The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 31, 19.I4 ACKERMANN OlIGLEY LITHOGRAPHING CO. KANSAS CITY, MO. 115-121 "WEST FIFTH STKEET, j NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE NOW READY WRITE FOR COPY COMPLETE LINE OF DRAMATIC PAPER JIST FINISHED Send your Fermanent Address and we will keep you advised at all times con- cemingr Mew Iiiues of £aper we are making' for Stock Orders. If in need of Special Zaper 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 NE'W IiINE 4-coIor Fictorlal . Ziithograph I-aper ior FABCE COMEDY that will l;e ready for shipment about Becemtier Ist. "Write for Illustrated Iiist at that time. Alcazar Theatre The season of Irish plays, with the Irisli singinjj comedian, Andrew Mack, starring in the leading roles, lias given San Francisco two delight- fully different specimens of his wares, and next week he will api)ear, for the first time locally, in his own version of the greatest 'of all the Irish plays, .\rrah-Na-Pogue, which was written by the great and only Dion lloucicault. Mack will appear in the rollicking role of Shaim, the Post, a Wicklow car- man. The i)lay will be staged on a scale of magnificence and more elabor- ation an 1 i)ictures(|ue detail than ever before in San Francisco. The Orpheum Next week there will be a bill of headliners. Willa Holt Wakefield, "the lady at the piano," one of the most brilliant entertainers in this country, will play her last vaude- ville engagement in this city. Ed- die Leonard, the minstrel, will make his first api)earance in white-face. Assisted by Mable Russell, he will sing songs and indulge in soft-shoe dancing. Claud and Fannie Usher will ap])ear in a new sketch, entitled The Straight Path. Dr. Carl Her- man will ])erform marvelous feats with electricity. Coleman will intro- duce his trained animals, consisting of dogs, cats, pigeons and squirrels. Xance O'Neil will return for next week only, and present her charac- terization of Leah in the "curse scene" from The Jewess. The only holdovers will be the ()riginal Four I'erez and Walter Lawrence and I'"rances Cameron in their successful musical skit, A Bit of Broadway. The Empress i'.eginning Sunday afternoon a fit- ting novelty in the person of a bear will be the headline attraction. "Big Jim" is a jolly old bear, and according to Eastern critics he is some dancer, too. "Big Jim" is one of the real sensations of the age. Maurice Free- man & Co. will be the special feature attraction in an original Italian play- let, called Tony and the Stork. Frostick Hume and Thomas present a rollicking comedy, in which the three combine their voices, singing the lat- est songs with breezy sayings. Chas. C. Drew & Co. have an excellent of- fering in which song and patter are combined in their comedy playlet, en- titled Mr. Flynn from Lynn. Wil- liams and Warner, the mirthful musi- cians, have a number of odd and queer musical instruments. The Broad- way Ihirlesque Girls, a company of ten which has been imported from the New York Hippodrome, should prove a great hit. Other added attractions together with the motion pictures rounds out a good show. Spotlights Oliver Murosco has selected Springfield. New Haven, and Hart- ford, for the preliminary presenta- tion of his i)roduction of Jack Lait's new drama. Help \Vanted, which is scheduled for a IJroadway engage- ment beginning the first week in I*"ebruary. with a specially chosen companv headed by Chas. Richman and Lois Meredith. The i)lay is a current attraction at the Cort The- atre, Chicago, with Henry Kolker in the part of Scott, the character which Mr. Richman will play with the New York company, and has be- Cfjme so successfully established in that city that it promises to remain there throught)Ut the balance ot the season. The New York company will begin a two-days' engagement at the Court Square Theatre, Spring- field. Mass., on the 26th of this month. Chas. A. Abbe and Rosa- mond 0"Kane have been engaged for imi)ortant parts. San I'Tancisco and Los Angeles will be the only cities on the entire Pacific Coast to have the pleasure of seeing Milestones, the comedy by Arnold P.ennett and Edward Knob- lauch, which Klavv & Erlanger are presenting with the original com- pany of English actors that appeared m this iilay during its tvvo-3'ears' run at the Adelphia Theatre. Lon- don, and the New York engagement of a year's duration at the Liberty 'J'heatre. Milestones will be offered at the Columbia next month. John Cort has given Mclntyre and Heath the best production these comedians have ever had in The Ham Tree, a revival of which will be revealed shortiv at the Cort Thea- tre here. The two interpreters of eccentric negro tvpes have been be- fore the public for something like forty years, and they are generally regarded as the foremost in their line. The Ham Tree has been made funnier than ever. A dancing team of thirty of America's best soft-shoe buck-and-wing dancers is one of the features of the performance. Emma Trentini will make her first San I'rancisco appearance at the Cort soon in The Firefly, the delight- ful comedv opera which first brought the captivating little prima donna in- to prominence. The operetta is pro- duced by Arthur Ilammerstein, son of the famous grand opera impres- ario, Oscar Hammerstein. The pro- duction, it is said, has been embel- lished with every ])ossible touch known to the art of staging a com- edy opera. Kismet has apparently created a furore from inany standpoints, and scenically it is a marvel. A peculiar condition prevailing with the sale of seats at the box-office is that there is an unusual demand for balcony and gallery seats. We wonder if the bathing scene has anything to do with this. Theatregoers who feel that vice plays are meeting with more than their share of attention and success should note that in America alone Ik'u-Hur has been i)rcsented 4404 times to gross receipts of $6,497,543. The business in Great Britain and Australasia brings the total receipts of this extraordinary play to $7,891,- 601.50. Of this sum Gen. Lew Wal- lace and his estate have received a large part. I'en-Hur is still touring the L'nited States with as much suc- cess as it had ten years ago. A divorce from Goldie Drew, known on the stage as Gracie Drew, was granted, Jan. 20, to John W. Drew of St. Louis, at Clayton, Mo., a suburb. Grace Drew apjicared in San I'Tancisco at the Yan Ness Theatre in The Land of Nod. Milestones, the delightful play of three generations, by Arnold I3ennett an 1 Edward Knoblauch, is now en tour through the South, headed for the Coast. It is interpreted by an all- luiglish company. The part of Emily Rhead, which is of especial impor- tance, is |)layed by Cathleen Doyle. Elsie I'"erguson is entering upon the third month of her New York engage- ment in tiiat <lelit;htful mid-Western comedy by William Hurlbut, The Strange Woman. The Strange Wom- an effectively contrasts the narrow- mindedness and ])rejudices of people in a small town with the liberal ideas and larger outlook on life of a bril- liant woman of Continental education coming among them to wed a young architect. It is the sort of a play that grips you with its inten.sely dramatic moments and yet at the same time nM>ves you to genuine, hearty laugh- ter at the quaint small town tyi>es and the witty lines. Klaw & Erlangcr's beautiful pro- duction of The Little Cafe, the new- est musical i)lay by C. M. S. McLel- lan and Ivan Caryll, is nearing its one himdredth performance at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York. The Little Cafe has taken a firm grip upon theatregoers who delight in beautiful stage pictures, tuneful music, witty lyrics and genuinely funny situations. Ivan* Caryll, the compo.ser, has just arrived in this country to consult with Klaw and Erlanger upon a new play. He lias homes in London. Paris and New York, but aims to make his per- manent residence in this country, of which he is now a naturalized citizen. The Man Inside, the "crook" play in which the New York public mani- fested unusual interest, has begun a long tour this week with the original cast. It is presented under the direc- tion of David Belasco. The most original scene in the play is the first act, representing the interior of a Chi- nese "opium joint." Here, in full view of the audience, one of the characters, tellingly impersonated by Clare Wcl- don, "cooks" a "pipe" of "dope," a ])iece of .stage "business" that ranks with the most realistic ever devised by the man who is credited with being the "master of stagecraft." Oliver Morosco is making immedi- ate arrangements for the organization of another company for the presenta- tion of Jack Lait's new drama, Hel]) Wanted, which is now playing to fine business at the Cort Theatre. Chicago, and which will remain in that city in- definitely. l*"or the new company Mr. JMorosco has engaged Charles Richman and Lois Meredith for the two principal characters in the cast. They will head the company that will present the play in New York about the second week in February. Re- hearsals of Help Wanted are now being conducted by T. Daniel Frawley at the Cort Theatre, Chicago. Oliver Morosco's Peg O' My Heart Company (E)', with Lois Meredith. Cecil Owen, L. G. Carroll, Harold Hendee, John E. Trevor, Crosby Lit- aWEBER \ CO. nt^HHl^ Opera Cliairs |d^SS&II^^ theatbe and bmw^^^^^p haz.1^ seats Bjw*^ M^ft 365-7 Market'Street ■H San Francisco ft Iios Angeles, Cal. ¥3<W. CWrk St.CWito.<.\V.\.. Ton S VOU CANOTStT tLStv^KtRl tie. \'iolet Moore. .Albert Gran and Florence Roberts in the cast..gave a si)ecial performance of the J. Hartley' Manners comedy at .Auburn Prison. Auburn, N. Y., on New Year,'s Day, the performance beginning :at 19:30 A.M., for the entertainment lof itiw pri.soners. This is the first time li)i the history of the Auburn Prison that a professional company has appcaml on the well-fitted stage of that insti- tution. The morning ijerformancc \C3s the first of three that was given by.tlie company on that day, the other t^vtj being at the JefTerson Theatre, in iMt town, afternoon and night. ./ L. ,•; John Cort will shortly pre.s*nt-jat his theatre here the ever-popular fun- makers. Mclntyre and: Heath,-in .Jrti elaborate revival of Tlje Ham Tt(«*e, which has been smashing-records fw laughter and bu.siness on its t-our <3f the country. Mclntyre and ' Heath stand alone as delineators of jquaifit negro characters. The Ham Tree'hSfs been revised and brought up-to-date, and much that is new and original Vvill be found in its present form. The en- tire ]iro(luction was staged by -NtAl Wayburn. A pulchritudiUous- cIkwhs is one of the features of The-Ham Tree. ' • 5 The roster of A Bachelor's 'Hewey- moon Conqjany is A. Mayo I'radfil-ld, Rose Ainsworth Bradfield, Wilbur Higby. W. L. Gouldin. Manuel Cais- tano, Wilbur Martin. The Stull Tiio —Leona Stull. Thelma Stull.'Myrtle Stull. The show is meeting with de- cided success in this State. In Lxfdi and Oakdale recently-the engagemeivts were played to turn-away audiences. In Modesto and in other , tow^ns :J;he performance was a great .success. ..'- George B. Howard closed his tour with David Harum at Enderby. Ix C. Jan. 6. Howard met witli a success- ful .season. Members of the company returned to Vancouver. Only two cities in the State of.Cali- fornia are to see Milestones, presented by the London-New York cast. The lour of the company has Ix'en limitc<l owing to the arrangements looking to- wards having the organization.back, .in London early in May.