San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

December 23rd, 1899 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 7 and Bessie Fairbairn as Prince Orloffsky were up to their usual standard of excellency. Win. Wolff had very little to do, as he is resting from his hard work of last week in the Chimes of Normandy, but he played the part of the governor of the prison faultlessly. To the versatile comedian, Arthur Wooley as Frosch, the turnkey must be accredited the honor of furnishing the greater part of the fnn, and his makeup and dialect were wonderfully good. The play was beautifully staged and the chorus did their usual conscientious work. ()<X><><>00000000<X)0<>000<X><><><><><>0<><><>0<><><>0<>0 O $ * V^al t^e ^)pe^ ffienl^ Jay * $ 0 Of Next WeeK's Attractions ^ 0 9. 0 oooooooooooo<x>ooooooooooooooooooooooo 0 THE GRAND Strauss' pretty comic opera, Die Fledermaus, has proven a brilliant success at the Grand Opera House. It will be performed for the last time Sunday evening. At the extra matinee Christmas Day.David Henderson's famous extravaganza, Sinbad, will be presented in a most magnificent and costly manner with entirely new and picturesque scenery and costumes. Among the many features will be The Transformation, by Frank King, which will far surpass anything of its kind ever witnessed here. Charles H. Jones will introduce The March of the Silver Knights, which will be performed by beautiful girls in armor. Senorita Matildita, Spanish Premiere, and a troup of coryphees will be witnessed in graceful and fascinating ballets. The cast will include not only the entire company, but several new faces. The piece to run through the week. THE TIVOLI Commencing with this evening, the Tivoli will present its annual extravaganza, founded on the well-known nursery rhyme, Little Bo-Peep. Stage Director George E. L,ask, who has arranged the extravaganza, has skillfully introduced as many good things as could possibly be crowded in three hours of fun and delight. The cast of Little Bo-Peep will call for the services of over one hundred people, and will include Ferris Hartman, Anna Lichter, Annie Meyers, Tom Greene, Alf. C. Wheelan, Julie Cotte, Eloise Mortimer, Phil Branson, William Schuster, Cora Harris, Caroline Knowles, Charlotte Beckwith, Ida Wyatt, Master Jack Robertson, etc. All the latest songs, dances, comical situations and a series of beautiful ballets and dances, will be found in Little Bo-Peep. Special matinees on Christmas and New Year's Day and Saturdays. THE COLUMBIA The play of the year is undoubtedly Hall Caine's The Christian. New York crowded to see it for 175 nights, and Boston scored a run of no consecutive nights. San Francisco is to have an opportunity of viewing it for the first time. Liebler & Co. will present The Christian here for a limited engagement at the Columbia, beginning Xmas night. The production here will be marked with the same careful attention to detail as that which characterized it in New York. The company numbers over fifty people. The New York Herald was most enthusiastic in its praise of the play, saying among other things: The Christian is first, second and always a forceful play. Many of the incidents of, the piece have never been surpassed for strength and purpose, power and and pathos. The audience turns from interest to sympathy, and finally to an intense devotion upon the twist of the author's pen or a line from the players' lips, until the looker-on cannot help marveling at the wonderful sovereignty of all concerned in what is undoubtedly the greatest success of the entire theatrical year. acts have those crowning qualities that tend to work up intense action and interest. The characters are strongly drawn. The cast is made up of players of experience who have been fittingly selected. Jottings THE ORPHEUM The Orpheum offers a good bill for Christmas week. At the head of the program is the greatest artiste ever brought to California, even by the Orpheum management. Eugenie Fougere has a world wide reputation. .She stands in a class all by herself, and although hundreds have tried to imitate her work, there is still only one Fougere. At the close of her engagement here, Fougere returns to Paris, where she is under contract to remain until the close of the World's Fair. Thorne and Carleton are two comedians whose sketch, A Substitute, is said to be very good. Claude Tharde is said to be one of the best singlehanded entertainers in America. To the art of humorous story telling he has added the gifts of song and dance. Others wh» will help to make the Christmas week merry are: Harrigan, the Tramp Juggler; La Sylphe; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Milton Royle and Co.; Gertrude Rutledge; Llewellyn Sisters; The Averys. There will be a special matinee on Christmas Day. THE CALIFORNIA Cumberland '61, a drama written by Franklin Fyles, will be presented at this theater Christmas Eve. The drama is not a war play, the civil strife being used as a background to the story of a Kentucky feud. In the first act the outline of the story is skillfully explained. The following THE ALCAZAR Beginning Christmas matinee, Monday afternoon, the Alcazar management will present a dramatization of Ned Townsend's novel, Chimmie Fadden. The Alcazar management has gone to considerable expense to make this production the hit of the season. Forrest Seabury, specially engaged, will play Chimmie. THE CHUTES At the Chutes a great bill has been prepared for Christmas week. Adgie presents a mirror dance in her cage of lions, and Ruth Nelta and her picaninnies will reappear. Lillian Yon Tilse, a female baritone, will make her first appearance here. The La Monts, acrobatic equilibrists; Zoyarrow, on his revolving globe; Rube and Frank Shields, comedy and trick cyclists, and Major Mite in new specialties, will complete an interesting program. On Monday there will be a Christmas tree and every child in attendance will be given a present. Ne<w Oakland Theater The Moroscos have about concluded arrangements for a new theater on Eleventh street near Broadway, Oakland, to be built by Mr. Witcher and associates. The new house will be a modern and handsome theater in every respect, and the Moroscos will have at least a ten years' lease on it. ON THE ROAD Lewis Morrison's I-'rederick the Great Co. St. Joseph, 25; Lincoln, 28; Sioux City, 30; Des Moines, Jan. 1. Cheerful Liar Company. CORRKCTKD ROUTE. Roseberg, 27-28; Eugene, 29-30; Harrislmrg, Jan. 1; Albany, 2-3; Corvallis, 5-6; Independence, 8-9; McMinnville, 10; Hillsboro, 11: Forest Grove, 12; Oregon City, 13; Astoria, 15-16. Ruth Nelta will open at the Chutes Dec. 25. * The three Malvern Brothers are in Spokane. « « The Lamonts will open at the Olympia Dec. 25. Edward Adams will shortly appear in San Francisco. Marie Wilbur is at the Vienna Buffet, Los Angeles. » » » The Leondor Bros. will, shortly appear in San Francisco. * » * Forman and Howlett are at Savoy Theater, Vancouver, B. C. Armstrong and O'Neil open at the Tivoli Theater, Stockton. Howard and Earle, now playing Star Theater, St. Paul, will shortly appear in this city. Lillian Walther, Emma Forrest and Edgerton Sisters are a big hit at Savoy Theater, Victoria, B. C. Doughlas and Ford, California people, have just arrived from London to spend the holidays here. » « Lulaine and Darrell, who are a big hit at the Star Theater, St. Paul, will shortly appear in this city. DOT STANLEY Singing Comedienne, Olympia Music Hall. " THE ONLY " O >I 1Z 1^ I V Spanish Dancer, Olympia Theater, Frisco. There may be others like us but they're not in town The Kver Popular Originators of Novelties. Anita-Carleton and Royce-nossie Up-to-date Singing and Dancing Soiibretted, nthe Zenith of Success at olympin Music Moll. •5 Columbia Theater Beginning 'Xmas INight POR A LIMITED ENQAOEMENT FIRST TIME HBRB aj UKRI.ER & CO. presents HAM. CAINK'S Powerful Play I The Christian ^2 Presented here with the same attention to detail as that which characterized sj* its run of 175 nights in New York and no nights in Hoston.