San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

July 16, 1910 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW Correspondence EL PASO, Tex., July 11.— The Airdome (Crawford & Rich, mgrs.) : The Airdome Company presented The Married Widow for week ending July 9th. Charlie LeRoy is producing manager and is delivering the goods. Four weeks ago the show they put up was something awful, but he has things worked out nicely now and is giving fine satisfaction. Lillian Shattuck has a sweet singing voice and is warmly received. Fannie Adler and Josephine Melville are also worthy of mention. Harry De Yere is cast for an old man's part this week and acquits himself with credit. Edward Flynn and James Peck deserve special mention. Washington Park (Crawford & Rich, mgrs.) : Pike attractions plaved to big business on July 4th. GEO. A. MANSFIELD. SEATTLE, Wash., July ii.— Moore Theatre : Dark. Next week Willie Collier will be seen in A Lucky Star. Alhambra Theater : The darkness..** the Alhambra Theatre will be lifted for a few nights this week, when Golden Hair will be presented On Friday and Saturday. The pupils of the Holy Names Academy gave this pretty little opera at the Moore several weeks ago and scored such a success that it was decided to repeat it. The piece was elaborately staged and costumed and some exceptional talent wash displayed by the young players. (Grand Theatre) : Bonita and her company will change their bill tonight to Playing the Ponies. In spite of warm weather, business is good. Seattle Theater: From musty archives The Hidden Hand has been dragged forth and with its ghostly and mysterious atmosphere is being presented by the Seattle Stock Company. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth's novel has been made into a play or five acts and fifteen scenes, and the long-drawn-out story is only save from monotony by intelligent acting of the Russell & Drew forces. The complex character of Capitola is well portrayed by Miss Tyrell, who looks very pretty in her oldfashioned clothes. Mr. Kelly is to be commended for good work as the irascible old Southerner, Major Kelly, while Mr. Boardman is a sufficiently villanious looking Black Donald. Lois Theatre : From Romeo and Juliet to The Corner Grocery is the jump taken by the Lois Stock Company, and they show to just as good advantage in the comedy as they did in last week's tragedy. Everyone scores heavily, Harry Cummings especially coming in for lots of laughs as the bad boy who meanders around the stage eating real fruit and dainties from the corner grocery. Miss Mullalley was a very merry little messenger boy and won applause by her song, When You Leave Little Old New York You're Only Camping Out. New jokes and songs make everything go with a vim and there are going to be packed houses at the Lois this week. (Orpheum) : Annette Kellerman leads the Orpheum bill, "the diving Venus" having yielded to popular demand for a second week. The four Fords, the most beautiful dancing act in vaudeville, is only one of several features. Among the others are the Police Inspector, a playlet builded on The Third Degree; Mr. and Mrs. Jack McGreevy, in a rube violin act; Granville and Rogers, two good fun makers ; Josie Heather, a dashing little English comedienne, and Fennel and Tyson, who are also extraordinary entertainers. (Majestic) : Henry Lee, impersonator, leads the Majestic bill. Lee makes up to resemble many of the world's greatest personages, and his act is very highly spoken of. Tim McMahon's Pullman car maids are eight dancing and singing girls in blackface. Alice Mortlock, with her company, is seen in a tabloid drama entitled The Other Woman. Lew Hoffman is a juggling eccentrique, and Musical Irving is a comedian with a lot of fine music at his command. George O'Malley offers a line of new dances. E. MORGANSTERN. SPOKANE, Wash., July 11.— The White Squaw, with Delia Clarke, at The Auditorium Theatre 8-10 to fair business. Night of 14th the Ancient Order of Hibernians will give a benefit performance. Those prominent on the program are Jessie Shirley and George D. McOuarrie of the Jessie Shirley Stock Company, who played at The Auditorium for four years. Pauline Sain and Mrs. H. VV. Gilbert, Adelaide Laird, Racy Kilmer, Mrs. George W. Manning, Hugh Windus, John Gorman and Mrs. C. C. McEachran, William Collier in A Lucky Star 25-26. Love Route is the offering at The Spokane by The Sandusky Lawrence Stock Company, Mr. Lawrence and Jane Kelton in the leading roles. The company are well cast, and, as usual, opened to a packed house. Next week, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Jimmy Lucas and Josephine Shields are headliners at the ' Orpheum this week. They come in Gus Sohlke's Bama Bama Girls in the musical frivolity, Toyshop Pastimes. Franklyn Underwood and Frances Slosson in Jack London's latest vaudeville sketch, A Wicked Woman, Stepp, Mehlinger King presenting an original idea in music, comedy and song. The Brahm's Phantograph is something new. Lou Anger German, comedian; Mildred Morton in a singing act entitled The Belle of the Season ; a trio of gymnasts, Wentworth, Vesta-Teddy and Orpheum pictures. The Washington offers an excellent bill : Beatrice McKenzie, Walter Shannon and company head the bill ; Harry and Elsie Mayville present scenic novelties; it is a real miniature show upon a real miniature stage. Lozelle, the great aerial gymnastic feats. Al Lawrence in songs, parodies and a budget of new stories ; Harry Leeds and Trixie LeMar are Australian premier comedy artists. Black-McCune are acrobatic comiques. The Sisters McCarte are the feature act at Pantages in their Japanese scenic production. The three sisters have just arrived from Europe, this being their first engagement in America. Frank Milton and DeLong Sisters present a musical comedy sketch entitled Twenty Minutes Layover at Alfalfa Junction. It is a clever singing, talking and comedy act. Murphy-Francis, colored singers-dancers. Kelly-Ashby, a comedy acrobatic act, entitled Full in a Billiard Room. Letitia Sartoris, foremost song interpreter, is making her American debut under the direction of the well-known impressario, Charles Zig Schye, and is said to possess a wonderful voice. The estimated attendance at Natatoriun's Park to hear Signor Liberati and his famous band, which opened a two-weeks engagement at the park Sunday was from 13,000 to 15,000. Liberati has the most complete company of grand-opera singers and soloists who represent the galaxy of that profession, and it is a rare treat to music-lovers. John Cort, head of the National Theatre ( hvners Association, was in Spokane Saturday and states that Spokane will see about 100 new plays before the season is over. Many of these are good attractions that have not been seen in this part of the country for years. George L. Baker of the Baker Theatre, Portland, Ore., was also in the city in conference with Mr. Cort and Manager Charles York of the Spokane Theatre. Mr. Baker states that the Baker Stock Company will appear at the Spokane Theater September 4th in a sixmonths engagement, with Franklin Underwood as leading man. The Lawrence Stock Company will close its six-months engagement at the Spokane Theatre September 1st; will start immediately afterward on the road plaving Going Some. SMYTH. HenryMcRae in the Orient In a short conversation with Henry McRae at the Press Club's banquet a few nights ago, I learned the following, I say short, conversation because Mr. McRae was in constant conversation with Bob Fitzsimmons, Battling Nelson, Hugh Mcintosh and Tommy Burns. 1 thought, perhaps, that he was arranging another world's championship bout, but when I finally got his ear he simply informed me that he was discussing a six-round boxing exhibition that he pulled off in I lonolulu between Lang and Burns under the direction of Hugh Mcintosh, when these worthies of the prize ring were on their way from Sydney to the big fight in Reno. Was it a success? "Sure," said McRae," everything that is good and real is a success in Honolulu. Talk about God's country, that is the one spot on earth that can truly be called such, from a standpoint of all that is beautiful. It is unnecessary for me to go into detail with regard to the entertaining and hospitable characteristics of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands. They simply lie awake nights thinking up some way to entertain or amuse those of us who are fortunate enough to visit their wonderful land. Their entire existence is one of perpetual joy. We would be awakened in the morning by an Octette of the natives singing some Hawaiian song (and believe me they are all blessed with wonderful voices) to be informed that we would have to accompany them on a shark fishing expedition off the coast of Diamond Head, on the Island of ( )ahu. Shark fishing is glorious sport and greatly enjoyed by the natives. About three or four o'clock in the afternoon we would return for a plunge at Waikiki Beach (truly one of the most beautiful and wonderful bathing resorts in the world), where we enjoyed an entirely new experi ence, that of surf riding in an outrigger canoe. From there we would be hurried away in automobiles to a lean (a native feast), where everybody eats with the fingers. Then we would return to the Opera House to work; I hardly feel justified in using this term, as it certainly did not seem like work, although we played two bills a week for fifteen weeks, presenting such plays as Taming of the Shrew and Faust, pieces that require study, and hard study at that. But as Miss Oswald, my leading woman, and Louis Morrison, on who's shoulders the hardest part of the work fell, were familiar with their parts, it was comparatively easy for the remainder of the company, We were received with such appreciation by the Ilawaiians that 1 have booked a return date of four weeks in October on my way to the Orient. I have arranged to play I lonolulu ; Milo, on the island of Hawaii ; and from there we return to Honolulu to embark on a ten days' sail to Yokohama, From there we play Nagasaki ; then over to China, playing Shanghai, Pekin, Tientsin, Hongkong, Canton and Macao. From there we go to Manila for five weeks, playing the Grand Opera House, which has a capacity of four thousand. From Manila we return to Hongkong ; then play Singapore, Penang, Rangoon, Calcutta, Madras, all in India. From Madras we sail to the Island of Ceylon, plaving Colombo. From Colombo we sail direct to Australia, playing all of the coast towns, such as Albany, Freemantle, Adelaide, Victoria, Melbourne, Sydney, then up to Brisbane and back to Sydney, playing a return date, and sailing from there to New Zealand, a four-days' sail over a very rough sea. In New Zealand we play Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. From New Zealand we start on our homeward journey, playing Pago Pago, on the Island of Somoa, then Suva on Fiji, from which port we sail direct to Honolulu, playing four weeks return engagement, and then back to dear old 'Friscowhich, later, notwithstanding the attractiveness of the beautiful Orient always appeals to a wandering tbespian. By that time the beautiful Oswald Theatre, which is now being built for me in Tacoma, will be ready for opening-" Verner in Europe BREMEN, Germany. June 28.— My dear Farrell : I send you a few jottings of my little trip over to see the much talked of passion play. Of course I must see what's going on and how the crucifixion is done, as I want some day to work the trick on one or two rogues I've tried to do business with, and found out that they were doing all the do in the arrangement. I shall have a pleasant summer short jaunt over Europe, and return to New York for the coming season. Things are coming my way again, and when they do, why I have the laugh at some duffers whom I've had to mix with in my journey through the shadows. Best luck. C. G. VERNER. Pillars of Society will be the closing play of Mrs. Fiske's engagement this Saturday night at the Columbia Theatre, where the piece has made a most pronounced hit. The Saturday matinee will be devoted to Becky Sharp.