San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

i6 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September 25, 1909 Edward Hume, who plays Jonathan Joy in A Knight For a Day, at the Garrick Theatre next week. Day A Knight for a First of the big musical plays to visit San Francisco this season is A Knight for a Day, which conies to the Garrick tomorrow. Boasting a new production, and a cast of principals that appears to be even better than that which interpreted the work on the occasion of its former visit, A Knight for a Day will return to the Garrick for a week. Edward Hume will be seen as Jonathan Joy, the dimunitive waiter who, failing to get a tip from a customer, appropriates a package of papers left behind by the latter, and proceeds to impersonate the gentleman. This is one of the best eccentric comedy parts ever written, and in it Mr. Hume's work is splendid. Hume is declared to be one of the best eccentric dancers upon the American stage, and to have an exceptionally good singing voice. The role of Tilh' Day, the slave)', a decidedly humorous character, will be impersonated by Grace DeMar, who scored heavily in the part in the Eastern cities last season. Ruth Florence will be seen as Muriel, to whom falls the delightfully haunting song. Life is a See-Saw. Miss Florence is said to possess a voice of unusual sweetness and power, and an engaging personality. Alice Considine is a dainty and unusually handsome young woman who will play Elaine. Rennold Cameron will be the Marceleine; Forrest Cleveland the Emile, and the other principal roles are said to be in especially capable hands. -Manager Frazee is said to have taken great pains with the chorus, which includes a number of those who were with the organiza Booked Nearly Solid to June 1, 1910 Estha Williams and a great Supporting Company in AS THE SUN WENT DOWN By Geo. D. Baker Address ARTHUR C. AISTON Sole Owner Room 304 1505 Broadway N.Y. City Tel. 941 Bryant Coast Tour Early in 1910 tion last season. Of the dozen song numbers in the show, those best remembered are Life is a See-Saw, The Little Girl in Blue, Whistle When You WalkOut, and I'd Like Another Situation Just Like That. Bob Priest Ahead of Third De gree and Assures Us It Is Careat I am proud to advise you that the cast of The Third Degree is one of the best ever sent west of the River, including as it does Faul Everton, Fernanda Eliscu, Margaret Drew, E. A. Eberle, Alfred Moore, Ralph Ramsey (who, by the way, is an own cousin of Andrew Carnegie, and even at that very clever), Harry Forseman, A. H. Simmons, Francis Bonn, and others. I expect to be in San Francisco on or before Oct. 7th, for a two weeks' sojourn in the big western metropolis, as The Third Degree plays the •Van Ness there Oct. 18th to 31st, inclusive, which I understand takes in the great celebration date. Sir A. W. Pinero's Mid-Channel; Wm. H. Crane, in Father and the Boys; Hattie Williams, in Detects Sparkes ; William Collier, in The Patriot; Otis Skinner in Your Humble Servant; Marie Doro, in a new play to be announced later; Kvrle Bellew, in The Builder of Bridges; Francis Wilson, in his own comedy, The Bachelor's Baby; Sir Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore, in The Mollusc. Mr. Frohman has chartered two private cars which will be used in succession by these companies traveling to the Pacific Coast. New Home for Lambs Negotiations have been begun by the real estate committee of the Lambs Club for the purchase of the Berkeley Lyceum in Forty-fourth street, Xew York City, to be used as the club's new home. The club has outgrown its present quarters on Forty-fourth street, between Broadway and Sixth avenue, and the members wish to obtain a new clubhouse as soon as possible. The Berkeley Lyceum property is a fivestory building and is large enough to accommodate the needs of the club. .' Pacifi( Charles Frohman Coast Tours L Charles Frohman has arranged Wr" the following stars to visit the Pacife Coast this season, each tour to bc^i in Kansas and to end in Scnttg: Maude Adams; in What Every Woman Knows; John Drew, in Inconstant George; Ethel Barrymore, in With two theatres in the Columbus Circle district ( the Majestic and the Lincoln Square ) the Shuberts have acquired a building site on West Sixty> | third street, near Broadway, New York, upon which they will erect a theatre. This house, when completed, will make the eighteenth New York theatre under their and associates' management. . . . First Pacific Coast Tour . . . Wm. A. Bradv and Toseph R. Grismer's Production A Gentleman From Mississippi A Comedy of Washington Life by Harrison Rhodes and Thos. A. Wise "Is a corker." — Colonel Roosevelt One Entire Year New York City. Six Months Chicago Commencing Monday, Sept. 27, se^d and^astweek van Vess The Greatest Cast of Singers Headed by THOS. H. PERSSE Tenor EDITH MASON Soprano Now Booking Season 1909 5 10 The Persse=Mason Co." In the New Operatic Comedy The Singing Bandits Book and Music by HERMAN PER LET THOS. II. PERSSE Sole Proprietor JAMES PILLING Manager Permanent Address: Dramatic Review, Van Ness Theatre Building, San Francisco Everything Complete New Scenery Excellent Music Quartette of Comedians Season William Stoenner Presents 09-10 Millidge Sherwood In a Sumptuous Scenic Revival of . . . King Lear . . . Car of Scenery 25 People Beautifully Costumed Two "Ahead"