San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW October 2. 1909. BJR3AHK THEATRE BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CAL. Oliver Morosco's Plays Ready for Stock The Judge and the Jury The Halfbreed The Empress and the Soldier In South Car'liney Is the New Majestic a winner 7 Well, we guess yes MOROSCO'S BURBANK THEATRE Los Angeles, Cal. ' ' The Be$t in the Weet ' ' The Leading Stock House. Hamburger's MAJESTIC Theatre The Handsomest in the West Cost $300,000.00 Oliver Morosco, Lessee K: Mgr For time address John Cort Menzel's Dramatic Agency These are busy times* I want 50 good actors. Orders are pouring in every day. A record of my recent activity: Supplied Ed. Redmond's company for Santa Cruz: Edwin Emery for the American Theatre, this city; Chas. King's company for the Pickwick, San Diego; Del Lawrence company. Seattle: Hallett and Clement stock, Fresno; Lorraine Buchanan company, for road; Millidge Sherwood company in King Lear, for road; and a host of single orders. Notwithstanding some pessimists, I do do business. WM. MENZEL, 915 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, Cal. Fifty Miles From Boston With all the tunefulness, snap and mirth that characterizes the work of Geo. M. Cohan, Messrs. Cohan and Harris will present the former's successful musical play. Fifty Miles from Boston, at the Garrick Theatre, week commencing Sunday. October 3d. Pro duced originally in Chicago, the play at oiice met with the usual favor that lia^ been accorded all the plays of this popular young American author. With its scenes laid in the little village of Brookfield. Mass., the action of the story has been written around the doings of a typical small town, with a uniquely realistic portrayal of the characters that live in such places. There is the general storekeeper, whose son is in love with the prety postmistress; and the hotelkeeper, whose son, a Harvard baseball player, also loves the Portola Benefit Yesterday the theatrical managers of this city held a meeting to make their final arrangements for the Portola benefit to be given on the afternoon of October 8th in the Garrick Theatre. Each theatre has decided upon just what features it will bill for that afternoon, but there are a few minor arangements to be made. The tickets which are now on sale are not seat, tickets, but they may be ex postmistress. Then there is her weak brother, who robs the postoffice and gets everybody into trouble. Town gossip and neighborly quarrels keep all those concerned in hot water, and as the story moves forward a picture with photographic minuteness is given of small town life in its every phase. Messrs, Cohan and Harris have provided an unusually strong company to fill the different parts, and likewise a large and well-drilled singing and dancing chorus. The production is ample to the extent of lavishness. Among the song hits are Waltz with Me, Jack and Jill, Harrigan, The Boys Who" Fight the Flames, Ain't It Awful, and My Small Town Gal. Included among the cast are : Richard Bartlett, Grace King, Edward O'Connor, Frank P.uoman. Daniel Bruce. Flossie Martin. Laura Bennett, Edwin Belden. May Maurice, Helen Young and 1 lobby Wagner. changed for reserved seats without extra charge at the Garrick box office after Tuesday, October 5th. The hour of the benefit has been changed from 2 o'clock to 1 130, and the prices are to be $2 in the orchestra and $1 in the balcony, all of them reserved. The offerings will include Evelyn Vaughan as Sweet Kitty Bellairs, a scene from Mile. Mischief. Kolb and Dill, another scene from Fifty Miles from Boston, and a number of Orpheum headliners, among them Edna Aug. Mary Nor man, the Myosotis Sisters, the Big City Four, and Ed Reynard. At the meeting held Wednesday, our managers decided that after the Portola benefit, they would shut down on all future benefit^, except the anual benefit for the theatrical charity fund. Spotlights The Flay Readers' Committee of the Actors' Society of America resumed work Friday. September 24th, under the chairmanship of Harold R. Woolf. The committee will receive and read all plays submitted, with a view to production or to placing them with suitable managers. Some few plays are still on hand, from which one will be selected for early presentation. The Flay Readers' Committee consists of the following men and. women: Thomas A. Wise, president of the society. Fanny Cannon, vice-president ; George Arliss. Mary Shaw, Richard F. Carroll, Edith Ellis Baker, Robert Owen Meech, George S. Christie, H. Nelson Morey. Mrs. Felix Morris, Nellie Callahan. W. D. Stone, Frank Jamison, David Landau, Edwin Brandt, Edith Campbell, Edward Ellis, George Farren, Charles Fleming, John Gorman. Lillian Kingsbury E. W. Morrison. FMward McWade, Harry O. Stubbs, Robert McWade, Jr., George FI. Trader and Harold R. \Y< « ill', chairman. \propos of a recent article that appeared in a little press agent's sheet called Playgoers, issued in Chicago, to the effect that "Harry La Mack will not go ahead of our Western company (A Pair of Country Kids). We have declined to engage handsome agents in advance of any of our attractions — Mr. La Mack writes to The Dramatic Review and states that he will be on hand to see his friends this season ahead of Uncle Josh Spruceby. The Orpheum The Orpheum announces for next week one of the best bills in the history of vaudeville. All the new acts have been headliners wherever they have appeared and their association in one program will be not only a remarkable but unprecedented event. James Young, assisted by Lorayne Osborne and Robert Strauss, will present a one-act college play called When Love is Young, which is a condensed version of Rita Johnson Young's comedy, Brown of Harvard. Mr. Young has been starring in Brown of Harvard, and the vaudeville sketch he is to appear in here is said to contain most of the important and fascinating moments of that comedy of college life. The career of Mr. Young has been a most interesting one. Some years ago he was the youngest prominent Shakespearean 'actor in this cottntrv, and of late he has been the principal male support of Viol Allen and other distinguished expo ents of the classic drama. Marv Nor man will introduce her refined and clever monologue. Some Types of Woman. It presents incidents from the lives of several actresses before the public and behind the scenes. Fd. F. Reynard, who is included in the new attractions, is styled "The Ventriloquist with a Production, for he performs an entire play with the assistance of his automatons, which totally eclipses anything of its kind previously witnessed on a stage. All the characters are automatons, to whom Mr. Reynard's marvelous ventriloquial powers appear to impart the gift of language. Pilu is the quaint name of an extraordinary dog brought to this country by Signor D. Ancillotti. an European animal trainer. Pilu will give his so-called demonstration of mind-reading next week at the ( Irpheum. While Ancillotti is in the auditorium receiving questions from those about him, this remarkable canine answers from the stage without any perceptible exchange of code or signal from his master. The Big City Quartette, the Myositis Sisters, Henry Clive and that inimitable comedienne and character actress, Edna Aug, will conclude their engagements with next week. A series of novel motion pictures will be the finale to a most delightful entertainment. Alcazar Theatre Sweet Kitty Bellairs will be started on its second and positively last week in the Alcazar next Monday evening. That it would exceed the customary seven days' run was assured by its initial presentation, for everyone who then witnessed it went forth to announce that it eclipsed its previous production, last season, in both acting and staging. While the wonderfully effective work of Evelyn Vaughan in the title role is more largely responsible than anything else for the rendition of Sweet Kitty Bellairs a second week, the acting of the other principal people, the elaborate scenic effects, the luxurious costumery and the cleverly drawn situations and bright lines of the play itself must be taken into consideration as important factors in the whole magnetism. That the play could profitably be retained a third week, probably longer, is unquestioned, but it must be withdrawn after next Sunday evening to make room for The Rose of the Rancho. which, with Bessie Barriscale in her former role of Juanita, will be the Alcazar's appropriate offering while the Portola festival is on. This attraction will be given a complete new scenic equipment, and there is good reason for believing that it will equal, if not excel, its three weeks' run when it. was first presented in the Alcazar. Hotel St. James Cor. Van Ness Ave. and Fulton St. San Francisco, California Headquarters for Agents and Managers Half Block from Van Ness Theatre. Friars meet at the St. James every Friday night. F. P. SHANLEY, Manager, formerly of New York