San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

l 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIhW September 9th, 1899 ft ft ft ft ft Vaudeville ueAoes * ■& it •& Frank Seymour and Harry Moll have joined forces and do a comedy bar act, of merit. Fischer's new Oberon when completed will be a vaudeville house that the city will be proud of. Harry Richards has arranged with Archie Levy for some clever acts for his Australian circuit. Waldo and Elliott, having worked the Pacific Slope, are " resting up" a few weeks before returning East. Rumor has it that the Comedy Theater will put on Vaudeville and Burlesque. On second thought, this might pay. Cornalla and LeClaire (sister of Tod Sloan) have just closed a very successful month's engagement at the Chutes and Olympia. The four Silvinis, acrobats, go to vSacramento next week, and will then proceed to Mexico, October 1st. to join Orrin Brothers' circus for a long engagement. Van Gofre and Cotrell, the Yidellas, Friedlander Bros., Kohl and Barney, Lajess and Cunningham, Seymour and Laurine are among the many good performers in the city at present Hallett's Dramatic and Vaudeville Agency reports a good demand for clever acts all over the Coast. A long string of Eastern attractions has already been booked for the Coast by this agency in connection with the Western Theatrical Exchange, P. M. Barnes, of Chicago, Manager. J. L. Peckerman and H. Rosencrantz have just arrived from Hong Kong with a couple of male Chinese, seven and eight years old. The youthful Celestials do one of the cleverest boxing acts ever seen on the stage, scientific and yet full of Comedy. Dressed in their gorgeous native costumes with "pig-tails" they are indeed a novelty. Hallett's Agency will book the new act over the North Coast and East. ' Armstrong and O'Neil and Travelle depart for Honolulu on the 20th. Madeline, May Walton and "The Kellys are the new faces at the Tivoli, Stockton. Maggie Colburne has made a decided impression at the People's Theater in Seattle. Hines and Hilton, leading features with Maine's big show will open at the Chutes on the 18th. Archie Levy is booking the "Herbert and Weston Show" through California. They report big business. Frank Barton, the well known coon singer, has been specially engaged for the Spokane Exposition. While and Harris, a clever comedy team, will be features at the Orpheum, opening to-morrow evening. Matt Trayers and Junie McCree make their New York debut at the Dewey Theater, September nth. Lil Kerslakes Pig circus will soon will soon play an engagement in this city with the coast circuit to follow. Mabel Bowman, the clever little California .soubrette, will make her first appearance as a vaudeville star at the Chutes on the 18th. George Felix and Lydia Barry were made the target for a large amount of rice and an assortment of old shoes at Bath Beach, July 26th. They will visit the Coast again the coming season, playing the Orpheum Circuit. Weston and Herbert's Vaudevilles are working the interior towns to good business. The Stanleys of "O'Grady's Wash Day" fame, Weston and Herbert, the musical team, and Hugh J. Emmet, the ventriloquist, are the stars. Thk Morrells are at the Fredericksburg, Portland Or. El Nino Eddie, Emil Walton and Louis Marcus left for Honolulu on the 6th. Billie Dodson has made a decided hit at the Savoy Theatre, Vancouver, B. C. Miss Mattie Nichols, formerly of the Nichols Sisters, will soon play in this city. Rosa will soon depart for the interior, playing the circuit as far as Chicago. Irene Vinton, the popular balladist, is at the St. Luke's Hospital, seriously ill. Mae Tinison's sweet voice will soon be heard in Honolulu, with Australia to follow. Cad Wilson* is boo'ced at one of our vaudeville houses. She will be here in a few days. — ' She's such a nice girl too." Antonio Vargas met with much favor at the Fredericksburg Music Hall, Portland, Or. He goes to Vancouver, with Victoria to follow. Harry LaRose Seymour, the tumbler, is to work with Laurine, the Contortionist. Harry is a whole show in himself, and with the handsome Laurine, the act ought to sell on sight. There is a gold mine in store for the manager that will open a good continuous show in San . Francisco. It is reported that Proctor is casting his business eye in this direction, but as yet nothing has been done. The season has no perceptible effect upon vaudeville in San Francisco. The Orpheum has played to full houses all along. The Chutes has done a good business as well as the Olympia, Midway, Central Park and Glen Park. The Willards, Charles and Kittie, who have just closed a successful engagement at the Chutes, have one of the finest settings ever presented by a musical team in this city. It is said to have cost in the neighborhood of $2000.00. Their aluminum chimes are especially pleasing and their mammoth Guatemala octaphone is an instrument original with Mr. Willard, and played by the team with great skill. The Mechanics' Fair and Industrial Exhibit, now open, has shown us that among our neighbors across the Pacific there is some very high class musical and athletic talent to be found. Every one of the Filipino, acrobats, from Carlos, the strong man, who does a wonderful turn on the parallel bars, to the midget tumbler, "Tod Sloan," do his or her turn to perfection. They furnish a very entertaining athletic program that has enough of the novelty about it to recommend it to American Vaudeville managers. The Olympia The Olympia presents the usual good show this week. The headliners are Girdc-lltr Bros., grotesque acrobats and Ed Nolan in Irish " funnyisms " and songs. Zoe Matthews' popularity as a singer of coon songs continues and she responds to three encores at every appearance. The other favorites at this popular hall are: The Keesings, Carlton and Royce. Dora Mervin, Dollie Mitchall, Josie Gordon and Snowie Maybelle. The Oberon Mr. Louis Ritzau, conductor for the American Ledles' orchestra, has an unusually good number of selections this week of which the large nightly audiences are duly appreciative. Miss Mae Tunison continues in favor with her songs and Irene Wellington contralto, jumped into instant popuity. La Petite Rosa with song, and Harry Factor, violin solist, round a good evening's entertainment. Morton and Clifford in an original sketch, and Rivera and Little Egypt head this week's bill, followed by a long olio of specialtes at the Midway. On the %oad. VrootnAddison Company. Weeks of Sept. 11, San Jose ; week of Sept. 18, Stockton. Midnight Bell. Moscow, Idaho, Sept. 9; Pendleton, 11; La Grande, 12; Baker City, Or., 13; Boise City, Idaho, 14; Pocatello, Idaho, 16; Logan, 18; Brigham, 19; Ogden, Utah, 20; Salt Lake City, (three nights) 21-22-23. Sam Sharv Company. Seattle, Sept. 11; Victoria, 18; Nanaimo, 25. Jessie Shirley Company. Oregon City, Sept. 11; Salem, 18. Dailev Stock Company. Sacramento, Sept. 10; Woodland, 18; San Jose, 24. Ward cf Sacket. Bachelor' s Honeymoon. Salt Lake, Sept. 7, .8, 9; Aspen, Colo., 1 1 ; Leadville, 12; Cripple Creek, 13; Florence, 14; Pueblo, 15. Elleford Company. Grass Valley, Sept. n; Reno, Nev., 18; Carson, 25. Weston and Herbert's vaudevilles, Sept. 8-9, Benicia; Sept. n12, Vallejo; Sept. 13-14, Monterey; Sept. 1516, Salinas; Sept. 18-19, Castroville. Leo Coopkr announces that he is forming a Ladies' Class for the study and reading of Elizabethan and modern plays and playwrights. The course will comprise ten lectures, with readings from Shakespeare to Pinero. The lectures will begin Wednesday afternoon, September 20th, at 3.30 P. M., and continue for ten weeks.