San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

May II, 1901 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW e Henry Miller s Busy Summer Henry Miller's summer season at the Columbia promises to be full of nov- elty. Several new plays and the old favorites of his repertoire will be given. Of the plays there will be Heartsease, Gudgeons, Frederic Lemaitre.The Im- portance of Being Earnest, and one entirely new play. The Importance of Being Earnest will be a novelty here. It is really one of the very best of modern comedies. The new play Mr. Miller brings out is called Darcy of the Guards, and is from the pen of Louis Evan Shipman. The scenes are laid in Philadelphia at the time of the British occupancy of the city. Darcy is a rattling Irish officer in the British service who falls in love with a Colonial girl. The story is simple, but it is strong and picturesque and dramatic. It will be produed in the East next season. After the close of his Summer season, Mr. Miller is go- ing to take a pleasure jaunt through the West. He intends to visit the beautiful places that he has heard so much of. He will go through the Yoseraite and the Yellowstone, and visit all the other show places. McCourt Doesn't Lack Nerve If Peter McCourt, manager of the Broadway Theatre and Tabor Opera House, and president of the Colorado Amusement Company, carries out his threat there will be an amusement famine in the Colorado towns next season and during the remainder of the present season. " I have cancelled the engagement of every company which I had booked over the Silver Circuit," said Mr. McCourt, "and will not send another company over that route until the trouble is entirely settled. If the boycott is continued into next season, then I shall refuse to play any attractions through the State at all and the towns which are embraced on the Silver Circuit—which includes all those of any importance in the State—will be without theatrical entertainment during all of next win- ter." Concerning the statement of the stage hands, that they had the promise of Klaw & Erlanger, representing the theatrical trust, that whenever they could show that the strike hurt busi- ness in Denver or in the State they would compel him to settle, Manager McCourt said: "Klaw & Erlanger have nothing to say in the matter. My contract with them reads that they shall furnish me the attractions which play the Western territory; I have the right to reject this arrangement, and our contract has no bearing upon the matter at all. The attractions which play Denver would come here if there was not another town in the State." The Tabor and the Broadway, Mr. McCourt says, will close within two weeks for the season, and will not reopen until next fall. "We may play a few big things this summer," he said, " but there will not be any regu- lar summer season. The Tabor closes after the performance of The County Fair, a week from Sunday, and the Broadway with the Henry Miller en- gagement. Next season's openings will be early, and one of the first at- tractions will be Blanche Bates as Cigarette in Under Two Flags." Lillian Andrel^s V/as Surprised During a rehearsal of the James Neill Company on the stage of the California last Tuesday, Frank Mac- Vicars jokingly quoted from the Mer- chant of Venice: "And here I take it as the young doctor come," at which Miss Andrews jumped from her chair, surprised. "That line," said she, "was the cue which called me on to the stage fbr the first time in America, and the singular coincidence is, that it was the very theatre in which we are now rehearsing." Miss Andrews ar- rived in San Francisco in May, 1879. Two days after her arrival Jeffreys Lewis, Laurence Barrett's leading lady, was suddenly taken seriously ill. Miss Andrews was called to fill Miss Lewis' place, and made her first ap- pearance in this country on the stage of the old California Theatre at a bene- fit performance given to Mrs. Judah. She played Portia to Mr. Barrett's Shylock. In the supporting cast were: James O'Neil, James A. Herne, David Belasco, C. B. Bishop, Lewis Morrison, and other notables. A par- agraph in a San Francisco paper the day of the memorable Judah benefit read as follows: "The great interest in tonight's Judah benefit centers in a young Australian actress, who has just arrived here." Twenty-two years ago! What a rich mine of artistic ex- perience Lillian Andrews has. For ingenue innocence it would be difficult to beat the following: The most recent acquisition, to James Neill's Company is a rosebud debut- ante of 18, named Mary Elizabeth Forbes, who is making her first Pacific Coast tour, under the chaperonage of her aunt, Edythe Chapman. She was taken to Fischer's Music Hall the other evening, and the party procured seats in the balcony. Around the balcony rail there is a trough used as a receptacle for beer glasses and glasses containing other liquid refresh- ments. 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