San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

April 4. 190S. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 r Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine, San Francisco Office, through Archie Levy, their sole booking agent, for week of April -6, 1908: NATIONAL, San Francisco— Gilday and Fox. .May Rirdelle and Her Village Cut-Ups, Armstrong and Levering, Eddie Powers, Rose and Severns, • Rinaldo. Catalino and L'rava. VICTORY. San Francisco — Mme. Wanda and dogs, Lucille Tilton, Walter Levina. Mr. and Mrs. Rnssel Kidder. BELL, Oakland— Carlisle's dogs and ponies. Stadium Trio, Manning Twin Sisters, Two Dots, Howe and Edwards. Alva York. ACME, Sacramento — Hendrie, Miles & Co.. The Sidonias. Vera De Bassini, Lottie Meaney & Co.. Hayes and Suits, Grace Tempest Trio. NOVELTY. Stockton — Four Brown Bros, and Doc Hely, The Tiottes. De Witt Young and Sister, Gilrov, Haines and Montgomery. X'OYELTY, Yallejo— F.d and Rolla W hite. Haydon and Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Danny Mann. Gray and Graham. Bookings of the Western States Vaudeville Association. San Francisco, for week of April 6. 1908: EMPIRE. San Francisco — Lorraine Buchanan & Co., Jack Symonds, The La Vail Brothers, Beardsley Sisters, James P. Lee and the Lee Comedy Players : Esco Ives, illustrated songs. WlGWAM, San Francisco — DeLau Trio, grand opera stars; J. Frances Dooley & Co., May Evans, •Ray and Brocee. Yalveno Brothers, Maud Rockwell. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Emmett. PEOPLE'S, San Francisco— James Heath, Claude Ellsmere, Amphere. EMPIRE, San Jose — James F. Post & Co., The Famous Buty Korus. Black and Miller, Zimmer, juggler: Eugene DuBell. GRAND. Sacramento — Nelsson's Flying Ballet. Boston Comedy Four, Willie Zimmerman. Morrow, Shellburg & Co., Charles Howison. EMPIRE, Bakersfield — lack Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Monroe. EMPIRE, Los Angeles— Gracie and Reynolds, Ola Hayden. GRAND, Reno— Bothwell Browne & Co., Carmen Sisters. NORTHWEST— Carter, Waters & Co., Gehan and Spencer, Blanche Sloan, A.xtell and Heinie, Rose Busch, Paulie and Healev. Seattle Vaudeville Coliseum. — Eight new acts are seen this week at the Coliseum Theatre. They are : Porter J. White and company, in The Visitor ; the Yscott Eddy Trio of comedy pantomimists ; the Bennetts, in a novel musical act ; the Alpha Trio of hoop jugglers ; Mile. Rialta, in the unique conception, The Artist's Dream ; Eddie Roesch with a song; the biograph, with a fine French film of motion pictures, and Clara Thropp, the well-known musical comedy star. Pantages. — The new show which opened at Pantages' Monday afternoon is composed of many new and novel features. Bilyck's performing sea lions might be mentioned first. William A. Spera and company present Corrigan's sketch, Jockey Jones' Finish. Dierickx Bros, are three strong men, in feats of heavyweight lifting, juggling and acrobating. Lloyd and Whitehouse, singing comedians. Frank Clark is refined monologuist, and Lambert and Pierce, singers and comedians are all good. Star. — Starting Monday, Lopez and Lopez, the Spanish instrumentalists ; Bell and Washburn, the musical come dians ; Conners and Aldert. the fancy dancers and comedians ; Denton Vane' & Co., in An Eye-Opener ; Harry Holmah, black-face comedian ; the Walton trio of baritone singers; Rov McP>rain, with a ballad. Star Closes Next Week. — Manager John W. Considine decided last night to close the Star Theatre for repairs for the week beginning April 6th and ending April 1 2th, inclusive. After extensive improvements, the Star will reopen on Monday. April 13th, with the same big show which has for several months past been exhibited at the Coliseum, consisting of six leading European and Eastern acts and the song and pictures. These acts will come each week to the Star, direct from the East, and will not be again seen in this city. Their single week at the Star will be their first and last engagement in Seattle. The acts to be shown will be the biggest and most expensive ever sent here by Sullivan & Considine. Vaudeville Notes The Orpheum Theatre, Seattle, it is now definitely announced, will close its doors forever on the night of April 5th. Manager Curtis of the Empire will institute a series of special features for Thursday matinees. This week commenced the policy with a souvenir one. On Thursday of next week will be a Mothers' Matinee, during which a prize baby show will come off with souvenir prizes to be awarded by the judges. Manager John W. Considine is in the city -and will make a short business trip to Los Angeles. While in the South he will in all probability engage a musical comedy company to play at popular prices at the Coliseum Theatre in Seattle, during the intermission between the transfer of the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville to the Star Theatre and the opening of the Orpheum Circuit vaudeville in the Coliseum next August. The closing of the Globe on Sunday night, and the report current in the forepart of the week that Archie Levy and Ned Homan would open it under the Sullivan & Considine banner, as a ten-cent vaudeville house, has been since denied. This leaves the big Globe in the market for the summer. It will play the Stair & Havlin attractions, commencing in September, is another rumor that bears some evidence of truth. "Owing to an accident, Mrs. Florenz will not appear tonight," was the announcement made by Manager Timmons of the stage of the Pantages Theatre, in Tacoma, Wash., last Monday night. The next day it was learned that the "accident" proved to have been most peculiar, indeed. Friday afternoon and at the first night performance Mrs. Florenz appeared as usual and did her stunt as the pedestal in the famous acrobatic feat in which the five members of the Florenz family play. At 9 o'clock Friday night, after the first performance, Mrs. Florenz went to her apartments in the Bostwick hotel and at 2 o'clock Saturday morning became the proud mother of a bouncing baby girl. Mother and babe are doing nicely. The company will cancel its dates for two weeks. Carless has the stage again at the Thalia and his second revival of Cleopatra, with five musical numbers, eight speaking parts and ballet and chorus is up for a run at the Thalia. Zinn's Musical Comedy Co. and Famous Dancing Girls The one they all try to follow) Salt Lake City, first week, packed. Second week. same. Manager Grant delighted. So am I. Oh, well, if vou have the goods it's easy — that's the reason I C.KT AM, THK COOl) TIME— A. M. ZINN. THAT'S THE ACT. 16 MINUTES IN ONE Fred n. Tracy 6c Carter Maud M Now at the Globe Theatre Return After Eastern Triumphs. Fred Gray & Graham Nellie MUSICAL BELLBOY AND MILITARY MAID ORIGINAL Scotch Finish. Funny Make-Up. Largest Saxophone in the World. Other Novelties That Have Been Stolen. Bilyck's Educated Sea Lions The Most Sensational Animal Act In Vaudeville Touring the Western States Vaudeville Circuit Ed. B. and Rolla White THE BEAD COMEDY BOXING ACT The act that everybody talks about and brings money to the box-office. Sulilvan-Considine Circuit. Ask Archie Levy. Nilsson's "Papillons Lumineuse THE ORIGINAL FLYING BALLET Back again to the Pacific Coast after an absence of ten years, having completed the second tour around the globe. CARL NiLSSON, Manager. The Wigwam To Be a Sullivan 6c Considine House The Wigwam will play bills made up entirely of Sullivan & Considine attractions, 'commencing on and after April 20th. This is an important change in the business of our local vaudeville theatres. The Wigwam, under Samuel Harris' able management has a controlling hold upon the family patronage of the popular and widely extended Mission district, and he will, after the 20th inst., hold exclusive franchise for the Sullivan ik Considine attractions for the Mission district. Archie Levy, the S. & C. agent, will book all independent attractions for the Wigwam, as well as those for the People's Theatre, the new ten-cent vaudeville house in the same block, owned by the proprietors of the Wigwam. The deal was made personally between Mr. Harris and Mr. Considine, and is of a clinching order. One of its terms is that Archie Levy cannot book an act in the Mission district without the consent of Manager Harris. That shuts Levy out of doing business for the Mission Theatre, the Globe, and the Sixteenth Street Theatre. Manager Harris, in making the new deal, did so solely for business purposes, owing to conditions that recently sprung up. In disconnecting his theatre from the Western States Vaudeville Association bookings he does so on friendly terms, and speaks in the highest praise of the integrity and honorable business qualities of the gentlemen forming that firm — of which he is still a stockholder. HARRY SPEARS Stage Manager of Empire Theatre, S. F.; Builder of the Stages of the Mission, S. F. ; Novelty, Oakland, and Novelties In Fresno and Los Angeles. LIZZIE SULLIVAN Character Woman Address Bella Union Theatre FRED WOLFF Manager Seattle Concert Hall San Francisco PHIL TRAU Teacher of All Latest Stage Dancing Address Dramatic Beview BERTRAM LA BLANC Grand Thoatn Comedian Reno, New A Theatrical Guide A book called Henry's Official Western Theatrical Guide has just come from the press. It contains a vast fund of information which should be of great value to hundreds of men who are connected with all branches of stage business — drama, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, circus and moving pictures. This work was compiled by William R. Dailey, the well known theatrical man, who is at present the manager of the Grand Theatre in this city. The book gives the names of cities and towns ; tells how they may be reached by stage, railroad or boat ; names the theatres and halls, with their seating capacity, and tells all about hotels. The book is attractively illustrated with portraits of players. — Sacramento Bee. The Mack Swain stock opens in Santa Cruz on April 20. Francis Wilson will bring his newest success, When Knights Were Bold, to the Van Ness Theatre next month. It will be the first visit of the star to this city in over a dozen years.