San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

July 16, 1910 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW LOS ANGELES, CAL Oliver Morosco's Plays Ready for Stock The Judge and the Jury The Halfbreed The Empress and the Soldier In South Car'liney Is the New Majestic a winner 7 Well, we guess yes MOROSCO'S BURBANK THEATRE Los Angeles, Cal. "The Beet in the Wett" The Leadine Stock House. Hamburger's M AJESTICTheatre The Handsomest in the West Cost $300,000.00 Oliver Morosco, Lessee & Mgr For time address John Cort Hotel St. James Cor. Van Ness Ave. and Fulton St. San Francisco, California Headquarters for Agents and Managers Half Block from Van Ness Theatre. Friars meet at the St. James every Friday night. NATIONAL HOTEL CO., Proprietors Sequel to Squaw Man Makes Fine Reading Edwin Milton Royle, the very successful playwright, has succeeded in making a success of a sequel. In The Silent Call he has traced the fortunes of the half-breed son of the hero of The Squaw Man. The book is brought out by Charles Scribner's Sons with some excellent illustrations from the characters of the play that will be produced, and with a frontispiece of Wah-na-gi, the Indian girl, who is the heroine. The story deals with the return of Harold, the son of the Earl of Kefhill, to the Colorado cattle ranch, where he was born and where his little Indian mother lies buried. It will be remembered that the young Englishman marries Na-tu-ritch, 'he full-blood daughter of Old Chief Tabiayana, and that this Indian woman shoots herself when she sees that her child must be taken away from her and that she will be arrested for murder. The young man inherits the title and estates of the old Earl and marries the English woman that he loves. There The Squaw Man ends. This new story, The Silent Call, shows how the strain of Indian blood wrecks Harold's career in the English army and sends him back to the wild, free life that he knew when he was a little boy. The savagery in his blood revolted at the iron discipline of the army and in the Boer war he disobeyed orders to win a decisive victory. But the man who gave the orders was high in rank and authority, so the subordinate was sac ificed. Incidentally, Harold had married a typical English woman of the new school, who fancied that he chief end of life was to smoke, drink and play bridge for high stakes. So he was able to leave London without any regrets, as the life of civilization jarred on him and he longed for the freedom of the old life on the cattle range. He also discovered that the great asphalt trust was laying wires to secure his father's ranch, on which a rich deposit of the mineral had been found, and that it was practically in possession, as some cowboys had sold the ranch to speculators, giving a forged deed from the Earl. The half-breed returns under the name of Calthorpc and engages himself as chief of Indian police at the agency near his old home ranch. The Indian agent, Ladd, is scheming to hand over the ranch to the trust along with some Indian lands adjoining. This Indian agent is evidently drawn from life He is a thoroughpaced villain, but his courage, resource and staying powers win the reader's admiration. He has fixed his eyes on Wah-nagi, a full-blood Indian girl of great beauty, who has just returned from school at the East and who has taken charge of the teaching of the Indian children. The girl has no parents living and no close relatives, so that the agent fancies he can carry out his schemes to secure control of her without much trouble. His only opponent is Appah, the Indian medicine man. But when Harold arrives the agent is quick to see that the Indian girl is powerfully attracted by the new chief of police. The story reveals in a very entertaining way the carefully laid plans of the half-breed to secure incriminating evidence against the Indian agent and to gain possession of his old home. The only man who knows his real name is Big Bill, the cow-puncher, who was his father's manager for many years. Important figures in the story are McShay, a saloonkeeper, and the head of a gang of border ruffians ; Cadger, the agency storekeeper ; John McCloud, the preacher who has come West in the vain hope of recovering his health ; Captain Bray, the head of the army post, and an assortment of cowboys, all drawn from life. While the story never lags, the author has an opportunity to develop his views in regard to the Indian problem. He doesn't shirk the evil history of the Western treatment of the blanket Indian of the plains, and he develops the vicious results uf the general hatred of the half-breed ; but he shows that the armv has been COMPLETE LINE OF MAKE UP STEINS, HESS, WABNESSON'B, IiECCH.il UK'S, MYERS Grease, Faints, Powders, Cold Cream, Rouges, Etc.; all Shades Wigs, Crepe Hair, Make-up Boxes, Flay Books, Madison Budget, Vaudeville Promptors Parents Stationery CO. 819 TAN NESS AVE. Deposit required on goods shipped C.O.D. square with fhe Indian, and he predicts that the present policy of teaching the Indian to make his own . way, like a white man, will succeed in the end. The author manages very well Harold's return to his English home and his experiences with his morphine-enslaved wife, who has become enamored of a young scion of nobility and is eager for a divorce. Harold is equally eager to be free in order that he may return and marry the Indian girl. This becomes possible when the woman takes an overdose by mistake and the man is free. He returns to the cattle ranch and to happiness without any regret for the title and honors in England. The story is written with so much feeling that it cannot fail to impress any sympathetic reader, and it is so saturated with the real spirit of the Western cattle ranch, the Indian reservation and the sentiment of the Indians that it cannot fail to help the cause of the race that has felt the iron hand of civilization more keenly than any other aboriginal race in modern times. Marc Klaw Back from Europe Marc Klaw returned last week to New York from London on the steamship Amerika. He had been abroad since the latter part of April. He spent most of his time in London and Paris. He was accompanied by his son Alonzo, the scenic artist, who has been making a tour of Italy, Spain and Germany. Referring to his trip abroad, Mr. Klaw said : "I Was pleased to engage Fred Terry and his wife, Julia Neilson, who are coming to America in October. They will be seen at the New Amsterdam Theatre in The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orzcy, and in another romantic comedy, Henry of Navarre, by Devereux, an American. They will be seen only in the New Amsterdam Theatre and possibly two weeks each in Philadelphia and Boston, as they must return to England for their tour, which ends about the holiday time. I made arrangements while in London for the American rights for The Count of Luxemburg, by Franz Lehar, the composer of The Merry Widow. It is having an enormous run in Vienna, and all the hotel orchestras are playing its airs. I have arranged for another musical comedy, but I cannot announce its name just now. While in London, Mr. Frohman and the firm of Klaw & Erlanger booked interests with George Edwardes and will be associated with Mr. Edwardes in his new Adelphi Theatre. A spacious theatre is to be reconstructed and redecorated with great lavishness and will no doubt be one of the handsomest theatres in Lon011 when it opens in September. Its opening production will be a musical comedy by Caryl and Monckton. Gertie Millar will head the cast, and Joseph Coyne will most likely be a principal in it. It is Mr. Edwardes' intention to produce comic opera at this house, and as Mr. Frohman and ourselves will be interested in these productions, it is more than likely that they will be seen at the New Amsterdam Theatre here with their original casts. We are likely to be interested in another theatre over WOODLAND Opera House WOODLAND, CAL. Greatest show town for good shows in the West. A few good dates open in September and October. Stage big enough for any production. Booked by Great Western Theatrical Circuit. BARCROFT Opera House, Merced Entirely remodeled. New stage, big enough for any production. Stage equipped with new scenery. Merced has 4,000 population. 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F. there, as Oswald Stoll, the managing director of the Moss Circuit, is looking around for a house for American productions, such as Ben Hur, The Round-Up and other big plays. It looked at one time as if we would secure the Lyceum Theatre in London for that purpose, but that plan fell through, and it is now a question of obtaining a suitable site to erect one. One of the finest plays I saw in London," said Mr. Klaw, "was Sir A. Conan Doyle's The Speckled Band. Charles Frohman has the American rights, and I predict a big success for it in New York and other cities on this side of the Atlantic." Spotlights Word comes from Chicago that Harry Askin, President of the La Salle Opera House Company, has entered into an agreement with Addison Burkhardt, Collin Davis and Jos. E. Howard, to grind out musical plays exclusively for the La Salle Theatre. The first of the series will be presented on August 18th. Manager Askin will have the stage remodeled, and the entire theatre will be redecorated. The new play is well under way, so say the authors, the name of which is withheld. Several well-known musical comedy stars will be seen in the first production. Among the stars for the season at the Columbia Theatre are Rose Stahl, Francis Starr, Lillian Russell, and Ethel Barrymore.