San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

September 12, 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 1 The Way The Western States Vaudeville Association Billed Laura Hudson EMPIRE wrrk OF AUGUST 31 [KlOWmV ADDED ATTRACTION FIRST TIME IN VAUDEVILLE SAN JOSH MOST POPULAR HADING LADY LAURA HUDSON snn m II il in pmi IN THE DRAMATIC PLA1LET THE GREATER HtVENGE 7 OTHER BIG FEiT'iRE ACTS 5, THE SAME EMPIRt "PRICES SB 1 t win Vr. r . t. j« * THE REASON "San Jose may claim without boasting that she has at present in her stock company an actress whose talents must surely win stellar honors. Miss Hudson, in the role of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, has thrown all of the city's former favorites far back into the Has-Beens." — San Jose Nezus. Miss Hudson opened last week in San Jose for a flyer in vaudeville, and her reception was extremely gratifying. She will probably return to the Central Theatre in this city for a special season in featured leads. Vaudeville Notes Al Leonhardt, the funny German juggler, juggles the audiences at the National out of many laughs by his expert and humorous mystical work with spheres, cannon balls and numerous objects, including his inoffensive dummy. Mr. Leonhardt ranks as one of the best of jugglers, and is getting record-breaking applause for his superior work all through the act. Jules Garrison's success in Roman characters, both on the legitimate and vaudeville stages, are records. His present act will be abandoned after this season for his new playlet, After the Play. The beautiful story of After the Play is laid upon the stage of a big theatre, where the star of the company has just been tendered a complimentary banquet by the management, which takes the audience behind the scenes and shows it the dressing-rooms and back wall. The wellladened deserted banquet table is on the right, and the star is seen preparing for the street through the window of his dressing-room. The stage hands are leaving and wishing each other a merry Christmas, for it is Christmas eve, and outside the wind and snow are blowing a veritable hurricane. Through the door sneaks a ragged and cold tot of a newsboy, stealing in out of the storm to warm himself. The actor observes him and calls for him to present himself. The lad thinking he is to be punished for the intrusion, whistles for the "gang," and in rushes an army of newsies, ready to rescue one of their number in distress. He convinces the boys that he is their friend, and there follows one of the most interesting, amusing and entertaining scenes that has ever been staged, ending in as novel and interesting manner as it opens, in one of the liveliest and most complete surprises, with the stage full of real newsboys in every city it is played. Alex Pantages is coming to San Francisco to confer with the Western States Vaudeville Association about future business here and in the Northwest. Eight vaudeville acts go East next week. See our booking lists. Chas. Oro is well — good as gold again in his funny farce. Matt Burton, the best of crushed tragedian impersonators, is in his company. Dustin Farnum will be seen here a few weeks hence in the elaborate production of The Squaw Man. Farnum is a great favorite in this city and he should make a big hit in this drama of the West. One of the important attractions booked for early appearance here is The Clansman. It will be played by a powerful company of well-known actors. The production has been a tremendous success for the past three seasons in the East. Orpheum The bill for the week beginning this Sunday matinee will have for its chief novel feature Charmion, the perfectly developed woman. She appears gowned in one of Paquin's latest and most beautiful creations and thus costumed she ascends a trapeze high above the stage. Then she tosses her hat and gloves lightly to the floor and garment by garment of her raiment flutters to the stage until she is beheld in close-fitting costume of the athlete. All this is accomplished in such a thoroughly modest manner that even the most refined find nothing in it to shock their sensibilities. Frank Gardiner and Lottie Vincent will produce their spectacular fantasy, Winning a Queen. The other new people will be Fred Warren and Al Blanchard, two mintsrel and musical comedy stars of renown. A. O. Duncan, America's ventriloquist ; the Two Pucks, two of the cleverest youngsters who have been seen on the stage in many a day. They will introduce new songs and novel costumes. With this program Amelia Summerville ; the Three Moshcrs ; and the immense sensation, the Trapnell Family of acrobats, will conclude their engagements. A new series of Orpheum motion pictures will be an interesting incident of the program. Alcazar Never in the annals of the San Francisco stage has a more emphatic hit been scored than by David Warfield in The Music Master. After that memorable opening performance last Monday night the people who witnessed it no longer tried to find reason for the play, and the stellar player having appeared four consecutive seasons in New York to capacity-taxing audiences. "It is more than art; it is genius" was an apt comment on Mr. Warfield's work that found no dissenting opinion. It is in the immensely human note of the play that its appeal THE PLAYER Jules Garrison Will present, season 1908-09, an original novelty, AFTER THE FLAY. Address Greenroom Club. New York, or Eccentric Club, London. Al. Leonhardt JUGGLING ECCENTRIQUE Address Archie Levy. Ott-Nelson and Stedman Presenting NEARLY A DOCTOR Touring the Sullivan & Considine Circuit Juno Salmo "THE DEVIL DANDY" (A Spectacular Act) First Time Home Since Hopkins' Transoceanics Were Here, Twelve Years Ago. Return European Engagement October 16, 1908, in Bremen, Germany The Original Snow Shoe Dancers Fred — Mozarts — Eva In their Novelty Creation, HEINE, the German Cobbler. Act and scenic effects fully protected by copyright patent. Tom Gillen FINNIGAN'S FRIEND Terrific hit at National, San Francisco. "Best single act that ever played the house." — Manager Grauman. Ask Archie Levy. Cadieux In Astonishing Feats on the Bounding Wire. Address Archie Levy. Geo. M. Laing & Co. THE FALL OF '64, a Military Playlet. Address Archie Levy. That Independent Vaudeville Agent ....BERT LEVEY.... Booking Acts for Independent Vaudeville Theatres on the Pacific Coast. Feature Acts wanted at all times. Watch for the opening of my Denver office Phone West 9098 2053 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO CAL consists. David Belasco was quick to find it in Charles Klein's work and as quick to utilize his marvelous knowledge of stage values in its development. With any other actor than Warfield or any other producer than l'.elasco interested in its promotion, The Music Master would not have attained the almost unequalled success it has met with wherever presented. It is a striking example of the playwright's dependence upon the efforts of the stage director and the actors. Belasco and Warfield have transformed The Music Master into a classic. Mr. Warfield's portrayal of llerr Von Berwig has been so thoroughly analyzed by the critics of the daily press that to indulge in further eulogy of it here would savor of superfluity. Fvery intelligent person who has not seen the remarkable performance has read about it. Suffice it then to say something about it that all the newspaper reviewers did not say — that the staging of the play and the acting of the supporting company are entirely worthy of the star's efforts. There is l'.elasco elaborateness in every detail of the stage pictures, and every member of the cast is of improvement THE ACID TEST of eleven years' actual professional use proves Madison's Budget No. 11 to be 22-Karat Gold. Hundreds of the leading vaudeville artists of both continents are its subscribers, AND IF YOl' ARE NOT. you are simplv overlooking the one best comedy bet. PRICE ONE DOLLAR MADISON'S s_L° BUDGET No. contains 9 monologues that will make good every time, 16 sketches for two males and for male and female, that are among the funniest ever written, 28 parodies that simply can't be beat, 2 comedy afterpieces running 40 minutes each and rip-roaring crackerjacks, besides hundreds of new stories, till-in gags, end-men's jokes, etc. Past issues out of print except Madison's Budget No. 10. Price, while supply lasts, $1. 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 Avenue, New York who also writes to order all kinds of vaudeville acts. Rates reasonably high, but absolutely first-class work guaranteed. defying excellence. The Music Master begins its second week at the Alcazar next Monday, and the advance sale pressages another series of crowded houses. It is to be followed by Mr. Warfield's latest success, A Grand Army Alan.