The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1896, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1896 It was not John Drew’s fault that had bomeopathic-sized audiences at the Baldwin Theater last week. His pla; was smoother and more finished than Gray Mare” at the California, and hi;g sup- port on the female side was more efficient than Herbert Kelcey’s. But even with charming Maud Adams thrown into the Baldwin balance, “The Squire of Dames” could not reasonably be expected to bring $1 50 on the same Rialto that was selling “The Gray Mare” for 75 cents. W ith good, smooth acting going so cheap at the California, nothing could have filled the Baldwin short of a startling foreign star with & big name and a brand-new method. “The Gray Mare'’ is a racy comedy, with one defect—the whole thing hinges on the improbable fact of a sedate man who never rode in his life suddenly declaring that he has taken a mad scamper across country on a gray mare. A long and amusin_g chain of circumstances is based on this absurd statement. One can imacine {hej authors building the play—itisthe fas})ion | nowadays to *‘build” plays—on the princi- | pie of “The House That Jack Built"’— This is the maiden all forlorn, Who fled with the man that trampled the corn, Who rode the mare To the French count’s lair— And so on down to the fundamental state- ment, “On the ride that John took.” The play demands that John should say LAST MOMENTS OF ERNEST ROSSL. A profound impression of regret was created in Italy by the announcement that Ernest Rossi, the great actor, returning from a triumphal tour of Russia, had sud- denly to stop at Pescara, struck down with a terrible malady. The regret is not to be wondered at; he has not only been one of the brightest lights of the stage, but, in his case, genius ties. Several of theother characters are said to be well drawn; they will be in the hands of John T. Sullivan, L. R. Stock- well, William Beach, Effie Shannon, Olive | Oliver, Winona Shannon, etc. Frederick Warde and Rose Coghlan will arrive here during the week to make preparations for their opening of “Car- men” on July 13. Baldwin Theater. For the next four weeks the Baldwin Theater will be closed for its regular he took & ride when, asa matter of fact, be was soberly attending to nis dutiesasa | medical practitioner and bis nephew was | scouring the country on a gray mare, ab- | ducting maidens and otherwise, stirring | up enough trouble to last his uncle for a | lifetime. As everything hinges on John’s | ride the authors have dragged it in by main force, and todc them justice they bad to work hard to do it. Most of the first act is devoted to talkily giving John a motive for telling alie. Once the deed is done and John has shaken off all affinity with George Washington the fun becomes fast and furious. In fact, at the outset | one wishes “The Gray Mare” had never | been written, and at the end one could have enjoyed another act of it. As “John,” Herbert Kelcey had a part ! which suited him to perfection. There | was something positively delightful ahout | his pedantry and his despair. “Serve you right,”” was what you wanted to say to| him for being such a prig, but his suffer- | ings were so real that if you had an ounce of pity in your composition you could not | help being sorry for John. | Almost a panic has been aroused on the | New York Rialto by the news that Abbey’s Theater has been leased to Al Hayman, and that the Western man has | already announced his intention of setting the pace during the season of | 1896-97. In most quarters this anrounce- ment is “viewed with alarm,” for predic- tions are rife that there wiil soon be a | complete chain of Hayman theaters, ex-) tending from San Francisco to New York | and Boston, and that the Hayman-Froh- | man ‘“cctopus,” owning all the best| houses, will be abie to control the lead- | ing attractions, and set the prices for | every star in the country. This is the| view expressed by a number of actors and managers, though it may be inspired by | “envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitable- | ness.” The New York Press sums up the l situation from the theatergoer’s stand- point: | “Notwithstanding our esteem for lheE shrewdness of Frohman and Hayman, the | change of management at Abbey’s is to'be | watched with concern. This theater has | long been the scene of the most distin- | guished performances of modern dramatic | art. Under new management, for without | doubt Charles Frohman will have a word in shaping its policy, the house will prob- ably be even more prosperous in the future than it was 1n the past. But box office re- ceipts do not always chronicle distin- guished achievements on the stage, and Mr. Hayman'’s gain may be the city’s loss. If, as is more than likely, the house is to be conducted in accordance with the system that rules the other Frohman-Hayman theaters, an exact platform of art has been | demolished in the removal of Abbey's name from the portal of the playhouse. | Here we became acquainted with Coque- lin, Rejane, Mounet-Sully, Beerbonhm Tree and John Hare; here we studied the genius of Bernhardt ana the consummate | ekill of Trving. In present indications it | is improbable that these distinguished | actors will return to the stage on which | they first won the approval of our au- | . diences, Abbey’s passion, like that of Augustin Daly, is for fine art. Mr. Hay- man, like Mr. Frohman, is first of all a | business man. The new policy of this theater is one of the most important and interesting speculations of next season.” And while the New York papers are exhausting adjectives in lauding the Na- poleonic foresight of the Hayman busi- ness-office policy, as exemplified at the Beldwin and California Theaters, our ears here are still tingling with the biting things Nat Goodwin said about those same two summer vacation. The season will com- mence on Monday evening, July 27, with Charles Frohman's company from the Empire Theater, the opening performance being Clyde Fitch’s “Bohemia,’’ an adapta- | tion of *La Vie de Boheme,”” which has proved very popular in New York. “Bo- hemia” will be followed by ‘“‘The Benefit of the Doubt™ and ““The Masqueraders.” The long list of plays already booked for the coming season at the Baldwin in- cludes *“The Parisians,” *“The Prisoner of Zenda,” with James Hackett | and Isabelle Irving in the leading roles; ' Katheryn Kidder and Augustus Cook in “‘Madame Sans Gene,” Julia Marlowe Tabor, “The Brownies,” Alexander Sal- vini, etc. Columbia Theater. The Frawley Company’s offering this week will be William H. Crane’s produc- tion, “His Wife’s Father.” The play is by Miss Martba Morton, but she acknowl- edges having taken the leading idea from a well-known German comedy. It has| been in Crane’s repertory a little over a vear, and during that time has proved one of the best drawing of his attractions. As the title implies, the story is one of too much father-in-law. When Buchanan Billin daughter marries he cannot re- sign himself to giving her up to a strange young man, and consequently insists on making a third in all the young people’s undertakings till they surreptitiously move to a home of their /own, in order to enjoy some tete-a-tetes. This nearly breaks the old gentleman’s heart, but in the end | everything is smoothed out, and a fas- cinating widow consoles Buchanan Billings for the loss of his daughter’s society. Grand Opera-House. With to-day’s performances the produc- tion of **A Perilous Voyage” at this house comes {0 a close. It isto be followed to- | morrow by E. E. Price’s comedy-drama, “‘One of the Bravest,” the leading role in | which will te taken by Emmet Sheridan. This young actor comes from the East | with excellent credentials as to his ability as a comedian and singer. “One of the Bravest” deals with modern | life ir New York, the Fire Department of | that city forming its principal feature. There are a few sensational incidents, such, for instance, as a burning tenement, | with jumping nets, scaling ladders, and | other paraphernalia of life-saving are used. The comedy element will be made much of by Gilbert & Goldie and the favorite soubrette, Josephine Gassman, all of whom have been especially engaged for this pro- duction. Tivoli Opera-House. The operatic spectacle, “A Trip to the Moon,” will continue to be the attraction at the Tivoli until further notice. eighteenth anniversary of the opening of the house, and a special feature of the oc- casion will be the distribution of souve- nirs containing pictures of the artists and | & record of all the leading performances given under the Kreling regime. After the ran of “A Trip to the Moon” the grand-opera season wiil open under the direction of Gustav Hinrichs and his Eastern company, which includes: Mme. Louise Natalie, Mlle. Nina Bertini Humph- reys, Mlle. Anna Russell, Sig. Fernando Michaelena, Sig. Maurice de Vries, Sig. Abramboif, Sig. Virisarri and Richard Karl. In aadition to this company there will be Mlle. Marie Miliard, Mlle. Clare Prince, John J. Raffael, Martin Pache and W. H. Tooker, together with an enlarged orchestra and augmented chorus. The first two operas on the list are Gounod’s i‘Rom,eo and Juliet” and Verdi’s ‘“‘Rigo- etto.” The Orpheum. The new bill at the Orpheum this week includes the return appearance of the Rossow Brothers, those midgets who made such a hit when seen recently at the Or- | pheum with the Hopkins show. Their | engagement this time is for a short stay only. houses playing against themselves. They must have a lightning-speed com- poser at Grover's Alcazar, to judge from the following note inserted in the pro- gramme of the ‘“Cross Roads of Life”: “Between scenes 1 and 2 of Act II, the orctiestra will play the ‘Railroad Galop,’ especially composed for this pro- duction, during the short time necessary | for the change of scene.”’ ! A man who can compose a galop “dur- | ing the short time necessary for the cnange of scene,” should be heard more from, particulaly as his galop 1s really quite effective. Manager Friedlander promises to make things lively in Oakland theatrical circles now that he has secured the handsome Macdonough Theater. California Theater. “A Bunch of Violets” will be the bill for the third week of the Stockweli season at the California Theater, which begins to-morrow night. The play is by Bidney Grundy, author of “Sowing the Wind,” ete. The characters inciude Sir Philip Mar- chant, a swindling Baronet, who is Rnall; driven to commit suicide; his chil Viclet and his two wives, from neither of whom he has been divorced. The role of 8ir Philip was played in the original pro- duction by Beerbohm Tree, and will be in- The marimba players from Guatemala, after an interesting and varied experi- ence in this country, have now, through the assistance of the Sheriff and Gustay ‘Walter, secured possession of their instru- ments, and are positively announced to appear. The marimba is constructed on | the principle of the xylophone, but_the | volume of sound is greatly increased b; the addition of pipes. The players will | appear in native costume. The Fredericks troupe will come direct from the Empire Theatar, London. They style themselves ‘‘the Qgmon athletes.” The four Maisonos are musical eccen- triques who will also appear. Watson and | Dupre will give a comedy sketch, and a number of last week’s periormers will be retained. Grover’s Alcazar. The triple star cast will continue at the Alcazar in “The Crossroads of Life” for Fourth of July week. _Tom Sharkey, the sailor lad, and Danny Needham, the record-maker, will spar four rounds at to-day’s matinee and to-night. COQUELIN’S D REAM. He Hopes to intirely KEclipse the Comedie Francaise. Constant Coquelin is not only trying, but actually hopes to succeed 1n inducing the French Minister of Fine Arts to estab- lish for him (Coquelin) a new theater on the lines of the Comedie Francaise—arival terpreted in the coming cast by Herbert Keleey. It is a strong part, whic will afford the leading man many opportuni- Government house to play againss the one already existing. “Imagine,” says Le Temps, *‘an aspir- Friday evening, July 3, will be the | | that was all. | two more rehearsals. ing clerk, who goes to a grocer’s to learn the tricks of the trade, and when he knows grocering by heart solicits the honor of becoming his master's partner, gets his customers, and when he is sure of himself, “That is the history of Coquelin. The grocery business is one trade, dramatic art is another, but the principle is the same. “*Ah! That Comedie Francaise,’ cries Coquelin. ‘Don’t talk to me about it. was crushed there; Ihadno good parts.’ “Indeed he had no good parts. And yet the very parts he has been playing at the Porte Saint-Martin were the parts he played at the Comedie Francaise. There! there! He wanted to make more mouey; He must not be surprised that the Comedie Francaise bears him a grudge for the injustice he has been doing it. The question is a commercial one, and he ought to find it natural that people judge him according to the rules of com- merce.” | sets up a rival store across the street. COST OF DRESS. Miss Shannon Explains What It Means to an Actress. Miss Effie Shannon says the education of the actress in matters of dress1s quite as necessary as the education in her dramatic art. There are many young actresses who have taste enough to com- bine with a low-priced dressmaker and with her help array themselves in more or lessdainty coniections for the stage at mod- erate figures. But she pities the woman lacking in taste whose purse is slender. A well-dressed actress must have money or taste. The perfection of dress is brought about only by the combination of both. The price of gowns made by first-class couturiers in France, England or America is about the same. The prices will begin say at $50 for dainty ingenue dresses of | simple, inexpensive material, but prettily cur, and run from $75, to $100 or $125 for tailor-made or calling costumes, $150 for pretty ball owns, and $150 to $200 for more elaborate ball gowns or recep- tion dresses, etc.; beyond this for band- some court costumes. The price reaches up to near the thousands if handsome and expensive trimmings and laces are used. Dramatic Brevities. Leonard Grover is havinga play prepared for Tom Sharkey to star in. “The Masqueraders’’ will be sent out to the coast for the first tour in August. “Madame’’ will be the closing produc- tion of the stock season at the California Theater. Corinne and her burlesque company are among the early fall attractions booked for the Columibia Theater. Charles Frohman has Murray Carson and Louis N. Parker, the authors of “Gudgeons,” at work on a play for the Empire Theater Company. Another great New York Lyceum The- ater success will follow Father” at the Columbia Theater. It is “The Wife,” also written by De Mille & Belasco. The marriage of Miss Josephine Jeffer- son, granddaughter of the actor, is set down for to-morrow. Charles J. Rolfe, the young Boston lawyer, is to wed this handsome eldest daughter of Charles B. Jefferson. COOKIES FUR THE FOURTH Long List of Luscious Contribu- tions Promised by Mer- chants. The Mills Building Has Fecome a Veritab.e Hive of Patriotic Preparation. The rooms of the Fourth of July Com- mittee, in the Mills building, are a hive of | patriotism. Two floats have already been selected for the parade. One will carry the God- dess of Liberty, and children, each of whom will represent a State of the Union. The other float promises to be very beauti- ful and entirely novel, the subject repre- sented to be the “*Surrender of Cornwallis.” On either side of the general will stand | officers representing the different armies. The float_will be escorted by lines of Con- tinental Guards. The decoration committee have decided to make the illumination particularly fine on the corners of Market street. uge Janterns, eight feet in size, for electric | lights, will be hung at these places. One of the most charming features of the literary programme at the Auditorium on the Fourth of July, will be the singing of the “‘Star-spangled Banner” by twenty ladies. The musical director, J. W. Mc- Kenzie, is hard at work drilling his large chorus, and desires to announce to the members of the chorus that there will be The 1irst rehearsal will be at his house, 524 kddy street, Tues- day evening, at 8 The second and final one will take piace at the Audito- rium, corner Eddy and Jones streets, on Thursday evening, at 8 o’clock. The invitation and reception committee have received the following contributions: Baldwin Hotel, 200 cookies, 500 sandwiches; California Hotel, 500 sandwiches; Occidental Hotei, sandwiches; New Creamerie, 200 doughnuts; Original Creamerie, 250 dough- nuts; Zinkand, 1 ham, 1 roast, etc.; William Cluff & Co., 1 box raisins; Emporium Cafe, candies and cookies; Shreiber, 10 pounds of cand Lick House, box of eatables; Russ House, 200 sandwiches ; Poodle Dog, 300 sandwiches; Roverts, 10 pounds ecandy; Spar- rowe, 10 pounds candy; Gruenhagen, 10 pounds candy; Page & Talbot, eatables; Town- send’s, 25 pounds candy; Golden West, 200 sandwiches; La Estrella Parlor, N. D. G. W,, cake; Buena Vista Parlor, N. D.G. W,, cake; Levin Brothers, 1 ham; Haas, box.of eandy: Qn:de. groceries; California Cafe, bread an cake. » “His Wife's | was accompanied by gooaness and ami- ability. He had been several times before to Russia, indeed he was the idol of the Rus- sian public, which has always shown a fondness for Italian artists. This year, however, Rossi went for the first time in the severest rigor-of winter. Although nearly 70 years old the Italian actor had preserved an almost youthful vigor, and the cruelty of the Russian cold did not rob him of any of his usual flourishing health. One evening, three months ago, he had acted Othello at the Hermitage Theater, Moscow. He expected to return home in his comfortable closed carriage, but the coachman had been drinking, and did not put in an appearance. After waiting some time, Rossi decided toreturn in a droshky, a little open hired carriage, which let in the heavily falling snow. He was heated and excited after the performance, and the next day fell sick of influenza (grippe). According to the Russian doctors, this was the original cause of his malady. | * For twelve hours e kept his bed; then he insisted on continuing the perform- ances, for which he had been paid in ad- vance. No one could persuade him from doing so. “I must,” he said to his actors, “keep my contract.” For his jubilee, which celebrated fifty years of dramatic art, he acted in the Aquarium at 8t. Petersburg ‘‘The Miser,” by Pushkin, and an act of “Hamlet.”” The public'showered honors and rich gifts on him, but in the midst of the applause and the ovations he was noticed to totter, and when he left his dressing-room after the performance every one in the troupe no- ticed the pallor of the great artist. The Russian doctors went on counseling repose. He replied according to his in- domitable temperament, *No, I want to end like a soldier in the trenches; I will act to my last day.” Wheneyer he appeared the theaters were crowded with the elite of the Russian public. From St. Petersburg he traveled to Karkov, then to Rostow and Taganrog, and everywhere anxious eyes watched him growing more frail. His troupe loved him, adored him in fact, as a father and a master, and he was always encircled by their loving care. One evening at Odessa. while he was re- citing the part of King Lear, he stumbled and fell against the young actress who was playing Cordeha, and could not raise himself. He was carried to his dressing- room, where the doctor who visited him declared him to be afflicted with angina pectoris. His troupe united with the phy- sicians in begging him to take repose, but in vain. Two days after, he acted the leading role in Tolstoi’s “Ivan.” Rossi appeared again at Kiev and then returned to Odessa for his farewell per- formance. The public there adored him, ; and it is speaking literally to say that on | the last appearance they suffocated him { with flowers. During the whole perform- ance a doctor was in attendance in the great actor’s dressing-room. On May 4 Rossi embarked at Odessa on the Austria Lioyd steamship Pandora. On board he became gay again, and sang, for he was an enthusiastic musician, and those who have once heard him sing have | never forgotien his voice. At Constanti- | nople, where he had before been received by the Sultan and had given two perform- | ances before the Odalisques in the harem, | he went on shore for four days, embarking again at_the end of that time and going by the Pandora to Brindisi. There the | doctors advised him to stay, but he per- | sisted in his intention to take the omnibus | train for Florence. Toward 2 o’clock in the | | morning he started from his berth, exclaim- | ing I am dying, dying,” and to the actors {and servants who rushed to his as- | sistance he complained of acute painsin his chest, which were aggravated by the | motion of the cars. The bell was rung for the conductor and he was begged to stop the train immediately, but expostu- lated that it would be impossible to de- scend from the cars by the wayside in the | ! middle of the night. At Pescara the train | ! stopped and Rossi was carried to the wait- ing-room, where he was visited by the | nearest doctor, who pronounced him to be in grave danger. Telegrams were dis- patched for his family and for the best medical advice, and he was given every comfortina hotel which adjoined the sta- tion. Rossi himself was not meved by his sufferings. His one regret seemed to be that he had not died at Odessa when he fainted in the role of King Lear. “It was my dream to die in harness, on the stage,” he sa: For over a week he lingered on, and then the end came quietly when he was surrounded by his family. He was buried on the 6th inst. in Florence, where his admiring fellow-citizens gave him a magniticent public funeral, at which were present representatives of the Ministry of Public Instruction, all the principal officials of the city and the province of Tuscany, as well as the principal fraternal and other societies. Z Rossi was one of the great actors of the century. He had played in many coun- tries, always with success, and to voung | and struggling actors and actresses he was atonce & master and afriend. Elenora Duse and many others testify to what they owe to him. He leaves a fortune of about two million francs to his wife and daugh- ter.—From the Italian. TC-DAY’ . BALL GAMES, Pugilists Corbett and Sharkey Will Be Counter- . ttractions. There will be baseball galore in this City to-day. The California Baseball League opeps its season at the new grounds, Six- teenth and Folsom straets, and the fourth game of the City League championship series will be played at Fresidio athletic park. At the former place Pugilist Thom- as Sharkey will appear as umpire and at the latter Champion James J. Corbett will play first base for the Pacifics. In addition to the usual number of lov- ers of the National game there will, of course, be present at the two places a large following of admirers of the respect- ive *‘pugs.” ——————— Park Music To-Day. The programme for to-day's concert in Golden Gate Park is as follow: | March, “EI Capitan”.. Over ure. “Romantique ‘A Voyage in a Troopship’, [ Description—*L aving Portsmouth,” I’ dier’s Tear,” “Bosun’s Call,” “All Hands Up chor,” “Capstan Chorus” hen Tnee Wel The Anchor Weighed,"” owing Sea,” “The Bay of Biscay,” “Storm,” “Prayer in the Storm,” “Fair Weather,” “~anta Lucia,” * We' Rant and We'll Roar Like True British Sailors,” “Tom Bowling,” “Ihe White Squall,” “Saturday ight in the I'o'cs’ie,” “Hornpipes and Fifes,” Rule Britannia.’ A Dervish Chorus” (an Oriental scene’ ‘Potpourri of Student Songs' Overture, “Alfonso and Estrelia’ “Inflamatus from Stabat Mater” “Faust Fantasi Waitz, “Jolly Giri March, “Tne Rose — . e ©atholic Union Officers. Leo Assembly No. 4, Young Men’s Catholic Union, has elected the following officers for | ensuing term: President, P. J. McCormick; first vw!-preligen;, Thomas McGuire; ucond] vice-president, J. A. Foley; recording secre- tary, J.J. Sheehan; financial secretary, D. F. Ahearn; treasurer, J. J. McInerney. Trustees —T. M. Lenihan, M.J. Kehoe, J. E. 0’Connell, Brennan, M. Kennealey, M. J. Hessian and . Callan. Delegates to the Ninth Grand As- sembly to convene in this City August 3, 1896: . Brazel, O. Morgan, J. C. Murphy, J. Ryan and J. Cullen. . OLYMPICS' ROAD RACE. Entries and Handicaps for Their Five- Mile Event To-Day. ‘The Olympic Club Wheelmen will hold a five-mile handicap road race to-day from San Mateo to San Carlos. The race will start at noon, and the entries and handi- caps are as follows: H. P. Taylor Jr. and Charles H. Jordan, 2:30; A. L. Mueller and Nich Buja, 2:15; A. Celliar and R. Bowman, 2:00; J. A. Code Jr., H. H. Cos- griff and F. J. Cormack, 1:30; H. D. Ha- denfeldt, J. F. Cunningham, M. L. EBE' nosa and H. C. Ramsay, 1:15; L. H. Smith, E. P. Slosson, C. F. Lemmon and W. H. Haley, :45; G. E. Kroetz and F. G. Stanley, :30; J. E. Wing, G. P. Fuller, George Tantau, Ed Chapman and W. J. Christ, scratch. Captain Fawcett has called a run of the club to witness the race, leaving the club- house at 8:30. The racers will go down on the 10:52 train from Valencia-street sta- tion. After the race the club will ride to Redwood City for lunch. The Bay City Wheelmen will have a ten- mile road race to-day over the San Lean- dro triangle, starting at 10 o’clock, and the San Francisco Road Club a five-mile event from San Leandro to Haywards, starting at2Pp. M. The California Cycling Club held its an- nual banquet last evening at a downtown rotisserie, which was attended by a large majority of the members. After the re- past music, speeches and other entertain- ment was the order, and it was a late hour when the party dispersed. B Sevparated the Katzes, Judge T?u" yesterday granted Lillian Katz a divorce from Gustave Katz because of the latter’s extreme cruelty. His Honor also awarded the plaintiff the household goods in the jormer home of the pair at 1516 Leaven- worth street and $1250 in money—half of the community property. A Church Mortgage. Bt. John’s Presbyterian Church has peti- tioned the Superior Court for permission to mortgage its property at California and Steiner streets to raise $16,000 with which to meet the floating indebtedness of the chur NEW TO-DAY. A REMARKABLE VOTAGE, Mr. John Jacob Astor's former mate, Captain Charlsen, an old “sea dog,’ sailed Sunday, June 21, from the Battery, New York, for various Euro- pean ports in his twenty-foot open sailboat, the “ Sozodont.”” His brother accompanies him. The voyage will be made by the northern passage—to re- turn next year. The first serious at- tempt to cross the Atlantic both ways ina small boat. Will it be Successful 2 Captain Frank Charisen, f ormerly an officer on Mr. John Jacob Astor’s yacht, and his brother have built a fine little vessel es- pecially for this voyage. She is 20 feet long over all, 6 feet8 inches beam and 26 inches draft; is sloop-rigged, with jib mainsail and ing jib. By an ingenious contrivance stis ready to house instantly in case of emergency. She has been christened the “Sozodont,” in homor of the well-known dentrifice of that name, and will carry pack- ages of Sozodont and advertising matter for special use in Engiand. No American product has ever before been sent over in such a_boat. The “Sozodont” will proceed by the North ern Passage to Queenstown, and thence (o the following, among other, ports in Europe: Isle of Wight, Southampton, London, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Stock- holm, Christiania, Bergen; returning, to Huil, to Leith, by canal to Edinburgh, thence to Glasgow, Liverpool, Newport (Wales), Cork, Belfast, Londonderry, and thence to New York, arriving in the summer of 1897. The boat will lie at the Battery from Friday | noon to Sunday afternoon, June 21, when the start for Europe will be'made, probably be- tween 3 and 4 o'clock. Visitors will be allowed. No admission is to be charged. No other ocean voyagers haye attempted to do what these men will undertake. Theirs will be the first small boat to cross the Atlan- tic both ways. About ten years ago “Red, White and Blue,” a bark-rigged cabin-boat, sailed from New York to Liverpool. Later the following accomplished the voyage one way: Captain Andrews, from Atlantic City to Spain in the “Sapolio,” a cabin-boat; Captain Fritz, a Russian Finn, from New York to England in the “Nine,” a forty-two-foot schooner-rizged cabin-hoat; Captain Anderson, from Norway to Chicago (World’s Feir), in the “Viking” eight feet long), a reproduction of the original Norse boat of that name. It will also be recalled that Captain Webb went across one way in “The Dark Secret,” & deckboat. 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WATSON and DUPRE, America’s Greatest French Comedy Duo, POSITIVE APPEARANCE OF THE CELEBRATED MARIMBA VIRTUOSI LAST WEEK of the Wonderful VITASCOPE—RNew Pietures. BILLY VAN, STEWART SISTERS, LILLIE WESTERN, Greatest Living Instrumen talist. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), JUNE 28. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcon: any seat, 10c; Chiidren, 10c, a: part. FRICOLANDER.GOTTLOD & G+ LESSES AMD MATAGERS THEN COMES A GEM” COMEDY A CONTINUOUS ROUND OF LAU A WHOLE YEAR'S RUN IN N INTERPRETED BY THE B! GHTER. V YORK. THE - FRAWLEY - COMPANY San Francisco's Own Home Organization. BY SPECIAL REQUEST, Repetition of the Delightful “Curtain- Raiser,” SRS YTSTEM." HE v - (ALITORR THIS EVENING—LAST PERFORNMANCE “THE GREY MARE” L. R. STOCKWELL’S| COMPANY OF PLAYERS INCLUDING i | | MR. HERBERT KELCEY, | MISS EFFIE SHANNON | AND THE i | STAR GAST. BEGINNING TO-MORROW (MONDAY), ONE WHEK ONLY. SOMETHING NEW ‘ihe Great New York and London Success, FIRST TIME HERE By Sydney Grundy, Author of “Sowing the Wind.” PRICES EVENIN o 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50c and 75c. MATINEE—25c and 50c. INEXT N PREPARATION, N ELABORATE RESENTATION OF “CARMEN” ¥z “CAMERICANS ABROAD.” SS ROSE COGHLAN, FREDERICK WARDE L. R. Stockweli’s Co. d MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO.... ‘The Handsomest Family Theater in America. ... Sole Lessee and Managee COMMENCING (TO-MORROW) MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, THE DISTINGUISHED COMEDIAN AND SWEET SINGER EMMETT SHERIDAN IN THE ROLLICKING COMEDY DRAMA “ONE OF THE BRAVEST.” SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF THE EVER POPULAR FUN-MAKERS GILBERT AND GOLDIE, In their Latest Songs and pecialties, and of the Favorite Soubrette JOSEPHINE GASSMAN. NO ADVANCE IN OUR POPULAR PRICES. SUTRO BATHS. VENETIAN WATER CARNIVA BEAUTIFUL ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION This Will Surpass All Others Ever Given on the Pacific Coast. JULY 4 AND 5. L AT NIGHT. DON’'T MISS IT! 9 ALCAZAR MATINEE TO-DAY-10¢, 15¢, 25¢. TOM SHARKEY! And DANNY NEEDHAM, 4-round Glove Contest. ¢« THE CRO>S ROADS OF LIFE!” Grand Spectacuiar Production! 8 Stars—COLLIER, AMY LEE, DOANE. SHARKEY AND NEEDHAM—Matinee and Nigit. NO Increase in Prices—10c, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. PARK THEATER. Grove Street, between Polk and Van Ness Avenue. WM. E. JOHNS Lessee and Manager. This_(Sunday) evening, June 28, last perform- ance of DAN MCCARTHY, in “THE CRUIS- To-morrow (Monday). June 29, THE RAMBLER FROM ARTHY and the Park Theater Stock Company. Popular prices—Re- served seats 15¢ and 25¢; gallery 10c. A KEEN LAWN.” | grand production of CLARE,” by DAN M THE CHUTES. Open To-Day From 10 A, M. to 11 P. M. PERILOUS PARACHUTE JUMP. MISS ESSIE VIOLA, The World’s Greatest Lady Aeronaut, Took Out for the Fourth of July! Admission—Adults, 16¢; Children (incinding Mer- ry-go-round Ride), 5¢. Sutro Baths, OPEN DAILY FROM 7 A. M. TO 1{ P. M. Special Attractions This Afternoon and Kvening. THYE FLYING MEUEORS! They have performed the entire world over and have no equal. PROF. E. C. WILBER rides a bicycleon a tight- rope 50 teet above the water. R. B. CORNELL of the S. F. Swimming Club 1n his Marvelous Drowning Act. WATER POLO GAME! SAN FRANCISCO VS. OAKLAND. Admission—Adults, 10c; Children, 5o. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MES. EENESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manages —A GOOD TEIING — THE BRILLIANT SCENIC PRODUCTION Of the Operatic Spectacle, "4 TRIP 10 THE MOON” —FILLED WITH— “THINGS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED” EVERY EVENING. A TREAT FOR YOUNG AND OLD. Pooular Prices—25¢ and 50c. BLAIR PARK (OAKLAND), Grand Balloon Ascension & Parachute Jump PROFESSOR ROBLET EARLSTON. | Sunday, June 28—The Banner Bill of the Season. (Billy) GILBERT & GOLDIE (Walter) “TWO TRAMPS FROM AMERICA.” The Big Acme Four— TOOHIG, ST+ GMA N, COOK, M In thelr iatest Acrobatic ¥ Grand Concertby the FifthInfantry Band ‘Take Pledmont Cars. Admission Free! Free! SPECIAL TO MONTEREY. Friday, July 3. Young Men’s Christian Association’s Annual Excursion to Hotel del Monte, Monterey and Pacific Grove, Leave Third and sharp: Va'encia st. at. positively limiced. ntage of this train is getting down in the early cool of the morn- ingand going with a select party. ‘Tickets soid only atthe Y. M. C. A. office, Ma on and KLis sts, Secure them at once. Uhildren under 12 years half fare. Special train will Toturn_same day, leaving Pacific Grove at 4:25 P. M., but all tickets will be %00d for seven days, upto and including Thursday, July 9. Cheapest rate ever offered. Wiil give all the opportunity of witnessing the grandest cele- bration ever known in California. OPENING OF THE GRAND CIRCUIT TROTTING-HORSE BREED RS’ ASVN, 5 RACES! - == i Ia"GLESIDE. une 30; July 1, 2, 3, 4, 1806. Great Taces bvery dny: Tost Shrobe dntes Sonst present, Kaces begin at 2 o clock reet Cars. Special tain 1115 o'cloc T hiom-