San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW August 29, 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO Dramatic Review Music and Drama CHAS. H. FAEKELL, Publisher Issued Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to San F r a n c 1 see D r a m a t ic Be view, 2S7 T h I 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. Donald Bowles Donald Bowles on September 6th opens lii> third consecutive season in Portland under the guidance of Geo. L. Baker. .Mr. Howies has spent bis entire vacation working in the interests of the new Valencia Theatre. This has been not only a business but a friendly deal, as he and Walter HorT Seely arc friends of long standing. The Valencia management has offered every honorable inducement possible to secure Mr. 1'owles' services permanently and much correspondence has passed between them and Geo. L. Baker. Mr. Baker has positively decided, however, that it is impractical to release him. Mr. Bowles leaves here tonight on the limited for Port pilEl Claims for Royalty Will Soon be Decided The claims of Charles Swickard to certain royalties for The Fires of St. John will soon be determined, for on Monday last Nance O'Neil and McKee Rankin attached the stage equipment of Ye Liberty Playhouse in Oakland, owned and managed by II. W. Bishop. The sum recorded in the attachment is $350. which Miss O'Neil claims as back salary. The actress and her manager charge that at the close of their engagement with Mr. Bishop, the latter withheld $350 of the salary due, which money was paid to Charles Swickard, playwright and adapter of The Fires of St. John, as royalty. Manager Harry W. Bishop of the Oakland theatre is indignant. He declared that he would not pay either Nance < >'Neil or her manager another cent. Bishop declares that the charges were trumped up. The matter will be decided in court. In the meantime Mr. Bishop has covered the attachment with proper bond and he says he is confident of winning his case when it comes up for hearing. The point made by Mr. Rankin is that whatever contention there was between him and Mr. Swickard was solely between them. Mr. Bishop claims that he merely paid the money to Swickard to protect himself and his theatre from possible damages from Swickard. as it is well known that the Swickard adaption was used, and failure to pay royalty for the same would react on him and make him liable. At any rate a decision in this matter will decide the value of Mr. Swickard's claims. Personals Frank Fanning is playing leads with the Pickwick Stock of San Diego, and Wanda Howard has gone back to the Lyric in Portland. Both are giving good account of themselves. Pram k Fravnk. who is very popular in Los Angeles, will return to that city as a member of the musical comedy company now playing there, on Sunday in Not Yet. but Soon. Frank Richardson, who will be agreeably remembered, also, will have a part in the same piece, and James Kelly, known in vaudeville circles, has been added to the cast. All three, with Frank l-'rayne as Little Eva. will appear in the burlesque on Uncle Tom which follows. E. F. Stafford, the new manager of the Peoples Theatre. Los Angeles, has arrived there direct from New York. He has announced the house would reopen for the season September 6th, representing the Stair & HavHn attractions. The first offering under the new management will be The Montana Limited. Mr. Stafford is an 'experienced theatrical man, who has passed most of the time since 1880 on the Pacific Coast. For six years he was manager of the Tacoma Theatre, Tacoma. Wash., one of the houses under the control of Calvin 1 Ieilig. Last season he was on the road ahead of the David Corson Company. Divorce papers were filed last Thursday in Boston, according to dispatches received from that city, in which Arthur W. Godfrey, a millionaire clubman, asks a separation from Beatrice Brunner Godfrey, an Atlanta girl whom he met and married in Chicago less than two years ago. No less a person than Richard Carle, the musical comedy star, is named in the divorce papers. Godfrey also names in his petition John H. McCarthy. A trip to Furope on board the liner Deutschland figures in the papers as having been taken by Mrs. Godfrey, sailing from New York June 25th. McCarthy, the petition alleged, was aboard the same ship, and the two, Godfrey says, met in London. Mrs. Godfrey has until the first Monday in October to answer the charges. Correspondence Monterey, August 2". — Both the Star and Victory Theatres, where two nightly programs each are maintained, are being extensively patronized. The Victory, a newly established amusement house, situated near the Postofflce on Alvarado Street, opened on the first of the present month and has been showing to packed houses every night. The manager is Mr. Hiffe. The T. A. Work Theatre remains dark since the successful appearance of the May Robson company, when the pretty playhouse was packed to its doors. The fair at the San Carlos Mission, under the auspices of the San Carlos Parish, has been in full blast during the past week, and drew enormous crowds nightly. Great preparation is now under way for the celebration of Admission Day by the N. S. G. W. in Monterey, September. 8 and 9, when at least 15,000 guests are expected. The local parlor has its various committees actively arranging a suitable program, accommodation and royal welcome for the promised participants. Monterey has had her share of excitement and experience as happy host this summer, having successfully managed several extensive crowds of visitors, commencing with the entertainment of the Atlantic fleet, then July 4 and 5, after which, the week of August 18, the keys of the city were presented to the Grand Council of Red Men of California and their auxiliary, the Daughters of Pocahontas, who had the largest attendance ever extended them since the organization of that vast body. J. E. UNDERWOOD. Goldneld, August 19. — Nance O'Neil and company presetrted at the Hippodrome last night. Herman Suderman's play. Magda. Probably the largest audience that has ever gathered in the Hippodrome at a theatrical performance witnessed the production, and, in appreciation, at the close of each act the gifted actress and her leading support were railed before the curtain. Her support was good. McKee Rankin, as Schwartz, father of Magda. distressed to death because of the discovery of the loss of his daughter's honor, and Monroe Salisbury, as the pastor, did especially well. Manager Ayiesworth of the Hippodrome, who Induced Miss O'Neil to inaugurate the season at the local playhouse. has been congratulated by theatregoers for the excellence of the performance last night. The program tonight Is The Fires of St. John, a Sudermann drama of Intense interest. There will bo an Immense crowd as the house was almost entirely sold out before 3 o'clock this afternoon. New Alcazar Cor. Sutter and St«ln»r Sta. Belasco & Mayer, Owners and Manager! Absolutely "Class A" Building Seventy-seventh Week of the Alcazar • Stock Companv WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY Al'G i! 1 Farewell of Mr. White Whittlesey and the Alcazar players In R. V. Esmond's Idyllic Comedy One Summer's Day A beautiful production. Prices: Nights 25c to $1; matinees Saturday and Sunday, 25c to 50c. Venice, CaL, August 22. — Tomorrow will inaugurate the sixth week of the Kllwoud Musical Company, which is occupying the stage of the Venice Auditorium, and Messrs. Singer ~Si Hall, the lessees of the big Venice hall, are correspondingly pleased with the reception of their attraction. Dick's Family will hold the boards this week. Dates Ahead I W. E. NankeMo.. Aug. 31 Ruman Hearts (Western) ville, mgr.) — Kansas City. Sept. 5; St. Joseph. 6-7. Jane Eyre (Cuba Nihloi (Rowland & Clifford Amusement Co.. mgrs. ) — Danville. 111.. Aug. 28; Decatur, 29: St. Louis, 31Sept. 5; St. Charles, 6: Jefferson City, 7; Moberly. M Ottumwa, '.1 : 1 )es Moines, 10-12. Cat and the Fiddle (Chas. A. Sellon. mgr. 1 — Winnipeg. Manitoba, Aug. 27-211; Fargo, N. I)., 31; Jamestown, Sept. 1. Wizard of Cz illurtig & Seamon, mgrs. 1 — Mansfield. Aug. 29; Chicago. 30-Sept. 5; Milwaukee, 6-11; St. Paul, 1.3-18; Minneapolis. 20-25; Cedar Rapids. 1'7; Marshalltown. 28; Omaha. 29-Oct. 3. Coming Through the Rye (Samuel E. Rork. mgr.) — Duluth. Minn.. Sept. 1; Brainard. 2; Grand Forks. N. Dak., 3-4; Winnipeg, Manitoba. 5-fi; Fargo, N. Dak., 7; Hillings. Mont.. S; Butte, 9; Anaconda. 10; Helena. 12. Princess Theatre Phone West 663 Ellis St., near Fillmore Samuel Eoverich, Manager Absolutely "C lass A" Theatre Building Matinee Saturday and Sunday Curtain Rises at 8 Sharp NEXT Re gal Reproduction of the Sparkling. Spicy, Spectacular Musical Merriment 'Am I a wiz.' You bet you an The Wizard of the Nile Hook b i I: I!. Smith. Music bv Victor Herbert FERRIS HARTMAN in his favorite roll of "Kibosh." First appearance of Miss Sybil Page. Arthur Cunningham. Zoe Barnett. Sarah Edwards. Wallace Brownlow. Walter Catlett and the rest of the Princess favorites in the cast. "Starlight; Starlight! Very first star I've seen tonight" I k out for THE FORTUNE TELLER Prices — Evenings, 25c, 50c, 75c; Matinees (except Sundays and Holidays), 25c and 50c. Central Theatre 8th and Market Phone Market 777 ERNEST E. HOWELL Prop, and Mgr. Souvenir Matinee Wednesdays Regular Matinees Sundays The Home of Melodrama This Week the Funny and Thrilling Melodrama, KIDNAPPED Herschel Mayall As DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Next Week The King of the Opium Ring Prices Unchanged — 15c, 25c and 50c Theatre Tel. West 6036 Monday, September 7 David Warfield and David Belasco's New York Company The Music Master Sale of seats begins at 9 o'clock Thursday morning, September 3, at the Alcazar Box Office. ORPHEUM Ellis Street, Near Fillmore Absolutely Class "A" Theatre Week Beginning This Sunday Afternoon Matinee Every Day Artistic Vaudeville EDNA PHILLIPS & CO., in "Lost, a Kiss In Central Park;" THE GBASSYS; WILSON BROTHERS; CARTER AND BLTJPORD; FOUR BALTUS ; HOWARD AND HOWARD; DOLESCH AND ZILL BAUER ; NEW ORPHEUM MOTION PICTURES. Last week and immense hit DE HAVEN SEXTETTE with SYDNEY C. GIBSON. EVENING PRICES — 10c, 25c. 50c, 75c; Box Seats, $1. MATINEE PRICES (Except Sundays and Holidays), 10c. 25c, 50c. Phone West 6000 Ye Liberty Playhouse OAKLAND 14th and Broadway DIRECTION H. W. BISHOP Phone Oakland 73. A NIGHT OFF East Performance Sunday Next Week When We Were Twenty-One Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. Matinees, 25c, 50c. AMERICAN THEATRE Phone Market 381 Market St.. Near Seventh THE HOUSE OI* SAFETY AND COMFORT Next Week. Commencing Sunday Evening, , August 31, The Musical Sensation of the Season The Love Tales of Hoffmann A Beautiful Story Set to Music A Company of 'in. Including Edith Mason, Thomas If. Persse, Bernice Holmes, Chas. Swickard. Ann Tasker, Jos. Fogarty Elaborate Production. Special Lighting Effects An Augmented Orchestra of 28 Musicians, under direction of Mr. Paul StelndorfT. This opera was produced at Hammersteln's Manhattan opera House in New York City and ran for an entire season. Prices: Evenings — Orchestra. 50c. 75c. $1. Balcony. J.'c and Hoc. Saturday Matinee — 25c and 50c. No higher. AM I r PRINTING CO. 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