The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

lO THE SAN FR^^NCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW June 13, 191 WINFIi:i.D MATTDE Blake and Amber Amusement Agency (Under City and State License) Talent supplied for all occasions. Our AUTHOR'S EXCHANGE has on hand at all times a number of original dramatic and comedy sketches and plays for sale or on royalty. TTVOLI OFEBA HOUSi:—3rd floor. Phone Song'Iaai 400 Columbia Theatre Richard Bennett in Brienx s Damaged Goods is to offer the interesting play for a second and final week com- mencing this Sunday night, June 14. Tlicre will be niatinccs on Wednesday and Saturday, the final performances heing announced for .Saturday night the 20tli. Damaged (loods has re- ceived no end of criticism from those who have mistaken its message, but the good said in favor of the play has been sufficient to make it one of the big sensations of a decade. A noted critic, in reviewing the piece, said: "If any human being, sitting in the audience, does not leave the theatre with an awakened conscience to those horrors and a determination, if he has daughters, that no such fate shall ever overtake them, a solemn impulse to chastity and honor, tlieu lie is not fit to be called a man." Cort Theatre Ciuv r.atcs I'l'st will inaugurate his much-heralded engagement in San Franci.sco beginning Sunday evening, June 14. in Omar the Tentmaker, a s])ectacular Persian romance by Rich- ard Walton Tulley, based upon the life, times and Rubaiyat of Omai Khayyam, the Persian poet and mys- tic of the eleventh century. This at- traction was the dramatic sensation of the past theatrical season in New York, and comes to the Pacific Coast with the original superb ca.st of 100, and all the elaborate scenic environ- ment that has made the presentation so di.stinctive. In the title role, Mr. Post has, by his niarvelously subtle and commanding |)erformance, firmly entrenched himself as the most emi- nent dramatic arti.st upon the Kngiish- sjjeaking stage. Omar the Tentmaker is the third triumphant .success from the pen of Richard Walton Tully with- in a space of six years. Of the three plays, Omar the Tentmaker is far and awav the most elaborately staged and ])ictorially beautiful. Gaiety Theatre This Sunday night will witness the final performance of The Isle of Bong Bong at the Gaiety Theatre. There will be the usual matinees Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday night will come the revised and rewritten version of one of the best of all musical com-- edy successes, A Knight for a Day, with a ca.st of i)rinci])als some of whom are already firmly established in the good opinion of local theatre- goers, and some of whom have yet to make their fame equal in San Fran- cisco to that which they enjoy in the East — Daphne Pollard, the merriest sprite of a comedienne; .Mf. Goulding, La \'alera, one of the greatest of Spanish dancers; Melvin Stokes, a local success as well as an F^astern hit; Irene Audrey, a prima donna with a beautiful voice and engaging stage ]jresence; Fred Santley, po]ndar since the Gaiety's opening attraction; Bes- sie I'ranklin, likewise a Gaiety favor- ite, and Joe Kane, a comedian of unction and eflfectivr methods. .\ Knight for a Day conios to the Gaiety from the Morosco Theatre, Los .An- geles, and continues the jxilicy of the Gaiety's new regime to present lively, yet wholesome, merry and clean enter- tainment in light musical vein. It Coast Costume Co. American Theatre Bldgr., Market and 7th WAHDROBE AND COSTUMES FUBNISHED FOB AI.I. OCCASIONS Largest and Best Musical Comedy Wardrobe in the West Phone Park 5104 als(i_ extends the Ciaiety's system of offering in San Francisco and Los An- geles simultaneously the current and new hits available, and exchanging theatres frequently. The Moro.sco success comes to the Gaiety and the Gaiety hit goes to the Morosco, whither, in line with this policy. The Isle of Bong Bong will be sent with its gay inhabitants—Frances Cameron. Walter Lawrence, Will H. Sloan, .Vr- tiiur Clough, Mau;Ie Beatty, Margaret Ivlwards, Louise Orth, Willard Louis, Rita .\bbott and the rest of the clever people that have been scoring individ- ual and collective hits at the Gaiety for three merry weeks. The Orpheum \'aleska Suratt, in tiie tango alle- gory. Black Crepe and Diamonds, will enter on the last week of her trium- phal engagement next Sunday mati- nee. Miss Suratt will introduce sev- eral novelties, among tiiem being her version of the Brazilian maxixe, and the waltz song. In Yours .Arms, Dar- ling. She will also wear numerous new costumes, which are the latest gasp in fashion. A great new bill will also he presented, which will have as a .special feature Kajiyama, a Jap- anese artist, who writes upside down, backward, with both hands and every other conceivable way. Percy Bron- son and Winnie lialdwin, who have been winning golden opinions in the Fast, will present their Pickings from .Song and Dance Land, which is fifteen niinutes of the most entertaining brand of singing, dancing and light comedy. Homer Miles and his com- pany will appear in an elaborate scenic l)roduction of the one-act play. On the Edge of Things, in which Mr. Miles plays the role of Pancky Clancy, tile janitor of a New York apartment building. Willette Whitaker will in- teri)ret with wonderful realism the in- dividual ciiaracteristic emotions of the negro race in folk song. Miss \\ hit- aker possesses a fine contralto voice and is a harpist of great skill. She is assisted by V. Wilbur Mill, a violinist and vocalist. Next week will con- clude the engagements of James H. Cullen. Stelling and Ravell and Irene Timmons and her company. A Somewhat Busy Man, Ernest Shipman Mr. Shiimian. wimse energies have in the immediate past been devoted to the general ofiice management of the business of the Pan -American Film Co., will hereafter be active, on the outside, in the affairs of the nianv film comjianies in which he is personally in- terested, including, of course, those of his pet child, as it were, the Pan .American I^ilm Co. F-ollowing is a list of comiianies of which Mr. Shipman is the active representative: The Pan yXmerican h'ilm Co., The Capital Film Co., The Colorado Motion Picture Co., Tiie Rocky Mountain Picture Co., .Arthur J. .Aylesworth Pictures, Ltd., The Great W^est M. P. Co., The Occi- dental M. P. Co. In addition to these large interests, Mr. Shipman is asso- ciated with Stanley H. Twist in the management of the Inter-Ocean Sales Co. In assuming these added respon- sibilities, Mr. Shipman's vigorous tem- perament will prove a valuable asset, and lie carries with him the best wish- es of all who know him. Chas. A. Pryor Has No Connec= tion With the R. A. Duhem Motion Picture Company We desire to correct a statement made in our paper of the issue of June 6th, in which was stated that Charles .A. Pryor was the ])resi(lent of the R. A. Duhem Motion Picture Co. of this city. Mr. Pryor has no connection whatever with Mr. Dun- hem or his company outside of the fact that some of the copies of Mr. Pryor's Mexican war ])ictures were made in the developing plant of the Duhem Company. "The motion picture has done foi the dramatic actress of the present age," remarks Mary Rehan, a clever actress who has joined the ranks of the moving-picture artists, "more than all the historians of the past. It has jjerpetuated their person and their art for all time. In this it has placed the modern arti.st in an enviable ])osi- tion. The boon has been granted to liernhardt that was forbidden Rachel and Siddons, that of having the future generations see, if they cannot hear, the wonderful art which has made the great French tragedienne the most im- pressive figure in the dramatic world today." Walt Pughe Writes From the Valley Aladera, Cal., June 8, 1914. Just a line to tell you that I joined the O. B. Basco Company at Bakers- field three weeks ago as manager, and everything looks good. Company headed north fast. lUisiness down in the \'alley is ju.st fair and the Valley is in very bad sha]De. The company is headed by Mr. Ba.sco and inclu:le> t'rank D. Conger, P.rady Houston, jack Thompson, Madge Schuler, Etta Rue, May Thompson and chorus of eight. Billie Leino, who was with mc in the Oriiheum Stock Co., joined The Missouri Girl a week ago to finish the .season, taking the place of Jos. Rich, who is in the hosi)ital. Expect to be in 'Frisco in a week or so. Sin- cerelv, G. W. PUGHE. 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Butler, principal (stage director Alcaxa Theatre). comment is pertinent to the Mary Ser voss Players at the Prospect Theatre where they last week began a seasm of stock productions. Those who havi never seen this company, which is fa above the average metropolitan stocl organization, are missing some genu inely good acting of several play which were successes during recen sea.sons. In the present week the Ser voss players are presenting The Rain bow, the vehicle in which 1 lenry Mil ler triumphed. It is a finely actei plav, without any of the flaws that ar ordinary in the average stock com pany, which is saying that the Pros pect organization is not ordinary, i you please. In many parts of Th Rainbow, as given last evening befor a crowded house, there could be dis cerned little inferiority to the actin} that marked the p\ay when Hetxn Miller had it. Charles Gunn as Nei Sumner acted with sincerity, under standing and sym])athy, that made th' character seem a living personage rather than the creation of a play Wright's imagination. 1 le not only im pressed with his sincerity and under .standing, but he acted as though h had been the Xeil Sumner of actualit) His entire work is a finished piece o acting.— Cleveland Leader. The advance sale of seats for th s])ecial all-star season at the Columbi. Theatre will open next Thursday June 18. Already there are in th office of the Columbia over two hun dred orders for seats for the openini bill of the season. The Importance o Being Earnest. Superior Judge Coffey last Monda" granted to Charles J. Burt and hi wife the guardianship of five-year-ol Virginia Chick, their granddaughtei Her mother is Sadie Burt, formerl a chorus girl working here. She oh tained a divorce and, both parents be ing on the road, the child has bee making a home with iier grandpat ents. The Midnight (iirl, the popular iw sical success in New York, closed it season a week since, and the niembei have dei^arted for a few weeks re; before it begins its long trans-cor tinental tour, which will terminate : the Panama E.xposition in San I'rai cisco.