San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

December i8, 1909 THE SAX FRANCISCO DRAMATIC" RIA IKW 13 B B B B B B B a a a a a a a The big scene from Geo. H. Cohan's wcord-breaking success, 45 Minutes from Rroadivay Forty-five Minutes From Broadway Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Geo. M. Cohan's musical production, opens at the Savoy Theatre on Sunday next. Plain Mary needs no introduction to San Francisco. She is a favorite everywhere, presenting a human characterization that has always appealed. In the hands of Eliza beth Drew this plain, loyal-hearted domestic has been pronounced wonderfully pathetic and convincing. Kid Burns, with his wonderfully expressive slang phrases, is another character that has and shall always make an immense hit. Charley Brown as the Kid has been received with open arms all over the country, and has been described by critics as a worthy successor to Geo. M. Cohan's best star. With the exception of Charles Brown and Elizabeth Drew the original com pany comes here. Besides dramatic, pathetic and fine stage effect, this production has some of the best song hits of the decade. Mary Is a Grand Old Name, So Long, Mary, FortyFive Minutes from Broadway, are but three that have been taken home by the popular fancy. The story of the piece is an amusing recital of the doings of New York suburbanites, with a plot that develops interestingly, and has been called Cohan's best effort in the line of playwriting. The cast in cludes Charley Brown, Elizabeth Drew. Ninon Ristori. Louise Gardner, Joseph Kauffman, Susan Chisnell, James H. Manning, James A. Davett, Harry Gwynette and others. New Rochclle, which is just forty-five minutes from Broadway, is a typical "small town." Geo. M. Cohan has drawn his characters with great trueness to life and has cleverly interwoven comedy, drama, burlesque, melodrama and musical comedy in his interesting storv of suburban life. Christmas Morn — Good Things for the Actor's Stocking — Jimmie Lee — A Los Angeles engagement. Jim Post — A slap stick. Ed Redmond — A barrel of money. Archie Levy — Some new collars. Bert Levey — Ten per cent. Bobby Burns — A Scotch high-ball. Sid Grauman — Another "National." "Pop" Grauman — A site for the stock house. John W. Considine — A happy new year. Hentz & Zallee — A new theatre. Ollie Morosco — Another new play. Herr Fischer — A Frisco theatre. Eddie Mitchell — Some new symetricals. Menzel — -Some real actors. Al. Franks — A company of his own. Gus Leonard — A bottle of anti-fat. Jimmie T. Kelly — A year's engagement. Jules Mendel — A new stomach pad. Blossom Seeley — A trip to Brooklyn. Alex Pantages — More theatres. Bert Russell — Back salary. Dan Kelly — A set of plumbers'"*ools. Dick Ferris — A new auto or -li ving machine. Dick Cummings — Another Unitftw. Bert Donnelan — Another Lyceum*. • Flo Patterson — A bottle of cough medicine. Bill Ely — A leading lady. Hugh Emmett— A Broadway engagement. Ben Dillon — A box of dialect. Will King — Some new whiskers. Fred Lancaster— A stick of greasy paint. Will Armstrong — A new express wagon. Ella Weston — A bunch of good luck. Charlie Gunn — A star engagement. Fd I Ionian — Another Bell. Abe Cohn — A new diamond. Tony Lubelski— A horseshoe. Sam. Loverich — Another Princess. W. R. Reese — An increase in salary. Jack Golden — A return trip from Honolulu. Bob .Armour — Everybody's' best wishes. Marie Barbier — A present from Jim. Ethel Thornton — A new Billikin. Esco Ives — A cold bottle. Norman Phillips — A hair cut. Max Bloom — A Jews-harp. Nellie Montgomery — A new king. Dick Mack — A new soubrette. Maxie Mitchell — A high chair. Billy Onslow — Madison's Budget. Eddie O'Brien — A "royal" flush. Lottie Darragh — A stocking full. Willie West— Bottle of Mcllcn's food. Waldo Tapper — The "Globe." Al. Watson — An Orpheum engagement. Sam Harris — Something to keep his "wigwarm." Kelly & Violette— Some new clothes. Jim Donovan — The whole of Ireland. For Everybody — Everything good and itist a pleasant thought for AL. G. FLOl'RNOY. The Post Musical Comedy Company has been booked for a season at the Bentley Grand Theatre in Long Beach. Books In Cave To Show Bacon Was Dramatist Boston, Dec. 12. — Following the minute directions of a cipher of Lord Bacon's writings, which seems to establish beyond doubt the authenticity of Bacon's claim to the authorship of plays and histories that will change the entire character of English literary history, a party of Boston men and women, all noted for their learning and high social position, is now near the spot where Bacon's literary and original manuscripts are buried, and a cable may at any moment flash the confirmation of their discovery to a waiting world. In this party are Dr. Orville W. Iwen of Detroit, a famous Baconian scholar ; Dr. W. S. Prescott and John Dane of Boston, Mrs. Prescott and Mrs. M. L. Belcher, widely known in this city and Brookline. Already by following the instructions of the cipher the party is in England and has found the secret chamber in 1 'aeon's castle which, according to the cipher, leads directly to the river, thence to the cliff" where Bacon's entire library, consisting of manuscripts and books, has been concealed from the world for nearly 300 years. So minute were the directions and so identical were the surroundings that the party found the "wasp hill" mentioned by Bacon, and everything exactly as described in the scholar's writings. In a cave on the -ide of this hill and bordering on the river they found the ledge on the face of a cliff, accessible only at certain sides. The cave, oak tree, cliff and other landmarks told of in the cipher were found to be correct. From a literary standpoint what is con sidered to be the most important result of this discovery is the expected establishing of Bacon's claim to the authorship of the Shakespeare plays and to much of the writings of Robert Greene, George Peele, Christopher Marlowe's plays, Edmund Spenser's Fairy Queen, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and other important historical and literary masterpieces. The party expects to find buried in the cave Bacon's library, and that it will prove that Queen Elizabeth, known as the virgin queen, was a much married woman, that Bacon was her son and that he had a brother in John Dudley, the earl of Essex, who was ordered to be put to death by his mother for daring to claim his birthright. Lulu Glaser In One of The Boys Lulu Glaser has begun rehearsals in New York of a new comedy with music, entitled ( )ne of the Hoys, in which she will open out-of-town at the earliest possible date preparatory to her annual New York engagement on Broadway. One of the Hoys is by Rida Johnson Young, author of Brown of Harvard and The Lottery Man. The stellar character in One of the Boys, played, of course, by Miss Glaser, is that of a young girl brought up in a Michigan lumber camp, who comes to a "finishing school" in New York to get educational and social polish. She has a number of the amusing adventures which Miss Glaser knows so well how to make especially laughable, and also meets her "fate" in the metropolis.