San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

July 16, 1910 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW Correspondence Smith have a playlet entitled Hiring a Gardener. Good motion pictures complete bill. Grand — (Walter J. Fulkerson, mgr.) — Manager Fulkerson has a good bill on this week, which is composed of the following: Tillie Zick, comedienne ; Archie Shirley and company in The Coon and the Swede ; Prof. De Silva, musical act. Motion pictures complete bill. LUXDOUIST. SACRAMENTO, July 14.— Henrietta Crosman comes to the Clunie on Saturday, 16. At the Pantages Theatre this week the Bramsons do a hoop-rolling act which is a novelty and a clever display of skill. The Lucier company of musicians, featuring J. R. Lucier, a blind man, is the most entertaining number on the bill. Lucier and his sister are cornetists of exceptional ability. Another feature is Breugk's Parisian Models. There are three men and three women, and their work is artistic and clean. Edith Melvin sings several solos, and a skit is presented by the Billy Inman company. Its title is Recognition. The Grand does itself proud this week. Girls in blackface, introducing the oldtime negro minstrel stunts, under the title of The Watermelon Curls, are featured. Some of the best stunts in balancing and tumbling that have been seen here are clone by the Strength brothers. Calvert Dean and Leta Price have a college sketch which they make the most of. A hot fire of race-track slang and repartee makes up the number of Tom Haverly and Evelyn Wells. The offering is full of life. Fitzgerald and ( )'Dell appear as The Daffy Dusties. At the Wonderland Little Johnny Busch gets all the applause. Johnny does imitations of Harry Lauder and they are good. He is only eight years old. A sketch without much sub stance to it, but amusing, is played by The Longfellows. Swor and Westbrook do a comedy stunt and George Stanley sings. Helen Byron is a tremendous hit with her superb singing. By an agreement filed in the office of County Recorder Root Monday afternoon, C. A. and C. W. Alisky have relinquished to Alex. Pantages all their right, title and interest in the co-partnership formerly existing between them. The document simply means that Pantages has bought out his partner Alisky. All interest that Alisky had in the theatre is now held by Pantages. The Pantages Theatre was erected four years ago by Alisky. The ground upon which it is built is owned by Mrs. Louis Brenner, and was leased by Alisky for a period of ten years. The agreement filed yesterday transfers Alisky's interest in the lease to Pantages. SAN JOSE, July 12.— The Ed Redmond Company is playing The Devil. Of course this is serious as any subject dealing with Hell, and any of its disciples must needs be. Verna Felton is playing the young wife and she gives a powerful, emotional depiction of the part. Kernan Kripps is immense as his Santanic Majesty. Kripps has developed into a mighty fine leading man. A new member of the stock. Miss Van Meeker, is playing the model most charmingly. Cliff Thompson and Charley Yule are doing their usual good work. Next week. Merely Mary Ann. At the Garden Theatre, the Hallett-Mockbee forces are giving a strong, vivid performance of Sapfao. Virginia Brissac is a very good Sapho, and Munier Paul, Angelo, Hallett and Mockbee give excellent support. At the Victory Theatre the American Musical Comedy Company are playing Fiddle Dee Dee. Bert La Blanc in the old Barney Bernard part is the hit of the show. Personal Mention Wilfred Roger who has been playing Manson in The Servant in the House for Henry Miller, is vacationing at the home place in Mountain View, between this city and San Jose. Hakkv Stuart writes from Honolulu that he is enjoying himself in the island paradise greatly. He is with the musical comedy company sent dow n there two weeks ago. Mrs. Harry L. Rattenberry died in Santa Cruz last Wednesday after an illness of several months. She was the mother of Miss Corrinne Rollins, a vocalist of this city. Mr. Rattenberry is a well-known actor and singer, having been one of the original cast in Pinafore when that opera was produced at the old Tivoli in this city. ( )f late years he has been connected with various local stocks. The funeral of Mrs. Rattenberry will take place in Mrs. GEORGE J. GOULD gave a dinner on her daughter's wedding day for thirty-eight aged actors and actresses in the Actor's Fund Home, on Staten Island, not long ago. Ever since the time she was a member of the late Augustin Daly's company she has often remembered her friends in the Home, and it was quite natural that she should remember them as Marjorie Gould was becoming the bride of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. The dinner was given in the Actors' Home. The first toast, which was proposed by "Daddy" Bauer, the oldest guest of the home, was "To the beautiful bride and the richest blessing which she so richly deserves." A toast to Mrs. < rould was offered by her old associate at Daly's Theatre, "Billy" Gilbert, in which he called her, "A shining light to all women in the beauty of her life as wife and mother." Other toasts were drunk to the Board of Directors of the Home and of the Actors' Fund. A congratulatory telegram was sent to Mrs. Gould. Lord William John Lydston Poitlett and his bride, who formerly adorned the English stage as Sylvia Storey, arrived here Saturday .on the Chiyo Maru, after a trip around the world, during which they visited the countries of the Orient. It was in 1908 that the Earl, who was then 23 vears of age, was captivated by the charms of Sylvia Storey, and made her his Countess at what was described as "a very quiet wedding" at St. James'. Piccadilly. Countess Poulett had appeared in The Gay Gordons, a production which rivaled the Florodora sextet in the matrimonial fortunes of its members, and her marriage to the Earl was the sensation of English society at the time. I hit in the matter of hasty marriages the young Earl could hardly have equaled the record of his father, who, one hot summer night at an officers' mess in Portsmouth, accepted a wager of £500 that he would not marry the first woman he met on the street. It was late at night, but William Henry Poulett went out on the street to meet his bride and win the bet. Ik' met the daughter of a coast pilot on her way home, and married her. Six months after the wedding a child was born, whom the indignant husband of the pilot's daughter refused to recognize as his heir. But the boy grew up, and has annoyed the family by appearing on the streets with a barrel organ with an inscription stating that he was the legitimate Earl of Poulett. His rights and those of the young husband of Sylvia Storey were recently litigated, the case being carried to the House of Lords, where the organ grinder lost. Earl Poulett and his charming bride determined upon a trip around the world, soon after their wedding, and since then have been enjoying a vacation from England. PLAYS FOR STOCK AU Big Money Getters Great Western Play Agency WM. MAXWELL, Manager Van Ness Theatre Building, San Francisco, Cal. BEFORE THE GRINGOS CAME Comedy-Drama of the West ALL DUE TO DIANA Farce BY KINGLY FAVOR Romantic Comedy STRENGTH OF THE WEAK Florence Roberts' Great Success SMITHY College Baseball Play UNDER THE MAGNOLIAS Comedy Drama