The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895 LILLIAN LEWIS AS CLEOPATRA | ,, 4 | { AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER. * Last week’s contributions to the local stage were a tongue-tied young gentleman with a handle to his name and the reap- pearance of Joe Cawthorne, robbed of much of his reputed jollity by a severe | cold. The dialect actor, who only came for a week, is departing with his company to fresh fields and pastures new, but w Robert Downing as Ingomar. are to keep Lord Sholto Douglas, ashe finds that San Francisco continues toafford satisfactory browsing ground. Last Mon- day he almost suffered from stage fright on finding himself the observed of all observ- ers, but as the week wore away his native modesty and timiaity wore away with it, and by Friday he was able to sit jauntily on the lounge, put his hands in histrousers pockets and look the multitude pleasantly ' in the face with all the dash of alight comedian. So satisfied is Leonard Grover | with the box-office receipts accruing from | his new star that be has retained Lord | Sholto Douglas in the Alcazar’s employ, | | and this week the young man will risey from the ranks of the supersand break | forth into speech—that is, if he succeeds | in remembering his lines. | The Tivoli company needs reminding | | that a strong line of demarcation exists | | between the interpretation of a graceful |and artistic operetta like the *‘Mixado” {and the license which is allowable in | vaudeville, Itis Ferris Hartman in par- | ticular who seems to have forgotten that | refinement, picturesqueness and good sing- | ing are more pleasing to the public than | horse-play and local ‘“‘gags.” The latter | arouse the clamor of a certain following, but theatrical audiences are capricious masters to serve, and if this voung actor wishes to retain his popul he will have to look to his voice, wh is be- coming a thing of the past, and to his | methods, which are far too farcical. Baldwin Theater. Rice’s scenic production of “1492” will appear at the Baldwin Theater to-morrow night. As usual in extravaganza the his- toric incidents of the period are subordi- nated to the amusement of the audience, and from the time the curtain goes up on the court of Ferdinand and Isabella until it drops on what Columbus deserved, in- stead of what he got, the fun is said to be fast and furious. A number of specialty artists enliven 1492 with skits on recent operas and with new burlesque acts. One feature is a ballet, “The Siqunily Hints From Paris,”” which is said to foretell the coming fashions. Among the specialties are *‘The Ch:pgie," “The Fraulein’’ and six genuine newsboys, the young dancer Fleurette and the Kilanyi living pictures. The cast includes Richard Harlow, who impersonates Daisy, Queen of Spain, and | is famous for the magnificence of his gowns; Bessie Bonehill, the well-known | burlesque actress, and a number of other clever people. California Theater. Robert Downing and his company will open a season of legitimate drama at the California Theater to-morrow night. This actor returns with several new plays, and, it is said, a better company than last year. He is still supported by his wife, Eugenie Blair. “The Gladiator” kas been selected as the opening play, as it will give Downing an opportunily of appearing in his favorite character of Nero. Miss Blair will be the Neodamia. Thisisnotthedrama in which McCullough was seen so often. It isa more modern and romantic version of ““HE WHO CONQUERETH HIMSELF IS FAR GREATER THAN HE WHO TAKETH A CITY.” — MILTON NOBLE IN “A SON OF THESPIS” ‘AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. g eladiatorial and early Christian times in Rome. “The Gladiator” wili be given Monday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. Thursday and Saturday nights “Julius Ceesar”” will be the performance, and “Othello” will be presented Wednesday evening and at the Saturday matinee. Next week Victorien Sardou’s romantic drama ‘‘Helena’ will be produced for the | first time in this City. Columbia Theater. 5 Lillian Lewis will be seen at the Colum- bia Theater to-morrow night in ‘“‘Cleo- patra.” She is said to have thoroughly identified herself with the character, and the scenery and gowns which she will bring with her are suited to the spectacu- lar character of the drama. The bare-foot ballet in the third act, danced by six bare-footed and bare-limbed girls, has given rise to much discussion; it is a characteristic dance, introduced for the diversion of the Queen, and is possibly lly correct, for the Egyptians ced in their bare feet, as most rientals do to-day. The coming produc- tion of “‘Cleopatra” contains a number of spectacular features, amony them being the two tableaux vivants, *Cleopatra as the Goddess Isis in her royal barge” and the *‘Hymen Sacrum” in the temple. Grover’s Alcazar. The last performance of “The Governor” will be given at Grover’s Alcazar thiseven- ing. To-morrow a double bill will be pre- sented, consisting of Morton’s ‘*An Hon- est Girl,” and a new curtain-raiser, “‘My Lord in Livery,” William Gleason will appear for the first time at Grover's Alcazar in Morton’s drama, and Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas will have speaking parts. The new cur- tain-raiser is a society comedy, which telis | the story of a certain Lord Douglas, who | lays a wager itat he will obtain an intro- | duction to Sir George Amberly’s daughter | Sybil and receive a ring from her. Sir | George is expecting a footman. Sybil and | her iriends receive warning that the per- | son coming will be Lord Douglas incog- nito. The ladies disguise themselves as servants, the real footman arrives and is mistaken by the ladies for Lord Douglas. which gives rise to some comical situa- tions. The engagement of Lord Sholto Douglas has proved so profitablé that it has been decided to let him appear in a more trying role this week. Grand Opera-House. To-morrow Milton Nobles opens his re- turn engagement at the Grand, accom- panied this time by his clever wife, Dollie. Their opening bill, “A Son of Thespis,” has never been seen before in San Fran- cisco. Itisdescribed by Nobles, its author, as a pastoral play, relying for its success on the strength of natural situations. The leading role, which Nobles plavs, is per- fectly adapted to his own peculiar methods. In the commencement of the story heisa rollicking young private secretary to a | banker whose daughter he has secretly Signorita Clotilde Antonio at the Orpheum. married. Just as he is about to make a confession of the escapade heis accused by his employer of theft. As the crime is not specifically mentioned the young man takes it for granted that his marriage is referred to and admits his guilt. The complications arising from this situation are matter for three interesting acts. A grominent feature of the production will e a series of twelve tableaux representing scenes in the Civil War. Tivoli Opera-House. The romantic opera ‘“The Beggar Stu- den,” by Millocker, the author of the “Black Hussar,” “Gasparone” and other kindred German works, will be presented this week at the Tivoli Opera-house. The role of S8ymon, the Beggar Student, has been one of Martin Pache’s greatest suc- cesses both in Europe and in this country. His merry companion, Jan, will be sung by John D. Raffael, who played in this opera with the McCaull’s Opera Company; Ferris Hartman will again appear as Gen- eral Ollendorf, Laura Millard will sing the haughty Countess Laura, and Emelie Mel- ville will be the Bronislava. On Monday evening, December 16, Von Suppe’s famous opera, ‘‘Fatinitza,” will be presented, with Alice Carle as the dashing Lieutenant Viadimir. “Ixion” is the name of the Christmas spectacle, upon which labor and care are being bestowed to make it a gorgeous holiday spectacle. At the Orpheum. Hill and Hall, German grotesque per- formers from the Wintergarten, Berlin, and Signorita Clotilde Antonio, reputed to be the superior of all who dance with the hands instead of the feet, are to be this week’s additions to the Orpheum pro- gramme. Miss Antonio is a petite, grace- ful creature, who at first sight looks like a child, but she is said to be transformed into a veritable sprite when she waltzes, polkas and galops on her hands with the dash and terpsichorean skill which other trippers of the light fantastic put into their feet. She also possesses the power of balancing herself in all conceivable posi- tions with only one hand as a support. In addition to these acts the programme will include the best of the numbers which proved popular last week. Macdonough Theater. From the 12th to the 14th inst. De ‘Wolf Hopper and his company will pre- sent *“Wang"’ and “Dr. Syntax’’ at the Mac- donough Theater, Oakland. Herrmann will appear there on the 17th for one night and a matinee performance. Musin Concert. At the Baldwin Theater to-night Ovide Musin and his company will appear with an augmented orchestra of thirty-five musi- cians, under the conductorship of August Hinrichs, GOOD-BY TO STARRING. Modjeska Finds Touring the Countrya Fatiguing Exercise. “Modjeska told me yesterday,” saysan interviewer, “that the reason she was go- ing to give up starring was because she aisliked traveling, and that she could not give the proper attention to her art by be- ing hustled and hustled from one place to another. ‘This season,’ she continued, ‘I will stay in the East and South, and next season I shall go and say good-by to the West. Idon’t want to go from the stage | forever, but I am hoping that we will have an endowed theater in a very little time, and I would want to join it. For it is in an endowed theater that we must look to for our future actorsand actresses. A good with chrysanthemums, presented him with a beautiful gold badge and banqueted him at their armory. It was to be expected that sooner or later some one would utilize the baseball craze for a profitable play. Charles H. Hoyt has done 80 in “A Runaway Colt.” Fanny Bowman Enuigned from the BEGINMNG T0-MORROW, MONM\ Frederick Warde company in order to marry. She was tendered a banquet be- fore she left in_which the whole company p&rt_:cipaced. It proved to be an enjoyable alfair, There are all sorts of rumors floating around about A. M. Palmer. One from Chicago is that he has closed a lease for the new Great Northern Opera-house in that city ; that he will open it in May and livein one of the Chicago suburbs. An- other from Pittsburg is that he is nego- tiating for a theater to run_in conjunction with his Chicago house. Mr. Palmer sim- I RICHARD HARLOW AS EUGENIE BLAIR AT THE CALIFORNIA THEATER. stock company will de them zood—keep] them from being one-part players. Asso- ciation with players of experience and judgment will helo the younger genera- | tion in their art—will help the stagein | general from one end of this broad coun- | try to tne other. And so, 1 starring, and will sit down tiently for the time when the endowed | theater rears its head. Then I will run | forward and embrac: and be partof it.’ "’ With Other Eyes. The New York Press points out that | plays that have earned favor abroad are | by no means certain of success here, | “Woman’s Revenge,” which ran for a year | at the Adelphi, was a failure in New York. “Ghosts” and ““A Doll’'s House,” which created a profound impression_in Europe, have met a chilling reception in America. “John a-Dreams,”” a great London favorite, | was universally condemned in New York. | In this matter what is sauce for the goose | is sauce for the gander. Dixey’s ‘‘Adonis” ran for 600 nights in New York, but it earned only derision in London. ‘“Ala- bama’’ was a prodigious success with us, yet it failed in England. Dramatic Brevities. | The two most successful plays in London | this season have been ““Trilby”’ and Wil- | son Barrett’s drama of early Christian times. Both were first produced in Amer- 1ca. The business done by Sir Henry Irving | thus far during his New York season at | Abbey's theater may be described only by | the word tremendous. The Tavary Grand Opera Company is making great preparations for its season at the Baldwin in February. Theo Dorre, the charming singer of the organization, is creating a furor wherever the company | appears. | Julia Arthur will remain with Sir Henry | Irving until the spring of 1597. Her pres- ent ambition is to return to America and play Juliet. May Irwin's Western tour in “The ‘Widow Jones’” will open at S8an Francisco December 23. After the performance of ““The Politi- cian’ at the Cleveland Opera-house the Cleveland Grays bombarded Roland Reed | ingly. ply says that ‘“‘negotiations are not com- pleted.’” It is evident that American theater pat- rons do not care for straight pantomime of a serious nature. Two most worthy efforts in that direction have been made unavail- The French company that pre- sented “L’Enfant Prodigue” not long ago played to disastrous business, and Mlle. Jane May at Daly’s Theater has had a sim- ilar experience with “Mlle. Pygmalion.” MAKING IT SIMPLE. The Learned Judge Was Only Instruct- ing the Good Woman. “My good woman,” said the learned Judge, “you must give an answer in the fewest possible words of which you are capable to the plain and simple question whether, when you crossed the street with the baby on your arm and the omnibus was coming down on the opposite side and the cab on the left and the brougham was trying to pass the omnibus, you saw the plaintiff between the brougham and the cab, or whether and when you saw him at ail, and whether or not near the | brougham, cab and omnibus, or either, or any two, and whict of them, respectively, or how it was.”—London Telegraph. —— The Lobster and the Lady. A live lobster in the orchestra of the Harlem Opera-house during a recent per- formance caused a commotion. The lob- ster was brought to the theater by a man who occupied a seht in the fourth row. He had 1t in the pocket of his overcoat when he entered, but in some way the lobster managed to make its escape at the end of the first act. It wandered along the floor of the orchestra, in and out between the feet of the occupants of the seats. 1t be- gan to climb up the shoe of an elderl, woman in the second row, and she jum pe up, shook her foot, and shrieked: “There’s an awful beast that tried to biteme.” Sev- eral other women screamed, and in half a minute pandemonium reigned, until a sharp-eyed usher caught sight of the cause of the trouble. The lobster lasted ounly half a minute then. ————— A representative of an unknown species of bird has been captured at Woodlawn, Cal. It is without feathers, the body cov- ering beins black, stiff, bristly hairs. It has a blood-red beak and green feet. "DAISY,‘; Q“EVE:;( OF SPAIN, IN “1492” AT THE NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. L MAYTTAN S Ano Co, INCORP'D HMEATRE N\ PROPS. , DECEMBER 9—MATIVEE SATURDAY. TO-NIGHT &oms. Pt S0 755 OVIDE MUSIN > “And Grand Orchestra of 35. A Great Programme. RICE'S BIG “1492!” : THE ORIGINAL : — INCLUDING — KILANYI LIVING PICTURES! Adequate Scenlic and Electric Environment! Appropriate Costumes! A Double Orchestra! Complete Matropolitan Production. TO-NIGHT--Grand Popular Orchestral Concert. OVIDE MUSIN and Orchestra of 35. A Great Programme. CALIFORNIA THEATER. AL HAYMAN & CO. (Incorporated), Proprietors. TO=MORROW NIGIET!: TWO WEEKS ONLY—FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY! Second Visit to —OF Distinguished ROBERT ) Supported by a large and OWNING!! powerful Company, headed by EUGENIE BLAIR, ina California THE— American Tragedian repertoire of Legitimaté and Classic plays. Every play a phoduction scenically complete, cor rectly and elaborately cos- tumed, and presented with strict historical accuracy. In active Tragedy, *‘ H REPERTOIRE: The Gladiator| Friday . Julius Cresar| Saturda; ..Othello Saturday Evening. ‘he Gladiator| Sunday z Julius Cesar ...The Gladiator reparation—Victorien Sardcu’s Great Romantio BLENA whio/Sheakie, 4 FRICOLANIERGOTTLOD & o 1£50eS Amn PASKALRS ——ONE WEEK ONLY!— Commencing Monday, Dec. 9—Every % Evening, including 2—Matinees, Saturday and Sunday—2 The Big Production. [ CLEOPATRAT| MISS LILLIAN LEWIS AND A STAR CAST. A Dramatic Spectacle not excelled by dny produc- tion i CHORU Cleopatra’s Gorgeous Cosi Great ¢ 3 THE BAR No Advance in Prices: Reserved Seats—15c, 50e and 75c. ##~ December 16— MR 2T, SULLY. THE PARACHUTE SHOOT OF TEE CENTURTY Will Take Place THIS AFTERNOON at 3:30 at the SHOOT THE CHUTES GROUNDS, HAIGHT STREET, NEAR THE PARK. Three Sky-Scraping Aeronauts—Professors MARKEBERG, WES- TON and BURKE—With Three Separate Airships, Will Leap from the Clouds. To Miss It Will Be to Miss the Treat of Your Life! GROUNDS OPEN AT 11 A. M. CONCERTS AT 2 ANND 8 ¥. IVE. ADMISSION...... ........10 CENTS. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO. TO-MORROW EVENING.......cooenuunn . The Handsomest Family Theater in America. +eseeeeee.Sole Lesseo and Manager et MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, America’s Representative Player and Play wright, MILTON NOBLES, And the Charming Ingenue, DOLILIE NOBLES, In Their Exquisite Pastoral Play, “A SON OF THESPIS ” Supported by the Morosco Stock Company. THE USUAL POPULAR PRICES. GROVER’S ALCAZAR. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), at 2 P. M. Joint Appearance of LORD AND LADY SHOLTO DOUGLAS And the Great Comedy Company in “THE GOVERNOR” MATI‘NEE PRICES—10c, 15¢, 25¢. Night Prices—10c¢, 156¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50c. ~——MONDAY—— “AN HONEST GIRL” and “MY LORD IN LIVERY.” TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MEs. EENESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managas ——LAST NIGHT THE MIKADO!: PERFECTLY JAPANESE IN EVERY PARTICULAR. ——TO-MORROW EVENING— SCENIC REVIVAL Of Millocker's Romantic Opera, “THE BEGGAR STUDENT !’ Look OI!E for the CHRISTNAS SPECTACLE IXTON " Popular Prices—25c and 50c. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Betweer Stockton and Powsll MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), DEC. 8. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcor seat, 10c; Children, any part, 10c. gk o S-INEW PEOPLE-D PHOITE-PINAUD TROUPE, ANDERSEN SISTERS, BOGARD BROTHERS With Their Tralned Grizzly Bears, and Our Select Vaudeville Company. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (Ingleside Track). Mdetes FIVE OR MORE RACES DAILY. (RAIN OR SHINE.) FIRST RACE AT 2:00 P. Il. ADMISSION $1.00. Take Southern Pacitic trains at Third and Town- send street Depot, leaving at 12:40 and 1:15 ». . Fare for round trip, including admission to grand stand, $1. Take Mission.street electric 1 cand, g1 c lino direct A. B. SPRECKELS, ‘W.S8. LEAKE, President. Becretary. COLUMBIA THEATER. FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & Co., Lessees® Managers ONCE AGAIN TO-NIGHT, TOE CAWTEIORN And His Big Comedy Company in “A FOOL FOR LUCK!"” And Beautiful Living Picjures. To-morrow Night—“CLEOPA MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). Seats & Boxes on Sale To-morrow 9 A, M. DE WOLF HOPPFR and His Merry Comp'y. Thurs. and Sat. Ev'gs, “Wang”: Friday Ev'ng and Saturday Matinee, *Dr. Syntax. CENTRAL PARK—BASEBALL! SAN FRANCISCOS vs. PACIFICS. TO-DAY, DECEMBER 8, AT 2 P. M. RAssadassssssssssssssssang 'QUIRA-LAROCHE 'CH_FATIONAL mePJZE of 16,600 Francs ~—— THE GREAT French Tonic ~ce—— Your druggist must have it—if not, send name and address to ; ; 14 : 3 E : = Tew York. vevve vw"vvvvvvwv"v"