San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW CHUTES FILLMORE, Tl RK, EDDY AND WBBSTER San Francisco's Playffround Thousands Turned Away At The Opening Wonderful Open Air Attractions Every Afternoon and Every Night ROYAL BANDA ROMA Led !>>' the Acrobatic Sirignano DESPERADO The Man Who Flirts with Death DEMON In a Ride Through Fire Down the Chutes FLORENCE SPRAY The Dainty Diver In the White Tight! A Thousand Other Diversions July 17, 1909 The Thalia A novelty in the way of Vaudeville entertainment is presented this week, namely Glasscock's elephants. These intelligent beasts perform their numerous tricks in their usual ludicrous manner. George Braun. well known locally, displays his skill as a wrestler. Eva Rowland is still a popular favorite in her terpsichorean offering. Mile. Lucille in poses plastique and many other favorites are accorded their share of approval. Nellie Hiley is heard to advantage in conjunction with the illustrated songs. Motion pictures complete the program. Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine, San Francisco Office, through Wm. P. Reese, their sole booking agent, for week of July 18, 1909: NATIONAL, San Francisco — Mabel Carew and company ; Gillihan and Murray; Wyatt and Rice; Billy Windom ; Mile. Rialta and company; Albini and Bessie Allen. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Dumitrescu-Vermette Troupe ; Virginia Grant ; Kelly and Reno ; Daring Darts ; Leo Cooper and company. BELL, Oakland — Ramsey Sisters; Frank Bacon and company ; Slater Brockman ; Seynour and Hill; Onaip. LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles— Brenon and Downing; Makarenko Troupe ; The Torleys ; Clara Thropp ; Faust Brothers. QLTEEX, San Diego — Messer Sisters ; Toma Hanlon ; Cook and Rothert ; Petroff. NOVELTY, Vallejo — Mann and Franks; M.cGloin and Shelley; Lyndon and Wren. Vaudeville Notes Manager Reiser of the Star has another strong card for this week. Madame Wanda and her troupe of coach dogs supply a most entertaining feature of the program. There are ten dogs in the troupe and they are all the more remarkable for the fact that one of them is the mother of the entire troupe.' Everybody works and Mother also. Five more are now in preparation for joining the breadearners. The Four Haydens appear in a clever tight wire offering. Their work is neat and clever. Irene Franklin contributes some cornet solos. Tannehill and Radcliffe in a song and dance turn are well up to the standard. Their singing is exceptionally good, but we know they have a far better offering. Flournoy comes in for a big share of approval in a comedy cartoon drawing act. His work is most entertaining and worthy of the applause received. Lind and La Salle are a couple of most clever club manipulators. The costuming neat and their work far above the average in their line. Mat, the Mission favorite, renders a number of songs in a likable manner, although hitting the high places now and then. Rose Stevens, a contralto, is heard to advantage in a number of vocal selections. Three reels of motion pictures complete the pt( »gram. While Mine. Coultitier was displaying her strength against that of a horse and eight men on the stage of the Silver Palace Theatre the other evening, the horse became excited and plunged into the orchestra pit and thence through the audience to the street. On his exit he slipped and kicked a hole in the marble base of the aquarium in the entrance of the house, narrowly missing the heavy plate glass which holds the water. Fortunately no one was injured. E. M. Workman and Elmer Comer have leased Fischer's Theatre in Los Angeles for five years. About August 1st musical comedy will probably be installed. Clarence E. Ellis, until recently connected with some of the largest theatrical interests in the East, is now associated with Archie Levy. Mr. Ellis, although a young man, has had a wide range of experience, having been connected with the theatrical business since his youngster days, and is one of those kind of fellows you like to meet. It is safe to say that with this combination of the old and the young school, the firm of Levy & Ellis will make a few sit up and take notice. Mr. Ellis is at present transacting all business of the firm during the absence of Mr. Levy, who has departed for New York. Sidney Amber, a young and ambitious office boy in one of the local booking offices, has formed an amateur booking agency and is doing a flourishing business. As amateurs receive from two to five dollars for their services, Sidney is starting out on a small scale to become one of our future theatrical magnates. Great Success of Chutes Opening The splendid open-air attractions that have drawn thousands of people to Fillmcre Street since the opening of the New Chutes will entertain patrons this Sunday at San Francisco's new playgrounds. Preparations have been made to handle greater crowds than those that visited the resort on the opening day. Desperado is proving one of the greatest sensations ever seen in the West. His dive from a seventyfoot tower, designed to represent a seven-story building, to the naked surface of a wooden chute, made without injury and with apparent ease, is the marvel of all who have watched the young man's performance. Florence Spray is another high diver who captures the crowds. Although the distance which she jumps is as great as that described by Desperado, she chooses water to break her fall. Clothed in tights, she stands on the topmost round of a seventy-foot ladder. The powerful searchlight which is a feature of the New Chutes directs the attention of the spectators to her location. The next moment she is whizzing through space and submerged in the diving tank. Demon is another unusual attraction at the Fillmore Street park. His ride down the chutes on a bicycle enveloped in flames is electrifying. During the afternoon performances he rides without fire. At night his descent is marked by a trail of sparks and flames which are extinguished by the plunge into the lake. Sirignano and his Royal Banda Roma arc proving an attraction as delightful to the eye as to the ear. In addition to producing fine music, Sirignano is quite a show in himself. I lis manner of conducting is unique. He does everything in the way of gentlemanly acrobatics save somersaults. Added to the divers, the fiery bicyclist and the fiery conductor, there is the myriad of fun-devices that amuse during the lapses in the open-air attractions. Everything from the clown fleas in the flea circus to the entertainers in the grill have their audiences. Vaudeville In Reno Reno, July 10. — The Grand Theatre will inaugurate a season of musical on next Monday night. Peurl Wilkerson and the company arrived from Frisco, Tuesday, and have started rehearsals for the opening bill. About Town. Charles Royal and Edythe Elliott are concluding a three weeks' vaudeville engagement and are the biggest favorites the Grand has ever played. Miss Elliott has been the recipient of many handsome floral offerings and Mr. Royal has received many flattering press criticisms, both for his clever acting and his wonderful playlets. Fer-Don and his medicine show are holding forth on a vacant lot and arc attracting big crowds. The Peterson brothers' road show are also at the Grand this week and are a capable aggregation. The weather lias cooled off a bit and business in general is good. 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