The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN ¥RANCISCO cALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1895. 1 | dramatic depression when the first-nighter | had often to cross Market street in his | rch for novel Our best theaters were | osed, playing second-class attractions or filling out the time with unduly prolonged engagements. The Frawley Company was very fortu- nate in having no,opposition at first. 1t found people eager to be pleased, and sur- priseG that amusement could be bought | so cheaply. San Francisco became inter- ested in the company; it took to attend- ing the theater often and found additiona! pleasure, in comparing roles, in recogniz- | ing and applanding a favorite, in parading | its knowledge of this or that actor’s per- | sonal affs Between the company and its audiences a feeling of kindly acquaint- ance, of mutual favors has grown. Not one of the members has magneiism or genius or beauty to make him or hera | popular idol; neve an Francisco has adopted this composite stage child and watches its efforts with easy good- feeling which will become affection and family pride with the youngster’s develop- ing stren v. The Frawley Company nificent organiza- | tion, not a superb company, not a dram- | atic necklace of diamonds of the first water. Indeed, some of the stones are paste, and will in the natural course of | theatrical events be displaced and super- seded by gems more nearly perfect. The | company is a promising beginner; it has | good material in it. To San Francisco it is the nucleus of a stock company whose ambition and performance should steadi | mount hicher and higher till we have in | time a comps shed players, such as graces New York at the Lyceum The- ater. The main reason for the Frawley Com- pany’s s s is that it has kept faith with the publ pretensions were modest; | its performance been on the whole creditable. He who looks for artistic, fin- ished acting from the Frawley Company will be disappointed; he who prejudges its performance by the standard of prices will often be agreeably surprisea. The com- any does not appeal to the highest taste, | neither does it riot in melodrama nor | grovel in farce. It plays to, the large, healthy-minded middle class and it de- serves the success it has achieved. At| times it has been unpleasantly nec Ty to remind oneself that the Columbia’s ad- mission rates are only half of Baldwin 1 prices, but there have been occasions when | the performance was cheaper only in en- trance fees, when it compared favorably | with California or Baldwin productions. | Always Columbia audiences have received their money’s worth. | The company has done its evenest work | in “Sweet Lavender” and “The Senator.” | | These performances are samples of its best | work as a company; but the members | have made individual successes in other | plays. | That Mr. Frawley would do good work as Lieutenant Schuyler is not surprising | to any one who has studied his tempera- | | ment and abulity. He is peculiarly adapted | | to the part, his very faults helping him in | the presentation of a character so reserved and unimpressionable. If, by some mira- Fraw ley could be made to unbend, to | his managerial dignity, perhaps, and affect a warmth of temperament if he has ) it not, he would achieve a fuller and a bet- 1€ | ter kind of success. Asit is, he is limited com fTOm | ¢ 4 certain range of quiet characterization very few laxge cilles | wpicn he' presents thoughttully, carefully oast where such a company | gng nearly always pleasingly. His honest | bly play, make a Western tour | 500 gnq sincere voice have made him a | ture to ail but the greatest | s yorite with the Columbla audiences. His | When Trving comes | wory ghows study and capacity for im- | ancisco, people feel that they | /o vement. He is out of his elementin | 1to miss such an event in the | ), Jiohter comedies, a certain heaviness of | , and the poorer companies, | ying and body dulling that sparkling ef- id lower salaries—although for- | fo veccence which is the flower of fun. the cost of transportation is the | g 1acks the art of suggesting; the whole e more likely to make | o 4o character he impersonates is on the | | San Francisco is pecu c situated on | Jod We may be eighth in | with smaller popu- can profits ard. | the faintest gleam of talent or taste, yet he their profit on the engagement. But be| stage, and for this resson Frawley is at his tween these two extremes lies the position | pegy when presenting a simple, straight- | forward role. come out West. ena company and a | temperament and personal appearance— Miss McAllister has not sttempted a single role which she has not vivified. She played Mrs. Bender in “All the Comforts of Home” with an uncompromising dignity, a righteous, suspicious severity, and her Mrs. Gillibrand in ““The Arabian Nights” isone of the best pieces of work Columbia audiences have seen. Maclyn Arbuckle is an example of the benefits the actor derives from playing in a stock company. If Mr. Arbuckle’s abilities were to be judged solely by his work in “‘One of Our Girls,” say, he niight be considered a shallow and unintelligent actor. His Dr. Girodet was destitute of was very good in “The Senator” and in looked the part so completely and her low- voiced lines were so gently spoken that one would have vowed she was an ideal stage widow. But Miss Archer only looks, she does not act; and there is a certain calm satisfaction in that coldly pretty face of hers which leads one to fear that im- provement with her is not merely a ques- “The Jilt,” and he made an admirable CHAS W.KIN The Frawley Group. study of Coxswain Dudley in “The En- sign,” playing a difficult role earnesily and appreciatively. Blanche Bates did her best work as Fuschia Leach. It was light, lifelike and full of intelligence. - Miss Bates has learned the art of seeming interested and occupied while others hold the center of the stage, and for this reason Fuschia Leach was the strongest, easiest and most natural char- acter in “Moths” as given by the Frawley Company. Miss Bates is a very good light comedienne and plays most of the roles which fall to her gracefully and pleasingly. As Mrs. Willoughby in “The Picture’” Miss | Bates had an opportunity to show whether | she was not something more than a pretty | and intelligent member of the company. Her comedy was delicate and winning, but the characterization lacked depth and power to evoke feeling. Her art seems to | embrace only the lights and her neglect of the shadows robs the picture of its effec- tiveness. Miss Bates can be but halfan | actress till she has conquered the realm of pathos. Charles King was very successful as Dick | Phenyl in “Sweet Lavender.” He did good work, too, in ““The Jilt,” but his pro- | play have made the most of their Eastern newer plays and more suc- owd the old favorites, the star ot “theatrical empire naturally wends | But such a star as it it reaches us! It haslostits e, a point or two has been mmetry of the figure has s battered and world- shines with & feeble, apolo- niscent luster. t for this reason a hard-working, in- ent, experienced stock company would be invi to San Francisco. Let it be known that there is capable sup- port for a traveling star here, let it be | tood that the frame and the back- 'd are ready and worthy, and lead- men and women will find it worth to step in—even over half a conti- nent—to complete the picture. Critics have preached the stock com- pany, actors e prayed forit and the public has waited and hoped and been disappointed or -failed to' patronize it. Yet the establishment of a first-class stock | company means the first step stage independence. 5 The West has been prolific in actors and actre toward | s of ability. Where are they? vhere but at home. To send our best talent East and receive in exchange only that which the Easterners reject is economic madness, and to offer these clever men and women sufficient induce- ment to remain at home or to spend the reater part of their time with us is the most rudimentary form of prudence. The Half-million Club and the Manufac- turers’ Association would tell you this. But this can never be done till we have a superior, perma attain the highes in would be the natural ambition of every Western actor and actress. With the production of “The Ensign”’ W. A. GALPEN, GEORGE PRELTON. METROPOLITAN THREE. ADELIE RENO. the Frawley Company has completed its repertoire. Allthat it had to give is before us. In the twelve plays, none of them new to San Francisco, but most of them g0od, the company has had full oppor- tunity for the display of its talents and truthfully and effectively. His work in| the last act of Captain Swift in “The En- sign” and in parts of “The Jilt” was ad- mirable. Frawley's sins are all those of omission; he never offends by overacting, | Ross is not very nounced mannerisms marred his roles in other plays. Hope Ross has played nearly all of the company’s ingenue parts. Little Miss ep, nor is her ability powers. Tt has had a three months’ trial, | and the result is that the lemonade is not | the only thing at the Columbia which has | taken a rosy hue. The Frawley Company has achieved a popular success. There are various reasons for this. San Francisco had pussed through the drear- iest of theatrical scasons, a period of and the excellence of his work at timesis | astounding, but her appearance and her an indication that he is too good an actor | youth are much in her favor. She is very to rest content with occasional and half | girlish and earnest or saucy, &s occasion success. i demands; she is not fitted to express any Phosa McAllister is one of the cleverest | grave or deep emotion, but although she members of the Frawley Company. With | plays in a conventional way her acting is the exception of Lady Dolly in “Moths”— | neither stiff nor spiritless. a part for which she is wholly unfitted by | When beautiful Belle Archer appeared tion of time and experience. From the dove-like Mrs. Rolt } Archer turned to stage adventuring. She played Fifi Ori- tanski, the dancer, the “gutta-percha girl,” and a certain nanghty Countessin*‘Moths.” But she wasa very bad wicked woman. Her face and her voice are ever at war with her words. Miss Archer is too self-conscious and too complacent. Nature has been generous to her, and the stage has need of so pretty a woman; but one has ears as well as eyes, and an actress to be success- ful must please both senses. Mr. Leslie is a hard-working member of the company; his name appears on almost every programme, yet despite the elabora- tion of make-up and business he is nota pleasing actor. He was a caricature as le Duc de Fouche Fonblanque. But his work in “Moths” was better. Mr. Leslie has no originality save in the construction of false mnoses; his ‘“‘business” is only the regulation low comedy manner, and he has a rigidity of temperament which gives to all his roles a painful family resemblance. With all its faults and its many virtues - | the Frawley Company will average up very | well. It has made a place for itself in San Francisco and will be welcomed back when its wanderings are over. Every step in advance which San Fran- cisco takes in theatrical matters is fol- lowed by a corresponding improvement in the country towns. There is a modest cir- cuit from Portland to Los Angeles, from Oakland to Denver, which is the legitimate field of the Western company with a repu- tation for good work in San Francisco. But that reputation, unless it is honestly . earned ard lived ap to faithiully, will no more avail with new audiences in the country than does the glamour of a metro- politan hundred-night run with us, when our curiosity has once been satisfied. San Francisco will cheerfully recomnmend the | Frawley Company to other Western cities, } claiming not that it is a perfect organiza- | tion, not that it includes a single geniu but that it can afford an evening’s pleas- ant_entertainment with a good play and fairly able players. MIrtax MICHELSON. Mr. William Gillette, playwrizht and comedian, will begin a two weeks’ engage- ment uat the Baldwin to-morrow night. His play, “Too Much Johnson,” ran for ten months in New York, and San Fran- cisco is the second City to see it. Itisa comedy whose fun consists mainly of peculiarly entangled situations, and the substitution of one individual for another, winding up with an elaborate complica- tion of “The Private Secretary” sort. Augustus Billings, who is described as a “'gay and festive married man,”’ succeeds in placating his mother-in-law and starts off to Cuba, where he tells his wife he has bought a plantation. Of course mother- in-law and wife follow, and the other characters turn up in true comedy style. Billings piles lie upon lie to explain the queer statements forced upon him by cir- cumstances, until the situation becomes untenable, and the tangle is unraveled at the end of the third act. Gillette, of course, is Billings, the part of Mrs. Bil- lings is played by Maud Haslam, and Miss Kate Meek is the mo:her—invlaw. e Next week is the farewell week of the Trawley Company. The request reper- toire 18 as folldws: “All the Comforts of Home” Monday _and Tuesday, “The Arabian Nights’’ Wednesday and Thurs- day, “Young Mrs. Winthrop” Friday evening, Saturday matinee and evening ‘“‘Moths,” and “The Senator” will close the engagement on Sunday. * % The Tivoli will put on ‘‘Martha” next week, when a new basso, George Broder- ick, will make his first appearance as Plunkett. Laura Millard and Alice Niel- sen will alternate in Lady Harriet’s role, Alice Carle will have an excellent oppor- tunity as Nancy, her favorite role, and Pache will sing Lionel, one of his best parts when he was a member cf the Juch and Tavary opera companies. “The Royal Middy” will be the next opera, and Gounod’s **Faust'’ isin prepara- tion. e There will be ten new members on the Oroheum programme next week. The as Mrs. Rolt in “Sweet Lavender” she | Metropolitan Three, consisting of George Preston tenor, Adele Reno contralto, and William Galpen barytone, will pre- sent a little vocal comedy in which they bave been very successful in the East. Horwitz and_Bowers, Stinson and Merton, M. Guibal, Mlle. Ortiz, and Rosa Fully, who will play the Hungarian cymbal, an instrument of 200 strings, are among the performers. **x The German Comedy Company will pre- sent “The White Deer” at the Baldwin to- night. Its plot is similar to that of “She Stoops to Conquer.” It will be preceded by a one-act comedy, ‘‘Militaerfromm.” S ¥ Next week's play at Morosco’s is “By Order of the Czar,” its first production in this country. The action of the play takes lace in Russia_and Siberia, whither the ero is exiled. The scenery is interesting, the most picturesque scenes being the Czar’s Winter Palace, the interior of a Greek church and a prison in Siberia. Dramatic Paragraphs. During the run of “Too Much Johnson” in New York a special Johnson night was given, when 2000 people of thatname at- tended the theater. Miss Blanche Bates, having fully recov- ered, will appear in every performance at the Columbia next week. John Drew and Maunde Adams will fol- low *“Too Much Johnson’ at the Baldwin. The California closed with last night’s performance of “A Black Sheep.” The souvenirs which Mr. Frawley will day night will include photographs of all the members of his company. Gracie Plaisted has become the leading lady of Leonard Grover’s company. Mascagni is writing the music for a new ballet to be called **Dresden China,” all the dancers being dressed to imitate Dres- den China statuettes. Verdi is going to build a hospital for old musicians in Milan. It will cost $100,000 and the great composer will endow it with $400,000. John Hare, the Enelish actor, will intro- duce Americans to “The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith’’ next season. Manager Palmer’s profits on “Trilby” have already reached $75,000. Augustus Thomas’ play, ‘‘Alabama,” is to be presented at the Garrick Theater, London, by Willard. Manager Charles Frohman declares that the opportunity for vlacing American plays in London is equal to that of Eng- lish Qh\ys in America. A New York paper comments upon the improvement in theatrical matters in San Francisco and, as a_consequence, through- out the'West. Caroline Hamilton has left the Bos- present to the ladies in the audience Mon- | names first has been complicated by the fact that there are more stars than one in Mr. Stockwell’s strong organization. Before leaving for the coast the other day he solved the problem by an ingenious in- vention, which he thinks of patenting. He will have the casts printed in cylindrical form. The result will be that there will be no beginning and no ending to the list of names. For the three-sheet posters Mr. Stock- well has arranged to have the names of his principal actors printed lengthwise, in- | stead of crosswise! This will also settle the | question of precedence diplomatically. CHESS MATCH BY WIRE. San Francisco Players Win Two and Draw the Third Game With Seattle. Rodney Kendrick and Dr. W. Love~ grove Captained the Winning Teams—Howe Et Al. Draw. The telegraphic chess match between the Seattle and San Francisco players came to | a finish at 5:40 o’clock yesterday morning, | when the contest on Board 3 was de- | clared a draw on the sixty-sixth-move and | after about ten hours’ play. Boards1and | 2 were decisive victories for the local teams. Rodney Kendrick was the first to lead his team to victory, the Seattle men resigning their game on their twenty-sixth move, at | :28 A. M. The time consuméd by the players, including the transmission of the | moves, was about five and_a half hours. | Board 1, commanded by D. W. Love- | grove, received information of the sur- | render of their oppgnents a few minutes | after 3 A. M. The captain felt so assured of |2 win on Board 1that he retired and al- | lowed his two lieutenants, O. Samuels and | J. Sullivan, to Bnish the game, which they | did in an admirable manner. | This chess match in regard to the num- ber of simultaneous games played was the greatest achievement in playing the game | by telegraph that has ever been made on the Pacific Coast. The telegraph company has | given the use of its wire free of charge in | all of the chess matches. | Herewith are the scores of boards 1 and | 2, which are fine specimens of clever play. | The local team on board 3 were A. 8. | Howe (captain), S. Palmer and Richard | | Ott, and they were opposed by Davies, | | Gilliam and Jones, who opened the game WILLIAM GILLETTE. SCENE FROM “T00 MUCH JOHNSON.” H KATE MEEK. tonians and will be the soloist of the dail musical exercises at the Atlanta Exposi- tion. Henry Irving has received pressing invi- tations to play in_every important city from Paris to St. Petersburg, but the ex- pense of a Continental tour deters him. Calve will be paid $100,000 for singing George W. Leslie ss Joshua Gillibrand in ‘ Arabian Nights.” fifty nights during New York’s next sea- son of German opera. Only two New York theaters are open, the hot weather having sent all amuse- ment-seekers up to the roof gardens. Lillian Russell will &roduee Jakobow- ski's new opera, “Peg Woffington,” next spring. The Dramatic Mirror says: With Dixey, Barrymore and_Rose Coghlan in his com- pany, organized for the Columbia Theater in San Francisco, Mr. Stockwell has been at his wits’ ends to devise a mutually satis- factory arrangement of the namesin the house bills. The natural desire of ex-stars to see their with P-K4. The ending of this game"was highly instructive, as the Seattle men played with great skill to make it a draw, the local team being a pawn ahead. BOARD 1—ZUKERTORT OPENING. Merri. Lovegrove. Samuels. Sullivan. Resigns BOARD 1. Notes by Senor Quiroga: (a) B-Q3 is the usual move in this opening. The next move gives Black a chance to get an even game. (b) The QR instead would be preferable. (c) For now they have 10 bring the QR back. (d) Of course, the Kt cannot be taken, as Black would reply Q-Kt4 winning the Q. (¢) 22 KtxKP instead would give White some- |* thing for the loss of exchange, wh be avoided; thus: Ao m o Sunos 22. KtxKP KtxR 28. RxKt P-B3 24. BKt4 Q-Kta Notwithstanding the loss of thi White could make o good fgie. L o erEe (f) Overlooking - Black’s reply of R-Kt8, which wins easily (Thompson). BOARD 2—RUY LOPEZ. Kendrick. Dickey. (Kendrick. Dickey. Franklin, Jaffe. Franklin® Jafte. Thompson. Cadien. |Thompson Cadien. Black. White. Black. P-K4 14. t-B3 Kt-QB3 |15 5 3 Kt P-Q 1 . PxKt (1) PxB 17 . Q4 P-KB4 (1)(18. P- BPxP |19, PQ4 po i 10. P-QB4 (c) BxP 11. KtQBS ~ R-Qsq 12. QR4 BQ2 26. 13. Q-R3 (@) B-K3 26. Resigns NOTES TO BOARD 2. By a strange coincidence this game is identi- cal for the first twelve moves with a game be- tween Anderssen and Suhle. Steinitz has given the following notes to these moves: (a) Anderssen generally adopted_this early exchange, which, however, we do not ap- prove of. (b) A hazardous venture now that White wiil sistible attack as it forcesa break in Black s center sooner or late: (d) This move red superior game (Steinitz () If king takes bishop KtxKP ¢, PxKt, QR~ K 5q ch, and wins easily. Invented in a Dream. A peculiar incident of a successful me- chanical invention being revealed in a dream is causing much interest among psychologists down East. Some time ago the Caribou (Me.) Republican told of a French citizen of that place who dreamed he was working with a circular saw which had teeth of a novel pattern. The man re- membered the shape of the teeth when he awoke from the dream and made asaw with teeth of like pattern. 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