San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

•1 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW April 28, 1900 (Sixteen Pages) San Francisco, Apr. 28, 1900 dramatic review publishing COMPANY, Publishers 22y2 Geary Street Telephone Grant 158 CHAS. H. FARRELL . . Business Manager C. H. LOMBARD Secretary and Treasurer EASTERN EDITOR ROB ROY West Thirtieth Street NEW YORK CITY; To whom all Eastern News Matter for the Revew should be addressed. Ten Cents a Copy— $3.00 per Year For Sale at all News Stands The Review has the largest circulation of any theatrical paper in the United States outside of New York. The Dramatic Review is entered at the postoffice at San Francisco as second-class matter and is supplied to the trade by the San Francisco News Company, 342 Geary Street. Hekk is another unknown husband of a well-known wife. Fred. Titus, husband of Kdna May, the most extensively advertised chorus girl in the history of the stage, has applied for appointment on the bicycle corps of the New York police. * ¥ The Spiritual Temple in Boston went in for dramatics last week and performed a play called Retribution. The first act showed the leading woman upon a Southern plantation before the war and she reappeared in the second as a spirit. Here's novelty for you. * r London is becoming a great field for the American stage folk. On the St. Paul when it sailed over a week ago there were over 100 theatrical people. Many of them were managers in search of material, others were players off on a vacation, and still others were those who go to appear on the London stage. * * It is apparent in the belated critiques that are now reaching this country that Sara Bernhardt' s critical countrymen do not exactly coincide with the first cable reports that were sent out concerning her new play by Edward Rostand, L'Aiglon. The best critics say that while the exuberant first-night audience waxed enthusiastic over it, the play has not the elements to please the playgoers. The plot is but poorly defined, they assert, and the last three acts are markedly tedious. Not even the genius of Bernhardt, they say, was compensation. The fault is not entirely with the play, it would seem. A prominent critic says that Bernhardt's constitution is beginning to show the mark of age. The writer also doubts if an actress of genius, approaching her sixtieth birthday, can satisfactorily portray youthful roles. It is quite a common human weakness to venture on prophecy where there is little or no knowledge, and we all remember some time ago how it was freely predicted by many knowing ones that within three years there would not be three places in this country devoted to the stock company idea. It is hardly necessary to say that this prophecy has not been fulfilled. On the contrary, there are now half a dozen stock companies where at that time there was but one. In fact, there are scores of cities in which stock companies are now successfully operating, and these are towns which have for a number of years been regarded as poor stands. The growth of the idea has been a potent factor in the general theatrical prosperity, for it has induced many new people to become regular theatrical attendants now that they can see so much for so little money. The growth of theatregoing is so marked that the increase of theatres the country over is something startling. Recently in one week we noted that eleven new houses to be devoted to dramatic entertainment were going up in various parts of the Union. Plainly, the national impression is that plenty of work and no play might tend to make Uncle Sam's offspring dull boys. Wright Huntington will re-enter vaudeville May 12th, having signed with Hyde's Comedians for thirty straight weeks. Mr. Huntington's last matinee performance in the Woodward Stock, Kansas, City week before last, was marked by a novel and interesting occurrence. The matinee girls were there in force and they called him before the curtain for a speech, presenting him at the same time with a beautiful sofa pillow, on one side the design of a bicycle wheel worked in silk and between the spokes the cards of sixty-three girls written and worked in colored silks by themselves. On the other side was written and worked in silk, "To Wright Huntington, Our Favorite. From the Matinee Girls of Kansas City. " The new song by James Hamilton Howe and S. Homer Henley, entitled, A Song of War, is now off the press, and will be put on the market about May 1. It is a song of such fire and dash that it is sure of a rousing encore on any program, and is bound to have a great run. Georgie Cooper has rejoined Harry Corson Clarke. Fred Cooper is visiting in Portland. Dreams of Midsummer Beauty — May Styles Light and Airy Millinery for the Warm Weather Many New Styles that make up a grand collection of matchless millinery elegance Geary and Stockton Streets Opposite Union Square 1 1 i Mail and Express Orders Receive Immediate Attention #4