San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

3» THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW August [, 1908. NATIONAL THEATRE M^i°„rr POST AND STEINER BTS., BAH FRANCISCO Leading Vaudeville Theatre on the Sullivan-Considine Circuit. No Act Too Good for us. Write. From the Atlantic to the Pacific. 53 Weeks. Sullivan-Considine Vaudeville Circuit BOOKING FIRST-CLASS ABTISTS ONLY. PEKFOEMESS OF MERIT. LET'S HEAR FROM YOU. NO ACT TOO BIG. NO SALARY TOO HIGH. Sole California Representative ARCHIE LEVY, 1117-1125 Market St.. near 7th, American Theatre Building, San Francisco DO YOU WANT TO PLAY THE People's See HARRIS or BURNS Care of EMPIRE THEATRE. San Francisco ...Good Acts... Can get plenty of time, with small jumps. See that independent agent BERT LEVEY 2053 Sutter St. Phone West 9098. San Francisco, Calif. Theatrical TigHts ALL, COLORS. WEIGHTS AND QUALITIES — Cotton. ^f?c to J1.S0; Wool, $2.50 to $3.50; Lisle or Silkoline, $3.00 to $4.50; Silk. $5.00 to $12.50. O VAfTVfrTDTr' A T C BEST L1NE made in the u. s. 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She winds up her act with some coon shouting that is not of the usual loud, vulgar trumpeting, but most entertainingly done. Wilbur Mack and Nella Walker, a couple of well-groomed, good-looking young folks, walk through a neat little turn called The Girl and the Pearl. The lines are bright and snappy, and quite often extremely witty. Their dancing is charmingly done and altogether this couple are exponents of grace and ability in their line, and for this reason they are so clever in repartee that one doesn't need the singing which they introduce. The Four Fords are the dancing features of the evening. They consist of two attractive girls and two good-looking men, who apparently could dance all night. Their clog work is really fine. Martinetti and Sylvester are the rough and tumble boys with the chairs, and the way they fall around on all parts of their anatomy without breaking their bones is marvelous. Their equals as tumblers and knock-abouts have not been seen here in years. The Basque Quartette, three men and a woman, gives operatic selections that apparently are greatly appreciated, for encores are many and enthusiastic. Ben Welch, the monologist, who is supreme in his Hebrew and Dago characterizations, is a great hit. The Tom Davies Trio do a thrilling motor cycling act suspended in mid air. They furnish enough thrills to last for a month. An unusually fine film telling the story of an Indian's conversion to the idea of Thou Shalt Not Kill, is a fitting wind-up to an evening of great enjoyment. Empire The Empire Theatre has the banner style and daintiest of all musical acts in Ye Colonial Septette, presenting An Old-Tyme Hallowe'en. This act is one of the big headliners from New York with special scenery and elegantly costumed. It opens with the courtly Minuet dance, followed by a first-class instrumental concert entertainment given by the four gentlemen and three ladies that form the company. It is charming all through. Charley Harris, the old time stager and funologist sets the house in a roar with his burlesque old girl ; Hazzar and his talking figures keep the fun alive ; Fiske and McDonough interest in an original sketch; Miss Marion Hammond, fine singing; Post's Buty Korus, with musical numbers and ballads, and the antics of the Bell Boys round out a big program. Next week Manager Tiffany has another drawing bill, including Three Kuhns, instrumentalists and vocalists ; Atwood and Terry, comedians; Buford Sisters, change artists ; Al Watson and company, sketch ; Post's Buty Korus ; Marion Hammond, illustrated vocalist. Wigwam The dispensers of enjoyment here are McWade and May, in An Emergency Act ; The Okito Family, Chinese magicians ; Tierney and Odell, The Boys with the Jingle and the Chatter; Le Veen and Cross, in Roman sports and pastimes, a great act ; Crimmins and Gore, the renowned laugh-makers in their new Protean farce, in which they scored a hilarious success ; and the Yalto Duo, whirlwind dancers. Manager Harris has a challenge program for next week. Look at the list. Hill. Sherry & Hill, bicycle marvelists ; Lillian Hale and company, in The Phantom Rivals ; Dill & Ward, singers and dancers ; Fredrica Ramond Trio, operatic vocalists ; Elton-Polo-Aldo Troupe, great casting act ; Santell, in feats of muscle movements and strength ; Three Bellboys, singers and dancers. People's The popular People's out in the Mission district, a branch theatre of the Wigwam, and on the same block, is getting more rush audiences every night. The manager begins to calculate how much he is loser by feeding the Wigwam nights with his overflows. He thinks of getting a magic lantern show outside to hold the shut-out people for his second and third shows. The Jules Mendel Comedy Company got rounds of laughter for the humor of their Foiled Mashers, and have another laugh creating farce for next week, with new vaudeville acts. Admission 5 and 10 cents. Best seats in the house 10 cents. National The team that won the favor at the National this week is Kelly and Violette, and in their third return engagement, too. There are the usual collection of good acts in the bill that characterize this house, including Hugh Lloyd, the world-famed bounding rope artist, who does rope skipping somersaults on the rope and other feats without the use of a balance pole; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis in The Late Mr. Wildoats. a strongly acted playlet with a jolly ending; Leo and Chapman in Wanted, a Donkey, in which Mr. Leo does a remarkable bar act, and changes to the donkey in very clever pantomimic work, Mrs Lewis filling in the time with dainty singing and dancing; Ann Hamilton and company in Beggars, a Mexican study in coloring and passion, handsomely staged ; Harry Piker, singing and dancing comedian ; Oscar Loraine, Protean violinist. Kelly and Yiolette are held over for next week. The new comers in the program are the Riva-Larsen Troupe, famous European acrobats; Selbini and Giovini, jugglers, tumblers and acrobatic bicyclists ; Eckert and Berg, in The Land of the Two Moons ; Alexander and Scott, from Virginia ; Apollo Quartet in The Man Outside ; Anna Brigham, premiere whistler, and the latest moving pictures. Kelly and Violette are reviving Old Jim's Christmas Hymn and At Ten Tonight, with splendid electrical applause effects at the National. Bookings Bookings of the Western States Vaudeville Association. San Francisco, for week of August 3. 1908: EMPIRE, San Jose— Ten Dark Knights, Charles Harris, Fiske & McDonough, Rosa Roma, Esco Ives. EMPIRE, San Francisco— Three Kuhns, Atwood & Terry, Buford Sisters, Al Watson & Co., Post's Buty Korus, Marion Hammond. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Three Bellboys. NOVELTY, Oakland— Colonial Septette, Yirden & Dunlap, Glenroy & Bunnell, Novelty Musical Comedy Co. At the Sullivan & Considine. San Francisco office, through Archie Levy, their sole booking agent, for week of August 3. 1908: GRAND, Sacramento — Parnett & Russel, Potter & Harris, Stine & Evans, Will Rogers & Buch McKee, Armstrong & Holly, Effie Pearson. NATIONAL, San Francisco— Kelly & Violette, Anna Brigham, Alexander & Scott, Eckert & Berg, Slebini & Grovini, Riva-Larsen Troupe, Apollo Quartette. BELL, Oakland— Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, Leo & Chapman, Harry Piker, Oscar Lbraine, Hugh Lloyd & Wife, Ann Hamilton & Co. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Hill, Cherry & Hill, Lillian Hale & Co.. Dill & Ward, Fredrica Raymond Trio, Elton-Polo-Aldo Troupe, Santell, Three Bellboys. NOVELTY, Vallejo — Edw. McWade & Co., Barnes & West. Tierney & Odell. CHUTES, San Francisco — Zeno, Jordan & Zeno, John and Mae Burke, Leon & Adeline, Fitzgerald & Wilson, Nina Beeson. DENVER, Aug. 8— Musical Lowe, Gleason & Houlihan, Crimmins & Gore, Wilson, The Okito Family. The Wigwam's Monopoly When our holiday illustrated number was issued there were four theatres running in the Mission district: the Wigwam, the Mission, the Globe, and the Lyceum theatres. Now there is but one, the Wigwam, which has been conducted so liberally by the Wigwam Amusement Company in paying generously for superior attractions, and engineered so ably by Manager Sam'l Harris in the choice of acts for its patrons that it has frozen out all competition — with the exception of its tender, its other little house adjunct. The People's. The house is so firmly established in the good graces of the Mission residents that they don't think of going anywhere else to see vaudeville, knowing that its best popular price acts will be brought to them at the Wigwam. Novelty of Stockton Burned Alex Kaiser's Novelty Theatre of Stockton was burned last Monday night, and Mr. Kaiser is negotiating with Charley Alisky to take over the Alisky Theatre for his vaudeville show. Jack Golden, with a company of twenty-seven people, will produce a series of musical comedies at LubeJski's Novelty Theatre in Oakland. The large new stage will be utilized to produce them in most effective style with full ballet and chorus.