The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1895, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, EMBER 3, 1895. EMILIE MELVILLE give the audience a clear idea of the ex- terior and interior of a big financial insti- tution and the sitnation is worked up untll it ends in a stirring climax. Grover’s Alcazar. | To-morrow’s production at the Alcazar { will consist of **The Crushed Tragedian,” |a comedy-drama by the playwright { Byron, author of “Our Boys” and a host | of other comedies. elder Sothern, tells a dramatic story of | of adventurers. The son of a titled banker falls in love with an actress, whose father is of good family. The banker resents the from his abhorrence of the stage, but cir- cumstances cha the condition of the | lovers. The actress becomes rich and re- nowned and the bauker fails and becomes impoverished, and the true nobility is | made manifest by the magnanimity of the | | actress and her family. One of the leading characters is a strug- | gling actor who telieves himself to be a | great tragedian ana whose effors to obtain | engagements in metropolitan theaters | bave been crushed and buried. He accepts | this as the irony of fate and sustains such | parts as fall to him with the air of a dis- 1npp0in[ed Forrest or Macready. Leonard Grover Jr. will essay this role for the first | bank is vividly pictured. Over 100 people | are employed in the scene. Sets of scenery | | This play, which was a favorite with the | life between the stage, society and a group | probable marriage of the young people | AT THE TIVOLIL | When Dazy and Weil wrote *“A War- | time Wedding” they seem to have been | ed by a recipe something like the fol- ‘{ ng: | “‘Take several large slices of Mascagni, { 2dd a sprig of Gillet, a liberal 2llowance of drawing-room ballad airs and one or two suggestions of darkey songs. Leoncay ust be introduced sparingly, but sev zht opera choruses of the ‘Robin Hood’ ety will give a flavor of popularity. Before serving season according to t Io variety.” | of this recipe is that it con- s an overabundance of ingredients for | e poor opera. The good things culled d the good things culled there may satisfactory in themselves, but ctively they succeed in stifling duality out of “A War-time Wed- The work belongs to no distinctive | it is ever ything by turns and noth- cian may imitate one composer or one class of composition, and, if he takes care to serve his production au naturel, he will often impress his andience as favorably as if he were an original ge “Robin Hood’' never pretended to much originality, but De Koven culled Charles W. Enox, the California Bary- tone. | %0 judiciously that | ent homogeneous net has given a pendant to the Rusticana” in his “Navar- ich resembies Masca, resembles the one placed opposite it at the left. o But when the French composer made a snatch &t Mascagni's laurels he did it ldly and consistently. The brief plot of “La Navarrase” is as fierce and brutal in its everyday realism as that of the ‘“Cav- Rusticana.” Massenet’s musicalso es itself to the story, follows it step and echoes its violent, turbulent The result is that the audiences | reathless and enchained as the lyric drama is unrolled before them, and | h Massenet is a plagiarist in his ” as he calls the Mascagnesque he is repeating with it the triumphs won by the “Cavalleria Rus-| ticana. But Mascagni diluted with comic songs | loses all his power to charm. His “Cav- | | ane plane of comic | is that if the two down to the muv compos of operatic art they would produce some- | thing well worthy of lingering in the Bos- | tonian repertory, and this cannot be said of “A War-time Wedding."” The yvacht scene in “The Stowaway” at | Morosco’s was very pretty, but 1t would have been more realistic if the yacht had been made to undulate with the rippling | waves—there was absolutely no excuse for ngs from sea-sickness endured | in-boy. The crowning pointof the scene was when Charles Swain, as the stowaway, burst from the hola and confronted the | villains; the said hold was rather a tight fit for him, and it would certainly not have been possible to stow away much be- | sides, butas they were within sight of land all the time the crew would not need many stores. Coulter Brinker went through his part in excellent style, and Miss Thropp ac- quitted herself splendidly. time. pear for the second time tnis season, will | play the part of Frank Bristow, the ex- | officer, who has become a prompter. Columbia Theater, That treasure-trove of the Bostonian | Company, *Robin Hood,” will again hold | the boards at the Columbia Theater this | week, with the exception of one farewell | performance of *‘Prince Ananias,” which is announced for the Wednesday matinee. | It is stated that the Bostonians will proba- bly not revisit this coast for some years, so that all their performances at the Columbia this week will partake of the nature of | farewells. | Jack Haverly of minstrel fame will open his season at the Columbia Theater | on the 1ith inst. Billy Rice, Bert Shep- ard, Lew Dockstadter and a nnmber of | other minstrel celebrities wiil be in the | company. Henry E. Dixey has concluded arrange- | ments with the management of the Colum- bia Theater to devote a week later in the season to Carre and Bisson’s comedy, *“The Lottery of Love.” Dixey has secured Miss Margaret Craven and Miss Pauline French to be in the supporting cast. Grand Opera-House.- | To-morrow night a melodrama entirely | will have a regular band festival. | | has been a triumphal march, if the foreign 21 ———— e ——————— ] iGRACE THORNE COULTER WITH “CHARLEY’'S AUNT” AT THE Leonard Grover Sr., who will ap- | CALIFORNIA. of attractions already engaged for the fall | and winter months is said to excel in qual- | ity and variety the talent for any other | period since the Orpheum was opened. | Macdonough Theater. The following are the attractions that | will appear at the Macdonough Thea- | ter, Oakland, during November: On | November 8 concert by the *‘Artist| Monday end Tuesday, Novem- 11 and 12, Hoyt’s *“A "Contented | Woman’; next Thursday, November 14, | 15 and 16, “The Passing Show™; November | 22 and 23, for two nights and a matinee, | the Bostonians. | Dramatic News in Brief. | When Sousa comes to San Francisco he ‘When “Julius Cmsar” is revived at the Lyceum in London Sir Henry Irving will | play Brutus and Ellen Terry Portia. | Sarah Bernhardt's trip through Italy | papers may be trusted. The students of Stanford University are | Charles W. Knox, the popular California | barytone, who made such a pronounced success at the Orpheum, and who has a large following of admirers in this 5 will leave for the East shortly to fill an engagement in one of the leading vaude- ville theaters. Mr. Knox has a rich, pure voice of ex-| ceptional compass and timbre, which is | capable of meeting the requirements of | difficult solo work. He will no doubdt make a great success in heroic and dramatic roles. | Mr. Knox was perticularly happy in a number of sympathetic batlads sung dur- | ing his engagement at the Orpheum. His | rendering of them showed that he had | been schooled under good masters. The | California singer will make his first ap- | pearance in the East in an original spe- | | | | cialty, which includes the wearing of special costumes to illustrate the vocal score. Baldwin Theater. Oxne of the theatrical events of the sea- | son will be the appearance at the Baldwin | Theater to-morrow evening of Hoyt's lat- | est comedy, “A Contented Woman,” with | 2 beautiful Caroline Miskel Hoyt as the star. | ; The American playwright's latest work | is not so much given over to farce as many | | of his other plays. Like *“The Texas| Steer,” it is a satire on certain political | practices, only instead of aiming all his | shafts at the men, Hoyt has taken a relent- | less shy at the women this time. | The scene is laid in Denver and the | tasis of the comedy is furnished by the | attempt of two political organizations, | one male and the other female, to land a | candidate in the Mayor’'s chair. The op- posing candidates are husband and wife. | The Lusband goes out and does the saloons, { 1! IN THE L ATIC ASYLUM —SCENE FROM BREAKER” AT THE GRAND OPERA - HOUSE. “ THE DIAMOND s{)endmg money right and left and making | all kinds of promises if he is elected, and | the wife looks after her interests among the women voters. Hoyt will personall new on this coast will be presented at the ¥ Grand. It is entitled, “The Diamond superintend the local production. Breakers,’’ the scene of the story being the On toe 11th inst. De Wolf Hopper’s comic | celebrated coal region of Pennsylvania. %?era company will appear at the Baldwin | Like all the works of its author, Scott heater. “Wang.’ | incidents. In one scene, for instance, the California Theater. | Hero narrowly escapes being crushed to *Charley’s Aunt,”” which pays visit to the California Theater to-morrow evening, isa play that has proved a gold % 5 . mine wherever it has been produced. It asylum, into which the heroine is rail- has been running successfully for nearly | roaded by relatives who have designs on three yearsin London and is still in the | 25 Ortune: swim there. | ous machinery in full operation. nother =i | _The comedy element in “The Diamond Emperor William recently | Breakers” will be supplied by Hatch, commanded & private performance of the | Swain, Leslie and Florence Thropp. comedy at his palace in Berlin, and *La | Coulter Brinker and Maud Edna Hall will Tante de Charley” has been quite the rage | play the leads. The play will be lavishly in Paris. In Russia, Italy, South Africa | staged. and Australia *“Charley’s Aunt” is sending | V’Ihexr opeding production will be | Marble, the piece abounds with thrilling | | death in a massive diamond-breaker (coal- | econd | crusher), which is shown with its ponder- | sensational scene occurs in the lunatic | alleria” is nothing if not fiery, passionate, | forth more ducats to swell the already | brutal in its intensity; end to drag it into | bloated bank accounts of its authors. In | the same score with pleasant frothy | tRiS cOuntry the success of the farce-com- | trivialities is to Tob the music of all its | “Thps way 2! Kooy (0 need mentioning. i R e | he play in addition to being genuinely | avor. 0 be hope that the next | fnnpy hasa quintuple love interest as it | Tivoll Opers-House. Emilie Melville has been especially en- gaged as the star of the comic opera season, which begins to-morrow evening at the Tivoli Opera-house. The production se- | making extensive preparations for a mon- | | ster original entertainment that they will | give in this City on Thanksgiving night. Sir Augustus Harris is said to have made | arrangements for the production of “Cheer, Boys, Cheer,” in this country about Christmas. At least so say the | London papers. William A. Brady will remain at Hot | Springs, Ark., until aiter the Corbett-Fitz- | simmons matter has been finally settied. |In_the meantime active preparations are | being made for James J. Corbett's new | play, ““A Naval Cadet.” | stoid | The production of “Humauity,’ with | time C. T. Dazy and Oscar Weil compose | an opera they will decide beforehand | which branch of the lyric stage they in- tend to write for, solemnly ding them- | selves not to fluctuate between regions | that are only elittle lower than the amgels il i A, l /%x" 74 ‘m//f@mq i it AT contains five well-developed love stories, | lected for the first week is Offenbach’s **Charley’s Aunt” will only run for one | amusing opera, “Madame Fayart.” The week at the California Theater. It will be | title role is one that Miss Melville created followed on the 11th inst. by “The War of | in English in this country, and itis one Wealth,”” the great scene in which rep- | especially suited to her talents. Miss Mel- resents 8 bank besieged by angry deposit- | ville has been singing for some years ors. Itissaid that the whole run on the | abroad, and her reappearance isan inter- esting event in local dramatic circles. Adolph Bauer, the Tivoli director, has added several numbers to the score of “Madame Favart.” Martin Pache, the tenor, will sing a romance in the second act, and Miss Millard will render a waltz especially composed for the occasion. Ferris Hartman, who has been ‘““resting” during the grand-opera season, will make his reappearance as the Marquis de Pont Sable, a role which will afford ] opportunities of displaying his peculiar talents. The next Tivoli production will be a revival of Bizet’s ‘‘Carmen,” in which Miss Melville and Alice Carle will aiter- nate as the heroine. s already being made for the production of “The Lucky Star,” a spectacular comic opera. At the Orpheum. Six new people will appear at the Or- pheum this week: The Orrin trio, who are said to be amusing pantomimic acrobats, | and the three Rackett brothers, who will appear in an original musical comedy act. These artists are from the East, where | they have played in many first-class vau- deville theaters. For the week beginning Monday, No- vember 11, a big list of Eastern and Euro- pean artists has been arranged. Chief among them will be the Ammonis Clerise trio. a combination of talented vocal and instrumental comedians well known in Europe and in this cougtry. The number song in the third act, which have been | him many | Preparations are | | I Leonard Grover Sr. at the Alcazar. Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies, is en- oving a prosperous run at the Columbia heater, Boston, “01d Glory” will be seen in the large cities only for the next twenty weeks. “‘In a Big City,” the né)-zo-dnu comedy- drama, in which Bobby Gavlor is starring | this season, is said to contain some of the best scenes of local color that have been E;odnud in any of the plays of New York e, Two_* Cotton King” companies are crowding the theaters this week. One company is in Indianapolis and the other is in New England. *‘ The Best Bits.”” There is always a line or two in every vlay that is called *‘the best bit.” Nobody can t&ll until the play is produced what that line will be. It depends entirely on the public’s caprice. It so happens that very often the line that tickles the public fancy most is by no means the wittiest or most epigrammatic in the piece. Itisall luck. Following will be found the lines from plays and operas in the leading New York theaters that the audiences are laughing at the most: ““THE GAY PARISIANS,” In the last act, after all the participants in the awful nightat the Hotel Mascot have gotten back home, and Mr. and Mrs. | Pinglet are having an explanation— Mrs. Pinglet—I took a cab 1o go to my sister’s. We went along at a sober pace. Mr. Pinglet—We? Who? ’:Ihis Pinglet—The cabman, the horse and I i ‘‘CHRISTOPHER JR.” Dora has just been told that her husband is_really Christopher Colt. 8he is wild with joy at first, but suddenly she becomes sober and, rushing up to the man who has Eiven her the information, she exclaims, oarsely: *Is it the old man or the young one?”’ NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. MECHANICS’ PAVILION. A FIVE DAYS’ CELEBRATION. From Tuesday Nov. 5, toSaturday Nov. 9, MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. Goethe - Schiller Festival Under the auspicesof the LADIES OF THE GOETHE-SCHILLER MONUMENT ASSOCIATION, Alded by ALL THE GERMAN SOCIETIES Of San Francisco and vicinity. MAGNIFICENT AND ARTISTIC REP- RESENTATIONS From the work of these GREAT CLASSICAL GERMAN POETS. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME EVERY NIGHT. ADMISSION, ADULTS, 50 CENTS. CHILDREN, 25 CENTS. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street. Between Stock:on and Powall. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), NOV. 3. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcony, any seat, 10c; Children, any part, 10c. 6-MORE NEW PEOPLE—6 LEADEES IN VAUDEVILLE! THE FOUR LASSARDS, IDA HOWELL, HARRY STEEL ——axp—— THE GREATEST SPECIALTY BILL IV AMERICA! HORSEMEN ! Take notice that Entries to the SECOND ANNUAL HORSE SHOW of the Pa- cific Coast WILL POSI- TIVELY CLOSE ON. THE Oth INST. 3--SONG RECITALS--3 MAPLE HALL, PALACE HOTEL, st Sranin MR. ANDREW BOGART. Tirst Recital Wednesday Eve., Nov. 6. ‘Vocallsts for First Recital: land, Olive Reed-Batchelder, Mr. raham, Bogar, Mrs. bewing, Dr. Giibert Gi Mr. Harry Melvin, Subscription Tickets (3 recitals), $1: single Ad- ml;lnn, On sale at Shermm)c Clay’s. BEETHOVEN HALL, ‘Corner Postand Powell Sts., Tuesday Evenings, Nov. 5 and 19, OoOTTO BENDIX PIANOFORTE RECITALS. Extraordinary Programmes! Great Enthusiasm! Q“fln:(‘, 'lll; the Two Concerts, $1 50; Student ey s Music-stores In San T On sale at Kohler lfi. H.A.REDFIELD, Manages, Francisco and NEW TO-DAY—-AMUSEMENTS. s 1] * -+ FRICDLANDER,GOTTLOB & (0 LESSES & MANAGERS -+ TAREYEELT, Smee | £ WARNING. U M TR BOSTOINIANS NOTICE—Owing to the Tremendous Demand for BT INT EX That Greatest of all Comic Operas, will be given at Every Periormance During the Week, COMMENCING WITH TO-MORROW NIGHT. Excepting on Wednesday & PRINCE ANANIAS?” Night, when Seats Now on Sale. November 11-HAVERLY'S MASTODON MINSTRELS. COLUMBIA THEATER, FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO., Lessees aud Managers. COMMENCING WITH SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10. 7 A Great, Grand and Glorious Minstrel Festival. J. H. HAVERLY'S MASTODON MINSTRELS A magnificent ensemble of America's highest salaried artists, presenting a programme Including the latest gems in music, exhilarating humor, entrancing song and up-to-date wit. Honarchs Supreme of Superfine Minstrelsy. INCOMPARABLE IN DESIGN, INDEFATIGABLE IN EXECUTION, UNPARALLELED IN EFFECT. COMING IN ALL 1ITS VAST ENTIRETY, Will be Repeated. = SN : L EAD TEE ROLI.L” Billy Rice, Burt_Shepard, Charles Ernst, E. M. Kayne, J. H. Haverly. IVE P IR O, MUSIC . =] = Howard, Russell, Tenny, Talbott and Fifty Others. REMEMBER THE DATE AND CARR ik SUNDAY AFTERNQON, NOVEMBER SATS—1 , 50c, ib¢. Boxesand Loges S1. TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME BM.?;‘A!!!!Y “THE PASSING SHOW!” THE NEWS. 10. On sale Thursda; COMMENCING TO-MORROW (MONDAY), NOVEMBER 4, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY-FIRST PRODUCTION OF HOYT'S LATEST SUCCESSFUL SATIRICAL COMEDY, “A CONTENTED WOMAN!" INTERPRETED BY A LARGE AND CAPABLE COMPANY, HEADED BY CAROLINE MISEHEIL EOYT. Monday, November 11—-DE WOLF HOPPER Comic Opera Co. “SWANG-? 'BALDWIN THEATER—EXTRA. COMMENCING NOV. 11, D WOLL.F' HIS MERRY COMPANY PRESENTING THE GREAT COMIC OPERA SUCCESS, A GORGEOUS STAGE PRODUCTION. The Sale of Seats and Boxes Commences on Next Thursday Merning at the Box-0ffice HIEBPER “NWAING!” | Al MAYMAN S GRAND REOPENING @L!.@m'gfl o To-morrow (Monday), Nov. 4. 7 NIGHETS —MATINEE SATURDAY. A LAUGHING SERIES OF DOMESTIC SITUATIONS | THE ENORMOUS LAUGHING HIT, CHARLEY’S Management CHARLES FROHMAN. & Phenomenal Comedy Success! Presented Here With All the Players That Appesred in All the Principal Citles. MOUNTED WITH EXQUISITE SCENERY. MONDAY, NOV. 11— Jnesigasst . “THE WAR OF WEALTH!” THE MOST IMPOSING PRODUCTION OF AN AMERICAN MELO! MA EVER GIVEN IN THIS COUNT& SR MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-H6USE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO....... +...Sole Lessee and Manager TO-MORROW EVENING.. . ++s:ee..MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, POSITIVELY FIRST TIME IN SAN FRANCISCO! SCOTT MARBLE'S THRILLING STORY, “THE DIAMOND-BREAKER!” AN AMERICAN PLAY BY AN AMERICAN WRITER. See the Sensational Madhouse Scene, and the Massive Coal- Breaker With Its Intricate Machinery in Full Operation. THE USUAL POPULAR PRICES. —_—mmmm— GROVER’S ALCAZAR. |T!IVOLI OPERA-HOUSE | s EmxEsTING KRELING Proprietor & Managas | —TO-NIGH T— | LAST NIGHT OF THE GRAND OPERA SEASON. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY)! Twentleth and Last Periormance To-night of “PINK DOMINOES!” | SPECIAXL BIX.X,! TO-MORROW (MONDAY) | First Pmduczlonco! Byron and Sothern's Great | o MARTHA and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. medy Drama, SR o < | TO-MORRUW EVENING, THE CRUSHED TRAGEDIAN. O 4 3 LEONARD GROVER SE., OPENING COMIC OPERA SEASON! LEONARD GROVER JR., Offenbach’s Celebrated Opera Comique, And the Entire Company In the Cast. ‘ ‘MADAME FAVART 1" Night Prices—10c¢, 15¢, 25¢, 835¢, 50c. First Appes Matinees, “Wednesday Pop,” Sat. & Sunday 1 ——EMELIE MELVILLE—— Reappearance of the favorite comedian, Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25¢c. No Extra for Securing Seats. FERRIS HARTMAN. OH! WHAT A RUSHI Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. YESTERDAY EVERY ONE WENT v RURNING fislflflllfi SHOOT THE CHUTES! RAcES! S RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, HAIGHT STREET, One Block East of the Park. FALL MEETINGI! The Chutes will be open to-day at 11 BAY DISTRICT TRACK. o’clock. THE SENSATION OF LONDON, ANTWERPF, NEW YORK and CHICAGO, And Now of San Francisco. Open Afternoons and Evenings. ADMISSION, TEN CENTS. MILITARY CONCERT AT 2 AND 8 P. M. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:00 7.3 sharp. McAllister and Geary street Cars pase the gute. BASEBALL-CENTRAL PARK, San Francisco vs. San Jose. Nov. 2, 3, 6 and 7. Saturdsy &t 3:30. Sundsyat2:00 P. M,