San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW April 24, 1909 Jack Dodge, San Diego's Best Known and Most Popular Citizen, Sends Some Cheering News My Dear Farrell: Your Dramatic REVIEWS have got my boys demoralized, they have given up selling tickets from the box office window and are devoting their entire time to rustling for subscribers to the only dramatic paper on the coast, I refer to your valuable publication of The San Francisco Dramatic Review. Well I hope they will get every man, woman and child in our enterprising city to subscribe for your journal as it is deserving of the support of all. Mailed you this morning copy of our morning Union, giving us the glorious news of the near opening of the Tia Juana race track and the greater intelligence: which makes glad the hearts of all true San Diegans, including even the most pessimistic, the early completion of a new outlet to the East, I refer to the construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway. Brother Farrell, this will make San Diego one of the greatest show towns in the country. You hear me, they will all be booked here for a week instead of one and two nights before long. Yes, my dear fellow, we are feeling exceedingly good here and why shouldn't we. Come down and visit us and see us in our new clothes. We will soon have in addition to our "Bay'n climate" many other things that will make you all sit up and take notice. We are going to give Jim Post and his "Buty Korus" a grand reception when they come down here at the Garrick for the summer. The people want Jim and his comedy company and if he makes good, which I am sure he will, he can stay all summer. Regards to all friends and believe me always to be a well wisher of Chas. H. Farrell and the Dramatic Review. Fraternally yours, JOHN DODGE, Mgr. Garrick. Pleasure Seekers Throng Idora Park Through expert management, Idora Park, in Oakland, has been reopened and is achieving a greater success than the most sanguine predicted. Patrick Conway's band give delightful openair concerts afternoon and evening. Vaudeville attractions, the children's playground, various concessions and divers amusements are heavily patronized. The new garden grill is one of the chief items of interest, dinner parties being numerous. From San Francisco and other nearby cities hundreds of visitors are carried to the big pleasure ground. During the coming week the large band will give daily changes of program at the open air concerts, which form one of the main attractions, furnished without charge to the park's patrons. Bek lasco and Erlanger The story is being circulated that David Belasco has consented to go on with the all-star gambol of the Lamb's Club, playing a part in a sketch with William Gillette. More remarkable still is the fact that Abe Erlanger will go along as the business director of the tour, and as Belasco will be the general stage director, the two old-time CHAS. F.THOMPSON SCENIC CO. MAIN OFFICE AND STUDIOS, 460, 4f.2, 464 WITMER STREET, LOS ANGELES THE FINEST, LARGEST AND MOST MODERN SCENIC STUDIOS IN THE WORLD. SCENERY FOR OPERA HOUSES AND PRODUCTIONS. DROP CURTAINS AND SCENIC ADVERTISING DROP CURTAINS OUR SPECIALTY. IN USE IN 1268 THEATRES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. WHY NOT YOURS ? enemies will be thrown into intimate contact for the first time since their breakawayof years ago. All sorts of theatrical possibilities loom up in view of this contingency. The Lambs expect to clear $100,000 on the one week tour, and will devote this vast sum to the building of a new clubhouse. Spotlights The Shuberts have announced that .Madame Nazimova is to open the new theatre which they are now erecting in New York on 39th street, near Broadway. Nazimova will be seen there in October in a new play which she has had in preparation for some time and which is as yet unnamed. The Valencia Theatre management has secured for early production a most important play in The Traitor, by Thomas Dixon, Jr. No drama of recent years has caused so much discussion as this and wherever it has been produced in the East it has created a profound sensation. It is a story of the Ku-Klux Klan, of the Reconstruction period, and is absorbing; in its interest, one of the striking scenes being a trial by jury in which eleven of the twelve jurymen are negroes. Mrs. Fiske and her New York company will present Salvation Nell at the Valencia Theatre for the two weeks beginning Monday, June 14, instead of Tune 21, as previously announced. Charlotte Thompson, for a time a brilliant member of the Dramatic Review staff, is playing an important part in this wonderful drama of the slums. Holbrook Blinn. another Californian, is Mrs. Fiske's leading man. Somerset Maughan's new play. The \<>l>lc Spaniard, may not prove to be as great a success as some of the author's previous efforts, but it is likely to make a revival of the early Victorian fashions of women's dress, says a cable from London. The charming costumes worn by the actresses have made a decided impression upon the audiences at the Royalty, and between the acts more than one lady was heard to announce her decision to have her dresses made for the coming summer on the lines of those disported on the stage. London, April 17. — There has been considerable trouble in the Academy of Dramatic Art, which was founded by Beerbohn Tree. George Bancroft, son of Sir Squire Bancroft, who has held the post of secretary at $2,000 per annum, is retiring owing to certain dissensions within the club, and the name of Hall Game's, son, Ralph, is mentioned as the probable successor. Mr. Tree's Dramatic Academy, when it first opened, drew a number of vain women who were in no need of money, but desired to display their charms on the stage. It was impossible to refuse them, because they were ready to pay a year's course — but these undesirables who crowd out the young and promising actresses have now been weeded out, and some of the pupils have already appeared with great success in the one-act plays now being produced by various dramatic societies. When A Texas Steer, which will follow If I Were King at the Valencia Theatre, was first produced at the California Theatre in this city, Congressman Julius Kahn, then an actor of no mean ability, played Brassy Gall. Tim Murphy played Maverick Bran Big Trunk Stores ust re ed a carload of latest style TAYLOR TRUNKS 687 Market St., S. P. Phone Douglas 3192 Wanted Lady partner to purchase half interest in established scenic musical act; must do Deisarte posing or Oriental art dancing. F. O. BOX 131, PASADENA, CAL. der, and pretty little Flora Walsh, Charles Hoyt's first wife, was Bossy. In the coming Valencia production Paul McAllister and Florence Oakley will play the two last roles. The Merry Widow is still the most talked of success in the musical line now being offered in America and abroad. It is being sung in no less than six different countries. San Francisco will greet the Widow on the Fourth of July, and Henry W. Savage promises to send her here in as perfect a form as he has anywhere else in America. Not since the early davs of Florodora has a musical attraction been awaited here with such eagerness as is this one. Polly of the Circus is coming to San Francisco this summer and will be played by the New York cast, headed by Edith Talieferro. The production can be accounted one of the distinctive hits of the past few seasons and the star of the cast has made for herself quite a name. 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