San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

i6 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW May 15, 1909 ...Now Booking The New Play... Open As The Sun Address ARTHUR C. AISTON in August Went Down By George D. Baker Sole Owner Room 304 1505 Broadway N.Y. City Tel. 941 Bryant Personals Helen Brandon is heading a repertoire show in Wyoming. Charles Swickard has resigned from the Kolb & Dill company in Los Angeles and will be in this city this week. David Phillips has been signed by Fred Belasco for the Alcazar stock of this city, to succeed Bertram Lytell as leading man. De Wolf Hopper quits the Shuherts after the present Chicago engagement and goes with Dan Arthur in a new piece — The Pied Piper. Scott Seaton, the ex-actor and manager, who is now a real estate capitalist, has lately moved into a dandy new home at '3130 College avenue, Berkeley. Zeffie Tilbury, Neil O'Brien and Bud Woodthrope, who have been with Nat C. Goodwin for a number of seasons, are all in the production of The Easterner. Louis Thompson, the juvenile man, will hereafter be professionally known as Corbett Morris. He opened Monday with the Charles King company in Long Beach. Manager Ed. Hoen of Fresno spent last week in San Francisco, as did Manager Shaw of the Margarita Theatre in Eureka. Mr. Shaw has taken over Perry Girton's interest in that playhouse. Inez Ragan, who has been playing ingenues with Joseph De Grasse, will, at the close of the present season, go to New York to accept an engagement with one of Wrn. P. Cullen's musical comedy companies. Brenda Fowler has been playing this last winter in vaudeville in and around New York. She was with Minnie Palmer in Sweethearts. Miss Fowler is now playing with the Mildred Holland Stock at the Colonial Theatre, Cleveland, O. Adelaide Prince, once prominent in the Augustine Daly Company, is now appearing in support of John Drew in the production of Jack Straw. Another clever woman with the organization is Mary Boland, who will be remembered as Robert Edeson's leading woman. Col. Billy Thompson is back from Los Angeles and the South. While in the Angel city, where the Burns-Johnson fight pictures went big, the police stopped selling standing room six times. The Colonel while in Los Angeles put over an unique stunt. He gave a midnight performance of the pictures, which was extremely well attended. A representative of Charles Frohman has announced that William Gillette, owing to poor health, would not be able to play next season and that when he appeared again it would be for a brief farewell to the stage. This farewell tour will be followed by Mr. Gillette's permanent retirement as an actor. His future, it is said, will be occupied in the direction of a theatre in New York in association with Mr. Frohman. After the close of his present tour, Mr. Gillette will go to Tyron, N. C, to recuperate. He will stay there for a short time, and on May 8 will sail for Europe. Among the plays in which Mr. Gillette will be seen on his farewell tour will be Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes, Too Much Johnson, Held by the Enemy, and The Private Secretary. Arthur Cunningham has been secured by Manager Walter Hoff Seely for the Valencia Theatre forces and will open an extended engagement in a favorite Irish play Monday evening. May 31. W. T. Sheehan, Joseph Murphy's former stage manager, and who will be pleasantly remembered for his clever work in Kerry Gow and Shaun Rhue, will return with Mr. Cunningham, who will doubtless receive a welcome that will raise the roof. A characteristic Myles McCarthy note on our desk the other day is interesting. It says : Just dropped in to say "Howdy." First time in Frisco since 1903, when I played the old Orpheum, headlining the bill. Running around now shaking hands with old friends and incidentally trying to make new ones. Been living on a ranch near Sacramento for the past fortnight trying to accustom myself to ranch life, but the old footlight thing is tugging hardest. Can qualify as — "Still Hankering." At the end of her tour in The Morals of Marcus to the Pacific Coast, Marie Doro will take advantage of her presence in the extreme west to visit Honolulu. Miss Doro's real wish is that her company shall go with her that she may act in Honolulu, but this is, improbable. When Miss Doro makes her bow before a San Francisco audience in The Morals of Marcus it will be her first appearance here as a star. About five years ago she was a member of the Daly Musical Comedy Company at the California Theatre. Francis Boggs was in town from Los Angeles last week, where he is conducting a studio for the Selig Polyscope Co. of Chicago. Mr. Boggs has been with these moving picture people for the past two years and says it beats the acting game all to pieces. It will be remembered that Mr. Boggs was for eight years a most popular stock leading man for Chicago. While here Mr. Boggs signed for moving pictures Frank Montgomery, Henry Auerbach, Helena Griffin and Neva West for a season of special work in Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Pacific Coast. Spotlights Lincoln J. Carter has sold his Criterion theatre property on Sedgwick street, near Division, Chicago, to Earl H. Macoy, president of the National Printing and Engraving Company, for $76,500. The property is one of the best known on the north side and has been owned by Mr. Carter for a number of years. Mr. Macoy is said to have made the purchase as an investment. Little Zena Kiefe and Jesse Mendelson, two of the talented children who made such hits in Peter Pan, have been especially engaged for the orphans in York State Folks at the Valencia Theatre. Arthur Sidman, author of York State Folks, which will be produced next week at the Valencia, was the originator of the immortal conundrum, "Why is a mouse that spins?" to which the answer is, "Because the higher the fewer." A large building, possibly a new theatre, will soon be put up on the site of the Star Theatre, Tacoma, says John C. Donnelly, the owner, who has returned from an extensive trip to Southern California. "The lease has been out since the first of the year and I will not let the present building stay there long. I wish to build but I do not know what I shall put up." When asked if he would build the Shubert theatre building, provided John S. Baker does not do so, Mr. Donnelly said he had not yet given the matter consideration. Assistant Secretary of War Oliver has decided that Sergeant George A. Reed and Private George J. Ackerman of the Third Infantry band at Fort Lawton may accept employment in an orchestra playing at a Seattle dancing academy. Oliver sets forth in his decision that army musicians are prohibited from taking engagements outside the reservation only when to do so throws them into competition with civilians. He holds that the regulation has not been violated in this case because the services of the two men were solicited, the proprietor asserting that he cannot employ union men and needed the soldiers. In order to reach this city in due time for his date at the Van Ness Theatre, John Drew will have to make a long jump from the middle west, where he is now appearing. San Francisco will be one of the first cities in the country, outside of New York, to* see Drew in his newest success, Jack Straw. Ethel Barrymore has just closed her engagement at Powers' Theatre, Chicago, and has started west for this city. She will appear in her latest triumph. Lady Frederick, at the Van Ness Theatre early next month. The Liars, as presented by Mary Hall and associate players at the Colonial this week ranks with the best offerings by the capable stock organization, if it is not the best. Miss Hall is admiraby adapted to the part of Lady Jessica, and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Heffron, as Sir Deering and Edward Falkner, share honors in splendidly handled parts. Miss Hall was charming through the entire four acts and her costumes were entrancing to the feminine portion of her audience. Mr. Baldwin was the altogether delightful bachelor that was demanded of him. He was exceptionally well cast as Sir Christopher. Of Mr. Heffron's work rather lavish terms are necessary. He shared to the fullest extent the honors of the leading role. Of the support it is difficult to choose, all doing acceptable work throughout the progress of the story. Mr. AIcine, Anna Cleveland, Bessie Hunter, Callie Gates and Mr. Millar are all strong in their support while the others of the players are lacking in no particular. The opportunities center about Miss Hall, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Heffron and leave only little for the others of the cast. — Deseret News, Salt Lake, April 20. Joseph De Grasse presented Romeo and Juliet at Grass Valley, May 3, to fair business. The Menzel stock, headed by Kernan Cripps, now playing Swain's theatre^ Santa Cruz, will open on May 24 at the Empire theatre, Fresno. The Redmond company on that date will open at the Victory theatre in San Jose for the summer. The PlaceBell company will take the place of the Menzel company in Santa Cruz. Correspondence FRESNO. May 5.— Barton Th atre (R. G. Barton, mgr.) — Ni Goodwin and Edna Goodrich, 4, 1 small but highly pleased audience; Ferris Hartman, in It Happened in Nordland, 6; Burns-Johnson fight pictures, 8-9. Novelty Theatre (Sut* livan & Considine booking) Vaud* ville to fair business. Empire Th£ atre (E. Hoen ,mgr.) — Ed Redmond company. Bijou, Star and National ■ — Moving pictures. ' LONDON, May 1.— Three new theatrical productions were seen in London during the week just closed. The best received was The Arcadians, a musical comedy of high order and original lines, which Charles Frohman will take to America soon. Another musical comedy, A Parisian Princess, is of a more conventional type, its chief novelty being an appearance of a camel on the stage. A. Seymour Hicks revived the military drama, One of the Best, with Henry Airley taking the leading part. H. Beerbohm Tree revived Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Tree appearing as Dr. Stockman, an impersonation well known in America. Byde-a-Wyle Theatre J J Long Beach, Cala. FRANK M. CLARK, LESSEE and MANAGER THE MOST DELIGHTFUL WINTER AND SUMMER RESORT IN LOWER CALIFORNIA POPULATION 30,000 SEATING CAPACITY 1,000 STAGE 40 FT., 37 FT. DEPTH WILL PLAY FIRSTCLASS ATTRACTIONS PERCENTAGE ONLY The Only Family Resort Now Playing Popular Vaudeville