The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1895, Page 22

22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1895. == T dl "= May Irwiu rides & wheel. ears old on March 25. y is called “The “11 Tro- Sunday , will give iecided hit ldren, but ater-goers aJ he ing theatrical little tardy in reaching and just at present the average th Der m. aln thing to be ful forin th and to some extent lament going up t becoming a mere propa t platform for the discussion of problems religious, social and political. The woman with a past has been presented dramatically so irope, East, there is a is rapidly b T ey e John G. Sparks at the Califormia. much that theater-goers are becoming sick of her, just as they are becoming sick of the other gloomy social problems which dramatists have lately forced upon them Now, with the exception of a few very modern productions, San Francisco audi- ences have escaped being preached at from the stage; indeed it is doubtful whether audiences would submit, even if managers tried to force problem plays upon them. Last week an attempt was made in “The Bathing Giri” to point a moral about so- cial ambitions being incompatible with American institations, but the public did not want a homily disguised in the form of an operetta, and the last numbers of “The Bathing Girl” were drowned in the noise of a departing audience. This week the object of the plays run- ning at the various theaters is to amuse calles Society, under the | inced | soned with comedy, while a burlesque on “Trilby” will make people laugh more than ever at the California. At the Tivoli ** Little Robinson Crusoe” is still ru Stockwell’s. A BURLESQUE ON “TRILBY.” Dailey Will Produee It at the Oali- fornia, During the present week Peter F. Dailey and his company will introduce several new songs into *‘A Country Sport’’ at the California Theater. Another new feature will be the produe- tion of a little burlesque on the much- talked-of “Trilby.” This playlet only runs ten or fifteen minutes, but it is said to be extremely humorous. Peter himself enacts the role of Svengali, giving an imitation of Wilton Lackaye, who enacted the partin Boston a short time ago. May Irwin will, of course, be the Trilby, and the role of Little Billee has been assigned to John Sparks. The management claim that it is not abso- Iutely necessary to have either read the book or seen the play to enjoy this bur- lesque. Among the songs that will be sung are Dailey’s new parody, **Oh, Promise Me,” | and “The Cor\{ on the Hat.”” Miss Irwin in | the vocal line will give the newest yopulnr negro melody, “‘Don’t You Trifle With Me, | Hon and ‘She May Have Seen Better Da fack will sing one of his latest compositions, called “The Play of Broken Hearts,” “Phaebe” and one or two old Irish ballads. “The Man That Stole Me Luncheon,” a character Irish song, will | | ning, while “Fritz in a Madhouse” will | continue to entertain the audiences at | also be introduced. Ada Lewis will add toughisms to her part and | One Seen M he last time that Dailey and his present company will be seen here to- | gether. In August Peter appears in more in anew play, “The Night Cler] which has been written for him by | Nallv. Balti- ar May Irwin heads a company ong entitled | _ farce which is so dear to him, and man; are the Jaughs which he raises. Tillie Sal- inger sings Crusoe’s music effectively, Gracie Plaisted is well suited to the part of Polly Hopkins and Raffael’s singing is much admired. The handsome scenery and costumes add considerably to the effectiveness of the ex- travaganza, which promises to have a long run. ‘A BARREL OF MONEY."” This Week the Audiences of Morosoco’s Will Smile. “The Power of the Press” is still draw- ing well at Morosco’s, but it will be suc- ceeded to-morrow evening by Hall Wins- low’s comedy-drama ““A Barrel of Money."” This comedy-drama will give the audi- Harry Morosco, Business Manager Grand Opera-House. ences at the opera-house a change from the thrilling melodramas which have been holding the boards there lately. It is crowded with incidents, but is also seasoned with fun. One of the great stage effects in | “A Barrel of Money™’ is the mill scene, \\ “A COUNTRY QAN —\T— SPORT” AT THE CALIFORNIA. of her own, and Andrew Mack is to star in canlan’s pieces, “Myles 0'Roon.” new le 11 be Jennie amans. i | Following the engagement of Peter F. | Dailey at the Califorma Theater, H. Grat- | | ton Donnelly “The | { American Girl, is to be produced. LAST WEEK OF STOCKWELL'S. | The Columbia Theater to Open With & Stock | Company. | J. K. Emmet and his company drew | good houses at Stockwell’s Theater last | | week, and it has been decidea to repeat | “Fritz in a Madhouse’ for seven days | | more. Emmet will introduce several new | | songs, while retaining the favorite | | “‘Schneider, How You Vas?”’ “The Bubble | Song,” et | Baby, S8innot has proved almost as popu- | ! lar as Emmet. himself, and the supporting | | company has also won favor with the audi- ences, The formal opening of Stockwell’s Thea- ter under its new name, the Columbia Theater, by Messrs. Friedlander and Gott- | lob, is now definitely settled for Monday evening, May 13. Following the engagement of J. K. Em- met the theater will remain closed a fort- night, in order that the contemplated im- srovements may be made and the finish- ing touches be put to the decorations. New scenery is being painted for the open- ing production and special stage effects prepared. It is stated that old patrons will scarcely recognize the theater in its new dress. The company includes several people well known in San Francisco. Among the female stars is Blanche L. Bates, the wife of Lieutenant Davis, who surprised Pre- sidio society some time ago by returning to the stage after it had been understood that she had left it entirely on her marriage. Among the other members of the com- }:{nny are Jennie Kennark, Belle Archer, ] lope Ross, Phosa McAllister, Clara Jean Walters, Helen Leslie and Edith Crane. The masculine contingent will include T. D. Frawley, George W. Leslie, H. D. Blakeman, Walter Bellows, Charles W. King, H. 8. Duffield, Hudson Liston, Charles Dade, Fred Tader and either Tom Burns or Mike Kennedy. 1t is said that James Wilson and Charles Loathian, who are now with “The Girl I Left Behind Me" Company, have made application and ex- pect to join this organization. Among the plays mentioned in the repertoire are: *“The Senator,” “All the gomlo‘l;ts of Tl;l{onj(-," “Moths,” “Sweet avender,” “The Jiit,” “Captain Swift"’ and “The Charity Ball.” 3 i “LITTLE ROBINSON ORUROE.” Up-to-Date _ Extravaganza . at the Tivoli, The burlesque of “Little Robinson Cru- soe’’ isnow running very successfully at the Tivoli, and will probably hold the boards for some weeks to come. The caste is one that gives all the old The | she can do. members of the company an opportunity of distinguishing themselves; these o por- tunities might even be curtailed a 'imle without interfering with the progress of the piece. Hartman as Friday has an op- with the machinery—which is momen tarily threatening the life of the heroine— going in full blast. Maud Edna Hall will appear as the rol- licking Roxy, a style of role which she has not yet i]nyed here, but which is said to become her as well as an emotional part. Frequenters, of Morosco’s will be inter- sted to see what kind of a song and dance ‘The cast is as follows: TRoxanne Ganison, known son us’ ma..Julia Blanc Minnie Eldridge Lesiie Bridget, a servant Ty Hazlitt, the Squire’s son. Hanison Swift, manager George .Frank Wyman Harry Benrimo idney Robertson A familiar figure at Morosco’s, who does Tillie Morrisey of the Orpheum. not appear in the cast, is young Harry Mo- rosco, who at present is acting very capably as business manager. BARDS AT THE ORPHEUM. The Elks Will Weloome a Favorite Singer to San Francisco. Tillie Morrisey, the well-known variety singer, will appear at the Orpheum to- morrow night. The Elks intend to be present in a body to welcome her to San Francisco. McBride and Flynn will also be among the new performers at the Orpheum. The Bards of Tara are renowned Irish musi- cians, who have met with great success in Eastern cities. A number of last week’s favorites will also reappear. PLANS BY LOCAL ARTISTS. = Be Carried Uut at the Carnival, Several new performers and new per- To Water only. Even Morosco’s programme is sea- | portunity of indulging in all the humorous | formances will be added to the bill of the Circus Royal and Water Carnivai to-mor- row night. The Bannock Brothers, musical clowns and acrobats, make their first appearance; while the Rosaires and Peter W. Barlow will be seen in the burlesque entitled ‘“Madam Dennier, or the Ins and Outsof a Riding School”; the O'Brien Sisters and Cora Beckwith are still in the cast; and the Van Venert Brothers have a sensational act on the Spanish rings. The well-known local artists, John A. Stanton and A, Joullin, have worked out a new design for the Circus Royal and Water Carnival, which the management is now engaged in executing. 1t is_expected that the alterations will be ready by the 29th inst. The two artists,who have visited the Cirque Nouveau at Paris, have in some de- gree modeled their plans upon that well- known place of amusement. A Trilby Dance. One night last week, at the Lincoln (Nebraska) Theater, Mollie Fuller aston- ished and delighted the large audience gathered to witness the performance of ‘‘Later On” by the Hallen and Hart Com- pany, with an entirely new and original terpsichorean event which she calls the Trilby dance. The dance was executed by Miss Fuller in her bare feet, and it wholly delighted the people who saw it. The effect was greatly strengthened by the use of ef- fective calcium lights. The idea will doubtless be widely copied at once, as such originations are rarely held by their in- ventors without infringement. Entertainment by Pupils. The advanced pupils of Mrs. Julia Mel- ville Snyder will give a vocal and drama- tic entertainment at 519 Van Ness ayenue on Tuesday evening. The programme includes a scene from “Francesca da Rimini,” a scene from “Othello,” as well as the courtship scene from *‘Richard I11.” There will also be recitations, vocal solos and duets. The erformers are: Mrs. L. J. Murdock, Miss ‘annie E. Ryan, Miss Millie Blum, George Walter Egan, John Hassett and Walter Pierson. The testimonial concert tendered to T. W. McKenzie by the McKenzie Musical Society takes place in Metropolitan Tem- ple on Wednesday evening next. The per- tormers are: Roscoe Warren Lucy, F. Y. Chapin; Herr Franz soloist; string quartet; Dr.W. A. Barmore, violin; Dr. Paul Erhardt, in; A, Reichers, viola, and F. C. Hartwig, 'cello. Macdonough Theater. “The Girl I Left Behind Me” will open in Oakland at the Macdonough Monday, April 29, for three consecutive nights. The attraction to follow will be Peter | Dailey and his company in “A Country | Sport.” Two German Comedies, The Students’ German Literary and Dramatic Club of the University of Cali- fornia have announced for their annual entertainment two German comedies, which will be played in Union-square Hall t0-morrow evenin A California Composer, The main feature of the Hawthorne So- ciety’s concert on the 26th in will be a number of new compositions more. BABY SINNOT'S FUTURE How the Child Actress May | Reverse the Story of Cinderella. At Present She Is the Bread- Winner for Her Entire Family. J.K.Emmet had a strange legacy left among the property bequeathed by his father. It consisted of a personal interest in a number of young people, in various stages of growing-up. These pensioners, of assorted sizes, had succt ely played the roles of “lullaby” children in the famous actor’s plays, had grown too old for the parts, and being in the awkward stage were looked upon by the kind-hearted old acter as in a sense his children till they were able to take their | place in the world. Emmet Jr.'s agents say that he has been faithful to his father’s trust, but in the nature of things the yuungepeuple are growing up and will soon men and women J. K. Emmet is getting his own crop of retired infant phenomena, however, and the next who will join their ranks is Baby Sinnot. The poor little creature isa happy child now, but the future does not smi{c upon her as it does on most little eight-year-olds. Sheis the support of her family, feeds and clothes amf"fieps her mother and two sisters, and when she becomes too old to be brought on the stage in a bag, there will not be a cent of her earnings saved up to give her an education. s ‘When seen yesterday afternoon Miss Sinnot was seated in a little rocking-chair, in the Emmets’ pretty flat, embroidering roses on a table-cloth as a present to “‘my mamma.”’ *She has been with us five years,”” said Mr. Emmet, “Just as we were setting off one day from New York to play in Phila- delphia the child we had fell sick and this one was brought to us by her mother. She was a sickly, delicate little thing and we refused to take her. “The mother begged very hard. ‘It was true the child had been sick,’ she said, ‘but the doctors had ordered a change of cli- mate, to save her life probably. As a mat- ter of charity we might have taken her, butas I told the mother, it was to go on the stage we wanted her, and if the child should die on our hands, pengle would say it was acting that had killed her. “‘However, we let ourselves be overper- suaded, and before we got to Philadelphia the change of air really seemed to give her new life, and gradually she grew to be quite robust. She has acted every night but one since.’” ““And then I was in the audience and cried to be playing on the stage,” inter- rupted Baby Sinnot demurely, as she put down her work and tried to thread a big needle with pink silz. *“Why?" she con- tinued in answer to a question. “Oh, I had hurt my foot romping on the stairs with some other children.” E “But I did want to play that night dreadful bad, and I just cried because I could not.” “You see, she always plays on the stage,” explained Emmet, *‘the moment we let her act; she would become stilted and unnatural,” and Baby Sinnot nodded her head as if she understood perfectly. The little child has her nightly frolic on the stage, and her pleasant, delicately nurtured life before her for some years yet, if she does not grow too fast, and then—well, then, unless her actor friends step in to help her, it will be the story of Cinderella reversed. 3 Baby Sinnot'’s mamma, far away in New York, claims every cent of her child’s earnings, and there are well-informed peo- ple who make a gesture of carrying a wine- cup to theirlips when asked closely why nothing is being set aside by the mother for the child’s education. A DISGRUNTLED VISITOR. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Executor Disappointed in the West. Robert Baxter Esq., executor of Robert Louis Stevenson, who has-been in Samoa attending to the affairs of his deceased client, after a brief stay in this city, de- parted vesterday for Europe. Mr. Baxter has been Stevenson’s pub- Hell, the fluegel horn | y H. B. Pas- | lisher, and also an intimate friend of the author. Now, Mr. Baxter was not pleased with San Francisco, He could see but little good in the institutions of the Pacific Slope, and was_especially disgruntled at the spring exhibition of the Art Associa- tion. He s‘?ent an unhappy hour in that building. Mr. John Stanton was the cicerone, and led him from room to room in a vain endem;:r tlo impress him with the artistic cult of the slope. *You hev clnyvern&s, 1 allow,” said Mr. Baxter, who speaks with a'brond'Scotgh accent, “but you lack gaynius. Yes, su'i gaynius you lack.” 1In the architecture (:i the city Mr. Baxter found much to fin fault with. The buildings lacked grace, there was an absence of symmetry, they were incongruous and not at all in keeping with the boasted progress of the W ‘est. YB\;t Mr. Baxter was delighted with Wiilis Polk, although he considered many things about that {alented young _man_not in keeping with the dignity of his calling. “He has a foine capacity,” said Mr. Bax- ter. “He is young, but there is a great deal in him.”” And then he added sowe- thing about one being not quite as he luokfii which might or might not_be construed into a compliment on Mr. Polk’s appear- nce. L 5 The absence of ’ansom cabs in this town was a source of regret and inconvenience to Mr. Baxter. When he left the Art Asso- ciation he threw up the dexter finger of his tght hand and shouted, “Cab, Oi soi, there, cab!” for several consecutive min- utes. Then Mr. Baxter sat down on the steps of the Stanford residence snd waited patiently for a full qluart.er of an hour for a cab. He wascompelled reluctantly to take the “tram’’ and growled bitterly at the gripman on his way down the hill. 'Irino markets, long the boast of San Fran- cisco, were not viewed by Mr. Baxter with admiration. “You hev no vegetable mar- ! rows,”’ said this stern critic, “‘and I don’t parceive any sea kail.” His attention was called to the fine asparagus and the rich strawberries, to the oranges, apples, tropi- cal fruit and all the wealth of the stails, but the Scotchman failed to enthuse. “In Edinbro,’” he said, “‘our markets are ! much foiner. There isa crudity about your markets here, an absence of that mellow character I findat home. The strawberries are watery and the apples are not good.” Now, the unfailing bulwark of the San | Franciscan, when all else fails to impress the stranger at the gates, is the restaurants. With a perseverance worthy of a better cause the friends of Stevenson steered his publisher and executor to the most cele- rated rotisserie of the town. The host handed the distinguished visitor a menu | and paused for the usual exclamation of | surprise and gratitication. “[ don’t—I really don’t,” observed Mr. Baxter, adjusting his glasses, “‘see a haggis | among the entrays.” The waiter was summoned and a haggis demanded, With the bland readiness of ‘his nation, the Gaul replied *Oni, Mon- | sieur,”” and retired to consult the combined { wisdom of the house. The patron ap- | peared with a troubled expression on his | | usually frank and open face, and humbly apologized for the ignorance of the chef, who had never heard of a haggis before, | and who demanded a few hours to look on | the inspired pages of Brillat Savarin in the | hope of discevering among the writings of that great man some hints about the com- i position of this famous Caledonian dish. The repast was not appreciated by Mr. | Baxter. The most delicious plats won no | praise from him. The claret, the choicest the cellar afforded,was not in his estimation | comparable with the wine served at the | s in Edinbro. Unfortunately they had no_ Stilton cheese, and a dinner without | Stilton was not relished by the Scotch gourmand. There was too much chicory in the coffee, and in fine the guest was not entranced by the banquet. They did | things much better at home, and he had | no hesitation in expressing his opinion. And so Mr. Baxter, with the will and the property of the lamented Stevenson, left California, never, perhaps, to return. It must be said, however, that he carried away with him a full sense of the kind- ness ana hospitality of San Francisco and felt that, although the town was backward lin art and markets and cabs, it was not the fault of the inhabitants, but of the system. NEW TO-DAY. DESIRABLE DRESS GOODS Suited to the Season, 1895 Styles That are Excep- tionally Good Values. 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