San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW ( ktober o, 1909. Correspondence ( JAKLAXD. Oct. 6.— Blanche Bates will certainly have good cause to remember this city. Xot only has she been greeted with packed houses and enthusiastic receptions at the Macdonough, but the popular California actress is being showered with all kintls of attention. Every day she can be seen riding around in automobiles or on horse-back, and not a day has gone by but what some elaborate dinner or luncheon has been given in her honor. The opening night, Miss Bates was the recipient of many beautiful floral offerings, tokens from her many friends. The Fighting Hope is well worth witnessing, and is an excellent vehicle for the display of Miss Bates' well-known talents. The supporting company is excellent and handles the play in a commendable manner. The play will continue for the balance of the week and will be followed by The Gentleman from Mississippi. All on Account of Eliza is the current attraction at the Liberty and the entire performance reflects credit on the company. There is plenty of action and an overabundance of good wholesome comedy that is enjoyed by all. George Friend, as the President of the School Trustees, Franz Hochstubl, was once more seen in one of his favorite characters, and he proved a great creator of laughs. Sidney Ayres, as his son, gave his customary clever performance ; his love scenes with Eliza showing that he is no novice at that part of the game. Walter Whipple and Robert Lawlor had prominent roles and acted well. Henry Shumer, as the druggist, Appleton. created a laugh with every line. Eloise May Clement, as Eliza, was only fair. .\Irs. Mina Gleason, who is always a good second hit as Delia. I lochstubl's housekeeper. Edith Lyle made a pretty postmistress, and a nice little piece of acting was executed by Estelle Warfield, who is back again in the cast after a long absence. The attendance has been very satisfactory, and Manager Bishop states that he is more than pleased with the new turn of affairs. The HalfBreed will follow. Ferris Hartman and his comic opera company opened a two weeks' engagement at The Broadway, 4th, and were greeted with a right royal welcome. The house was entirely sold out, and the audience was vociferous with their applause from start to finish. The repertoire for the engagement consists of such popular operas as The Yankee Consul, the opening production. The Sultan of Zulu, The Blue Moon and The Mayor of Tokio. The cast contains all of the old-time favorites, including Walter DeLeon. Walter Catlett, Joe Fogarty, Muggins Davie-. Josie Hart and Josephine Isleit. Oscar W alsh, a new tenor, also creates a favorable impression. The music is tuneful, the chorus attractive and the songs well rendered. Capacity houses are assured for the entire engagement. At the Orpheum. business is good, and the new turns and holdovers are well received. Senora Rosario Guerrero, in a one-act pantomime, is the big hit, closely followed in point of interest by last week's hit. Circumstantial Evidence. The balance of the bill includes Murray and Mack, Tom Waters, Spanieling and Riego, Wyse and Lee, Charles Montrell, and Crouch and Welch. The Bell is showing six exceptional novelties this week, with the natural re sult of packed houses. The program consists of Blanche Sloan, College Boys, Johan and Matt, James F. Dolan and Ida Lenharr, The Three Vagrants and The Four Stagpooles. Xext week. The Bell Road Show. The HalfBreed, Shore Acres and Sweet Kitty Belalirs are early bookings at The Liberty. The latter piece will open 25th. and will mark the reappearance of Bishop's leading woman. Florence ( )akley. Estelle Warfield, who is now a resident of Seattle, is here on a visit to her mother and sister, Mrs. Frank Graham. LOUIS SCHEELIXE. SACRAMENTO, Oct 7.— The Clunie was packed on the 1st by the admirers of Blanche Bates, to see her in The Fighting Hope. Kolb and Dill in Dream City had a crowded house, 3. President Taft was a bigger attraction than a Knight for a Day, so the performance was poorly attended on the 4th. Coming to the Clunie: Princess Bonnie, by amateurs, 7 ; The PersseMason Company in The Singing Bandits, <;-io: A Gentleman from Mississippi, 12-13; Wilhelin Heinrick, tenor, 14. under auspices of The Saturday Club; Fifty Miles from Boston. 16-17; The Girl Question, 18. The Saturday Club will have Albert Rosenthal, cellist, on the afternoon of 9th. at the Congregational Church. The stage hands of the Grand and Pantages Theatres went on a strike. 3d, on account of the refusal of those houses to engage electricians. The matter is now in the hands of the Federated Trades Councils for settlement. The Grand is presenting the following this week : Grace Darnley, dancer ; Virginia Moore, violinist; Norton Sharp and His Dancing Belles; McFarland and Murray, the Millionaire and the Iceman: Ahlberg Brothers, comedy acrobats ; Tom and Stasia Moore, comedy artists; Haight and Dean, in a Misfit Meeting. Pantages, week starting Sunday, Oct. 3 : Three Demons, aerial cyclists ; Xaida & Co., spectacular scenic illusion; Doric Trio, harmony and comedy singers ; Justis Romane & Co., Russian dramatic playlet; Markee Bros., blackface musical act, and Sutherland and Curtiss, The Belle of Jay Town. SAX" DIEGO, Cat, Oct. 6.— Garrick (J. M. Dodge, mgr.): Oct. 3-4, The Girl from Rector's played to packed houses, and proved to be one of the liveliest comedies seen here in many a day. It is a continual scream from the rise to the fall of the curtain, and not as naughty as many theatre goers imagined it would be. The Honeymoon Trail plays here. 10-11. A Gentleman from Mississippi, 12-13; The Time, the Place and the Girl follows. Pickwick (Scott A. Palmer, mgr. ) : The Charles King Stock Company are putting on The Heir to the Hoorah in first-class shape to crowded houses nightly at the Pickwick. Marjorie Rambeau, in the leading part, duplicated her success of last week, although she doesn't have the opportunities to display her talents as she did in Merely Mary Ann. Charles King, as the bluff, hearty miner gives an excellent interpretation. Louis Morrison also comes in for a large share of the credit for the success of the piece. Good work is also done by Pietro Sosso. J. Franklin McDonald and Chas. Marriott. The production is well .staged. Queen ( John Donnelan. mgr. ) : Sullivan & Considine vaudeville. The bill as presented this week is a good one and consists of the following acts : J. K. Emmett, assisted by Viola C rane, head the bill in a comedy-pathos sketch entitled Artie's Dream. J. Warren Keane has a good legerdemain act. Cogan and Bancroft have an amusing and entertaining act on roller skates. Alfred K. Hall pleased with some eccentric dancing. This week Manager Donnelan breaks the monotony of one act following another by interjecting a film of gortd motion pictures between the first and second acts. Motion pictures also conclude the show. LL'XDQLTST. ST. PALL. Sept. 27.— Victor Moore, in Gen. M. Cohan's musical comedy. The Talk of Xew York, supported by a clever company of seventyfive, packed the Metropolitan, week 20th. with well-pleased audiences. John Cort's King Dodo opened Oct. 3d, for four nights, followed by Fortytive minutes from Broadway. At the Grand, The Girl Question did fine business, week 26th. Graustark. with Eda Yon Luke as Yetive, comes, week Oct. 3d. The Orpheum presents the usual good bill, week 26th, headed by The Devil and Tom Walker, as presented by John B. Hymer. Business always good. The Majestic, the S. & C. vaudeville house, enjoyed its regular patronage. Manager Bondy conducts a very popular resort. The Star, burlesque house, presented The Original Moulin Rouge, to packed houses. The half dozen picture shows are doing nicely. Manager L. X. Scott, of the Metropolitan, and wife are now doing Europe. Geo. Lennon, the wellknown St. Paul clothier, wants to get into the theatrical game and is talking "new theatre," to be built near the public library. The Xeill Co., including the genial Jim Xeill and his talented wife, Edythe Chapman, opened the Princess, Minneapolis, the 20th, to fine business. The Warrens of Virginia was the opening play. This week they are producing The Walls of Jericho. The company surrounding the \eills is exceptionally strong. That prince of clownish comedians, Eddie Foy, packed the Lyric, Minneapolis, all week, 26th. His Mr. Hamlet of Broadway is a scream from curtain to curtain. We are enjoying the usual beautiful Minnesota fall, the weather being perfect. The season has opened with a rush, theatres crowded and everybody happy. So is, AL. G. FLOCRXOY. Story of the Girl Question The Girl Question is under the management of H. H. Frazee and the music is by Joseph E. Howard. Ned Wayburn staged the production and his name is synonomous with striking originality, grace and action. The first act is laid in a Chicago restaurant, where 'Con' Ryan, a slangy illiterate, but "on the level" product of the under world, is manager. He is in love with a pretty little girl who acts as cashier, but who is too young and frivolous to appreciate his devotion. The head waitress, 'the best and truest pal a fellow ever had."' is in love with him. The restaurant is frequented by a conglomerate crowd who range in social position from "Skinny" Jones, the president of the Iron Workers' Union, to T. P. C Sears, a millionaire who owns pretty near all of Chicago and the rest of the United States. Ryan i.s given an interest in the business, and, to celebrate, determines to propose to the cashier and give a ball, and asks the head waitress to help him do both properly. The second act shows a roof garden in Chicago at night, with the ball in full sway. Baron Von Tosmer. a young German who has come to America in search of the rightful owner of a block of railroad stock which has been left in his trust for a girl named Foster, discovers that the owner is the head waitress, just as a deputy sheriff rushes in, declares that Mr. Sears has foreclosed a mortgage he holds on Ryan's restaurant and that it is to be thrown into the street, and the act ends in a scene of glorious confusion. In the third act the waitress, transformed into Mr. Sear's private secretary, discovers that her block of railroad securities form the balance of power which Sears must acquire to carry out a vast deal. She sells to him on condition that he restore Ryan's old restaurant to its former condition and lease it to him, rent free, for three years ; puts Ryan in charge, and makes him acknowledge that his infatuation for the cashier was only a moment's passing fancy and that she was the erirl he reallv and trulv loved. FOR SALE JAMES Y< )UNG offers for sale a complete and magnificent production of HAMLET.' PAIXTED IX ANILINE BY W. CROSBIE GILL. WALLACK THEATRE. XFW YORK. May be packed in crates or trunks, but when hung gives the effect of massive set scenery. Perspective perfect ; artistic in execution ; architecture of King Arthur period. Useful for stock * Address JAMES YOUNG Care Dramatic Review Time May be Booked in San Bernardino Any companies coming as far south as San Bernardino and wanting to make dates for one night stands or for one week, can do so by writing to J. W. Leonard, manager of the Unique Theatre. Seating capacity 1,000 people, 5-piece orchestra and plenty of scenery. 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