San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

January 25, 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 1 Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine. San Francisco Office, through Archie Levy, their sole booking agent, for week of Januarv 27, 1908: NATIONAL, San Francisco — Bros. Ve Va n and Dog; Onetti Sisters; Jacklin and Lang; Preston Kendall; Gracey and Brunett ; Mr. and Mrs. Frederiks ; Christian and Johnson; Morrel and Manning. SIXTEENTH STREET. San Francisco — Dierickz Bros.; Flora Browning; Mack and Dugal ; Carl Herhert. GLOBE, San Francisco — Mine. Wanda ; La Vails ; Chevriel. BELL, Oakland — Tom and Edith Almond ; Bush and Elliot ; Musical Bells ; Walter McCullough; Madge Maitland; Great Pescatel. UNIQUE, San Jose — Filipino Sextette; Mr. and Mrs. George Morrel ; Sa Van and Hill ; La Belle Estellita and Garcia ; Booth and Gordron ; Harry Boyd. ACME, Sacramento — Ameer Abou Hamad Troupe ; The Rosaires ; Joe Woods's Surprise Party ; Hammond and Forrester ; Evans and Lloyd. NOVELTY, Vallejo— Murphy, Whitman and Company; Kaufman Bros. NOVELTY, Stockton— Rosa Naynon and Birds ; Felix Adler ; American Trio. PEOPLE'S, Los AngelesSam Goldman ; Lawrence and Harvey ; Howard and De Leon ; The Alarcons ; Harry Crandall and Company. Bookings of the Western States Vaudeville Association, San Francisco, for week of January 27, 1908: EMPIRE, San Francisco — Izetta Jewel and Company ; Gilday and Fox ; Herbert, the frog man ; James P. Lee and the Lee Comedy Players ; Frances V. Grey and Zinn's Dancing Girls. WIGWAM. San Francisco— Melbourn MacDowell and Virginia Drew Trescott ; Arthur Huston; Hickey and Nelson ; Polk and Kollins ; Marion and Pearl ; The Du Bells ; Miles and Richards. NOVELTY, OaklandColby and May; Harry Jolson ; Orville and Frank ; Demonio and Belle ; Sampson and Douglass. EMPIRE, San Jose — Delphino and Delmora ; Atlas Comedy Four; Crawford and Meeker ; Will T. Newlan ; Luttinger, Lucas and Company ; Robert La Verne. GRAND, Sacramento — Mrs. Tom Thumb; Count and Baron Magri ; Honolulu Glee Club ; Bothwell Browne and Company ; Gus Leonard. EMPIRE, Bakersfield— Hawley and Randall ; McGreevy and Brown. EMPIRE, Los Angeles— Gomas Payne; Vera Burgess; Banks Stock Company. GRAND, Rena — Allen, Delmain and Allen ; Donat Bedini and Dogs ; Marco ; Polk, and Martelle. FARRAGUT,. Vallejo — McGloin and Shelly ; Elona Leonard. NORTHWEST — Three Kuhns ; Florenz Troupe ; Claude M. Roode; George B. Alexander; Philbrooks and Reynolds. James F. Post and Company After an engagement of eleven weeks at the Grand in Sacramento, James F. Post and his comedy company, beauty chorus and all, return to this city. They open as the stock stars in the new vaudeville season at the Globe, commencing Monday. It will be the first engagement of this popular comedian in the Mission district. Imagine the welcome that awaits him. Orpheum of £1 Paso Will Have Stock The Orpheum Theatre of El Paso will open in stock on the 15th of February. A little later, the Orpheum's Grand Opera House in Los Angeles will open its regular stock season. Vaudeville Notes The editors of our papers Are filled with bug-house vapors, And have entirely gone daft On Schmitz. Reuf and graft. And lawyers' legal capers. George Clancy and Mazie Oliver have been made flattering inducements to play Mr. Clancy's sketch. Frivolous Sal, over the Western States Vaudeville Circuit. The Stewart Opera Company has started out again. Ilattie Fox, Anna Lichter and Arthur Wooley are members of the company, and they are doing all the old Gilbert and Sullivan stuff. " Fridays will be amateur nights at the Empire after this. They are always enjoyable when well directed. As Mr. Al Flournoy has charge of the stage, there will be no fear on that score. The Pacific Street concert halls, the New Bella Union and the Thalia, are running along prosperously in the even tenor of their way, presenting lively performances, with plenty of songs and fun. The Victory Theatre closed suddenly on Sunday night and has been dark since. There are rumors that Fischer, the Los Angeles manager, is negotiating for the house, and that it will reopen anon in its own vaudeville line, as of old. Julius Levy, father of Archie Levy, the booking agent, died in this city on the 2 1 st inst. at the age of 75 years. Mr. Levy had been a resident of San Francisco for near 50 years, and his funeral, on Thursday, was attended by a large circle of friends and many professional people. Coney Island Park was damaged by bad weather and rain, so it closed on Sunday night to have a permanent pressed steel plate roof in place of a canvas one as a covering and open again when the changes contemplated are made. The concessions are all roofed in and will remain. Polk and Kollins, the expert banjo soloists at the Empire, are reminders of Dodson to the younger portion of their audiences and to the grayheads of Charley Rhoadcs, who set John Woodward's Days of '49 to banjo music and his old song. The Engine That's Housed on the HillPennsylvania, Number 6, in the days of the long ago. Edwin T. Emery opens at the Sixteenth Street Theatre next Monday for a season of abbreviated drama, opening in A Fool and His Money. In the company will be Alice Du Vay, William Marion, William Lambert, H. Johnson, Evan Baldwin, J. Morrell and Juliette Chandler. Vaudeville will continue to be played for the other half of the show. James Lee, father of James P. Lee, the comedian playing with his company at the Empire Theatre, died in Jersey City on January 15 from paralysis at the age of 76 years. Mr. Lee received a dispatch announcing his father's sudden death just as he THE LAUGH PRODUCERS The James P. Lee Comedy Players Al O. Flournoy, Manager Featuring That Comedian, James P. Lee, Supported by MISS OLE OLSON MISS INEZ RAO AIT BOYD C. COBB BSCO IVBS MISS MABIB BABBIBB KISS DAIST BISHOP MISS JEAN HATHA WAT — and — AL. G. FLOURNOY Now Enjoying a Successful Run at Empire Theatre, San Francisco, Cal. Colby & May Presenting their Novel Entertainment, entitled THB VENTRILOQUIST AND THB DANCING DOLL Touring the Western States Vaudeville Circuit al Lutt ringer-Liiiian Lucas Co. In their Frontier Sketch A THING OP THE PAST By H. D. Cottrell Steele & McMasters COMIC AND ACROBATIC SKATERS Introducing their New See-Saw Act. First tour on the Pacific Coast Howard & De Leon EUROPEAN PYRAMID EQUILIBRISTS Touring the Sullivan & Considine Circuit Melbourne Virginia Drew McDowell and Trescott Touring Pacific Coast in Vaudeville Care of Dramatic Review James F. Post AND HIS COMEDY COMPANY Specially Engaged as Stock Stars at Globe Theatre. San Francisco, for New Season, Commencing Monday, January L'7. 1908 Zinn's Musical Comedy Co. (Repertoire Stock) Will Reorganize about March 1st. Address, A. M. 5CINN, Manager. Care of Empire Theatre. San Francisco ZIN.VS Famous Dancing Girls, with Prances V. Grey — Now in Eighth Week Vaudeville Stock, Empire Theatre. San Francisco. Delphina & Delmora EUROPEAN MUSICAL COMEDY ARTISTS With the Western States Vaudeville Circuit. Ellis' Honolulu Glee Club DIRECT FROM HONOLULU Wigwam Theatre. First Appearances In America. Touring Western States Vaudeville Circuit. SAM'L HARRIS, of the Wigwam, Manager. POLK ft KOLLINS BANJOISTS Western States Vaudeville Circuit was going on the stage, and it required all his fortitude to overcome the shock to his feelings. The Orpheum Road Show comes to the Victory Theatre next Saturday night. PHIL TRAU Teacher of All Latest Stage Dancing Address Dramatic Review FRED WOLFF Manager Seattle Concert Hall San Francisco HARRY SPEARS Stage Manager of Empire Theatre, S. F. Builder of the Stages of the Mission, 8. F. ; Novelty, Oakland, and Novelties in Fresno and Los Angeles. LIZZIE SULLIVAN Character Woman Address Bella Union Theatre