San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

IO THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW February I. 1908. NATIONAL THEATRE M^,Gzr POST AND 8TEINEB STS., SAN FRANCISCO Leading Vaudeville Theatre on the Sulllvan-Consldlne Circuit. No Act Too Good for Us. Write From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 52 Weeks. Sullivan-Considine Vaudeville Circuit BOOKING FIRST CLASS ARTISTS ONLY. PERFORMERS OP MERIT, LET'S HEAR FROM YOU. NO ACT TOO BIO. NO SALARY TOO HIGH. Sole California Representative ARCHIE LEVY, 1235 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco VARIETY THEATRES TKalia Concert Hall 514 PACIFIC STREET. SAN FBANCISCO W. S. ALLIN, Manager 70x137% feet. The largest concert hall on the Pacific Coast. A great bill of new vaudeville. Specialties, acts and comedies every week. Admission, free. New Bella Union THeatre 561 PACIFIC ST., Near Kearny, SAN FBANCISCO WALTER MARTIN, Proprietor MATT T RATERS, Manager The most beautiful and commodious Concert Hall In the West. 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BOOABDUS, VaudevlU* Editor. Orpheum Two very different styles -of shortened plays are in evidence this week, and each is an unqualified success in its wav. Hilda Spong, who is delightfully remembered since the time she appeared in Lady lluntworth's Experiment, is seen in a sketch by Cecil DeMille and Witter Bynner, entitled Kit. It is a story of the frontier, and in its short time on the stage encompasses much of the vigor and true life of its locality and the people who would naturally be found there. Miss Spong, in the name part, is great, and the support is good enough. The other sketch is one of those light comedy trifles such as we have often seen John Rice and Sally Cohen appear in, and the experienced art of the actors makes it a complete triumph. It is called All the World Loves a Lover, and needs just such people as Rice and Cohen to interpret it. Others on the programme are old favorites, and if the form of novelty is not present, yet they are nevertheless thoroughly welcome for their offerings, are wholesome and unusually interesting and amusing. Shaen and Warren repeat their success in the travesty, Quo Yadis Upside Down, and Geiger and Walters are popular in their singing sketch. In the Streets of Italy. Sydney Deane and Company repeat the unique musical conception, Christmas Day on Blackwell's Island. George Pollard, in cell No. 2, ought to be featured, for he is the real boy of the act. Adolph Zink, the Lilliputian, gives his well-known impersonations. Which are pleasing, and Baily and Austin's American Beauties, grotesque eccentrics, together with the Four Parros, athletes, with the usual fine moving pictures, complete the programme. Empire The James P. Lee comedy players again kept big houses in a roar in My Uncle from Japan, with Lee as the cause of all the trouble, and Flournoy, Ives, Daisy Bishop, Gene Hathaway, Ole Olson and the new member of the company, Xorman Phillips, as adjuncts and conspirators. The vaudeville olio has Izetta Jewel and company in Solving the Problem, a clever little comedy that runs much smoother than produced at the Wigwam. Gilday and Fox, good Hebrew comedians ; Herbert, the Frogman, with his spectacular scene and appointments, and Frances V. Grey and Zinn's charming dancing girls. Next week Lee's comedy players produce Tom's Vacation, another merry-go-round comedy, with the following vaudeville acts: Frances V. Grey and Zinn's famous dancing girls ; Colby and May, the ventriloquist and dancing doll ; Atlas Quartet, comedy sketch, The Italian Organ Grinder; Orville and Frank, acrobats, and Esco Ives. Amateur night Fridays. Wigwam The Wigwam heartlessly turned a street full of people away this week. Melbourne MacDowell and Virginia Drew Trescott appeared in The Final Lesson, a sketch of the track, a modern drama of tragic force, giving these great artists in legitimate field splen did acting opportunities. Arthur Huston's burlesque pantomime production, with special scenery, was a capturing feature; Agnes A. Miles and Chas. Rickards, a fashion-plate comedy singing act, entertained their audiences in the liveliest manner to recalls; Marion and Pearl, comedians and great acrobats ; Hickey and Nelson, in Tangled and Twisted ; Polk and Rollins, expert banjo soloists. The Dubells, singing sketch, and George Mahoney, the dialect comedian, entertained their audiences and kept the stage men very busy to get so many acts through on time. Franz Rainier's Tyrolean Warblers, fourteen in number, will be the feature attraction at the Wigwam, week of February 3. The other vaudeville acts will be: Baker and Carlisle, vocalists and musicians ; Murphy and W'illiard, comedy musical sketch ; Crawford and Meeker, those comical chaps ; Herbert Chesley and Company, historical sketch. National The National had its usual crowds outside waiting to get in for the second show, the result of another standard bill furnished by the Brothers Ve Van and dog ; Onetti Sisters ; Jacklin and Lang; Preston Kendall; Gracey and Burnett ; Mr. and Mrs. Fredericks, and Jack and Bertha Rich, a strong ensemble of acts. Next week's attractions are Ameen Abou Hamad Troupe of Arabs ; The Rosaires, singing and dancing; Jos. Woods, Surprise Party ; Hammond and Forrester, Indian drama ; Evans and Lloyd, comedy, Turning the Tables ; De Lain Trio, entertainers ; and Mine. Wanda and performing dogs. Vaudeville Notes James Post and Company's laughprovoker at the Globe next week will be The Arrival of Sullivan. Melbourne MacDowell and Virginia Drew Trescott, the headlights of vaudeville, go to San Jose next week. The Victory Theatre is still dark. There are several parties negotiating to lease the theatre. It may be reopened any day. John Considine left for Seattle on Tuesday. If there are any changes made in the S. & C. Circuit they are not given out yet. Baker and Carlisle commence a three months' booking over the Western States Vaudeville Circuit at the Empire on Monday. Inez Ragan, who joined the James P. Lee company, closed on Sunday night, without giving or receiving the usual two weeks' notice. Coney Island Park has not commenced its new roofing yet, and things are at a standstill there, waiting for more favorable weather to run an outdoor show. Edwin T. Emery, for week of February 3 at the Sixteenth Street Theatre, will produce H. D. Cottrell's comedy drama, Texas, written especally for Mr. Emery. This is a condensed version of In Arkansaw. Henry Rattenbery joins the company next week. Kolb & Dill, after a season of ordinary success, are in New York, playing The Circle Theatre, appearing in Lonesome Town. At one time it was thought Charles Dillingham would take the comedians under his wing, but after seeing them in Chicago he concluded not to sign them. Sid Grauman's pushing energy and liberal catering is telling at the Globe. The engagement of that success winner, James Post and his company, was responded to by the Mission district with large audiences. They opened in their jolly musical comedy, Coming Around the Horn. Besides there were six vaudeville acts. The Post company in a new comedy, Ferguson's four real, live performing elephants and the vaudeville acts will be the Globe's next week features. The Thalia Concert Hall on Pacific Street, between Montgomery and Kearny, under the management of the active amusement seeker, W. S. Allin, and the producer, Carless, presents a lively entertainment of burlesques and striking features. With its rival house on the opposite side of the street — Walter Martin's Bella Union — with Matt Trayers at the helm in producing burlesques and farces, with olios of songs and dances, they cater very liberally to the tenderloin in the northern part of the town and help make the block a thronged one. De Wolf Hopper will play a limited engagement at the Novelty Theatre next month. His production this season is Happyland.