San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

January 6th, 1900 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 11 The Orpheum Fougere, the dashing Parisian, was the hit of the Orpheum all this week, despite the fact that it was her second week and that there were several new and very creditable acts on the bill. Her coon song in French is very artistic— in fact, she is artistic in all of her singing and acting. She is by far the best of the French importations yet seen at the Orpheum. The Rosinos, a pair of acrobatic comedians, present a real novelty. With a bar room setting, they do some clever tumbling. A billiard table with springs serves to aid their lofty movements. Dorothy Drew is a dainty, pretty and artistic comedienne who makes a hit singing Arrah Go On and I'd Leave My Happy Home for You. She also does some high kicking, and broke her nose at it in the early part of the week. Billy Rice and H. W. Frillman, popular minstrels, furnish an amusing sketch, called A Deserted Mansion, introduced by a solo by Mr. Frillman. The actors are worthy of a more entertaining skit, however; yet they please. Douglas and Ford do a song and dance act that is somewhat above the ordinary. The holdovers are still pleasing. They are La Sylphe, Carleton and Thorne, the A very s, the Biograph. Altogether, it is one of the best bills seen at the Orpheum in a long time, and its equal will be seen the coming week. The Olympia 'T'he holiday program at the Olym■ pia is good. The Shields Bros., with their bicycle riding are doing seemingly impossible wonders. Ollie and Bert Lamont, the clever acrobats, hold the attention of the audience with their marvelous feats. Chandler and McPherson made a hit. Marie Wood was encored for her musical numbers. Carlton & Royce, Camelia and Dot Stanley are still playing to delighted audiences. Vera Chandon and Matt Keefe have pleasing numbers. The Hungarian Orchestra give some good singing music. The Chutes The Chutes puts up a very good entertainment this week. Harry de Lain, the high baritone, is a drawing card, though this is his first appearance in San Francisco. He kindly responds to his many recalls. Moulton and Vidella, the triple horizontal bar performers, give a great exhibition of their agility as daring acrobats. Claude Thardo, the eccentric singer and story teller, keeps the audience convulsed with laughter for full thirty minutes. Major Mite, after his inimitable imitation of Cornviile, sang well the Georgia Camp Meeting. Ruth Nelta and her jolly little picaninnies are singing a lot of new coon songs. Zoyana, with her revolving globe, is simply wonderful. Thursday night, Li Hung Chang was the feature. Ella Burt rides down the Chutes on her bicycle, afternoon and evening. The moving pictures show South African scenes. The Oheron 'T'he New Year's program at this 1 music hall is very good this week. The American Ladies' Orchestra are giving a notable program with selections from Rossini, Strauss, Offenbach, Bendix, Schubert and Wagner. The Strauss waltzes were particularly enjoyable. Ritzau's violin solos were peculiarly artistic and finished. Senorita Poletini and Senor Vargas continue to be favorites with their operatic solos and duetts. Poletini's rich contralto is shown to good advantage in her classic selections and Vargas' fine baritone is resonant and full-toned. MissEllaRichardson's songs are well received. The Edison Projectoscope still draws crowds. THE CHUTES Next week this resort presents Thardo, eccentric coon song singer, Major Mite, Harry De Lain, barytone, Columbian Four Instrumental Artists, Robert Simlax & Co. and their prize dogs, etc. Vaudeville Notes Marie Brandes goes to Arizona. Mae Preston is still a big Minneapolis favorite. Nadine Allen will play in this city at an early date. Blanche La Mar arrived from Butte a few days ago. Alice Fairbanks and Grace Anderson are at Dawson City. Geo. H. Wilson plays the Northern circuit in the near future. Madeline, the fancy rifle shot, arrived in town a few days ago. Carmelita, the Cuban dancer, is at Gem Theater, Missoula, Mont. The Moliring Brothers are a decided hit at the Los Angeles Orpheum. The Divine Dodson opens at the Orpheum, Los Angeles, the 21st. Wanda is underlined at the Standard Theater, Bakersfield, Jan. 6. Elsie Bellwood opens at the Monte Carlo Theater, Keswick, on the 8th. Bessie Bonehill has left Johannesburg for London, and she is coining back home by way of Australia, reaching San Francisco in about six months. Henderson and Ross, a well-known Eastern sketch team, are heading this way. Delia Le Fevre will be a new face at the Casino Theater, Sacramento, Jan. 8. Leo Bird and his burlesque company passed through this city en route South. Josephine Strong will make her first San Francisco appearance at the Thalia Monday next. The Leoiidor Brothers open at the Chuteson the 15th. Roberts, Smilax & Co. are due on the 8th. Hastings and Hall, the Coles, and Tillie Taylor open at the New Vienna Buffet, Los Angeles, Jan. 8. Lola Cotton, the child phenomenon, opens at the Savoy Theater, Victoria, B. C , on the 8th. The DeElbert Sisters open same date. Keesing and Ralston are at the Couer d'Alene Theater, Spokane, Wash., with Rossland, B. C, and Missoula, Mont., to follow. Marie Wood, the popular California nightingale, is still an Olympia attraction. She has been secured for the Olympia for an indefinite period. Her engagement has been extended. The New Vienna Buffet at Los Angeles is now one of the best appointed houses on the coast. It has been enlarged to three times its former size, and now takes in the whole building. H. B. Tiedemanu, the popular manager of Kapp and Streets Concert Hall, has secured for the coming week Rand and Rand, Mae Tunison, Madeline, Fanny Foster, Julia Byron, and Minnie Ward. The Tivoli Theater, Stockton, Cal., under the management of Musto and Renz, is doing a tremendous business. They contemplate enlarging their house. Particular attention will be paid to the interior decorations. Edward Adams, the popular Eastern vocalist and comedian, will arrive in this city Jan. 31, 1900. This city is his home, it being his first visit home in five years. His many friends will soon see him on our local boards. Fougere, the fascinating French comedienne at the Orpheum, is considered the best actress of any of the Parisian girls who have come to this country. She is a real artist. She it was who advertised that she was infatuated with Jim Jeffries; in fact, she came over on the same steamship with him and thus caused a lot of valuable talk. After such a bold stake as that it is no wonder that she soon had many offers from astute managers. Jack Wyatt — -formerly of the songand-dance team, Silver and Wyatt — died in this city Dec. 31, just as the old year was fading away and the new peeped in. Mr. Wyatt was well and favorably known all over the coast. He was buried Jan. 2, 1900, at Mount Olivet cemetery. His wile, Mae Wyatt, a serio-comic vocalist, father, mother, and two sisters survive him. His funeral was largely attended. Many elegant floral offerings testified that his friends were legion. Dorothy D rew, the handsome little high kicker now performing at the Orpheum, broke her nose New Year's matinee, with a misplaced kick. She wears a plug to prevent her nose from growingcrooked and marring the beauty of her attractive face This is not the first time Miss Drew has kicked herself in the face, but heretofore the damage was trifling. Beyond a few knockouts from landing on the point of the chin and an occasional black eye, Dorothy has not suffered before. She pluckily continues with every performance. The re-opening of the New Standard Theater, at Bakersfield, Dec. 23rd, was a big success. The house presented a pretty appearance, with Us beautiful and new decorations. The theater was packed from pit to dome, while each and every artist "caught on " in big shape. Manager Carillo can well afford to be proud of his opening. Murray and Mack have been doing a fine business in their tour of this coast. They will continue under the management of Jos. W. Spears next year, and the firm of Mack & Spears will have three attractions on the road: Murray and Mack in a new comedy; Hoyt's, A Brass Monkey, and Finnigan's Ball. American vaudeville acts are being greatly appreciated in Berlin. The marvelous Dunhams, Thompson's elephants, the Dare Brothers, single bar act, and Amelia Stone, the Atnericandiva andStack and Milton are meeting with great success in German)-. They expect to return to America this year. Ruth Nelta is repeating her former success at the Chutes. In fact she is a bigger hit than at her previous engagement. This talented artist plays a return engagement, then goes direct Fast, playing the Orpheum circuit, with the Castle and Kohl circuit to follow. Polly Wells, De Vere and Allen, Beatrice Carlisle, Margaret Grace, Harvey and Rice, Mamie Stewart, Mamie Haswick, Laura Lancton, Starkey and Martelle, and Hadley and Hart are at the Parlor Theatre, Duluth, Minn. Frank Sheppard of the variety team of Wood and Sheppard died Sunday night in London from pneumonia. He had been preparing to return to the United States after a two years' visit to Europe. Zavo and Mile. Hilda were prominent features at Proctors, New York, the past week. Digby Bell made his entrance into vaudeville at the Haymarket, Chicago, last week. Billy and Madrid Jackson are playing the Keith circuit.