San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

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October 7th, 1899 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 5 MLLE. CAVALIERI Of the Folies Bergere, Paris MLLE. GUERRERO Of the Folies Bergere, Paris Here we have two popularly deelarcd French beauties. Nowhere else iti the world do actresses have such a vogue. Personal Mention Laura Burt is replacing Marie Dressier in The Man in the Moon in the New York run, owing to the latter's illness. George Fawcett will retire from William H. Crane's Company on Oct. 21 to resume his original part in Miss Adams' Company in The Little Minister. George W. Floyd, for many years a well-known theatrical manager, is to open a handsome cafe at the corner of Broadway and Thirty-first street, New York. Madeline McKissick, a handsome and well-known society amateur, is now playing professionally with Modjeska. She has lately been married, but found the marriage bond irksome. Franklin Fyles, the dramatic editor of the New York Sun and a playwright who has achieved some reputation in the past few years, is a pretty sick man, and his friends fear that his condition is serious. William J. LeMoyne has been engaged to support Miss Marlowe in the coming production of Barbara Freitchie. He is to play the part that was intended for the use of Joseph Brennan, who was for the moment put into the cast of The Only Way. San Francisco will be glad to learn that Edwin Stevens in His Excellency has made an immediate and pronounced success, punctuated with eleven curtain calls. Ethel Barrymore is of the company, and there is talk of a long run in Boston and New York. Minna TiTTEL is playing with Frederick Warde. Virginia Drew was offered a place with Modjeska for' the season, but could not accept. Marjorie Kane of Lewis Morrison's Faust Road Company has been quite ill. She is now recovering. Ernest Hastings, so the report has reached the Review, has left Stuart Robson and his unsuccessful Gadfly. A remnant of the Lombardi Opera Company that had a disastrous season in this city is traveling eastward. They have been showing in Denver. Frank Murray writes us from Los Angeles that T. Daniel Frawley and his company will return Thanksgiving and play a long engagement at the California. JESSIE Bateman, who is remembered here with A Brace of Partridges, is credited with one of the successes in The Last Chapter in London. Thomas A. Wise also scored a hit in the part he played at the Garden Theater, New York. The rehearsals of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, William H. Crane's new play, are now under way, and are in charge of Bronsou Howard, who with Brander Matthews is responsible for the work. The cast is a large one, and there are a number of supernumeraries. In fact, the production is such a large one, both in the number of its people and the quantity of its scenery and properties that Mr. Crane does not intend to present it in any but the large cities. Nearly three months of his season will be spent in New York city. Theodore Bromley, business manager for Frederick Warde, has been obliged to retire from that position berause of ill health. His place with the company was taken by E. D. Shaw on Sept. 25. The little differences between the suave and diplomatic T. Daniel Frawley and handsome Mary Hampton seems to have been adjusted, for the latter is now playing leading roles witli the Frawley Company in Los Angeles. Joe Rosenthal, well known on the coast as an outdoor advertiser for anything from a circus up, has arrived in the city to take charge of the Alharnb'ra's bill-posting and lithographing. He has been with the Grand at Kansus City for the past five seasons. The Dramatic News of New York says: "Miss Mary Hampton left New York on Saturday en route to Los Angeles, where she is to join T. Daniel Prawley's Company next week. Her first appearance with the company will be as Drusilla Ives in the Dancing Girl, the role originated at the Lyceum Theater by Virginia Harned. Miss Hampton has always had a fondness for this character, and her friends have told her that she is eminently suited to it. Mr. Frawley, I believe, is to play the opposite part, which was first acted by Mr. Sothern. After playing three weeks in Los Angeles, the company will go to San Francisco for several weeks, and then proceed to Honolulu. It is the Honolulu trip that appeals most of all to Miss Hampton, as she has several times been to the Golden Gate, but has never yet pressed onward to the picturesque islands recently acquired by Uncle Sam." Harry Brown, the well known vocal teacher, has several promising amateurs in charge, who will soon be heard in concert and in comic opera. Adelaide Fitzallen who used to coo with Ernest Hastings at the Alcazar is doing the part of Roxy in Puddin' Head Wilson this season. Ynez Dean, the statuesque contralto now singing at the Tivoli, is the mother of Dorothy Creede, adopted by the rich miner a few years before his death. Little Dorothy, as soon as pending difficulties over the settlement of the Creede estate are settled, will come in for a large share of the late millionaire's money. The Mirror says: Mr. Meyerfeld, President of the Walter Orpheum Company, arrived in New York on Sunday last. His object is mainly recreation, and when he and Mr. and Mrs. Schimpf have seen the Dewey festivities they will return to the coast. Mr. Meyerfeld will visit all the New York theaters during his stay. Ada Coli.Ey, the singer witli the phenomenal voice, now appearing at Roster & Bial's, is receiving the congratulations of her friends on the star engagement of her career. It is with Sydney Cohen, a wealthy American, who met her in London. The contract is for life, and when the wedding bells shall have rung for the happy pair Miss Colley's high notes may possibly be heard only in the precincts of her own home. Miss Makv Linck says she is to leave for New York Sunday night, and has only a three days' rest after her long overland trip before she opens with the Castle Square Opera Company in Aida at the American Theater. The Castle Square Company is divided into grand and comic opera divisions, and will alternate the entire season between the Studebaker Theater, Chicago, and the American at New York.