San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW March 20, 1909. Manager Harry Bishop Is Pleasing Oaklanders With Fine Performance of the College Widow The Kolb and Dill regime is in full sway at the Macdonough. and the expectations of the management are being more than realized. This week's attraction, Wiener and Schnietzel, is meeting with good patronage, but not as large as that accorded tire opening production. Some catchy songs are introduced, notably The Fegee Man and That's the Reason, Too, I Want a Kilt. The same play will continue for another week. At Ye Liberty, Geo. Ade's College Widow is playing to packed houses and is giving the very best of satisfaction. The popular college comedy is given a presentation that would reflect credit on any kind of a company, and the manner in which it was handled by our local stock shows what a really strong aggregation of players Manager Bishop has on his pay-roll ; in fact, it is the consensus of opinion that as it is constituted at present the company has better and stronger people than at any time since its formation. The two new ladies of the company, Grace Travers and Helen Lackaye, showed to excellent advantage. Not only have they a fine and attractive personality, but the}' also display a good share of ability. Isabelle Fletcher, in the title role, is up to all requirements and looked beautiful in SO.me fetching costumes. As Flora Wiggins, the waitress, Georgia Cooper is the hit of the show. Her style and make-up created a laugh every time she made her appearance. As Billy Bolton, the half-back. Landers Stevens made a typical college student and gave a performance that was finished in every detail. John Thorn, a recent addition to the company, was suffering from a severe cold and consequently could not do himself justice. E. L. Bennison and Geo. Webster created many a lautrh by their grotesque comedy work, and Geo. Friend as Stubby Talmadge, the undergraduate, was the busy student to perfection. Merely Mary Ann will follow. At the Orpheum, the same old story — capacity houses, attractive programme and everybody satisfied with the performance given. This week's bill comprises: Foy and Clark, in The Spring of Youth ; Bowers, Walters and Crooker, Agnes Mahr, Connely and Webb ; Frank Nelson, Nonette, Charles Wayne & Co., and Jwan Tschernoff's unique circus troupe. James Post and his Buty Korus are in their last week at the Novelty and are presenting a funny musical comedy entitled The Man from Tonopah. Business pretty fair. Another prominent actress has been added to the staff of Bishop's players. Her name is Katherine Mulkins and she hails from New York. LOUIS SCHEELINE. March 18, 1909. Farewell to Novelty The once-popular and moneymaking Novelty Theatre in Oakland, which has of late fallen into evil days, will on April 5th be turned into a stock house. For the past year the house has been struggling on with vaudeville, and Manager Tony Lubelski. who has tried every way to make a go of it, was compelled to relinquish control last Monday. There is $29,000 owing one of the Oakland banks ; the rent is $3,000 behind, and other debts will bring the amount owed close to $40,000. The theatre lease will be sold at auction next Monday, and it looks as though the owner of the property. Mr. Salinger, a wealthy dry goods man. will bid it in. The plan is to put Guy Smith in charge as manager, and run a stock show, American Theatre s^T^L March 21st Other matinees Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. "The Record Breaker of Last Season" Merriest of All Musical Fantasies YUM. YUM. IT'S GREAT The Gingerbread Man Music by A. Baldwin Sloane. Book by Frederick Ranken. 62 in the Matchless Company, Including such well-known Artists as ROSS SNOW. FRED NICE. MAURICE HOLDEN. GARR1CK MAJOR. LUTE VROHMAM. MAY BOUTON. ADELE ARCHER. ROSE MURRAY. ELEANOR WARING and others, with a Vast Concourse of Beautiful Show Girls and Bewitching Choristers. A Multitude of Emphatic Song Hits, Whistled and Hummed everywhere. Did you ever hear John Doe: Mazie : Beautiful Land of Bon Bon ; Moon, Moon, Moon ; Queen of My Dreams, etc. They will linger in your memory. A Medley of Mirth, Melody and Magnificence. Secure your seats in advance _ j-magnificent-spectacleY with plays mostly of a melodramatic character. Al Hallett will be the stage director, and he has selected The Fatal Wedding for the opening bill. A strong company will be engaged. So far Georgia Woodthorpe and OIlie Cooper are the only ones engaged. Annette Kellerman, the beautiful young Australian girl, whose swimming and diving feats have been the star feature of a number of vaudeville theatres in New York and Brooklyn of late, went on the stage of the Alhambra Theatre in New York. Monday night, with a forced smile, for she had just been crying her eyes out in her dressing-rooiSliiMiss Kellerman had read in the newspapers that she had been mentioned in the complaint of Mrs. Herbert Pattee of Boston in Mrs. Pattee's suit for divorce in the superior court of Boston. Mrs. Pattee's complaint alleged that Pattee used to sit for hours in the kitchen of their home at Revere Beach, drinking beer and eating crackers with Miss Kellerman, and alleged further that her husband had insisted that Miss Kellerman should live in the same house with them in Boston. "This is shameful and wicked to say such things about me," said Miss Kellerman, and as she said it tears coursed down her face. "I hardly knew Mr. Pattee. I never liked him even as a passing acquaintance. Mrs. Pattee was very friendly to me. but I hardly saw Mr. Pattee. T would meet him occasionally, but only exchanged the most ordinary greetings. I never sat in the kitchen with him. I never drank beer with him. I have not tasted a glass of beer since I have been in this country. " Moving Pictures We are the largest film renters in the West. We are the Pacific Coast representatives for The Great Northern Film Co. All feature films. Bear in mind, we do not handle second-hand films. We carry all kinds of machines and parts in stock. Film cement. 10c bottle; strip tickets, 13V4c M; roll tickets, 12%c M; electric carbons. $3.75 per C; Arco carbons. $3.75 per C; Fabrius Henri carbons, $5.00 per C; all size condensers. 75c; announcement slides of all kinds. PACIFIC COAST FILM EXCHANGE 724 Fillmore Street. Phone West 9037. Los Angeles Branch, 547 So. Broadway. 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