The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. Wm Q'LLETT& As Aoqv&\'usf/, 'Q ; \/-'\BIL*“’G? S ST 7 498 gty (ALY after he bas enjoyed with an almost per- sonal zest the allusion to imported wines from California and seen all that Delmore can do to make himself ferociously or | amorously hideous, after he has enjoyed | that pretty little scene in which Billings | thanks Mrs. Billings for her devotion and | mentally promises the audience that he | will resign his position as Ananias’ Prime Minister and be worthy his stanch, gener- | ous-hearted little wife—then if one is a ters out of their Quixotic nonsense, well as their stilted tragic airs. ence would be greater than the longest- faced, longest-worded criticism. ater would dare continue to present an absurd situation, a silly scene, a stagey characterization after it had once been held up to the ridicule of an Orpheum e e e e e e e e e e S S Let the Orpheum set up as a merry Sgn Francisco girl, ang flfxewd?ls_cripgon tlhe = t¢ ¥ hea- | advance agents furnish of William Beach’s dramatic censor. Let it ridicule our tl = | charms should make ““Adonis” Dixey look Its influ- No the- to his laurels for the brightest and most beautiful. For the second week a triple bill will be given at each performance: “A Man: of the World,” “Nance Oldfield” and “The Critigue.” ~Prices at the Columbia remain unchanged. - “Too Much John:;r;” begins its second | confirmed theater-goer—and as such, of | course, has seen the Frawley Company in | most of its plays—there is nothing left for him but to go to the Orpheum. But he is not greatly to be pitied; this week at any rate. With the exception of one or two very bad numbers, the Orpheum’s programme is interesting and entertaining. The Jordan ‘family is a canary-colored trio of haman birds that are as much at home in the air and on the trapeze as Herrmann is upon, the stage. There is no limit to the variety and audacity of their perform- ance. Few circus performers have outdone the feats which the Orpheum audience sees through a haze of smoke and the meshes | of the net, and which it enjoys despite a crick in the back of the neck and a flutter- ing feeling of terror lest sométhing should happen to the daring women as they dart | through the air, their light bodies 'seem- | ingly exemyt from the law of gravitation | and their steady heads unaffected by the | height at which the trapezes are swung, | QANK.A.NA_; WELL L1 the noise, the smoke or the electric light, which silhopettes their graceful figures as they stand poised upon the small platform a momenbefore flight. Johnnie Carroll, who really cannot sing, but whose small twinkling eye, smooth- shaven, square face and beautiful brogue were given him as a special endowment by | the Hibernian comedy fairy, ing “Pat | Malone” nightly at the Orpheum. He may begin with “Maiden Ruth,” which is not worth listening to, but sooner or later his audience compe!s him to tell how “Pat Malone forgot that he was dead He rose up in his coflin and he said—" So that people who go to the Orpheum— the dark man, for instance, with close, wiry waves in his bair, who leans back blowing circles of smoke one through the | other, and his companion, whose hard, gray eye becomes veiled and softened as he inhales the smoke from his eigarette—all can join in the chorus and tell of Pat’s va- | rious remarks at the wake, to the driver, | and at the funeral, when the wreath with | “Papa’ on it lost the initial letter and be- | came A. P. A., when Pat or any othe: Irishman would be justified in forgetting that he was dead. The Martinettis are excellent acrobats. One can hardly realize the possibility of | further improvement, so expert are these | men and the small new woman who turns | herself into a flying, little, bright-colored and very active caterpillar. Mlle. Ortiz did not appear at the Or- pheum till Wednesday night. Then Gui- bal, a soft-spoken, hard-featured Svengali, put her to sleep (apparently) and, without speaking to her or touching her, willed her to do the numerous trivial things different members of the audience suggested ina whisper to Guibal, while the fearful band played its loudest, and Mlle. Ortiz sat in the red arm-chair, an uncanny figure, alone on the stage in her white gown gar- landed with flowers, her head leaning a little to the side, her eyes closed, her pale face set like a mask and looking ghastlier for the touch of rouge just in front of the ears. In this trance and with eyes seem- mgly closed she walked from the stage down among the audience. She soughta lady from whom she took an ‘opera-glass and returned it; she took a cigarette from a man’s hand and lit it; she folded a pro- gramme—she did all that a dozen people had silently asked her to do. Then she walked back up the steps to the stage with :yes still closed, or so it seemed. She counted on her fingers, tapped upon the floor, knelt as if to pray, all in obedience to various unvoiced commands, and was then wakened and hurried from the stage by the alert Guibal, leaving the hard- headed, unimpressionable Orpheum au ence to gaze about bewildered and to won der how it was done. Mr. Stinson and Miss Merton or Miss Stinson and Mr. Merton are billed at the Orpheum as Stinson and Merton. Their up- to-date comedy, which is neither comedy H nor up to date, is not refined or entertain- | ing, and they are unworthy a place on the Orpheum’s programme, but if they are | named there at all a more respectful man- ner of announcing their “‘act” is desirable. The Orpheum has improved in many ways. When it shall make a pretense of respect for a woman’s name and change this part of its programme there will be another l reason why its entertainment should ap- peal to the better class of amusement- seekers, as well as to those galleryites whose indiscriminate applause has for its one pur- pose the prolonging of the evening’s pro- gramme, whether it be good or bad. Horwitz and Bowers furnish a few min- utes’ interesting entertainment, but after all Horwitz’s mimicry is only the imitation of an imitation. He is an inferior male Cissy Loftus. If there is any originality in these men why should they mimic actors whosa man- nerisms have been burlesqued by every monkey upon the theatrical tree? The theaters supply daily quite as many ab- surdities as ever were caught in stage water. Managers have found that it pays to get expert fishermen to work to discover the whereabouts of these odd fish, and to land the floundering, grotesque things high and dry for the amusement and edification of the public. Every thea- ter in Paris has a mocking review of the past year's work. The “Passing Show” is a regular institution in New York. Itis composed of a year’s accumulation of bur- lesquable theatrical characters and situa- tiong. The year’s work is reviewed by a special company, adapted personally and mentally to make the most of every op- portunity to raise s laugh at the expense of more serious members of the profession, | After the theater-goer has seen “Too |and this delightfully nonrsensical, irre- Much Johnson,” after he has marveled at sponsible company travels throughout the Billings’ quiet mendacity and the skill | United States in order to show other cities with which that well-dressed falsifier with- | the weak points of plays and players they draws at length from a labyrinth of lies, have applauded. PLAYERS AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER, [From an engraving in the New York Dramatic Mirror.] audience. When a theater offends whip it with a laugh. The weapon is as potent in dramatic matters as in the more serious business of life. If the actress who has once seen herself as others ses her does not tone her performance up or down—accord- ng to the treatment it needs—if she does not improve, if she does not edge away from ridicule’s precipice, let her tumble over. She is past all remedy. Nothing will save her. She should join Nellie McHenry's company and sing * Birdie Maud Adams. Will Meet You To-night,” for there is the only place where her incapa- city will not stand out in startling, offensive contrast. MirraM MICHELSON. Next week’s engagement at the Colum- bia Theater is bound to be a very interest- ing one. The company includes four actors and actresses, who are well known all over the United States and who have made in- dividual successes each as the starof a company. Stockwell’s company will open in “Twelfth Night,” with Rose Coghlan as Viola.. It is some years since Miss Coghlan has been in S8an Francisco, but she is well liked here, and her Eastern reputation will insure her a warm reception. Dixey is one of the most popular comedians npon the - stage; Barrymore has long been a favorite “with theater-goers, his Captain Swift being the best impersonation of that character San Francisco has seen; Stock- well is a born comedian; Miss Winterisa week at the Baldwin to-morrow night. It | has kept San Francisco laughing fer a | week and doubtless will fill the Baldwin | till the end of Gillette's engagement. John Drew and Maud Adams are to fol- low in Henry Arthur Jones’' new play, *The Bauble Shop.” * » “The Royal Middy”"is next week’s opera | at the Tivoli. Alice Carle will appear as the dashing Fanchette and will have all the opportunity to be desired in exhibit- ing her talent as an actress and a vocalist. Tivoli choruses are always good and the costumes and scenery will be correct. Martin Pache will be Lamberto. Broder- ick, Hartman, Raffael and Laura Miliard | will be in the cast. Mabella Baker, an Eastern operatic comedienne, will be Donna Antonia. * #x Morosco’s company will doff their Rus- sian cloaks and aristocratic names next week and come down to a simpler but no less exciting life. Pettit and Sims’ strong- est melodrama, ‘“Harbor Lights” will be given with Gustavus Levick specially engaged to play David Kingsley. The scenery is an important part of the play and Redcliff Lighthouse, the storm, the British gunboat will all be presented care- fally.ans picturesjuely. The steck company will support Mr. Levick, whose greatest success was won in this role. *"x The Grovers will reopen the Alcazar in September, after the theater has been newly tinted and improved generally. Warren Abernethy will be the leading man and Gracie Plaisted will be chief comedi- enne. **% “A Black Sheep” played a three nights’ engagement in Oakland at the Macdon- ough last week. The Lyceum Theater Company will walk the boards and bless them to-morrow night. The Orphenm bill was very popular last week and drew big business. The latest arrivals scored pronounced successes. Mons. Guibal, in a series of legerdemain tricks, proved himself the peer of any wielder of the magic wand that has ever visited the City. The psycho-h'ypnoticact performed by him and Mlle. Lilly Ortiz is certainly a very puzzling exhibition of that occult art. The Metropolitan Three, Stinson and Merton and Horwitz and Bowers also presented very entertaining acts. Six new acts are down on next week's bill and will be sustained by Farnum and Seymour, the Sa Vans and Crimmins and Gore. As high jumpers, somersaulters and acrobats Farpum and Seymour have a fine record in the East. The Sa Vans do e(}]luilibristic and athletic work of a novel character. “Comin’ Through the Rye,” an eccentric comedy sketch, will be pre- sented by Crimmins and Gore. The pro- gramme is well varied and should prove another strong drawing card. At the Macdonough Theater, Oakland, a varied bill will be presented. On Tuesday A night, August 13, *“The Case of Rebellious | noise were wholl Susan” will be presented. The Wednesday matinee will witness the performance of ‘“The Wife,”” and on the evening of that day ‘““An Ideal Husband” will be on the boards. On Thursday night “The Ama- zons” will be given. On August 19, “Jane.” Dramatic Paragraphs. The Bostonians will follow Stockwell’s company at the Columbia. Henderson’s big spectacle, “Ali Baba Up to Date,’” will be the next attraction. Hoyt’s “A Contented Woman” will soon be produced at the California. Louis James is also coming West. The Baldwin promises Pauline Hall's Opera Company, *Little Robinson Cru- soe’’; Marie Wainwright, “The War of Wealth,” “Charley’s Aunt,” Rice's*1" %2, and “The Passing Show,” in the future. The opening exercises of the Mechanics’ Institute will take place at the Columbia Theater on Tuesday afternoon next at 2 o'clock. They are free to the public. Tillie Salinger is singing in Boston with the Casino-square Opera Company. *‘Charley’s Aunt’ has reached Portugsl, and is attracting large audiences to an Oporto theater under the name of “A Madrinha de Charlee.” Mme. Reg’ane complains that the effect | of her performance of “Ma Cousine’’ in London was ruined by the Examiner of Plays, who at the last minute insisted upon a number of alterations and omis- sions. Henry Irving has been invited to con- test a seat in Parliament, but has declined. At the Zaro Theater, at Sofia, a curious | drama, entitled “The Heroes of Slivitzka,” | has been produced. There are no female characters in the play. ‘Bernhardt is writing her memoirs, which, | however, will not be published till after | her retirement from the stage. Damrosch’s opera, “The Scarlet Letter,” | the book by George Parsons Lathrop, will be presented during the season. It is founded upon Hawthorne’s story. | Some one wants to make a_comic opera | out of ** Madame Sans Gene.” Lady Hope, better known on this side as | May Yohe, isto play an engagement in a New York vaudeville theater during the coming season. Bernhardt says that there is no country in which actors can earn less money than in France. > In London there are two theaters where the show begins at 7:30; one at 7:40; four at 7:45; one 7:50; about twenty at8o’clock ; five at 8:15; two _at 8:25, and six at 8:30, | and in the Standard Theater the curtain | rises at 8:50. 4 Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mrs. | Bernard Beere and Olga Nethersole were present when Duse played ‘ Magda ” in Londen. Henry Irving’s son, H. B. Irving, is go- ing to play ‘‘ Robert Macaire,” by W. E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson. Mansfield will play in a dramatization of Stanley Weyman's ‘“House of the Wolf”’ next season. Charles Frohman offers $50 to the person who will send him a suitable title for his American version of the French farce, “L'Hotel du Libre Exchange.” “Trilby”’ is to be translated and then acted in Berlin. “Too Much Johnson.” Julia Marlowe will produce ‘‘Peg Wof- fington” as a curtain-raiser. Harry Dam'’s first play, ‘Diamond Deans,” was produced by William Terriss in London. The Kendals brought out his | second play, “The Silver Shell.”” Mrs. Potter will present a dramatization of Dumas’ “‘Queen’s Necklace’' at Daly’s | Theater, New York. | At her Welsh castle Patti produced a ! new dumb-show piece called “Mooke, the | Enchantress,” in which she amused her uests with her apt pantomime and grace- ul dancing, concluding the performance with an outburst of song. “‘The Girl T Left Behind Me"” has at- tracted all the royal dukes and duchesses, Y;)inces and princesses to the Adelphim ndon. Eastern managers are afraid that bicy- cling will kiil summer theaters in this country as it has in Paris. L A Umr oF Souxp.— Hiram 8. Maxim, who independent of his conprehensive knowledge of guns and fly- ing machines, has a wide grasp of scien- tific subjects, proposes that there shall be established a unit of sound. During the last twenty years units have been agreed upon relating to every sort of engineering and scientific question except that of sound, and Mr. Maxim is trying to induce the English scientific bodies to move in the matter. All owners of electrical plants are liable to be complained of for making a noise. Sometimes it is said that their machinery causes vibrations to the sur- “ HARBOR LIGHTS” AT MOROSCO'S. rounding buildings or grounds; then again, that they disturb telephonic: com- munications. Manufacturers are con- | of those set up when the machines were | fore the tree is ready for tapping. The | than one Found of gamboge. The price th | of molasses, and the residuum concretes stantly having injunctions served on them for making too much noise when, perhaps, as a matter of fact, the noise is not even audible to those who make the complaint. Mr. Maxim states that in many cases, when electrical engineers and those interested in electrical plants have visited the houses of parties who have lodged complaints against electric light stations. it has often been found that the Junom making these complaints were willing to swear them- selves and to bring any number of wit- nesses to prove that the noise and jar pro- duced were enough to drive them nearl; mad, when, in pointof fact, the jar ani caused by the ordinary street traffic, and at the very moment that the reputed nuisance has been in force the electric light plant has not been running at all. In fact, the making of claims of this sort has grown into a regular business, and Mr. Maxim holds that some reliable means of determining just how much noise and how much vibration iscaused by a iven plant should be made available. ending the appearance of further inven- tions for the purfiose, he suggests that a kind of phonograph should be employed, and that a record should be made on smoked glass, which could be putina magic lantern and greatly magnined. The amplitude and frequency of the waves would indicate the inten- sity of the noise produced. For example, supposin a certain rccm-dl should be made of the ordinary street | traffic, and then another record of both the | street traffic and the disturbance or noise complained of, the two mounted side by side and projected on a large screen would enable the judge to see at a glance how much the noise was increased by the machinery and how much cause there was for complaint. Or the noise produced by a factory might be comvared with the noise ;;roduced by a Salvation Army band or with other_ descriptions of noise toler- ated by law. For the creation of a stand- ard of noise Mr. Maxim suggests that shot of ‘a certain size should be -dropped, say, from a height of one meter on to some standardized diaphragm, and that the waves should be recorded at, say, five | meters from the diaphragm. A record of this artificial noise could be shown on the screen alongside of the record of the actual noise, for the purposes _of comparison. For telephones, a record of the vibrations set up while the machines were running should be compared with one not running. The comparison of the two would enable the judge—or the jury—to see exactly what the” increase in noise act- ually was. GAMBOGE.—One of the cherighed treasures of the schoolboy’s paintbox is a piece of gamboge. Gamboge, one of the most inter- esting of Siamese products, is a resinous | product indigenous only in the islands and on the sea coast of the Gulf of Siam, Iying between the tenth and twelith degrees of north latitude. The tree grows to a height | of some fifty feet, and is straight-stemmed | with no lower branches, owing probably to the dense shade of the forest in which it grows. Ten years’ growth is required be- tapping, which is carried on by the Cam- bodian and Siam-se islanders in the rainy months from June to October, when the | sap is vigorous, consists in cutting a spiral line around the trunk from a height of about ten feet downward to the ground. than might English Storm Serge, 38 inches -57 FMPOROSC oS organisms, and oil of thyme same number. Oil of cummin accounted for 95 er cent, mint 93, wallflower 95, neroli 90, emon 88, lavender 75, eucalyptus 74, rose- mary 73, turpentine and camphor only 66. Popular opinion would have placed ecua- lyptus, turpentine and camphor very much higher on the list; but althongh the results given are somewhat different be expected, it must be remembered that the experiments were made with essences and not with their spirituous or water decoctions—the perfumes of commerce. But it is satisfac- tory to know that many scents which have a great charm for the olfactory nerves of some people are now numbered among the useful allies of hygiene. ——————————— In one summer it is possible for the de- scendents of a single fly to grow to 2,080,« 320. NEW TO-DAY. DRESS GOODS! Special Sale in Black Goods. PRICES 70 SUTT THE TIMES $1.75 wide; French Disgonal Cord, Wool and Mohair, 56 inches wide. A SUIT. All-wool Surah Serge, 38 inches $ 5 wide; French Habit Cloth, 2’4 all wool, 54 inches wide. A SUIT. Fancy Figured Mohairs, 37 inches wide; All-wool Army Serge, 54 inches wide; Gen- uine ~ Scoteh C t, all wool, 45 inches wide. EXTRA SPECIAL. Full suit length of Ecroyds or Ripley’s Finest Novelties, warranted a perfect fast black, 50 different patterns $3.50 A SUIT. The resin wells out of the bark, and trickles to select from; figured, down these grooves in a viscous iffed) And . nawcrepon 4.00 stream into a hollow bamboo placed SAEC aptiros, 41 Tates wide, - ‘isurT at the base of the tree, and it % i 3 from these it is decanted into smaller bamboos, where it is leit for one month to solidify. To remove the gam- boge the bamboo is placed over a red-hot fire and the bamboo husk cracks off, leav- ing the article known as *‘pipe” gamboge. The trees can be tapped two or three times in one season and often present a curious appearance from their network of inter- secting spirals. The utmost care has to be taken to prevent rainwater mixing with the resin, as the mixture of foreign liquid causes honeycombing and discoloration. The most valuable gamboge is that which is the least honeycombed or darkened. The bamboos contain on_an average less asked by the gickers is at the rate of 75 cents for five bamboos full, and the local rice is at the rate of 75 cents for three, or §24 50for 100. The whole output is sold to local Chinese traders and taken by sailing- boat to Bangkok. A SouTHERN MODE oF OVERCOMING THE Morasses Dirrrcurty.—What to do with the excess of molasses produced in the manufacture of sugar has been such a source of anxiety to the Southern planter that prizes have been offered to any one who will devise a method of meeting the difficulty. A New Orleans inventor claims to have found an inexpensive process by which the molasses can_be solidified. He says that a machine which will solidify or concrete fifty barrels of molasses daily can be furnished for $1500, and the cost of oper- ation is not more than 2 or 3 cents a bar- rel. The exhaust steam from the sugar- house engine' is injected into the bulk molasses with the normal pressure as it escapes and at a temperature of about 140 degrees Fahrenheit. This expels about twenty-five gallons of water from a barrel and is ready for storing or shipment as soon as cooled. In appearance it resembles coarse sugar. SAvr Water 1N Fires.—The disastrous effects of many recent fires in cities where the water pressure has been too low have caused the question of using salt water for the purpose of fire extinction to be brought up again. Itis argued that this method of fighting fire has long ago passed beyond the experimental stage, as it has been suc- cessfully used in England for many years. The advantages claimed by the advocates of the method are that the density" of the water does not allow of rapid evaporation, and gives it longer in which to be fully effective. Salt water weighs sixty-four pounds to the cubic foot, as against sixty- two pounds for fresh water, and it is held that one service of salt water is equal to three of fresh. Returns from seventeen English cities where salt water is used for sprinkling purposes, show that the streets have gradually become macadamized and that the mortaiity has decreased from 20 to 30 per cent. KIL¥ For DRYING CYPRESS SHINGLES,—A new automatic compression dry-kiln pro- cess for vhe drying of cypress shingles has bgeq pate.nled. By this process the mate- rial is dried in a very moist atmosphere, and the outer surfaces are kept damp until the interior of the material is heated sufli- ciently to_give off the moisture which it contains in the shape of steam, and by this maans the unequal expansion in the shingle is avoided and it is dried uni- formly throughout without injury. 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