San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW July 18. 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO Dramatic Review Music and Drama CHAS. H. TAESELL, Publisher Issued Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to San P r a n c i sco S r a m a t ic Review, 287 T h 1 rteenth Street; reached by Mission Street cars. T e 1 e p hone Market 2114 Entered at San Francisco as Second-class Mail Matter. Established 1880. Edna Ellsmere The handsome and fascinating leading woman of the Central Theatre Stock, who with Herschell Mayall is playing a special starring engagement there for the summer, is one of the most versatile actresses on our stage. There is hardly a part that she can not score heavily in. One feature of her work that places her services so much in demand is the exquisite quality of her voice and the ease with which she uses it, getting a maximum of effect with a minimum of effort. If Miss Ellsmere had not decided to stick to the dramatic stage, she could have been a musical comedy prima donna of the first class. While possessed of superior ability in emotional work, she has an uncommon aptitude for the lighter forms of theatricals, and her singing voice, which is far ahead of the average that have won success in the musical field, would have won her a distinguished position in light opera or musical comedy. Miss Ellsmere is now in receipt of offers from Detroit and Winnipeg to head the stock companies in those cities next season. Another offer may keep her in San Francisco. Charles Frohman Has Great European Plans London, July 10. — Charles Frohman, having made a ten-strike with Peter Pan in Paris, is devoting the last few days of his sojourn on this side of the Atlantic to making arrangements, in his own words, "to give performances of many English and American plays in their original language and with the original casts in France, Germany, Austria and other countries. Then each play, if it turns out to be sufficiently successful, will be translated into the local tongue and sent on tour. This will give each nation the opportunity of seeing what I call the real Anglo-Saxon article, both in plays and players. it will also largely increase the fees for authors, and will certainly give the players chances for acquiring new throbs." Besides arranging for a French version of Peter Pan, to be taken through "the French provinces and thence to Vienna, Mr. Frohman has commissioned Alfred Athis to prepare an adaptation of The Admirable Crichton for the French stage. M. G. A. De Caillavet, the French author, will adapt The Merry Widow for Paris, where, owing to legal complications, Franz Lehars opera has not yet been seen. His first London production next season will be Paid in Full, which will be given at the Aldwych Theatre in the first week of August under the superintendence of the author, Eugene Walter. After that will come the new Iiarrie play dealing with modern English and Scotch life. The leading part will be taken by Gerald du Maurier. Margaret Anglin is to remain in Australia until Christmas. She will then come direct to London before returning to America. Mr. Frohman has completed arrangements for so many plays for England and America that the task of committing all their titles and authors to memory is too much for him. The list of authors includes such names as Henry Arthur Jones, Hubert Henry Davies, Jerome K. Jerome, Michael Morton, Henri liernstein, Clyde Fitch, lladdon Chambers, Captain Marshall, Cicely 1 lamilton and Somerset Maugham. AN ALL-BRITISH CAST. 1 [aving fixed up with I rertie Millar, James Blakeley, George Grossmith. Jr., and Constance Collier to play in America. Mr. Frohman is now dangling golden prospects before the eyes of Cyril Maude in the hopes of luring that excellent actor to the United States with his latest success. The Flag Lieutenant, a naval comedy by Major Drury and Leo Trevor, which, despite the heat wave, is crowding the Playhouse at every performance. Mr. Frohman has on order a musical play by Paul Rubens, and another by Leslie Stuart, both of which he contemplates producing first in America. "My first musical play for next season," says Mr. Frohman. "will be Fluffy Ruffles, in New York, with Hattie Williams. George Grossmith, Jr., will play the leading male part. My next musical play will be The Girls of Gottenberg. in which Gertie Millar will be the feature. This will be followed by a musical play with a story from the French, and which I expect to do in America and England. After that comes The Dollar Princess. The adaptation of the book is being made for America by George Grossmith, Jr. It will differ, as far as the adaptation is concerned from The Dollar Princess, which George Edwardes will produce here, although, of course, the story and the music will remain the same. 1 believe the locale of the last act of the two plays will be entirely different one from the other. The Dollar Princess has much humor that arises from the situations. Its story is rare for America, because it is about Americans, and touches on the American penchant for titles. The chief character in this is that of an American millionaire in business in New York, and his daughter, although enormously wealthy, also works for the firm. Only penurious aristocrats are employed as clerks, and so on. This American story, all about America, is written by two Germans, whose idea of Americans is quaint. When I saw this play produced in Hamburg, the only thing American about it — cast, production, scenes — was a rolltop American desk. I venture to say that you will go wild over this music — that there will be three numbers that will carry the town. There is an opportunity for a young actress again to make a great success, and the difficulty will be that this will not be the leading part. It will be terrible to cast it." Margaret Craven Still Leads Active Life "If the man I had arrested for crueltv to the horse which he was driving lost his job through my intervention, I will see that he gets other work to do," said Mrs. Henry Koehler, Jr., of 5544 Bartmer Avenue, St. Louis, last Thursday. Mrs. Koehler was formerly Margaret Craven, born in San Francisco, and a well known actress. She caused William Franke's arrest Thursday, and yesterday he was fined $25 and costs in the Dayton Street police court. When Mrs. Koehler spoke to the man about the condition of his horse, he admitted that the horse was too sick to drive, but said his employer had given him the horse, and he had to do his work with him or lose his job. The fine was paid by Franke's employer, one of the proprietors of the Automobile Express Company. Franke is married, and Mr. Koehler, who is president of the American Brewing Company, was very bitter in his remarks about his employer allowing the young man to stay in the holdover all Thursday night, without making any effort to have him released on bond. Mrs. Koehler is a great admirer of horses, and her own driving and riding horses are her pride. When she saw the horse which Franke was driving she remonstrated with him. He said he could do nothing, and so she called an officer and had him charged with cruelty to animals. Mrs. Koehler said: "The horse had sores all over him and was thin. He was evidently sick, too, and I couldn't see him tortured. I am not a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." Personals Mortimer Dodge returned from New York Friday of last week. While away certain affairs necessitated his relinquishing the management of the Valencia Theatre, the new stock house that opens on August 24. We are v«ry sorry to see Mr. Dodge disassociate himself from the show business of this city, as he has always been one of our best liked managers. Walter Perkins finished his special engagement at the Alisky in Sacramento last week anxl left on Thursday for Denver, via Los Angeles and Salt Lake, where he will pick up his vaudeville time, using his sketch. The Man from Macey's. Mr. Perkins has secured a new farce from the pen Of Marie Coe, one of the authors of All Due to Diana, which he will probably produce in the East this season. It is called To Oblige William. NOVELTY MOVING PICTURE CO. Moving Picture Machines, Films and Song Slides, Phonographs and Records. Renting Films Our Specialty. 418 Turk St., San Francisco. Phone Franklin 2312. Central Theatre 8th and Market Phone Market 777 ERNEST E. HOWELL Prop, and Mgr. 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