San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September 26, 1908. Sidelights The first American theatrical company to play in South America sailed last week from New York for Buenos Ayres. The company will present for eight weeks, beginning ( )ctober 2d, a series of standard plays, and the players are guaranteed by subscribers of the Argentine capital. Cecil De Mille. of New York, is acting as agent. The company consists of Jane Wheatley. Nina Herbert. Wallace Erskine, Robert Stowe Gill, Eva MacDonald and Douglas J. W ood. The company will play at the Odeon Theatre. The Call of the North has been withdrawn from the Hudson Theatre in Xew York. Robert Edeson is rehearsing a new play to succeed it. in which Katherine Grey and Catherine Counti.-s will have important roles. The question of whether or not the old Fischer Theatre, in O'Farrell Street, near Powell, shall be rebuilt is involved in a suit submitted to Judge Sea well for decision last week. The owners of the site, Josephine E. C. Dieckniann, Catherine E. C. Dunne and Clara M. Chabot. in February, 1903, leased the theatre to the Fischer-Kebman Company for ten years, at $750 a month. There was an unusual clause in the lease that in case of the destruction of the theatre by fire or earthquake the lessees were not to pay any rental until it was reconstructed. The owners are suing to quiet title and to cancel the lease. The I'ischer-Rebman Company contested the cancellation of the lease. At any time the company is ready to reoccupy the theatre and give performances if the owners of the land will rebuild. It is understood, however, that the owners wish to either sell the land or to build other than a theatre building. The question to be decided is whether or not the owners of the land must rebuild a theatre. Donald Bowles, the popular leading juvenile of the Baker Stock Company of Portland, is to add to his duties as one of the most hardworked members of that organization the additional one of stage direction. Mr. Bowles brings to his new position very wide experience as an actor, and the benefit pf the training received from some of the foremost stage managers in the country. In addition. Mr. Bowles is a man of unusual scholarship, which will serve him in good stead in the designing of productions. I Itwill continue to act and will be seen in some of the most important roles in which he has ever appeared. This will be his first essay as a stage director, but there is no question as to his success. Donald Bowles has been on the stage since he was 17 years of age. and ranks as one of the best actors in his line of parts in the country, lie was born in Boston, his family having been identified with Massachusetts for a number of generations. His father was a Universalis! clergyman, pastor of the First I'niver salist Church of Cambridge many years. During his first few years on the stage young Bowles was given private instruction in the classics and modern languages, and is a man of excellent education. His first engagement was with the famous old Boston Museum Stock Company, where he learned his business under some of the leading actors of his time. Later he was a member of the Herald Square Theatre Company in Xew York, being associated with such actors as Aubrey Boucjcault, Elita Proctor Oatis, Mary Shaw and others of that class, lie also appeared in Chicago for a time. He first came to the PacificCoast six years ago as a member of the James Xeill Company. He came to Portland in 1904 as juvenile man of the Columbia Stock, Company, and the next season joined the Baker Company. With the exception of the season of 1905-6, he has played here continuously. During that year he appeared in the City of Mexico and other places in Mexico. He was in San Francisco at the time of the disaster and was among those who suffered considerable financial loss. He usually spends his summers on the Massachusetts coast, where he has a cottage. Mr. Bowles is a social favorite in Portland and has a large personal acquaintance. His selection to direct the Baker Company will meet with the approval of the many patrons of the Bungalow. — Portland Oregonian. Miss Xannary enacts the role of Parepa with both skill and dignity. She is admirable in her emotional work and does a very human piece of acting in the third act. where Parepa wins the forgiveness of her daughter for her supposed deception. Charles Calkins plays "Doc"' Kerr in straightforward fashion, and Winnie Baldwin, a young Los Angeles girl, gives a surprisingly clever portrayal of Mississippi, a colored boy. Willard Clawson is stilted and unnatural in the part of Dayton Thornton. At the Old Cross-Roads remains at the People's through the week. It is a good melodrama of its kind, and it has been well produced, the scenery and lighting effects being pleasant incidents to the relation of the stage story. — Los Angeles Herald. Attractions Wanted -FOR Big Street Carnival To be Held in KLAMATH FALLS, ORE October 121314151617th Big money in it for good attractions. For concessions, write G. HEITKEMPER, JR., Klamath Falls, Ore. The LastjLargest™" Absolutely Best Show the Season Returning to the Coast after 7 Years Bigger, Better and Grander than Ever Led in person by the Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") only ami original '. Two Continents Have Applauded The Whole World Has Contributed HOME AGAIN. 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