San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

i6 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September 19, 1908. Sidelights Little Nemo, which will be first produced at the Forrest Theatre. Philadelphia, Sept. 21, by Klaw & Erlanger, will be the biggest musical comedy ever presented in America. The New. York production will be made at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Little Nemo is in rehearsal under the supervision of Herbert Gresham at the New Amsterdam Theatre. About 200 persons are in the cast. Harry B. Smith has written an entertaining book and Victor Herbert's music is melodious yet simple. The characters from Winsor McCay's drawings to be used in the play are the Princess of Slumberland, the only child of King Morpheus, who with Little Nemo seeks the Palace of Dreams. Flip, unbidden, joins the party, and with Dr. Pill, King Morpheus, Mrs. Nemo, the Dancing Missionary, and Gladys, the cat, supplies the humor. The Valentine Queen, Uncle Dawn, Officer Buttin, Mr. Sleet, Little Bon Bon. the dawn guards, pirates, savages and a host of others follow Little Nemo in his quest. In the cast will be Master Gabriel as Little Nemo ; Aimee Ehrlich as the Princess ; Joseph Cawthorn as the King: Harry Kelly as the Dancing Missionary; Billy B. Van as Flip; Albertina Benson as the Fairy Queen ; and Dave Abrams as Gladys, the cat. Madeleine Marshall, Rose Beaumont and Florence Tempest are also among the principals. The title of the play of the Kentucky mountains by Marion Short and Pauline Phelps, which Klaw & Erlanger will produce early in the fall, may be changed from A Mountain Boy to A Kentucky Boy. Donald Gallaher, aged nine, who will appear in the leading role, has played ten parts in his brief stage career. The lad is spending his summer with a tutor on Long Island. In his spare moments he is a mighty hunter and fisherman. The Girl Question, the musical comedy which scored a run of 339 consecutive performances last winter at the La Salle Theatre, Chicago, will be seen at the Van Ness Theatre on Monday, September 14. It is by the authors of The Time, the Place and the Girl, and is under the management of the Askin-Singer Co., while its cast includes Paul Nicholson, Henrietta Tedro, Marguerite De Von, Nina Collins, Russell Lennon, Thos. De Vassy and Lewis Wood. There are twelve songs, and the piece was produced under the direction of Geo. Marion, producer of The Merry Widow. The Sultan of Sulu. The Prince of Pilsen, A Stubborn Cinderella, and a dozen other big successes. Mae B. Stanley, late of Trau & Stanlev, was married to H. Handson Boyde, manager of Douglas. Utah, opera house, on August 17, and has retired from the profession. Orpheum The program for the week beginning this Sunday afternoon will show Jesse L. Lasky's latest triumph, The Pianophiends, which will be the headliner. This represents a large piano salesroom in which five men are seated playing ragtime at five pianos, when they are joined by four handsome and stylish girls who assist them in their harmony. An octet is given which rivals in originality and melody the celebrated Florodora Sextet. The Seven Yuilians, acrobats and athletes, will offer ground and lofty tumbling of a novel and daring kind. Claude and Fannie Usher will appear in the slang classic. Pagan's Decision. Pagan is a defeated pugilist who was prudent enough to save his money, so when he meets his Waterloo he is. financially speaking, on Easy Street. lie makes an effort to penetrate into swell society without success. In his loneliness he is about to adopt a twelve-year-old girl waif, when he discovers that she is the daughter of the man who retired him from the ring by a foul over the heart. The little play is thoroughly human. The Reiff Brothers, the American dancing boys, will introduce one of the most original singing and dancing numbers in vaudeville. It will be the last week of Gardiner and Vincent, A. O. Duncan, the Two Pucks, and of Charmion in her dainty transformation act. A series of new and realistic motion pictures, showing the famous Marathon race at the recent Olympic games, London, will terminate the performance. Valencia The Conquerors, a romantic love story of the FrancoPrussian War, which was the medium for the first great success won by William Faversham and Viola Allen at the Empire Theatre in New York, will be the second offering of the new Valencia stock company, beginning Sunday afternoon. The Conquerors was written by Paul M. Potter, author of Trilby, and tells a picturesque and dramatic love story of passion across the chasm of war. The play will offer exceptional opportunities to Robert Warwick, the leading man, and W'illette Kershaw, the leading woman. Mr. Warwick will appear as a young German officer stationed in an old French chateau where two sisters are living alone. The officer is a reckless scamp, who amuses himself by shooting at ancient portraits, smashing furniture and annoying the two sisters. Pinally the elder sister rebels, and when he informs her that to the conquerors of war belong the spoils of love, the elder sister retaliates by throwing a glass of wine into the officer's face. But though taunted and insulted by the girl, the reckless officer is finally brought to a sense of right, and genuinely falls in love with the girl. The theme shows how love redeems and regenerates one who is apparently impervious to its influence. The play offers excellent opportunities for clever staging and scenery. In the first act there is a supper scene when the reckless officer entertains a lot of dancing girls in the historic chateau, and in the second act there is an ensemble effect which requires nearly fifty people on the stage. There will be matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Alcazar A third week of David Warfield in The Music Master is made imperative by public demand. Not since the advance sale opened has there been a moment between the hours of 9 a. m. and 10 p. m. when the Alcazar boxoffice has experienced a respite from the clamor for seats, and it is doubtful that even eight more performances of The Music Master will satisfy the desires of those who have not yet witnessed the play and most of those who have enjoyed that rare treat. Not only from Mr. Warfield's townspeople, but from all parts of California and even from Oregon and Nevada, comes the demand for a third week that David Belasco and his star as well as the Alcazar management finds it impossible to ignore. Therefore those who have been anxiously awaiting Mr. Warfield's appearance in his latest artistic triumph, A Grand Army Man, must restrain their impatience a while longer. To those who are showering the Alcazar with inquiries as to whether A Grand Army Man will be presented by Mr. Warfield, the assurance is given that before he departs from San Francisco the eminent actor will appear in his great creation of Mr. Bigelow. Scribner's Theatre Bakersfield, Cal. Wanted FOR Permanent Stock TALL HEAVY MAN; COMEDIAN with specialties; MAN FOR LIGHT COMEDY, preference given one doing specialties; MAN FOR CHARACTERS; GENERAL BUSINESS MAN; STAGE CARPENTER who can build scenery; SCENIC ARTIST; SOUBRETTE with specialties; CHARACTER WOMAN; HEAVY WOMAN. Salaries must be reasonable. One bill a week. Open Oct. 4th. Address, till Sept. 27th, Tedd Brackett FARRAGUT THEATRE, then SCRIBNER'S THEATRE, Bakersfield, Cal. MenzePs Dramatic Agency 1115 VAN NESS AVE., BOOMS 114-116 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Managers Wanting Reliable People in Dramatic Lines, Write. Honest Dealing. 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