The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1896. AST week was a stagnant one, as far as dramatic novelties were con- cerned. True, the Frawley Com- pany sustained its popularity with a play in which it has not | appeared before, though the drama itself | is well known here; and at the California Theater “Old Kentucky” showed that it was not old enough to have ceased to at- tract the public. But the pleasant, smooth | acting in “Men and Women,” and the al- | luring sensationalism of ““Old Kentucky,” itor’” at Morosco’s, and ” at the Tivoli; even these combined attractions could not dazzle us into thinking seriously that | we were keeping up with the march of histrionic progress. In fact, if we com- pared the latest stvles of the season, as displayed in Jast week’s New York theaters, with what was offered us for sale at the theaters in this city, the comparison of a newly decked storeto a last season’s bargain counter - sprang unbidden to our minds. Sarah Bernhardt, in ‘“Izyel,” Crane in “Governor of Ken- tucky,” the Daly Company in “The Count- ess Guchi,” Stuart Robson in “Mrs, Ponderbury’s Past,”” “TheStrange Adven- tures of Miss Brown,” at the Standard, etc.—they are names to us, these new plays, names and nothing more, but we can buoy ourselyes up with/the hape that if we live long enough, and the plays sur- vive a sufficiently lengthy period, we ‘may in time.beho!d some of them. the perennial * “The play’s the thing to catch the con- ecience "’ say some of the moralists who uphold the drama, and who do not think it a sin to cut Shakespeare off in the mid- dle of a sentence. The conscience catching play was tried at the Alcazar last week, but statistics as to its beneficial moral re- sults are not yet at hand. The event of the coming week will be the reappearance of the Tavary Company. “Aida” will be the opening performance, and strangely enough the event marks an anniversary of twenty years since the same manager, Charles H. Pratt, first brought “Aida’’ to San Francisco. Baldwin Theater. Grand opera will ba the programme at the Baldwin for the next three weeks, during which time we are to witness no less than fifteen different operatic produc- tions, staged and sung by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Company. The organization has this season eclipsed its former achieve- ments,.and now stands as a complete and strong combination of lyric talent. Its list of artists embraces such brilliant sing- ers as Mme, Tavary, Mme. Lichter, Thea Dorre, Bella Tomlins, Sophia Romani, Annie Frankiyn, A. L. Gulle, Payne Clarke, Max Kugene, A. Abrahamhoff, ‘William Shuster, William Stephens and 8. H. Dudley. Marie Tavary is a singer who has a record of many years of successful work. Thea Dorre, the prima donna mezzo- soprano, is a singer and actress who hasa great career before her. Added to a fine voice and a splendid vocal method, she has the dramatic talent that modern Iyric drama requires of a successful prima donna. Last year,asCarmen and Santuzza, she made a warm place for herself in the hearts of the San Francisco public, and this year she has added a marvelously successful interpretation of Mignon to her prima donna roles. Anna Lichter, the secunda donna, is to be a very gifted singer and actress. Another new member of the organization is Miss Bella Tomlins, a young contraito, who is said to be the possessorof a fine voice. Among the male members of the com- be Verdi’s “Aida.” This will be followed on Tuesday night by “‘Carmen.’”” Wednes- day matinee ‘‘The Bohemian Girl.” On Wednesday night Marie Tavary will be heard in the role of Valentine in Meyer- beer's “The Huguenots.”” The bill for Thursday night is to be ‘“Mignon,” for Friday night “Cavalleria Rusticana” and +I Pagliacer.” The Sam{day matinee per- formance is to be ‘‘Martha” and in the evening ‘‘Lohengrin,” California Theater. The Kimball Opera Comique Company, composed of sixty people, singing, dancing and merry-making in the operatic extray- aganza, ‘Hendrick Hudson Jr.,” will be the attraction at the California Theater for one week, commencing to-morrow night. The leading character is' Corinne, who has a good opportunity to display her talents. The several costumes of Hen- drick Hudson, ranging from the rakish cap and swaggering high boots of the dauntless explorer to the lace mantilla and crimson skirts of a Spanish coquette, all enhance her benuti'. It is said she never before sang so well as this year. The extravaganza is said to be cleverly constructed and brightly written, and the scenery is new amf every costume was made expressly for this season. The organization containsa number of specialty performers, the most prominent of which are: Ben F. Grindell, Charles Fostelle, Lindsay Morrison, Harry Dicker- son, J, Henry Mack, Frank Hayden, Otto Craft, the Nichols sisters (Mabel and Lulu), Lillian Knott, Fanny Decosta and Georgia Rush. After its brief season of burlesque the California Theater will offer its patronsa treat in a fortnight of classic tragedy under the most favorable conditions. Thomas Keene, a great favorite here, where his first success was won and his career suc- cessfully begun, will come to-that house on Tuesday night, February 11, supported by a large company of players selected for their excellence in legitimate roles, for a series of productions, with fine scenic effects and stage accessories, of such plays as “Louis XI,” *“Richard IIL’" “Riche- lieu,” ‘‘Hamlet” and ‘‘Othello.”” The opening will be *‘Louis XI.” Grover’s Alcazar. The play for the coming week at the Al- cazar is ““The Arabian Nights,” by Sydney Grundy. Arthur Hummingtop, during his wife’s absence, reads “The Arabian Nights” and is m.uch struck by the adventures of the S -—— MARIE TAVARY AS ELSA IN “LOHENGRIN” AT THE BALDWIN. be added to the bill at the Orpheum, and those sustaining them are all well known in their lines, Carroll Johnson, the celebrated' min- strel; Bill Carter, the well-known come- dian and banjoist, and Emmonds, Em- merson and Emmonds, a clever comedy trio, will be the new aspirants for the plaudits of Orpheum vatrons. Rachel Walker, who »as become a great favorite, will stili continue on the bill and will introduce a number of new songs. De Bessell, who proved the great- est novelty last week, will continue his CORINNE AT THE CALIFORNIA. THEATER. any new to us comes the barytone, Max E:ngene, and the basso, A. Abrahamhoff. The favorite tenor, A. L. Guille, will again be heard, as will Payne Clarke and William Stephens. ; : The opening opera to-morrow night will Caliph Haroun. He determines to pursue a similar course himself, and putting on several disguises frequents various parts of the city in search of adventures, me funny situations are brought out through these adventures. A The cast will contain all the favorites. of the company and & funny performance may be anticipated. . The Wednesday ““Pop” matinee will con- tinue the icecream and cake service, Columbia Theater. The Frawley Company begins its fare- well week at the Columbia Theater to- morrow night. The company will not ap- pear again in this City till' summer. As “Men ana Women” has proved the banner performance of the present season, it has been decided to give that play for the coming week. The American comedienne Miss Katy Putnam will be an early attraction at the Columbia Theater, presenting for the first time here her new picturesque comedy drama by C. T. Dazey, the author of “In (filfll Kentucky,” entitled ‘“The Old Lime iln, Grand Opera-House. The first San Francisco production of “ Bins of the Night,” by Frank Harvey, will be given to-morrow evening at the Grand Opera-honse. Harvey is the author of such well-known works as ‘“‘The Wages of Sin,” *The Land of the Living,” *“Woman Against Woman” and “Fallen Among Thieves.”” *‘Sinsof a Night” is said to eclipse them both from a literary and dramatic standpoint. Tivoli Opera-House. g To-morrow evening at the Tivoll Opera- house will be given the initial perform- ance of the new American opera, ‘‘The Gentle Savage.”” The book is from the pens of Estelle Clayton, the well-known actress, and Nym Crinkle, the celebrated dramatic writer of the New York press. The music was composed by a very talented young musician, the late E. L. Darling, and is said to be bright and catchy. The story of the opera is said to be sim- vle and striking. In order to make the production a_worthy one new scenery, costuines and accessories are to be pro- duced. The ballet, which was a feature of “Izion,” has been trained by Miss Cook in several characteristic Mexican dances. The dancers will be accompanied in these dances by a typical Mexican orches. tra under the direction of Senor Sancho. The howling swell, the modern Indian, will be }}llyed by Ferris Hartman. John J. Raffael will be the young Amer- ican officer, Lieutenant Arlington; Martin Pache, the Mexican Sancho Mendingo; Thomas C. Lenly. the merry sergeant; little Gertie Carlisle, his companion the drummer-boy Tippy; Laura Miliard, Lola the daughter of the rich bidalgo; Mabella Baker, Sagastina ber duenna; and Jenny Stockmeyer, the picturesque Indian boy Bon-Bon. 2 & At the Orpheum. To-morrow evening th_ree new acts will rapid clay modeling. Bush-Street Theater, The Cook Twin Sisters’ performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’’ will oven this after- noon at the Bush-street Theater. The organization is one that has won warm_praise for its performance of the play based on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s vopular story. Sousa’s Band. John Philip Sousa’s band opened at Washington on January 5its eighth semi- annual tour, which will conclude at Man- hattan Beach in July. Sousa’s novelties this year include his *‘Carnival of Na- tions,” in which soldiers and ladies par- ticipate, and his newest march, “The Cot- ton King.” The band opens in this City on February 28 at the Auditorium under t&hé management of Friedlander, Gottlob 0. Carr-Beel Concert. Miss Marion Taylor will be the vocalist atthe Carr-Beel Saturday concert on the 8th inst. She has lately returned from Paris and is said to possess a fine and well- trained mezzo-soprano voice. Miss Tay- lor will sing songs by Grieg and Mascagni, as well as some Russian folk songs, Paderewski Recitals, The:coming recitals by the great Pader- ewski at the California Theater, on the evening of Monday, February 10, and the afternoons of Wednesday, the 12th, and Friday, the 14th, are creating a vast amount of interest among music lovers and amusement seekers in gereral. A Local Composer. Richard A. Lucchesi, for many years a music-teacher in this City, announces his intention of giving a recital of some of his own compositions, including a trio and a :}uintet,‘ both for pianoforte and strings. The performers will be Messrs. Josephs, Babelow, Neinsen, von der Mehden and Mme. Emilia Tojetti. take place at Beethoven Hall February 9 at3 P. M. Mr. Lucehesi states that he ex- pects the Duke Degli Abruzz1 and the offi- cers of the Cristofore Colombo will attend his concert. - A GHOULISH PLAY. But It Pleases Gay and Careless Paris. Some 6f the plays now running in Paris pile horrors on horror’s head. ‘“Une Mere,” a translation from the Swedish of Mme. Ellen Aween, wrestles with the problem of whether deformed children should be destroyed, and settles it with a Spartan affirmative. This hoerrible play is, however, anodyne when compared with the one that succeeds it, “Les Flaireurs,” by Charles Van Ler- bergh, a Belgian, who calls it a “symbol.” Itis impossible to imagine anything more lugubrious, more terrifying, than this nightmare of a play, the whole action of which passes in one and the same scene— a miserable garret-room, in which a poor, wretched old woman is lying at the point of death on a mattress, with a young girl, her daughter, at her side. The Flaireurs are the precursors of | death; the bearer of the water and sponge to wash the body, the -man with the shroud to clothe the same, and the man who brings the coffin; they cail for their prey, the dying old woman. They come knocking at the door, one after the other. The terrified young girl refuses to open and throws iersell against the door to keep out the intruders, while the old woman sits up in bed and opens her eyes wide with ter- ror. In the midst of a dreadful, unearthly noise, and as midnight is striking, the door suddenly opens and they all enter, unseen, however, as they are but symbols; with them enters death (personified by a ray of light, like that of spring, 'in_the Valkyrie) who with his icy breath blows out at the same time, the two candles, and the life of the old woman. Never has the terrible been more strikingly rtrayed, with more art, intensity and violence than in these symbolic scenes, which are full of BIULLY CARTER AT T’E ORPHEUM. yV’ | i | I / )'//:/'/) // M f/.yfl/'/ | LY s The _recital will | the horror of death, of the dread of the un- known. Maurice Maitterlinck has already, in “L’Intrus,” tried to similarly express the atmosphere of death; with an art, how- ever, less violent and more refined, he does not produce the same impression oi its horror. HIS LAST WISH. How the Berkeley Flc‘ulty ‘Will Start a Rosewald Memorial Fund, Every one remembers the touching in- cident connected with the late J. H. Rose- wald’s death. He was to have delivered a musical and illustrated lecture on ““De- scriptive and Characteristic Music” at Berkeley for the benefit of the Poor Stu- dents’ Loan Fund on the very night on which he died. Mr. Rosewald was so de- sirous to help the good cause and so anxious not to disappoint his audience that he did not realize the grave charac- ter of his brief disease and died while ex- pressing a hope for his immediate recov- ery for the evening’s work. ¥ The Berkeley faculty is desirous to honor bis memory by starting a Rosewald memorial fund in connection with tne students’ loan fund. It is believed that this fund ought to be the result of the musician’s last effort, and so his lecture, which he did not live to deliver, will be iven under the auspices of the university aculty at the Columbia - Theater on Friday, February 21, at 3:30 P. M. Messts. Beel, Jaulus and Coffin and the Misses Morey and Weigel have promised to carry out the musical part of the pro- gramme, while the text will beread by one of Berkeley’s most popular professors. The lecture and the death of the writer are so pathetically interwoven that they cannot fail to appeal to the friends of the worthy charity to be benefited as well as to the many friends whom the genial and Li_bersl-mlnded musician left to mourn im. Dramatic Brevities. ‘A Milk White Flag" comes to the Bald- win next month. Hoyt’s ““A Texas Steer,” with Tim Mur- phy, is booked for the Columbia Theater. Frederick Warde and a large cam‘{\any follow the Tavary Company at the Baldwin. John L. Suliivan and other pugilistic heroes will shortly be seen at the Columbia Theater in “A Wicklow Postman.” Jessie Bartlett Davis is suing a Western publishing house which put her portraiton the title page of a sensational novel. Richard Mansfield is one of the Baldwin’s attractions for April as is also Augnstin Daly’s company, headed by Ada Rehan. Fay Templeton is composing a com- panion song to “I Want Yer, Ma Honey,” which she will sing this week in **Excelsior Jr.,”” in the theater part of Hammerstein’s Olympia. . APLUCKY LITTLE WOMAN Mrs. Cornelia Burbank Arrests Mrs. Hawley Alias Jane Simpson. | Eighteen Months .Agu Mrs. Hawley Stole Her Sealskin Jacket and “Disappeared. A woman who has been wanted by the | police for the past eighteen months, was captured yesterday afternoon on Mason | street by Mrs. Cornelia Burbank of 111114 | Leavenworth street, one of her victims, and taken to the City Prison. In October, 1894, the woman called at Mrs. Burbank’s lodging-house to engage rooms. She said her name was Mrs. Haw- ley, and her husband was a sea captain. She had been living in Australia, but, as her busband had- procured the command of a ship trading along the coast, she had decided to live here. She had arrivea by the Cicy of Puebla from Victoria, and her baggage was on board’ the steamer. The rooms sunited her and she made herself at | home. B She told Mrs. Burbank that she had nothing but English nioney, which the landlady refused to take, and to accommo- date her till she got the money chauged she gave her $125. Then she complained of the cold and asked Mrs. Burbank to lend her a wrap till her baggage arrived. Mrs. Burbank gave her a sealskin jacket, which cost $75, and she left the house with it tr]w: buy a few things, but she never came back. Mrs. Burbank reported her loss to the volice, and about the same time the police received complaints from several other ladies about the same woman, who had told them much the same story and had taken her departure with some articles of value belonging to them. Mrs. Burbank met Mrs. Hawley on Ma- son street yesterday afternoon and, recog- nizing her, demanded her sealskin jacket. Mrs. Hawley at first denied her iden- tity, but Mrs. Burbank was persistent and finally she suggested they should go to her room and talk it over. Mrs, Burbank re- fused, and, altbough a little woman, Mrs. Burbank compelled Mrs. Hawley to walk with her to police headquarters. On the way they met Policeman Gaynos and he rang in for the patrol wagon. At police headquarters Sergeant Colby remiembered that several complaints were registered against her and ordered her to be locked upon the charge of embezzle- ment, Mrs. Burbank being the complain- ing witness. She gave the name of Jane Simpson, a native of Australia. She did not deny she was the woman Mrs. Bur- bank had been looking for, but said she had receiyed the sealskin jacket as a pres- ent, and it was a ““moth-eaten thing any- how,”” which was emphatically denied by Mrs. Burbank. It is likely that other charges will be preferred against Mrs. Hawley, alias Jane Simpson. YPA ADDIS’ APPEAL, Her Ex-Husband Has Moved That It Be Dismissed. C. A. Storke has filed notice of a motion to dismiss the appeal of Yda Addis Storke from the decree of divorce which her hus- 1 band sued forand which was granted to him. The: motion to dismiss will be made upon the ground that the decree of divorce orders the plaintiff to pay sufficient alimony to the defendant, and that, as the alimony has been paid, she cannot com- Pplain of any errors in the court below, as she has reaped the fruits of such judgment, whether right or wrong. The motion will be made on the further ground that the defendant moved to set aside the judg- ment and degree appealed from, and she cannot therefore appeal from a judgment which she is attempting to have set aside, ‘The divorce was granted to Storke by the courts of Santa Barbara on January 14, 1895. Mrs. Storke is the authoress known as Yda Addis. —_— e, v At California-Street Church To-Day. Services of unusual interest will be held to- day in 8t. Paul’s Episcopal Church, California street, near Steiner. At the morning service Rev. Canon Good of Nanaimo, B. C., for many Jears an Alaskan missionary, will Preach and n the evening Right Rey, William Ford Nich- ols, Bishop of the" diocese, will deliver the ser- mon. A special musical service will be given ateach service by the vested choir of mixed voices. oA G New Lick Trustees. Judge Sanderson has appointed three trustees to care for the Lick Free Baths. Of the original four trustees only one —John (. Earle — is alive. 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