San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

i6 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September 12, 1908. Russell & Drew Opon Their Third Avenue Theatre Most Auspiciously in Seattle*' THE PLAY OF THE HOUR Her One Great Sin Direction Theodore marston Permanent Address — The Dramatic Review ^| OF COURSE YOU WILL GO TO THE GO VALENCIA THEATRE Valencia Street, bet. 13th and 14th San Francisco's Newest and Most Beautiful Playhouse, Absolutely Fireproof, Strictly Class A Building. Designed as the PERM AX EXT HOME of the BEST STOCK COMPANY ever seen in San Francisco. Opens SATURDAY EVENING, September 12, with the VALENCIA STOCK COMPANY, including ROBERT WARWICK and 35 Associate Players, in Cecil Raleigh's Gigantic London and Xew York Success in Six Acts and Fourteen Scenes, entitled The Great Ruby Prices 15c to 75c. Box Seats, $1. Matinees every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Telephone 17 Market. Owing to the magnitude of the productions, curtain will rise promptly at 8 o'clock evenings and at 2 o'clock matinees. MenzePs Dramatic Agency 1115 VAN NESS ATE., BOOMS 114-116 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Managers Wanting Reliable People in Dramatic Lines, Write. Honest Dealing. No Misrepresentation NOTICE; — We invite people in all lines of the theatrical profession that wish first-class engagements to call or write. WM. MENZEL, Manager PLAYS FOB STOCK COMPANIES, FOB KEPEBTOIBE COMPANIES, POB AMATEUR. LARGEST ASSORTMENT IN THE WORLD. Books for home amusement, Negro Plays, Paper, Scenery, Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works. Catalogue Free! Free! Free! SAMUEL FRENCH, 24 West 22d St.. New York. Hotel St. James . Jcor. Van Ness Ave. and Fulton St. • * 3 %mB. SiaiBBHEg San Francisco, California Headquarters for Agents and Managers Half lilock from Van Ness Theatre. Friars meet at the St. James every Friday night. F. P. SHANLEY, Manager, formerly of New York SEATTLE, Sept. 7. — Moore — Dark. Grand — The last week's engagement of the Pollard Lilliputians began last flight in the production of The Mikado. The boys and girls entrusted with the principal roles accomplished all that could be hoped for, and the crowd .that viewed the performance was satisfied with everything that had been done. The stage management shown was excellent and the costumes were appropriate and rich. Eva Pollard made a success of the character of Xanki-Poo, and the same may be said of Irene Finley as PooPali. Altogether it was the most complete production of this popular Gilbert & Sullivan opera seen on a Seattle stage in many years. Floradora will be played the last half of the week. Seattle Theatre — The Little Prospector, with Little "Chic" Perkins in the title role, drew a capacity audience to the Seattle Theatre yesterday, and the outlook for the remainder of the week is exceedingly good. The cast is strong and the play moved with sua]) and vigor, which showed thorough familiarity with the work, and it made a decidedly favorable impression upon the large audience. The play gives "Chic" Perkins many opportunities for the display of her ability, and she endears the part of Kitty Col well to those out in front. Lois Theatre — The Pantages players appeared yesterday in the best performance of a farce ever presented by Personals . CARL V. DainTRE has become a permanent member of Ye Liberty Stock in Oakland, and will play a line of responsible character parts. Maurice B. Smith, the well-known manager of Portland, Oregon, will, with the commencement of the present season, be located at The Star, in that city, where he will preside over the destinie< of the box office. Mr. Smith is one of the best known theatrical men on the Coast, and has won an enviable reputation for himself by his uniform courtesy to the theatre-going public. Tim Murphy, now managed by William A. P»rady in association with Louis P. Werba. begins his season in a comedy called Cupid and the Dollar, by Charles Jeffrey. Mr. Murphy will, about January i. appear in Chicago in the principal role of Mr. Rupert Hughes's new play, called My Boy. His part will be that of a rich Iowan who, in the petty love intrigues of a minor Italian court, finds in a titled lady the sweetheart of his poverty-obsessed boyhood. In spite of the stories published to the contrary. Mary Manncring will remain under the Shubert management during the next five years. Contracts have been signed between Mr. Lee Shubert and Miss Mannering covering that period. In addition to appearing in new and modern plays. Miss Mannering will, from time to time, add Shakespearian creations to her repertoire, and also give a series of special matinees, at which original dramatic poems of blank verse will be produced. Mr. Shubert has also agreed to arrange a season in London for this star, thereby enabling Miss Mannering to realize '>ne of her cherished ambitions them, Before and After. Julia Walcott and Aileen May shared the principal honors yesterday, although other members did excellent work also. The Lois Theatre should be crowded for the rest of the week by those who desire a good, hearty laugh. Blanche Bryant, formerly with the Mealy ( >pera Company, made her first appearance with the company and won the instant favor of the Lois patrons. Third Avenue Theatre — The re-opening of this theatre by Russell & Drew and R. E. French occurred yesterday, the attraction being Convict Xo. 999, which played to packed houses at both performances, evidencing the fact that there are plenty of patrons of the strenuous drama in Seattle. The company is a permanent one and there were a number of welcomes for the favorite ones. The entire cast accredited themselves to advantage and the play should be a good drawing card for the rest of the week. Orpheum — A new bill will be presented at the Orpheum this afternoon, headed by A Xight on a Houseboat. ( Hher acts will be Katie Parry, the famous English character comedienne: Jane Courthope and company, presenting Lucky Jim; Midgley and Carlisle, in After School; Melville and Higgins, eccentric comedians; McPhee and Hill, comedy gymnasts; Barry and Hughes, in A Story of the Street; and the Orpheum moving pictures. E. MORGENSTERN. and pet dreams, namely, to return to the land of her birth as a star at the head of her own company. This star was brought to this country by Daniel Erohman in the old Lyceum days, after the manager had seen one of her performances in Manchester, England. Miss Adeline Knapp, author of The Well in the Desert, was born in Buffalo, going early in life to San Francisco, where for several years she did newspaper work, being at one time on the Dramatic Review staff. She was a special correspondent in the I fawaiian Islands during the last revolution there, and in 1001. at the invitation of the Insular Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands, went to Manila and made a tour of the archipelago, gathering data for a history of the country and its people. Several books, among them The Story of the Philippines, were the fruit of this trip. In the intervals of newspaper work. Miss Knapp went away from cities altogether, and lived for two or three years alone in a canyon in the Contra Costa foothills. "I built a house there," she says, "a small one, all myself, cut down trees, tramped the woods, wrote a book or two. and did a lot of thinking. They were good years, and full of use." Miss Knapp's home, though so much of her time is spent in the East, is "up on a mountain" in California. The house there. Uplands, is all her own planning, and some of it her own construction. Helen Lowell, who has been very much indisposed during her stay in Melbourne, is now almost recovered. It has required a large amount of pluck to appear as Miss Hazy each night, more especially as, besides being ill, she has been torn with anxiety about little Pearl Egan, whom she has promised to look after during the tour. Pearl Egan has been lying at death's door at a hotel, a victim to pleurisy. Child-like, in her anxiety not to miss any of the sights the others were seeing, Pearl did not mention that she felt poorly, and went on appearing nightly until Miss Lowell noticed how ill she looked and spoke to the manager about having a doctor. Then it was learned how serious was the case, and on Sunday, three weeks ago, she was operated upon to remove the water from her lungs. Fortunately this proved effectual, and she is now convalescent. Pearl is a veritable "little bread winner," for she is one of eight and the main support of the family. She was sent from America to play Australia in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.