The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 20

o 0 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. "THE DRAMA. Giood Bills Promised for the Coming Senmnight. “Dorcas,” with which Miss Pauline Hall } and her company are regaling Baldwin audiences, is very light opera comedy, at times verging on burlesque. The date of the play is supposed to be at the end ofi the last century, but the moral tone of “Doreas’” would indicate an earlier period, | & time when society did not insist upon a | spade being called an agricultural imple- | ment—a time, for instance, when Fielding | and Smollet wrote *“Tom Jones” and “Roderick Random,” and when these books could be founl on any lady’s draw- | ing-room table. At that time such an | e as & woman of title masquerading | 2 peddler might have passed muster, ut at the extreme end of the last century society had become more decorous and was more easily scandalized. It is hard to say at what period in history an English | Jord would have invited an innkeeper and his wife to the hall and allowed the for- mer to get drunk in his wife's drawing- room. These little inaccuracies aside. the play | is very amusing, albeit rather broad in | and humor, which smack strongly ir German origin. Miss Hall's Dor- cas is rather grotesque than graceful while she is supposed to be masquerading, but when she resumes her rightful position of | Lady Honoria there is little left to desire | s respect. Her voice is rich and full | her singing thoroughly acceptable. same may also be said of the other! rs. The music is exceptionally bright pretty. and Metropolis” received the : n old friend and a valued one, at the Grand last week, judging from | of other was recognized and admired by the audience. Westonand Miss Herbert made another excellent number. They are pro- ficients on the banjo, and the music they produce from other sources is astonishing. Weston played the xylophone with great Henry E. Lixey as Adonis. | dexterity, and brought out the hidden | music of a row of empty beer botties, while | Miss Herbert made sweet jangling on d eral hundred little bells of graduated si Emmett’s ventriloquism was wonderful, and his conversation with his interesting | has been singing the old music in the old style, and her dramatic acting and impas- sioned declamation carried the house, thereby showing her policy to be a wise one —what the shades of Donizetti would say to such a course is a matter that need not be considered. A wide field of possibpilities is opened up by the growing tendency of theatrical man- agers to furnish refreshments gratis be- tween the acts of a play. There has long been, at regular theaters, an invidious distinction between the sexes in the matter of refreshments. The gen- tlemen of a party can always go out be- tween the acts “‘to see a friend” and inci- dentally fortify the inner man by partak- ing of—well, sandwiches and lemonade. The ladies of the same party have to sit in their seats, feeling bored and possibly tkirsty, while théy sadly realize that the days of perfect equality “between the sexes are not yet. Some'time ago the management of the Columbia Theater humanely started the custom of sending round glasses of iced water to the ladies between the acts. The avidity with which these were partaken of showed that the iced water was grateful and comforting, and the management went one better in the paths of hospitality by offering the ladies punch, which was excellent in quality but mild and entirely unintoxicating. & The Alcazar is now bent upon eclipsing even this_liberality, and to that end has organized ‘“icecream matinees,”” at which refreshments consisting of icecream and cake are served gratis 1o the audience be- tween the acts. & The question now arises, ‘“When will this lavish theatrical hospitality stop?” Shall we have “Thanksgiving matinees’’ at which turkey and cranberry sauce will be served between the acts, and will enter- prising managers advertise special Chris mas-day performances. at which a specialty will be made of furnishing an entire roast beef and plum-pudding dinner between the acts of a **Christmas’’ play, the soup to be served with the overture and small black coffees to be given away at the doors as the audience leaves the theater? In time it may be a better investment to buy a theater ticket than to give a dollar for a blow-out at a restaurant. Baldwin Theater. Miss Pauline Hall and her company will continue to present ‘‘Dorcas’ all this week at the Baldwin Theater. Several new mel- JEANETTE ST. HENRY, WITH PAULINE HALL'’S “DORCAS” PANY AT THE BALDWIN. coM- Countesse Zicka has ever since been one of the most popular in her repertory. ally well. Comedie Francaise in 1877, under the title | of “Dora,” and was later adapted by Cle- ment Scott and B. C. Stephenson into Eng- lish, under the name of *“Diplomacy.” | Since then it has remained a favorite, both | in England and America. | The cast of “Diplomacy” will include | Estelle Clayton and J. C. Richman, who hit on that occasion, and the role of | mimickings of celebrated actors and act- | resses. Hines and Remington will pre- sent a new sketch this week entitled ““The The play is one that has worn exception- | Hock Shop,” and Dryden and Mitchell It was first produced at the |and Hugh J. Emmett will also appear in | new business which promises lots of mer- | riment. In addition to these performers eight new people will be introduced. They are | Weston and Hubert, Haines and Pettingill, McMahon and King and Meehan and Ray- mond (Gus and Annie Haines and Pettingill are recognized as furious type, which has even caused beauteous maidens to fling aside theirshoes and stockings, has not yet reached the Pacific Coast. ; The boom is coming when A. M. Palmer’s company produces ‘‘Trilby” at the Bald- win Theater on the 30th inst. The engagement follows directly after the present one of Pauline Hall. The pre- senting company will include among its members Wilton Lackaye as Svengali, Edith Crane, Ignace Martinetti, 8. Miller Kent, Reuben Fax, Walden Ramsey, Her- bert A. Carr, Charles Canfield, E. W. Mor- rison, George Trader, William Herbert, Edwin Brandt, Victer M. de Silke, Morel Beane, Rosa Rand, Jennie Reiffarth, Grace Pierrepont, Lucille Nelson, Monta Elmo and Alice Evans. 3 Lackaye’s Svengali has been much dis- cussea for its powerful rendering of Du Maurier’s character. The accompanying pictures represent Lackaye before and after making up for the part of Svengali. The Post-Dispatch, aliuding to the per- formance of the Palmer Company at St. Louis, says: “When the curtain went down on the third act and Svengali (Wil- ton Lackaye) lay dead across the table, with his ghastly, ghoulish face upturned toward the heaven he could never hope to reach, and poor Trilby (Edith Crane) come screaming from the stage, stricken with fear at the hisses of her old admirers, and yet freed at last from the thralldom of the dead mon- ster, there came from the audience which saw all this splendid dramatic action such a burst of approval as would do honor to any author, any player. The applause came in storms, rising and echoing from pit to dome. The curtain rose and fell and still the demonstration kept on until it must have rivaled the ovations the musical world accorded La Svengali when she sang with the voice of Trilby and the brain of her hypnotic master.” German Comedy Company. To-night Conreid’s German Comedy Company will give their last performance of the season at the Baldwin Theater, when Blumenthal and Kadelburg’s newest com- | edy, “Zwei Wappen”” (Two Crests), will be | performed. Itissaid that this comedy is | one of the best written by the collaborating | authors, and the work has met with great | success on the other side of the Atlantic. i The cast is a strong one, and brings the | entire company on the stage. The California Theater will open for the winter and spring seasors ‘on Mondas evening, November 4, with the comed 1 (3 o ElLNGTo De BoeTs 4'1‘ G Rove. Rr'S sk = A JC:|Q|GBLQ “orenst = T ~~ REMINISCENCES OF LAST WEEK’'S ATTRACTIONS AT THE THEATERS. the crowds that flocked to witness it. The | play has the usual ups and downs of melo- dramatic life, though it is romantic 1n ten- dency. All the parts were satisfactorily filled. Miss Edna Hall has had so much prac- e in ‘“‘tearing a passion to tatters” in ; pbase and relationship of life, that is now quite perfect init; Alice Cordon de a bright little sailor-boy and Bessie anah the French maid. Charles Swain’s remarkable power of dic- tion was well to the front; as usual neither words nor ideas flagged for & mo ment, but poured out like a mountain tor- rent. “The District Attorney,” after a success- ful two weeks’ run, will be withdrawn from the Columbia Theater and replaced to-mor- row by “Diplomacy.”’ The Alcazar Theater has been very much | beautified under the new management, and is now one of the prettiest and coziest houses of amusement in town. The gen- eral scheme of color is pale blue and tan, trimmed, as it were, with gold and a touch of pink. The new drop act, painted by Dietz, represents the muse of comedy borne | aloft by cupids. The design is appropriate | and pleasing, though the cherubs are not | so plump and buxom as arfists usually | represent them. | The new company acted up to the com- | edy tone of the house by keeping the audi- | ences in a constant state of fiilurily all | week by the performances of *‘Everybody’s Friend” and “A Ringer.”” Both cards were good all-round ones, and the animation never lagged from beginning to end of the | show. At the Orpheum old friends, as well as new, were greeted with packed | houses and hearty applause last week. | Among the new-comers Miss Pearl | Andrews stood first and foremost. | Her artistic delineation of various well- | known actors and actresses was received with rounds of applause as one after the | young friends was full of Last, but not least, the Farbianu troupe formed a charming quartet. In their repertoire they had a selection of the national music of nine different countries, each sung in its own language. ci“ips and jok The popular interest shown in “Lucia” at the Tivoli demonstrates how mistaken those enth ts of modern music are when they say scornfully that the dear old operas our grandmothers loved have had their day and that the works of Donizetti and his contemporaries should now be labeled *“music of the past” and put in a museum of antiguities. Donizetti still has a power to charm the musical masges thatthe whole cycle of Wag- ner’s works will probably never possess. Musical missionaries would tell us this is to be deplored, but all the preaching in the world will not alter the fact that where one person will fall under the spell of divire harmonies a hundred will listen with de- light to a sweet and catck: Miss Valerga gave a starthngly revolu- tionary rendering to the part of Lucia, for she acted and declaimed the role as if she were the Jocunda, Santuzza or any other dramatic heroine of modern music-drama. Only just now and then did she indulge in a bit of mezza voce that recalled the metheds of the flute-like Lucias of tra- dition. These Lucias did not care about acting, theirone idea was ‘‘bel canto,” the produc- tion of sweet flute-like tones, of runs and cadenzas that the violin, in the hands of a master, could scarcely surpass for purity and lack of effort.” The great singers whose names are associated with the role of Lucia did not care anything about the heroine’s passion and her despair. They were on the stage to sing, and sing they did, with a ravishing sweetness that is rapidly becoming a lost art. But that was before Wagner and his followers had revolutionized the world of opera. The old Lucias are faded or dead now, and Melba is the only young woman who_can sing the role with all’ its old glories of ““bel canto.” In the Tivoli performance Miss Valerga EDITH CRANE AS TRILBY, }ormed 4t Wailack's. She m: odies by the eminent composers Johann Strauss, Millocher, Carl Zeller and Max Hirshfield will be presented. At the Sat- urday matinee, September 28, a large-sized tinted autographed picture of Miss Hall will be presented to each lady attending. Saturday night's performance will end the engagement, e At the Grand. “Love and Law” will be produced at the | Grand to-morrow night, when Milton Nobles will open a four weeks’ engagement. ) “Love and Law ” at the Grand Opera- House. This actor is well known in the theatrical world, and will doubtless prove a strong attraction. _ The piece in which he is to make his initial a‘ppenmnce to-morrow is a comedy- drama from his own pen and one which has won praise in the great Eastern cities. It’s story is full of absorbing interest, the pathos which 1s not of the morbid kind, and this is amply relieved by a bright comedy element, which is supplied princi- vally by Septimus Sawyer (Hatch) and Ferdinand Hoffmeir %‘wain). The scene islaid in New York, but the story is cos- mopolitan in character. Fine new scenery has heen prepared for all four acts. Following is the full cast: Ritta, an Itallan street singer..... Maud Edna Hall Helen Montague, an English lady of wealth. ... ieee..... Mina Gleason Mrs. Ta Bay View cottage. Sarah Stevens Kittie O’Rourke, servant 1o Mrs. Tarbox....... Florence Throppe oia Sir Kandal Bur Jaspar Craddoc anion to Conti English family ..Julia Blane Couiter Brinker Sepiimus Sawyer, aioric atiaw, ey the black sheep of a wealthy .Fred J. Butler New York ..Frank Hatch ,” a London Joseph Skerritt, an English detective officer.... William E. Humphrey Felix O'Paff, attorney-ai-law, New York City, late of Dublin. +..Milton Nobles At the Columbia. “Diplomacy” will be produced to-mor- row night at the Columbia Theater, with Rose.Coghlan in the part she appeared in | art of making u | have just joined the company at the Columbia. fziclmmn has been Mrs. Lang- try’s leading man for some years, but he isnow at liberty to join another company, pied with ~her divorce proceedings to admit of her acting. The rest of the cas to-morrow night will include: Hen 3. Dixey, William G. Beach, Miss Maud W ter and L. R. Stockwell. “The Magistrate’’ will be the comedy selected for the farewell sveek of the Stock- well Company. Henry E. Dixey’s matinee this afternoon will include famous impersonations, statu- ary, scenes from “The Seven Ages,” ITv- ing, Paderewski, Hermann, Adonis, etc. Among other things he will introduce the The ladies .\'go compose the officers of the San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children have arranged that the closing week of the Stockwell season shall be a Alcazar Theater. “‘Everybody’s Friend” and “A Ringer,” in which the new company at Grover's Alecazar made its first appearance, will re- ceive their final presentations at to-day’s matinee and evening performance. To morrow evening the double bill will be replaced by the amusing farce-comedy, Chip of the Old Block,” in which Robert J. Scott will be the central figure. The lay is not an entirely new one to San Francisco audiences, as it was well re- ceived here several seasons ago at the Bush-street Theater. R.J. Scott on that occasion assumed the role of Major. an old sea-dog, a part which is said to be especially suited to him and which he will repeat to-morrow. _The chief actor will be principally as- sisted by Miss Gracie Plaisted, who will as- sumc the soubrette role in the production, and together with Scott, will render several new and attractive specialtiess. The re- mainder of the cast of “Chip of the Old Block” has been selected from the best comedy talent of the Alcazar company, and will include C. E. Lothian, Mrs. Fanny Young, Miss Fannie Warren and Harry Lewellyn. A weekly change of programme is an- nounced, save in exceptional cases. At the Wednesday matinees the management has introduced the feature of serving refresh- ments in the shape of icecream and cake between the acts of the play. Tivoli Opera-House. The Tivoli will contmue its season of grand opera to-morrow night by produc- ing Verdi’s tragic opera, “Ernani.”’ The work is one of the most popular that the Italian master ever wrote, and the libretto ot the opera 1s unusually dramatic and interesting. Most librettists and com- vosers have treated the barytone like a stepson, and have heaped all the glory and heroism on the tenor, but it will be re- membered that in “Ernani,” asin “Rigo- letto,” *‘Otheilo,”” etc., Verdi has shown his fondness for the barytone voice by r';nkmg the tenor role almost subordinate The plot of “Ernani”_is too well known to need summarizing. Perhaps the finest scene in the opera is the one where Don Carlos, the barytone, overhears the delib- erations of the conspirators in the vault of :ge cathedral of Granada and confronts em. Martin Pache will sing the title role; John J. Raffael, Don Carlos; George H. Broderick, the Duke of Silva, and Ida Valerga and Laura Millard will alternate in the role of Elvira. By special request Balfe’s ballad opera, “The Bohemian Girl,” will follow for one week only. A+ ine O An almost entirely new bill is promised fourteen years age, when the pl:x a8 per- for to-morrow night at the Orpheum. as the Lily’s time is too much occil: | great | Pearl Andrews will continue her i:lnver["Noll." But Trilbymania of the fierce and y The BepoitR W remarkably Dbright dialogue and gag- | ging artists, their poolroom scene being | especially funny. 3 | mond the Orpheum has an entertaining In Meehan and Ray: sketch team. They will appear in their Iatest Eastern success, “A Lucky Strike.” They are also to give banjo and_vocal solos and duets. McMahon and King, black-face comedians, are said to be excellent expo- nents of plantation singing and dancing. Webster and Hubert are comedy musi- cal sketch artists. THE TRILEY BOOM. It Will Probably Strike San Francisco When the Palmer Company Arrives. The Trilby boom may be expected to : : | reach San Francisco on or lmme(llato]yi after September30. Hitherto Trilbymania bas been a mild and gentle epidemic on | the Pacific Coast. It has manifested itself | in the wearing of big silver hearts and ina | Mr. Lackaye as Svengali. certain fondness among society amateurs for warbling “Ben Bolt” and Adam’s | merely a piece of white pasteboard and | snccess, “Charley’s Aunt,” which will be presented by the original’ company. This ill be followed in rapid succession by a | series of strong attractions. Dramatic Items in Brief. | M. Leon Daudet, son of Alphonse Dandet, has | authorized a dramatist, one of his friends, to adapt for the stage his last and very successful novel, “Kamtchatka.” “Tragedy,” says Edwin Arden, once star, now leading man with Crane, “is melodrama in | blank verse. Bill Sykes is merely a brutal} ized Othello.” It was Paul Potter's version of “Trilby” which Beerbohm Tree finally produced in Lan- don, under Mr. Potter’s supervision, and the | American dramatist was called before the cur- tain as the author on the first night. E A. Barron is dramatizing George Eliot’s “Romola.” Julia Marlowe Taber is to appear in the title role. Ellen Terry has a new curtain-raiser by John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie) which she will use over here this fall. 1t is called after the long- winded fashion now prevalent' in London, «Journeys End in Lovers Meeting,” and is said to suit Miss Terry perfectly. Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry have been allowed to arrive and seek the seclusion of a hotel on Lake Champlain with an absence of fuss which indicates that the interest in them this season will be as actors, not as celebrities, and that the American public is coming to its senses in regard to its treatment of foreigners, As actors their engagement will be the most in* teresting event of the season. THREE FOR A NICKEL. A Shrewd Ohio Postmaster Causes aq Rush for Postage Stamps. The business world of the village of Johnstown, in Ohio, had succumbed to the heat and had lain down for the summer siesta, says a Pittsburg paper. Plainly things needed a stirring up, and it was Postmaster and Lditor W. A. Ashbrooke who did it. 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