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30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1896. 0 AOO If there is any reason why theater-goers should fail to enjoy themselves during the next seven days such reason is not easily perceived. The poet argues i:}srly that “beauty is its own excuse for being,” .and the same applies to the stage, the quick- ener of imagination, the brighterer of dull wits, the prince of satirists and t!)e magician which drives dull care before it. Only there are degrees, of course. Some- times the father of a family shakes a du- bious head because the drama conceals its moral purpose. Just now it is only neces- sary to glance at the local programmes to see gayety and innocence gamboling hand and hand before the footlights, and it is a refreshing vision. And, by the way, all the theaters are ‘‘doing quite well.” Some of the Eastern dramatic Iwriters are complaining that few new playsare coming or;. Hilary Bell, in the New York Press, for instance, remarks that the in- fluence of Oscar Wilde's dramatic work explains ‘‘the present apathy of the Eng- A PEOBPREITBIOT lish drama,’”’ and draws a picture at once pathetic and semi-humorous, when Wilde is simultaneously portrayed as thriving | and taking on flesh upon the treadmill, | but at the same time getting ready to exercise an ‘‘unnecessary influence” when he shall resume the pen. The trath may be that fewer plays are being staged, but that does not tell the whole story. There are old plays and old operas by the score which surviveand solely by the hold | they bave upon tne sympathies of the ¥ and they will demand and se- play-goers, r cure hearing and rehearing until the | standard of taste shall be radically changed. Locally the admixture of plays well ‘ known and of those less well known at home but more or less having sent their | fame achieved on Eastern stages to pre- ‘ cede them seems well calculated to please. The list of the week embraces: *“Two Or- phans.” “The Masqueraders,” “The Lrish “The Great Unknown,” ‘The ’ “The Bohemian Girl” and | s attractions of the Orpheum and the Chutes Casino. That is a greater | variety than y Eastern city is oifering | for the coming week. If that last state- | ment has any bearing it 1s to enforce the | belief that San Francisco will some time | be the great theater town of the United | States, taking the year through from be- | ginning to end, for personal comfort has | much to do with box-office finances. | That brings up another statement cur- | rent in the East that tie people of New | York spend annually about $8,000,000 in the theaters. While that isa large sum, the average per capita of population is | probably now much larger in San Frzm-" cisco. Some facts concerning thé outlook for the coming week are given below. At the Baldwin. | A great impression has been made by | Henry Arthur Jones’ “The Masquerad- ers,” which Charles Frohman’s Empire Theater Company is to present for the first time 1n this City at the Baldwin Theater | Monday evening. The play had a great | run of over 200 nighus at the home theater, and the hitof the company’s present en- gagement is expected to be made by it. The story is as follows: David Remon, an | astronomer, becomes enamored of Dulcie | Larondie. At a hunt ball, which brings | together many ladies and gentiemen in | glorious costumes, a kiss is sold at auc- tion for the benefit of the widow of a man | who has been killed in_the hunt. Dulcie | is to furnish the kiss. Lord Skene, a titled | libertine, bias for the favor going bevond | the limit of his poor resources and captures | the kiss for 3000 pounds. More than this, | Lord Skene offers to the barmaid the title | of Lady Skene and as she has always had | | | | a desire to shine and enjoy life she accepts the offer. In the bidding for tbe kiss Skene’s strongest opponent was Dayvid Remon, an astronomer, who had a feeling of love for the barmaid. In the second act Sir brice has been a married man for four years and | has managed to ruin himself on the turf. | Remon is still the iriena of the wife, who | has been requested by the husband to bor- row of David and she does it to the tune | of 6000 pounds. ! Nine months afterward, at Nice, we find | Sir Brice more brutal and reckless than | ever. Remon is just about to start for | Africa on a scientific expedition, and has come to Nice to say good-by. Sir Brice insists that his_wife should secure more | money from him. She refuses, and he | threatens to rob her of her child. Remon arrives, and Dulcie confides her troubles tc him. When she learns of the danger- | ous expedition he is about to undertake, | she begs of him to give up the idea. He } refuses, but the love between them asserts | itself, and with a passionate outburst he | renounces all thought of the journey, and | declares that their lives are their own. Sir | Brice has been a silent witness of this passionate love scene. have tne least effect upon him, so far as outward appearances go. He suggests to Remon that they play at cards for the money that is owing the astronomer. | Remon, angered and desperate, refuses the | challenge, but offers to stake his fortune, 200,000 pounds (§1,000,000) against Sir Brice’s wife and child. Sir Brice acquiesces. | Remon wins. The fourth act takes piaceat | Remon’s eyrie observatory on the Alps. where ‘the astronomer has taken Lady | Skene, and it is here that the dramatic | story finas the end. Manager Charles Frohman has sent all the elaborate scenery, costumes and acces- sories across the continent for this big pro- duction, which will no doubt create great | dramatic interest. 1t contains no end of | striking and well-developed situations which call for artistic acting. Its first pro- duction to-morrow night will allow us the | opportunity of witnessing its famous and much-talked-of card-cutting scene in the | third act, where Sir Brice stakes his wife | and chiid against his opponent’s fortune. | This situation is one of the most intensely dramatic evervym in a_play, and as car- ried out by William Faversham, Robert Edeson and Viola Allen is made the very most of. On Monday evening, August 17, comes the successful comedy, “The Gay Paris- | ians,”’ direct from a run of three months | at Chicago. The piece will be presented | by the original company, which includes, | among others, W. J. Ferguson, James O. Barrows, Charles B. Wells, W. R. Shirley, Sadie Martinot, Mrs. E. J. Phillips, Mar- garet Gordon. The comedy shows how a pretty young wife who, to get revenge on her late-hours- keeping husband, went out with a friend of his to spend a pleasant evening, and had anything but the good time she ex- pected. She and her companion are ar-| rested and get into numerous other diffi- culties, which keep them in hot water all | through the four acts of the W The | farce is now running at Hooley’s Theater, | Chicago. Galifornia Theater. Chauncey Olcott, the sweet singer, has completely captured the theater-goers of this City, and his success at the California Theater has been immediate and brilliant. Few stars have brought with them such an array of supporting talent as has this young comedian. On Monday evening Mr. Oleott will bring out “Theelrish Ar- tist,’” by George H, Jessop and Augustus | of Wexiord, in Ireland, in 1815. 1t does not seem to | Pitou. The authors have departed some- what from the time-worn methods usually employed in con In “The Irish A ’’ there are no land- sharks, no process-serving menial, no col- lusion of the simple Irish lad and the too- confiding English solaiery. The story of the play is strong in its simplicity. There are four acts, and the scenes are all laid in Dim-na-cor, county During the performance Mr. Olcott will sing the following songs, written and compesed by himself: “My Beautiful Irish Maid,” *‘Look in My Heart,” “Olcott’s Irish Sere- nade,’”’ **Katy Mahone,” .and Tom Moore’s song, ‘“‘Believe me, if all those endearing young charms.” Entirely new and pic- turesque scenery has been painted by John Young. The costumes, which are historically correct, were designed by H. A. Ogden. The play shows Cormac Cronin, his wife, Maurice Cronin, his son, and Maggie Cronin, his daughter, living in the village of Dim-na-cor, on the coast of Ireland. They bave for neighbors Father Dennis Mahone, a priest, and his niece, Kate Ma- hone. Cormac Cronin, while generally known as a fisherman, is also the head of | a band of smuegglers. His son Maurice, who has gained some reputation in Lon- don as an artist, is ignorant of the occupa- tion in which his father is engaged. Nor would be have found it out but for Paady Blake, an idiot boy, who is clambering through the rocks and mountains and finds himself in the cave where the smugglers hide their goods. As Maurice is his friend he immediately imparts to him the discovery. Maurice makes up his mind to visit the cave and learn more about Paddy’s find, but not until he has satisfied himself upon another subject. He has Jearned through the village gossip that Kate Mahone, the girl he loves, has fallen heir to a fortune during his absence in London, and on this hinges much of the realistic story told in the play. On Tuesday evening a benefit is to be tendered the Youth’s Directory by Mr. Olcott, his management and Al. Hay- man & Co. “The Minstrel of Clare” will be presented by Mr. Olcott for tnhe week com- mencing Monday, August 17. Golumbia Theater. The Columbia Theater has done a land- office pbusiness the past week with “A Gold Mine.” For the occasion Mrs. }Th()rnd)‘ke-Boucicsult was specially en-| gaged by Mr. Frawley. and the event was made further enjoyable by the appearance | W | like changes he make and his powers as’ of Wilton Lackaye, who not long since de- lighted the San Francisco theater-goers by his artistic performance of Svengali. Mrs. Boucicault brought out the light and shade of the part of Mrs. Meredith to ex- cellent effect. On Monday evening a rare treat is prom- ised in tlie shape of oneof Augustin Daly’a successes, *The Great Unknown.” At tbe time of its first presentation the press of New York pronounced it to be one of the funniest comedies of the day, full of laughter, absurd situations and funny com- | plications, ali brought about in a purely legitimate manner—not of the horse-play order. ‘“rfhe Great Unknown’’ is not un- like “The Two Escutcheons,’”’ which made such a sensation at the opening of the Co- lumbia Theater this season by the Frawley Company. Wilton Lackaye played the leading and important role when the com- edy was first put upon the stage of Daly’s Theater. It is said to have anexceedingly interesting plot. The following is the cast complete: Jeremiah Jarraway, Harry Corson Clark (rather a large-sized mouse, likewise a some- what full-grown moth, but offering a lively illustration of two familiar fables); Ned Dree- mer Cousin, Frank Worthing (Ned who went away a Methuselah and returns a ‘‘Daisy”); The O’Donnell Don, Wiiton Lackaye (with a proverb for every occasion); Tom Proude, | George W. Leslie (in the musical line with a enchant for his pupils); Patrick, Wilson | Enos (an ivldibftensnble in the Jarraway house- { hold); Etna Lusus, Miss Blanche L. Bates (natural combination of mouse and. puss—no | other specimen known to exist); Pansy, Miss Hope Ross; her sister, Mrs. Arabella Jarraway, Miss Madge Carr-Cook (the feline article of { the proverb, who returns in sesson to catch the frolicking rodents); Aunt Penelope, Miss Phosa McAllister (a protecting angel as well ®s an avenging spirit, and taking deal of eujoyment out of both); Shir- ley Munkittrick, Mrs. Thorndyke-Boucicault (ner niece, & young widow with histrionic as- pirations); Miss Twitters, Miss Lansing Rowan (mentor and guide to the Demoiseiles jarra- way); Mile, Agathe, Miss Alice Pixley. The entire action of the comedy passes in the Jarraway reception and sitting room. Ten days are supposed to intervene between the first and second acts; the third act follows one day later. Grand Opzra_-Housz. “The Danites,” with James M. Brophy as Sandy McGee, has drawn crowded houses all the past week. There will be no diminution of the crowds this week either, as the “Two Orphans” will occupy the stage with a splendid setting. The management say that such a setting of melodrama has never been seen before in San Francisco. The full depth of the stage ¢f the Grand is to be employed in the second act. This will be when the scene is in the Gardens of Bel-Air. Seventy people will be on the stage at that time. Professor Charles F. Groeber’s Mandolin and Guitar Club, consisting of forty well-known ladies and gentlemen, will assist. The management has engaged a number of well-known artists especially for this performance. Among those who will re- enforce the stock company of the Opera- house are Miss Anita Fallon, Kate Dal- . glish, Mortimer Snow and Carl Smith. Mr. Brophy, who in his first week was a dashing young New Yorker and the past week has been a sturdy Westerner, will during the coming week be the dashing young cavalier of the last century. The part of the Chevalier Maurice de Vaudry will bring Mr. Brophy’s talents as an actor into play. Grand Opera Season. Meyerbeer’s classical work “The Hugue- nots” will be presented at the Tivoli Opera-house next Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings as the offer- mg for the sixth week of the season of Itaiian and English grand opers, now al s 5% i i { | | 1 Q TAGE NONBORDTSKOg, = - g, being given under thedirection of Gustav Hinrichs. This famous work has been ructing an Irish drama. | heard but little in this City, and never at popular prices. The production will he a careful one as regards scenery, costumes and accessories, and will include Mme. Natali as Valen- tine, Nina Bertini Humphreys as Mar- guerite of Valois, Miss Bernice Holmes as Urbano the page, Sig. Michelena as Raoul de Nangis, Sig. Maurice de Vries as the Count of Navarre, a part which he has sung most successfully in Euroge and this country; Sig. Abramoff will be the trusty old servant Marcel, and Richard -Karl the Count of St. Bris, the father of Valentine. The other parts will be in gooa hands, and an augmented chorus and enlarged orchestra will assist. On Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday evenings Balfe’s ever- popular ballad opera, dear to the hearts of all music lovers, **The Bohemian Girl,” will be sung. Much care is being taken in the preparation for the early production of Verdi’s **Aida,”” also the initial presen- tation in this City of Humperdink’s fairy opera, ‘‘Hansel and Gretel,” and reproduc- tions of *‘IlI Trovatore,” ‘La Traviata” and ‘‘Cavalleria Rusticana.” The Orpheum. A star comedy feature.is announced at the Orpheum for the week in the person | of Professor T. A. Kennedy, the mesmer- istand bypnotist. He has just arrived from a very successful trip through Aus- tralia and New Zea'and, where he made quite a stir among the medical fraternity. In several instances he appeared before their societies and gave exhibitions of his powers under the supervision of the best known physicians of the country. How- ever, one does not have to go to Australia for examples of the wonderful things he has done. In this City there are a number of cases of quite wonderful cures from the cigar- ette, drink and opium habii. However, he is not engaged by Gustav Walter to ex- pound any particular theory, but to play the role of a fun-maker. Withr subjects selected from the audience he will give an entertainment quite &s mirth-provoking as anything ever seen .on the Orpheum stage, which is saying consideratle, for some very funny things have been scen there. Biondi, the greatest of change art- ists who has ever been seen on the Pacific Coast, will appear in new sketches. His work is characterized by the lightning- a ventriloquist, which combined enable him to play all the parts of a comedy., The Nelson sisters have made quite a stir among the athletes of the City, as no such acrobatic work has ever been seen here, and what adds to the novelty of their act is the fact that they are a group of young women. Drummond Staley and Belle Birbeck, the musical blacksmiths, will appear in new specialties. Herr Techow’s cat show is one of the unique and pleasing features of the bill. They have proved one of the best drawing-cards that has been in the Orpheum for some time. One has to see this act to believe it possible that a troupe of cats could be trained to do the tricks that Herr Techow gms his proteges through. The Black atti has been retained and will appear in a new selection of songs. The programme is of such variety as to contain somethin, that will more than repay the most criti- cal patron, Matinees every Wednesday and Saturday. The Chutes, The bill in the Casino at tbe Chutes dur- ing the week has been unusually good and the big theater has been well filled every afternoon and evening. The ‘Young San- dow,” as he is called, has made a great hit and will be retained for another weei. “Joe,”” the orang-outang, who does everything but talk, is amazing all who see him. Nothing like him has ever been seen before in California. Begimning next Wednesday evening, Conn Fredericks, the “Demon Cycliss,” will ride a bicycle down the chutes and land in the lake without injury to himseif or machine. He successfully accomplished the teat at Paul Boynton’s big water show in London and will now try 1t for the first time in America. Facts Between Acts. The entire cast of “Chimmie Fadden” will be seen on this coast this season. Miss Katherine White’s piano recital will take place at Golden Gate Hall on the 18th inst. - Alexander Salvini will play a three weeks' engagement at the Baldwin The- ater in the fall. Among the new plays to be presented at the Columbia Theater this season is *‘Ten- nessee’s Partner.”” Steve Brodie in his successful play, ‘‘On the Bowery.” is one of the early attrac- tions at the California. The sale of seats for “Tbe Gay Pari- sians” commences Thursday at the Bald- win Theater box-office. And now it is said that James O’Neill will play the late Frank Mayo's part in “Pudd’'nhead Wilson.” “The Prisoner of Zenda,” with a big company in the cast, will be seen at the Baldwin in a short time. Joseph Murphy will be seen in a new Irish play when he appears at the Colum- bia Tl}’euer in December. The Holland Brothers begin their tour on September 14 at McVicker’s Theater in Chicago, presenting the *Bocial Highway- man.” The last performance of ‘“Mavourneen,” as presented by Chauncey Olcott and com- pany, will be given at the California Thea- ter to-night. 4 It is smd that originally Ramsay Morris’ and Hillary Bell’s new play, “The Social Trust,” was called “The Final Judgment.’”” Morris was asked s obe day if that meant the New York judgment. He became frightened at the thought that the least apprehension might become general and so changed the title. Possibly Georgie Cayvan may revive ““Squire Kate,” Buchanan’s pastoral play, in which her greatest success at the New York Lyceum Theater was achieved. One of the big melodramatic productions of next season will be *‘Darkest Russia,” which will be sent to the coast with a magnificent company in a few months. When Otis Skinner appears at the Bald- win early next year he will have for pre. sentation two._entirely new plays, entitle ‘I"l} k-So'hiier of Fortune” ang “The Third ick.” In “Town Topies,”” which will be seen at the Columbia 'Theater this season, there are said to be no less than twenty pretty girls, who will be seen in a host of original specialties. Evans & Hoey have returned from Eu- rope, where they went to engage their spe- cialties for *‘A Parlor Match,’’ which will be one of the principal attractions en route the coming season. Court Golden State No. 22, Foresters of America, has arranged for a benefit at the Columbia Theater for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nightd, August 25, 26 and 27, when ‘‘A Social Trust” will be repeated. William A, Brady, who will send Joseph Grismer and Pheebe Davies to the coast in November with a very strong company, will produce among other new plays for the first time ‘Humanity’”” and “The Cotton King.” Miss Pauline French,a graduate from the Columbia Theater Scliool of Dramatic Art, will join Augustin Daly’s forces next season. Peterson’s Magazine hasquite an article in this month’s issue of her beauty and accomplishments. Chauncey Olcott will make a run with the Olympic Club Wheelmen to the Cliff House this morning, and will be ten- dered a breakfas: by the latter at the hotel on the beach. He will sing at the Pavilion this afternoon on the occasion of the meet- ing of the League of the Cross. Sardou, in his customary manner, in ‘‘Madame Sans Gene’’ depicts the fire and fury of the sanguinary times when the royalty and nobility of France went down in a sea of blood, the cessation of the strife and the rise on the ruins of the old monarchy of the gilded, unsubstantial re- gime of Napoleon. It's All a Question of Makeup How Age, Golor and Nationality Change in the Dress- ing-Room J. E. Dodson, the versatile character actor of the Empire Theater Stock Com- pany, has, perhaps, no superior in that aif- cult branch of the histrionic art which for lack of a more precise definition is vaguely described as “‘make-up.” He is able to add fifteen years to his age or take twenty away without leaving his dressing-room, and he change his nationality or his color as easily as another man can his polities. This is all a question of *“make-up,” 1 the art of which, as mentioned, Dodson is a past master. Regarding his success in this line, he says: ““What is known as a character make-un i8 a very important part of, stagecraft in these days and is increasing in import- ance. Theart—ior I may, I think, call it an art—includes types of humanity of all ages. In our present repertory 1 play parts ranging in age from 19 to 90. Very youthful parts, like Sam in ‘The Queen’s Bhilling,” for instance, require but small skill in the make-up—a little flesh-colored grease paint for a groundwork, heighten- ing the cheek-bones with carmine rubbed in with a little brown, and using blue and black for the eyes, blue on the upper eye- 1id close to the lash, and the lash black- ened with black grease paint warmed over the gas and applied with a pencil; that's very simpie. It's called the straight make-up. “Any one is equal to do that. The diffi- culty arises when the make-up is complex, and then adequate skill is not acquired until after years of experiment. I have been all my life studying the art. Very few. theater-goers fully appreciate how largely dependent upon the make-up is the success of many a great actor in his most famous roles. Sometimes tragedians pay less attention to make-ups than actors of other classes. Edwin Booth and Henry Irving are exceptions. The famous Am- erican actor and the famous Englishman have not been excelled in the art of make-up. “It is a comparatively modern art. It did not amount to much even in Garrick’s day, unless Garrick resorted to what we call the straight make-up. But not until recent years has he art been brought to its present elaborateness. The so-called character artist make-up is really a crea- tion of the last two or threedecades. Dur- ing all of that time there has been a steady improvement, of course, but the present absolute perfection of detail is very recent. A curious slang expression of the English greenrooms is ‘a Sadler's Wells make-up,’ Sadler’s Wells Theater 'was for years the home of the legitimate in London. 1tis associated, too, with many oroken-down actors of the old school— crushed tragedians, a3 you may say. Now, it an actorin England comes late to a per- formance and with an insufficient make-up he is chaffed about his ‘Sadler’s Wells,” the suggestion harking back to the days when the inake-up wus improvised at old Sadler’s Wells Theater with a little white rubbed off the walls, a little brown rubbed off a brick from a chimney and a hole in the tights blackened with soot from the blue. : “The chief features to be considered ina make-up are the wig, the hair, tbe eves, the nose and the teeth. The wig is the most important ingredient in 2 good make-up—a make-up which disguises the actor and gives a natural effect. It is & very difficuit matter to get a good wig. You have to consider the actor’s physical peculiarities as well as the ty_pe to be represented and the idiosyncrasies of the particular character. The wigmaking business 1s a specialty. Only afew suc- ceed at it, notably the late Rick- ards of Covent Garden, London; Clark- son of London, Meyer of New York Buch of Phiiadelphia and Hepner of Chicego. Rickards was the best perbaps. For twenty years he made wigs for cele- brated character actors of London. Many of my own wigs have been made of late by Clarkson, a clever workman. I usually give him the sketch, preparing it mysell or getting it prepared by a friend. Some- times fiiteen or twenty visits are necessary before the thing suits. A vast amount of pains and patience is required. The wig I wear in the role of Schumard is the third Ihad made for the part. Clarkson made it, but he made two others before I was satisfied. “Hair on the faceis the feature next in importance. This is attached to the skin by a spirit gum. Crape hair is used and the actor can often make himself up in this respect better than the wigmaker | could do it, except in the case of a full beard. Eyebrows are put on with crape hair or they may be colored in. Charles Matthews used to say that a stage mus- tache never looked so well as when it was painted on. Bur that was before the days of a perfected make-up such as we know now, and the painted mustache must needs have been a very small affair indeed to keep up an illusion under a fire of opera- glasses. “‘Speaking of paint reminds me that the invention of grease paint marks an im- portant advance in the art of make-up- revolutionized methods. Itismade chiefly in Germany by Leichner, and in a smaller way by Meyer in New York. Harmless? Yes, I think so. I never suffer any injury from it, though rouge which has ver- milion as one of its ingredients is not barmless, I should say. The basis of grease paint is wax, and there is a little olive oil in 1t and oxide of zinc, with such coloring matter as may pe required. But the pizments are harmless. As aralea grease that closes tne pores is used before the paint is applied. *“The nose, the ears, the chin, the cheeks and the teeth ave all the subjects of make- up. You may take out all your teeth, as it were, or you may put in others. Years ago I playec in ‘Black and White,” imper- sonating a negro. I had a set of teeth made to fit over my own. These, pro- truding, gave me the mouth features or the negro, full lips and all; but wben I went to speak I found I was unintelligible.f It required a month’s practice before I could be understood, and then I had the negro accent almost exactly—or the critics kindly saia I had. The witches in ‘Mac- beth,’ for instance, have false noses, false single teeth or tusks, the latter made of cardboard attached with cobbler’s wax. “I almost always use noses. Ican make them up in any shape and can defy detec- tion even in the dressing-room. There is a nose paste made by Leichner and Meyer which is very well in its way, but for long, drooping noses it is impracticable. To meet this defect I struggled for years to get something that wonld do, and at last succeeded. I can makeany kind of a nose. Not so long ago I was playing the Jew in ‘After Dark.” I madeup a nose to suitthe part. One night at the close of the per- formance I was sent for by a Jewish gen- tleman who wished to meet me. I divested myself of my maké-up and went to him, saying: ‘Well, sir, I am Dodson; what can I do for you?’ He replied, ‘I want Mr. Dodson, the actor.” ‘But I am he." ‘No, no,” rejoined the Jew, placing his finger upen his nose, ‘he is one of us.” He had been completely deceived by the make-up, and it is really remarkable how small and fine are the modelings of the nose needed to get a particular effect.. I may say 1 am a believer in noses as indexes oi character. I use a made nose as Schaumard. “‘All sorts of eyes can be made up, A squinteye or a wall eye is the result of fastening a piece of fine muslin on the upper lid, gumming it down and painting a false eye on the whole. Squeers, in ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ is usually made up in that fashion. “In making up one has to consider the size of the theater, the strength of the electric ight and gas and the effect to be produced at the same moment in the front of the audience and in the highest gallery. The make-up must not be too strong for the former or too weak for the latter, I generally try my make-up several times before the dress rehearsal, but I don’t know whether this is usual. *'Of course I need nardly say that make- up includes costume and all its details, gloves, hat, glasses, shoes, etc. All these things have to be closely regarded with a view to a symmetrical and artistic whole. But that, I take it, is pretty generally un- derstood even. by the people who know little of the intricacies of character make- up. It is a rather curious fact that I am often accosted by people who say, ‘Why, Mr. Dodson, I thought you.were an old man.” They can scarcely believe that I am a young man. Ialway$ consider this 'mistake a kind of oblique compliment. “Who are most successful in character make-up? I should say E. M. Holland and W. H. Thompson in this country, and in England John Hare, Beerbohm Tree and Mr. Mackintosh among character actors.” Thomas Siater has a message for every man on page 4. Don't fall to read ir. NEW TO-LAY—AMUSEMENTS. HO! FOR THE UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP OREGON. She is open for visitors. The regular steamers, Etnel and Marion and Liberty, will leave Mission: street wharf every half-heur. 'Round trip, 50c. D& o+ LESSES AIDMAMAGERS -+~ Everybody Wants Tickets for A . TO- GOLD NIGHT MINE bbb ] And To- Morrow (Monday) Evening—A REAL SENSATION! Augustin.Daly’s Great Comedy Success, THE GREAT ONKNOWN! Better and Funnfer than “THE TWO BSCUTCH- EONS'—Presented by the Superd FRAWLEY COMPANY WS e RS ‘M{nfll ALICE PIXLEY, U CAULT New Sets of Scenery ! Ilonnf'hllmx NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. AL HAYMAN & CO.’S THEATERS. TO-MORROW I BAAi'B’EWI l (Monday) Aflg'l ’LAST WEEK. CEARLES FROIMAN'S EMPIRE THEATER COMPANY, FROM THE EMPIRE THEATER, N. Y. m: The Masqueraders! HERE THE GREAT DRAMA by Henry Arthur Jones. Author of “The Dancing Girl,” “Judah,” “The Case of Rebetiious Susan,” “Saintsand Sinners,” etc, A production on the same Magnificent Scale as Seen for 200 Nights at the Empire Theater, N. Y. GORGEOUS AND COSTLY COSTUMES |—ELABORATE SCENERY! A Play of Tutense Interest, with Brilliant Dramatic Situations, including the THRILLING CARD SCENIE! EZEXT R A—Beginning Monday, August "—EXTRA =3 Direct from Chicago, where it is now running. THE LAUGHING RA THE GAY PARISIANS Now running at the Vaudeville Theater, London. Reigning Hit at the Nouveaute, £aris. 'VV. J. FERGUSON, THE ORIGINAL GREAT S J AMES O. BARROW!.{ AS SEEN 200 NIGBTCAST' Beg'nning FIRST MISS SADIE MARTINOT, } MRS, E. J. PHILLIPS, MISS MARGARET GORDON, TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME! MAVOURNEEN! CHAS. B. WELLS, In N York, d W.:3. SHIRLEY. = % end Boston, ions° AT THE CALiFoRN TO-MORROW (Monday), Aug. l1O0—Second Week, IN THE SUCCESSFUL COMEODY-DRAMA, IRISH ARTIST, By Augustus Pitou and George H. Jessop THE SWEET -INGER, CEAUNCEY OLCOTT, Under the Management of Augustus Pitou. HEAR OLCOTT SING: “My Beautiful Irish Mald,” “Katle Mahone,” “Olcott's 1rish Serenade.” “Look in My Heart,” and Tom Moore's Beautiful Lyric, ““Believe Me If All Those Endear- ing Young Charms.’ MONDAY, August 17th—Third and Last Week of CHAUNCEY OLCOTT, “TEIE MINSTREL OF CLARE. — JVEW YORK OFFICE 42 \. 307 STREET. éAN FRANCISCO. CAL. estas. s87. Los ANGELES CAL. Esmas. 1894 GUSTAV WALTER. DirecTor GENERAL. O'Farrell Street, bet. Stockton and Powell. Weels Oommex:cins Monday, August 10, A FIRST-PRIZE BILL OF NOTED FOREIGN AND AMERICAN CELEBRITIEN! THE ORIGINAL KING LAUGH-MAKER OF THE WORLD, T. A. KENNEDY! A RECOGNIZED EXPONENT OF THE SCIENCE OF HYPNOTISM, In a Seance of Fun and Merriment with Volunteer Subjects from the Audience. Under his magie spell the subjects perform antics so ridiculos that all beholders Roar with Laughter. THE FO The Famous South American Wonders, In the Greatest and Most Pleasing Acrobatic Act Ever Seen in This City. UR NELSON SISTERS! The Original Musical Blacksmiths. STALEY AND BIRBECK, Musical Specialties and Contortion Dances. The World-celebrated Prima Donna BLACK PATTI, ( issieretta Jomes,) Ina New Repertoire of S0ngs. THE NEW SENSATIO}L HERR TECHOW, And H“P:‘!‘;;rr'n:il::‘c?tzf’pe of Last Week of VAIDIS TWIN SISTERS on Revolving Blectric Wheels. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), AUGUST 9. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcon: eat, 10c: Children, 10c, any part. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO... Sole Lesses and Managoe —ONL'Y TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW — ———LAST PERFORVANCE OF —— EHE DANITES !— NEXT WEEK, MONDAY, Aug. 10— Narvelously Elaborate Production of THE TWO ORPHANS! ——THIRD WEEK OF— JAMES M BROPEHY, California’s Favorite Roman le Actor. MANY ARTISTS SPECIALLY ENGAGED, —__—__ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY OF— — PROF. CHAS. F. GROEBER'S MANDOLIN AND GUITAR CLUB Of Forty (40) Wetl-Known Ladies and Gentlemen. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY. SPLENDID COSTUME>. NEW PEOPLE. —_ONLY THE USUAL POPULAR PRICES! — S ———————— e — THE CHUTES, CASINO And Greatest Scenic Rail way on Earth! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING, Open To-.ay From 10 A, M. to 11 P. M, DON'T FAIL TO SEE JOE STORMS! The Only Orang Outang in America, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A Wonderful Yaudsville Bill in the Casino, Look Out for the PIIMON CYCLIST! ADMISSION—10 CENTS. Children, including Merry-Go-Round Kide, 5 cents. 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