San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 8, 1910 Til SAX FBAJTCTSCO Dramatic Review Knilo ud Drama OKAS. E. 7ABBILL, Publisher Issue 1 Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to San P r a n o 1 ico Dramatlo Review, Van Ness Theatre Bldg., Van Ness Avenue. Telephone Park 1773 Entered at San Francisco as Second-class Mail Matter. Established 1880. Helen Byron The very stunning pieture on our front page this week is that of "Our Helen Byron," a native daughter. Helen Byron is a star and an artist from head to toe. This sweet, dainty ■ little commedienne is making a big hit at the Portola Cafe, which inaugurated a concert program on Monday night. Miss Byron has starred, has had her ow n shows, has been in comic opera, and in dramatic stock, and, in fact, is exceptionally versatile. She was prima donna for Jeff De Angeles for two years and won the greatest kind of praise for her splendid singing and vivacious acting. It is a matter of interest that some years ago Miss Byron appeared in a sketch written by Eugene Walter and scored heavily. It was called Hack from Denver, and was later elaborated in the great dramatic play, The Easiest Way. For five years Miss Byron was a star in rnusical comedy under the management of Henry W. Savage and other well known managers. She is of a most magnetic temperament and has a beautiful and expressive face and a stunning figure. She displays a fine taste in dressing, and is altogether a fine addition to our theatrical colony. Her reception on Monday night was simply an ovation and there was a most enthusiastic approval of her voice — a high soprano of thorough training and excellent quality. Frank Bacon the Hit of The Fortune-Hunter A w ell-known Californian actor now in the East writes The Dramatic Review that Frank Bacon is .the hit of The Fortune-Hunter, the big Cohan & Harris comedy hit. Mr. Bacon, more modest, writes us that he is pleasantly situated and is being treated very nicely by the critics for his acting in the l)est part that ever came his way. He says in part : My vaudeville experience was brief in the East. I opened Monday and the next day Cohan & Harris felt I was the type" they wanted for the old druggist in The Fortune-Hunter. As the sketch went so well and the report so good, I was not anxious for the switch, but inducements were offered and 1 joined out. I'm glad I did, for the part is to my liking and the press here has given me the best notices I ever received. We will be here until June sure, and if we do not run all summer here, we will no doubt come to the Coast. The Fortune-Hunter is the one big success of the season. Will T. Hodge is expecting an heir in the near future. Mrs. Hodge is known as Helen Hale. The actor folk are all risrht. ■B9 Si Olga Nethersole Critics of the drama have seemingly exhausted their vocabularies in attempting justice for Miss Nethersole's art and genius. One compared her to Zola, pointing out that she had great powers for producing realistic effects, because she created a living image, whereas Zola resorted merely to pen pictures. Another said she displayed on occasion all the torrents of florid passion with which Algernon Swinburne has poured out his soul in poetry. To another she appeared a$ an Fnglish Tolstoi, an apostle of the great gospel of truth. To Meissonier she was compared for her infinite care to exacting detail. The strength of her characterizations appeared to. another critic like those muscular and pulsating bronzes and marbles of Rodin. A famous writer once wrote a splendid essay in which she was referred to as the Herbert Spencer of dramatic art, the woman of all women of this generation whose logical deductions approach nearest to those of that brain which for years have been a veritable fetish to the English actress. WILLIAM MAXWELL ATTOENEY-AT-LAW Merchants' Exchange Building:. Telephone Kearny 2565. AMERICAN THEATRE Market St., near Seventh Phone Market 381. ED A. HOMAN, Manager. Devoted to High-Class Vaudeville THE BEST AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ACTS. Complete Change of Bill Sundays. Matinee Daily. 2:3(1. 10 and 20 cents. Two Shows Nightly. 7:30 and 9:15. 10. 20, and 30 cents. All Seats Reserved. McAllister, near Market. Phones Market 130 Home J2822 This Saturday Afternoon and Evening Last Times "bf THE ALASKAN Starling Sunday Matinee. January 9th Other Matinees Thursday and Saturday THE WOLF A Play of the Canadian Hudson Bay Country, by El'OENE WALTER Author "f Paid in Pull and The Easiest Way Nights and Saturday Matinee, 25c to $1.50. Thurs lay Matinee. 25c. 50c and 75c. Seats on sale at the theatre and Emporium. \Vxl BREWSTER'S MILLIONS . . Dreamland Rink Steiner St., at Sutter 6 NIGHTS — 5 MATINEES ONLY Starting Monday Evening. Jan. 10. Wm. Morris (Inc.) Presents the World-Famous Scotch Comedian and Entertainer Harry Lauder With a Company of Celebrated Associate Players. JnUan Eltinge am) Special Lauder Orchestra. NlliHT PRICES — 50c, 75c. $1. $1.50 and $2; Matinees. 25c, 50c. 75c and $1 Seats at Sherman. Clay & Co.'s, Sutter and Kearny Streets Columbia THEATRE Cor. Geary & Mason Gotllob. Marx & Co.. Mgrs. INAUGURAL PERFORMANCES Two Weeks Beginning Monday, January 10th Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays, Chas. Frohman presents Wm. H. Crane In George Ade's Best Comedy, FATHER AND THE BOYS Prices: $2.00. |1.50, $1. and 2.">c. ^A1rQ7<ir Theatre -T^1 IfC* Afl I Tel West 1400 Cor. Sutter and Steiner Sta. Belasco & Meyer. Owners and Managers Absolutely "Class A" Building Week Comemncing Monday, January 10th The Dramatic Sensation of the Season ST. ELMO Adapted by Willard Holcimb from Augusta J. EvansWilson's Famous Novel of the Same Title ONLY AUTHORIZED VERSION Prices — Night, 25c to $1.00. Matinee, 25c to 50c. MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY New Orpheum O'Parrell Street, Bet. Stockton and Powell Safest and Most Magnificent Theatre In America Week Beginning this Sunday Afternoon, Matinee Every Day A WONDERFUL NEW BILL ARTURO BERNARDI, the Great Italian Protean Artist; WILLY FANTZEB TROUPE; UNA CLAYTON & CO.; MB. and Mrs. VOELKER; BASQUE GRAND OPEBA QUARTETTE; BELLE DAVIS AND HEB CRACKEBJACKS; FOX AND FOXIES CIRCUS; NEW OBPHEUM MOTION PICTUBES. First Time Here of H. Gittus Lonesdale's Comedietta, THINGS ABE SELDOM WHAT THEY SEEM, Presented by FBANKLYN UNDERWOOD and FBANCES SLOSSON. 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 Theatre Closed this week for renovation Box OffU Now Open Commencing Sunday Night, Jan. 9th Kolb & Dill Present Themselves in the Great Double Bill . HIG6LEDY PIGGLEDY, anfc THE COLLEGE WIDOWEB Night and Sunday Matinees. Prices 25c to $1. Saturday Matinee, Prices 25c to 75c. Oil I F PRINTING CO. UlLlab SAN F-RANCISCO THEATRICAL PrTnTING OFALL KINDS FIOSTERC 2257 MISSION ST. »»»5»"W Show FRANCIS valent,nE printers Thirteenth St., near Mission, S. F. Cat. Spacious Headquarters PHONEMA RKET 2114 for Theatrical Agents Send Bills ol Ladlnit to us. We fill taka earn of your paper