San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

April ii. 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 April 13, 190S: NATIONAL, San Francisco — Hendrie, Miles & Co., The Sidonias, Vera De Bassini, Lottie Meaney & Co., Hayes and Suits, Grace Tempest Trio, Travele. Black and Miller. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Four Brown Bros, and Doc Healey, Gilroy, Haines and Montgomery, Stadium Trio. PEOPLE'S, San Francisco— The Chapmans. VICTORY, San Francisco — O'Dell and Whiting. BELL, Oakland — Gilday and Fox, May Rirdelle and Her Village Cutups, Armstrong and Levering, Eddie Powers, Rose and Severns. NOVELTY, Stockton — Carlisle's dogs and ponies, Alva York, Danny Mann & Co., The Two Dots. NOVELTY, Vallejo — Howe and Edwards, Manning Twin Sisters, Rinaldo, Mme. Wanda. ACME, Sacramento — Maude Sutton & Co., Young Buffalo U. Co., Brookes and Jeannette, Davies, Lee and Lalkins, O'Neill's College Boys, Richy Craig. Bookings of the Western States Vaudeville Association, San Francisco, for week of April 13. 1908: EMPIRE, San Francisco — Maude Rockwell, Bimm, Bomm, Brrr, Black and Miller, Boston Comedy Four, James P. Lee and the Lee Comedy Players. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Gilroy, Haines and Montgomery, The Four Brown Brothers and Doc Healy, A-i ; Stadium Trio, Mel Furst, Beardsley Sisters, Wise and Milton, Bert Wiggin. EMPIRE, San Jose — James Post & Co., Morrow, Shellburg & Co., Eugene DuBell. GRAND, Sacramento — Morrison & Co., J. Frances Dooley & Co., Ray and Broesch, Valveno Brothers, May Evans, Jack Symonds. EMPIRE, Bakersfield — Byron and Blanche ; Zimmer, juggler. EMPIRE, Los Angeles— Mr. and Mrs. Mark Monroe, Jack Lyle. PEOPLE'S, San Francisco— Andy Adams, Lora Lorraine, Clarke & Cq , James Black. NORTHWEST — Golden Gate Quintette, Winifred Stewart, Waldron Brothers, O'Brien Troupe. GRAND, Reno— Bothwell Browne & Co., The Wheelers. Vaudeville Notes Louis Imhaus and Elizabeth Vigoureux are in town, and will embark in vaudeville with their sketch, R-U-i ? — a surer winner. Travele, the shadowgraphist, has returned from several years' good illusion work in the East, and will open at tbe National on Monday night. The vaudeville performer is everywhere. A full vaudeville performance, given by the crew of the battleship Minnesota, April 2, was the first social function of the season at Magdalena. The show was attended by nearly a thousand officers and men of the fleet. King Neptune, wearing gaudy robes and crown, presided. The show had good monologues, quartets, first part and acts. Our Maud Rockwell, "The California Nightingale," is back again, singing for her second* week at the Wigwam with her remarkably full, carrying voice, sweeter and stronger than ever, the result of cultivation and her singing for three seasons as vocal band soloist in the open air or in the largest auditoriums in the East. Since her departure Miss Rockwell sang as soloist in the Chicago Band engage ments in the Chicago Coliseum and elsewhere for the season of 1905. next year in Brooks' in Casino, and last season as soloist with the White City Band in the same city and their tours in the larger cities in the East. Miss Rockwell had an offer for an engagement from Pat Conway as solo vocalist in his band, rated next to Sousa's in New York, for this season, but refused it, as she wished to visit her mother in her new California home. After touring the Western States Vaudeville Circuit in two weeks' featured stands. Miss Rockwell in the fall will open in a company production here before going East. She is negotiating with an Eastern managerial firm to star in a musical comedy next season, and we shall see her at the head of a big production in that line when it comes to the Coast. Seattle Vaudeville This week the Coliseum offers The Laughing Horse, a circus travesty, put on by five clever people. The other acts are Mrs. I'eter Maher, the Irish nightingale ; the three musical Bell boys; Mark M. Fuller, monologist ; the Eugene Trio of comedy triple bar artists, and Lisle Leigh and company in a comedy act. Kid Glove Nan. The Pantages management offers Franz Rainer's fourteen original Tyroleans, Alpine singers and dancers, in their picturesque operetta, A Wedding in the Alps ; Crawford and Meeker, "those comical chaps" ; Blanche Sloan, aerial artiste and trapeze gymnast ; Daly and O'Brien, originators of the funny "tanglefoot" dancing, and Win. A. Spera and company in Jockey Jones' Finish. Variety Items There will be a flurry on Pacific Street tonight when the new Midway Concert Hall, junction of Montgomery Avenue, Kearny and Pacific Streets, opens. The building is of fireproof brick, three stories, and has a store frontage of 137^2 feet on Pacific Street and on Montgomery Avenue, and a junction frontage of 25 feet on Kearny Street. The Midway will occupy its entire basement, and has 1,000 seating capacity, with room for three bars and cafe and two entrances. It is the largest concert hall in San Francisco, and will cater liberally for the amusement of the northsiders and those who wend their way thither. The Midway Amusement Company will conduct the new show enterprise, with Will H. Malan's Musical Comedy Company of twenty-five people as the principal attraction in one of his spectacular productions, popularized and localized. Mr. Malan will manage the stage department, and has secured a full company of comedians and specialists and an orchestra of ten pieces. A good vaudeville company will appear in addition. It will be like an opening of the opera season on Pacific Street tonight. The Bella Union Concert Hall, adjacent on Pacific Street, which has led the concert business, will put in extra attractions with its comedians, Matt Trayers, John Burns, Dick Mack and Win. Morton, in farces, and its staff of lady singers and specialists augmented, in their best turns. The Thalia has changed hands. Mike Reilly from Seattle bas taken it, torn out its acting stage, and put in a first entrance regular shell concert one 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. Oil, well, if you have the goods it's easy. — that's the reason I GET ALL THE GOOD TIME— A. M. ZINN. Maude Rockwell THE CALIFORNIA NIGHTINGALE Making a Home Tour on the Western States Vaudeville Circuit. The Delaur Opera Trio From the leading theatres and music halls of Europe and America. Address NATIONAL THEATRE, San Francisco. Bilyck's Educated Sea Lions The Most Sensational Animal Act in Vaudeville Touring the Western States Vaudeville Circuit Ed. B. and Rolla White THE REAL COMEDY BOXING ACT The act that everybody talks about and brings money to the box-office. van-Considine Circuit. Ask Archie Levy. Sulli 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. in place. So there will he no more burlesques at the big Thalia, but plenty of music, singing and dancing. Max Steinle, who is now in his tenth week as the feature of the production at the Columbia Theatre in Oakland, has been unusually successful in meeting with approval in his home town. Mr. Steinle is a comedian of undoubted talent and has the ability to make friends. He will head his own company again this season, starting out in August. In the Defiance of Doris, which Herbert Bashford has recently written, this splendid writer has a valuable property. For the second time the play was given a production in San Jose recently and scored heavily. Individual hits were made by Charley Gunn and Harry Leighton in the two strong dramatic parts of the play. W. W. Craig was very funny as the Swede sheriff, and Lee Morris found the part of the Nevada sheriff much to his liking and made the audience laugh immoderately. The women of the cast were not so successful as the men and hardly lived up to the opportunities provided them by the author. Henry Pollard, leading man of the I larries-Storm company in Vallejo, was shot under such mysterious circumstances -Sunday night that the police arrested and detained his wife, Zena, at the Seventeenth Street station. Pollard was in apartments with his wife at 2623 Mission Street, when tenants heard a number of revolver shots. When they entered the apartments Pollard was lying on the floor with one bullet in his right arm and another in the right breast. He was removed to the McNutt Hospital, where it was said that he was not fatally injured. Pollard's wife said 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 Review BERTRAM LA BLANC Comedian Grand Theatre. Reno, Nev. IT S JUST OUTI Madison's Budget No. II I pledge my well-earned reputation as a vaudeville author that MADISON'S NEW BUDGET, No. 11, is by far the best book of stage comedy I have ever written. The parodies are funnier, the monologues have quicker points, and the sketches more laughs to the minute than any previous issue. I don't care whether you are a headliner earning $500 per week, or an ambitious performer Just entering the profession, a copy of MADISON'S BUDGET, No. 11, is Just like handing you $2,000 WORTH of crackerJack comedy material and telling you to make a hit with It. 100 pages; price remains as always — ONE DOLLAR PER COPY. For sale in San Francisco by L. PARENT, 818 Van Ness Ave.; GOLDSTEIN & CO., 821 Van Ness Ave., or direct of the Publisher, JAMES MADISON, 1404 Third Ave., New York. that he was practicing a stage trick by twirling a 38-caliber revolver, when it was accidentally discharged twice and wounded him. The police, however, found another bullet embedded in the ceiling of the room and the five chambers of the revolver emptied. Pollard corroborated his wife's story, but the police were not satisfied with it and Mrs. Pollard was detained.