San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

May 22, 1909 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 3 Warwick Is Figure In Domestic Row Chicago, May 13. — Chicago friends of the beautiful Mrs. Arline Peck Bien are discussing with lively interest and some difference of opinion the mention of the name of her husband. Robert l!ien, in the domestic difficulties of George \\ hittell, Jr.. the San Francisco millionaire, and his former wife, and James K. Hackett and his wife. Mary Mannering. Bien is with Grace George's theatrical company, his stage name being Robert Warwick. Whittell, it is said, has sought to remarry his divorced wife. A divorce suit is pending between the Hacketts and Hackett has subpoenaed Warwick as a witness in his behalf. Mrs. Bien and members of the Peck family have always denied emphatically that their domestic relations are anything but the pleasantest. Warwick has been in Chicago since Wednesday noon, yet so far has failed to pay a visit to his wife and six-yearold daughter at the Peck Mansion in Michigan avenue. Mrs. Bien said today that she did not know he was in the city. Ferdinand W. Peck, Jr., brother of Mrs. Bien, was shown a dispatch yesterday in which Warwick's name was linked with that of Mrs. Whittell. "Who is Mrs. Whittell?" he asked. "I never heard of the woman before in my life.'' When told that she was an actress and the former wife of a San Francisco millionaire, Peck said : "I do not know anything about Warwick's connection with the case, for the name of Whittell has never been discussed in the family. I do not believe my sister knows any more about the woman than I do." "Warwick is now in Chicago; is he visiting with Mrs. Bien?" he was asked. "Mr. Warwick has not been here for years, that is, he has not been in Chicago, except for a few hours when passing through the city. Xo, he never comes out to the house." Mrs. Whittell. formerly Josephine Cunningham, chorus girl, is the divorced wife of George Whittell, Jr., a son of millionaire George Whittell, owner of the Whittell Building and an immense amount of other San Francisco real property. The Whittells were married five years ago. After two stormy years they were divorced. Recently they met again and there was talk of a remarriage, but Mrs. Whittell has ended the prospect of a second honeymoon with the young San Franciscan by returning to the stage. Conreid Has Odd Funeral-Impresario Buried from Metropolitan Opera House New York, May 13. — Elaborate services were arranged for the funeral of Henry Conreid in the Metropolitan Opera House today. Of the 10,000 persons who have received tickets of admission, only a third were able to gain admission, and the police reserves were necessary to prevent confusion. The funeral was one of the most noteworthy held in New York in many years. The Metropolitan Opera orchestra, numbering 130 pieces, played Beeth6ven's Funeral March, after which there was a scriptural reading by Rabbi Stephan S. Wise. The boy choir from Parsifal sang two selections, and Mines. Rappold and Homer and Messrs. Martin and Blass and the Metropolitan Orchestra gave Handel's Largo. The orchestra concluded with Chopin's Funeral March. Many prominent men were among the pallbearers. Mrs. Conreid. who was with the former Metropolitan Opera Company director when he died recently in Austria, with other relatives occupied boxes in the opera house. Spotlights Jack Gleason. prizefight promoter, baseball magnate and playwright, Frank McGlynn, actor, and William A. Hogan and J. T. Clark, angels, are co-defendants in a lawsuit. The complaint is the result of the recent production of Right's Might, written by Gleason and McGlynn. The plaintiff is the Western States Amusement Co., of which Abe Cohn is manager. The play is indirectly charged with failure to provide. The story goes that it did not pay its rent. Cohn is looking for $317.35, which he claims is due the theatre anent the production of Right's Might. During the week the play gathered between $1,200 and $1,500. The theatre management claims to have received $1,432.65 on the $1,750 contract. Gleason, it is said by one of the bondsmen, claims certain offsets as running against the theatre management's statement of indebtedness. "At the Netherlands Monday night," says a dispatch from Xew York, "Geraldine Farrar, the American diva, her father, Sidney D. Farrar, Antonio Scotti and other friends were at dinner. Miss Farrar was looking intently at Mr. Scotti as she hummed the opening bars of La Traviata. A friend who observed the smiling glances exchanged by the two singers asked if it was true that there would be a June wedding in Paris. Miss Farrar told her questioner that she would answer' the query from the Kronprinz Wilhelm Tuesday night. The reply was received by this friend today. It was that Miss Farrar will be married in June to Mr. Scotti." Bruce McRae is again Ethel Barrymore's leading man in W. Sommerset Naughan's three-act comedy. Lady Frederick, in which Charles Frohman will present Miss Barrymore at the Yan Xess Theatre a few weeks hence. He is seen as a middle-aged Englishman of an excellent country family, who has lead rather a gay life and now seeks the hand of Lady Frederick. Yera Michelena's marriage to Pat Shindler, musical director of the company in which she has been playing this season, has become known. Henry W. Savage intends to send a special orchestra of twenty men to this city with the production of The Merry W idow. These instrumentalists in conjunction with the regular WIGS ALL MAKES, GREASE PAINTS, POWDERS, ROUGE Largest Line on Pacific Coast. 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Hamburger's MAJESTICTheatre The Handsomest in the West Co 300,000.00 Oliver Morosco, Lessee .S; Mgr For time address John Cort The Garrick Theatre San Diego, Cal. MOROSCO & WYATT. Lessees and Mgrs. splendid orchestra of the Yan Xess should be heard to fine advantage in the famous musical hit. Three of Charles Frohman's leading stars will follow one another at the Van Ness Theatre. They are John Drew, Ethel Barrymore and Marie Doro. The Actors' Fund of America 28th Annual Meeting took place Tuesday, May nth at 2 p. m., at the Gaiety Theatre. Broadway and 4' )th streets. Election of officers for the ensuing year, reports of the president, secretary and treasurer, and a general resume of business for the past year claimed attention at the meeting. Samuel S. Partello, a well known all around show man who knows the West thoroughly, arrived from Chicago last week. Ernest Yan Pelt has rejoined the Kolb and Dill Company in Los Angeles. ersona s Mark Smith, leading man of the Traveling Salesman Company, playing at the Park Theatre, Boston, was married at noon May 9 in the Cathedral rectory to Miss Anna Muriel Feeney, who, for the last three years, has been playing with Marie Cahill in The Boys and Betty Company. Smith is twenty-four years old and the son of Mark Smith of the old Boston Theatre Company. The bride is twenty-two and was born in San Francisco. The best man was Fdward Earle, and among those present were Chester Webb and James O'Neill, Jr. The bride is to retire from the stage and make her home at 162 West Ninetyninth street. Xew York City. David M. I Iakti'okd, the stage director of the Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, has invented an automatic lighting machine for lighting the gas lamps of automobiles, railway cars and houses without the bother of striking a match. The driver, without leaving his seat, can light or extinguish the lamps at pleasure by simply pressing a button. .Sir. Hartford's invention also provides a controlled supply of the gas, so that the illumination is steadily maintained at whatever degree of force desired. Carlton Taylor, the electrician of the theatre, worked out the idea practically and is interested in the financial success of the invention. New Oxnard Opera House OXNARD, CAL. MANAGERS TAKE NOTICE NO More Bum Stage Here Can Stage Anything Write for Open Dates GEO. P. AUSTIN .... Manager GONZALES OPERA HOUSE GONZALES. CAL. New, well appointed theatre, electric lighted. full stock of new scenery. M. C. CLARK. Mgr. NEW CONCORD THEATRE Just completed and ready for traveling troupes. For information inquire of P. DE FREITAS, Concord Hotel, Concord, Cal. Phone Main 353. 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. NEW DIAMOND THEATRE BLACK DIAMOND. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. CAL. C. CIPOLLA. Manager The coal mining town; good stage; seats 500 people; rental, or will play first-class companies on percentage. For information apply to 411 Monigomery Ave., City. Hill Opera House PETALUMA. CAL. JOHN R. ROCHE, Lessee and Manager The finest theatrical town outside of the big cities in the West. Magnificent new theatre, with stage large enough for any attraction, playing regularly from $50u to $700 a night. Booked by Great Western Theatrical Circuit. 287 Thirteenth St., S. F. BARCROFT °Pera House, Merced Entirely remodeled. New stage, big enough for any production. Stage equipped with new scenery. Merced has 4,000 population. For time write F. R. BARCROFT. Manager. Santa Cruz K£ Santa Cruz, Cal. L. A. KNIGHT, Manager Rental or will play first-class companies on percentage H. Lewln GOKDAN H. Oppenhelm TAILORING CO. (Formerly 1124 Market St.) 1539 Fillmore St. Bet. O'Farrell and Geary San Francisco. Cal. Slightly Worn Wardrobe FOR STAGE PURPOSES Ladles' Handsome Evening Gowns and Opera Coats; good as new; In latest styles. Men's Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits. MRS. H. JACOBS, 1050 Golden Gate Avenue, formerly of Sixth Street. Phone Park 707.