San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 |\ The Great Marshall Show JB \ Good Vaudeville, "That's All." BU I Box office records at Astoria, Ore.; Eureka, Cal.; Chehalis, j Wash.; Oregon City, Salem, Ore.; Albany, Ore., and then some. / "There's a Reason." Returning to California for return ENGAGE ■ / MENTS. MANAGERS DESIRING A LIVE BOX OFFICE WIN ■ / NER ADDRESS EDWARD C. MARSHALL. CARE CENTRAL, fy THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, OR SEE BURNS & HOWELL. ABOUT IT. Rose Hoey Stevens Prima Donna Soprano Los Angeles. Levy's, • Mabel Bardine « Presenting the head-line sketch, Suey San, over Orpheum Circuit. June ii, 1910 Morris' Music Hall to Open in October The AVilliam Morris Company "Western will open the new American Music Hall, now being erected on Ellis street, on Monday, October 24. Though the structural steel has not yet been received, the contractors have advanced their work in a marvelous manner. All the ornatoental plaster, the woodwork, the heating and ventilating plant, part of the decorations and interior equipment will be ready for installation immediately the walls are up. Already the acts which will open the houses of the Morris Western circuit are being chosen aud-will start their tour of the far West with the opening of the new Omaha house, about September 1. In succession will then be opened American Music Halls in Spokane. Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles, and later Kansas City, Oakland, Tacoma and Vancouver, B. C. The Morris vaudeville enterprises have on their list Harry Lauder, Julian Eltinge, Amelia Bingham, Emma ; Carus, Clarice Vance, Willa Holt j Wakefield, the Empire City Quartet, j Alexander Carr, George Lashwood, J popularly known in London as the 1 Beau Brummel of Europe; R. A. Roberts, greatest of protean artists ; ' Bransby WTilliams, famous for his I depictions of characters from Dick1 ens and Shakespeare; Cecelia Loftus, ! Edna Mollon and a great list of others. The William Morris Company AVestern, controlling all the theatres in the Morris circuit west I of the Missouri River, is almost comj pletely a San Francisco corporation. Its directros, besides William MorI ris and WTalter Hoff Seely, are GusI tave Brenner, vice-president of the Merchants' Association; Jesse S. Andrews, a merchant, and Major I Francis V. Keesling. the attorney, j Among the stockholders most heavily interested are : Dr. Ilartland I Law. Jesse Newbauer, A. F. Lejeal, John Tonningson, C. A. Malm, W. F. Perkins, Carlton Wall, Henry P. Dalton, Charles A. Moraghan, Geo. I". Hind, Victor Etienne Jr., Kenneth MacDonald, H. A. Hedger. Fred Cartwright, A. M. Shields. M. H. Robbins Jr., president of the MerI chants' Association; Samuel D. Mignes, H. S. Manlleim, Germain I Pouchan, Max Rosenberg, I. Rosen1 berg, N. Arnstein, Al Jacobs, John H. Hadler and George W. Dornin. The Wi Seasons do not affect the attendance here, standing room being at a premium during the first show, and a goodly audience viewing the second effort of the performers. The big hit of the bill is Little Hip, a dwarf elephant, who plainly shows he has never been to a school of acting by his natural manner. When Hip finishes his remarkable performance and goes to bed after pulling the sheet over his head, you leave with a satisfied feeling that your twenty cents and ninety minutes were well spent. The bill is an even one, with no particular stellar feature, if we except Matt Keefe, who is a great favorite I out there. Matt has a good tailor, a better voice and an altogether pleasing manner. He also has a harpist, effective one. Wood and Lawson are j expert dancers and seemingly like their work, as well as the audience did. Joe Bruno, and the combination is an The Wheelers have a sort of mixed jumble of pantomime and juggling, with a burlesque on the joys of automobiling, but I wish the gentleman had a less offensive make-up. The tramp wriskers are a bit overworked. Why not try an eccentric French or English dress and make it neat. Veroni Verdi and Brother offer a tuneful and refined musical specialty, both the young people showing marks of genius. Klein and Clifton are old friends and do not pall with repetition. The Wigwam holds a firm place in the affections of the Mission people, and with Dan Spellman as the permanent stellar attraction cannot fail to show a balance on the right side of the ledger. Chutes To the blase city man who knows it all, or, what is worse, thinks he does, I offer a new sensation. To equip lmnself for a thorough enjoyment ot the sensation, I prescribe a two-mile walk rather briskly, four glasses of bnttermilk and a lenient view of humanity's failings. Now buy a ticket of admission to the Chutes and negligently stroll about the grounds, being careful to observe all your limited mental capacity can absorb ; watch the kiddies shoot the chutes, listen to their screams of delight as they vainly attempt the mastery of the'various games devised for their amusement. Note the expression of content on mother's face as she watches her own and her neighbors' children. Then go into the theatre and see a bully vaudeville show. This week it is exceptionally good. There's Hurley and Hurley, and they hear no snores during their act. Cullen Brothers are dancers. Everyone loves a dog, or will if he reads the late Senator Vest's tribute to that faithful animal, but when he watches Seymour's Happy Family, he will rattle his chain and take his bone to the corner like a good dog. No use talking about Jones, Grant and Jones. They are always a riot. How those colored children do love to work ! Tinkham and his motorcycle stunt may cause a slight trepidation, but ther is no real danger. They are sensational, but they carefully calculate and therefore achieve the desired result. When the plumbers' helpers' union give a picnic, some one of them is sure to bring an accordeon along to the delight of his pals and the despair of the innocent bystander, but an accordeon in the hands of Santo Santucci becomes an altogether different affair. You know the Italian people use music as we do paregoric for infants and the La Bella NapoliTrio took extra closes when young. By the time our bored friend has done the Chutes he will feel better. It's even money he will have a kind word for his wife when he goes home. Vaudeville Notes Reports from Los Angeles are rosy. All places of amusement are doing well and more are projected. It is also rumored that Ollie Mack will re-enter the show business. The Valencia Theatre will reopen, June 1 8th, as a moving picture house purely. Alex Kiser, the optomistic manager, will be in command and use all his proved ability to get 'em coming. This awful increase of grouch on the Rialto is not only useless — it is destructive to mental poise. San Francisco is not going to the demnition bow-wows. . This is one of the world's greatest seaports^ as it is one of its best theatre-patronizing cities, and while, like other sections, it is liable to suffer a dull period, it will come through in its old form, and you can help it not by knocking, but by boosting. Smile, d you, smile ! The matter of agents' licenses which caused a flutter last week is still in abeyance. Whether theatrical agents are to be classed with employment agencies and thereby obliged to take out a city and State license, is a delicate legal point for the City Attorney and the Attorney-General of the State to decide. Meanwhile, Prof. Henry may sleep in peace. Burns & Howell, the hustling agents, transact a general booking and theatrical business. They will build you a theatre complete, furnish a. company— in fact, supply everything but the audience. Zick Abrams, the Chesterfield of vaudeville, is far from the maddening crowd, summering on his ranch in Northern California. Meanwhile, Manager Tompkins gracefully presides at the National. The Four Musical Cates are peeved at the critic of the Sacramento Star and want to wager $500 the critic cannot produce their equal. That's some talk! Will Chas. Morrell please step forward ! ■ Manager Cohen of Honolulu sails with his Musical Comedy Company for his island paradise, June 18th. Frank Blair has replaced Edwin Emery as director. Carlton Chase and .Maude Rockwell are members. Chas. Mack, star of the charming Come Back the Irin sketch, is buying the cigars. It happened Tuesday at 10 a. m., and it's a bouncing boy. Congratulations, Charles ! 5 . . .h,yN.-sch,eBGgn,and,wto -. vb Fanni« Donovan, the lady comedian who writes and sings her own parodies to the delight of all, has returned from a season in Honolulu and is loud in praise of Kanaka land. The three kings of harmony, Rogers, Stewart and Ellwood, are the latest big singing hit on the Coast. This week the I'ortola enjoys their melodies. J. C. O'Connor, the debonair host of the swellest cafe on earth, always has a smiling welcome for the thirsty actor at his Eddy and Market dream palace. Jerome H. Remick, the music publisher, has certainly stirred things up Willard Louis Leads Jack Golden Comedy Co., Chutes. Indefinite after Asril 3d HAROLD KITER Characters Jack Golden Co., Chutes, After January 10th in 'Frisco. Manager Goldfinger has more clever ideas in pushing music than Barnum had in running his big show . Chas. Reilly, the singing juvenile of the Jas. Post Company, retires this week and jumps to Salt Lake City, where he will be a leading member of the musical stock company at the Daniels Theatre. The Sharrocks have finished their Coast tour and will rest until after the dispute between Mr. Jeffries and Lil' Arthur has been settled, then go East. Sharrock is an awful fight bug. Sam Smith, the British attache of Bill Rice's O'Farrell Street emporium, was very much in evidence at Vesta Victoria's opening. Cheer O, Sammy. God Save the King! Chinese Carnival at Idora Park With gay colored flags, draperies and lanterns, Idora Park is offering to its patrons this week a Chinese carnival. The famous dragon parades the grounds nightly, and with the illuminated fish, lion's head and escorted by a Chinese band, which rivals Ohlmeyer's for volume, if not harmony, forms one of the most attractive features of the display. In the band shell a. Chinese vaudeville show is presented. San Yip Po, said to be the greatest Chinese tragedienne of the day, plays an important role. With matinee and evening performance Sunday, the carnival will come to a close. Ohlmeyer's band will be heard for the last time on Sunday night. Beginning Monday evening, Thaviu will bring his Russian musicians to Idora for a limited engagement. A company of singers and dancers, who appear in native costume, are a feature of this hand" The vocal soloists are Max Bing, late baritone with the Boston Grand Opera Company and Imperial Opera of Berlin, and Anna Woodward, soprano, who will make a speciality of the songs made famous by .Mine. Patti.