San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

\pril i8, 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 7 WW ECKHARDT'S IDEALS . OLIVER J. ECKHARDT, Proprietor and Manager ticularly pleasing. The balance of the cast lis fully up to standard. Empire Theatre I (E. Hoen, mgr.) — The Empire Stock Company is playing Hazel Kirke this week. Business is very good and the cast is well balance!, consisting of the following members: Frank A. Thorne as Dunston Kirke; Chester Stevens as Arthur Carrington; Billy Morse as Pitticus Green; Morris Headman as Aaron Rodney; Chas. Mills as Barney O'Flynn, and Max Hoen as Methusela Muggins. Lizetta Holdsworth in the title role and Lillian Zearney and Vail Hobart rilling out the balance of the feminine portion of this cast. A. W. Burdick. Bedlands, April 15. — The Wyatt Opera House. — April. 14, Wilton Laekaye playe 1 The Bondman to an appreciative audience which universally declared the production the best of the season. 16. Ala's New Husband; 17, Sells Floto Circus. H. A. Hargraves. Sacramento, April Hi. — A fair house saw J. J. Corbett in The Burglar and the Lady at the Clunie, April !l. Cupid at Vassar had a half house, 1_\ Gorton's Minstrels to poor business. 13. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays at the Clunie in the afternoon, 17. Pinafore will be given by amateurs, 21. The Minetti String Quartette will give a concert for the Saturday Club at the Grand Saturday afternoon. _''!. The stock company at the Alisky with I What Women Will Do. The Grand is giving this show: Morrison and Company; J. I Francis Dooley and Company; Rae and iBrosche; Valveno Bros.; May Evans; Jack ISymonds; Estelle Raymond. The Acme has I' the following: Original Young Buffalo, America's marvelous marksman; J. H. Davis and Company, presenting The Ballet I Girl; Richy W. Craig, the original musical I comedian; Maude Sutton ami Company. I comedy sketch. Cinderel; The O'Neill Trio. I singers and dancers; Sam Brooks and Rose Janette, singing, dancing and talking act. Chico, April 14. — Florence Gear, in Cupid at Vassar, to good audience at the Majestic last evening. 21-22, the Chamber of Commerce give a female minstrel show at this theatre. Miss Katherine Page of Chicago is drilling the ladies. Only local talent will appear. A dramatic and musical club, numbering forty residents of Chico. has been formed. It will meet twice a month and will alternate in the presentation of dramatic and musical programmes. Oakland, April 16. — As fine a production as has been seen here in many a day is that of The Only Way, which is the current offering' at Ye Liberty. Manager Bishop and Director Stallard have certainly spread themselves, and as a result there is a decided increase in this week's attendance. As Sidney Carton. Landers Stevens has a part that he has played frequently, and his I acting shows in every line the value of such I experience. In no character has he ever I displayed such great versatility, and his I performance was highly polished throughI out. E. L. Bennison in the rather thankless role of Ernest Defarge also does some I great work and shows to fine advantage. I Geo. Friend, Geo. Webster. Henry Thermer, I Robt. Harrison. Jas. Corrigan, Isabelle I Fletcher, Lillian Elliott and Georgie ■ Cooper have important roles and sustain I them well. Puddenhead Wilson will folI low. The Macdonough has been dark this I week, but will open April 18 with The ChiI cago Symphony Orchestra. Mclntyre and Heath in The Ham Tree. 20-22. The TenI derfoot is in its second week at Idora and 1 is drawing good houses. The two new peoI pie, Charles Arling and Charlotte Towle, I both show up well and create favorable I impressions. The songs of Mr. Arling are particularly well rendered, and from all appearances he will prove a valuable acqui1 sit ion to the Idora Company. Ferris Hartman as the eccentric professor causes many a laugh, and the two Walters, Catlett and De Leon, are also laugh-creators and do some good character work as The Chinaman and the Sergeant. Sybil Page and Viva McNeill are the best of the ladies. The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown is on at The Columbia and is doing fairly well. ! Max Steinle as Miss Brown has the female personation down to a nicety and makes a hit in the role. At the Orpheum a good list of very fine attractions is being shown this week and the attendance continues large. Chas. E. Evans and Company; Fredericks Bros, and Burns; Virginia Cameron; Daisy Harcourt; Les Frers Riego; Hoey and Lea; Bertha Betlna. Owing to a slight illness, Virginia Thornton, leading lady at the Columbia, was compelled to remain out of the cast this week. Edwin Blunkall will be seen in the cast at Ye Liberty next week. Joe Murphy, the well-known Irish comedian and singer, is around town renewing old acquaintances. Nance O'Neil will commence a six-week engagement at Ye Liberty, May 11. Quo Vadis is in preparation by Bishop's players. Louis Scheeline. Tacoma, Wash., April 12. — The Burgomaster closed its engagement here April 5, playing to good business. It returns Easter Sunday for one night. A larger audience never crowded into the Tacoma than greeted Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her company of English players in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith. The theme is one that does not appeal to Americans, apparently, judging from the lack of applause. Edgar Kent as the Duke of St. Olpherts was the one bright spot in the production. A large and fashionable audience greeted Mary Mannering, 11, in Glorious Betsey, which proved to be a clean and amusing little play. Miss Mannering is as charming as ever, and the company in the main satisfying. 13, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; 15. Cantata Daniel, local talent. The Star Theatre closes its musical comedy season tonight. the Crimmins and Gore Company goin to Seattle. The house will be given extensive repairs during the two weeks that intervene between now and April 26. when the Dick French Company will open in A Texas Ranger, a play which they produced at the Savoy Theatre, this citv, last season. Mr. French is well known here, where he maintained the first stock company in Tacoma. opening at the Star, then called the Olympic, in December. 1892. Ethel Tucker has returned to Tacoma, after a long absence, and will rejoin the Girton players 21; at the Savoy. This company has been ottering a scenic melodrama during the week, and attained considerable success. Neva West appeared as a half-caste girl and share 1 honors with Mr. Brandon in the leads. Mr. Brooks and the Misses Dunn and Shepard were in characters, Miss Shepard doing a pleasing specialty. Messrs. Stanley and Kenyon offer some pleasing vocal numbers. Beginning tomorrow the company will offer a Creole romance. Red River. Claudia Colonna. who is well known here, has joined the Girton Company and will have the role of the Creole girl. Miss West closes with the company this week. The bill at the Grand the past week was ma le up mostly of musical numbers, of which Lopez and Lopez, the Spanish instrumentalists, were easily the leading feature, with the two Roses, 'with their delightful violin and cello selections, a close second. As the municipal election here occurred this week, the sketch. Election Bets, as given by Hallen. Fuller and Crowley, was particularly apropos and caused .much amusement. All in all. the bill was the best offering in some weeks. 13, Louise Orendorff and Richard Buhler in The Cracksman. Clara Thropp, singing comedienne: Robert Dumont Duo, acrobatic number; George H. Whitman and Eloise Davis, comedy sketch; Jenkins and Stockman, song and dance; Conners and Aldert, blackface comedians; George F. Keaner. in illustrated songs. At the Pantages the trained seals were a strong drawing card. Arthur Huston is a clever juggler and a pet monkey added to the amusement of the act. Matthews and Harris had a novelty act of farce comedy and Sampson and Douglas were likewise amusing in comedy. The motion pictures and illustrate] songs were interesting and the whole play a good one. 13, Frank Rainers; 14, Tyrolean Alpine Singers anil Dancers; Mantell's Marionettes in the Eight Merry Manikins; Frank M. Clark, monologist; Blanche Sloan, trapeze gymnast; Sharp Bros., song and dance; Ada Williams will be the new illustrator of songs. Paul Harvey writes: Klamath Falls, Ore. April 2. — I see by the Review of the 28th that you forgot to change my ad, and will you please see to it. Will send another copy in case you have not the one I gave you. We open here Saturday (4) in David Garrick. and the town seems ripe fof a show and ought to do a good business. Am already feeling the benefit of the change, and think the wife will get back her health. Clarence Ricks writes: Folsom. April 8. — Dear friend Farrell: I see by the last issue of the Dramatic Review that the Monterey correspondent quotes a Salinas newspaper's story to the effect that one of the broke Pyle and Ricks actors was caught riding a 'blind baggage" homeward. As the writer mentioned no names, and as I know that there is no truth in the story, I think it no more than right to the actors I had at the Comique Theatre to deny the report and present the real facts. Every actor and actress I had at Monterey left that city "riding the cushions," and without a single unpaid bill behind. All but one pair went to other jobs, so had no cause to beat the Espee out of their fare. The following is the Comique's cast: Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Nollman, Ivan Christainsen and Harry Stuart. I am sure that all the above object to having themselves classed with the poor hobo who attempted to avoid arrest by posing as a broken actor. I have joined our road show and find business fair. Wishing you all success, I remain, C. A. Ricks. The present Pickwick stock closes in San Diego on April 26. The Lnmley Stock Company leave for Fresno tomorrow for a season at the Novelty. Wm. V. Mong's company, now playing at Klamath Falls, is meeting with much favor. Among the prominent members of the company are Mr. and Mrs. Mong, Paul Harvey and wife, Jack Grandin and Merle Lewis. Edward Ackerman, president of the Western States Vaudeville Association, and Alex Pantages, of the Pantages affiliating circuit, and owner of a half dozen vaudeville theatres in the Northwest, left New York together for San Francisco on Thursday. All until their arrival here. Can You Beat It? 68, According to the Bible, Looks Like a Kid The Secret of Yours Merrily. — It The Secret of Yours Merrily. — It is just as easy to be cheerful and happy when things go wrong and sorrows and disappointments multiply, as to he moody and depressed. Pray, order, control, boss yourself, and you will overcome adversity and smile at disaster. There is always a sunny side if one will but look for it, however dark the shadows in which one may be walking. There are tender synir pathies as well as harsh criticisms, and the cheerful are the envy of the hypochondriacs. There is a "new thought" sect teaching the theory that mind is superior to matter, that people are sick only when they think they are sick, and are only well when they think they are well. You may not agree to that theory entirely, but indisputably the power of the mind will exert a great influence in the matter of ills which are largely imaginary. Some of us are prone to exaggerate our physical infirmities, as well as to worry over trifles which should be dismissed as unwelcome visitors not to be indulged. Train yourself to be cheerful, even though there be sorrow in the heart. A long face is always disagreeable, while a smiling face is welcomed everywhere. You may have troubles — everybody has — but do not nurse them, and above all do not exploit them. No one cares to be bored with your troubles, howevery sympathetic one may appear to be. Remember that other people have troubles of their own. Do not frown at pleasure and regard lightheartedness as frivolity. Do not imagine that everything that is pleasant is sinful. Sin is something disagreeable. It is a sin to wear a long face and mope about in such a way as to disagreeably affect those around you. \>c cheerful, and help to spread cheerfulness wherever you go. Sunlight is preferable to shadow, ami more conducive to health and happiness. Think no evil and avoid all appearance of evil. Have pleasure, unstinted pleasure, but let it be of a sort that leaves no sting behind. Love your neighbor. There is something good in him or her, as you will find if you take the trouble to look, however much that is bad and may appear on the surface. Never hurry, never worry, thus unnecessarily wearing out your Godgiven vitality. Never eat white hread, as it forms a paste and causes rheumatism; never drink water, as it creates lime, gravel, cement and stone. Yours merrily, JOHN R. ROGERS, Representing Klaw & Erlanger with Mclntyre and Heath. New Stock for Columbia in Oakland Keating & Flood will place a virtually new company in their Oakland theatre next week. The contract with the .Max Steinle Company expired last week, and rather than close the house until arrangements had been perfected for the new company. Manager Larry Keating made arrangements to continue the present company until the new one should he organized. This gave rise to the idea of the company playing in The Commonwealth last week. Max Steinle and Virginia Thornton, who have become exceedingly popular with Oakland audiences, will be members of the new company. Mr. Keating, in speaking of conditions, noted a steady increase of patronage, and to show his faith in the Columhia, has turned down two advantageous offers to sell his lease. Robert Adams With the closing of the present Pickwick stock in San Diego, on April 26, there will be at liberty the clever and exceedingly popular juvenile man — Robert Adams — who has been a favorite there for the past seventy weeks. In the past eightyfive weeks Mr. Adams has been idle but one week. In the wide range of stock work he has had many opportunities to demonstrate a valuable versatility. Some of his best successes have been Marcus Vinicius, in Quo Vadis; Ned Annersly, in Sowing the Wind ; John Christson, in The Dancing Girl ; Robert Gray, in The Wife; and Clement Hale, in Sweet Lavender. Mr. Adams is a tall, fine looking young fellow, twenty-three years old, and has always been exceedingly popular with his audiences. Five members of the Are You Crazy company, which stranded in Riverside some weeks ago, have turned farmers, are doing well in Imperial Valley and have begun the raising of melons.