The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1896, Page 30

30 THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, S EPTEMBER 13, 1896. KiopEr - BALDWIN = Jnro By all means see “On the Bowery.” It has become quite the rage to go, and you will get & number of priceless suggestions from the hero of the piece and his satel- | 7 lites. about the interior workings of a low saloon, besides getting valuab!e tips upon the newest and most approved way of slinging drinks around. You will also find out how to rush the growler without put- ting up the dough. It is not Brodie who achieves this latter feat. A mean all tat- tered and torn who frequents his saloon is the individual who gives you pointers on the gentle art of boodling the bartender. Even this accomplished gentleman’s an- tics pale, however, before those of Brodie himself. He is a triumph of realism. Steve has no more idea of acting than an alli- gator has of playing the pianoforte, but the way in which he serves drinks—ah! there's realism for you. “The great Elenora Duse does not act the part of Marguerite Gauthier in ‘La Dame aux Camelias,’ she is Marguerite,” says & cele- brated German critic; and Brodie, the Brodie beloved of the Bowery, he does not acttherole of a bartender, he isa bartender. Environed by the familiar surroundings of his own saloon he dispenses beer with a realistic fidelity to life which is higher art tuan mere acting. 1f Brodie silung round lagers with melodramatic intensity, or dispensed frothing schooners of ‘‘two for five cents” with pensive sentmentality, how flagrantly he would be transgressing all the traditions of Bowery barrooms! But words fail in describing the beautiful simplicity and naturalness of Brodie’s bar- tending. There were old topers last week who were moved to tears by his work, par- ticularly when they saw that.the befzr he dispensed was real. Whatever his de- tractors may say, they cannot deny that Brodie is a realist who has lived his part, and lives it again before the audience. Fin de siecle art is realistic. If we cannot have Duse and Nethersole, who are real- ists, and do not appreciate Mansfield, who is also a realst, by all means let us keep in the swim by going in our thousands to see Brodie. “On the Bowery” is a “go’” in this City, and to preach against 1t would be worse than useless. To tell the truth about the play, however, 1tis a dull, ridicu- lous melodrama, innocent of dramaticcon- struction and bearing ail through it the hall mark, “Written to display Brodie.” About its only real interest lies in watch- ing Bowery toughs consume beer in a Bowery barroom, and the scenic embel- lishments of the piece are far below those usually supplied at the local home of melodrama. The author has eked out his lack of invention by leaving spaces for specialties ad lib. The third act is nothing but specialties, concluding with a vision of Brodie fighting his way through the property railings of a prop- erty Brooklyn bridge. Most of the specialties are clever, but they are seasoned with aliusions which recall the song— They say such tnings And they do such things On the Bowery. And some of those specialties are enough to make you vow “I'll never go there any more.” To-night we are to see the most success- ful opera produced during the last three years. The story of how it came to be written reads like an invention of Ben- jamin Trovato; but it is true, neverthe- less. Humperdinck, who had been chorus master at Bayreuth in Wagner’s time, was supposed to be a promising young musi- cian; but his first youth was passing, and still he had prodaced nothing of any con- sequence. He happened to have a whole brood of nephews and nice nieces, to For instance, you will learn ail | ELENFOSTER VANE Hed < MoroscoS = Opera-house, under the patronage of the Empress, as s Christmas treat to the chil- dren of Vienna. “Hansel and Gretel”” next spread to England, where the critics said it was absurd to expect adults to interest them- selves in seeing a prima donna eat chunks out of a gingerbread house. They were mistaken, however; children and adults took anequal interest in the adventures ef Hansel and Gretel, and the opera made more money than all the other works of the Carl Rosa repertory put together. In New York the mistake was made of put- ting it on with inferior artists, but even there musicians went into raptures over the beauty of the score. It is to be hoped that the new singers at the Tivoli to-night will give the work the nnished perform- ance that it deserves. This will be its first performance west of Chicago. The Orpheum has a little cherub who sits up aloft and takes up the refrains of singers on the stage. While the cherub is singing every other sound is hushed ex- cept a pianissimo accompaniment of the orchestra. It was quite touching last week to see the joy with which one of the ladies of the Vassar Quartet stood and smiled while the cherub echoed her son«. Every member of the audience also turned round and beamed up at the cherub in the gallery. Of course no one would growl at the Orpheum getting a little boy to Jift up his voice and thereby encourage choral singing on the part of the audience, but it might be suggested that the managzement should try to secure a cherub who can sing 1n tune. BALDWIN THEATER. “Mme. Sans Gene”’ will begin its last week at the Baldwin Theater to-morrow night, after which it will go for a tour of the coast. “The Prisoner of Zenda” will come to whom he was especially devoted, and | the Baldwin on Monday, October 5, direct when their mother, Fran Adelheid Wette, told him that she wanted the dear chil- dren to perform a little operetta for which she had written the libretto Humperdinck readily offered to put it to music. sel and Gretel” was the fairy tale which Fran Wette had chiosen, ana the uncle not only wrote the music but taught the children to sing it for Christmas. There were several musicians present at the performance, and the peculiar beauty of the themes and their skillful Wagnerian treatment struck their fancy so strongly that they begged Humperdinck to show his “Hansel and Gretel” to some opera- house conductor. He took it to Levy of the Hof Theater at Munich, and that cele- brated Wagnerian considered .the work beautiful enough to be produced in his great theater. It goes withoutsayingthat numberless wiseacres were inexpressibly shocked at the Hof Theater stooping to play a little fairy opera, but the result justified Levy’s judgment. “Hansel and Gretel” was the greatest success which has been seen in Munich ior years. Other German theaters took it up; then it began a triumphal tour of Austria, and by the time the next Christmas had come round the little obera vlayed by Frau Wette's children was being given in the Imperial “‘Han- | from the Lyceum Theater, where its suc- cess was great. The company to present the play will be headed by James Hackett and Isabel Irving. ‘‘The Prisoner of Zenda” is a romantic play, in a prologue and four acts, ana is founded upon An- thony Hope's famous novel. Edward Rose dramatized the play. The play is a very romantic one, and serves to bring out some strong characters. All the scenery, costumes, etc., will be sent here from the Lyceum Theater, where they were great factors in the success of the production. GALIFORNIA THEATER. The box-office receipts for “On the Bowery,” at the California Theater this week, have been eminently satisfactory to Steve Brodie and his colleagues. The play begins its last week to-morrow and there is every indication that its prosper- ity will continue. “The “King” of the Bowery may be rejected elsewhere, but Steve can go away rejoicing in the fact that in San Francisco he has met with a right royal reception. GOLUMBIA THEATER. The management predicts that the Co- lumbia Theater will resound with langh- ter to-morrow night, when “The Matrimo- nial Maze” will be producea by the Fraw- Ie; ompany. The comedy, which is by W?l?er L‘!nvan. will be played for the first time in this City. The story tells the tale of two young men still in the charge of a tutor who are married secretly without tne vaternal blessing. The fathers of the youthful benedicts happen to be widowers, and they, too, are contemplating matrimony, each with his respective housekeeper. The widowers arrange that their sons shall marry the housekeepers’ daughters, for both ladies are widows, and from this con- dition of things a number of complications ensue. The two young wives are thrown upon the care of a guileless tutor, who has to bear the brunt of every one’s misdoings and whose woes form a large part of the fun of the comedy. The cast will include most of the mem- ON THE BOWERY- TALIFoRNIA- LEw Hawkins =~ Oppreume= bers of the Frawley Company, two of whom were members of the original cast. Harry Corsen Clarke is said to have made a hit as the professor when “The Matri- monial Maze” was first produced, aad Miss Madge Carr Cook was also praised for her work as one of the housekeepers. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. Henry C. de Mille’s railroad comedy- drama, “The Danger Signal,” will be this week’s attraction at the Grand. The action of tbe play takes place at Laramie Bend, a lovely railroad station in the heart of the Rockies. Miss Lottie Williams, as the “Flower of Laramie Bend,” is loved by a handsome young brakeman (Mortimer Snow), but she is smitten with the charms of a con-cience- less army officer, and a good deal of the interest in the play centers in the brake- man’s humble but honest_efforts to save her from the officer’s perfidious wiles. A number of realistic scenes occur dur- ing the progress of the play. A “‘cannon-ball’”’ express train of six cars dashes across the stage, occupying just five seconds in the passage. A great rotatory snowplow clears a passage through heavy drifts. A freight train is “made up” in view of the audience and real telegraph instruments tick moment- ous messages at critical periods. The play, however, does not depend entirely on its scenic effects for success. The author has shown his powers of construc- tion in the assistance he has rendered in such P]ays as “‘The Charity Ball,” “The Wife,” etc. His railroad drama was played at the California Theater four years ago. PLCAZAR THEATER. To-morrow night the Alcazar Theater will revive “Ours,” a military comedy by T. W. Robertson, which was a favorite vears ago with the late Lester Wallack. *‘Ours” is a bright, interesting play, which will have all the charm of novelty to a good many end-cf-the-century theater- goers. Its incidents are supposed to occur forty yeass ago, auring the Crimean War, when England was sending her troops to take Sebastopol and keep the Russians from dominating the Black Sea. Auiong those ordered to the front is Sir Alexander Shendryn, a punciilious officer of the old school, wkose wife scarcely ap- preciates him at his worth. Unknown to her Sir Alexander has assisted nc{ brother, who has committed the crime o forgery. On the eve of his departure for the Crimea | Sir Alexander receives a letter regarding | his transactions with the misguided young man. Lady Shendryn desires to read it, and when her husband refuses her request she becomes jealous and parts from him in a pamful scene. bim in the Crimea and learns of his gen- erosity, after which all is forgiven and for- gotten. Around this central story several minor plots revolve. Spectacular effects are promised in seve- ral scenes, particularly in the parade scene, when the troops pass on their way to the front, and in the Crimean scene before Sebastopol. AT THE TIVOLL Humperdinck’s famous fairy opera, “‘Hansel and Gretel,” will be performed for the first time in this City at the Tiyoli to-night. The musie, which is extremely musicianly in character, has been de- scribed as “Wagner made easy,’”” and the libretto is based on one of the stories in Grimm’s Goblins, all of which are dear to children. Adults will also retain a rec- ollection of “‘Hansel and Gretel” as the fairy tale in which two children lose their way in the woods and meet with numer- ous adventures, including being taken prisoner by a terrible old witch, who wants to bake them in an oven. An orchesiral prelude precedes each act of ‘‘Hansel and Gretel.” Joseph Hirsch- bach will conduct. Several new vocalists will appear in the opera. The cast is as follows: Frl. Mathilde Wilde, who wili sing the witch; May Tunison, Hansel; Miss Ella Prankard, Gretel; Miss Zopkiel Worth, the mother; W. H. West, the father; Miss Katherine Kreg, the sand- man and dewman. After the run of ‘‘Hansel and Gretel” the grand opera company will return from Los Angeles and perform “Aida.” AT THE _ORPHEUM. A startling feature is promised at the Orpheum this week in the shape of Abdul- lah, an acrobat whom the management declares to be the champion high-wire per- former of the world. On the same author- Later she joins | - ityit Is stated that Rammerstein wouid not keep Abdullah at his Olympia because he was afraid of having a dead Arab on his hands. Gustay Walter says he is willing to take chances. Another new feature of this week’s bill will be Mile. Alma, who performs acro- batic feats on a revolving globe to the ac- companiment of colored light effects. Lew Hawkins, the old-time negro minstrel, will appear in a monologue containing plenty of localisms and parodies, and among the hold-overs will be Filson and Errol in their sketch, “Men versus Women”; the Vassar Quartet, with new songs; ‘“Peer- less” Marguerite, the little contortion dancer, and Ferguson and Mack. Bell- man and Moore will also remain for one week more, after which they go to Aus- tralia. AT THE GHUTES. The pleasant weather during the week has aided the enterprise displayed by the chute management, and the Haight- street grounds have been well patronized every afternoon and evening. . No more pleasant place for passing a couple of | bours in various forms of divertisement cau be imagined. The new attractions in the casino are clever. Queena de Rein, a very pre- possessing soubrette from Koster & Bial’s, has a number of new songs; and Belle Kirby, the ‘“queen of sword-walkers,” walks with her bare feet on a ladaer of sabers sharpened to such a degree that they can cut paper. Two youne ladies ride a mile bicycle race on the stage, and a juggler and the funny little Japanese acrobats complete the bill. This afternoon at half-past 4and every evening at 10 o’clock Antonio Pirri, the Milanese bicyetist, will shoot down the chutes on his wheel and land in the lake. The great scenic railway, chutes, haunted swinfi, trolley, hall of illusions, merry-go- round and other features are constantly in operation, and the Haight-street grounds will’ be open to-day from 10 o’clock in the morning until 11 at night. A Novel Entertainment. Frank Lincoln, the celebrated humorist, who is said to be the successor of Artemus Ward, has returned after a five years’ pro- fessional tour of the world. During that time he has appeared before rulers, vrinces, governors, etc., and has visited every quarter of the globe. In every place his entertainment has drawn crowded houses, and has been hailed as an absolute noveity. Frank Lincoln will give an entertain- ment next Friday evening at the Associa- tion Auditorium, and a very attractive programme is promised. MAY IRWIN'S FEAT. She Has Beer\_}eachmg Negro Minstrelsy to Newport Society. May Irwin has eclipsed Mageie Cline. The Cline bas had the honor of singing at the dinners of Senator Calvin 8. Brice at Newport and recently Miss Irwin was ed- gaged to follow her there. So long as it was a contest between “T'row Him Down McClosky” and *“The New Bully” Miss Cline might be expected to hold her own, | but Miss Irwin was invited to teach the guests to take part in a sort of minstrel | performance, namely the refrain to the | song: One, twb, three—shift. Be good, be good, my father said, Tuough the road be rough and stormy, Some day you may be President, Or a general in the army. Toe following account of the resultis taken from a voracious and perhaps vera- cious fashion column: “Miss Irwin readily consented and or- dered that all the ladies and gentlemen should sit with their legs crossed, each beating time with the boot until, at the words ‘One, two, three—shift,’ the legs were to be uncrossed and recrossed the other way, time then to be beaten with the other boot. Among Miss Irwin’s pupils | were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Belmont, Mr. | and Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, Miss Virginia | Fair, Mr, and Mrs. Elisna Dwyer Jr., Dun- can Eiliott, James J. Van Alen and a dozen other heavy swells. They caucht and carried the song very well, but had great trouble with crossing and recrossing | their legs and keeping time with their feet. Itis said that Van Alen gave more trouble to the instructress than all the others combined, because he not only got his legs tangled up in the numerous | changes, but insisted on transferring his | monocle from one eye to the other every.| time the order came, ‘One, two, three— shift.””” PRAGTIGAL SUGGESTIONS. Philip Hale of Boston proposes a con- vention of music editors of the various papers for the purpose of considering several important topics, namely, the treatment and extermination of press agents; permission to leave stupid con- | certs before 9 o’clock; release trom hear- ing the Waldstein sonata and Pastoral sym- phony oftener than once a year; the defec- tive state of musical terminology ; personal | beauty as a lack of excuse for a shrieking, off the pitch voice; suppression of society reporters’ gush over bad singers who have got into society and are petted; raising of salaries. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Otis Skinner will appear at the Baldwin early next year. Gossip has it that A. M. Palmer is reorganiz- ing & stock company. The Frawley company will remain only three more weeks st the Coiumbia Theater, aiter which the Australian company will play “Trilby” for & fortnight. Nellie McHenry has once more begun her annual season, but her play is said to be not much of a *‘go.” Richard Mansfield is rehearsing “Hamlet.” The eccentricities of the Dame should fit the eccentric actor perfectly. The republic of Guatemala has appropriated $106,000 for & bull-fight, a Sp pany and an American’ vaudeville company during its world’s fair, to be held in February. The play proper of “The Prisoner of Zenda” is supposed to take place in the year 1894, 161 years after the period in which the prologue holds forth. “What is the matter with Jenkins of latet He seems worried.” “Siage fright.” “Why, ldidn’t know he was ever on thestage.” “His wife is developing into a society amateur.” The Holland brothers will begin their tour to tbe coast next month. They have decided to produce “A Social Highwayman” among their other plays. L. R. Stockwell, Victory Bsteman and Her- bert Kyle. This strong combination is what Walter Morosco has drawn to the Grand Opera- house to open in “Mr. Potter of Texas” on Mon- day, September 21. The Pacific Coast Travelers' Association has arranged with the management of the Colum- bia Theater and Mr. Frawley for its annual benefit to take place during New Year's week. Francis Wilson’s new opera, “Half a King,” which is to open the Knickerbocker Theater to-morrow, owes its title to one-half of a play- ing-card, the king of diamonds, which haa been attached to a foundling’s clothing. It leads to ihe identification of the child as the daughter of a duke. Georgia Cayvan is often seen on Broadwa: New York, and reminds one of that dear o! French lady who despairingly said: *Iam so fat that I grly for a disappointment to make me thin, butno sooner does the disappoint- ment come than the joy at the prospect of getting thin makes me fatter than ever.” Mr. George Backus, who plays & elever part in “Lost, Strayed or Stolen,” has been reported to the United States Government as a Cuban Spy by the Spanish Minister. Mr. Backus has been visiting at the Cuban restaurants in New York, not as a filibuster, but to study the Cuban character for Esteban Pacheco, in the above-mentioned vlay. Mr. Stockweil will play the title role in *‘Mr. Potter of Texas” during the first week of his engagement at Morosco’s Grand Opera-house. In his fourth and last week he will be cast for “Marks, the Lawyer,” in an elaborate revival of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Frederick Warde has returned to New York to prepare for his next starring tour, which begins late in September. His repertory will include ‘‘King Lear,” “Virginius,” *The Mer- chant of Venice” and a new five-act romantic lay by W. D. Eaton, called “The Rise of skander.” The new political satire by Glen McDonough and Victor Herbert, called “A Gold Bug,” which opens the Gasino season to-morrow, deals with the adventures of a man who, in return for large campaign contributions, has been made Secretary of the Navv. He knows nothing of the duties of his office, and the lobbyists, office-seekers and politicians make itinteresting for him. There is a well-defined lolve story and a long-lost deaughter in the play. WOMAN SUFFRAGE COINGS Itineraries Arranged for Some of the Principal Lecturers. Grand Campaign Concert to Be Given in Metropolitan Temple by Local Talent. Now that the Woman Suffrage campaign has opened, the ladies are displaying much activity in their work for votes. The par- lor meetings are to go on, as they have been productive of good results, last week’s meetings being pariicularly interesting and largely attended. On last Monday the meeting at Golden Gate Hall was fully as interesting as the gathering at Mrs. F. L. Whitney’s residence on Laguna street, sembly at Mrs. Austin Sperry’s house Mrs. Chapman-Catt is said to have made her best speech before a San Francisco audience. Requests for su ffrage speakers continue to pour 1n, and Miss Hay is often sadly put about in order to make up the itin- eraries. Among the latest applicants are the Pioneers, who want to hear Mrs. Chapman-Catt, and have invited her to address their society some evening during the present week. Engagements of the principal speakers during this week will be as follows: Mrs. Chapman-Catt—Monday evening at Na- tive Sons’ Hall, by special request of the ladies of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic; Tuesday afternoon, parlor meeting at San Rafael; Tuesday evening, town meet- ing in the schoolhouse at San Quentin; ‘Wednesday evening, Democratic conven- tion at San Jose; Thursday evening, mass- meeting of the Alameda County Political Equality Club at the Oakiand Pavilion. Miss Anna H. Shaw_ will speak this evening at Placerville; Wednesday before the Palo Alto Republican Club; Thursday at the Alameda County political equality mass-meeting and next Sunday at Ala- meda. Miss Anthony is at present in Nevada City and will speak there and in the towns near by during the week. Mrs. Kate Tupper-Gaipin of Los Angeles will proceed from this City to Truckee, speak- ing at all the towns and railway stations along the route. On the 6th of October a grand cam- paign concert is to take place in Metropoli- tan Temple. Only California singers will warble and a genuine California orchestra with a California organist will provide the accompaniment. Miss Maybells Holbrook has the affair in charge and promises a veritable banquet of rare harmony. e The finest existing green di;mond is in the Green vault at Dresden, in which are preserved the royal treasures of Saxony. NEW TO-DAY. i e e Dress Gm@pafiment Grand Display of High-Class Fall Novelties and Imported SUIT PATTERNS! See our window this week for latest creations in FALL DRESS GOODS OTTOMAN BROCATELLE. An elegant suit pattern, in red, brown, blue and green grounds, with large raised black effects, very small, all pure wool, 46 inches wide. _ $8.50 a Suit. PERSIAN ASTRACHAN SUITING. A handsome suit pattern, in_dahlia green, magenta, old blue and other opular shades,’ with black scroll ef- fects, very nobby, pure wool and mo- hair, 45 inches wide. $10 a Suit. 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