The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

♦ 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW April i8, 1914 Columbia Theatre Chaunccy (Jicott, in his alto;:;"ctlicr tlclis^htful Irish romance, Shamccii Dhu, is a decided success at the Co- hinibia Theater, where he remains for a second and final week commencing with this Sunday night. More than ever is Olcott welcome this season, for his play from the pen of Rida Johnson Young shows the actor and his splendid supporting company to fine advantage in a play that at once interests and entertains. Shameen Dhu has been staged under the direc- tion of Henry Miller, whose master hand is seen from the first curtain to the last when the pair of lovers find their hajipiness and make ready to start on their journey to the land of the free. Olcott has a number of si)lendid song gems for this produc- tion and as lie is singing in better voice than he has for a number of seasons back, the songs are received with great enthusiasm. The production is es- ]x'cially elaborate, and Olcott gives a fine inter])retation of the stellar role. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Cort Theatre The big New York \\ inter Garden entertainment. The Honeymoon Ex- press, with its large com])any of jolly funmakers headed by .\1 Jolson, is all that it has been heralded to be and then some. This delightful spectacle which easily represents the finest ex- ample of production seen in this city for many years, is Parisian in fiavor. full of delightful music, vaudeville specialties, with a large and pretty chorus for nearly every song and a new song for every few minutes, to- gether with a finished company of principals, which in addition to W Jolson also includes Melville Ellis. Ada Lewis. Marie Robson, .Anna Wheaton, Syhyl Sunday, Marie Fen- ton. Doyle & Dixon, Donald McDon- ald, Arthur Monday, Jack Storey, every one of whom knows how- to put over the kind of humor that brings a laugh with every turn. The final week of the engagement of The Honeymoon Express at the Cort Theatre will begin next Sunday even- ing, and like this week, three matinees. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, will also be given. Alcazar Theatre Willard Mack and Marjorie Ram- beau have "arrived" at the Alcazar Theatre. No other two players ever leaped into the afifections of the pat- rons of the popular O'Farrell Street playhouse, or the local theatregoing iniblic, for that matter, as did these two on last Monday night. It would seem that from now on they are to be Alcazar fixtures. For their second week, beginning next Monday night, April 20th, they will offer another powerful play from their extensive rejH'rtoire. This will be a drama of the Secret Service, entitled The De- serter, in which Helen Ware scored one of her greatest succes.ses. The story of this splendid play is of un- usual interest. It centers around a murder committed in the prologue of the play. A United States army man. thinking he lias killed a man in a fight, flees from justice and goes out We.st. The victim is really killed by another but the guilt is placed upon the de- serter. A Secret Service agent, a Coast Costume Co. Aiueiicnn Theatre Blclg'., Market and 7th WARDROBE AND COSTUMES FURNISHED FOR AI.Ii OCCASIONS Largest and Ucst Musical Comedy Wardrobe in the West Phone Park .")104 woman, is presseil into service and she tracks the deserter to San Francisco, where she learns that he frequents a certain dance hall on the Barbary Coast. Getting herself up as an en- tertainer she goes to the dance hall and there she meets her man. He falls in love with her and she succeeds in lur- ing him to her room in a cheap lodg- ing house where it is her ]:)urpose to hand him over to the police. In the meantime, however, she has fallen in love with him, and in her room he tells her of the murder he thinks he has committed. This brings her to her senses and she tells him who she is and the object of her attentions to him. It breaks her heart to do so. .\ power- ful scene between the two is enacted in which he accuses her of having trapped him through the medium of tiicir love. She turns him over to the l)olice but later succeeds in clearing liis name. In the dance hall scene, on the liarbary Coast, many specialties will be introduced by Miss Rambeau. Charles Compton and the other Alca- zarans. Gaiety Theatre The Echo registered a great hit last Sunday night and since then has been playing to greatly ]jleased audiences at the merry little theatre in O'Farrell Street, where Rock and b'ulton as the stars of the organization are maintain- ing and increasing their popularity. Most of the sup])orting company has been selected from The Candy Shop, which means that it is the best danc- ing-singing-comedy organization in the We.st. Will Philhrick has regis- tered a tremendous hit in the fantastic role of "the bell boy of the Echo hotel"; while Kitty Doner, who will be recalled as the livelier member of "the Alimony Sisters" in The Candy Shop, has a splendid opportunity to disclose her dancing and comedy abil- ity. Mary Ambrose, Bessie Franklin, Oscar Ragland. Frances White, Fred- eric Santley, Estelle Baldwin, and many others conspire in one of the finest onslaughts on melancholy that lias ever been offered local audiences. The Orpheum Next week will be the la.st of David Bispham. who will present an entirely new program of songs. A splendid new bill will also be pre- sented. Harry Gilfoil will api)ear in his original and clever character im- personation. Baron Sands. In his satire of gay old age Mr. Gilfoil has supposedly just returned from a cir- cus and much of the fun is derived from his imitation of the animals com- posing the menagerie. Ed. Blondell, assisted by Katlieriiie Caine. will ap- pear in the diverting skit. The Lost Boy. Ruth Roye, Princess of Rag- time, a handsome, dashing girl, who sings well an 1 has a keen appreciation of the meaning of the words she ut- ters, will be heard in the newest rag- time songs. Keno, Walsh and Mel- rose, a trio of expert gjmnasts and comedians, will in eccentric make-up WlNFIEIiD BLAKE and AMBER AMUSEMENT AGENCY (Under City and State License) Talent supplied for all occasions. Our Author's Exchange has on hand at all times a number of original dramatic and comedy sketches and plays for sale or on royalty. TIVOU OPERA HOUSE—3rd floor. Phone Doug-lass 4O0 perform a rapid roiuiiie of acrobatic and sen.sational feats. Jack Ward and Eddie Weber, two exceptionally clever dancers, will bid for popularity in a unique act. entitled A Min.strel lioy's Conception of Art. Kartelli will in- stance his ability by performing in numerable astounding feats on a thread of steel. Next week will be tliQ last of Ben Deely and Company in The New Bell Boy. and Annette Woodman and Guy Livingston in their ballr(_K)m dances. Correspondence I'( )RTLA.\1), .\pril 13.—Theat- rical geography was again changed in Portland the past week, when it was announced that John Considine has closed for the lease of the new- theatre now being erected at Broad- way and Stark streets in this city. This was the house that Thomas J. Noonan had a lease on. and upon his death his brother, Robert, came forward and announced that he would carry out the intentions of his late brother. Then announce- ment was made that Considine had leased the house, and that the own- ers of the property had called off all negotiations with Robert Noonan. Considine said it would be the home of the Orpheum shows. The pres- ent theatre occupied by the Or- pheum will again become the Hei- lig, and will house all bookings of the road shows. Mr. Heilig will take possession the first of July. There is some talk also that George L. Baker will move his stock com- pany to the present Heilig and that the Baker house will be devoted to pictures. This I say happened dur- ing the past week. Today, comes forward George J. MacKenzie, the K. & E. representative in the North- west, with the statement that he had an agreement with Thomas Noonan to the effect that the new house being erected by him would be an exclusive K. & E. house, and that he intended to join hands with Robert Noonan in the court fight already instituted by the latter in their efforts to retain control of the new house. The owners of the l)roperty contend that their con- tract with the late Mr. Noonan was a personal one and that they bar- gained for the expert service of the lessee and that Robert, his brother, cannot fill the bill, but Mr. Mac- Kenzie's statement to the effect that he was to be interested seems to lend color to the Noonan statement that they could deliver the goods, from the theatrical ability stand- point. Anyway, a merry theatrical war is on and not a press agent yarn. llElLKi Theatre (Calvin Heilig, mgr.; William Pangle, res. mgr.): At last the much-talked-of Pego' Aly Heart is with us, opening last night GOLDSTEINS CO. GOSTUMERS Goldstein'sHair and Wig Store Make-up. Play Books. Established 187S. Uncoln Bnildiugr, Market and Fifth Bts. H. Lewin H. Oppenheim GORDAN TAILORING CO. 928 Markat St., h«t. 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The Stratford-Up- on-Avon Plavers open for a week, 20th. BAKER Theatre (Geo. L. Baker, mgr.; Milton Seaman, bus. mgr. ) : Due to the fact that base- ball season opens here this week, Manager Baker offers the latest baseball play, The Girl and the Pennant, in which Christy Mathew- .son collaborated, for this week's bill. It is chock full of baseball dope and will score a home run all week. Miss Shoemaker and Mr. Hall are playing the leading roles, and do .so refreshingly. IMary Ed- gett Baker plays a character role, one in which she excels and Edward Woodruff', \\'alter Gilbert and Thomas Walsh maintain the other important roles in their usual capi- tal style. Next week. The Man Higher Cp. (3RPHEUM Theatre (Frank Coffinberry, mgr.): The bill for this week includes Neptune's Garden of Living Statues; >Ioneta Five; Van Iloven; Nevins and Gor- don : Crouch and Welch; Johnnie Small and Small Sisters; and Pope and Uno. EMPRESS Theatre (H. W. Pierong, mgr.) : Dick Ber- nard and Company are featured. Others'oft'ered are Four Qs; Orville Stamm ; Thornton and Corlew; and Will Morris. PANTAGES Theatre (John Johnson, mgr.): Harry Bul- ger is the headliner and the rest in- cludes Terry Troupe; Vera Berlin- ger; Bruce and Keene; Tom and Stasia Moore; and Juggling Wag- ners. Al Barnes Circus is here, i'>- ,8. A. W. W.