The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1896, Page 28

FRANCISCO OALL, SUwpAY, DECEMBER 6, 1896. *The play’s the thing,” not only, as Hamlet remarks, “‘to catch the conscience of the King, ” but also to catch the elusive dollar of the fickle theater-goer. Wilton Lackaye has just given us a strik- ing proof of this. reaped a golden harvest as Svengaliin “Trilby.”” His success enamored him of bypnotism, and last week he appeared at the Baldwin as a star in “‘Dr. Belgraff,” a play by Charles Klein, based on hyp- notism. The company was better than Palmer’s ““Trilby” Company, and Lackaye gave a magnificent character study of the hypnotist, but the play |—aye, there’s the rub—the play made the fickle theater-goer take some of his dollars elsewhere. The shortcoming in “Dr. Belgraff” is its unpardonable lack of ro- mance. People may be fickle, common- place and bordid in real life, but it is com- mercially unwise, as well as dramatically immoral, to represent them all as being so on the stage. Charles Klein's play is as sordid as a chapter out of the Police Gazette, and as destitute of any spark of romance. Dr. Belgraff, a country apothecary, 1s so wrapped up in chemical experiments as to be blind to the fact that his frivolous sis- ter has fallen & victim to one of the most blackguardly baronets that ever trod the stage, and baronets in the drama are gen- erally steeped 1n vice. Yor a long time he| ness, and to people who like the morbid satisfaction of getting cold chills “Dr. Bel- graff’’ must have been a great treat. I think, though, that most of us are of a gayer disposition than Mr. Klein and Mr. Lackaye give us credit for. Villainy and brutality do not repel us on the stace when they are used as foils to virtue and heroism, but why should we pay our hard- earned dollars to sit under a pall of gloom, unrelieved by a ray of heroism, unrelieved by a hero to applaud or even a heroine to weep for? In his eagerness to give Lackaye a great role Cnarles Klein 'has tried to make him the hero and the villain rolled into one, and the result is something that is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. Bal- graff’s one weak effort at heroism is when in the dawning consciousness of his love for Agnes he advises her to elope with her lover. But no sooner dues he find that her departure will jeopardize his own safety than he thinks better of his mo- mentary unselfishness and acts with as sharp an eve to the well-being of No. 1as the most vulgar criminal could do. In real life we might feel a contemptuous pity for the poor wretch, but on the stage we have no use fora hero whose heart is not in the ri-ht place. Asa villain Belgraff is lacking in daring and resource. What self-respecting villain would let himself be foiled by a fat, self-complacent village The apothecary’s | policeman? “Because murder ain’t my game”—Scene in “ Cotton King” at the Columbia. shop seems to be the rendezvous for the aristocracy of the neighborhood, who walk in and out promiscuously without buying anything, which perhaps accounts for Bel- graff’s straitened circumstances. Sir Geoffrey Langham has long scenes with Miss Belgraff in the shop without being disturbed by customers or arousing the suspicions of the household. This phil- andering is put a stop to by a young squire, who is in love with Agnes Lang- ham, Bir Geoffrey’s sister. The enter- prising youth divulges the true state of affairs to Belgraff, and almost simul- taneously with his vow of vengeance the apothecary discovers that he can sway Miss Langham as he wills through his power to hy pnotize her. After these discoveries matters go on briskly. Dr. Belgraff murders Sir Geoffrey and Agnes is a witness to the crime. No one else seems to suspect the doctor, and dressed up in his best clothes he takes up his abode at Langham Hall as tne ac- knowledged fiance of Agnes, who gives all the outward and visible signs of insanity. The idiotic family practitioner jovially ac- quiesces in the matrimonial arrangements, in spite of the fact that Dr. Belgraff is consuming enough whisky (presumably an asset of the murdered baronet) to jus- tify any friend of Miss Langham’s in for- bidding the banns. But the sacrifice is about to be consummated when the vil- lage policeman, the only entirely sane character in the play, takes a hand in the course of events. This astute limb of the law make - it his business to bring a cele- brated alienist from London, and the vis- itor finds our at a glance that Agnes is not mad, but hypnotized. She1s at once Marie Wainwright in “ Moliere ” at the Baldwin. removed from the presence of Belgraff and tells the true story of the murder to an organ accompaniment. Finding that the game is up Belgraff takes poison, and the last scene of all, which ends this strange, eventful history, shows Agnes falling into the arms of her lover, who, although accused of Sir Geoffrey’s mur- der, is roaming apout at large. The audience is sent home with the distressing knowledge that Miss Langham s about to be married instead of being placed in an asylum for the feeble-minded, where she undoubtedly belongs. The fears for her future are not allayed by the recollection of portentous remarks uttered by Belgraff about the law of hered- ity and the sips of the father being visited on the children. Miss Langham’s father had erred and strayed from the narrow path, and his shortcomings had oeen visited op bis daughter in the shape of mental weakness. This is the story in all its native hideous- As for Agnes, the girl whom Belgraff controls hypnotically, she is given no op- portunity of showing that she possesses either a mind or a heart, and her utter mental flabbiness arouses only shocked surprise and a creepy feeling of disgust. Miss Marie Wainwright has a thankless task in her puppet-like role. Its one oppor- tunity lay in the expression of horror, nd of that she took such good advantage with her cold, stony glare and white, petri- | fied face that she actually aroused a re- sponsive shudder. The most sympathetic of characters, and that is not saying much for him, is Agnes’ lover, a manly, commonplace young fellow, who does nothing to arouse especial interest, except on the strength of the proverb which says that all the world loves a lover. The rest of the dramatis persons are cast in such an unhercic mold that no one cares much what becomes of them. Even the comic errand-Boy is selfish and his affections have not the sticking-plaster consistency for the comic maia which arouses the admiration of the gallery for the normal stage errand-boy. In short, despite their excellent char- acter drawing, Wilton Lackaye and hLis gifted company are placed, for lack of sympathetic material; in the position of the Israelites when called upon to make bricks without straw. The mistake Iay in believing that a weird story and the artistic rendering of sordid characters were sufficient of them- selves to arouse public enthusiasm. Rouzh hew them as you will, though, the ends of the dramatist are to appeal to the heart or the risibilities of his audience. 1f he pipe the audience will dance (metaphor- ically speaking), and if he mourn it will lament, but let him brin : out the scalpel and the stethoscope for cold analysis and the audience— Ah! whereisit? Gone to hesr rival dramatists, of course. Ibsen and other morbid gentlemen have tried spreading out grewsome dramatic feasts, but the paying public has never been tempted to their board. Charles Kliein has now shown us that without something romantic to fire the heart and the imagi- nation even a fascinating study in hyp- notism cannot make a successful play. Just across the way from the Baldwin Joseph Grismer gave his ideas of a hero, at the Columbia, in a part he had avritten to order for himself, aided and abetted by Clay M. Greene, and a rich, ripe, luscious feast of mnoble deeds he made of it. Captain Ford could have fed Dr. Belgraff with the crumbs of good deeds that fell from his table—aye! a dozen such, so bountifully was his measure pressed down and running over with all the virtues in the calendar. Captain Ford was honest, manly and noble; he unselfishly thou:ht of the heroine before he dreamed of think- ing of himself; when foully provoked he bore taunts rather than forget that he was a gentleman, and he had the courage to stay and face the tortures of a prison when urged to seek safety in flight. Cold words cannot convey any true idea of Captamn Ford’s noble deeds, for Joseph Grismer has played many parts in his time—heroic parte—and he has made Captain Ford a conglomeration of the heroic qualities to be found in all of them. It was the old and the new—Grismer showing the antique hero of melodrama, all virtue and eléry, and Lackaye giving usa modern character study, as unsoftened by romance as the dissecting-room is. ‘What we wanted was a_happy medium between ihe two. Marie EvELYN. Green Room Gossip. ‘When Thomas W. Keene mid-&: last trip to England he visited BoswoAth field and determined to bring back his friends a peculiar souvenir—a Richard 111 variety of potatoes. 8o he bought a bushel of the “murphies’’ that had grown on that historical battie-ground and had them sent tohim, He had a lot of trouble to get them safely over to this country, but they arrived just before he started out for his annual tour, and he took them to his Castleton Corners home, and had them safely bestowed in a dry corner of the cellar, to be kept for planting in the spring. One day the servant ran across these potatoes and found that they had begun to sprout. “It's too bad to let these potatoes be spoiling here in the cellar all winter,” she said, and she carefully brushed away the swelling “‘eyes’’ and took them up to the pantry. Mrs. Keene had been on a visit to her husband when this happel.ned and she returned home about the time the last of the Bosworth field beauties had gone into the pot. ‘‘Where did you get these potatoes?'’ she asked the f"li they are nice large ones.” ‘‘In the cellar, ma’am.” *In thecellar? I-didn’'t know that we -had any potatoes in the cellar.” Then she remembered that Tom had asked her to look particularly at his “‘Richard III” tubers and see that they were keeping well, and she huriied down to investigate. The sack was empty. ““‘Annie,” she said, solemnly, to the girl, “you have fed the family well. Those potatoes cost Mr. Keene $250 each. Did they taste any better than those you bought at the grocer’s for 10 cents a peck ?’’ Thatcher, the minstrel at the Orpheum, was telling a story on Alf Hampton of the Lackaye company, the other day, which he says is true, because he was present when it happened. Hampton so strongly resembles Nat Goodwin that he is often called ‘“Goodwin’s double,” and on the strength of this likeness he has given public imitations of Goodwin in his various parts. Some time ago both great men happened to be playing in the same town and Good- win managed to get off from a matinee performance to see Hampton impersonate him in *‘A Gilded Fool.” Hampton’s turn came on and Goodwin from a stage box watched it with such deep interest that Hampton ‘felt convinced he had made a deep impression. Both actors met outside the theater when the show was over, and Hampton asked eagerly, “Well, Goodwin, what do you think of it ?”” “Well,”” replied Goodwin, in his lei- surely way, “'if that is an impersonation of my acting, all I can say is, that one of us is no good.”” Baldwin Theater. From all accounts Wilton Lackaye will offer a fine bill at the Baldwin Theater to- morrow night when ne will produce for the first time on any stage the comedy “‘Captain Bob” and the one-act drama “Moliere” for the first time in America. The latter play was presented in England by George Alexander, and is said to have achieved a prominent success. It is from the pen of Walter Frith, son of the Frith who is the celebrated Royal Academy painter. ‘“Motiere’” 1s founded on the last hours of the comedy genius and illustrates the manner in which t.e famous man be- came reconciled to his wife, from whom he had been estranged, just before he died. “Captain Bob” is in three acts and is the work of Robert Drouet, an actor and piay- wright. Lackaye will appear in the title role. The next attraction at the Baldwin Theater will be the spectacular production of *‘Palmer Cox’s Brownies.” - Columbia Theater. To-night “The New South” will be given for the last time at the Columbia Theater, and to-morrow evening Joseph Grismer and Phosbe Davies will presemt by George Osbourne and Hugo Toland, both favorites in this City. The restof the cast will include: J. B. Polk as Colonel Moberly, Jobn Armstrong, Gordon Foster, Francis Powers, B. Clayton, J. Harry Benrimo, Beatrice Lieb, Mrs. F. M. Bates, May Buckley and Maude Hines. Ali the scenes will be new and there will be a colored quartet. Tivoli Opera-House. This week Offenbach’s “Brigands” will be revived with picturesque scenery, etc., by the excefent stock company. The leading roles will be played by Lilly Post, Elvia Crox Seabrooke, Bernice Holmes, Anna Schnabel, Rhys Thomas, Ferris Hartman, W. H. West, Maurice Darcy, John J. Raffael, W. H. Tooker and Fred Kavannagh, The run of the ‘‘Brigands” will be limited to one week, after which Balfe's ever-popular opera, ‘‘The Bohemian Girl,” will be sung for a few nights, in order to {fully prepare for the Christmas spectacle of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” a holiday production filled with song, dance, mirth, specialties, ballets, skits upon the latest fads and current events. It is said that the scenery, costumes, etc., will be gor- geous, and’ the cast will include the full H. Toland at the Alcazar. strencth of the company with the addi- tion of several new specialty artists. At the Orpheum. Five new acts are announced at the Orpheum for this week. Jean Clermont’s trained animals ought to be a drawing- card. The piano-playing poodle has been a New York sensation for the past few weeks, and San Francisco is the second city in the country to see it. Another new act is that by Galleti’'s monkey comedians. Cushman and Holcomb, formerly oper- atic stars. are now doing the vaudeville houses and will appear in an operatic and character sketch. The three Dunbar sis- ters are said to be clever dancing sou- brettes. Kaoly is an acrobat with a great reputation in Europe and some clever work is expected from him. Thatcher and Marbte have a new sketch. Tnis will be their last week, also that of Langslow and Ellen Vetter. Stuart has new songs. The Romalo brothers remain. At the Chutes. The Chutes offers a stron« list of attrac- tions to-day. At 2 o'clock Arion will carry Emil Markebur - on his back overa wire 100 feet above the lake, and at half- past 2 there will be another potato race, the sport so successfully inaugurated last Sundav. At4o’clock and at half-past 9 Bob Fitzsimmons will give ulustrations of his “Sharkey knock-out blow,” his sub- jectsbeing Jack Steuzler and Dan Hickey, who will each spar with him for three rounds. At half-rast 4 Markeburg will make a balloon ascension and parachute drop, and both afternoon and evening Pirri will coast down the chutes on his bicycle. The Yaw Goncert. At the Baldwin Theater on Monday nignt, the 14th inst., the ppenomenal so- The Dunbar Sisters at the Orpheum. “The Cotton King,”’ one of Brady’s melo- dramas. The most realistic scene in the play is saia to be that which shows the Ashton Mills, with the calico spinning machinery in full operation. The story is said to be full of interest and sentiment. Joseph R. Grismer on this occasion will essay a character role, that of James Shil- linglaw, an engine-driver. It will be quite a departure from the parts he has played recently. John T. Sullivan has been specially engaged to play the part of Jack Osborne, Edward Heron_for Benja- min Tupper. Miss Nellie Harrington, who has been brought from New York City, will play the part of Kitty Mansfield. Grand Opera-House. “The Promised Land,’”” a’ melodrama of the “Wild West,” will be playeda this week at Morosco’s. It is a successful play written by the author of “Ranch 10” and other dramas of equal excellence, and its story wears the garment of most of the emotions. Victory Bateman will play the frank, breezy Western girl, who is loved by the owner of the Fire Fly ranch, How- ard Kyle. Her brother, a part filled by Mortimer Snow, comes to her under an assumed name, fleeing from an unde- served disgrace, and the suspicions aroused by his advent arouse the wrath of a band of White Caps. Lottie Williams and Josephine Gassman, who have been spe- cially engagea for this production, have attractive light comedy roles. Leslie Morosco, Frank Hatch and George Nicholls are 2lso in the cast. The play has some novel electric and scenic effects. Alcazar Theater. After a successful run of two weeks “The End of the Century” wili be with- drawn to-morrow evening to make way for “Alabama,” a story of the South by Augustus Thomas, which, it is stated, will be produced on a scale exceeding any- thing yet done by the present Alcazar management. The stock company will be -ngmcnudl vrano, Ellen Beach Yaw, %ill appear. Her voice is a phenomenal one, as it ex- tends over nearly four octaves, from G be- low E in alt. History records only one other singer approaching such a ranee, Lucrezia Agujari, a protegee of Mozart. Miss Yaw’s appearance here will be an event that will e looked forward to, not merely by musicians, but by all mu-ic lovers, and a large number of people will undoubtedly go from the same motive that would prompt them to see a freak of nature. SALVINI Wikl PLAY IT. A Romantic Drama by John Bon- ner and His Daughter, Miss Geraldine Bonner. It has just leaked out that two well- known San Francisco writers, John Bon- ner and his daughter, Miss Geraldine Bonner, have written a romantic drama, which will shortly be produced on the Pa- cific Co The work was completed several months ago and was first submitted to Alexander Salvini, who was so delighted with it that he at once decided to make the Bonner drama one of the star features of hisau- tumn and winter tour. Shortly afterward the young tracedian fell ill at the villa of his illustrious father in Italy. Reports of his gondition grew more and more dis- couraging, and finally the Salvini tour was abandoned and the Italian papers stated authoritatively that the young tra- gedian was dying of tuberculosis of the in- testines. In this unhappy state of affairsit seemed impossible that the drama written by Mr. and Miss Bonner could ever be producea by Salvini and they were just opening negotiations with James O'Neill, when yesterday they received news that Salvini was well again and would shortly begin his long-deferred Am n tour. Not only is Alessandro him: again, but he is said to be Istronger and better for his long rest and he is anxious to give the drama written by the Bonners its first hearing in San Francisco. In all proba- bility that will be some time this season, as the canceled datesin the Salvini tour are rapidly being filied again. The name of the drama and its story are still kept close secrets, but the subject is known to be a very romantic one. John Bonner is one of the best known newspaper writers on the Pacific Coast and Miss Geraldine Bonner has made quite a name for herself as a contributor to Harper’s, Vogue and other well-known periodicals. She also has the reputation of being one of the most talented and re- liable on dramatic subjects in America. Mrs. Kendal's Anger. Mrs. Kendal has'been letting her angry passions rise again, not against the great American spublic this time, but against the London critics, headed by Clement Scott, and particularly against a writer in the London Referee. The matron of the British drama said that she went home and wept. when she read the things that Clement Scott and his fellow-critics said about her acting. In this lachry mose state of mind she found one day on her kitchen table a copy of the Referee, in which a well-known writer, who bears the pen name of Carados, pointed out the fact that Tom Robertson’s erave in Brompton Cemetery wasgoing to wreck and ruin from neglect. Tom Robertson, in addition to beinga famous playwright, had the honor in his day of being Mrs. Kendal's brother. When the lady espied the reference to his grave on her kitcgen table she at once wrote a choice epistle to Carados, of which the following is the conclusion: 1 offered years ago to attend to my dear brother’s grave, but the paper proving the ownership of same cannot found and among s0 many has been loSt; and (as even you in your ignorance may know) that unless one can prove the ownership of the grave Lo ::‘Enn oirm-lur anything connected with it is e. hen you write my brother’s name again do it on your knees with your hat off! 1 never knew your paperexisted till I saw it oneday on my kitcben table, when I told my house- keeper to burn it. She rang for the groora, who sent for the stable boy, who did so. Yours faithfully, MADGE KENDAL. While Mrs. Kendal ‘'was penning this ladylike effusion Clement Scott, who nad also read the Referee, was wending his way to the grave of Tom Robertson. He easily obtained the permission of the cemetery authorities to restore his oid friend’s monument at his own expense and put flowers and plants there, which made it a little garden of sleep. Itis an open secret that for some years past Mrs. endal has had a grievance against Cle- ment Scoit. Not long ago she wrote of him: “The poor man has lost his juag- ment and makes me weep.”” Well! Cle- me‘lpScon has heaped coals of fire on her head, but it is very probable that they will only add fuel to the fire of Mrs. Ken- dal’s wrath. Dramatic Brevities. Frank Cushman has a new play called “The Air $hip.” Fay Templeton has become a first-nighter in New York. David Henderson has secured a separation from his wife, Grace Henderson. Miss Yaw gings “Take Me Back to Home and Mother” toan air composed by herself at the age of 10 years. The King, the Queen, the Jack and the G nt's clubs are all prominent in the Tivoli's ck and the Beanstalk.” Mr. and Mrs. Russ Whytal are to make their first appearance in San Francisco as stars, April 19, at the Califoruia Theater. Thus far the following have been named as John Drew’s next leading lady: Agnes Miller, Maude Odell, Olive May, Amy Busby and Ethel Barrymore. The Philharmonic Italian Operatic Society will produce Verdi’s opera ‘Po liuto” at the Auditorium on Sunday night, December 20. Itis the first production of this opera on this coast. William A. Brady, besides touring plays all over this country, has established an interna- tional theatrical agengy and play bureau and & weekly newspaper devoted to keeping track of his enterprises. Henry V. Esmond, the young actor-suthor of “The Courtship of Leonie,” the new play for the Lyceum Theater, New York, was the Little Billie in Beerbohm Tree’s production of “Trilby” in London. Miss Baird (Trilby) and her husband, H. B. Irving, are coming to America. Miss Baird is a great favorite in London, and on her marriage received quite an ovation from the crowds who waited to see her. 2 Herr Lohse, the husband of the late Frau -Katherine Lohse-Klafsky, who arrived in New York last week, has setatrest all the rumors of suicide, etc., which have sprung up since the German prima donna’s desth. The Theatrical Mechanics’ Association, San Francisco Lodge No. 21, will give their fifth annual benefit at_the Tivoli Opera-nouse on Sunday afternoon, December 27, in aid of their chariiable and benevolent fund. Tae attractions from all the theaters in the City will be represented. Mme. Navarro (Mary Anderson) is occupy- ing the house of Lady Tennyson’s sister at Wimbledon awaiting the completion of im- provements in the bandsome estate at Broad- way, Warwickshire, recently leased by her for twenty-one years, She will make her perma- nu‘:.t home at Broadway, & famous resort for artists. ‘There is & play in New York which has been ‘written around a ’cello. It is to be hoped that this won’t start our dramatists writing plays around fiddles, bass drums and trombones. We have had plays written around fire en- gines, train wrecks, bank burglars and bridge- jumpers, but they are fast serving their usefyl- ness. Let our future plays be written around a story. NEW TO-LAY—AXUS CALIFORNIA THEATER MENTS. SATURDAY MATINEE, Dec. 12, 2. & GALA HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE AND LAST PRESENTATION. 96-Children in the Cast-96 THE EXQUISITE FAIRY OPERETTA THE RIVAL QUEENS ¥airies, Elves, Goblins, Hunters. Sale of seats on and after December 10. 9 .M., at SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.’S. Orchestra, Dress Circle and Balcony (reserved), 50c: Gallery (re- served), 25c: Children’s Admittance, 35c. Two cuildren admitted on one 50¢ coupon. THE CHUTES. Open Daily From Noon to Midnight. TO-DAY! TO-DAY! 2 . M.—ARION will carry Emi Marke- g on his back over & wire 100 feet above the Iake. 404 9:30 2. @— BOB FITZSIMMONS WL give two filustrations of the SHARKEY KNOCKOUT BLOW—3 rounds with Jack Stenz- Jer and 3 rounds with Dau Hickey, ON THE STAGE AT THE FOOT OF THE LAKE. 4:30—Balloon ascension by MAKKEBERG. PIRR1 will coast the Chutes afterncon and evening. ADMISSION 10c. Child: SUTRO BATHS. TUG-OF-WAR. 'GREATESC CO 1L:ST OF THE YEAR, AN I T RNATION L AFFAIR. STRENGTH AND MEKIT TO WIN. NATIONS REPRESENTED. England, Ireland. Scotland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Slavonta, Canaia and United States. Ail the teams will pull at each performance. Two afternoons, Suudays, December 13 ana_20; seven nights, December 13 t0 19 inclusive. General admission, 26c; reserved seatg, 50c. GEORGE OSBOURNE and HU 0 TOLAND. v NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. YORK OFFICE g2 W, 307+ STREET. SAN [\ FRANCISCO. CAL. estas. 887. 10S ANGELES CAL. esme. 1834 PEW GUSTAV WALTER. NiezcTorR GENERAL. O'Farell St., bet. Stockton and Powell. SAN FRANCISCO’S GREAT MUSIC HALL. Weels Commencing Monday. Dec. 7, T1—New Leadng American and Europan Vaudevlle Stars |—1 A POSI(IVE = ’ ' el —_— NOVELTY! l:l NOVELTY. o T E, THE TALKING ROO'STER THE -P AYiNG POODLE, 3. Whiting: | P'EBOEA TED MULE AND THE ACKOBA TEWILE S A R: KAOLY. THE MARVELOUS EUROPEAN ACROBAT. “"CUSHMAN & HOLCOMB. Popular Operatic and Character Sketch Atists. | THE MARVELOUS EUROP = ~""THE FUNNIEST ACT EVER SEEN IN THIS CITY, GALLETTPPS-MONKEY COMEDIANS. Monkey Actors, Gymnasts, Acrobats, Bicyclists and Barber: B PN~ . THE THREE DUNBAR SISTERS. *7s eI Shis vl s —_TWO GREAT HITS—— B ROMALO BROS. 'THE GREAT'STUART Hand-to-Hand, Head-to-Head Balancers. The P)\!nf nal A\\I’:Ia P.‘m, —_THE LAST WEEK OF LANGSILOW ! GEO. TEL %EOHER TEEl ED MARBLE - : BLLEN VETTEER The Far-Famed Minstrels. Tne Mysterious Spiral Globe Artiste. he Far-Famed M T TR MATINEE TO-DAV—§UNUAYE—DFECEMBER 6. ——LAST APPEARANCE OF—— BURT SHEPARD, ED. HEFFERNAN, KNOLL & McNEIL and LEWIS & ELLIOTT. o 's E n Aerial Ballet (The Original Flying Ballet) in Conjunction with s Grand’ Opera Ballet of Fifty Coryphees and Five Premieres, the Lrandent in California. BiuesBver "?.‘3;':::’ at, 25c; Balcony, any seat. 10c: Children 10c. any part. A TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY) LAST TIME, r AnD Co, I O it e X'} B p 1 msr\m neor=o Wilton Lackayein *“Dr. Belzraff! To-Morrow, Monday, Dec. 7th=--2d and Last Week, MR. WILTON LACKAYE And His Great Company, Assisted by MARIE WAINWRIGHT. A Great Double Bill! A Beautiful Comedy, By Robert Drouet, Entitled “MOLIEREK!” “CAPT. BOB” By Walter Frith. AN IDYLL OF VIRGINIA. Extra—Monday Evening, December 14th, One Concert Oniy, THE SOCIAL EVENT OF THE SEASON, YAW Reserved Seats Ready Tuesday, Dec. 8th. The One-Act Drama The most remarkable voice recorded by history.— ew York Herald e —— ey AND HER CONCERT COMPANY, INCLUDING Maximilian Diek, Vielinist, and Georgiclla Lay, Pianist. Prices $2, $1 50, $1 and 50c ANOTHER exraa. . BALDWIN THEATER. BEGINNING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17th, ©C. B. JEFFERSON, KLAW AND ERLANGER’S WONDERFUL PRODUCTION, coxs. BROWNIES! COX’S Exactly as Presented for 150 Nights in New York, with the Marvelous Flying Ballet, Oriental Dancing Girls, Disappearing Demons, Wandering Minstrels, etc. SEAT SALE FOR THE GREAT ATTRACTION OPENS NEXT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10th. COLUMBIA THEATER. TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME OF MONDAY, DECEMBER"!—Fnurth and Last Week But One of ANOTHER GREAT PRODUCTION! First Time in This City of the Great Melodramatic Success, THE COTTON KING By Sutton Vane, Author of “Humanity,” etc. Management of Wm. A. Brady. A Wonderful Scenic Production. 'A'Calico Print Mill in Full Operation. A Jolly Pionic Scene, Filied With Songs, Dances and Merry-Making. A Startling Elevator Scene, the Aeme of Stage Mechanism. A SPECTALLY ENGAGED CASf OF GREAT EXCELLE ' CE. MOROSCO’S Last Performances of GRAND OPERA-HOUSE WALTER MOROSCO...Sole Lessee and Manager. THE MIDNIGHT ALAK’I ! Commencing Monday -December 7th The Sensational Five-Act Comedy Drama. THIS AFTERNOON AND TO-NIGHT, THE PROMISED LAND! WONDERFUL SCENIC AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS! N IDER LEAP A PRECIPICE ! MILL RUN BY REAL WATER HORSEIARL S FRUSTRATION OF THE WHITECAPS ! iy Songs! Specialiies! Specialties! Songs! Evening Prices—10¢, 25¢ and 50c.. M TINVE SATURD 1Y AND SUNDAY TiVOLI OPERA-HOUS= MES.KRNXSTINE KRELING, Proprietor & auaga TO-NIGHT-LAST TIME! S ELES I.ITTI.E: DU E” A Complete and Interesting Production, TO-MORROW EVENING, Offenbach’s Operatic Fantaisie. —*“THE BRIGANDS.”— HEAR “The Boots, the Boots, . he Boots of the Carbineers” Popula- Prices. 50c. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB Belagco, Jordan & La Faille, Lessees & Manage rs This Afternoon and Evening. Last Performances “THE EXD OF THE CENTURY” Monday Evening, December 7. A perfect production of the Story of the South, “ALABAMA.” By Augustus Thomas. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF S ..25¢ Order seats by telephone, Black 991. Night—15¢, 26c, 85¢. 50c. Matin ee—15¢, 25¢, 85¢. THIRD ANNUAL HORSE SHOW MECHANICS’ PAVILION, December 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1896 CPEN DAY AND NIGHT. CONCERTS AFTERNOON AND EVENINGS, Conducted by VALENTINE HUBER. General Admission, Day 50c. Evening $1 Reserved geats on sale at 8 C Y 227 and 229 Post st. 2y S No sea s reserved for day exhibitions except P04 sesis on main f 3 seats on main floor and all seats in er! Included in price of general ldml-lor‘x. o ( NGLESIDE TRACK), The only Perfect Winter Racetrack in America. RACING a2 RACING Racing from Nov. 80 to Dee. 12, Inclusive. Five or More Races Daily, Rain or Shine. FIRST GACE AT 2 P. M. Take Southern Pacific trains at Third and Townsend sts. depot, leaving at 1 P. x. Fare for Round Trip, including Ad- mission to Grounds, »1.00. Take Mission-st. electric line direct to track. The G. H. Mumm & Co. Stakes, Saturday, Dee. 5, The Palace Hotel Stakes, Suturday, Dec. 12. A. B. SPRECKELS, President. W. S LEAKE, Secretary. CENTRAL PARK. TO-DAY—2 P. M. —BASEBALIL!— ALERTS {S. HOLLISTER. SCHUBERT SYMPHONY CLUB AND LADY QUARIET OF CHICAGO AND MASTER TOMMY PURCELL, Boy Violiuist. Assoclation Auditorium, Mason and Ellis Strects, ‘Tuesday . vening, Dec. 8. Reserved Seats on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co's and st the Association Building. Only appearance in this city this season. MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART. WINTER EXHIBITION, Open Dally from 9 A. M. 10 b P. 3 and Tu Evenins. - Eundays from 10 A 3. 10 8 bt Admission, 25 Cts, Kvenings, 50 Cts.