The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 3, 1914 ACKERMANN 011I6LEY LITHOGRAPHING CO. KANSAS CITY, MO. 115-121 WEST FITTH STREET, NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE NOW READY WRITE FOR COPY COMPLETE LINE OE DRAMATIC PAPER JUST FINISHED Send your Permanent Address and we will keep you advised at all times con- cerning New Iiines of Paper we are making: for Stock Orders. If in need of Special Paper of any description, advise us just what you want and we will quote you prices on same that will prove interesting'. We have in course of manufacture a complete NEW IiINE 4-color Pictorial Iiithograph Paper for FABCE COMSDV that will he ready for shipment ahout December 1st. Write for Illustrated Iiist at that time. Columbia Theatre Tlie Culuinl)ia i hcatro will be dark during the week of Monday, Jan. 5, the mu.sical production, A BroadiVay Honeymoon, which wa.s to have appeared, having closed its tour in Chicago. On Monday, Jan. 12, the fir.st presentation in the West of the great attraction, Utis Skin- ner in Kismet, will take place. Klaw & Erlanger and Harrison Grey Fiske's production of Kismet brings forward Otis Skinner in a role un- like any that he has played before, but that includes in its re(|uireinents almost every style and quality of acting of which Air. Skinner is mas- ter. Hajj, the beggar of Bagdad, runs the entire gamut of emotion in the course of the play, and the role could not possibly be played by an actor of less than the widest experi- ence. To such a one the role is a delight and Mr. Skinner has made it his masterpiece. Mail orders for the Otis Skinner engagement will not be accepted by the management unless said orders are accompanied by the necessary funds and self- addressed, stamped envelope. This precaution is made necessary by the hundreds of requests for seats made and those who follow out the above request will be given every atten- tion in the matter of choice of seats. The sale of seats will open on Tues- day morning, Jan. 6, two days in advance of the regular advance sale date. The management of the Col- umbia have decided upon this owing to the unusual demand that has been made for reservations. Cort Theatre Many good things were said in ad- vance about Little Women, and all of them were found to be true. For once the advance agent's promises were lived up to. The dear little play has won all hearts and so great has been the attendance, and in or- der to accommodate the hundreds who have been unal)le to obtain even standing room, the management of the Cort Theatre announces the at traction for one week more. Little Women has all the elements to make it an enduring, substantial success. It is one of those simple and rather homely plays, slender of plot, un- romantic of spirit, that live and charm through their keenness of characterization, and occurences that are familiar in every day life. For the first three acts of the play, a replica of the Alcott sitting-room in Concord, Mass., is used, every de- tail complete, even to the dish of apples which Marmee Alcott always insisted upon having upon the liv- ing-room table. It was in this room that the story of Little Women was lived. What more fitting than to use it for the stage picture? For the fourth picture the Plumfield ap- ple orchard is shown in all the gold- en glory of an October afternoon, a veritable harvest home, in which is brought to happy fulfillment the romance of the Alcott tamilv. E.xtra matinees will be given on Tuesday and Thursday, in addition to the usual ones of Wednesday and Satur- day, (iaby Deslys will give a spe- cial matinee and night performance at the Cort owing to the fact that Little Women does not play Sun- days. Margaret Illington in Within the Law comes Sunday, Jan. ii. Alcazar Theatre The Country J!oy will be the me- dium for Evelyn \ aughan and Bert J.-ytell, together with the members of the Alcazar company, to re-enter the sphere of straight drama after a three weeks' excursion into the in- tricacies and mazes of musical com- edy. This will be welcome news to the patrons of the popular O'Farrell Street playhouse. Only two more weeks remain of the engagement of Mr Lytell and Miss V'aughan, and Mic management has been very care- ful in their selection for the two farewell vehicles. The Country Boy tells an unusual and an extremely interesting story. Tom Wilson, a lad born and raised in the country, decides to cast his lot in the city, and to this end he migrates to New York. After a short sojourn there, in n hich he falls in love with a chor- us girl, he finds himself slipping away from the ambition that sent him nito the city, and presently he finds himself a complete failure. His shame in the face of his failure is too strong to allow him to return home and begin all over again, and the cry of the city has deafened in his ears. In despair he turns to fhoughts of suicide. His prepara- tions to end it all form one of the m< si intensely dramatic scenes in any modern play of rect)llection, and l.uvv he is swayed from his purpose by the timely intervention of the o\i\y friend he has in New York, an old newspaper man, forms another situation oi ecjual dramatic strength. In the end he returns home to his mother and to the little girl he had left behind him in the country, and it is a part that should fit Mr. Lytell right down to the ground. Evelyn X'aughan will be cast in the part ol Jane iJelknap, Tom's sweetheart. 'I'his role will afiford Miss Vaughan an opportunity to show her follow- ers a new side of her unmistakable talent. Adele Belgarde, who has been out of the cast during the mu- sical comedy season, will make her re-appearance in the highly amusing role of Mrs. Bannan, the landlady of the New Y'ork boarding house, and A. Burt Wesner will have a splendid opportunity as Merkle, the newspaper man. Gaiety Theatre The appearance tonight and here- after in the Gaiety production. The Girl at the Gate of Bickel and Wat- •son, as chief fun-makers, is being looked forward to with the greatest enthusiasm among local playgoers. The announcement that these two comedians had been secured by the (iaiety was received with joyous ap- yjroval, and the enterprise of the management in inducing them to forego a 32-weeks' contract else- where shows that the policy inagu- rated by the O'h'arrell Street house with The Candy .Shop is lieing just as faithfully adhered to as a pleased and delighted public could hope. Bickel and Wat,son will be remem- bered for the tremendous hit they registered here in Ziegfield's Follies of 1910. In many respects the new (iaiety show has Ijeen materially and agreeably strengthened since its o])ening. It must always be borne in mind that it took eight weeks' steady playing on the road to bring The Candy Shop to the state of per- fection it undoubtedly displayed when it opened Mr. Anderson's the- atre. In addition to the essentially Franklines(|Ue .song numbers that Irene l'>ankiin contril)utes, that pop- ular comedienne is now displaying .some wonderful new Paris creations that represent the last word in stjie and ai)parently the last dollar in l)rice. They are superb. Savoy Theatre Lovers of history, students of lit- erature, photo-drama enthusiasts and all classes of society to whom art and beauty have an appeal, will take peculiar interest in the an- nouncement that Geo. Kleine's lat- est triumph, the Cines photo-drama of Antony and Cleopatra, will receive its first production at the Savoy Theatre, Monday after- noon. The Cines are the master producers of the world and state that in Antony and Cleopatra they have even eclipsed their achievements with Quo V'adis, which created such a sensation at the Columbia Theatre during the summer. They have taken the story of Antony and Cleo- patra from the first moment of the Roman's fascination by the Egyp- tian beauty, through the vicissi- tudes of his career as her consort on the throne to the final episodes where Antony dies defending her against his Roman compatriots, and Cleopatra kills herself by the sting of an asp. It is all presented with a dramatic strength that is difficult to attain upon the screen, and that can only be accomplished by such masters of expression and panto- mime such as the Italian school cre- ates. The scenes showing the Pal- ace of Cleopatra, the landing of the Roman army in Egypt by moon- light, and the triumphant return of (ictavius to Rome are said to be. marvels of beauty and realism and hitherto unequaled in film produc- tions. Antony and Cleopatra will be given twice daily at the Savoy Theatre, at half past two in the af- ternoon and eight-thirty at night. The last performances of the jolly musical comedy. Mutt and Jcf( in Panama will take place at the Savoy Theatre tomorrow afternoon and evening. The Orpheum The Orpheum announces for next week another splendid and novel bill with six new acts. A sensational and per])lexing feature will be Hor- ace Goldin, the royal illusionist, who will i)resent in three series the most stupendous exposition of magic ever witnessed on any stage. Maude Muller, the American eccentric com- edienne, and the possessor of a voice which, had she willed, might have been the pride of grand opera, and Ed. Stanley, a comedian of ver- satility and popularity, who styles mm& CO. Opera Chairs nra AU styles of ■1^^ THEATBE AND KAT.I. SEATS HM L 365-7 Market Street San Francisco V 512 So. Broadway Iios Ang'eles, CaL V3l>f. Clark Si.CW>ta<. \a. T4» Tv.*,^ 8 VOU CANOTStT El.SEV«HeilE himself "The Pride of Picadilly," will indulge in st>ng and story blend- ed in an attractive way. Those sterling and popular legitimate ac- tors, Mr. and Mrs. I'reclcrick Allen, will ajjpear in an amusing sketch en- titled She Had to Tell Him, in which the many opportunities for good act- ing are thoroughly exhausted by them. The Boudini Bros., accorde- on virtuosi, who have given to their instrument the dignity of the violin, will render the most difficult selec- tions and also poi)uIar airs and folk lore songs in that delightful man- ner which has made them so popu- lar. Joe Shriner and Doll Richards in P>its of Nonsense will sing, chat and dance. Their material is clever- ly selected and the spontaneity and vivacity of their work never fails to ensure them success. If canine graduates were awarded degrees. Hector, the calculating marvel who enjoys prominence with Tryon's Dogs, would have as many letters after his name as the most eminent of our quidnuncs. Next week will be the last of the Five Sullys and Lillian Herlein in her singing nov- elty, which is i)roving a great hit. The Empress Sullivan & Considinc arc scndng an- otlier great show to the Empress next week. A Night In a Police Station, a headline attraction, and Prince Floro, a chimpanzee of remarkable intelli- gence, to]) tlie bill. A dainty and sprightly bit of femininity is Mary Dorr. Several character imperson- ations of an Italian, Swede, Rube and the breezy .American girl, are portrayed by this clever mimic, and .she also introduces some new songs. Arthur Geary, tenor, will render a repertoire of ballads. The AToran- dinni Troupe of gymnasts will per- form some daring and hazardous feats. Exponents of darlctown droll- ery are Sam Wilson and Bob Rich, a duo of blackface comedians who arc a sure-fire hit with their songs, dances and originalities. Two other features and motion pictures add to the merit of the program.