The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW July 4, 191. Correspondence NEW YORK. June 28.—Whiting and lUirt made tlieir first ai)pearance with the Zicgfcl 1 l-'ollies at the New Amsterdam Theatre last week. They presented three new songs and intro- duced an original dance. * * * The Palace Theatre began its all summer .season la.st Monday with Joan Saw- yer's dancing as the feature of a long ])rograni. ?^liss Sawyer was assisted by Lewis Sloden, of London, and ilcnne Dixon. In addition to doing the maxixe. tango and three-in-one, she revived with mo k-rn ballroom embellishments a jjcriod dance of the fifteenth century, in costume, and a classic minuet called In the Shadows. .\s usual. Dan Kildare's Clef Club Orchestra idayed f^;i the stage for .Miss Sawyer"s dances, (leorge Mac- I'arlane. late star of The Midnight ("lirl, made his vaudeville debut at the Palace yesterday, and .scf)red. * .\o less than seventeen acts make up the van 'eville at 1 lammerstein's Roof and \ ictoria Theatre. The Dolly Twins, in conjunction with Carlos Se- bastian, niade their last appearance together in costume novelty dances. ( )ther numbers : Sophie Tucker, Temp- tation of .Adam and Eve, Consul and l'>ctty. monkeys ; I'.alaban, .\hern Corn- ed v Troupe. Wohlman and .Abrahams, Collins and Hart, The .Act Pieautiful. Two Tom I'loys, IMaxine and I'etty. Cadets de Cascogne. Lockett and Waldron, Roberts and Lester and b'rank Carmen. * * * Capacity audi- ences greeted Paul Rainey's new 1914 Set of -African Hunt Pictures at the Casino yesterday. These latest Raincy ])ictures were recently ex- hibited at the American Mu.seuni of Natural History, where they were pronounced a marvel in motion photo- gra])hy. This verdict was indorsed bv the thousands of people who saw the fil'ii for the first time yesterday. .\ feature of over five thousand feet of film is the lion hunt taken in Cen- tral .Africa. -Ml of a party of fifty engaged in the exi)edition this year take jiart in this scene. .After a long fight and desperate pursuit a vicious .\frican male lion is cornered by hunt- ing hounds in a growth of jungle brush. * * (3wing to the success ()f Damaged Goods, as i)resented by the stock company at the Academy of Music, it was retained for a third week. At both the matinee and even- ing performances the theatre was crowded. * .Arthur V.. 1 lolden, cham])ion high diver of the world, v.as the feature of the free vaude- ville at Palisades .Amusement Park. IIol len made a back dive from a height of ninety-two feet into a tank of water, turning a somersault in mid- air. Four other circus acts comprise the entertainment at the amphitheatre. * inauguration of a new jxilicy at the Jardin dc Danse oc- curred last week, when that popular roof garden welcomed guests desiring a genuine seashore dinner served far above the street. .\ program includes the first New York appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crane, the dancers, of California. * * * The Liebler com- l")any has issued several announce- ments, the chief of which is that it has secured the dramatic rights to Eleanor H. Porter's very successful novel, Pollyanna. This book, the sub- title of which is The Glad Book, has liel 1 a i)lacc among "the be.st sellers'" for a remarkably long period of time. .\ jM-ominent (Iramatist will be .se- lected at once to ])ut the story into dramatic form, and the resultant dra- ma is to be produced early in the fall. Cyril Maude's .second .American tour probably will begin on .Nov. 13 at the Plymouth Theatre, Iloston, witii (irum])y again as his vehicle. Kath- arine Kaelred, remembered for her )jc*formance of the Wiuipirc in .\ I*"o(j1 There Was, will i)la\- the part of Zulcika in Joseph and His Ilrethren next .season. Lawson lUitt, the luig- lish actor, will resume the part of /)f)n's' in The (iarden of .Allah, play- ing it when the Century Theatre spec- tacle is oiifered as a feature attraction at tlie World's Fair. No theatre has l;een selected yet for the New York engagement of Edward Sheldon's new si)ectacular romance. The (iarden of Paradise, in spite of rumors to the C(jntrary. * Howard Estabrook has l;een engaged by David IJelasco for one of the principal comedy roles in The N'anishing I'.ride, the farce from the (iern''an, which will be the o])ening attraction of the season at the liclasco Theatre. * * * The Yellow Ticket closed its very successful six months' run at the I'^ltinge Theatre last Saturday night. This enabled John .Mason to begin rehearsals in the new i)la\' in which .Manager .\. II. Woods will present him early next season. The title has been changed from Drugged to The Jailbird. It's worth a tri]) to the Eltinge even if only to hear John l!arrymore as the .\merican journalist in Russia ex- claim, "( my Godski!" " " * I'ive theatres on I'.roadway, of which four ordinarily are devoted to regular dra- matic ])roductions, gave new motion- pitcure exhibitions laM week, and the range of their subjects and variet)' of their interest established a new ex- treme for the entertainment to be de- rived from the silent shows of the screens. \i no other time have so many of the first-class theatres been o])cned temjiorarily to this form of amusement. G.W IX 1). HIGH. CARSON CVVW Nev., June 28.— The Grand ( W. S. P.allard. mgr.): The Leisure 1 lour Club, with a view to clearing the association of the debt incurred by the building of the new clubhouse, appointed different com- mittees, each to provide a certain amount of money, and the committee under the direction of Mrs. Lloyd 11. Thomas gave a most excellent enter- tainn'cnt June 26, realizing a goodly sum as her share of the fund. .\ cap- tivating march and drill. Young America, o])ened the program, and the intricate figures and attractive posing evoked prolonged a])plau.se. The little folkspartici])ating in this were: X'erna [ones, I"'arl I'ordham, Alice Sweeney, I'rancis Murray, Dorothy I'artlett, Peter Amodei, Margaret IJartlett, Og- dcn Monahan, Margaret McCarran, Kenneth Raycraft, Louise Taylor, h'rank Gregory, Melva Cameron, Harry X'onderhyde, Mary Margaret Sliaughnessy, Lawrence Quill. This feature was followed by a solo by Chas. Francis Durand, formerly of light o]iera but now a successful chicken fancier of Reno. Mr. Du- rand has a most pleasing baritone and sings very effectively. His at-home- ness on the stage added to the effect of the song and he was compelled INTER-MOUirrAIN WAGON SHOWS—PRESENTING Girl of Eagle Ranch CHAS. P. HEI.TON, MGK. A Delightful Summer in the Mountains State Rights Buyers Take Notice! The Feature Film Sensation of the Century. To lie Released About July Ist M. B. DUDLEY AND G. F. COSBY PRESENT Panama and the Canal From An Aeroplane fOOO feet of thrilling action. Taken from the aeroplane of the noted aviator, Roliert Fcwler, by Ray Duhern. Nothing like it ever before attempted. Most ilahotate line of pictorial printing ever used for a motion picture. Everything frcm twenty-sheet stand down. At cost to State right buyers. Address, Panama Aero Film Co. EC2 Pacific Building. Sau Francisco Telephone Douglas 5405 to respond to a hearty encore. The ( Jrecian Tableau.x, ])ose(I by Dorothy Raycraft. Lucile Mul loon, Dorothy Mackey, Charlotte Lovegrove. l>er- nice Iloopes and Laverne llarkley. were pictures of beauty and elicited unbounded api)lause. Frances Perrin. daughter of I'air Commissioner I-Vank rerrin. made her initial api)earance before a Larson City audience with a vocal solo admirably rendered, her rich, full voice filling the house in Xeviii's Time Eiumgh and d'Hai'de- lat's W ithout Thee. The very cream of the evening, as conceded by all, was The Darkies' Dream, executed by .Master ()g(len .Mcniahan and Doi'o- thy liartlett, assisted by Annie Louise Shaughnes.sy, Wm. Shelby Ilarring- t©n, Zola Hankie, h-dward Walsh. Marjorie .Xoteware, l'>ed Millard, l-rances Shaughnessy, Harvey Dicker- son, .Merle Peters, (ieorge .Meyers, .Xorinne Dickerson, luigcne .Morgan." The.se little folks were mostly six years of age, but their cakewalking would have done credit to profession- als, while the principals, ()gden Mona- han and Dorothy Hartlett. were the l)ersonifications of grace and ease. The rafters rang with the api)lause and they were repeatedly recalled. Mrs. Thomas and ^Ir. E. C. Peterson gave the overture From an Indian Lodge, by MacDt)well, and the ]K'rfonnance concluded with the operetta, Pocahon- tas Mcdilligan McCiuire, with Miss Cdadys Wood in the title role. Miss Wood is ])erfectly at home in any- thing she undertakes, both in singing and acting, and she was everything the title imi)Iied, her clear, strong soprano ringing out with distinctness and sweetness. She is a most accom- plished young lady. Mrs. Zeb Ken- dall, wife of Fair Commissioner Ken- dall, as Singing IJird, was bewitch- ingly pretty, and her voice was truly that of a singing bird. She sings with ease and ap])arently just for the love of singing, and her music is al- ways greatly api^reciated. b'rozen I "ace, acted by L. I>. Thomas, rector of .St. Peter's Church, was excellently well done, and Mr. Thomas' fine bar- itone was enjoyed in a comic solo. .Mr. Thomas is a man of varied talents and does several things—all of them well. George Smith was Eagle Plume, with little to .say but that done co:i| scientiously. Will L'. Mackay as rurl ring Panther won the plaudits of th j audience by his caj)ital understandinj, of the part, and his deep bass voicJ lending terrifying force to his man! ner. .\n excellent chorus added tJ the general effect and assi.sted in makj ing the .stage more attractive. .MesI dames Chas. Norcross, Notewarel .Mackey, Morgan, and Misses EdJ wards, Slingerland, Souchereaii] Towle and Woodbury, wei'e the prettj Indian maidens, while Messrs. Cavelfi Clark. Curtis, Pyne. Srenz, Tayloj and Woorlbury were the braves. Laurjl l)eckstead and Maudie I'>aker, as Ini dian chiltlren, sang a pretty Indiail lullaby, and John Slingerland ami Llewellyn Meder made a part of th(j tableau and acted as general utilit) Indian lads. The whole performanctl was certainly a success and one of thtl most enjoyable amateur affairs eveij staged in this city. .\. II. M. Herald Square Theatre in Net York Sold NEW YORK, June 23. —The largest real estate deal recorded inl New York in several months was closed yesterday, when William HJ Barnum and William Averdall, Jr..| bought the site of the Herald S(|uare Theatre, at the northeast corner oi| P>roadway and Thirty-fifth Street, foij $6,000,000. The buyers announcedl that plans had been drawn for a 12-I story office building to cost $2,ooo,ooo| to be erected on the site. As the lease on the theatre will not expire untill May I, 1915, the improvement willj not be attemi)ted before next summerr The Eastern critics were enthusi- astic in their prai.se of Mimi -Aguglia,! the Italian tragedienne, who will di- vulge her art at the Cort on Mondayl night, July 13th. Of her Zaza, onej captious analyst of the drama said: "Her Zaza is fuller, more elaboratel and shadowed in variations scarcely! touched, much less revealed, than thati of Rejane (for whom the i)lay wasj written), Mrs. Carter or the other ex- ponents. She is a really great ac-| tress." y