San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

IO THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW May 2. 1908. Vaudeville J. P. BOOARDUS. ▼and«Tin* Editor. Orpheum To the judicial mind it would be extremely difficult to award first merit to any one act — all seem to be extremely good and selected with a result of appealing to all. The bill opens with Cole and Rags, who are good jugglers and more than average comedians, especially the tramp. Marie Florence, billed as the "American Sembrich," exhibits a well-cultivated voice of considerable register and power, but of no especial sweetness. The house went into enthusiastic applause over her singing. Avery and Hart are clever coon singers and dancers. Flo Irwin, Jacques Kruger, Roland Carter, May Taylor and Ben Roth contribute about twenty minutes of hilarity with one of George Ade's sketches, Mrs. Peckham's Carouse. Miss Irwin is very artistic and is fitted to a nicety with the character of the woman temperance reformer. The Tianks-Breazette Duo present some ordinary music effectively. They' are girls of pleasing personality and win out largely on this score. Agnes Mahr, the toe dancer, is a good dancer, but this kind of entertainment does Jiot appeal particularly to American audiences. She is assisted by a slender young miss, who calls herself Flora Dora. Cliff Gordon, one of the funniest German monologists on the stage, and probably the most artistic, convulses his audience with a lot of talk. It's just talk, but supremely funny stuff. Rosaire and Doreto have a good acrobatic comedy act. entitled The Captain and the Sailor. Motion pictures conclude a supremely satisfying collection of acts. scene of the fleet of war ships in the background. Post's return will be welcomed by thousands of the Empire's patrons. Next week's vaudeville features will be the famed Adgie and her lions ; Torcat and D'Eliza. French eccentriques, and their educated roosters ; Ola Hayden, the noted female baritone ; Bert Lennon and his clever impersonations ; Esco Ives, the most popular »of illustrated singers; the moving pictures, the prize baby matinee on Thursday and amateur night Friday. The James P. Lee Comedy Players are making their farewell appearance this week in His Rich Uncle, and closing a six months' season here, to disband after Sunday night. The vaudeville olio has three strong features, the Florenz Troupe of four superior acrobats ; Lois Fuert and Muriel Window, gifted vocalists; Wise and Milton Duo, comedy singers and best of Indian character impersonators. Esco Ives, always good, and Bert Wiggin, joker and juggler, round out the bill. National Sid Grauman is getting up a National program for the entertainment of the thousands that will visit San Francisco by sea and land next week. It has the Doria Grand Opera Trio, and comedies, acts and specialties by O'Dell and Kinley, Cantor and Curtis, Le Fevre and St. John, Leonard and Ward, Mile. Rialto and others. Up to Monday the bill will be Walter Perkins and company in The Man from Macy's; Katherine Nugent, songs and specialties; Golden and Hughes, blackface diversions; Gardner and Maddern, sketch ; Trolley Car Trio, firstclass fun; Belle and Washburn, Tohnnie and the Chorus Girl, and Uncle Sam's Trio, a verity, three strong, fine singers from Troop F, Fourteenth Cavalry, stationed at the Presidio, singing in army fatigue dress. Empire James Post, May Ashley and entire company and his Beauty Chorus and Ballet commence a return engagement at the Empire on Monday night in Coming Round the Horn, a nautical comedy spectacle, showing the fleet of war ships in a miniature battle, a special feature of which will be Joe Hayden, the man who wrote the world-famed army battle song, There Will Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, singing his new fleet song, Coming Round the Horn, with a spectacular Wigwam Manager Harris has secured Robert Fitzsimmons, the fighting exchampion from the land of the kangaroo, as a vaudeville feature in a sketch called A Fight for Love, for fleet week at the Wigwam. Bob and his wife, formerly May Gifford, the actress, are both in the act, and as a special feature he gives his famed exhibition of bag punching. He heads a bill consisting of Young Buffalo and company, novelty shooting act ; Davies, Lee and Lalkins, the Ballet Girls; O'Neill's College Boys; Richy Craig, musical comedian; Brooks and Jeannette, comedy, talking and singing. A succession of clever acts are giving this week by the Sidonias, a great fun act ; Vera de Bassini, grand opera prima donna ; Grace Tempest and company, hits in refined singing and dancing act; Hendrie, Miles and company in frontier drama; The Bowery Bud by Lottie Meaney and company ; Hayes and Suits, singing and dancing act, and Eddie Powers, monologisms. People's The People's Theatre, the 5 and 10-cent vaudeville brick theatre on Mission Street, near Twenty-first, had Chas. Hawison," whistler and bird imitator; Phoenic Edwards, Edwards, illustrated songs; Beatrice §mith. novel act; Carl Herbert, the man of mystery, and full houses. The new bill for tonight and the week will be given by Mendell, the German comedian, and company; Lillian Bower, comedienne; Harry de Laine, character assumptions; the Seymour Twins, acrobats, and the best of moving pictures. The People's is popular as a family theatre. Vaudeville Notes Robert Fitzsimmons, the ex-champion, and his talented actress wife, are the big cards at the Wigwam for Fleet week. The New York, the new one-floor vaudeville house that opens tonight THeatrical TigHts ALL, COLORS, WEIGHTS AND QUALITIES — Cotton. ~T5c to J1.50; {2.50 to {3.50; Lisle or SUkoline. {3.00 to {4.50; Silk. {5.00 to {12.50. BEST LINE MADE IN THE i Calf, {5.00; Calf and Thigh, Calf, Thigh and Hip. {12.50. SYMMETRICAL^ Wool, U. S. {10.00; We also Make Padded Shirts. SWEATERS, JERSEYS, GYM, ATHLETIC and BATH SUITS, SUPPORTERS, ACROBATIC SHOES, GOOD UNDERWEAR Knit to Fit in All Materials. We operate our own mills, carry a large stock and make goods to measure at reasonable prices. We suit the professional as if he were buying in Europe Write us for prices and samples. Cor. VAN NESS AVE, AND CALIFORNIA ST., S. F. WesternStatesVaudevilleAss'n. Formerly Empire Circuit, Wigwam Circuit, Weston at Burns, Novelty Circuit, Pantages' Circuit, Adams' Circuit. THIS CIRCUIT PLAYS OR PATS. ALL TIME CONTRACTED FOR WE CONTROL THE EXCLUSIVE BOOKING OF 35 HOUSES. WRITE OR WIRE. Home Offices EMPIRE THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Phone West 7140— Corner Sutter and Steiner New York Office1440 BROADWAY, LOUIS PINCUS, Representative NATIONAL THEATRE M^°rr POST AND STEINER STS., SAN FRANCISCO Leading Vaudeville Theatre on the Sullivan-Considine 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 BIG. NO SALARY TOO HIGH. Sole California Representative ARCHIE LEVY, 1235 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco DO YOU WANT TO PLAY THE People's See HARRIS or BURNS Care of EMPIRE THEATRE, San Francisco Midway Concert Hall CORNER MONTGOMERY AVE., KEARNY AND PACIFIC STS. A. DBS LAURIER, Manager The Largest, Handsomest and Most Modern Concert Hall In the West. Three Bars and Cafes, also Ball and Reception Rooms. Dancing Every Night. Heade i WILL H. MALAN MUSICAL COMEDY CO. of Twenty People ADMISSION FREE on Pacific Street, near Montgomery Street, is built entirely of brick, with white glazed brick frontage. The lot is 50 by 137-6 feet, level with the sidewalk, and the entire walls of theatre were erected in ten days. Forty bricklayers did it, and it is the quickest kind of building work ever done in that portion of the city. W. H. Weber, its manager, will present lively musical comedies, with chorus and ballets, acts, specialties, etc., for the bill. The new Midway on Pacific Street, junction of Kearny and Montgomery Avenue, gets out a triple bill for the Fleet week. It consist of the nautical and musical comedy of Pinafore, the Oriental burlesque of The Turkish Harem, and the Adventures of the Shipwrecked Sailors, with three sets of scenery and three lines of costumes, Turkish, Mexican and sailor, for the chorus and ballet girls. Maj. G. H. McGuire, in his famed feats with the sword, is an added specialty. The Midway, with its big company, has jumped into popularity by the able management of A. De Laurier, assisted by Ben Ferguson, his assistant and advertising agent, and the clever work of Amusement Director Will H. Malan, in his selection of the company and the efficient manner in which he stages his comedy and burlesque productions. Wise and Milton, the well-known vaudeville team, after three years absence, are touring the Coast again on the Western States Vaudeville Circuit. Their act is new in songs, talks and jokes and closes with a study in Indian character impersonations. Little do the public know how like the real Indian dancing and singing it is. Mrs. Wise is seven-eighths Sioux Indian by descent. Three years ago the Wises visited her kin for a month in the Flathead Reservation in Montana, and while there they made a study of Indian war festival dances, and their representations on the stage, the chief's oratorical ways, the mincing steps in dancing, the turns and movements of the body are exact realisms of the Indian manner .of doing them. The Wises played their act for seventeen nionths on the Keith & Proctor and Percy Williams circuits, up to March, this year. 1