San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

May 5, 1900 THE SA.N FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW JUST OF PASSING INTEREST Lewis Morrison will arrive in town next week. Homer Henley's mother, Mrs. Amanda Henley, died at her home very suddenly May 1. Messrs. Belasco and Thall will take out the Heart of Maryland next season. W. J. Eeleford, the well-known repertoire manager, was in town last week, attending to some business. T. Daniel Frawley left this week for New York, presumably to hunt up new people and new plays. Mindell Fern Dreyfus has been singing this week with the Morosco Opera Company in Los Angeles. Florence Roberts will tour the coast when shecloses her season at the Alcazar, which opens with Carmen June 4th. Virginia Drew Trescott is now at the Palace Hotel making arrangements for an early departure for New York via the Isthmus. Reta Villiers has been accorded very lavish praise by the vSacramento papers which is something very unusual for the capital city journals. Messrs. Thompson and Allen, who took out the Thompson Stock Company, opening at Sacramento after Easter, have returned to town. L. Lawrence Weber has leased the Empire in Atlantic City for ten years. It is said he proposes to put on his road companies there during the summer to prepare them for the fall and winter tours. Mrs. Langtry berates the American public because it didn't wax enthusiastic over her portrayal in The Degenerates. "It is not as an actress they have judged me," she says. And if they had, Great Scott ! Harry B. Smith's middle initial must stand for busy. He sailed for Europe a week ago, and while abroad will write an act of Foxy Quiller, Jerome Sykes' new opera; lyrics for The Cadet Girl, and the scenario for the Casino's summer production. Joseph Jefferson said the other day in Buffalo that the public did not go to a play because it was moral or immoral, but because it was entertaining. He also said that the average of plays was higher than it used to be, and that subsidized theatre in this country would not be beneficial. Eugene Ormonde, who has been Ada Rehan's leading man on the present tour, is so ill that he will be unable to finish the season with the company. A new member of Harry Corson Clarke's new company to play What Did Tompkins Do ? will be Mary Karr, until recently a society girl of Chicago. Miss Ethel Barrymore, who has been reported engaged several times, denies the report of her engagement to be married to Charles D. Wetmore of New York City. J. R. Amory and Phosa McAllister, according to the Los Angeles press, carried away the honors in the presentation of In Paradise by the Frawleys, in Los Angeles. Miss Caroline L. Gordon, the beautiful daughter of General John B. Gordon of Atlanta, Ga., is in New York making arrangements for her debut on a New York stage as a professional interpreter of negro songs and dialect. Stuart Robson, was sued by a landlord in New York the other day for arrears in rent and put in the plea in defense that, because he was an actor, he could not be said to have a home, and consequently owed no rent for one. The new play that Viola Allen is shortly to produce has not yet been named. It is by Leo Dietrichstein, and is the tale of a crown prince of European royalty, who contracts a morganatic marriage with an estimable woman. Miss Annie Russell will next season appear in a big dramatic production of Lorna Doone, dramatized from R. D. Blackmore's celebrated novel. It will be about the biggest dramatic undertaking Miss Russell has so far figured in, and will give her an opportunity to really act in a delightful serious vein, in which she is without an equal. Clay Clement, has left Nance O'Neil and company in Australia, and with his wife is expected in San Francisco by the next Australian steamer. The cause of his departure is the death of his sister, Mrs. Josephine Baker, of Chicago, who, with her brother, would have been an equal heir to the large property of her father, who is now quite an old man. A complete stock for professional men and women Fine Cotton Tights, colors black, tan, gray, flesh, cardinal and light blue, $1.35 each. Silk Plaited Tights in all colors, $2.50 each. Silk Tights in all colors, No. I, $5.25 a pair, No. 2, $5.50 a pair, No. 3, $5.75 a pair. Pure Wool Tights in all colors, $3.00 a pair. Same in second quality, #2.50 a pair. We make Silk Tights to order in any color or size desired. Send for prices. 1:29 Kearny St. San Francisco THE LARGEST Show Printing House WEST OF CHICAGO Headquarters for Agents and Managers Ruclolpb Bartb 141 POST ST. Nc&r Grant Ave. Fine Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds, Clocks, Silverware and Silver Novelties. New Goods received daily; call and see the latest designs and styles in both Jewelry and Silver Novelties. Watch and Jewelry Repairing a Specialty. X * <f * + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Printers Binders Engravers 409 Market Street SAN FRANCISCO The only ENCHILADOS ICHELIEU (AFE Market 1 Vr y Kearny