San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

July 9, 1910 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 BETSY BACON & CO. In DEBORAH'S WEDDING DAY SULLIVAN, CONSIDINE CIRCUIT Vaudeville Notes Al. Hessie, better known in the profession as "Hessie. the talking juggler," was married June 27 to Miss Alice Newsome. After spending a few days on Lake Michigan he will resume work on the Bijou time. Week July 1 1 lie will he at the Bijou Theatre. Racine. Wis. Hessie worked the Rert Levey time in 1908, since then he has been working steady in the Last. He expects to be back on the Coast this winter. Al states the Last is alright, but there's no place like home 1 Los Angeles is his home). Smith O'Brien, so long the star of the Irish play, The Ivy Leaf, is now playing the Sullivan-Considine circuit as a single turn. 1 le is a big hit. Evelyn Selbie. in her beautiful playlet. The Greater Price, made a success at the i'etaluma Opera House July 2-3-4. Walter Montague, the playwright, has had two new .sketches accepted on the S. & C. circuit. Lily Lena, the dainty little English girl, is glad to be back in San Francisco. It may also be added that San Francisco is pleased to have her again. Next week is her second and last at the Orpheum. The Transatlantic Four will go on tour with The Squaw Man, an Alcazar road show, in August. They will introduce their singing in the second act. Yeulette and Olds, a new team on the Coast, is making a favorable impression in their telepathic entertainment. Burns & Howell have charge of their bookings. Millar Bacon, le jeune premier of the James Post company, will take a month's rest at Boyes Springs, Sonoma County. Next season he will be starred by the Shubert-Brady people in a new play on a serious order. Much anxiety is expressed for the safety of Harry Bernard, who left for Reno in his auto last Saturday. When last seen he was under the machine with a monkey-wrench in each hand, and telling Jim Rowe not to get nervous. James Post closes at the American tonight and will rest at Rowardenan, Jeffries' old training quarters. He says the atmosphere will fit him to handle chorus girls and comedians when he returns in September. Lew Simmons, at the Orpheum this week, with his partner. Frank White, has been on the stage for 50 years, and from present indications will round out an even century. Lew does black-face. Mike J. Kelly, producer of burlesque on the Eastern wheel, and his wife, known professionally as Chooceela, the dancer, are paying a visit to the old home, San Francisco. Tt is eight years since they crossed the Oakland ferry. They return East in August. Bert Levey has opened an office in Chicago and will operate from there. He is going to organize road shows in the Middle West and send them intact over the Coast time, which arrangement looks good. Arthur Ives, treasurer of the Orpheum Theatre, has left for Philadelphia, where he i> to he married this week to Kiddie Barrett, one of the attractive members of the 1 )e Haven Sextette, which has played two engagements in tli i s city at the Orpheum, Alexander I'antages. head of the circuit bearing his name, is off on a tour of inspection of his various houses. Bob Fitzsimmons will play over Pantages Circuit, opening in Spokane July nth, with Seattle to follow. Henry Auerbach. Charlie Reilly, Harry Ford, Jack Curtis. Maybclle Baker. Lillian Sutherland. Anna Clarke, bio Sherlock. Billic Richardson, Imogene Mansfield, Dollie Parker. Olga Harting. Katharine Kirk, Pudge Catto. Rhea Catto and Viviari Chester compose the principals and chorus of Allan Curtiss' Musical Comedy Company in Salt Lake. Thursday night, the Order of White Rats, directed by DistrictDeputy Keogh. assisted by Walter Talbot, initiated James Post, Ed Levy, Lew Huntig, Walter Trask. J. J. Leland, Phil La Tosca and several others. The San Francisco Press Club extended courtesy and the ceremony was held in their rooms. A banquet at Tait and Zinkand's followed. Over one hundred members of the order were present, and a feast of reason and a flow of soul brought forgetfulness of make-up to the merry mummers. It offered an occasion to celebrate the signing by Governor Hughes of New York the bill which protects vaudeville artists from irresponsible agents. Important Picture Houses of California and Arizona Merged Articles of incorporation of the Clune Amusement Company have recently been published in Los Angeles, and an interview with W. IT. Clune discloses the fact that he will be at the head of the new organization, which will take in his theatre at Fifth and Main Streets, the house at San Diego, the new theatre being built in Pasadena, and the new one under course of construction on Broadway, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, in this city : also the lease on the Walker Theatre on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, besides new houses are contemplated being erected in Phoenix, Ariz., Yuma, Bakersfield. and several of the smaller towns throughout Southern California. Mr. Clune controls a film exchange bearing his name, but this will not be included in the merger. Against Jewish Caricature CHARLEVOIX, Mich.. June 2.— Although the church and state com The Great Marshall Show Good Vaudeville, "That's All." Box office records at Astoria, Ore.; Eureka, Cal.; Chehalis, Wash.; Oregon City, Salem; Ore.; Albany, Ore., and then some. "There's a Reason." Returning to California for return ENGAGEMENTS. MANAGERS DESIRING A LIVE BOX OFFICE WINNER AnOKKSS EDWARD C. MARSHALL. CARE CENTRAL, THEATRE. SAN FRANCISCO, OR SEE BURNS & HOWELL ABOUT IT. Rose Hoey Stevens Prima Donna Soprano Levy's, Los Angeles. Mabel Bardine Presenting the head-line sketch, Suey San, over Orpheum Circuit. Billy OnslOW & O'Brien Eddie COMEDIANS, SINGERS AND DANCERS Week June 26th, Wigwam. San Francisco mittee of the American Rabbis' Association, which is in session here, declared today in a formal report, that individual efforts of the members to eliminate from the stage the character of Jew, have proven futile, the campaign against lampooning the Jew will be prosecuted during the coming year. Fer-Don Doctor Goes to Penitentiary SACRAMENTO. July 6. — H. Thayer Hornberg, an associate of Fer-Don, a traveling medical practioner, was sentenced to two years in San (Juentin by Judge Hughes today on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses in the treatment of patients. The Sacramento police are still looking for Fer-Don to press similar charges against him. Fer-Don is well known on the Coast as a manager of a bunch of niggers, and his record with theatre managers is not of the best. One Morning in Fresno One Tuesday morning, about 25 years ago, there was not much light in the star's room of a professional hotel in Fresno, Cal. Tt was not what the novelists call "gray dawn," hut just a little after. The star, a man of hue build, stern face, especially unusual in its dogged tinderjaw and determined mouth, was Up, standing in front of a faded mirror struggling to adjust a collar to his shirt. The collar gave good promise of proving itself too much, until by a sudden jerk the star won his point. It was characteristic of the man that he was spending as much energy in fastening that collar in place as he had given to the big scene of his scantily attended first performance of Sowing the Wind at the Fresno Theatre the night before. There being but one chair in the room, a voice from the edge of the Willard Louis Leads Jack Golden Comedy Company, Chutes Indefinite After April 3d HAROLD KITER Characters Jack Golden Co., Chutes. After January 10th bed said : "\\ ell, everything is going fine. \\ e had such a fine opening here last night that it would be foolish not to play here two nights." "Do you mean what you say, or do you mean to say that it was so literally an opening and the theatre such a perfect vacuum that we must stay in this city until we earn our railroad fares to San Francisco?" answered the star. The man sitting on the edge of the bed did not answer, although he was aware that the star had suspended operations with the collar and was glaring at him. Instead he --hook out a fresh copy of the Fresno Leader — actually the first from the press that morning'. Me turned over its pages until he found what he wanted and began to read aloud : "( )ur local stage was adorned last night — we use the word advisedly — by the presence not merely of a rising but a risen actor. In the beautiful play, Sowing the Wind, Henry Miller last night proved himself an actor of genuine feeling, poetic fervor and fine authority. True, the audience that sat within the spell of Mr. Miller's capital performance was not great in numbers, but it was discriminating in its taste and appreciative of this choice specimen of real acting," etc., etc. The man on the edge of the bfcd who read this aloud was Charles Frohman. The occasion was the early struggles of two men, who, fighting for success together, were welded together in a firm friendship that has grown firmer with the years, thanks to those early struggles.