San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

October _\ 1909. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 3 Theatres and Opera Houses, National and Municipal, in Latin America Cuts and data furnished through the courtesy of The International Bureau of the American Republics. SIXTH ARTICLE. ..jiiiii I iiiiii .. 1. iiiiii liimil ^iini*JiHH NATIONAL THEATRE. SAN SALVADOR, CENTRAL AMERICA The Xatiottat Theatre, in the city of San Salvador, is liberally patronised, and is visited every season by an opera company fiom Italy or France. It is astonishing when the number that have been erected as monuments of state theatres is enumerated in these to a public desire and architectural Latin American states. There seems taste. Two most beautiful structures to be no end of beautiful art edifices are depicted this week. ERONT OF JUAREZ THEATRE, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO The magnificently decorated interior of the Juarez Theatre is a dream of color. The proscenium arch is of the horseshoe form, in red. gold, and blue stucco relief, while the walls of the boxes and of the whole interior are stenciled in the Catalan style with dull reds .and golds. The cost of the edifice, which has a seating capacity of 1,300 persons, was %1 ,000,000. Chas. Hanford Will Use Modern Play This season Charles B. Hanford will concentrate his efforts on two plays, both comedies — The Taming of the Shrew and The American Lord, the latter a modern comedy by George H. Broadhurst and Charles T. Dazey, two representative American dramatists. Mr. Hanford's Petruchio is recognized as a standard performance, so completely has he identified the role with his own personality that thousands upon thousands of playgoers have accorded him unqualified acceptance as its representative living interpreter. In continuing this vivacious Shakespearean creation in his repertory, Mr. Hanford responds to the definitely expressed wishes of numerous theatre managers who have taken occasion to voice the wishes of their patrons. A strong element of the popularity of this production lies in the portrayal of the leading feminine role by Marie Drofnah. Her presentation of Katherine is universally admired as a worthy accompaniment of the Hanford realization of Petruchio. Great as has been the interest in the continuation of Mr. Hanford's appearances in The Taming of the Shrew, it has not ex I ldUlbUll 3 parent's Stationery Co., 'SSSSl ANNUAL TOUR OF THE ELLEFORD COMPANY IN LATEST DRAMATIC ROYALTY SUCCESSES Pacific Coast Representative for Brady ami (Jrismer's MAN OP THE HOUR and WAY DOWN EAST "A GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI" W. J. ELLEFORD, Sole Proprietor and Director FRANK WYMAN, Manager WILLIS BASS, Business Manager Permanent Address. Francis-Valentine Co.. 285-287 13th St., S. F. celled the manifestations of eager expectancy conce rning his production 6f a drama of the present day. The American Lord gives opportunity for character delineation of the kind in which this actor peculiarly excels. The subject of the picture is a man who has grown up amid rugged surroundings to be big — morally, temperamentally and intellectually. He meets emergencies with the same fortitude as that displayed by the heroes of classic distinction who have hitherto engaged Mr. Hanford's talents. Mr. Hanford has long held the belief that the responsibilities and perplexities of our own day are no less worthy of an artist's study than those of ancient or mediaeval Italy. Gets Fortune if She Avoid Actors and Divorced Men NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.— The will of Ellen M. Hennessey, widow of former Fire Commissioner James S. Hennessey, leaves one-third interest in her $500,000 estate to her 12-year-old granddaughter. Catherine Bradley Bigelow, provided that at no time shall she marry a divorced man or an actor. If the girl does marry a divorced man or an actor she shall forfeit her interest in the estate, according to the will, and her portion shall revert to Hennessey's son, J. Forbes Hennessey, and a daughter, . Ellen Mary Parker. Evidently Mrs. Hennessey belonged to the old school of narrow vision. The present-day actor is proving to be a very domestic person and he makes in as great a proportion as good a husband as the averaire. The Next of Kin Charles Klein, the author of The Lion and the Mouse, and The Third Degree, is to have his latest work, The Next of Kin, produced by Henry B. Harris in November. Mr. Klein, following his usual custom, has taken for his theme a subject of great interest to the American public. In his new play he deals with the enactment by legislatures of loosely constructed laws capable of many interpretations. He also attacks our modern methods of legal procedure which culminate in the courts, becoming clogged, and as a result delaying the proper adjudication of the rights of litigants and the tying up of large estates, thereby withholding from widows and orphans their just inheritances, causing great suffering as a consequence. Mr. Klein also takes occasion in his new play to inveigh against the connection of politics with the Bench and the Bar, for the purpose of extorting blackmail. The I nvasion Oliver Morosco has accepted and will soon produce at his Burbank Theatre in Los Angeles, Invasion, a new play by Julian Johnson, a well-known New Oxnard Opera House OXNARD, CAL. Best stage between Frisco and Los Angeles. Playing all of the best shows that come to the Coast. Doing good business. Write for open time. GONZALES OPERA HOUSE GONZALES, CAL. New, well appointed theatre, electric lighted, full stock of new scenery. C. H. WIDEMAN, Mgr. WOODLAND Opera House WOODLAND, CAL. th?r?vte?t sh.ow, town for Sood shows in the West. A few good dates open in September and October. Stage bit Or«fhw2Lany P"><iuctlon. Booked by Oreat Western Theatrical Circuit. Hill Opera House PETALUMA, CAL. JOHN R. ROCHE. Lessee and Manager The finest theatrical town outside of the big cities in the West. Magnificent new theatre, with stage large enough for any attraction, playing regularly from $50u to $700 a night. Booked by Great Western Theatrical Circuit. 287 Thirteenth St., S. F. BARCROFT Opera House, Merced Entirely remodeled. New stage bi« enough for any production. Stag" equipped with new scenery. Merced has 1.000 population. For time write F. R. BARCROFT, Manager. Santa Cruz K$ Santa Cruz, Cal. L. A. KNIGHT, Manager Rental or will play first-class companies on percentage H. Lewin H. Oppenheim GOKDAN TAILORING CO. Market St., Bet. Powell and Mason PINE CLOTHES MODERATE PRICES No Branch Stores NEW AUDITOR MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL. Seating capacity, 1,000; new stage; new scenery; stage thirty feet deep, sixty feet wide; large enough for any production; a population of 5,000 to draw fromnow booking for 1909-10. Address WALTER A. CLARK, Mountain View, Cal. Los Angeles dramatic critic. The play deals with the descent of an avalanche of Asiatics upon the Pacific Coast. The action is local. Illumining their path with giant searchlights, the invaders land below Long Beach in the night, after annexing the Hawaiian Islands with their powerful fleet. The aim is to-take Los Angeles and its three great railway arteries, and thus to establish an impregnable base far up in the Rockies, "setting a new Gibraltar on the Great Divide." The invaders are not Japanese. The only native Nippon in the plot dies a martyr in the defense of his adopted country. There is but one rifle shot in the piece, and that off stage. The silent gun, the wireless telegraph, the high explosive, the submarine mine and the aeroplane are the weapons chosen by the author for his distinctly modern play. The final scene shows the possibilities of the deadly warfare. The cast is small, but the production will be elaborate, and work upon it already has begun.