San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

Januaky 6th, 1900 5 Frank Weston makes a splendid Horatio Drake in The Christian. He has a fine stage presence and a good voice. Denman Thompson and The Old Homestead will be here at the Columbia next month. Walter JoNEsand Norma Whalley will visit Australia with Dunne & Ryley's company. Milloecker, the composer, who had been suffering from a paralytic stroke, died Monday in Vienna. Fanchon Campbell's Polly Love in The Christian is one of the most striking characterizations of the production. Henry Miller has taken The Only Way on tour, and he is said to be in a fair way to eclipse the success of almost any of the reigning stars. Miss Minnie Tittel Brune came very near being compelled to rest last week, owing to a severe cold that for a while threatened to turn into grippe. Nat Goodwin is proving a strong attraction at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York. His new play is to be called When We Were Twenty-one, instead of Pals. Miss Hobbs is reported to have made a very strong impression in England. At the Lyceum Theater, New York, its business is recorded as being among the best in the history of the house. Clay Greene's travesty of Gillette's Sherlock Holmes put in the melange piece at Koster & Bial's in New York, is called by the New York Sun the best thing in the travesty line of the season. Maud Reese Davis of Los Angeles, the handsome young singer, for two years soprano with the Sousa Band, was married at Glens Falls December 14, to Herbert Merrill Quimby, of Detroit, Mich. Kyrle Bellew is to appear as manager of a London theater of his own in The Children's Palace by L. H. Parker and Addison Bright, and will also produce a new version of Monte Cristo, made for him by Henry Hamilton. Harry Corson Clarke and his company rested a week down in Texas and the comedian and his wife took a trip to the City of Mexico. They also witnessed a bull fight at Jaurez. Mr. Clarke's impressions of the "sport" are 00 vivid for publication. The male contingent of The Bostonians this season is said to be exceptionally strong. Among them are Wm. H. McDonald, Henry Clay Barnabee, George Frothingham, Charles R. Hawley, Frank Rushworth, John Dunsmore, W. H. Fitzgerald, and Frederick Knights. Minette Barrett and Pearl Landers are doing a very taking specialty in this week's performance of Flying Colors that is meeting with several encores nightly. J. M. Colvillk, of The Christian company, has been so ill this week with muscular rheumatism, that he was compelled to give up the part of John Storm to Frank Weston, who did very creditably in the part. Frederick Warde was telling friends the other night that in little eight-year-old Norman DeWittPhillips of this city, who played one of the little princes in Richard III, he had run across one of the brightest stage Frances Yale got in this week and is very busy arranging for Stockwell's new tour with The Cuckoo. Roland Rekd, after an operation for a severe case of appendicites, is slowly recovering at St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Gertrude Foster has reconsidered her intention of going to New York, and will be the leading woman at the Oakland Macdonough. Madge Carr Cook, formerly with the Frawleys, is a recent addition to the Dearborn Stock Co., Chicago. She is wearing some very stunning gowns and is proving a valuable member of the company. T. Daniel Frawley has added another beauty to his company. This latest addition is Mrs. Neville Castle, the handsome daughter of a local merchant. She has been studying for some time with this end in view and will make her first appearance next week in the Princess and the Butterfly. children he had ever met. The youngster played with an intelligence and understanding far beyond his years, and his imitations of Warde during the presentation of Richard III at the Oakland performance last Tuesday night, made a great hit with the audience. In the Zaza company is Hugo Toland, well known in San Francisco, who adorns the stage more for the fun of it than anything else. Our Chicago correspondent writes that he is the same old Hugo as ever, with a few more pounds of flesh each year. Nance O'Neil company have given up their intended engagement in Honolulu. They play Salt Lake two weeks, commencing January 17, then in Denver and then to Vancouver, before sailing for the Australian tour. J. Lou Hallett is personally directing the tour of the Passion Play Company, in which his agency is interested. The company is playing to good business along down the line this week, and will tour Arizona, Texas and Mexico. Snap Shots CISSIE FITZGERALD As she looks to the London cartoonist. Professional Matinee Through the courtesy of the Alhambra management and Murray and Mack, there was a professional matinee at the Alhanibra Thursday afternoon. A large gathering of theatrical folk was present and enjoyed a performance that went with a vim and a snap. Closed L. R. Stockwell and My Friend from India Company are back in town having closed in Sacramento. Business was only fair. Mr. Stockwell goes out in February with an entirely new company in Frohman's Cuckoo. OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENTS and SMa.na.gers Out-of-T<ywn Should remember that all copy for the Rkview, except from our regular staff, must be in the office not later than Wednesday of each week to insure publication. Have it reach the Review Wednesday afternoon. EMMA NEVADA