The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW March 28, 1914. SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE W. p. REKSE BERT PITT MAN PAUIj GOUDRON San Francisco Representative Denver Representative Chicago Representative Empress Theatre Bldg. Empress Theatre 6 North Clark Street R. J. GILFILT.AN CHRIS. O. BROWN Spaltle Keprfsoiitative New York Rt-presentative P\ilU\an & Con.siiline Blilff. 1465 Broa.lway BY PUBLIC DEMAND—ALSO THE BOX OFFICE! MONTE CARTER And His Dancing Chicks Musical Travesty Co. \\"\\\ play a two weeks' return engagement, commencing Sun- day, March 29th At the Wigwam Theatre, San Francisco LiUOD MUSICAL COMEDY PEOPLE AND CONTEST CHORUS GIRLS WANTED AT ALL TIMES Vaudeville The Orpheum I'ritzi SchctY, the prima donna, is repeating her triumph of last week. Paul Armstrong has in the new bill a new melodramatic effort, called To Save One Girl, presented by a strDiig cast, which includes Donald I'uller, Ruth Boyce, Seth Smith. John Ritter, .Gus P. Thomas, Ben Piazza, Ralph Thayer and Eddie Watson. Mindell Kingston, grand opera soubrette, has joined forces with George Ebner, a comedian of clear-cut methods, and they score in a singing, talking and dancing skit, called A V'audeville Flirtation. Shirley Rives appears in The Song of the Heart, a story of grand oi)era life written by Edgar .\1- lan Woolf. She is supported by a fair company. The Hartleys, English nov- elty jumpers; the Kauffman Bros., black-face comedians, entertain with recent comedy coon songs and bright new chatter; Matilda and Elvira, nov- elty singers and dancers, introduce The Fortune Teller's Dance. Ed- ward Gfllette'''s monkey bowlers, Adam and Eve, are in their last week. The Empress The bill at the Emjiress this week is pleasing and entertaining. Dennis Bros, open the show and bring forth many thrills by their work on the aerial revolving ladder. The Rossow Midgets follow, and after performing some strong-man feats, etc., finish with a boxing stunt that is a "knock- out." Robert E. O'Connor, assisted bv Wm. ]\Iarble, Eda Bethner and Al- bert Livingston, present a very in- teresting and amusing sketch, entitled The Stick-Up ^lan. ilazel Burke and Alex. Korae, styled "The Little Mel- ba and the Little Paderewski, sing and play the piano remarkably well. Mur- ray Bennett, the singing comedian, was a decided hit and was called back repeatedly for encores. The Colum- bia Park Boys Band are home again after their trip around the world, and they closed the attractive program with stirring military selections. The Pantages Pantages offering for this week is one of the best shows, as a wdiole, that the theatre has housed in weeks. The Goldinas open the bill with an acrobatic act that is out of the ordinal-)-. Weston and Leon, the "personality girls," do a high- class pianologue and win their audi- ence from the start. Their execution, both in playing and singing, shows technique and class, and they are deserving of a much better spot on the bill. Edwin Keough and Helen Nelson offer an act in three parts, called Ambition, which is full of sur- prises and gives both members of the team an opportunity to show their striking ai)ility in the his- trionic art. ^liss \'an Bracht, the girl who can sing, offers a fine se- lection of semi-classical songs in a very charming manner; and the way in which she puts over I Hear You Calling Me, deserves special mention. The Six American Rose- buds f(,)llow in a piano act. .And then we have the talkative trickster, E. J. Aloore, who keeps the audience in an uproar until he leaves the stage. Hanged, the headliner, rounds out the bill. It is an episode of San Quentin by John D. Barry. The act deals with capital punishment and grips the audience to the tag. Will- iam Goold as the hangman does a fine character part and has the sym- pathy of the audience from the start. Harry Garrity as the Warden does some fine work and wins his audi- ence, when, in reply to the reporter, he says: "If people are so against these hangings 1 don't see why in hell they don't put a stop to them." Chester Stevens as the citizen, w1io is "for the law," handles his bit in a great manner and the hisses from the audience speak volumes. Le- land A. Mowry as the young re- porter has the only comedy part, and brings the house down twice; once when he asks the doctor for some whisky to brace him up and again when the hangman shows him the board used to hold up a man about to be hanged, when he loses his nerve. The cast, as a whole, is excellent and the piece is staged in a very realistic manner. The Princess The Princess for the week of March 22nd. is presenting the fol- lowing bill: Diamond, Beatrice and C"omi)any in their beautiful musical act: Raymond Will)ert, the hoop thrower; the popular Queen City Quartette; and Joe Fanton and his athletes. The second half: Rath lirothers. hand to hand balancers: \'an and Davis, comedy singers and eccentric dancers: Beatrice Correla, singer; and Herbert Medley, bari- tone singer for illustrated songs, who also appears during the first half. The Republic Manager Leboritz has the follow- ing interesting program for this week. The first half of the time The Irish Troubadours; Thomas and Rutt.gers, the black-face and the Ladv; Chas. Riellv and Companv in A Bit of Old Ireland: The Light Opera l''our, in selections from The Bcjhemian Girl; and Broderick O'- Farrell, liarbara Lee and Company in The Law, a powerful play of cir- cumstance by Harold Gates. The second half: The Lovelands, in a musical act; Julia Bowers, operatic singer: Broderick O'Farrell. Bar- bara Lee and Company in a sketch. Politics; Rose Lee Ivy with her original singing film. The Soul of Venice: \\'illiam and Dale, singing and talking comediennes: and Jester and Companv in a clever illusion act. The Wigwam Manager Josei)h liauer is offering a short season of straight vaudeville with the folowing people on the bill this week. First half: The Goyts. \'an and Davis. Windy City Trio. May Sisters, Rath Bros., Fritz Chris- tian. Geo. .-\rcher. Second half: Up- ton and Ingraham. Millard. Kennedy & Co.. O'Dell and Hart. Geo. Archer, Clark and Lc \'ere. Maud Francis. Ed. Dale. Commencing Sunday, Monte Carter returns for two weeks, after which Jim Post returns for a long season. Nell Ellsing, who got in a few weeks ago from .Xustralia. where she had been playing vaudeville with the team of Dangerfield & Ellsing, has been in a hospital for two weeks, and Mr. Dangerfield is now rehearsing a new partner, preparatory to playing eastward. Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine. San Fran- oi.sco office, through William P. Reese, their sole booking agent, for week of March 29, 1914. E^TPRESS,San Francisco: Staine's Circus, Mack and Atkinson, Edith Clifford. Kara. Kiernan, Walters and Kiernan. EMPRESS. Los Angeles: Patrick, Francisco and Warren, Spis- sell Bros, and Mack, Gladys Wilbur, Warren and P>lanchard, Clark and Ward, Joe Maxwell's Dancing Girls. EMPRESS. Denver: Barton and Lovera, Katherine Klarc, Richard Milloy & Co.. Joe Whitehead. Svlves- ter, .\ Day at the Circus. EMPRESS, Sacram;ento: 'Dennis Bros., Berke and Korae, Rossow Midgets, R. E. O'Connor & Co., Murray Bennett. EMPRESS, Salt Lake: Earl Gir- deller. Jessica Troupe, Rich and Len- ore, Chas. B. Lawlcr and Daughters, Burke and McDonald, Bert Leslie & Co. EMPRESS, Kansas City: Luigi DeirOro. Burke and Harrison, Walsh- Lynch & Co., Leonard and Louie, Six Banjophiends. ORPHEUM, Ogden, .\pril 2-4: McMalion and Chappelle. i!rov.-n and Blyler, Rose Tiffany & Co., Jennings and Dorman, Sebastian Merrill & Co., Bounding Gordons. The Law—a Sensation The Law, a playlet written by II. L. Gates, has proved the sensation of the week in vaudeville circles. Re- hearsed as a straight dramatic sketch with a punch, it turned out to he a 30-minute farce, with a laugh in every other line. Republic au- diences getting favorable reports of it Sunday, have jammed that play- house all week. Sam Harris pro- nounces it the best act he has had on in months. Barbara Lee as the Italian woman surprised all with Offices — Iiondon, New York, Chicagro, Denver, Jios Ang'eles, San Francisco Bert Levey Circuit Of Independent Vaudeville Tbeatres Executive Olfices—Alcazar Theatre Bldg.. O'Farrell Street, near Powell. TcUphones: Home C37T5 Sunset, Douglas 5702 NEW WIGWAM THEATRE Baner & Flncus. Props, and Vlgia. t^iui Fraiui.«'ii's newest Vaudeville Theatre, luxuriou.sly equippeil. Pre- .«enting musical comedy and vaudeville. Sun.lay. fiu- two weeks, Monte Carter & (■■«.. tlien .Jim Post & C". Western States Vaudeville Association Hum'boldt Bank Biffs'. San Francisco Ella Herbert Weston, Gen. Mgr. her fine dialect and comedy work and liroderick O'Farrell and Jack I'Vaser gave finished portrayals of their parts. Jad Golden Scores in San Jose The success of the Jack Golden Company in San Jose has been ex- ceptional. The Market Street The- atre has become the center of a real theatre district. Golden has an ex- cellent company, comprising Mrs. Golden, Mabel Darragh, Florence Young, Harry Ilollen, WWl Cross and Jack Doud. with a chorus of eight .girls. The costuming is rich and in good taste and Golden's shows are full of riotous comedy and plenty of enjoyable singing.