San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

January 27th, 1900 11 The Orpheam The Orpheum is playing to crowded houses nightly, and has one of the best bills presented at this popular Vaudeville Theatre for many a day. The Hungarian Orchestra, under the able leadership of Conductor Rosner, discourses enlivening music. Edna Bassett Marshall presents a realistic novelty singing act, Sunshine and Sorrow. She sings well, and her boys and girl are certainly a clever little quartet. The little girl's ragtime business is up-to-date and superior to much of that class of work done by older performers. James O. Barrows, assisted by John Lancaster and Company, presented Tactics, a little dramatic comedy reminiscent of the late unpleasantness, which with the sweet little love story of the children brings to a happy close the hatred engendered by the Civil War. Jos. Newman sings a number of humorous songs of his own composition, and was an instant hit, being exceedingly funny. His singing is very enjoyable, and his personality very taking, especially to My Girl's a Different Kind, did the audience respond heartily. He had many recalls and will prove a star attraction. Papinta, the Queen of Spectacular Dancers, has not lost any of her charm. She easily eclipses Mme. Herrmau or even Loie Fuller in their famous Terpsichorean effects. She introduces a number of charming, startling effects this season. Bruet and Reviere gave some good French duets and inimitable mimics. The Holloways in their gymnastic feats, the Sohlkes novelty dancers, and Irene Franklin, the singing soubrette, were well received, and the holdovers, Honson and Nelson, Nelston and Abbey, Hodges and Launchmere, and Mile. Emmy's dogs, all keep up their record in their several lines; of these, Hodges and Taunchmere, the colored comedians, alone had new numbers, and they were good ones, too. The Chutes TP he great attraction at the Chutes *■ this week is the moving pictures of the Jeffries-Sharkey fight at Coney Island. The various exciting rounds are wildly encored until the big audience is worked up to a high pitch of excitement. The pictures are very life-like, and the scenes thrilling. Robt. Smilaxand Company, with their excellent performing bull dogs, make a great hit, a brindle pup easily carrying off the honors. Major Mite appeared in a Hebrew impersonation which shows to great advantage his wonderful versatility and clever work. He sings, Oh Such a Business, with characteristic feeling, then making a light-wing change, appears in his Galway sluggers and does a happy Irish comedian act. He is a very j oily fellow. Matt Keefe receives encores nightly for his sweet tenor songs. The D'Estelle Sisters gave some very pretty fancy and grotesque dances. The rest of the program is as last week, and good. Thursday night the Constantinople Minstrels repeated their success of a week ago. The Oheron Ckxor Antonio Vargas and Sen^ orita Dya Poletini are the leading attractions still at this popular Music Hall. Senor Vargas has a glorious baritone which in solos or in duos with Senorita Poletini's rich contralto are thoroughly enjoyable. Miss May Wied Ganke, the cornet soloist, is new, and performed acceptedly some pleasing numbers. The Projectiscope gave the Devil's Castle, Bewitched Inn, Wm. Tell, Hypnotists and Dancing in the Barn to delighted onlookers. The Ladies' American Orchestra led by Mr. Louis N. Ritzau are giving some excellent numbers — notably, Overture, Franz Schubert, by Suppe and Surpersi, a popular melody by Brahm. The Olympia The Olympia has as good a show as * has ever graced its stage this week . Mile. Thelma, upon whose beautiful form the stereopticon throws its dazzling light, makes a glorious picture. Will H. Hill is exceedingly clever in his voice performance. Camelia, Carleton & Rogers, and Marie D. Wood are still favorites with the audience. Cad Wilson, the Klondike soubrette, is throwing the glimmer of her sparklers upon her admirers, who loudly call for more. Vera Chandon, Jolly Hamilton, Maude Darrell and May Nealon are adding laurels to their fame here nightly, and Zoyarra and Harry de Lain are among the good attractions. Vaudeville Notes The Keesings are at Rossland, B. C. Waldo and Elliott are at St. Paul. Minn. Stewart and Le Croix joined the Rentz-Santley Company. Kelly and Bertha are at the New Alhambra, Savannah, Ga. Dr. Goerss takes the road shortly. He is now organizing. Lydia Yeaman Titus will soon leave London for home. The Trilby Theatre, Victoria, B. C, opens tonight. Alice Miller and Grace La Verne open at the Orpheus, Randsburg, Jan. 29th. Perry Sisters, now at Minneapolis, are playing this way. They open in this city in March. The Palm Garden at Seattle is on the high road to prosperity. Minnie Ward opens at the Savoy Theatre, Victoria, B. C, the 29th. Frank Barton, the coon singer, has just returned from an interior trip. Mile Atlantis, the spectacular dancer, will soon arrive in this city. Cody Sisters are prime favorites at the Casino Theatre Butte, Mont. Wanda is underlined at the Monte Carlo Theatre, Keswich, the 29th. Mabel Livingston and Ida Howell open at the Vienna Buffet, Los Angeles, the 29th. The Zimmermans are playing the northwestern circuit. This week they are at Davenport, Iowa. Wilds and Bunker, Walter Reed and Hal Coulet are all making good at the Coeur D'Alene Theatre, Spokane, Wash. Baby Ruth Roland opens at the Omaha Orpheum the 28th, following Feb. 4 in Kansas City with St. Louis Feb. 11. Tne Five St. Leons, Kate Hope Sprague, Boyle and Lewis are the features at the People's Theatre, Seattle, Wash. Cleo Ashley and the La Mont Sisters make their first Los Angeles appearance at the Vienna Buffet, Los Angeles, on the 29th. The De Moras, acrobats and equilibrists, are meeting with much success all along the line. They open at the Olympic, Chicago, Jan. 29th. Zola Sisters, Allie Delmar, Ouhama, the Jap, and Helen Moulton are the new faces that open at the Standard Theatre, Bakersfield, the 27th. A Victoria paper calls Smith and Ellis the most popular team that has ever appeared on the variety stage in Victoria. They have just returned for another engagement at the Savoy. At Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 20, the damage wrought by the fire at the winter quarters of the Barnum and Bailey circus was fully $125,000. The blaze is believed to have originated from a lamp in the car-shed. F. J. Crosby, Jr. and Inez Forman, who made a hit with their little play at the Orpheum last week, have been playing Los Angeles, playing the Orpheum circuit East from there. Mr. Crosby, while a rich man, with a bank account, is a talented and conscientious actor and a hard worker. The Tramp Acrobat, Harrigan, recently at the Orpheum, met and married Belle Rogers, sister of Mrs. Fitz Roy Tobin, during his three week's engagement and now with his wife is on his way to New York, filling engagements on the way; two weeks at Koster & Bials, New York; two weeks at Palace Music Hall, London, and two months in Paris. On their return thev occupy a flat with the Fitz RoyTobms in New York. Paul La Croix, the society juggler, opens at the Chutes, Feb. 12. David Henderson's latest venture, a vaudeville house in Havana, has been a losing proposition. Minkowsky's new opera, The Smugglers of Bayadez, will be sung by the Bostonians during their coming engagement at the Columbia Theatre. Primrose & Dockstader are credited with having closed a most phenomenal engagement in New York last week, having completely surprised people with a performance entirely new and entertaining in the minstrel line. Bolossy Kiralfy, who used to crack beer bottles in America, when not putting on the boards gorgeous spectacular productions or dodging insistent creditors, has declined an offer to supervise the ballets that will be made a feature of Koster Bials. He has been engaged for the next two years by a Paris syndicate, who will build a new theatre and produce ballets exclusively. Opie Read, the author of the Jucklins and other popular stories, made his debut in vaudeville at the Chicago Opera House last week, as astory teller, and was the big hit of the bill. He is considering a proposition to make a tour, visiting New York, San Francisco and other cities, under the same management. His part is a monologue— a bouquet of his most taking tales and sketches, strung together to give an appearance of unity and continuity. Wm. R.McRobieand Miss Chandler, of the musical team of Chandler and McPherson, now playing at the Olympia, were married by Justice Kerrigan Saturday. On Thanksgiving day, 1895, William R. McRobie and his wife, known in theatrical circles as Vira Evans, separated after a married life of seven years. McRobie heard nothing of his divorced wife during the long interval until he arrived in San Francisco last week to play the "double" in A Hot Old Time at the New Alhambra. Sunday night after the performance McRobie, in company with several friends, dropped in at the Olympia just as Chandler and McPherson were doing their musical act. In the former McRobie recognized his former wife. At the conclusion of the turn he then hastened to meet Miss Chandler in her dressing-room, and soon the reconciliation was complete. They both agreed that the separation had been a mistake, and decided to start all over again, hence the marriage yesterday morning. Mrs. McRobie will return to her home in Chicago. McRobie will reach Chicago in about two months where he will join his wife who will travel with him in the future. ALHAMBRA THEATRE Week Commencing Sunday, January 28th THAT I-UNNY FARCE COMEDY His Better Half Now Touring the Pacific Coast WITH BOYLE AND GRAHAM AND A STRONG CAST EVERYBODY SPEAKS WELL OF HER