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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, O 1399, STUBER 20, | | [ I fear that laurels to the to their pockets. The producti ndeed the scen one inink of a gallery of pictures from Floren ubjects by Dante Gabriet Ro- setti. But it does not require the wisdom | of the serpent to foresee that with allits staging *Romola” will never please the theater-going public. The languzage alone, largely culled from the novel, is sufficient to damn it. George Eliot’s stately, sonorous English is about as fitted for stage purposes as Milton’s. On the whole | I think *P: se Lost, ith scenic el- | fects, wonld make a much finer drama | than “Romola.”” But heavy dialogue is not the only de- fect. Tbe plot of “Romola’” is a very | nightmare of the stately epic, round which George Lliot wove so much de- gcription and philosophy. 'Tis pity but | ’tis true that very few pcople have read the | novel, and the ideas of the story gathered | from seeing the play were weird enough to | make George F irn in her grave. iot | looked up at that gyratin, | fa I asked a misses a new proc not read “Romo sprightly n, and who had . to give me her con- | ception of the plot. She said sbe had not understood ch about it. Perhaps it was her own faalt, because she could not | n take an interest in Florentine polisics— | Am 1 politics were confusing enough. | The love-making between Tito and Ro- Id have delighted her ifthe lan- had not been like an essay. She bitterly disappointed afterward to finc Tito had married Tessa instead of Romola, but in the next actshe saw, to her horror, that he had married them both, and not be: ther interest in a fifteenth-century Mor- | mon, particularly as he had bored her by | his electioneering for the Medici, she-went home feeling rather cross and very sleepy. mola w This young woman is a fair typeof the average theater-goer and the enthusiastic Tabers evidently have to learn that these | are the people they must cater for. An actor cannot live by alone, he needs the dollars of the public, and the public does not want Incoherent plays—outside farce comedies. velopments of character in “*Romo pealed to the Tabers’ artistic sensibi. but how about the many-headed public, which is entirely Jacking in a taste for subtle development Iam sure the subtle de- ap- | | Americans are suppo: when it comes to d to whip crea- natters of bus os don’t deserve the on where their artists are con- | There is the brilliant, erraiic rd Mansfiel 1 think our Richard gives a thought to the man in the box-office when ha puts on a new pro- duction? You can bet icycle that if he thinks of him at all it is only to say, “Blow the box-office. Here A— has just shown me a new play that contains & part with fine artistic po: i Richard is tempted by artistic pos: and he falls. Soon after we read thea nouncem “Mr. Mansfield’s Jatest | production bas tieen withdrawn, because | the public was unable to appreciate, ete.” | I fear the Tabers’ latest production will | soon be withdra because the public | was unabie to appreciate, etc.’” i ry Irving’s man- sgerial policy impresario, this | cadaverous gentleman has never made a | mistake, probably because, when he is| temy with a good part, he does not | fall. *‘Aye, the part fits me, bat how will | the play fit the publi s the question | the astute Irving asks nself. It is a| matter of.dramatic bistory that Irving | always answers the question to the entire | satisfaction of the man at the box-office. | The consequence of his foresight is that | he has money to burn on every new pro- | duction, while Mansfield is continually harassed by financial worries. The Tabers are young yet. Here's to their followineg in the managerial foot- steps of Henry Irving. “The little Buckley girl's all right.” This statement was dinned into my ears between every act by an cnthnsinszic; gentleman in the rear at the Alcazar the other night. “My sentiments exactly, sir!” I longed to remark, but the lack of an introduction put an icy barrier be- tween myself and the enthusiast. *‘The Ugly Duckling” was a very absorbing performance, o absorbing that I sat and drank it in, oblivious of the flight of time. On coming out I was surprised to see the Orpheum across the street in darkness, and looking at the time found that it only wanted a few minutes to the witching hour of midnight. However, that has all been changed now and the play is just as absorping, though the management has | cut it down to permit the audience reach- | ing home betimes. Sharkey attended the Orpheum last week, and when the comic-fighting turn of the Horn brothers came on the gallery | boys hailed the pugilist from aloft and de- | risively inquired what he thought of “that"" | combat. It was evident for their own pari the boys were fascinated with the brothers’ lack of reserve and caution in coming on to the fray which distinguishes professional pugilists. Things really lcok as if the lower ani- mals were crowding out humans in the music hall profession. We have grown accustomed to cats and dogs, horses and kangaroog, as members of the vaudeville | ranks, but now that donkeys and baboons are going on the stage, what is to become of bard-working human performers? Herr Grais’ little artists do their circus-riding act very prettily. When the pause for light refreshments comes the donkey munches his carrot and the baboon his candy with the self-satisfied air of indus- trious performers who earn all the good things they can get. The only thing is that with artists of their kind increasing, the vaudeville profession is mnot only in danger of going to the dogs, bus to the whole of Noah’s ark. What's the matter with hatless ladies in the theater? They are all right, and what’s more, they are the very women who bave millinery worth displaying. Bince the season opened I have noticed very few stylish theater hats—on ths owners’ heads. The really chic women take off their hats or wear little bonnets, but, alas! the women who possess home- made constructions of dracgled plumes and last roses of sumamer insist on wear- ing the trophies, and such trophies!—some msel who never | ibi L2 P BALDWIN THEATRE- = REaMOlrr= = of them a Choctaw Indian would not be caught wearing at a war dance. Speaking of hats in the theater, I want to pay a well-deserved tribute to the com- ing citizenesses. There was only one man at the Suffrage matinee on Thurs- day, so the clubs have not heard the news et; but never was there such an exhibi- | ion of hatless ladies in a S8an Francisco theater as at that marinee. When the first bars of the overture struck up, off came the hats, as if on a prearranged sig- nal, and the spectators, even to the outer- most row, were afforded a clear view of the stage. The sight would have con- | vinced any man open to conviction that | nothing on earth, including the ballot, was too good for those bareheaded women, Mazrie EvELYN. Greenroom aossip. mentioned in the obituary notices. *“When I first knew Abbey,” said one friend of the late manager, “he was running Abbey’s Park Theater, New York, and had just| made a big hit with Agnes Booth in that play where she says: still eat.” Wratwasit? Y ‘Engazed.’ ‘‘Abbey was never known in Europe till Patti came over to give a concert tour under her own management; and, para- doxical as it may seem, she didn’t go. Abbey got two of his friends to help hin, and they offered to star her. Their first i concert was given in Brooklyn with a great hurrah, The horses were taken out of the carriage and Patti was drawa in triumph to her hote'—all a put-up thing, but it dazzled the public. At theend of Patii’s tour the partners had lost $21,000 and Abbey’s name was made. He could go right over to Europe and get any foreign star he wanted. Bernhardt was his next venture, and she was a greatdraw. Itis hardly probable that she wonid ever have { come to this country if Abbey had not brought ber, and the same may be said of Irving, but Abbey introduced them. *In 1883 Abbey got the new Metropoli- tan Opera-touse. Ie knew mnothing of music. Maurice Grau had carte blanche toengage the artists, but Abbey was the man who stood on the bridge. He was | always around the foyer, a fine figure of a | man, ready to open a bottle of charhpagne | with you. or invite you down to his steam yacht. He burnt the candle at both ends, during the last few years. Poor Abbey | livea beyond his means end his strength. He would sit up till 3 or 4 in the morning, 1and be up again at 9 to meet his banker. He held out bravely for a time, but nocon- | stitution could go on standing it, and | Abbey succumbed. ‘A successor? Abbey ean’t exactly have a successor, Maurice Grau has always bandled the artists in the Metropolitan Opera Company.” Signor Abramoff, who sang at the Met- ropolitan Opera-house for several seasons, says he believes the coming Metropolitan opera season will be on a tirmer financial basis than during the Abbey-Schoeffel- Grau management. *‘Idon’t think Abbey made very much outof it latterly,” he said. “Grau, in addition to his share of the profits, had a commission from the lead- ing artists which Abbey and Schoeffel aid not touch. Grau will be moredirectly in- | terested in the firm now and it will not be | to his advantage to permit the payment of fancy salaries to the artists. I haveiton the best authority that Grau’'s commis- sion was 10 per cent. “Abbey knew nothing of music. His specialty was more in handling stars like Bernhardt and Irving. The advice of his wife, who had been an actress herself, was of the greatest use to him in this aepart- ment. As an impresario Grau is already his successor.” ; ‘‘The Ugly Duckling’ was writlen by | three men who never collaborated,” said an Eastern actor the other day. *I was {in New York at the time and remember | just how it happened. Belasco had prom- | ised that Mrs. Leslie Carter should make her debut in a new play on November 10. He and De Mille were writing a drama for her, but they were two months bebind and could not possibly get it finished in time. In hisdilemma Belasco went to Paul Pot- | ter and’said, *You write me the first two. { acts of a play in a hurry and I wiil finish it.” Potter set to work on *The Uely Duck- ling,” and at the end of the second act he turned the drama over to Belasco. “*Just as Belasco had finished the third act he was called away from New York on important business and commissioned Harry Graham to finish the play. That js the inside history of how ‘The Ugly Duck- ling’ came to be written, and the play was a success, though the men who wrote it never collaborazed.”’ On Wednesday night, near the end of the second act of “The Babes in the ]Wuod,” @ crost-eyed man with the St. Greenroom gossip recalled many traits | | of Henry Abvey last week which were not ‘Thank God, I can | Vitus dance sat down in the front row of the gailery, near the stage. He leaned | over the balcony and his iace started to | twiteh in wiid contortions. Hartman face and was fascinated. The chorus looked up and tittered. The orchestra looked up and Jaughed. The audiencelooked and roared. | Hartman caught his breath and said: “You take the prize. You can make faces faster than I can,”’ and they rang the car- tain down. Baldwin Theater. ! Julia Marlowe-Taber and R obert Taber | will begin the secona week of their en. gagement at the Baldwin Theater to-mor- ! row evening in “Romeo and Juliet.” The play will be put on with the identical scenery, costumes and stage properties which were employed in its presentation | at Palmer’s Theater in New York City | last spring, on which occasion it was gen- erally pronounced one of the most beauti- ful and complete Shakespearean produc- tions which had been seen in the metrop- olis for some years. The Juliet of Julia | Marlowe Taber is ranked by many critics in the East as one of her best portrayals. The entire week will be devoted to Shakespeare. Columbia Theater. “Tennessee’s Pardner,” acomedy drama, will open at the Columbia Theater on Monday week. No claim is made by the | management that the play is a dramati- zation of Bret Harte’s story. The plot was merely suggested by the story of that famous author. ‘‘Tennessee’s Pardner” has been frequently compared with “Pudd’nhead Wilson,”” “M’'liss” and | “Golden Giant.”” The characters -are those of early mining days and belong to the types which Bret Harte has made familiar. The company will include Harry Main- | hall, Cbarles B. Hawkins, Estha Wil- | liams, Jane Corcoran, “‘Ollie’’ Barr and Annie Mortimer. Grand Opera-House. Sensational melodrama, with an accom- paniment of musical specialties snd a bright soubrette star, is to ba the pro- | gramme for this week at Morosco’s Grand Opera-house. Florence Bindley's second | piece, “'The Captain’s Mate,” is said to be constructed with plenty of the quality known as “ginger.’”’ From beginpning to end the exciting incidents follow each other in quick succession, with an inter- jection of enough humorous situations and funny dialogue to relieve the tension of the dramatic experiences of the various characters. The play deals with the machinations of a band of cutthroats, who kidnaped the heroine when she was a baby. The Alcazar. “The Ugly Duckling” has proved such a success that the management has de- cided to continue it for another week. | The members of the stock company are | well cast, and John T. Sullivan as Count Malatesta, and May Buckleyas the Ugly Duckling appear to better advantage than in anytlun% they have yet played at the Alcazar. The comedy roles of the piece are well filled by Messrs. J. B. Polk, Frank Doane and R. C. White. The careful and painstaking work done by the stock company and the attention paid to stage setting are beginning to be fully appreciated. Tivoli Opera-House. At the Tivoli Opera-house to-morrow | the second edition of Ferris Hartman’s successful extravaganza, ‘‘The Babes in the Wood,” will be given. Many new songs, dances and hits upon topics of the day will enlighten the performance and make it in a measure a new show. The Jong-promised burlesque quartet upon Italian cpera methods will be given by Natali Crox Seabrooke, De Vries Willie Hartman, Michelena Pache, Darcy Abramoff, Dusty West. The scheolroom scene will be entirely changed, as will many of the figures of the march of the sprightly bathers. Strauss’ wallz “The Baron,” wiil follow. At the Orpheum. The new acts to be added to, the Or- pheum bill this week are said to be strong additions to the already great bill. Nel- son, Ginsereti and Demenio, the tramp, the Chinaman and the schoolboy, will ap- pear in an aerial act, the style of which they are said to haye. created. All their work is on the horizontal bars, but said to be extremely funny. The brothers Detroit are equilibrists of renown, and are styled the world's greatest hand balancers. Mays and Hunter are very skillful with the banjo, and will appear in a pro- gramme of popular airs. 2 The three brothers Horn will appear in the sketch that created. so much talk last week. Herr Grais with his imitation cir- cus is on the bill, also_Clayton, Jenkins and Jasper, Colby and Way, Eldora and Norine, 1ler, Burke and Belmar, most of them in new acts. Hinrichs-Beel Goncerts. At the Baldwin Theater next Friday afternoon the second of the series of three Hinrichs-Beel symphony concerts will take place. Senor Fernando Michelena, who has been engaged for the National Theater, Mexico, will fill the position of vocal soloist, and Sigmund Beel that of violin goloist. The programme is as fol- lows: Overture, scherzo and finale (Schu- opera, Gypsy ! the public is particularly that ber per- 1mann); concerto, G minor, for violin Msx Bruch), Sigmund Beel; *‘Siegfried Idyi” (Wagner); tenor solo, aria from “Don Giovanm’’(Mozart), Senor Fernando Michelena; ballet music from ‘“Henry VIII" (St.’Saens) At the Chutes. The Chutes management has secured a remarkable attraction in the person of | “‘Arion,” who has walked over Niagara Falls twelve times on a high wire. He hasnow periected an arrangement whereby he rides a safety bicycle over a live irolley wire, charged with 500 yolts of electricity. The wire is 200 feet long and will be placed sixty feet above the lake. He and his bicycle are covered with incandescent lights. His first ride will be given this after- noon at 4 o’clock, and every evening after- ward he will give his hazardous per- formance. At the conclusion of his en- gagement here “Arion” intends riding a ]I“'lalm“" wire stretched over Niagara alls. Zeisler Goncerts. : On the 10th day of November the long- anticipated concert season of Mrs. Fannie Bloomfieid-Zeisler will be opened in this City. rs. Bloomfield-Zeisler's ciaim on lormances are symypathetic and moving. SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED. | i A Great Finnish_j\;:tress Repeats Trilby's Experience. Truth is stranger than fiction, as one can see almost any day, by reading the daily papers. But no one expected even truth to go farther tban “Trilby.”” A curious event which has just excited Stock- holm, however, is stranger than any of Svengali’s bypnotizing feats. The story 1s told in detail by a correspondent of the ! Paris Figaro, and seems to be t_hcroughly' authenticated, Says the correspondent: I have just been an eye-witness of a very curious o GRPHEUN = event. Stockholm, at the present moment, is applauding a Finnish tragedienne, Mme. Ida Aalberz (Baroness Uexkill), who ranks with Sarab Bernhardt and Elenora Duse. Were itnot for the lan- guage in which she plays, she would enjuy the same celebrity. She is especially ad- mirable in the role of Therese Raquin. Having come here to give 2 series of representations at the Theater Royal, the condition of apathy and decadence into which the Stockholm public has Zallen enervated the great artist and rendered her heartsick. She had chosen Suder- menn’s last piece, “Gluck 1m Winckel,” for her debut, but on the very afternoocn of theday she was seized with an abso- Iute extinction of voice and an attack of nervoas prostration which sent her to bed. Mme. Aalberg’s friends called in Dr. Wetterstrand, a specialist in nervous dis- eases well known 1n the world of science. He attracted general attention at the re- cent Medical Congress in Geneva. The doctor arrived three hours before the cur- tzin was' to go up on the performance. ‘What he did was to send the tragedienne to sleep and tell her to get up at a ceriain moment in full possession of her voice and faculties, The actress assented to thiscom- mand, and going to the iheater went through the whole play in a hypnotic condition. Her acting was emotional, ex- cessively so, but sometimes her exclama- tions recalled the cries that people utter in dreams. In the intervals between the passionate moments her voice, although clear and distinct, was as if oppressed. In the auditorium I heard people who were ignorant of what was passing say, “Itis singnlar; one would say she was hypnotized.” The whole public was deeply moved by her acting, but it also seemed to feel vividly that some strange game was going on, of which it was ignorant of the secret. I was witness of the tragedienne’s loss of speech, as well as of the hypnotic sleep, and I was present at the periormance. can, therefore, testify to the certitude of the above.” [Translated for TrE CALL from Le Figaro of Sunday, Cctober 4, 1-96.] it may be added that the Figaro’s cor- respondent never seems to have heard of “Trilby.” Sarah’s Grand Revival. Sarah Bernhardt has revived *‘La Dame aux Camelias” in Paris with the costumes of 1840, and reports from the firs* night say that the gowns appeared very beauti- ful to the women. but hideous to the men. Ten years ago the whole audience would have laughed at the big coal-scuttle bon- net of Mile. Saylor and the organdie dress, the shawl and the huge bonnet, with strings, worn by Mme. Grandet. M. Gui- try’s toupet would have been an object of ridicule, and so would the corsets with which the elegants of 1840 pinched in their waists and the gilt buttons with which they studded their coats. ¥ # But the other night the Parisian public scarcely smiled at these things, and dur- ing the entr'actes Sarah’s dressing-room, which was incumpered with visitors, re- sounded with expressions of admiration for the costumes. All the ladies were in ecstacies over the great artists opera dress, made of pink silk gauze, with scal- loped flounces looped up with rose-colored feathars powdered with diamonds. They also gushed over the yellow satin mantle with sable sleeves, the country dress of Nile green moire velvet seamed with sil- ver, the little mantle of rose gauze, and the ball dress of the fourth act, made of lace, spangled with gold, looped up with bunches of white camellias; and lustly, to die ip, the night robe of Indian muslin, **Ab, Doucet made them, my friends,” cried Sarah. ““Who else do you think could have done it ?"” People looked at Mme. Grandet as they look at a box of curiosities. They walked round her and round her coal-scuttle bon- net flowering with Marechal Niel roses and lilac and ornamented with authentic bonnet-strings of flowered taffeta—bonnet- strings which have seen sixty years of existence; then they walked round the other coual-scuttle vonnet, ornamented with plumes and heliotrope bows. “I chose everything,” said Sarah, i ‘“Lewis and I. He has made excellen reproductions from the old models and photographs of the period,” And so in our age, which is always Bniping after novelties, dressmakers and tailors and modistes have to become almost historians. There was some question of playing ‘‘Caprice,” one of the spectacles prepared for their Russian Majesties, with the cos- tumes of Alfred de Musset, but the director of the theater put his foot down. “The Empress of Russia won’t nave any objec- tion to seeing the latest fashions,’”” he said. ‘Mount ‘Caprice’ with the costumes of to- day, or, better still, those of to-morrow.” [Translated from the French for THE CALL ] Dramatic Brevities. The California Theater will reopen on Mon- November 9, witn the melodramatic suc- , “Darkest Russia,” Edith Lawrence played & small part recently | Theater, Lonaon. | copyrighted it undor the title of | of Darkness.”” at Morosco’s, and Ler many friends hope to see her there soon ag: Itisexpected that the two biggest hits of the Imperial Opera Company will be made by Mme. !r:rc!ec and Signor de Marchi. Signor Abramoff, the eminent basso, has de- termined to locate here. He will sing in con- cert, opera and church, and deyote h's leisure to teaching. Serah Bernhardt is going to do a bustof Victorien Sardou, the dramatist, academician and man of leiters. It will be ready for the salon of 1897. Tho Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers’ AS- sociation s0.d over 500 tickets for their benefit entertainment at the Columbia Theater in two aays last week. . Della Fox expects to shortly proluce the London musical comedy success, “The Tele- phone Girl,” the rights of which she has se- cured for this couniry. The duels in the “Prisoner of Zenda” have been o well liked by the public that Edward Rose will give another in the first uct of “Under the Red Robe,’ a dramatization of Stanley Weyman’s dashing novel which is soon to be produced at the Haymarket The Burgtheater of Vieana has just had a startliog success with & new drama in three acts called “The Athenian.” The play is by Leo Ebermann, a poet unknown till now, but whose first work has caused the Viennese critics to declare thata great dramatist has been found in Austria. The New York Sun says of “Mary Penning- ton, Spinster,” in which Georgia Cayvan made ber New York debut as & star on Monday even- ing: “The play hardly more than provided an agreeable role for Mish Cayvan. Like most of ihe attempts of dramatists to blena business effairs with love affairs, it was 00 prosy and unromantic to reach the heartsof his audi- ence. * % * —_— i The brilliant but eccentric Marie Corelli is generally on the warpath with some one, and now it eppedrs that there is going to be the | devil to pay about the dramatic version of “The Sorrows of Satan.” A certain actor an- nounces that he has dramstized {he story and 'The Prince He hes evidently mot been cog- nizant of the fact that Marie and two of her friends copyrighted their version early in August. Litigation is now looming. Queen Victoria figures as a central figure in & romantic drama which is now having a greal success in Siam. She is in love with the King of Siam; he refuses her hand, and she invades his territory with an army com- manded by the Duke of Cambridge. The Duke performs doughty deeds with a battle-ax, but is defeated, and the Queen is made a prisoner. 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Aerialists and Acrobats. “THE GREATEST COMEDY HIT IN YEARS, THE THREE BROS. HORN, 55y, Ayt WIS JOE REEVES, Comedienne, > oo o tani ng His Wonderiul [COLBY and WAY, Teses ELDORA AND NORINE, Acknowledged Premier quilibrists and Jugglers. ILER, BURKE and BELMAR. in their Acrobatic and Husical Novelty Comedy Mketch. CLAYTON, JENKINS and JASPER, Am:ricas Grouiest comedy Staps, 1n “THE IN THE ANNEIX. ~First Appearance in This City of the s e ARE Lo A S R AN ORCHESTRA 1 GREAT NEW AT RACTION! iy Duoin Thelr s _Ventriloguial Surprises. Concert Every Afternoon and E: ing. Admlnlon:’Adnlt- 190, chllllr::'lsu. . MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), OCT. 2s. Last Appearance of THE H‘Efi\'GLER SISTERS and THE LUCIFERS. Parg anv sen cony. an v sea Any nart. 10c: Children 10 B (AL NATTIAN an Co; N(:NCORP D 5 HEATRE Y PROPS. Julia Marlows Taber =@ Rohert Taber, To-Morrow (Monday) - Oct. 26, SECOND WEEK! WITH THEIR OWN COMPANY, In the following brilliant MONDAY, Beautifol Produci TUESDAY —AND— SATURDAY NIGHTS, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, “TWELFTH NIGHT!” SATURDAY MATINEE—Last Time of. ----“ROMEO AND With adequate scenic environment, accessories, etc. Shakespearean repertotre: tlon of Shakespeare’s Subiime Love Tragedy, JULIET [ === FRIDAY NIGHT, | “Much Ado About Nothing!” ‘AS YOU LIKE IT!” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2—Last Week of This Engagement. A POSITIVE EVENT—A brilllant double bill. Chase,” and production of the beautiful characi Chatterton). Next Attraction.. Revival of the charming old comedy, “The Love ter study, “Chatterton” (Julia Mariowe-Taber as .DELLA FOX In Comic Opera. B At -*FRIEDLANDER,GOTTLOB & (- LESSES & MANAGERS - - COMMENCING MONDAY FOCTOBER =26, THE SEASON’> PRONOUSCED SUCCESS, TENNESSEF’ S PARDNER! The Delightful Comedy Drama Suggested by Bret Harte's kxquisite Komance of Laughter and Tears. HARRY MAINHALL and CHAS. B. HAWEKINS, Supporte by ESTHA WIL AND A SUPERB THEIGOLDEN NUGGET QUARTET. LIAMS, JANE CORCORAN ORGANIZATION. PICTURESQUE COSTUMES. APPROPR ATE SCENERY AND EFFECTS. Managemen: of ARTHUR C. AISTON. ALCAZAR, O’Farrell Street, between Stockton and Powell. BELASCO, DOANE & JORDAN. seee Lessees and Managers Afternoon and Evening and Every Evening Next Week, THE UGLY DUCKLING! A PERFECT PRODUCTION. NEXT====== “LOVE ON CRUTCEIES:"” ALCAZAR'S ATTRACTIVE PRICES—Night. 15¢, 25¢, 35c, 50c. Matinees. 15¢| 25¢, 35¢. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America WALTER MOROSCO......... +ee++eeenSole Lesseo and Managee LAST 2 PERFORMANCES OF WITH 1ITs COMMENCING MONDA Last Week of the Clev FLORENCE AY TRAIN WONDERFUL EXPLOSION. Y. OCTOBER 26, 1896, er Musical Comedienne, BINDIEY, In Her Own Sensational Nau:ical Drama, The Capta Marvelous Scenic Effects! Startling Climaxes! in’s Mate Funny Situations! A Play That Stirs One’s Blooa! Miss Bindley Will Introduce Many New Musical Specialties. EVENING PRICES-10c, 25¢ and 50c. TO FOLLOW-—VICTORY BATEMAN, MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, IN “DRIFTING APART. THE CHUTES And Greatest Scenic Rail way on Earsa! Afternoons and Evenings.; OPEY TO-DAY FROY 10 A. M. to 11 2.1, This Aftermoon And Every Evening. ARION! The Hero of Niagara, Will Ride a Bicycle on a Live Trolley ‘Wire, Sixty Feet Above the Ground. The Most Daring Feat Ever Attempted. ADMISSION—10 CENTS, —— Children, including Merry-Go-Round ide 5 cents. RACING! RACING! RACING! e CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB, WINTER MEETING, 1896-'97. Beginning Saturday, October 24, OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. October 24, 26 and 27. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. Bainor Shine. . Races Start at 2:15 P, Mu Sharp, Ferry Boats leave San Francisco at 12 x. and 12:30,1:00, 1:30 and 2:00 P, a.. trainy'stoppins ac the enirance to trask, 5 "1 Buy your ferry tickets Lo Berkeley, GRAND ENTERTAINMENT! ++..GIVEN BY THE.... SAN FRANCISCO PRESS CLU ON THE AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, LAT.. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE Contribations from the leading members of the Baldwia, Columbia, California, Morosco's and Alcazar Theaters, also from the Tivoll Opera- House: Press Club Quartet; Herr Mollenbauer, the violinist; leo Cooper’s School of Elocution; Signor Abramoff, Italian opera basso; Frank Lincoln, the humorist. PRICES: X Orchestra Stalls, Parterre and First Balcony, $1 00 Upper Balcony and Galieries. BoXes..........0. BUY TICKETS EARLY. THE SECOND BACON-MINETTI Ensemble Concert WILL TAKE PLACE Next Saturday... ..October 31, 1896, At 3 o'clock P. M., at the ASSOCIATION AUDITORIUM, 3 Y. M. C. A. Building, " Corner Mason and Ellis Streets. Soloist, Mme. Emilia_Toject!, Soprano. @, Minetei, Violinist. ! Admission 50c, R .....500 -$15, 810 and $5 00 erved Seat $1.00. )