San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW January 15, 1910 THE SAW FRANCISCO Dramatic Review Muilc ui Dram* CUS. H. FAREELL, Publisher Issued Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to San Pnncl sco Dramatic Review, Van Ness Theatre Bldg., Van Ness Avenue. Telephone Park 1773 Entered at San Francisco as Second-class Mail Matter. Established 18S0. Ralph Russell Tlie subject of our front page photograph this week is Ralph Russell, a young leading man of fine appearance and decided talent. .Mr. Russell first claimed attention in the West when he appeared at the head of his own company, playing a very successful tour of the Coast in George Broadhurst's strong play. The Mills of the Gods. After that Mr. Russell appeared in stock at the Belasco Theatre in Los .Angeles, and has had stock experience in the Northwest and in Chicago, lie has a very pleasing personality, is a fine dresser and is in many ways extremely well qualified for juvenile leads. Next summer Mr. Russell will be seen at the head of his own company in a famous Broadway success. In the meantime he may be secured for leading business, and can be addressed care of this office. New Concert Management The people of the Pacific Coast should be congratulated on the establishment of a new musical management in the city of San Francisco, by the firm _ of Fitzpatrick & Norwood, located in the Kohler & Chase Building, San Francisco, which announces that it is prepared to create renewed interest among music lovers in the artists to be presented to the people of the Pacific Coast by means of an early and persistent campaign of publicity, and secondly by subscriptions obtained by personal solicitation. They call attention to the fact that San Francisco has a population of about half a million and at best that there are about thirty concerts a year in which eminent artists participate, and that at the beginning of the present concert season the attraction was met by an almost empty house, and this happened after six months during which music lovers had practically lasted. There has been scarcely any effort shown on the part of any body in the city of San Francisco to meet the classical and musical emergency of the day, and it has resulted in making a cosmopolitan community like San Francisco appear on the musical map like a provincial town. Some of the best artists have fared poorly because they were not understood by the local management. It has been a kind of, what may be called, uncultivated system of a field that required the scientific and artistic culture necessary for growth and harvest. Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Norwood are expert publicity men and just as good showmen. Their energy and integrity are above par, and they are going to make a success of their musical ventures. Alpha Parry Byers • Alpha Parry Byers, who was so successful in the New York production of The Dollar Mark at Wallack's Theatre, earlier in the season, is now sojourning in San Francisco, and is open for stock or road engagements. Mrs. Byers is one of the country's best known and most accomplished character women and has always been associated with first-class companies. Last season she was with Wilton Lackaye in The Bondman, and previous to that engagement was a member of the old Alcazar company, the Majestic stock Company, the Baker stock of Portland, to say nothing of many splendid road organizations. Correspondence ST. PAUL, Minn.— The MemWidow made merry at the Metropolitan, <)-\2, and Geo. M. Cohan, himself and "royal family." kept up the merriment. 13-15, w ith The Yankee Prince. Both attractions showed to big houses. Fritzi Scheff, in The Prima Donna, opens, 17th. The popular Grand pleased its patrons with The Girl and tin Detective, week uth. The Clansmail comes week 16th. The Orpheum, with Valerie Bergere and company in The Sultan's Favorite as feature, with Kelley and Kent a close second, did their usual good business. Mine. Bedini's Arabian horses headed the bill at the Majestic, while the star raised the dust with Sam T. Jack's show, with Cora Livingston, the wrestler, as an added attraction. The Princess (Minneapolis) closed its doors, the 8th. This east-side house opened last fall with a boom, but the poor business of late was more than those who owned and controlled could stand. The Neil Stock Company have several good stock engagements in view. AL. <;. FLOL'RXOY. WILLIAM MAXWELL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Merchants' Exchange Building:. Telephone Kearny 2565. McAllister, near Market. Phones Market 130 Home J2822 This Saturdav A ft ernnon and Evening Last Times Of THE WOLF Starting Sunday .Matinee. Jan. 16th. Other Matinees Thursday and Saturday Colwrn and Harris' Comedians, with ROYAL TRACY, Present Brewster's Millions The Supreme Comedy Success. A Dramatization by Winched Smith and Byron Ongley of George Barr McCutcheon's Famous Novel, and Showing the Famous Yacht Scene SIM. KM Ml) CAST Prices 25c to $1; Thursday Matinees. 250, Sue, 75c Next — MAX FIGMAN In MARY JANE'S PA 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, 2:30. 10 and 20 cents. Two Shows Nightly, 7:30 and 9:15. 10. 20, and 30 cents. All Seats Reserved. Columbia™™ GOTTLOB. MARX & CO.. Managers Phone Franklin 150 Monday. January 17— Second and Last Week No Sunday Performance Matinees Wednesday and Saturday CHARLES FROHMAN Presents Wm. H. Crane In GEORGE ADE'S Best Comedy Father and the Boys Seats for All Performances $2. $1.50. $1, 50c, 25c. January 24th MARIE CAHILL in THE BOYS & BETTY New AlfiQ'70-t* Theatre ^XlVClAlCIl Tel. Welti 4O0 Cor. Sutter and Steiner Sts. Belasco & Meyer, Owners and Managers Absolutely "Class A" Building Monday, January 17th Starts the Second and Final Week of ST. ELMO Adapted by Willard Holeomb from Augusta J. Evans-Wilson'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 EIGHT GEISHA GIRLS. Dainty Native Japanese Dancers; JEAN CLERMONT'S "BURLESKE" CIRCUS; BROWN, HARRIS AND BROWN; THE DOHERTY SISTERS; UNA CLAYTON & CO.; MR. AND MRS. FREDERIC VOELXER; NEW ORPHEUM MOTION PICTURES. Last Week, Immense Hits, WILLY PANTZEB COMPANY and ARTURO BERNARDI. 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 Steam Heated Tonigh A HIT: — Tonight Kolb a Dill Present Themselves in the Great Double Bill HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY THE COLLEGE WIDOWER Night and Sunday Matinees, Prices 25c to $1. Saturday Matinee, Prices 25c to 75c. Pll I T PRINTING CO. UlLsilsiIsi SAN FRANCI SCO THEATRICAL PmNTING OF ALL KINDS FHJSTERC 2257 MISSION ST. ™fNW FRANCIS Show ™LENT,NE Printers Thirteenth St., near Mission, S. F. Cat. y^^TXSST PHONE-MARKET 211* Send BUI* oi Lading to us. We will takn earn of your paper