The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

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THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 Bruce and Mabel Calvert, now 1 the Liberty Girls Burlesque ipany, Columbia Wheel, will ar- 11; from Chicago the first of the ling week to join the James Post sical Comedy Company. Mr. ice will play the opposite Ger- n comedy to Mr. Post. The Post npany opens at the Wigwam atre, Sunday matinee, April I2. i!mmett Sheridan has forsaken dramatic stage for the movies. (Sheridan will soon be occu- as stage director for a new fiii that will open a studio in this rhos. C. Leary, a noble Coast De- der and a Broadway comedian of reputation, has been playing an ' agement at the Gaiety. He is ' rhaining on tlie Coast on account the age of his fatlier, who is a pjneer of the city of Oakland. 3ene Anderson, the Santa Cruz rtnager, has leased his picture the- a e and is a visitor here this week, rank Pollard came down the r day from Vallejo, where he a moving picture house; like- \8e one at Benicia. Frank reports 'tkt the Jas. Post Company are thiing people away at every per- fnnance in Vallejo. hris Lynton is down from Port- ' 1 to visit the Coast Defenders, :n he has not seen for a long He will linger with us in case od engagement is offered him. jliddie Gilbert's wife returned ihm Los Angeles the first of the 1'. She has been confined in a iiital undergoing an operation ; d is all right again-—and Eddie is 11'py. Jimmy Cooke, stage director at c Wigwam, was howling mad last lesday because he could not get ay to see the opening game be- een the Seals and the Tigers, but 111 Burke was there and explained Jimmy what the Venice boys did the Seals. Oh, what an opening r Del Howard! Alma Astor and her sister, Grace, nnerly of the Post Company, are i\v members of Monte Carter's mipany, and will journey with nte to Stockton, where the Car- r Company opens on the I2th. Ruth Lagrange left Wednesday join the Jack Golden Company San Jose, where Jack is packing le Market Street Theatre at every low. Blake and Amber, the world- imed duo, are sending actors and ;tresses to Lou Jacobs in Phoenix, rizona. They have the best fitted p offices in this city, being located 1 the Tivoli Theatre Building. Charley Alphin will open the Al- hin Theatre in Los Angeles, April th, with musical comedy. Charley Byrne, comedian with -thel Davis Company, is on his way 0 Chicago, but sends word that the eturn dates to California cannot ommence too quick for him. He (lisses the balmy spring air of our limate and wants to see John icroeder and Nowlson. Ben Deeley is on the Coast up lorth, but will be with us shortly at he Orpheum. He wants to look )ver his ranch up at Folsom and ;ee mama. This will occur after he plays the Oakland Orpheum and a week at Los Angeles. Then he rests before taking up his return dates over the Orpheum Circuit. Joe Hayden will be with us in person on April I2th. He is com- ing down from the Springs to pay Jas. Post a visit on his opening at the Wigwam. Gus Leonard has taken Eureka by storm. His quaint comedy, al la German, is a revelation to the pa- trons of the Margarita Theatre, where the Ed Armstrong Company are playing musical comedy. Manager Culligan, formerly of the Gaiety Theatre, Oakland, has dis- posed of all his interests in that house to a party from San Francis- co. The house is still running mu- sical comedy in opposition to Dillon and King, who are in the next block across Broadway. Dell and Mrs. Harris left for Los Angeles last Wednesday for a visit. Dell will probably open at Vallejo on his return, with musical comedy. Joe Leal, who has picture houses at Honolulu and Mauri, is a visitor in our city. He came for the pur- pose of having a cataract removed from his eye. Ed Dale, Matt Burton and Frank Leahy took in the opening ball game of the season last Tuesday. Where were Will Cross and Harry Llallen? Working for Jack Golden at San Jose. Tommy Smith of the Empress Theatre says his nine can beat Del Howard's Seals, if they can't play any better than they played that opening game, and Tommy says he will put John Considine against IMayor Rolph as a pitcher, and use Sid Grauman for umpire. The Dunsworths played the Opal Theatre, Hollister, for Elmer Tom- kins last week. Their neat Irish act went over big. The Dunsworths are relatives of Judge Dooling of the Federal bench, formerly of Holl- ister. Pete sang for the Irish Fair a dozen years ago and the inhabi- tants did not forget him. They gave the Dunsworths a royal time after the show. Viola Allen is to go into vaude- ville. Anna held docs a poor vaudeville act. Green and Parker join the Weber- fields show. Elsie Janis is now leading woman of a London show. Frank .Sheridan is playing a sketcli, Blackmail, in vaudeville. William Faversliam is putting a tabloid Squaw Man in vaudeville. Martha Russell and Company in The First Law of Nature, opens on the Pantages Circuit next week. Willard Jarvis' Alpha Sextette is giving St. Joseph, Mo., a touch of From Ragtime to Grand Opera. A suit was filed recently in New York by Abraham L. Erlanger to foreclose a mortgage for $75,000 on four parcels of real estate owned by the estate of the late Timothy D. Sullivan, who was a partner in many of the plaintifFs theatrical enter- prises. The defendants named are Patrick FI. Sullivan and "Larry" Mulligan, half-brothers and execu- tors of "Big Tim's" estate; Ada LAURETTE TAYLOR In PEG O' MY HEART By J. Hartley Maimers; Cort Theatre, New York; now in its second year. PEG O' MY HEABT A—Eastern; Elsa Ryan. B—Southern; Blanche Hall. C—West and racific Coast; Peggi« O'Neil. PEG O' MY HEART D—Northern; Marion Den tier. PEG O' MY HEART E—IVIidille West; Florence Martin. THE BIRD OP PARADISE, by Uii-liard Walton Tiilly. PEG O' MY HEART PEG O' MY HEART Oliver Morosco Co. Theatres Los Angeles, Cal. The Majestic Theatre The Morosco Theatre The Burhank Theatre The Iiycenm Theatre The Republic Theatre OTHER ATTRACTIONS KITTY GORDON in Pretty Mrs. Smith, with - (Jrant and Greenwood. Cort Theatre Boston, in- definite. Jack Lait's smashing success, Help Wanted, Maxime Elliott Theatre, New York, indefinite. Help Wanted —■ Cort Theatre, Chicago, indefi- nite. JAMES POST and his famous Honey Girls Returned to home theatre—Post's Grand, Sacramento, and playing to capacity audiences Spaulding Musical Comedy Co. in Honolulu A big success. Have broken all records. LOUIS B. JACOBS TABI.OXD MXTSICAi; COMEDY CO. Presents Fritz Fields, Hazel Wainwright AND THE DANCING DOI.I.S SAVOY THEATRE—PHOENIX Ijouis B. Jacobs, Ijcssee and Manager Want to hear from good musical comedy people—Al chorus girls, $20 C. J. HOLZMUELLER—THEATRICAL APPLIANCES Maker of Arc I^amps, Biinch I^ig'hts, Strip Iiig-hts, Border Iiig-hts, Switchboards and Rheostats 229 12th Street, Phone Park 6169, San Francisco, Cal. .Sullivan, a daughter, and Katherine .Sullivan, who put forward a claim to being a daughter. The two wom- en are named in the suit to avoid any possible complications. Mr. Erlanger sets forth that he loaned "Big Tim" $75,000 in December, 1909, taking as security a mortgage on parcels in East Thirteenth, East Fourteenth, East Twenty-third and East Thirty-fourth streets. The ])apers state that T. D. Sullivan I)romised on December 21, 1911, to repay the loan, but that neither the interest nor principal was repaid. The biggest popular-priced specta- cle to traverse the Empress circuit in many months will be seen at the local sliow house in the near future. John 11 Hymcr will present The Mermaid and the Man, a musical comedy in which Clark Rose and May Haight are featured. The act is one of youth, beauty, sunshine and song, and OaKdale, Cal. STAB THEATRE K. C. SHRARER, manager. A live one for real shows. Seating capacity, 375. Road shows write for open time. carries scenic embellishments rarely attained in the big shows. There are fourteen characters in the sketch. The Punch, a dramatic sketch, will be seen at the Empress shortly, with Marietta Craig in the leading role. Miss Craig is capably supported by George Harrie and Sydney Bennett. A. E. W. Barnes, the English ac- tor playing Jean to Olga Nether- sole's Sapho, over the Orpheum time, took .some unintentional car rides, figured in an automobile acci- dent, became lost in a Seattle forest, missed his dinner, was shot at as a highwayman and barely made his performance at the Orpheum, all in tlie space of three hours' time one day recently in Seattle. My word, but it was exciting!