San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

B THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September i, 1900 lill oirujs f Correspondence and ^ jv^€ Comments NEW YORK Special Correspondence. New York, Aug. 25. — Andrew Mack, the hero of many Irish dramas, opened the regular theatrical season last Monday night, in The Rebel, at the Academy of Music. The new play is by James B. Fagen and is conventional in having plenty of villains and British soldiers, and a brave Irish boy who sings sweetly and makes virtue triumphant. Mr. Mack is enthusiastically encored on two of his own songs which will no doubt be popular. He is ably assisted by Josephine Lovett as the heroine. The Angel of the Alley was the Star's contribution last week to the city's entertainment. It is from the pen of Theodore Kraemer, the rapid-fire dramatist who wrote the drama one morning before breakfast. It tells all about death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison. The hero in fact gets sentenced to die in the chair but the Angel of the Alley rides through a brick wall on a fiery untamed steed and brings his reprieve in the nick of time. The Angel of the Alley was Miss Carina Jordan. After seeing her it was hard to see why she caused such a disturbance, Proctor, who was already running continuous shows at the Fifth Avenue, the Pleasure Palace and his Twenty-third street theatre, opened a fourth house last week in the shape of the Columbus theatre at Harlem. The top-liners were J. K. Emmett and his new wife, Lottie Gilson. ♦ * * The sale of subscription seats and boxes for the season of opera in English at the Metropolitan is to begin at the theatre on Monday, Sept. 17. Subscriptions will be received for the fall season from Oct. 1 to Dec. 15, and for the spring season of seven weeks that begins in April. Although seats and boxes may be purchased in advance for the season, subscribers are called upon to pay only one week in advance. The first performance of the season will be Faust, to be given cn Oct. 1 . * » • The Ameer was revived at Manhattan Beach last night with Frank Daniels in his familiar role of the unfortunate potentate. Pain's annual "carnival of fire" was given in the open-air amphitheatre Saturday. Excellent vaudeville shows were given in the Victoria and New York roof gardens, and the Casino was also in use. Johann Kubelik, the youthful violinist who created a sensation in London during the past season, has been engaged for a series of concert appearances here by Rudolph Aronson. Kubelik is 20 years old. He is the son of a Bohemian market gardener, and was born at Michlie, near Prague. His father played the violin, and from him the boy received his first instruction. He studied for six years at the Prague Conservatory under Ottar Seveik aud then went to Vienna, where two years ago he made his first public appearance. Last winter he appeared in Berlin, where his performance was praised. * * From now on there will be a rain of first nights. The Cadet Girl is already in high glee at the Herald Square. The Star and the Third Avenue have opened up for their season of popular-priced 11 elodrama. Roster and Bial's has resumed vaudeville, and The Belle of New York has revived at the Grand Opera House. The following Monday, Brother Officers will be revived at the Empire, and Thursday night of that week The Parish Priest will be produced at the Fourteenth Street. The new stock company at the American will introduce itself Saturday in The Great Ruby. The following week a heavy storm of first nights is due. Besides revivals of Ben Hur at the Broadway and the Pride of Jennico at the Criterion, and the reopening of the Harlem Opera House, nine new plays will be produced in five nights. The dates of some may be rearranged, but as they now stand, Monday will see Arizona at the Herald Square, Otis Sk nner in Prince Otto at Wallack's, Louis Mann and Clara Lipmann in All On Account of Eliza at the Garrick, A Million Dollars at the New York and the unnamed piece by Ludwig Euglani'er and Harry B. Smith at the Casino. Wednesday will have Annie Russell in A Royal Family at the Lyceum, and Thursday will have The Rose of Persia at Daly's, James A. Heme in Sag Harbor at the Republic and two new burlesques at Weber and Field's. The next Monday will have lb and Little Christina and The Husbands of Leontine at the Madison Square, Francis Wilson in The Monks of Malabar at the Knickerbocker and Cupid Outwits Adam at the Bijou. The next night John Drew will be seen in Richard Carvel at the Empire. The next Moud;iy night will see Edward H. Sothern in Hamlet at the Garden, and also Caleb West at the Manhattan, and The Rogers Brothers in Cential Park at the Victoria. During that week the new music hall at Broadway and Sixtieth street will be o\ ened, the Schley wiil >tart under the name ol the Savoy with a Chamberlyn produi tion. and the Murray Hill will commence its third year of the Donnelly Stock Company. First nights at Weber & Field's attract many persons as has been many times proven so this year ihe managers there decided to sell the seats and boxes at auction. De Wolf Hopper, David Warfield, Charles J Ross, Edgar Smith and John T. Kelly will be the auctioneers. The exact day of the sale has not been set. The improvements in and out of the music hall are almost finished, and not only add much to th« looks of the place, but to the seating capacity. The number of seats at the New York has been enlarged by 600. In both theatres boxes were taken out, and in the larger house the orchestra extended back fifteen or eighteen feet. On the first night of the new stock company at the American, souvenir books of pictures of the principal players will be given away. Cora Tanner will dip into extravaganza, playing a burlesque adventuress in A Million Dollars. The other principals in that show will be Joseph Sparks, Nat Wills, Josie Sadler, Ida Hawley, Belle Bucklyn and William Maudeville. The name of the comic opera that Francis Wilson will use has been changed from Booloo Boolboom to The Monks of Malabar. Hilda Clark will return to her familiar position as prima donna soprano of the Bostonians. Albert Parr will be new with them as first tenor. Marie Dainton, a London Gaiety Girl, has come to this country to appear in the new Casino play. Mrs. Langtry who recited The AbsentMinded Beggar, and collected money which she said was for the sick soldiers in the British Army in South Africa with her husband, Hugo de Bathe, doesn't speak to him now as they pass by in London, so the next time she comes over we will probably hear less about him. Margaret Maclntyre, who is to be heard in this city next winter for the first time, has been secured by Maurice Grau to take some of Mine. Nordica's roles The American soprano has been engaged for only twelve performances with the company that is to sing at the Metropolitan, and as all of these are to be given in the West, she will not be heard here at all in opera. Rob Roy. DENVER Special Correspondence. Denvkr, Colo., Aug. 2r. — The Great Ruby is doing a big business at Elitch's gardens this week. It is staged magnificently and acted well. Miss Bates plays the Countess Mirlza Charkoff, the part she played so successfully in the original production in New York, aud she plays it superbly. Mr. Ormonde is impressive as the Prince. Mr. Sullivan gives a finished performance of the part he played in NewYork, Inspector Brett. Miss Aigen is successful as Lady Garnett, as is Fred Berry as her husband. Mr. Kirkland gives a good performance as Morris Longman. Miss Izett is excellent as Louisa Jupp. Others deserving of mention are George Soule Spencer, Will S. Rising, John Sumner, Hugh Ford, Frank Leary, Charles Brokate, Charles Mylott, Harry Willard, Walter Thomas, A. W. Fremont, Marie Langdon, Marie Del Vecchio, Katharine Field, Kate Toncray, and Lillian Kemble. * The Tabor Grand opened Sunday afternoon for the season. Great improvements have been made in the theatre. The attraction this week is Frank Readick's Black Crook, Jr. The scenery is new and effective and some good specialties are introduced. Mile. Francesca is a pretty little dancer; the Misses Chapin and Sulkey appear in songs and dances; Virginia Richmond, Jean DeVille and May Corey sing solos; the two Hewitts, globe equilibrists, appear; and Hall and Hoevet have a good musical act. Leon Henry does some clever acting as the Crook; Leon Hattenbach makes an excellent Prince Seivert; Nettie Abbott is a sweet Lady Use and Milly Freeman does some good character work. Next week Dunne & Ryley's all star cast. * The vaudeville bill at Manhattan Beach this week is composed largely of Denver people. The 25th Manhattan Beach will close its season. * Hal Reid's play, The Prince of the World, will be produced at Elitch's Gardens, August 29. Mr. Reid and his wife, Bertha Belle Westbrook, will play the leading parts, assisted by the stock company. Meanwhile, Mr. Reid will rehearse his road company, which was organized here, and will open with it in Colorado Springs, thence going West. * Miss Esther Rujaero, a talented young actress, has organized a company here to play A Broken Heart, in which she is to star. It is a four-act melodrama and was written by Miss Rujaero. Her company will open in Cripple Creek about the 2nd of September, after which it will play the Silver Circuit and then come to Denver for a week at the Lyceum theatre. * We had been promised positively that Mrs. Fiske would play at the Denver theatre this season but as it is now being booked by the syndicate, there seems to be some doubt about it. * Chas E. Schilling leaves today to begin rehearsals of Two Married Men, in Waukesha, Wis. * The Broadway theatre will open Monday night, August 27, with Arnold's Opera Company. Bob Bell. CANADA Special Correspondence St. John, N. B., Aug. 21. — Opera House, A. O. Skinner, Manager. — Very Little Faust drew well 13-16, as did likewise Gorton's Minstrels 17-18, three performances. This week Morrison Comedy Co., led by Allie Gerald and Eugene Powers, in Blue Grass, Coon Hollow, Girl from Mexico, One Night in June, Fogg's Ferry, and two Saturday bills as yet unannounced. Last night's performance of Blue Grass, drew a sizable audience who appeared to enjoy both the piece and the between-the-act specialties. Manager Skinner, of the Opera House, leaves shortly for Toronto to secure vaudeville attractions for our annual exhibition , September 10 to 19. Peachey Carnehan. SALT LAKE Special Correspondence Salt Lake City, August 27. — Mathew and Bulger played a midsummer engagement at the Salt Lake Theatre August 20 and 21, appearing in The Night of the Fourth and The Rag Baby. While their opening play, The Night of the Fourth, proved popular, A Rag Baby fell far short of expectations. Both pieces drew large audiences. Next attraction at the Salt Lake Theatre will be Henry Miller and company, which opens September 7th. Paine's battle of San Juan fireworks display turned out to be one of the finest pyrotechnic exhibitions Salt Lake has ever been