San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW March 14, 1908. Sidelights The Seattle Third Avenue, which closed last Sunday for an indefinite season, has had rather a brief career as a playhouse. It was opened as such by Charlie Taylor on the night of December I, 1906, under the name of Taylor's Castle Garden. Taylor's original idea was to have an indoor hippodrome, with the first floor given over to novelties. This plan failed to get any money, and the house ran for a week or two as a home of comic opera, with the Claude Amsden troupe on the boards. The house reopened in March. 1907, with a stock company, as Holden's Third Avenue, and ran about ten days. Again it reopened in May as Taylor's Third Avenue Theatre, and all last summer, with the effective co-operation of two men to whom all sorts of credit should be given, Fred Clarke and Fred Huebner, the house made money in abundance. Mrs. Fiske played a big engagement there in June. During the fall it struck a losing streak and lately it has barely held its own. Earl Burgess, who played at the Seattle last spring, thought of taking over the house, but has changed his mind. There are numerous obligations and liens against the house, and it will take a courageous man to reopen it. — J. M. Sayre. The Thief still continues to play to standing room at every performance at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, notwithstanding the fact that the 200th presentation has already been given. The outlook is for another hundred performances before the season closes and the great play is brought direct to this city. "The testimony proves that this play, A Millionaire's Revenge, is a thin disguise of the most indecent trial that ever was held in a civilized country," sternly said Judge Howell in the First Criminal Court, Newark, last Monday night. His words ended the brief run of a so-called play picturing events in the Thaw-Stanford White tragedy. A Millionaire's Revenge, billed for a week, opened to a big audience at the Columbia Theatre the afternoon of March 9. Police Captain -M. J. Ryan watched the performance. The captain and six of his detectives in plain clothes went to the theatre with the intention of arresting the principal players before the performance. But 2,200 persons, mostly young, packed the theatre, and Ryan, lest there be a panic or a riot, let the performance go on. After the audience dispersed all the principals in the cast were arrested. The final performance of Glorious Betsy will be given by Mary Mannering next Wednesday night at the Novelty Theatre. Martha Russell. Holmes & Holmes, George Vivian, A. H. Sherwood and wife, George Morgan, James O'Reilly and Egyptian band and orchestra of nine people, playing the Slaves of the Orient and A Break for Liberty, comprise the road show now operating under the management of Pyle & Ricks. Notwithstanding there are three stock companies playing in San Diego, word reaches us from the Garrick that their business is exceptionally good. All of the road shows, writes Manager George Hunt, are playing to a better business in comparison than any other city on the Coast. James T. Powers, in The Blue Moon, and Woodland, did capacity business, and the sale for Mary Mannering indicates that it will be a record breaker. Paid in Full, Eugene Walter's new play, was produced at the Astor Theatre, New York, February 25. It scored an immediate hit, and is destined for a long run in New York. Lillian Albertson played the leading role and Ozo Waldrop, also well known in California, was in the cast. Stanley J. Castleman and P. S. Castleman have completed negotiations for the sale of their interest in the Loring Opera House Company of Riverside, comprising about threequarters of the stock, to C. L. Nye of that city. The consideration is in the neighborhood of $65,000. 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