San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January i, 1910 Gus Weinburg an I Rich \rd F. C.irroll in The Alaskan, at the Savoy Theatre next week The Alaskan The New Alaskan will come to San Francisco next Sunday matinee to open the season at the Savoy Theatre. The engagement is for oneweek only. In spite of the fact that this show has played here before it will be found to be a genuine novClty. M it has been freely re-adapted by Gus Weinburg and Richard Carroll, who are also its principal comedians. The New Alaskan passed into the hands of Wm. P. Cullen last spring. Mr. Cullen was insistent upon a new supply of comedy and on that basis Mr. Carroll and Mr. Weinburg went to work. They have built up several ingenious specialties, which make the second act a succession of bright numbers. As tried out in its five months' run in Chicago, The Alaskan was found to be mainly known by one number called Snowballing, in which eight Eskimo girls pelted the audience with snowballs made of yarn, and were vigorously and genially pelted back. The duration of this number is dependent upon the humor and the strength of the people in front. On several occasions ball clubs sat in front and curved them across only to find thai their targets could not be driven to cover. Mr. Carroll and Mr. Weinburg were also successful in "putting one over." as the song writers say, called Hi, Hi. Hi. This is a review of all the popular methods of song writing with a characteristic dance for each number. Quite out of the story, but important in the specialties, is Kuko, an Eskimo girl, played by Etta Lockhart. She brings to the production an agility in dancing and winsomeiiess in figure quite necessary to the part. John Rose, one of the oldest and most experienced animal actors, plays the Polar Rear, who is the guardian of Kuko, and who has a part in both of her specialties. By inheritance and by his own industry. Mr. Cullen has equipped The New Alaskan with a great many touches of color. Every prop, such as a walrus hide canoe, has its significance; all of the fur costumes have been imported from across the border, and a remarkable sledge team of dogs is introduced on two occasions. Bookings At the Sullivan & Consklini'. San Francisco office, through Wm. P. Reese, their sole booking agent, for week of January 1. 1910. NATIONAL, San Francisco.— Les Jundts, Eola Vberri, The Three Keltons, Hill & Sylviany, Albers' Polar Rears. Williams & Dale. REEL. Oakland.— Wilson & De Monville, Jimmy Wall, Kathleen De Voie, Delmore & Lee, Myrtle Byrne & Co. WIGWAM, San' Francisco. — Hoey & Mozar, Nat Nazarro Troupe, Gertie Everett, Bohemian Sextette, Leon Rogee, Long & Cotton. GRAND, Sacramento. — Mr. and Mrs. W. W. O'Rrien, Nelly Burt. Sydney Deane & Co., George H. Wood, Rros. Damm, Whitehead & Grierson. GARRICK, Stockton. — Josephine Gassman and Picks, Leroy & Cahill, John Bergamasco, Bert Wiggins. LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles.— Billy Clark. Mile. Martha. Bradlee Martin & Co., PICKWICK THEATRE— SAN DIEGO Charles King Stock Company Supporting Marjorie Rambeau All High Class ROYALTY PRODUCTIONS This Week DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL Crimmins & Gore, Five Musical Lovelands, Carlotta. AMERICAN, San Francisco. — Yon Mitzel & Maynard. Rusticana Trio, Tom Linton and his Jungle Girls, Max Duffek, Malvern Troupe, W. C. Hoefler & Co., Holtman & Oblinger. QUEEN, San Diego. — Ed. Gallagher & Co., Harrv Thomson, Bandy & Fields, Bell ' & Can.n. MISSION, Salt Lake City. — Dick and Alice McAvoy, Steeley & Edwards, Helen Beresford & Co.. Dorothy Dahl, Rosedale Four. Ernest Pantzer & Co. MAJESTIC, Denver.— Colby & May, Josephine Ainsley. LaYelle & Grant, John Sturgeon & Co.. Al. Williams, Spaulding & Dupuee. Bob Burns Vaudeville Circuit. Temporary offices 1833 Steiner St.. near Sutter. San Francisco. Booking for week of Jan. 1, 1910. CENTRAL, San Francisco — Kaathoven Quartette, Delrav and Douglas, W. C. Westerman. VICTORY, San Francisco — Clisbinita. CALI FORNIA, San Francisco — Filipe. LYCEUM, San Francisco — Viola Frederik, Kramer. STAR, San Francisco — Chas. Morrell, The Wynans. ELITE, San Mateo — Edwin Gambold% Carlotta. OPERA, Watsonville — Avil and Grim. C. A. Figg, Carless. IDEAL, Salinas— A. Billy Fletcher. WORK, Monterej — Two Hoyts, Chas. Sanders. SWAIN, Santa Cruz — Louie and Aide, Lucy Allen, Billy Mackin. GAIETY, Oakland — Daisy Sisters. OPERA HOUSE, Visalia— Welch and Earl, W. Robert Thomas, prank Clarke. PAR RA, Bakersfield— Unthan, Nolan and Coin. OPERA, Hanford — Great Dilges. OPERA. Coalinga— Josh Dreane. LeGRANDE, Hanford— Robzart. ELECTRIC, Tulare— Geo. Morey. ELECTRIC, Newman — Geo. Hartman. GEM, Marysville — Eddie Dolan, Great Frederik. IRIS. Chico — Castlcman and Montgomery. NEW EMPIRE, Red Bluff— Lotus Moore. Theodore Foucher. DREAM LAN I). Redding — Rose and Rose. Opening of the Chutes Theatre Although the corner stone was laid by Mayor-elect P. II. McCarthy on November 2nd only, the new Chutes Theatre is complete. The fine Class A structure was opened to reecive the public at large Friday night. The seating capacity of the new playhouse is 1600, of which 1000 seats are on the ground floor, while 000 more spectators will find accommodation in the comfortable balcony. Upstairs the admission will be free, while a small charge will be made for the orchestra seats and the boxes. The spacious stage is fitted with all the approved modern appliances, and the switchboard for the complicated system of lighting is the ecpial of anything in the Andrews Opera Chairs General Seating School— Chureh — Bank Office and Steel Rod Furniture Purchase direct from manufacturer THE A. H.ANDREWS CO. Pacini Bldg.. San Francisco Chicago, New York, lacoma Opera, Folding and Assembly Chairs Full Line See Samples at 770-776 Mission St. Bet. 3d and 4th Sts. SAN FRANCISCO Whitaker & RayWiggin Co. DROP CURTAINS SCENERY 10HHMGG SCENICCOI* CAPITAL STOCK » so. 000.00 FULLY PAID 460 -2^TwiTMER ST~ LOS ANGELES country. Dressing room accommodations are generous and convenient and the most elaborate acts may be staged without difficulty. Turkey red and cream form the basis of the interior decoration and a large fleur de lis pattern is used on numerous panels. The ventilating plant is complete and there will be no disagreeable effects from smoking, which, as at the Orpheum and Princess, will be permitted. The Pantages will provide the vaudeville entertainment, and the bill will be changed every Sunday night. Shows will be given every afternoon and night, with two performances Sunday night. The epiaint amateur nights, which were a Thursday feature at the old Chutes on Haight street and in the Richmond district, will be revived. The opening bill is a good one, with such features as Otto Feichtl's Alpine Yodlers, Fred Fisher and Maurice Burkhart, who sing their own songs ; the three Lucifers, acrobatic singers and dancers ; Crenyon, a well-known ventrilocpiist and the Hirschoff troupe of Russian singers and dancers. Two stalwarts of the show business— George H. Murray and Wallace Munro — are in town ahead of The Top o th' World and Olga Nethersole, respectively. It may be more than rumor that the Ezra Kendall Company will be closed here by Liebler & Co. The star has been in a bad way for weeks past. Percy I [ILL, w ho knows the ins and outs of Coast routing as few men in the show business do, is in town delivering the goods for The Alaskan.