The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

/ 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW March 21. 1914. 2 Ouinlan Loses Money With Grand Opera M () X T k E A L, March 7.—Tlic si)eculative clement in the presenta- tion of grand opera, even when it is given in English, is brought out by the announcement by Thomas Ouinlan that his opera company will cancel its Montreal engagement on Monday evening. March gth. nearly two weeks earlier than arranged. A less of be- tween $1,000 and $i,.SOO has residted from each |)erformance so far. it is said. The organization v.ill sail from Halifax for England on Marsh 21st to appear during I^aster week at the new theatre in \Ianchester. " I have been greatly disappointed here." said Mr. Quinlan. "Our companv has not met with success during the whole of its Flmpire tour. I was led to believe when making arrangements for our visit, that there was sufficient culture in Montreal to insure the sujiport of such a company as we have, but the re- verse has been proven." Tluirsday night's receipts were hardlv enough to cover the expense of the orchestra. Blake and Amber W'infield IMake, artistic and practi^ cal developer of stage talent, and Maufle .Amber, keen business woman and tireless worker, have been kept on the jump since the}' established their school and agency. They supply acts, actors and do a general agency business in the Tivoli Theatre I'uild- ing. Among their latest contracts is that of Tommy Leavy for the Candy Shop Contipany, Idora Park Getting Ready (irand opera in condensed form will be given for the first time free of charge when, March 28, the Russian musician, Thaviu, oikmis with his in- ternational band and grand opera company for a season of ten weeks at Idora Park, Oakland. It is planned to give a score of the most popular operas, leaving out the long recitative orciiestral passages and the "dry spots. " Only the high places will be touched—the great arias, duos, trios, (juartets and sextets. Thaviu and his band will have the first half of the program, while the tabloid version of the grand ojjera will be given in about forty-five minutes follow-ing the regu- lar intermission. .Among the artists whom Thaviu will bring to Idora Park are Ernesto (iiaccone, leading tenor: Ralph Erolle, lyric tenor; 15cr- tha Heyman ; Lily Rogers; Sebastian lUirnetti. leading baritone: and O'- Neil Corrigan. Two operas a week are to be given. Opera will also be given at Saturday and Sunday mat- inees. Among those selected are Fau,st, Martha, .Aida, Trovatore. Pagliacci, Love Tales of Hoffman, Lucia, La I'oheme, Cavalleria Rus- ticana. Rigoletto, .Madame Butterlly, Traviata, Glaconda, Sunnambula, Car- men, To.sca, and The Masked Ball. New York Gets After Ticket Speculators NEW YORK, .Marcii 7.—The com- mittee on amusements of the Board of .Aldermen has voted unanimou.sly to recommend the passage of two ordi- nances designed to do away with tick- et speculation. ()ne of the proposed ordinances would reijuire theatres to lirint the price of the tickets on the face and to agree that they would not be a party to their sale above the face value. In order tiiat this ordinance may be made more effective, another ordinance would give the police com- missioner the power to revoke ^the li- censes of all places that connived at ticket speculation. Now the Janitors' Union The Janitors' L'nion has adopted a rule, becoming effective on and after April 1st, permitting its mem- bers emi)loyed in theatres to work not more than eight hours a day. Press Club to Hold "Show" The San Francisco Press Club has chosen the Gaiety Theatre as the scene of its annual "after-the-fire- show," which will be given on the afternoon of April 17th, and the night, beginning at midnight, of Saturday, .April i8tli. The show will be put on by Willifre 1 iUake. Personal Mention Loi'isK Xkm.is opened Monday with the Utah Theatre Stock. Salt Lake City, in The Right of Way. .S.x.xoNK M()Ri..\.\"i). second woiuan of the Salt Lake Stock Companv, closed her engagement with the Utah stock in Salt Lake City last Saturday. Bir.i.ii-: Burke w-ill not go to Lon- don this vear, but will make a tour of the West with her newest play. The Land of Promise. Miss Burke has not been in San Franci.sco in four seasons. EuriiKMi.v t Ekkii:) (Iicrmon, a popular actress of 50 years ago. died on Thursday, March 5, at the .Actors' Inuid Home on Staten Island. Miss (iermon was the daughter of G. C. (iermon, the original impersonator of Uncle Tom. Tu.\T c.R.v.Ni) opera stars are not al- ways successes as husbands was the evidence in Oakland last week in the divorce action of I'Vances Rosa Rus- so against Domenico Russo. The wife was awarded a decree of divorce. Mrs. Russo told a long story of abuses. Grikf Wr.w received a settlement of his claim against the Universal I-'ilm Company on account of pictures taken in Honolulu last vear. Tiie claim Iiad long been hanging fire and the settlement was made week before last in Los .Angeles. \\'ray writes he got all he asked for. WiNCHKLL Smith, the i)laywright, who lives in I'armington, ten miles west of Hartford, Conn., was pain- fully injured March gth, when his car, which he was driving out of a side street, crashed into a trolley car. Smith was seriously cut about the. head and shoulders. Lvi.iAN M,\soN, for many years a leading character woman with Henry Savage, is playing in musical comedy at the I)road\vay Theatre, Oaklancl. Beth \'.\.\ H.m.tren, fainted on the stage of the Broadway Theatre, ()akland, Sunday night while playing with the U}I5 Girls. Griki" Wk.w is in Chicago for a few days on the way to a visit to his peo])le in Wisconsin. Writing to The Dr.xmatic Revh^w from Juarez, Ale.xico, he says: "I will get home if I do not run across any more races or bull fights: one makes illness of the pockets and the other the stom- ach." Luc n.LE P,\kmer, late of the West- ern Madame Sherry Company, has joined Lee Price's musical comedy com])any. as prima donna, now play- ing tlie Broadway Theatre, Oakland. L.\WRE.NCE Bowes and Fred Sn(K)k, the two Idora Park favorites, are playing in musical comedy at the Broadway Theatre, Oakland. After a rest of a few weeks on the Burnham ranch, in the Tamalpais N'alley, Mrs. Douglas Crane will go on a road tour in Louise Gosser Hale's brilliantly successful play. Her Soul and Her P)ody, opening on Eas- ter Monday ni.ght. Airs. Crane and the production will be under the per- sonal direction of I'rederic Belasco. By the terms of an agreement just executed, Wii.i.i.vm Coi.i.hcr is to be- come a musical comedy star under the management of Cohan & Harris, who have announced that this comedian would appear under their direction in a pro 'uction of Forward Alarch, a musical comedy, the book and lyrics by Winchell !>mith, John Golden and I'rank Craven, and the music by John (iolden. H.\RRV L.vuDER and his company were passengers on the Oceanic liner Sonoma Tuesday for Sydney. Al- though the Sonoma will stop at Hono- lulu only a few- hours, the canny Scot, it is said, will take advantage of the brief stay to give a performance in the island city. The affair will have to be in the shajie of a morning matinee, as tiie liner is scheduled to continue her voyage early in the afternoon. Most of the company seen here were close 1, and returned Eastward. « .A SCORE of relatives and friends on Tuesday attended tiie funeral of Theo- ('ore B. Ross, ])ioncer impresario and liolitician, who died at St. Luke's Hos- pital, March 8. aged 96 years. At the conclusion of the simple services the body was cremated. Theodore B. Ross came around the Horn to San I'ranci.sco on a sailing vessel in 1847. During the early fifties he conducted Our Opera Cafe on the site of the ])resent I lall of Ju.stice. The resort was the mecca of visiting and local theatrical celebrities and became inter- nationally known. Later he built and managed .McGuire's Opera-house, in which were presented the leading play- ers and stars of that era. lu). HoEN, the very ])opular show- man and theatrical manager of I'res- no, was seized recently with paraly- sis while on a visit to San P'rancisco. In company with his wife, he was walking down Market Street, wdien suddenly his right hand and arm be- came iiaralyzed. .A doctor was called and advised that Mr. Hoen return to Fresno and gave him the comforting news that he would be in bed for probably the next two months. As Mr. Hoen has a very .strong constitu- tion, it was only three days afterward when he recovered the full use of iiis limbs, and is now in good health. His many friends wijl be glad to hear of this happy outcome of what might have been a hopeless illness. When The Idler is produced at the -Alcazar Theatre a few weeks hence, with Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shan- non in the two stellar roles, these two will be seen in tlie characters created by them in the original New York Lyceum Theatre production. Spotlights Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the most talked-about woman in America will be seen at the Cort Theatri soon. Miss Thaw has won a rea re])utation for herself as a daucei and sin,ger. She appears at the hcai of a notable vaudeville show. -Al Jolson leads the tuumakers ii The lloneymoon Express, the bo of all New York A\ inter (iardei shows, which is announced for earl\ production at the Cort. Associate! with this clever entertainer will b( Melville Ellis. Juliette Dika, Ad; Lew'is. .Anna \\ heaton. Marie I cn ton, Donald MacDonald, Doyle aiu Dick.son, Ethel Rose and the rest n the original company, including ; chorus of 70 pulchritudinous dam sels. There will be no Sunday night per formances during the Henrietta Cro*; man engagement at the Columbi: Theatre. Robert Hilliard in the crook-detec five drama. The Argyle Case, wi! shortly be seen at the Columbia The atre. This is considered one of th genuine .successes of tlie past seaso in New York and will be played iier 1 by the original cast. ]\ir. Ililliar ! last came to San Francisco with hi wonderful performances of A I'oc There W'as. The Argyle Case is sai to sun)ass even his former success. Sari, the Hungarian operetta, am Along Came Ruth, "that pine-tre comedy," Henry \V. Savage's cur rent contributions to New York' list of amusements in New' ^'ork will be fixtures on Broadway for th remainder of the season. Early i the fall both ])roductions. with th original companies intact, will b seen in the largest cities of the cmtii try, as they are scheduled for tour which will take them to the Pacifi Coast and back again. One of the reasons for the succes of Along Came Ruth, the Henry W Savage production of Holman Day' comedy of New F.ngland life no\ current at the Gaiety Theatre. Xe* York, is the excellence of its preser tation. In selecting the cast for i Mr. Savage displayed his character istically good judgment of actin values and individual ability. Ireii I'enwick has the name role. Otliei in the cast are James Bradbury, Jo Kilgour, Vivian Wcscll, Alaude Tu ner Gordon, Edgar Nelson, bran M. Thomas. Ethel Langdon, Loui-' Sydmuth, V. J. McCarthy, Sol. -Aike and John McKenna. Mclntyre and Heath, and tl world's best dancing chorus, are pla; ing to capacity audiences in the Nortl west \n John Cort's production < George V. Hobart and Jean Schwart musical comedy. The Ham Tree. Tl tour of these celebrated comedians h; been highly profitable throughout tl entire season, w Inch will not end un about the first of Jime. Mr. Co will send the same organization ( tour next sea.son. The Knute Knutson Company w attached by the company in Salt Lai Citv recently for unpaid salari< Louise Xellis, leading woman, got her claim first and, of course, was tt lucky one. » T. Elmore Lucey, who is a very w known actor and entertainer, is head this wav with an entertainment pi I gram and w ill reach the Coast in a f< J weeks. vH