The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

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June 27, 1914 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW Florence Stone Leaves Los Angeles for Minneapolis and Melville Stokes Replaces George Baldwin With the Tempestuous Valeska Suratt LOS ANGELES, June 24.—Mr. Morosco has gone to Chicago to at- tend the opening of Peg o' My Heart, with Peggy O'Neil in the title role. In this company will be five of the New York cast, including Christine Norman, Clarence Handysides, Regi- nald Mason, Emily Melville, who left the Burbank Company to go with "Peg" to New York; Ruth Garland, a Los Angeles girl, who joined the com- pany while in New York; Henry B. Stanford, who will have the role of Jerry, and, if I remember rightly, he played the same in the first production in this city, and Gilbert Douglas, who was a member of a touring company. * * * Mr. Behymer has left for the East to sign up artists for the coming musical season. Mr. Behymer's ar- tists will be housed this next couple of years in the splendid auditorium of the Trinity Church. This auditorium, while being a wonderful place for mu- sic, will hardly be large enough for dramatic work, hence the big operas, Pavlowa and several other attractions will have to be passed by for a few seasons. * * * This is anniversary week at the Orpheum, where there is a corking bill, and Mr. Frankenstein is playing his own Anniversary March, written for last year's birthday. * * * Frank Egan intends to present Con- stance Crawley in The Second Mrs. Tanquary on next Saturday evening, supported by Arthur Maude, Douglas Gerrard, Mrs. Griffith and Miss Carew. Mr. Egan is planning to give during the summer several choice bits, .such as Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Synge and many others of importance, with Miss Crawley as the star. * * * Frances Cameron is proving her versatility by writing a couple of songs, which it is said will be featured in an early Mor- osco production. * * * Little Margaret Evans created some criticism with her lovely Nicotine dance, some modest women feeling there was a lack of clothes, and complained, and the dance had to be viewed by the authorities, who fortunately refrained from turn- ing tinimbs down, and little IMiss Evans continues with the beautiful dance. * * * \'aleska Suratt, as haugh- ty and postery as ever, is with us, put- ting her act in shape for next week. Melville Stokes, a recent Gaiety Co. number, has been chosen to fill the place of George Baldwin, her late leading man. Miss Suratt i^laccd her- self on view at the Morosco the other evening in a most .startling combina- tion of black and white and the oft- mentioned pearls. * * * Wm. Bernard, who will be remembered as director at the Belasco and Burbank theatres, is in a .sanitarium in New York, slowly recovering from a stroke of paralysis. * * * Mrs. Benjamin Scovell of this city is to entertain Eddie Foy, family • and all. Mrs. Scovell was a dancer in the ]^)luebeard Comjiany when Ed- die Foy was chief fun-maker. * * * Dick Ferris and wife (Florence Stone) has left for Minneapolis, re- turning to old haunts, where Mrs. Ferris will star at the Shubert The- atre in Years of Discretion. There they will renew acquaintances of old stock company days. * * * Rev. Baker P. Lee of Christ Church has invited Richard Bennet to give a reading from Damaged Goods in his pulpit on Sunday morning. Mr. Bennet has given .several addresses while here be- fore the different clubs on the sub- ject of his play. * * * John Black- wood's innovation, dedicated to the movie players, was one grand and in- teresting occasion on last Mon- day night, when Mabel Normand was a dazzling guest of honor in a very wonderful gown, and every one of importance in the players' world from far and near turned out to meet her and to greet her. Mr. Blackwood an- nounces that the next such joycMs occasion will be given for Ruth Ro- land. * * * L. E. Behymer started east Saturday for his annual pilgrim- age, and will visit New Orleans, At- lanta, Richmond, New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Min- neapolis, St. Paul and many other places, working on his annual plan, that provides symphony work, pag- eantry, civic centers, etc. Behymer is the big Lyceum manager of the West. His enterpri.se and energy know no limit. P.URBANK: The Fortune Hunter is in the second week, being a good American comedy of the sort that ap- peals to popular taste. Forrest Stan- ley, James K. Applebee, Donald Bowles and Beatrice Nichols make in- dividual impressions, while the bal- ance of the company fall into line witli happy results. CENTURY: Who's Who is the of- fering of the Century Company for the current week, and it is new and novel, with clever specialties, featuring Reece Gardner, \'era Ransdale and ]>abe Lewis. Of course, Mendel and Franks are the chief funmakers, and their every entrance and exit means a laugh. The chorus is newly cos- tumed for the occasion. ILMPRFSS: Circus Days is the headline offering of Nat Ellis, Ella Nowlan and their long line of as- sistants, such as musicians, acrobats-, comedians—to say nothing of the goose. Absurdity is the dominating quality in a take-off on the village circus. There are two scenes, begin- ning, of course, with the parade and the ring, with George Reidy as ring master, where the acrobats are as good as the band and the band is as great as the lady bare-back rider. It is all excruciatingly funny. The Man, the Girl and the Piano is a combina- tion, bright, happy and entertaining, in which De Marest and Doll are first two clever parts of the combination l)lay upon the second. The Beggar is a lofty, stilted bit of drama in which Porter White & Co. do their artistic best with an impossibility. Johnson, on a flying trapeze, is a wonder. Bi- jou Russel is an eccentric dancer of brisk and skilful movement. She also sings. The moving i)ictures "advance agent" the elephants that are coming this way. HIPPODROME: This week's playlet is a startling story of the good woman and the bad, fighting for the possession of a man, and it is a rather sordid preachment that leaves an un- plea.sant sensation. Myrtle \'ane as the leader of the underworld and her most excellent company enact tliis sjilendidly. Jane O'Roark and lirod- crick O'l'^arrell offer another sermon- like sketch, dealing with the fifth com- mandment—a story of love, miscralde conii)lications, but with it all a ha])]iy ending. Mizuma docs so;nc clever balancing in true Japanese clever style. Cowles and Dustin sing splendidly, both having delightful, well-trained voices. Roberts and I'ar- low offer a cajntal song and comedy turn. Happy Sciiool Days is a girl act and pleases mightilv. MAJESTIC: A rollicking bit of comedy is that in which Nat Good- win returns, entitled Never Say Die. The touch of the artist absolutely sure of his technique is over it all, for the delightfully whimsical lines are made to sparkle anfl glisten with a Goodwin polish. The tale of a man given but a month to live, who marries his friend's fiancee in order that she may be his heiress and then marry his friend, is as quaint in the idea as it is delicious in the handling. Of course he does not die, hence the reason for the phiy and the significance of the title, to say nothing of complications. IMarjorie Moreland is the girl in the case, and a very beautiful one, simple in her acting and wearing very beau- tiful frocks, and as a leading woman is a very satisfying creation. The company is a good one, including Isa- dore Marcil, Walter Cluxton and Lute Vroman. Mr. Goodwin and his art will not soon be forgotten. MASON : Defended by pulpit and women's clubs and the courage of that worthy actor, Richard Bennet, Dam- aged Goods is being presented at this theatre to those who have the heart to go, listen and be taught. There is a great deal of talk and little action, which at times seems almost too be- wildering for the thinker. Mr. Bennet is the intelligent player who is able to cope with a role of this sort. The smallest detail is worked out with an artistic intelligence that results in a sijlcndid performance. Adrienne IMorrison, next to Mr. Bennet, gives the finest performance, and her char- acterization of the woman of the streets simply and beautifully works out the role. Louis Bcnnison is an impressive physician, dignified and natural. Elsa Berold handles an un- grateful role with careful touch. The iialance of the company are thorough- ly capable. Damaged Goods may or may not be a message—we shudder, come out into the darkness and feel bewildered and unhappy. The process of moral uplift is never ])leasant, but in this particular case the art of Mr. licnnet remains the reward for seeing Damaged Goods. MOROSCO: The Isle of l'>ong l'>ong, headed by iM'ances Cameron, Will H. Sloan and Walter Lawrence, is playing the second week. The many song numbers by Miss Cameron and the clever specialties by Margaret Ed- wards, Miss Beatty and others, .spin out a series of nonsense that is mighty good entertainment. ORPHEUM: Anniversary week brings I'apa h'oy, Mamma Foy and all the little Foys, gathered together to create a headliner and make happy hearts. Unto the tribe of the Foys is given the gift of joyous comedy. Eddie Foy's utterance is still there, the musical comedy is there, but now there is a perfect reproduction among THE FLAGG CO. ACTUALLY EMPLOYS MORE ARTISTS and MECHANICS THAN ALL THE OTHER STUDIOS ON THE PACIFIC COAST COMBINED. BECAUSE -NINE-TENTHS OF THE THEATRES USE FLAGG SCENERY. THEREFORE, FACILITIES and VOLUME LOWER COST. 1638 LONG BEACH AVE., LOS ANGELES the number of small Foys, who though he be somewhat shorter in stature, has all the hilariously funny mannerisms of Foy, Sr. There is singing, dancing and patter by all the children, even to a wee one who shows promise in every move. Long live the Foys! Harry Lester is quite satisfied with his several imitations, songs and recitations, and well he may be for they are artistically delivered. Otherita is a Spanish dancer, perfect in movement, but lacking in that elusive thing, temperament, personal- ity, or whatever it may be that adds dash and ginger to dances of the Span- ish folk. The balance of the bill is made up of last week's headline offer- ings : Bessie Wynn, with new songs, Lillian .Shaw in dialect .songs, Mat- thews and Shayne in Dreamland. Robt. L. Haines & Co. in The Man in the Dark, and the Henriette Serris Co. in their series of beautiful poses. PANTAGES: Dancing maids are the dominant feature of this week's bill, for there are The Jolly Tars, Pony Moore to lead them through a maze of fun of the brisk and lively variety; The Four Military Girls are a dazzling array of beauty in gilded boots, with an accompanying blare of trumpets. Brown and Jackson do a jiattcr turn that wins them much ap- plause. J. Edwin Crapo in The Gar- den of Passion aj^pears as "the perfect man," and, aided by two agile maids, contributes some skilful dancing. Frank Bush tells dialect stories and creates a round of continuous laugh- ter. REPUBLIC: Al Watson & Co. ap- ])ear in a sensational Western playlet, entitled His Sister's Honor. This shows Watson as the big-hearted, whole-souled cowboy, which he por- trays in satisfying manner. The Mal- comes are sensational jugglers, with several turns that are new and novel. De Fay and Moore sing and imitate and introduce a startling and unusual turn in a musical boxing matcii. With bells on their fingers and bells on their toes, they make music as a fight goes on. Davis, Allen and Davis are very funnv in a comedy called The Ama- teur. WiH)ur Harrington & Co. in b'our I'.ils of Vaudeville keep things moving at a lively rate. The Selig Weekly and some comedy ])ictures balance the bill. N. B. W.XRNER. HONOLULU, June 12.—Alias limmy \'alentine is one of the most popular bills yet offered by The Play- ers. It will be given its final per- formance tomorrow ni,ght. The at- tendance has began to lessen. George I'.errell, Jay Hanna, Guy Hittner, Hu- ron Blyden, Jack iklgrave, Inez Ra- gan and Marie Baker have the chief parts, and score. The next two bills will be The Great Divide and The Escape.