San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 8, 1910 The Wolf Next Week Eugene Walter's most successful play. The Wolf, which will he presented at the Savoy Theatre, commencing Sunday matinee, is an absorbing, virile play of gripping interest. The story is one of the Canadian hackwoods and is a vivid portrayal of life in that hard land of snow and hardship and howling wolves. It revives the old plot of the man scheming for an innocent girl's downfall, hut it has nothing that is sordid about it. Virtue triumphs and true manhood and womanhood have the audience's sympathy. There might be made the assertion that the story is melodramatic, but for that matter, so is every tragedy that Shakespeare wrote. There is a thrilling climax at the end of the piece, and there are tense situations throughout, but they make the play the more stiring and the more realis*tic. Like Paid in Full, The Wolf has but few characters, but they are said to be in admirable hands. Andrew Robson is the young FrenchCanadian, Jules Beaubien. His dialect, his cool, strong ways, and his manly carriage make him an ideal hero. The Wolf will be reckoned as one of the year's best theatrical offerings. rremiums On Col umbia First Night Seats Net Practically Five Thousand Dollars The auction sale of first choice seats for the opening night of the new Columbia Theatre, held in the St. Francis Hotel ball room last Tuesday afternoon, was a very successful affair, and as a result nearly five thousand dollars will be turned into the treasuries of five charities — the Protestant, the Catholic, the Hebrew and the Bishop Armitage orphanages, and the Actor-.' Fund of America — a thousand dollars for each. There was some spirited bidding, and .Mose Gunst, who used to be associated with VI 1 layman in the theatrical business in this city, got the first choice of boxes. He had many contenders, but finally lauded it for $300. His son, Morgan Gunst, bid for him. Young ( runst also captured the second box for $275, for Thomas H. Williams. Two of the lower boxes were reserved by the management. Gottlob & Marx, but to show .that they were not to be outdone in charity, each contributed $100 to the orphanage fund. Raphael Weil bid $50 for an upper box and when he had no competitor raised his ow n bid to $100. Russel Bogue paid $75 premium on another box. Al Hayman paid the highest price for an individual seat. Morgan Gunst bidding $100 premium for it. Charles Frohnian and Klaw & Erlanger sent a telegram asking that one gallery seat be reserved for the three, sending a check for $100 for the reservations. The seats on the orchestra floor were sold for as high as $25 apiece premium and no seat was sold under $5 premium. Henry T. Scott took eight at $15 premium and Emil Bruguiere paid a $25 premium an each of four seats. G. Magnin took two at $15. John Keefe, two at $15: Charles Belshaw, two for the same amount, anil M. J. Brandenstein two for $20 premium. The bidding was enlivened by much gayety. ( )ne party was prevailed upon to take seven seats when he only wanted six, the argument being used that he would have a good place to put his hat. Those who bid for seats were : Henry T. Scott, Emil Bruguiere, J. Zellerbach, R. W. Davis. L. McMullin. W. E. Travers. Roy M. Pike, C. S. Scheeline, D. Neustadter. Otto Irving Wise, Joel K. Hecht, J. A. Forderer. Sig. (Ireenbaum. Louis Haas. Morgan Gunst, E. X. Hopkins. R. M. Eyre, John 11. Keefe. W. H. Met son. G. Magnin. Ike Moss. L. Alexander, lames Campbell. H. A. Cohen, S. Goldberg. I. L. Rosenthal. F. P. Shanley, M. J. Brandenstein, Gus Brenner, Mrs. M. Hirschman, Dr. C). C. Josselvn, William Kaufman. f. M. Keith." M. Meyerfeld, Jr.. J. D. Mauser. R. S. Browne, J. J. Mahonev,, F. A. Summers. Joseph Bauer. F. Patek. S. Harris, Senator C. X. Belshaw. Henry Sinsheimer. D. S. Rosenhaum. F. C. Balentine. Max Samuels, A. Haas, J. S. Gushing. Sanford Sachs, r. K. Moffett. F. P. Deering. A. 1!. C. Dohrmann. F. Mandel. H. E. Bothin, A. Rudgear, L. Ferreri, Dr. E. D. Lederman, W. H. Eadon, E. W. Crellin, Charles Sutro, B. W. Martin. J. Raas. L. D. Mills. A. Pippin, Ira C. Ross, Mrs. Carl Raiss, John Baker, Jr., W. Haas. Dr. M. E. Simon. W . < >'Kane, f. M. Loewe, V < riacom azzi, S. W. Heller. W. E. Applegate, I. Bohn, I.. Prager, J. J. Driscoll, Mrs. M. A. May. Col. Frank Marston, G. Albert Landsburgh, Ed Homan, Judge Frank Dunne, M. J. Hvnes, E. S. de Wolfe. D. W. Earle. W. F. Bogart, Mrs. II. I. Solomon, P. Scott, Edwin Wassermann, John J. Doyle, Dr. George K. Frinke, S. Bauer, W. F. Mitchell. William Campbell, Percy Innis. W. H. Leahy. W. B. Faville, Dr. C. S. Mann. Walter Bliss, Charles Moraghan, E. E. Kentfield, George E. Lask. J. Greenhaum, B. D. Kellogg, J. Ledwidge. John Zeile. Paul Carew, A. A. Robinson. Joseph Eber and Mortimer Ford. 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