San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

Skptember i, 1900 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW JUST OF PASSING INTEREST Richard Mansfield is rehearsing Henry V. Edna May will star in a KerkerMorton opera within the season. Rhys Thomas will come here as a member of Frank Daniels' Company. Jessie Bartlett Davis has announced her intention of staying in vaudeville. Constant Coouelin, the famous French actor, was recently prostrated by the heat and his theatre is closed. Alice Nielsen is still in this city, but goes East directly to open her season. She comes here in November. Olga Nethersole contemplates producing a dramatization of Ouida's novel, Under Two Flags. Julia Cotte is doing some splendid work in Ship Ahoy during the rehearsals, and will be certain to make a hit in the coming production. The popular piece opens at the Alhambra next Thursday night, Sept. 6. George Osbourne, who was engaged to play Simonides in Ben-Hur, has been forced to retire from the cast through temporary illness. Etnmett Corrigan, who played Ilderim, and later Ben-Hur, last season, has been engaged to play Simonides. Ida Hawley will be remembered as an attractive member of Morosco's last musical organization. She will have an important part in the musical comedy, A Million Dollars, which will inaugurate the fall season at the New York Theatre, N. Y. Ferris Hartman has been unusually fortunate in securing such clever people for his support in the coming production of Ship Ahoy at the Alhambra. Harry Cashman and Tom Guise, especially, will give a great deal of strength to the production. L. R. Stockwell, who is cast for the part of Joey Ladle in A Great Obstacle, which opens at the Columbia next Monday evening, appeared in the same role when Charles Fechter starred in No Thoroughfare in the seventies. The part is a humorous one, of which Mr. Stockwell makes the most. Mary Anderson (Mrs. Antonio Navarro) admits that she is not as young as when playgoers knew her, but she has confessed to having received a shock at a bazaar held in Broadway, Worcestershire, England, the other day, when the rector of a religious community told her she was "l&DIIO & CO i f a mother to them. She made a little speech, in which she remarked: "I am somewhat overwhelmed by the clerical compliment, but he might have said 'sister.' " Tom Guise, who is cast for the part of the Commodore in Ship Ahoy at the Alhambra, is already well known to theatre-goers of this city. For four seasons he was with De Wolff Hopper, making his last appearance here at the Baldwin Theatre, playing the French general in Wang, and the insurgent chieftain in El Capitan. Eugene W. Presbrey's new play, in which Joseph Brooks and Ben Stern will star Blanche Walsh the coming season, has not yet been named. It will be produced in Philadelphia at the Chestnut street theatre the week of Sept. 24th, and will follow Ben Hur at the conclusion of its five weeks at the Broadway theatre, New York, October 8th. Louie Frear, the English soubrette, has been awarded $4,000 damages by a London court against George W. Lederer of the Casino. It will be remembered that a season ago she refused to appear on the Casino roof, saying her contract did not contemplate that performance, and the Court said so, too. Nearly every actor has his hobby. Richard Mansfield loves horseback riding. Jefferson is a fervent disciple of Izaak Walton. Sol Smith Russell takes pride in his library. Tim Murphy sketches at every opportunity. Nat Goodwin's English country house has his constant attention. Anything antique draws E. H. Sothern's attention. William Gillette will pay well for a new and better brand of cigars and W. H. Crane worships yachting. Edward Makiu.k, who recently died in Brooklyn, was born in 1846. His first appearance on the stage was in Chicago in i860, when he took the boy part in The Strangles. He subsequently played with Mrs. John Drew's company at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia ; with John McCullough at the California Theatre in San Francisco, with Willie Edouin at the Boston Museum, with Salisbury's Troubadours, with Lotta and with Edward Sothern. In 1884 he joined Thatcher, Primrose and West's combination as interlocutor. He wrote songs, too, and was for a long time stage manager of The Black Crook. A complete stock for professional men and women Fine Cotton Tights, colors black, tan, gray, flesh, cardinal and light blue, Nos. 1 and 2, $1.50; Nos. 3 and 4, $ 1.75 per pair. Silk Plaited Tights in all colore, $2.50 each. Silk Tights in all colors, No I, ?5-25 a pair, No. 2, $5.50 a pair, No 3. $5-75 a pair. No. 4, $6 pair. Pure Wool Tights in all colors, $3.00 a pair. Same in second quality, f 2. 50 a pair. We make Silk Tights to order in any color or size desired. 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