San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January i, 1910 TBI BAH FRANCISCO Dramatic Review Music and Drum H. FASEILL, Publisher Issued Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to Ban Fund boo Dramatle Review, Van Ness Theatre Bldg.. Van Ness Avenue. Telephone Park 1773 Entered at San Francisco as Second-class Mail Matter. Established 1880. Macdonough Theatre of Oakland in New Hands Negotiations were practically closed today by which Charles P. Hall retires from the management of the Macdonough theatre of Oakland, which will be taken over by a combination of San Francisco theatrical interests, headed by Gotlobb & Marx. The deal has been carried on very quietly and the usual efforts to maintain secrecy until the papers have been signed have been made. The program for the new management is said to be outlined in a plan to continue the Macdonough theatre as a center for combination attractions, booked out of New York. Chas. P. Hall's retirement from Oakland theatrical life has not been unexpected. For several months he has been in poor health, and it has been a matter of common knowledge in theatrical circles that he was trying to break away from active work. About a year ago Hall renewed his lease on the Macdonough theatre for a term of 10 years. It is the transfer of this lease to the new interests which will mark the change of management. Harry Campbell, who is interested in the new lease with Gotlobb & Marx, is to be the new manager. He is well known in San Francisco theatrical activities. For several years before the fire he was manager of the Grand Opera House, when it was under the control of interests headed by the late Charles Ackerman. New Columbia is About Ready for Its Christening The opening of the new Columbia Theatre by Gottlob, Marx & Co., with William 11. Crane and a strong supporting cast in Father and the Boys, a George Ade comedy, is set for January 10. The new theatre is a class "A" structure and represents an investment in grounds and building of about $000,000. The front of the building is finished in granite and terra cotta. A large lobby finished in white stone invites the theatregoer through large portals and precludes the possibility of crowding. Separate entrances lead to balcony and gallery. A feature of the new theatre is its coziness. There are only eighteen rows of seats on the first floor and a spectator in the last row will be only 50 feet away from the footlights' rim. The seating capacity of the lower floor is only 577 and an unobstructed view is to be had from any reservation. No posts will interfere. There are six boxes on each side of the stage, Tom Barton and Helene Fee The above is a speaking likeness of two very clever little people, Tom Barton and Helene Fee. This is a new act to the Coast and a very clever one. The act is elegantly dressed and reminds one of toyland, for Miss Fee is a dainty, tiny toy soldier girl. Miss Fee has a sweet voice and is exceptionally good looking. Mr. Barton is a George Cohan type, not affected but naturally of that type. He has a good voice, also. Barton and Fee are sure of success in the West as they have made good their first week here. They have contracts for Aus so arranged as to give the occupants a perfect view of the performance. A complete ventilating system installed in the basement assures a supply of of pure air heated or cooled to the desired degree. Retiring rooms for women and a smoking room for men are arranged on the lower and upper floors, and there will be maids in attendance in the women's rooms. A feature of the building which will be greatly enjoyed by the players is the brick annex which faces Mason street. It is luxurious in its appointments, like a modern hotel, and contains 20 dressing rooms, commodious, well lighted and comfortable. The stage is the largest in the city. It is 45 by 97 feet, which makes it nearly as large as the stage of the old Grand Opera House, and of ample size to present the most elaborate of scenic productions. It is announced by Gottlob, Marx & Co. that the auction sale of seats for the opening night will start promptly at 1 130 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, January 4, in the ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel. Auctioneer "Larry" Harris will dispose of the various reservations and the premiums paid, over the regular cost of the seats, will be devoted to charity. Five charitable institutions will share equally in the proceeds of this sale, and a large sum of money will doubtless be the result of the bidding. Crane's engagement is for two weeks, beginning January 10, with matinees on W ednesdays and Saturdays. The regular advance sale of seats will open next Thursday at the box office of the new Columbia. Mrs. Willis West is very low with lung trouble, in Phoenix. tralia for the spring, and intend remaining on the Coast until that time. The Dramatic Review will be their permanent address. Miss Fee designs and makes all her dresses and gowns. These two should be billed as The Dainty Dresden China Act, for that is what they look like. WILLIAM MAXWELL ATTORNEYAT -LAW Merchants' Exchange Building. Telephone Kearny 2565. McAllister, near Market. Phones Market 130 Home J2822 This Saturday Afternoon and Evening. Last Times of Ezra Kendall in The Vinegar Buyer. Starting Sunday Matinee. Jan. 2 — Other Matinees Thursday and Saturday — Wm. P. Cullen Offers, for One Week Only — THE ALASKAN THE TOTEM POLE COMIC OPERA With Richard F. Carroll, Gus Weinburg and a Big Company of Comedians. Revised, Retunert, Reconstructed. Girls Full of Songs — Songs Full of Girls. Nights and Saturday Matinee. 25c to $1.50. Thursday Matinee, 25c, 50c and 75c. Scats on sale at the theatre and Emporium. Next — The Wolf. Dreamland Rink Steiner Street, near Sutter. Starting Monday Night, Jan. 10, and Every Afternoon and Evenirig, including Saturday. Jan. 15. Wm. Morris Presents Harry Lauder Scotland's Idol — England's Pet — The Man Who Made King Edward Laugh, and His All Star Company, Including Julian Eltinge; Direct from Their Sensational New York Success. Reserved Seats from 50c. to $2.00. On Sale at Sherman. Clay & Co.'s. commencing Monday. Jan. 3. New Alcazar Theatre Tel. Westl40O Cor. Sutter and Steiner Sts. Belasco & Meyer. Owners and Managers Absolutely "Class A" Building Monday Evening. Jan. 3. and Throughout the Week, First Time In San Francisco of the Current Dramatic Sensation in the East — ST. ELMO Adapted by Willard Holcomb from Augusta J. Evans" Famous Novel Similarly Titled. ONLY AUTHORIZED VERSION Prices — Night, 25c to $1.00. Matinee. 25c to 50c. MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY New Orpheum O'FarreU Street, Bet. Stockton and Powell Safest and Most Magnificent Theatre In America Matinee Every Day Week Beginning this Sunday Afternoon, Most Positively Last of ALICE LLOYD. England's Daintiest and Most Fascinating Comedienne; THE McNAUGHTONS; THE BROTHERS PERMANE ; in Conjunction With A GREAT NEW SHOW FBANKLYN UNDERWOOD and FRANCES SLOSSON in Dobb's Dilemma, BASQUE GRAND OPERA QUARTETTE, BELLE DAVIS and Her Crackerjacks, FOX AND FOXIE'S CIRCUS, NEW ORPHEUM MOTION PICTURES. Return for next week only, THE KLEIN FAMILY. Evening prices 10c, 25c. 50c, 75c. Box seats $1.00. Matinee prices (except Sundays and holidays), 10c, 25c. 50c. Phone Douglas 70. Princess Theatre Absolutely "Class A" Theatre Building Phone West 663 Ellis Street, near Fillmore Samuel Loverich. Manager THIRD AND LAST WEEK Kolb & Dill Present Themselves IN AFRICA By the Author of THE POLITICIANS Night and Sunday Matinees, Prices 25c to $1. Saturday Matinee, Prices 25c to 75c. NOTE — Theatre closes week of January 3rd for renovation. Commencing Sunday night, Jan. 9th — Kolb and Dill in Higgledy Piggledy and The College Widower. AMERICAN THEATRE Market St., near Seventh Abe S. Colin, Manager Phone Market 381 for Good Seats The Playhouse of Comfort and Safety AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE Will be Inaugurated Next Sunday, by a Ten-Act Vaudeville Show This theatre will now book the best vaudeville acts obtainable under the booking direction of Edward Homan. No Acts too big. No Price too big. Oil I F PRINTING CO. UlLeWsU SAN FRANCISCO THEATRICAL PRINTING OF ALL KINDS F>0STERC 2257 MISSION ST. '»»5»«W Show FRANCIS lALENT,NE Printers Thirteenth St., near Mission, S. F. Cal. Spacious Headquarters PHONE MARKET 2114 for Theatrical Agents Send Bills ol Ladlnit to us. tafe fill take earn of your paper