The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1896, Page 28

28 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1896. Life is not all cakes and ale with actors and managers on the eve of a Presidential election. A manager took m.e into his confidence the other day and confessed the fact. He said he had frequently turned hundreds empty away from the doors of his theater when the ship of state wasnot heaving on the billows, “‘but,” he added, “I do not expect to do that again till the | announcements are out of McKinley’s en- gagement at the White Hous: He will have a four years’ prosperous run and peo- ple are thinking so much of this White House hooking that they have not time to pay attention to theaters.” The manager does not live with soul so dead as to say toa press representative *‘business is bad,” but my friend brought his burst of confidence to a crescendo by confessing that theelection had been play- ing the aged Harry with his box-office profits. ““Oh, I don’t say we are losing,” he remarked, with a haughty air of mana- gerial pride, “but what with political meetings and procedsions, hanging of flags and letting off firecrackers, people are not putting enough money into the.theaters to make us do a l!and-office business this week.” And with a chuckle of grim satisfaction, the manager added, “and I'm not the only one who says so.”” It is a matter for especial regret that such good srtists as the Tabers have come to us at election time. Many distinguished, actors and actresses have us on the list— the black list—but it would be a sightto make men and angels weep if America’s youngest and most gified tragedienne and America’s hope among actor-man- agers put a black cross against the name San Francisco, and made the vow “I'll never go there any more.”” Every night when I have seen the theater only mod- erately well filled this thought has lain heavy on my soul, and the other evening I made bold to seek out Mrs. Taber and ask her about it. With one of her sweet smiles—and they are even more sweet at close range—she replied, “Why, we have found the audiences here most sympa- thetic and appreciative: they are so quick $o understand and respond.” And there was a sincerity in Mrs. Taber's voice and face which meant 1t; none of the buncombe which artists so often give critics and public. Bless Mrs. Taber’s artistic soull I believe she would rather play to a haif- filled house that “‘understood” than to an overflowing one that was stupid. And in these election times, the people who at- tend Shakespeare are very devotees at the shrine of art. There was another point on which I wanted to catechise Mrs. Taber, and that was about her costume in ‘‘Twelith Night,”" for as you may have observed she has inaugurated a dress reform in that charming play. Instead of apvearing in the conventional doublet and hose she dresses her Viola in the Greek style affected by virates of Byronic notoriety, and the embroidered leggings, short kilted skirt and heavily brocaded jacket of velyet and gold have the merit of pic- turesqueness and are much more modest and natural withal than the doublet and hose. Gloss the fact over as you will, a woman in the Elizabethan style of page’s dress looks a woman still, and if she is mature and matronly looking she treads dangerously near the ridiculous in Viola’s role. “It is difficult to knew exactly how Shakespeare intended the part to be dressed,” said Mrs. Taber, with that earnestness which characterizes her atti- tude toward every detail of her work. “Viola is generally played in the Eliza- bethan doublet and hose, but the action of the story upon which Shakespeare based his play passes in Cypress, so I think this style of dress is just as likely to be historically correct as the other.” Is it not remarkable, the reverence with which Shakespearean students speak of “historical accuracy ?”” Shakespeare him- self made such reckless and willful anach- ronisms, sometimes apparently for the mere pleasure of making tnem. However, if there is a shred of ' robab lity for the Byrenic costume we ought to hail it with thankfulness and recommend it especially to tiose Violas who are older and es fair to look upon than Mrs. Taber. “A prophet is not withont honor,” ete., is as true of literature as of prophecy. There is Brev Harte, for instance. The further he gets from California.the more e is thought of, waich probably accounts for the rarity of his visits home, Of course I am making a horrid example of Bret Harte, apropos of ‘‘Tennessee’s Pardner.” The play has been f irly well attended, considering that this is the eve of election; but the delicacy of its charac- terization and the exquisite touches of human nature it contains do not seem to have been apjreciated at t eir full worth. Let me hasten to say that Scott Marble has given us the very atmosphere of Bret Harte, and all faithful adherents of the brilliant Western writer should be grate- ful to him for his success. : Jane Corcoran, as the littie Tennessee girl, whose sweetness and purity win the mining camp, gives as dainty a bit of eharacter acting as one could wish to see, d Harry Mainhall’s Caleb Swan, the “high-toned fair and square” gambler, is a regular page from Bret Harte. We, most of us, know Gewhiliker Hay, the broken- down old-timer, whose wife makes him wash dishes, and who tries to atone for his present humiliations by telling blood- curdling tales of *“When I crossed the plains “in ’49"’—the California woods are full of good-natured ‘“‘Gewhilikers,” though they are growing fewer by degrees, and will have disappeared from the earth before the next century is old. Iam very glad that Scott Marble has captured ‘‘Ge- whiliker’ before he became extinct. The false note in “Teonessee’s Pardner” is what the press agent calls ‘“Miss Estha Williams’ rare dramatic strength as Net- tie Bice.” Miss Willams seemns to have lavished too much of her time on the study of elocution. It is a bad habit for an actress to indulge in, and if pursued too long unfits her for anything but melo- drama. “Tennessee’s Pardner” is so touching and sincere that Nettie’s melo- dramatic despair grates upon its trath to nature. However, Nettie has plenty of applause from up aloft in spite of her elo- cuting, and she by no means mars the charm of a very delightiul and interest- ing play. Poor Hans Andersen! How hath thy name been taken in vain. Oace upona time—Andersen’s fairy stories begin in that way—he wrote a tale for children which adults read and said contained a fine moral. The hero of the tale wasan uncouth duckling, so much bigger and uglier than the rest ot his fluffy brood that the very duck who hatched him said he wasno child of hers. The poultrymaid xicked him, the chickens pecked him, ‘“‘because you are so ugly,” they said, and the poor little duckling, who at heart was craving for pity and sympathy, wandered out into the world to see if he could not find the love which was denied him at home. A hard time he had of it, ail be- cause of his ugliness, but one day the transformation scene came. From are- spectful distance the ugly duckling was admiring a flock of swans arching their proud necks and spreading their beautiful wings in the lake: “Alas, if I coula only be like those lovely creatures,” he re- flected humbly, and then he glanced into the lake. 'To his stupefaction the jmage reflected there was o longer uncouth and repulsive. Mirrored back was a beautiful swan, and it did not take the ugly duck- ling long to discover that he Lad never been a duckling atall. Only the stupidity of the creatures around him had pre- vented them from seeing that he wasa cygnet, endowed with all the glorious possibilities of swandom. It is quite another story that Paul Pot- ter and Telasco have told in their clever drama, ' The Ugly Dfickling.” The one polpt ¢ similarity is that the heroine’s own mother does not recogpize the glorious possibilities in the girl till the knowledge is forced uvon her. I thought I would mention this. So much has been said and written during the last two weeks about *‘the success at the Alcazar of Paul Potter’s dramatization of Hans Ander- sen’s story,’’ that I wanted to contribute my humble efforts toward preventing Hans Andersen. from performing the acrobatic feat of turning in his rave. Marte EVELYN, Greenroom Gossip. If play-acting people ever figured in the tracts where good little boys and girls get all the apples and candy, and bad little boys and girls monopolize the indigestion and whippings, a story told the other day in the greenroom by Miss Florence Bind- ley, the soubrette at. the Grand, would make a valuable contribution to theatrical tract literature. “My schooldays terminated in a very said Miss Bindley. %I was , and had become very fond of another iittle girl of my own age. One morning, when I ran to meet her, she drew away and said her mamia head told her not to talk tome ‘’cause I wasa show- actor.’” My heart was broken. [ ran home and cried out my sorrows in my mother’s arms, and after that did my studying at home.” Soon after “Baby” Bindley went to Europe, and even crowned heads bowed before her. Queen Victoria, who in the whoie of her 1mmaculate life has never turned up her nose at play-acting folk, sent for the “Baby,” and after hearing her ?Hurm gave her a valuable present. ‘ears passed, and it was not till last win- ter that Miss Bindley went back to her native town of Newark. story yesterday she said: “‘Somehow the wound of my childhood’s day was still fresh. I wondered where mv aristocratic little friend was, and even as I thought of her 1 stopped, because there, just on the opposite side of the street, sat a woman strangely like my plavmate’s mother. She was tending an apple-stand. Inquiries soon decidea the matter. She was my little friend’s once aristocratic mother. My chum, now a young woman of 23, was. I learned, dving of consump- tion. When I made myself known to them they both cried and beezged mv forgive- ness, for they, too, had remembered their thoughtless cruelty to the little show- ! actress girl.” ‘*Ana then?” But the last scene of all which ends this strange, eventful history, Miss Bindley was loath to describe. If you have read tracts you can imagine it. Don’t forget, though, that play-acting folk, take them all in all, are even more generous in giv- ing away theirsubstance than the conven- tional good little boys and girls of tract literature. The visit of the Czar to Paris bas caused a terrible breach between theartistsof the Grand Opera and those of the Comedie Francaise. At the gala performance of the opera Mmes. Reichemberg, Pierson, Dudlay and Beretta of the Comedie Fran- caise had been placed in a box and were sharing a good deal of the audience’s at- tention, when”an elderly gentleman ar- rived and amid a scene of protesiation de- manded the place, it having been ‘‘re- served” twice over. The eiderly gentle- man gained and for the expelled artisis were found places in various parts of the house. At the gala performance at the Comedie Francaise, which is said to bave been a much more attractive show, no invita- tions weré given to any member of the ogora, and the singers were so indignantat this slight that they have been airing their wees in the public press. On the whole the papers seem to side with the opera singers, who they say are entitled to guite as much consideration as the members of the Comedie. . The slight put upon the members of the Comedie Fran- caise at the opera is not discussed. For- eign correspodents who saw it with their own eyeo vouch for its truth, however. In teiling the 1 In the intervals of rehearsimg his new play, “The Daughters of Babylon,”’ at the Lyric Theater, London, Wilson Barrett slips into his dressing-rcom and puts stray balf hours of toil on “The Sign of the Cross,” which he is writing in novel form. Asadrama itwas a dismal fiasco in America, but on the other side of the water “The Sign of the Cross’’ has been given the glad hand to such an extent that Barrett bhas let himself be persuaded into writing it as a novel. In addition to mak- ing a book out of his play the actor-man- ager is also making a fortune out of it. Beerbohm Tree has been expressing bimself on the subject of the decline of the drama, which he says is due to “‘the epidemic of late dining.” “Is it possible that Mr. Tree thinks andiences must be starved into appreciating the ‘‘legitimate’ or that his Hamlet is likely 1o be enjoyed by the hungry theater-goer? Baldwin Theater. , To-morrow evening Julia Marlowe Taber and Robert Taber will begin the third and concluding week of their engagement at the Buldwin Theater, presenting the double bill, ““Chatterton,”” a one-act drama written by Ernest Lacy of Philadelphia for Mrs. Taber three years ago, and Sheridan Knowles' famous old comedy, “The Love Chase.” Lacy’s play deals with the last hours in the fitful life of the unfortunate boy poet. Julia Mariowe Taber’s portrayal of Chatterton is said to be marked by great strength as well as exquisite delicacy. “Chatterton’’ and “The Love Chase” will be given on Monday and Thursday nizhts. Della Foxand her comic opera organiza- tiomrcome to the Baldwin Theater for a two | weeks' engagement., commencing Mon- | day, November 9. The company will be seen in “The Little Trooper” and “Fleur de Lis.” The opening opera is to be “The Litule Trooper,” the story of which is de- rived from a French original. Grand Opera-House. Victory Bateman returns to the Grand to-morrow evening as Mary Miller in ‘Drifting Apart,” a domestic drama, by Captain James A. Herne. This will be the first of a series of similar productions, “Drifting Apart” is unique among sen- sational dramas, in that it has no villain. It is said to be & picture of real life, but how blissful wouid real life be if it were bereft of villains! The simple characters of a Massachu- setts fisher village form the subjects. There are to be many striking scenic and me- chanical effects. In the first act a vessel comes into Gloucester harbor and drops anchor. A storm rises and a bolt of light- ning strikes tne ship and sets her ufire, The cast of “Drifting Apart” will be Vic- tory Bat-man, Howard Kyle, Walter Feisler, Lottie Williams, Edward Heron, Juiia Bianc, Frank Hatch, Mortimer Snow, George Nichols. Golumbia Theater. The second and finai week of the en gagement of the sparkling comedy-drama *‘Tennessee’s Pardner,” begins Monday night at the Columbia. The play aeals with the exciting events of the early days of the gold excitement in Nevada, The story is yrobable and decidedly original. The Corinne Extravaganza Company, numbering sixty peopie, headed by the ‘““Peerless’” Corinne, will present the up- to-date and second edition of Frazier & Gull’s operatic extravagauza, ‘‘Henarick Hudson Jr.,”” at the Col bia Theater after “‘Tennessee’s Pardner.” The scenery is rendered striking by ries of ingeni- ous transformations. At the Tivoli. This week will see the last nights of Ferris Hartman’s musical extravaganza | with its wealth of songs, dances and merry fun at the Tivoli Operashouse. In the second edition many new features are in- troduced, one of which is the Grand Opera quartet. New songs, dances and “evolu- > TAIND ¥ - e A tions in the march haye also found equal favor. Next Thursday evening a compli- mentary testimonial will be tendered to Mr. Hariman by nis many friends and admirers, when, in addition to a complete production of “The Babes in the Wood,”” many volunteers will participate. After the run of ‘‘The Babes in the Wood” Strauss’ romantic comic opers, “The Gypsy Baron,” will be given. At the Orpheum. The star attraction of the new people at the Orpheum for this week is likely to be Mlle. Amanda d’Ausiralie, the Austra- lian prima donna. She is a singer of reputation in her native ldnd, and has been brought to San Francisco by Gustav Walter to make her American debut. If Mile. d’ Australie comes up to her reputa- tiop in the Antipodes she will make some- thing of a sensation here. The Quaker City Quartet are also on the new bill. They are said to be among the very best of American quartets. Howard and Bland form a team with a texdency to comedy. The three brothers Horn, assisted by Miss Joe Reeves, remain, so do Herr Grais and his trained baboon and donkey. Mays and Hunter, the clever banjoists, will ap- pear it a new repertoire. Clayton, Jen- kins and Jasper areon the bill and oth- ers. The full company will appear at {the Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday mati- nees. The Alcazar. “Love on Crutches,” Augustin Daly’s comedy success from the German,will take the place of *The Ugly Duckling” at the Alcazar to-morrow evening. The situa- tions are amusing and the piece has a snap and dash about it that will put the Alcazar company on its mettle. Beatrice Lieb will make her reappear- ance as Annis Austin, Ada Rehan’s crea- tion, John T. Sullivan will be Sidney Austin, and the rest of the cast will in- clude J. B. Polk, Gordon Foster, Frank Doane, Charies' Bryant, Mrs. F. M. Bates, May Buckley and Hattie Foley. Two new scenes have been painted for the produc- tion and every attention possible will be paid to the staging. The Chutes. *‘Arion”” has been amazing thousands during the pleasant evenings by his dar- ing and spectacular rideson a bicycle over a live trolley wire-at the Chutes. He will ive a special exhibition on the high wire this alternoon. A roller skating rink is the latest at traction that the Chute managenient has to offer and i1 will open to-day. The floor is of Michigan maple and the skates are Raymon | ball-bearings. The appoint- ments are perfect and everything possible for the convenience of the accomplished skater has been provided. Zeisler Goncert. The following programme will be per- formed at Mme. Fannie Bloomfield Zeis- ler’s concert in Metropolitan Temple on the 10th inst.: Toreata and Fugue, D minor (transcribea by Tausig), Bach; Minuet:, E flat major, Bee- thoven; Bagatelie, Op. 119, No. 2, Beethoven; Chorus of Dervishes (transcribed by Saint Saens), Turkish March (trans ribed by Rubin- stein), from the “Ruips of Athens,’ Beo- thoven; Etudes symphoniques, Op. 12, Schu- mann; Impromptu, Op. 36, Chopin; Valse, Op. 64, No. 1, Chopin; Gondoliera, Op. 41, Moskowski; Rhapsodie, No. 12, Liszt. Popular Goncert. On Sunday night, November 8, at the Baldwin Theater, a popular operati¢ and orchestral concert, under the direction of Gustave Hinrichs and Sigmund Beel, will be given, the programme for which is as follows: Coronation March from the “Folkunger,” Kretschman; overture, “Tanmhauser,” Wag- ner; air from Suite in D, Bach; Suite Arle- sienne, Bizet; ballet music, ‘“‘Lakme,” Leo Delibes; Fanfare Militaire, Asher. The vocahists will be Mme. Belloni-Zif- ferer and Willis E. Backellor. . Garr-Putnam Recital. Miss Elizabeth Putnam, with Mrs. Car- michael Carr as pianiste, will give two song recitals at Bee:hoven Hall on Friday evening, November 6, at 8:15 o’clock, and og:u Slk.nrd.y afternoon, November 21, at § o'clocl It Defies Gravitation. The flying ballet, which has aroused so much inierest in Parisand London, as well as at Hammerstein’s Olympis, will ‘be introduced to San Francisco theater-goers by “The Brownies.” 5 It is introduced in the third act of the extravaganza, just before the transforma- tion scene. The stage is suddenly dark- ened, and immediately after, to the com- plete astonishment of the spectators, fairies are discovered flying about through the air in all directions, withour visible means of support. The most wohderful vart of it is that while performing their flichts to and fro they are transformed into birds, beetles and butterflies of \the most ¥orgeouu hues, which appear to defy ail laws of gravitation. As in the serpentine dance, bewildering colors are thrown upon these young women, and when the stars and stripes are reflected upun the aerial dancers as a finale the enthusiasin of the aualence always breaks forth. Miss Yaw Goming. W. B. Edminster, who a few months ago married the blind contralte, Miss Estrelia Belinfante, in this City, writes to say that he is bringing Miss Eilen Beach Yaw, the Los Angeles singer, to the coast, under the auspices of Major James B. Pond. TItis expected that the first concert here will be given about November 28. This is the third time that Miss Yaw has been announced, and lovers of high notes, who are curious to hear her, can derive comfort from the fact that the third time is generally the lucky one. Nina La Blonde. A startling play by Alexanare Fontanes, based on student life in the Latin Quarter, is arousing great interest in Paris just now. “Nina la Blonde" gives a very dif- ferent picture of the Quarter from that contained in “Trilby,’’ however. The cen- tral characters Keep moderately sober, but allround them people shout and brawl and get intoxicated. There are tableaux of student life full of breezy movement, but the students drink bocks of beer and beat them on the tables for more; they sing diabolic refrains and organize reck- less improvised dances, and everything is much alive and animated, though a trifle coarse. It is the sort of life one sees at the Chateau d’Eau. The blonde-haired Nina, the heroine of Alexandre Fontanes' play, is a sort of Latin quarter Dame aux Camelias. Alex- anare Dumas’ heroine became a little gri- sette. Under the influence of her love for Georges, one of the beer-drinking stu- dents, Nina becomes a model of all the virtues. But Henri, another.student, is also fascinated with Nina. One day he calls upon herand tries to obtain by force the kiss that she refuses him, he flings his arm round her neck, with an embrace sp vielent that he breaks it, and Nina falls back, motionless, dead. Henri is seized with terror. No one has seen him enter—he escapes without be- ing seen. A few minutes later Georges comes. He hasdrunk a_good deal at the brasserie, in fact he is a little intoxicated, Outside in the street, he has encountered two footpads, who tried to hold him up, and his face is bruised and his hands aré scratched. _ You can guess what happens. Georges is mistaken for the assassin. Everything accuses him, and when the trial comes on he seems sure of goingto the guillotine. The Public Prosecutor is Henri’s father. One day his son appears before him, hag- gard and disheveled. ‘‘Georges is inno- cent: I know it,”” he exclaims. ‘“How do you know?” asks his father, sterniy. There 1s a terrible pause, and Henri flings himself weeping at his father’s feet. The Prosecuting Attorney divines the truth, and with Brutus-like fortitude he says: “In that case the best thinz you can do is to give yourself up to justice.” To say the least of it, “Nina la Blonde” is a startiing play, and no doubt will be done into English before long. A revised and expunged edition will bave to be issuec before it meets the taste of the American public, however. Dramatic Brevities. Mme. Elenora Duse is to spend at least part of the coming season at St. Petersburg and Moscow. Olga Nethersole's piece de resistance this season will be Joseph Hatton’s ‘“When Greex Meets Greek.” A new romantic drama in four acts by George R. Sims will be produced this winter in America by the Miner syndicate. One of Amelie Rives’ tales, “Virginia of Virginia,” is to be dramatized. Minnie Mad- dern Fiske will take the leading character. “The Wishing Cup,” by Elwyn Barrow of America and Witson Barrett of England, will obably be produced by Charles Hawtry in naon. Lilly Post studied Hungarian music in London during her season there with Daly. She will render the gypsy song in the *“Gypsy Baron” in true Magyar style. Great preparations are going on at the Tivoli for the Christmas piece. - An aerial ballet, an electrical iliusion, a jeweled march and a transformation scene will be features. “Angelice, the Circus Queen,” a circo- grcrt. will shortly be presented st the Tivoli. iss Beabrooke is already practicing bareback riding for her entrance in the last act. Still another Japanese piece! This time it is not an opera, however, but a play, “Les Yeux Clos” (closed eyes), which Michel Carre fils bas writien, and the Paris Odeon has accep'ed. Wilton Lackaye’s tour will commence on Monday, November 9. The lates: addition to the new star’s compa iy is that of Joseph Allen, the unctuous comedian, lately with the Froh- man forces. Vaudeville and music halls have been de- ciared demoralizing to the youth of Sweden and the Government has prohibited them hencefortn. Orchestral concerts are to take their places. “‘Darkest Russia,” which will be seen at the California Theater next week, commencing November_9, revolves around the political system of Russia, and shows the peculiar laws which govern the land. Oscar Hammerstein is going to give what he calls a “bal champetre” at the Olympia after the vaudeville show is over. The floor is to be cleared and dancing is to be in order. This is an attempt at being vory Parisian. While Mr. de Koveu has not reached in “The Mandarin” the qualities attained in “Robin Hood,” he has succeeded in accom- plishing just what he started out to do—write &n opera for the ears of the masses. “My Friend From India,” one of ‘he most successful of the new plays produced in New York this fall, was written by a man who for thirty-one years has been licking out tele- inpn messages. Hisname is Du Suchetand e is 54 years of age. Boston is moving in the abolition of obstruc- tive hats in theaters. One manager sends an usher to every offending woman just before the rise of the curtain to ask her to remove the nuisance, and in nearly every case she com- plies without much ado. The bill-posters of rival thesters 11 Louis ville had a hard figh' for pessession of a fence and, muflmnn; one :‘nlolher'bcdly, they mprom: upon & division of th 1 Then the omrpzl \he premises enm.e ?I;?: and forbade the defacement of his Property atall, The eighth public performance will be given by the Dramatic School at the Columbia Theater on Thursday afternoon, November 5. for The"Srudenies il be. s petPecially » ive production. Much interest u'bel;‘; Aol manj- fested by the friends of George S. Whetiy, who plays *A Knight of the Lost Cause,” which will be presented on that occasion. curls, which receivesaimost as mucH attention as her own golden topknot. 3 “Now, wha ever have you in that basket?” a suspicious conductor asked Ler. bkt & bird,” said Delia, “as I live it! Mapleson states thui Mme. Darclee, who made her appearance on Wednesday at the Academy of Musie in “Traviata,’ is a member of a family prominent atthe Imperial Court at St. Petersburg and that she adopted the stage after her family had met with a reverse of fortune. It now appears, from Liie press agent’s state- ment, that Archibald Clavering Gnnt;r was for the failure of “A Florida En- 5;3':;52 » at Hoyt’s Theater. He had a dramatization of his latest novel, “‘Her Senator,” up his sleeve, all ready to spring on the public. Della Fox’s dog is as dear almost as her dia- The critic of a little paper in Hungary has hit upon a way, at once humorous and grew- some, of deciding who wrote Shakespeare’s, piays. He says: ‘‘Historlans and literar! are not ot uecord upon the question of whether it Wwas Shakespeare or Bacon who wrote the plays f Shakespeure. The troop of actors who have been plaving ‘King Lear’ in this town have essentialy contributed to bring light to the controversy, for, aiter their first periorance gi King Léar,” the veritabie author of the Tame must have turued in his grave. All that is now necessary is 10 open the sarcoph- agl of the (wo ) monds and its transportion s even more Aif- | ighud placidly g T b pen’ "0 12 cult to manage. It is & fluffy bit of white ' Wrote ‘King Lear. e ——————————————————————————————————————————————— NEW TO-DAYAMUSEMENTS, YORK OFFICE 42 W, 307 STREET. éAN FRANCISCO- C;_AL, ESTAB. 1887. [0S ANGELES CAL. esms. 1834 pEW WALTER. GUSTAV D1>=cTOR GEngrAL. O'Farrell St., bet. Stockton and Powell. SAN FRANCISCO’S GREAT MUSIC HALL. YWeelsx Commencing Monday, WNovw, a, By Special Wire. ELECTION RETURNS Erom the o ELECTION RETURBNS W.U. T. Go, 1li be Announced From the Stage’ During the Performance and In the Annex Atierward . Tpto2 A M. ' — Unapproachable Array of Talent!— Greatest Comedy Biil Ever Seen in This City ! 32-GREAT VAUDEVILLE STARS 1-32 SEE THIS GREAT BILL! ———AMERICAN DEBUT OF- MLLE. AMANDA D’AUSTRALIE “THE SONG-BIRD OF MELBOURNE.” Direct From the Antipodes, the Famous Prima Donna Soprano and Piano Soloist. -America’s Premiers- THE QUAKER CITY QUARTETTE, THE ORIGINAL MUSICAL BLACKSMITHS. The Refined Comedy Sketch Artists, HOWARD AND BI.AINND, EISalie DML OHSHl Crestion, TH B SURSIAND THEE IR evs N — o DETROIT BROS., MAYS &« EEIUNTER, Wor.d-renowneé European Noveity and Acrobatic The World’'s Greatest Banjoisis. S e L L s SR Sl SN e HERR GRAIS, l NELSON, GLINSERETTI AND DEM Jntroducing his wondertul trick donkey and haboon Amirlgffs Grotesque C 9!1}1110\9.!4 " "CLAYTON, JENKINS AND JASPER, LDORA AND NORINE, Premier Equilibrists and Jugglers. America’s Grestest Comedy Siars, “A Hube's Circns.” The Talk of Assisted by the Gity.. THE THREE BROS. HORN, s A0n REEVES, In Their Graphic Portrayal of London Life and Funn: Boxiug Bout. INAES ANams L ARKIOLL MEX.CAY ORCHISTRA, MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), NOV. 1. COL! AND WAY and ILER, BURKE d BELMAR. e A sy vac. b Buicony. anv seat.10c: Children 10c: any nart To-Morrow (MONDAY) -- Nov. 2, b NAYMSN B]\!.DWI wee | LasT WEEK! HEATRE S\ PROPS. Brilliant Repertory. Julia Marlows Taber &2 Robert Taber, WITH THEIR OWN COMPANY. THEODORE BROMLEY, MANAGER. UNIQU E DOUBLE BILL—First time here of Ernest Lacy’s one-act drama, (Julia Mariowe-Taber as Chatterton). THE LO‘V E CH‘&bb} And revival of Kuowles' charming old comedy, Last time | FRIDAY AND SATURDAY GHTS AND SATURDAY MATINEE, Farewell periormances—The beautiful presenta- {DNESDAY EVENING = = N XS YOU LIKE TT. “ROMEO AND JULIET!” SUNDAY, NOV. s—Hinrichs-Beel Popular Operatic and Orchestral Concert. 50¢, d4's1. 5 e X % OY, SobELLA FOX anil hersuperb comic opera organtzation, presenting “THE R LITTLE TROO! i 3 CALIFORNIA THEATER, Nov, 9—Grand Scenic Production, *‘DARKEST RUSSIA.’’ A MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO, Sols Lessse and Mauags: MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS. TUESDAY EVENING.... ¥ “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.”’ ..Last time LAST PERFORMAXNCES OF Farewell of FLORENCE BINDLEY. Commencing Monday., November 2. Reappearance of the Talented Emotional Actress, VICTORY BATENMAIN, In Captain James A. Herne's Great Domestic Drama, “DRIFTING APART!” A PLAY WITH A MOBAL——— Laughter and Tears! Tears and Laughter! Beautiful Sceneryl Wonderful Mechanical Effects!——A Splendid Cast! EVENING PRICES—10¢, 25¢ and 50c. MA "INEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE CHUTES. {eaman = Open To-Day from 10 A. M. to 11 P. M, BELASCO, DOANE & JORDAN. Lessees & Managers. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING! ARION ' L] Last Periormances of Will ridea bicycle over a live trolley wire in & ““THE UBLY DUCKLING!™ |ym,uwes o st moner ot oo MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 3, A Perfect Production of Augustin Daly’s Greatest Comedy, LOVE ON CRUTCHES! Cast to the Full Strength of Onr CLEVER COMPANY OF COMEDIANS. ALCAZAR’'S ATTRACTIVE PRICES: Night—15c, 25¢, 35¢, 50c. Matinees: 15¢, 25¢ and 35c¢. Special Performance This Afternoon TO-DAY! TO-DAY! GRAND OPENING OF OUR MAMMOTH - SKATING - RINK ! Pertect in Every Appointment ! Dont fall to see the $3000 PRIZE SORMER GOLD P1ANO, with Electrical Attachment. Admission—Adults 10c, Children 5e. FOUR RECITALS ONLY, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. . METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, ' Tuesday Evening, Nov. 10, 4 Thursday Afternoon, Nov. 12, 'FRIEDLAMIER.GOTTLOB & ro- 163525 AD MAMAGLRS -~ Saturday Afternoon, Nov. 14, EVERYBODY CHARMED — W ITH — “TENNESSEE'S PARDNER !” it s S U Suggested by Br-t Harte’s £xquisite Romance of Laughter and Tears, THE GOLDEN NUGG:T QUARTET. Picturesque Costumes. Aporopriate Scenery. A Complete Production by a High.class ‘ompany. Nevember9........... . Peerless ORINNE. IN HER GREAT BURLESQUE *“HENDRICK HUDSON JR.” —LAST RECITAL— Monday Evening, November 16. Sale of seats begins at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, 139 Kearny street, Next Thursday Morning at ® o’Clock “She has divided the highest honors of the con. cert.room only with Paderewskl."—N. Y. Tribune. FIRST Anniversary "eap Year —BATT— Given by Members' Ladfes OF TH: = Norddentseher Verein Saturday, Nov. 7, 1896, At Saratoga Hal, 814 Geary Admissi n, Ladies 500 Payavle at the door. Gents escortea by ladies fres Gents without Lady Escort 0 Cents. S PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB ( NGLESIDE TRACK), COMMENCING OCTOBER 28, FIRST RACE AT 2 P. M. The only Perfect Winter Racetrack in Amer Five or More Races Daily, Rain or Shine. ADMISSION oo, TIVOL! OPERA-HOUSS MBS ERNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Maaage: TO-NIGHT— THE FEAST OF FUN AND FROLIC Ferris Hartman’s Musical Extravaganza, “THE BABES IN THE WOOD!” —NOW IN ITS *ECOND EDITION— New Songs !——New Dancest New Specialties! . HEAR HEAR— THE GRAND OPERA QUARTET., —— MIRTH — HU.SIC —— DANCE —— Next Opera—“THE GYPSY BARON.” Fopular Pric=s—25c and 50a. SUTRO BATHS. Open ly from 7 A. M. to 1. . M. oobmDT e A N e e N Admission—Adults 10¢, Children e. ..$1.00. Take Soucthern Pacific trainy at Third and Townseud -gs. depot, leaving at 1:15 p. . Taxe Mission-st. electric line alrect to Lrack, A. B SPRECKELS, President. W. S. LEAKE, Secretary, THE CAPTAIN’S MATE! ; \ A o