San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW October 2, 1909. Billie Burke at the Van Ness When Billie Burke visited San Francisco season before last with John Drew in My Wife, she turned everybody's head and won everybody's heart. She returns to the Van Ness next Monday night as a full fledged star and the indications are that everybody is eager and anxious to undergo the pleasing operation of having his head turned and his heart won once more. No actress of recent years has gained a vogue so quickly as Miss Burke and it looks very much as if it was a vogue that was going to last indefinitely, too. She has youth and beauty and ability and temperament CHAS. F.THOMPSON SCENIC CO. MAIN OFFICE AND STUDIOS, A60, 462, 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 ? love with a young man, thinks it the most natural thing in the world to tell him that she has. The young man marries her, of course, and then she learns that he has a past — several pasts in fact. She taxes him with it and lie admits that he has flirted a little, but he'll do so no more. And he doesn't, but appearances are against him and his little wife thinks that he has. How shall she be revenged? Why. she'll flirt, too. And she tries, but she can't Spotlights In the parlance of the first-nighters who gathered to receive Lillian Russell in her new comedy, The Widow's -Might, in New York, week before last, the consensus of opinion was that the fair Lillian wins again. Edmund Day's comedy of Wall Street, which is her stellar vehicle for the present, turns out the play that permits Miss Russell to shine in new Billt: liurke in Love Watches and, above all — wonderful charm. And it is charm that counts most, after all, when the points in an actress' favor are summed up. But Miss Burke can act, loo, and she will prove it in Love Watches, the comedy in which she is to appear at the Van Ness. This piece, by the way, is by Mm. de Flers and de Caillavet, the same clever Frenchmen who wrote My Wife and who have just given John Drew another big success in New York — Inconstant George. Love Watches was adapted into English for Miss liurke by Miss Gladys Unger, a former San Franciscan, and for that reason the play ought to be especially interesting to theatregoers of this city. It tells a delightful story of a pretty little French girl, just out of a convent and entirely unversed in the ways of the world. • who, when she falls in and it is this unsuccessful attempt that furnishes the plot for the play. The part of the little French girl might have been created especially for Miss liurke, so perfectly in every way does it fit her. She is supported by an excellent company, too, including Vernon Steel, a young English actor who is on his first visit to America; Ernest .La wford, who was seen here with Maude Adams ; Maude Odell, Kate Meek. Stanley Dark and Frank Martin, all of them prominent in the profession. Miss liurke will remain at the Van Ness for two weeks and will give matinees on Wednesdays as well as Saturdays. There will be no Sunday performances. surroundings with all the charm and feminine graces that have long combined to make her an institution on the American stage. On account of the death of Clyde Fitch, the production of The City, his latest play, will be brought out much earlier than originally planned by the LEVY'S BIG TRUNK STORE INCORPORATED COAST AGENTS FOR THE Taylor Trunks fift7 Market St SF m knerai kpaiiiing UO / ITIdl RCl Ol.,<3. 1 -Kearny p„one Douglas 3I92 Shuberts. This firm has another Fitch play. The Manicure Girl, which was written for Zelda Sears, which will probably be soon launched. C. W. Blagg and C. J. Stevens have arranged to give Pasadena theatregoers a full week of attractions at the Lowe Grand Opera House. These gentlemen have secured an option on the opera house and the services of the Wright Stock Company, which will present a number of recent successes, the prices of admission being placed at 15. 25, 35 and 50 cents. The engagement opens Monday evening, September 27th. On that night The Devil will be offered. On Tuesday evening will be presented My Country Sweetheart. On Wednesday evening comes In Old Virginia. On Thursday evening the play will be The Young Rivals, on Friday evening The Belles, and for Saturday matinee, The Young Rivals. Marian Melville will play leads. Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, who is suing the Press Publishing Company, publishers of the New York World, for $100,000 damages, applied last week for permission to have her testimony taken in France by an open commission. Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court granted the application. In private life Sarah Bernhardt is Mme. Damala. She asks damages for an article in the World entitled "Fakes Don't Do, Sarah," which she says hurt the sale of her memoirs and libeled her character. Frenchmen of letters who are said to know just how much of her own memoirs Mme. Bernhardt wrote will testify before the commission. The progress made upon the construction of the new Columbia Theatre has been so great during the past few weeks that Gottlob & Marx have every reason to expect that the December date set for the opening will find the theatre in readiness for occupancy. The Traveling Salesman, James Forbes' successor to his other hit, The Chorus Lady, is underlined for early presentation at the Van Ness Theatre. Complete in laugh lines, displaying a large assortment of plain and fancy laughs, Mr. Forbes' latest effort should attract much attention here. The Garrick San Diego's Leading Playhouse San Diego, California D. C. COLLIER, Proprietor WYATT & DODGE, Managers A Gentleman from Mississippi will close its engagement at the Van Ness Theatre on Sunday night. Novelty Theatre, San Francisco TO RENT By the day. week or month. Fine, comfortable theatre, seating 1,200 people. Large stage. SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO POLITICAL MEETINGS