite, and her company in The Redemption, a ro- mance of the slums of San Francisco, is the headliner. The sketch, a clever mixture of comedy and pathos, with a little excitement thrown in by way of good measure, is given a novel opening on the moving-picture screen, the audience being led to the scene of the playlet, a dance hall on the Bar- bary Coast, by means of the camera. Miss Allen, who evidently has lost none of her ability as an emotional actress, scores a personal hit in the part of Nugget Nell." D'Arcy and Williams, vaudeville team now playing Sullivan and Con- sidine time, will dissolve partnership at the close of the tour. Mr. D'.Xrcy is ])reparing a new act with a ladv partner. Verne Layton Leading .Man Invites Offers Care Dk.\m,\'iic Ri:view