San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW October 17, 1908. THE SAN FRANCISCO Dramatic Review Music and Drama CHAS. H. FARRELL. Publisher Issued Every Saturday Address all letters and money orders to San F r a n c 1 sco D r a m a t ic Review, 287 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. Frank Montgomery The new leading man of the Central Theatre Stock is Frank Montgomery, who opens next Monday. Mr. Montgomery is a well-known and experienced leading man and had jnst returned from a season in stock in Eureka when he was signed for the Central. Previous to going to Eureka. Mr. Montgomery played leading business for the Lumley Company on the Coast and in Honolulu, where his work was greatly appreciated. He is a tall, fine-looking man of good methods and an expressive voice that he uses with great skill. , Notes from Eiler's King of the Cattle Ring Co., No. 2 —Western. Gridley, Cal., Oct. II. — Business with the big show is good in the Golden West. \Ye have been playing California for the last four weeks, one-night stands, to good houses. Will stay out here all winter under canvas. We carry two cars, twenty-five people, band and orchestra. Roster : E. F. Reed, manager ; Leo Blondin, assistant manager; C. A. Curtis, band director; Don Yanderven, stage manager ; Thos. Kerr, orchestra leader. Ferris Taylor, of the Taylor Quartette, is featured, singing with the band on the street. Ed Coke. Bill Miller. James Heath, Frank Kusch. Leo H. King, Bob Thompson, Roy Knight. Geo. Bloom, Fred Tate. Frank V. Carpenter, Al Marks; eight canvasmen, cook, waiters, porters, etc. ; Fay Bradley. Frances Curtis, Eleanor Blondin. Bertha Rayney, Daisy Thompson. Success of Navajo's Love Sedley Brown's clever play, A Xavajoe's Love, was recently played at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee and scored so heavily that it will be played again in a few weeks. The play will be seen at the Valencia, following His Excellency, the Governor, that goes on after Graustark. Elmer Ellsworth, former manager for T. Daniel Frawley, and later stock broker in New York, is in Los Angeles writing a play. Evelyn Vaughax opened with the Alcazar stock last Monday in The Hypocrites and left a decidedly favorable impression. George P. Webster is taking the place of John Maher with the Alcazar company during Mr. Maher's illness. LOS ANGELES LETTER Continued from Page 5 Christopher, present the prison scene from Faust. Frank Gardiner and Lottie Vincent's Winning a Queen seems to please despite its absurdity. The holdovers are the Three Trapnells, Fred Warren and Al Blanchard, and the Three Moshers. LOS AXGELES— Two sketches of merit are on the programme at the Los Angeles Theatre this week. In Bargain Mad Florence Modena plays the role of a young wife who can't resist the lure of an attractive advertisement. She attends a bargain sale, and when the delivery is completed the stage looks like an auction room of unclaimed express packages. The Cracksman introduces Richard Buhler, formerly leading man at the Grand Opera House, and Louise Orendorf. Buhler is a gentlemanly Raffles, who steals for the sport of it ; Miss ( Jrendorf, a thief because she is poor and needs the comforts vyith which her thieving sometimes provides her. L'utimately the man discovers that the woman thief is his daughter. Johnson and Hart present an amusing novelty in Hoopville. Fred Morton has a trick paper tearing act. accompanied by a monologue and mu>ical stunt. Edna Davenport dances very well and sings rather badly. A picture ballad sung by Sam Holdsworth, and motion pictures, one of them showing the Marathon race, including the finish of Hayes, the American runner, complete the bill. EMPIRE— Making Him Propose, as presented by Dan and Bessie Kelly at the Empire this week, is a mighty funny little farce, and the ability of the presenting duo adds to its pleasing quality. Mr. Kelly, in the dual roles of a drunken politician and a bashful suitor, does some creditable acting, while his wife earns deserved approval both by her acting and her rendition of a difficult song selection. Marie Reitz. who plays cornet solos, is a personable young woman, and. moreover, understands handling her horn epiite as well as is necessary ; Billy Jones in a black-face monologue, and The Diaz, in well executed Spanish dances, complete the list of new-comers on the olio. Vier and Nellie Hill, with ilustrated songs, and first-rate motion pictures complete the programme. FISCHER'S— Get Me a Baby, at Fischer's proves itself a -most diverting little mixup of the farcical order. Incidentally it serves to introduce J. Edward Pierce and Marie Roslyn as leading man and woman, respectively. Their specialty runs the gamut from popular songs to the Jungle Town order to operatic selections. An Indian intermezzo, Asleep in the Deep, The Kiss Song, and as a finale, the Toreador song from Carmen, suffice to display admirably Miss Roslvn's sympathetic and powerful soprano and Mr. Pierce's eminently satisfying bass. The farce is a rapid little affair and moves with commendable briskness. Ben T. Dillon, Laurel Atkins, Nellie Montgomery, Max Bloom, Pierce, Miss Roslyn and Vera Rodgers all help in the funmaking. Among the music interpolations are Patrica's Salome, Mary Jane and That Isn't All. UNIQUE— The feature of the bill at the Unique this week is a Salome dance, gracefully performed by Mile. Aimee. Whatever may be thought of this dance and the propriety of its presentation upon a public stage, the fact remains that there is little either in the dance itself or in the costume of the dancer, as both are presented at the Unique, to occasion the storm of protestatory discussion which has raged elsewhere. The Hold-up, presented by the musical comedy company, is much appreciated. The piece has many musical numbers, among them, Under Any Old Flag, well sung by Maude Beatty; Meet Me at Twilight, by Olga Stech ; Clothes Line, by Eldrie Gilmore, I'd Rather Be a Lobster, by Millar Bacon, and I Want to Be Loved Like a Leading Lady, by Maxie Mitchell. Billy Onslow and Jimmie Lee, the comedians, are heard in a typical duet. C. M. EMERY. Central Theatre 8th and Market Phone Market 777 EBNEST E. HOWELL Prop, and Mgr. Souvenir Matinee Wednesday! Regular Matinees Sundays The Home of Melodrama Closing Nights of KING AND QUEEN OF GAMBLERS NIC XT WRICK Frank Montgomery in Tracked Across the Continent Prices T'nchanged — 15c, 25c and 50c. Valencia Theatre Valencia Street, near Fourteenth Phone 17 Market Week Starting Sunday Matinee. Oct. 18th VALENCIA STOCK CO.. Including ROBERT WARWICK In an Elaborate Production of George Parr McCutcheon's Famous Romance GRAUSTARK Or. Love Behind 8 Throne Matinees .Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday Novelty Theatre Novelty Theatre Co Owners Selby C. Oppenheimer Manager One Week, Beginning Sunday Matinee October 18th EQimt and Gazollo's Scenic Melodrama The Four Corners of the Earth POPULAR PRICES— 25c, 35c, 50c Matinees. Wednesday, Sunday and Saturday Bargain Prices, Wed. Matinee, All Seats, 25c I'mnins UNCLE JOSH PERKINS ORPHEUM Ellis Street, Near Fillmore Absolutely Class "A" Theatre Week Beginning This Sunday Afternoon Matinee Every Day Artistic Vaudeville THE OPERATOR, an Intensely Dramatic Playlet, with LTSTES CHAMBERS and CLARA KNOTT; BEDFORD AND WINCHESTER; LA PETITE MICtNON ; McPHEE AND HILL; THERESA RENZ, World's Greatest Equestrienne; GRACIE EMMETT & CO.; JUPITER BROS.; NEW ORPHEUM MOTION PICTURES. Last Week, Great Musical Furore, THE ECCENTRIC GENNARDO AND HIS VENETIAN GONDOLIER BAND. EVENING PRICES — 10c. 25c. 50c. 76c; 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. Great Performance of THE DEVIL NEXT WEEK Julie Bon Bon Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. Matinees, 25c, 50c AMERICAN THEATRE Phone Market 381 Market St.. Near Seventh THE HOUSE OF SAFETY AND COMFORT Next Sunday Matinee. October 18th H. H. FRAZEE Presents the Brisk. Breezy, Whlrly Girly Musical Comedy Sensation' A Knight for a Day Exactly as Presented One Solid Year in Chicago. Five Months in New York and Five Months in Boston By Robert B. Smith and Raymond Huhbell Big Cast of Favorite Principals Including BOBBY BARRY an I ELSIE HERBERT Prices — Evenings, Matinees, 25c, 50c, ' 50c. 75c. $1.00. No higher. Princess Theatre Phone West 663 Ellis St., near Fillmore Samuel Eoverich, Manager Absolutely "Class A" Theatre Huiiding Matinee Saturday and Sunday Curtain Rises at 8 Sharp East Two Nights of THE AMEER NEXT WEEK I. AS T i IK FERRIS HARTMAN Mirthful Mi al Delight The Office Boy . 26 — KOLB & DIM., and Their Big Eastern Company, in PLAYING THE PONIES Prices — Evenings, 25c, 50c, 75c; Matinees (except Sundays and Holidays). 25c and 50c. GILLE PRINTING CO. 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