San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

September gth, 1899 Correspondence and Comments est MARGARET ANGLIN We wonder if she will ever displace San Francisco' s present idol, Blanche Rates, in the favor of the theater-going public. KANSAS CITY. Special Correspondence Kansas City, Sept. 4. — The regular seas on opened yesterday, with the following attractions : The Orpheum, with Idalene Cotton and Nick Long, Terry and Lambert, Elizabeth Murray, Dave Meil's Kinedrone, a moving picture machine, Les Brownes and Millian and Shiels. The theater has been renovated and refitted throughout. The Grand opens with Hoyt's, " A Milk White Flag," and The Auditorium with Woodward Stock Co., in "The Girl I Left Behind Me," and " The Charity Ball." Coate's Opera House and The Gillis are both dark. ReiTES. management. The American European Vaudeville company will be the attraction next week. The season at Elitches was closed by a Masked Ball, and at the Manhattan Beach by the farce "My Wife's Mother" and a vaudeville company. Alexis. DENVER Special Correspondence DENVER, Sept. 3. — The six weeks engagement at the Broadway, of the Lombardi Grand Opera Company has proved a big success. The critics go into raptures over the wonderful voices of the foreign company, and its reception has been most enthusiastic. The Tabor Grand opened to-night with Ben Hendrichs in a " Yenuine Yentlemen." There was a crowded house and the week promises big box office receipts. Brown's in town and will be seen at the'fabor Grand, beginning on the 10th. The Denver Theatre, vaudeville, is in its second week under Mr. Frank Readick's MISS LILLIAN RAYMOND Miss Lillian Raymond, whose picture appears on our title page this week, is said to be one of San Francisco's prettiest chorus girls. Besides being pretty she has an exceptionally good voice and hopes one day to be something more than a mere chorus girl. Miss Raymond's stage experience has been short, having only adopted the stage a little over a year ago. Her first appearance was made at the Tivoli, where she has been until the last week when she severed her connection with that house and accepted an engagement at the Grand Opera House. Bob Bien, who will some day make his mark with that magnificent bass voice of his, is one of the San Francisco«bqj-6 .yvip .-wilt do : Eflropp very shopWv jii-'q^St*-0^ vt>ifce.fitf\*3lopment. NEW YORK. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 3.— The lateness with which I received notice of the date of issue of the Dramatic Review, prevents me from giving more than a brief outline of the more important bills at the local theatres the last week. Next week, however, I promise a long, gossipy letter. The Academy of Music is having a continued success with Andrew Beach and the new produciion, " The Last of the Rohans." At the New York, Kitty Loftus and " The Man in the Moon" have been the features. Maggie Cline, Marie Dressier, Polk and Kollins, the Hawthorne Sisters and Lotty are also popular still. The Rounders is running at the Casino The Girl from Maxims is still drawing w»U at the Criterion. The Governor is on at the Empire. A Young Wife is making money for the 14th Street Theatre Dear Hearts of Ireland is the play at the Third Avenue, and at the Star, A Soldier of the Empire is to be seen. All these seem to be playing to exceptionally good houses, and the season really looks brighter than ever before. The Vaudevilfe houses are also crowded nightly. From New York comes the information that Edwin Stevens, the popular comedian and character actor, has been engaged by Charles Frohman to play the leading role in "His Exeellenc'v the Governor." Miss Ray Rockman P nglan D and Paris both have en*— ' throned another American actress. She is Miss Ray Rockman, of San Francisco, and is a particular protege of Bernhardt; indeed, she has been likened to the great French actress, having the same slender, willowy figure and sinuous grace, besides talent of a high order. After a season of study at the Comedie Francaise she was intrusted by Bernhardt with the farcical role of the Duchess of Liverpool in "Snob," a social satire by Gustave Gulches. Her success paved the way to other roles in the repertoire of the famous Frenchwoman. When Bernhardt's last English tour ended Miss Rockman, who was well received, remained in England to accept an engagement with Henry Irving to create the -part of Endoxia in " Peter the Great." She subsequently played Jessica, and the Princess Plombino in " Mine. Sans Gene," with Henry Irving, and during Ellen Terry's tour last spring she made a marked success both as the Queen of Naples and as Ophelia in "Othello." At present she is playing the Countess Mirtza in " The Great Ruby." MRS. THORNDYKE-BOUCICAULT She poses well — Don't you think sot