The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

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June 20, 1914 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW $ Live News of Live Wires in Vaudeville ^ THE THEATBICAI. HEAD- QUARTEKS THE CONTINENTAL HOTEL Xiarer* Rehearsal Boom Free to Quests 185 Rooms on Ellis and Powell Sts. F. P. SHANLEY fl^ PROPS F. C. FUBNESS *^»OFS. F. F. SHANI.ET, MaR. ED. REDMOND And the Redmond Company Presenting the Highest Class Royalty Plays at the Diepenbrock Theatre, Sacramento And Company No. 2 at the Victory Theatre, vSan Jose LOUIS B. JACOBS TABI.OID MXTSICAI. COMEDY CO. Presents Fritz Fields, Hazel Wainwright ANB THE CAITCINO DOI.I.S TABOR GBAND, DENVEB Ijouis B. Jaciibs. I^essee and Manager Want to liear from good musical comedy people—Al chorus girls, $'J0 C. J. HOLZMUELLER—THEATRICAL APPLIANCES Maker of Arc I^amps, Bunch Iilgrhts, Strip Iiig-hts, Border Iiights, Switchboards and BheoEtats 229 12th Street, Phone Park 61G9, San Francisco, Cal. LAURETTE TAYLOR In FEO O' SrZ' HEART By J. Hartley Manners; Cort Theatre, New York; now In its second year. PEG O' MY HEART A—Eastern; Elsa Ryan. PEG O' MY HEART B—Southern; Blanche Hall. PEG O' MY HEART C—West and Pacific Coast; Peggie O'Neil. PEG O' MY HEART D—Northern; Marion Dentler. PEG O' MY HEART E—Middle West; Florence Martin. THE BIRD OF PARADISE, by Richard Walton Tully. Oliver Morosco Co. Theatres Los Angeles, Cal. The Majestic Theatre The Morosco Theatre The Burhank Theatre The Iiyceum Theatre The Repuhlic Theatre OTHER ATTRACTIONS KITTY GORDON in Pretty Mrs. Smith, witli Grant and Greenwood. Cort Theatre Boston, In- definite. Jack Laifs smashing success. Help Wanted, Maxlme Elliott Theatre, New York, imiennite. Help Wanted — Cort Theatre, Chicago, Indell- nito. Al Hallett and his company will play the Pantages time, starting at Oakland about June 28 with The Loan .Siiark. They were an emphatic hit at Pantages last week. The Mission has only one theatre— the Wigwam—that is playing vaude- ville and musical comedy. All the rest are producing pictures. The Mission will stand for a couple of more vaudc- \ille houses; the people are out there. George Spaulding, now with Dillon ;ind King in Oakland, paid the Coast Defenders office a visit this week. He reports everything sublime in the Athens of the Pacific, and all Oakland is satisfied with George and his work. So is San Francisco. Herb Bell, Julie Hamilton and Jake Clifford o]:)ened at Roseburg, Ore., on Wednesday last. They are going over the Kellic time with a three comedy act. Letha Beck, the fascinating singing and dancing soubrette, is able once more to resume her professional work. Eddie Gilbert, Frank Earle and ( barley Oro left last Saturday night Id work in the Big Casino Dance Flail, at Tonopah, Nev. Lou Davis is with the Ethel Davis Company, playing in The Fountain of Folley at Pantages this week. Next week, Pantages, Oakland, with Los Angeles to follow. Chas. T. Byrne, the eminent dis- penser of German comedy with the I'.thel Davis Co., is not only a good I icrman comedian, but is also a large real estate owner. He has just re- fused a good price for some property in Oklahoma that the city authorities wish to acquire for a municipal build- ing. Effie Whittaker, a good singing and lancing soubrette, has arrived. Jack AfcClellcn will look after her inter- ests in placing her in one of our local 111 iuses. George Lord, son of John Lord and Carmelita Meek, now playing the Ly- ceum Theatre in musical comedy, is coming to the front as a clever come- dian. Watch him! Harry Flallen will soon organize his own musical comedy company, con- sisting of 12 versatile performers, and you can rest assured that Harry will deliver the goods. The girls will all be AI contest girls of singers and dancers. Ed Armstrong has placed a com- pany in the Republic Theatre, where he is producing The Candy Ship. This is the tabloid that Ethel Davis just finished over Pantages time, and is some act. George Slocum is with the Ed Arm- strong company at the Republic, do- ing the German comedy part formerly played by Charles T. Byrne in The Candy Ship. Bessie Hill, the vocalistic soubrette, 1. still with Ethel Davis' Baby Dolls, laying Pantages time. Jeanettc Ormsby returned from Texas a .short time ago, seriously ill. She is constantly under the care of a physician at her home in this city. Mrs. Jack Gordon came down from her farm in Stanislaus County to pay a visit to her two daughters, Hilda and Ethel, and to see Ethel with the Pony Moore Company in Fifteen Jolly Tars at Pantages, Oakland. Mrs. Gordon is the best judge of cats in America. She raises the Angora species; the stock came from Eng- land. Lord and Meek, the musical com- edy artists, now at the Lyceum, will soon take a company on the road, heading for the north, where they will play in Washington, Oregon, and the British possessions, where they arc favorably known and well liked. Their shows are clean and well liked. They have on this week hi (iay Paree, witli a cast of twelve. Joe Lyons, the hard-shoe dancer, is playing an engagement at George Harrison's Santa Clara theatre. Owen Dale, one of the best-known actors of the past decade, is sufTering with sciatic rheumatism of the right liip. He is using a cane for tlie first time in his career. Mid Thornhill, manager of the Elite in Stockton, was in our city the first of the week. Fie informed The Dra- matic Revikw that a Giinese wash- house at the rear of the Elite burned down and that Ah Wing, the proprie- tor would replace it with a concrete building to cater to the American trade for noodles, chop suey, etc. An American orchestra and American en- tertainers would be installed, and the interests of .Ah Wing would be looked after by Denacio O'Brien, well and favorably known in Stockton, as manager. Jack Hempel, formerly Gunl)oat Smith's sparring partner when playing the Pantages time, will remain in this city, looking forward to a match with any of the heavyweights, while f!un- boat has gone to England to fight Carpentier, the Frenchman. Hempel is a sturdy fellow, clean liver and a gentleman. He will give a good ac- count of himself if given a chance by one of the promoters. Roxie O'Rourke, a native of this city, who has played all the big time with his son in their singing and dan- cing act, has regained the sight of both eyes, from which he was bothered for a long time. The O'Rourkes will .shortly resume their Eastern dates. Bert Roxie is still with the Medi- cine Company he joined February i. They are at Bay Point this week; next week, Brentwood. Bert says it beats the split time, even if the stipend is small. Jimmy Rowe is in Los Angeles awaiting the call of the movies. Ed Moncrief and Charley Alorrell are also movie actors. Belle Williams, the best blackface woman in America, will stage a show for the ladies of the Eastern Star in the near future. Full particulars will be published in The Dramatic Re- view. Hamilton of Pantages, and De Ar- mour of the Princess Theatre, are in- separable whenever playing the same city. They cat together, sleep to- gether, enjoy life together, but don't work together, only in good friend- ship ; so altogether they are good fel- lows. That is the way all the pro- fessional brothers should be. Ethel Davis may be seen with a Broadway, New York, production this coming season. No better selection could be made, for Ethel has all the essential qualities to fill Broadway with delight, as she is doing at Pan- tages Theatre, Market Street, San Francisco. What will be San iM-an- cisco's loss will be New York's gain, and the Dolls will weep. ATarcus Loew, who will take posses- sion of the Sullivan-Considine circuit .\ugust I, acquired three new theatres in one week a short time ago. He secured a 50-year lease on the Fulton in IJrooklyn, and leased the Broadway in J Brooklyn, giving him seven thea- tres there, and bought the West End Tiieatre, New York, from Joe Weber, of Weber and Fields. A short time before he secured the Globe in Bos- ton. Loew didn't .stop after getting the Sullivan-Considine circuit, but keeps right on buying theatres. Through arrangements with the Miles and the Jones, Linnick and Schaefifer circuits, Loew becomes the controlling power in the greatest com- Ijination of theatres in the world. He is powerful through his ability to of- fer performers long periods of steady work, which will directly benefit his patrons, for they can see better acts for less money than they have ever seen before. Marcus Loew, a marvel himself, is fortunate in having three wonderful men associated with him in Loew's Theatrical Enterprises. They are David P)ern.stein, manager and general treasurer, and a wizard on motion pic- tures and figures; Nicholas M. Schenck, executive manager, an ac- comi)lished showman, and a million- aire in his own right, who looks after all of Loew's theatres; and Joseph M. Schenck, now the most powerful, and THEATRE OaKdale, Cal. E. C. shearer, manager. A live ono for real shows. Seating capacity, 375. Road shows write for open time. Colfax Opera House COIiFAX, CAIi. Motion Pictures, Vauileville and Traveling Slinws Bnokpd. Write chari.es Mccormick, Manag-er rated by the theatrical men as the most brilliant, booking agent in the world. It has been partly the wizard- ry of these three, combined with Mr. Loew's i)er.sonal genius, which has made him the power in theatricals he is today. Emmett Keanc, a brilliant brother of James Keane of the United Keane- ogra])h ImIiii Comininy, died a few days ago. Mr. Keane had been in poor liealth for sonic years. Dates Ahead BISHOP'S PLAYERS. — In stock, Ye Liberty Playhouse, Oak- land. i'.OSCO MUSICAL C()Mi'J)V CO.—Modesto, June iS-ji ; Colusa, "^BRYC1<: HOVVATSON CO. (Em- l)ress Variety Co., mgrs.)l—Cornjng, lune 20-22; Dunsmuir, 23-25; Ken- "nett, 26-27; McCloud, 28; Weed, 29- 30; Callahan, July i ; Fltna Mills, 2-4; Greenview, 5-7; I'^ort Jones, 8-11. DR. LORENZ (W. F. Leahy).— San Luis Obispo, June 21-23; Santa Maria, 25; Paso Robles, 26.