The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1896, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S x, DAY, DECEMBER 13, 1896. Managers say that good new plays are not to be bad for fame or morey, and after seeing *“Captain Bob” I can quite be- lieve it. Nothing but an absolute dearth of novelty could have induced Wiliton Lackaye to take hold of such an amateur- | ish production as Robert Drouet’s come:ly drama. Comedy drama is a very ambiguous term;it may mean anything, from scream- “built round” ng farce to melodrama bombshells and ponderous machines, | tlhreatening to crush out human lir«x’ When you patronize a new comedy drama | you ray your mouey and take your | chances, very much as you do on buyinga lottery ticket. Those of us who took chances in **Captain Bob” found it to be a compromise between melodrama and comedy. The ballowed old characters of | melodrama were there—ihe betray-r and the betrayea, the lach-ymose father, the | ingenuous heroine, the faithful retainers i and the flawiess hero—but Robert Drouet | had made these characters more gay and | festive than authors generally do who use them for melodramatic purposes. | A large slice of the comedy in “‘Captain | Bob” centers round ths stealing of a| chicken by a gentleman who, like “Ma Angeline,” was *“not colored” buot was | “born that way.” After slaying his. prey | he withdraws to an old forge to devour it | in secret, but ng sooner is the cooking of | his feast under way than Miss Donuna, ac- companied by Captain Bob, appears on the scene, and, scenting the succulent odor of fried chicken, the fair girl declares that she is ravenously hungry and must have food. To obli ber Captain Boh impersonates the chicken’s chost and, | after a lengthy dialogue, succeeds in scar- ing off the gentleman of color, who leaves ihe lovers to devour the remnants of the feast. Thiz episode is only one of several which impress on the audience that the | bill of lars is meager in the household of NELLE WEBB N THE BROWNIES at 1 1 1 J GRISMER the circumstances, to call the play “The Hypochondriac” and avoid trifling with the ¥rench language. But the most jarring feature in “*Mol- Miss Donna (the voung ladv does not seem to have a surrame). After Captain Bob has rescued from a watery grave the melodramatic lady, whom the villain had | betrayed, he is discovered in Donna’s | house, sitting by the fire, with a cup of coffee at his elbow. The possession of this coffee seems to weigh heavily on his soul, and one gathers that the reason is b:cause | the melodramatic lady in the next room is coffeeless. After stirring the precious | dainty. and, if I mistake not, sippinz it, Captain Bob makes a sudden heroic effort | at seli-renunciaiion and hands the eup to | the comic “memmy,” remarking: “Take it to her, poor than I do.” This touching episode re- calls the conauct of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen, when he snatched the oniv glass of water in the army from his own parched lips and handed it to a dying soldier, observing: “Thy need is greater than miune.” household? In spite of the clever interpretation given it by the Lackaye company *‘Cap- | tain Bob” drags its length along wearily through two acts, and just asevery one is beginning to yawn and wonder whether thelast car has gone the play suddenly | 1| vpulls itself together for a good finish. cannot imagine how Robert Drouet, who wrote th: dreary monologues of the first two acts, managed to conceive so much acticn as he has put into the last act. Not | tbat the act is great, by any means, but it has stirring scenes and sends the audience on its way rejoicing. The real merit of “Captain Bob,” however, is in affording a thoroughly sympaihetic role (o Wilton Lackave. There is mothing but zood to record of the eurtain-raiser, *“‘Moliere,”” except that if the fatber of Fiench comedy could come forth from his tomb and assist at a repre- sentation he would not reco:nize his own language ‘*as she is spcke' by some mem- bers of the Lackaye Company; that cele- brated Moliere play, for instance, in which old Argan dallies with all the réemedies in the pharmacorceia. When Miss Wain- wright discussed it she pronounced the | roun as if it were the name of the cele- ‘brated and lamented American composer who wrote ‘*Waiting” and other popular bailads, and in the adjective she dweit Jovingly and tenderiy on the word gin. The effect of the whole was “Le Millard ; she needs it more1 But was that the | only cup of coffee procurablein the Donna | | fere” is the constant occurrence of the | word *madame.” Every one knows that the actors and actresses who visit our shores invar:ably make it a pointof honor to pronounce madame as if it were writ- | ten ma-damn. It may be that they are | glad to embrace an opportunity of doing a little swearing unrebuked—or, giving them the benefit of the doubt, they have | never heard the word pronounced a la Francaise. Atany rate, it is a stage tra- dition to pronounce madame thus, and the Wilton Lackaye company follows it, alas! so faithfully, that ““Moliere” is liter- | ally strewn with big, big D—s. T believe a taste for melodrama is an ;ncq')ired habit like smoking or eating | Limburger cheese. At first it makes you | sick, then you pity, then endure and then | embrace. This has been the history of the | Columbia Theater habilues during the tast few weeks. They were not used to melo- ity”” with surprise and suspicion. The ladies were afraid of the shooting and | clung to their seats in horror while the | bombshell was spluttering away within afoot of the hero. It was not him that they trembled fot but themselyas. When *“The New South” was put on the habitues ventured dut timidly, in twos and threes, and said that they never would have come | atall if they bad not heard that tha play | was much less sensational than “Human- | ity.” They were baginningto get the melo- drama hubit, but they weuld notown it. | “The Cotton King” last week completed | the work of degeneration, of regeneration— | | the way you look at it all depends upon whether you have the habit yourseif. People who had been in dount during the run of the first two nlays went to see 1 “The Cotton King” and returned the next | night, bringing their friends. and now Messrs. Friedlander,” Gottlob & Co. can saf:ly produce vlays “built round’” any | piece of machinery that threatens human life, for the habitues of the Columbia Theater have acquired the melodrama habit. Mre. Kendal has been declaring, not necessarily as a guarantee of good faith but for publication, that the siage “is a | mmost terrible, a most awful life for a | woman. Nay, it is the most terrible, the most awful in the world for a woman. | To succeed m it she must have the epi- | dermis of a rhinoceros, the strength of a man and (he feelings, say, of a graven drama and looked askance upon **Human- | AND // ©HosBE DAVIES § immag-gin-ner”. It might be better, under { knowledge that a wrong step or a false imace. I speak strongly, I feel strongly on the subject, and, remember, I know what I am talking about.” Mrs. Kendal may know what she is talking about, but it is strange that she‘ should have staved with this life of trial | and tribulation for so many decades—I do not know how many, put enough for her to know her own mind. Many years ago, when she was young and charming, Mrs. Kendoal said that no woman ought to act after she was forty, but she had forgotten all about that before her foriy-fifth birth- day, and now she bids fair to become one of the grand young actresses of the next century. Mary Anderson is asother actress who speaks slightingly of her own profession. Her autobiography is full of sneers at the stage, but she too stayed with it for a long time. 1 have been wondering, if ttese feted and wealthy ladies find the theater such a pathway of thorng, what it must be for the little chorus and baliet girls, who tremble at the stage manager’s frown and who go through their little parts with the | note may mean dismissal and no bread in the cupboard next week. These girls have | grievances of their own. What member of the dramatic profession has not? But the chorus and ballet know better than to pro- | claim their woes from the housetop; it would be as much as their bread and but- | ter is worth. Talking of ballets, I looked in at the Or- pheum the other day, to see a rehearsal of the Christmas ballet, and Adrien Kiralfy assured me that by the time t e festive season arrived he would have all the girls dancing in time and on their toes. He | knows his business, so I did not venture to contradict him, but after seeing the re- hearsal, I wondered whether he was not of too hopeful and bu nt a nature, There were tall girls and short girls, fat girls and thin girls, girls in bloomers and girls in voluminous skirts, but with possi- | bly one excention, they all seemed to be | imbued with the fixed idea that the he- gihning, the middle and the end of the art of dancing lies in kicking as high as pessible. The exception was a little dark girl in a loose-fitting gown, who swayed rhythmically to the music with her whole body, and whose head bent as gracefully as a rose rocked by the breeze. Ehe came down to the footlights smiling and showing a flashing set of teeth, and her wiles reminded me of those practiced by the great ballerine, who never come to the Pacific Coast. Of course the girl danced by nature, for she had none of the acrobatic agility of a trained dancer. A With the exception of this nymvh, Kirally was dezlirg with somewhat raw material. ‘“Forward, my children,”” he cried, and lump, lump, lump, kick, kick, kick was the response fcom forty-pairs of feet, while forty toes waved in the arr like so many signals of distress. ‘‘Lazy, lezy, ah! jittle fat lezy,” cried the ballet mas- ter, banging down his hgnds on the piano and stamping his feet at a «quat little per- son in cloth bloomers, who was what | schoo!boys call “funking’’ herskare of the performance. The little fat lazy gave a kick, jnst to prove what she could do when goaded on to it, and the ballet mas- ter remarked, parenthetically: “They haf not the education of coryphees from the great dancing schools of' Europe. They haf been taught all wrong, butl like the American daucers better than Italians, French, Germans, Eng!lish. They haf more intellizence, more vivacity. Give them the years of training dancers have in Europe. An! there would be coryphees!” and Kirally roiled his eyes upward, as it a vision of the paradise of Mohammed had been vouchsafed him. Whiie the ballet was resting from ifs ar- duous exertions I chatted with some of the brightest girls and found that in their bumble little way they were cterishing fhumble little ambitions of tneir own. ‘It takes a fortune to be educate? fora pre- miere, and I can’tafford iessons,” said the little dark-eyed dancer. *‘Lots and lots of premieres have graduated out of the ballet though, ard that's what I hope to do.”’ *“I'd rather be a singer.” said a little per- #on, with big seriouseyes, who did not look over 14. “My mother is letting me have a few lessons and they say Iam a very high soprano, but you see there was a chance to earn something in the ballet, so Iappiied.”” Practical little people]l Haw bravely they seemed determined to make the most of their poor little chances. 1f they ever withstand the temptations and hardships of their lot and battle their way out of the ranks they will be able to talk with more authority than the pampered Mrs. Kendal about needing *“the epidermis of a rhinoceros and the strength of a man.” MaRIE EVEL Baldwin Theater. For several years sensational accounts have been heard of Miss Eilen Beach Yaw, the singer with the *Eiffel Tower' voice, whoserange of four octaves surpasses the compass of any soprano recorded in his- tory. This younglady will sing for the first time in this City at the Baldwin Theater to-morrow evening. Appearing with ner will be Maximilian Dick, & violinist of some reputaiion, and Miss Georgiella Lay, who is said 1o be a gifted pianist. The foliowing programme will be per- formed: Polonaise (Liszt), Miss\ La *‘Baliade et Polonaise’ (Vieuxtemps), Dic| “Villanelte'’ (Dell’ Acqua), Miss Ya (a) ‘“Estincelles,”’ (Moszkow- ). (b) _‘Dedication” (tchumann- Liszt), Miss Lay; “Roude de Lutins” (Baz- zini), Mr. Dick; “Ah Fors’e Lui,” *‘La ‘Traviata’ (Verd), Miss Yaw; *Caprice d2 Cene=rt” (Musin), Mr. Dick; Swiss echo song (Eckert), Miss Yaw. C. B. Jefferson, Kiaw & Erlanger’s musi- cal extravaganza, “Palmer Cox’s Brown- ies, 1 be scen for the first time in San Francisco on Thursday night. The en- gagement is limited to two and a half IS coome o | tion barn. The horses stand quietly in their stalls till an alarm is rung 1n. Then they leap to their places under the harness that drops on them and iy snapped automati- cally and in a few seconds are dashing out of the burn wit: their load of policemen. The caste inciudes the strength of Mo- rosco’s company. May Capwell, a bright San Francisco girl, play: at the Grand for the first time in ‘‘The Police Patrol.’”’ Tivoli Opera-House. “The Bohemian Girl” will be sung for the first five nights of this week, with an all-star cast. Miss “Beile Thorne. one of the Tivoli’s most popular prima donnas, has consented to reappear previous to her departure for the East, as Arline. Rhys Thomas will be Thaddeus, a role which he sang with great success throughout En - land with the Car! Rosa Opera Company; Bernic: Holmes wil be ths gypsy qnueen, John J. Raffael Counat Arnheim, W. H. West Devilshoof, and Arthur Boyce Ylorestine. On Saturday evening the holiday spectacle of **Jack and the Bean- stalk” will pbe presented, after montns of careful preparation. It is said to contain a wealth of beautiful scenery, dazzling costumes, brilliant lizht eifects, gorgeous bailets, sprightly marches, the latest songs and fine transformation sc-nes. At the Orpheum. The new attraction for this week will be the Joseph Phoite pantomime troupe, which comes direct from Koster & Bial’s, New York. For the past three years it bas been emplioyed in London and Paris. Joseph and Murtha Phoite, supported by five other pantomimists, will appear in an eccentric pantomime called “*Mephisto.” Iv will run_ through the holidays. Clermont’s trained animals and Guiletti’s monkey comedians are on the new bill, and so are Cushman and Holecomb. Kaoly and the Komzlo brothers will vie with each other in acrobatic feats. Stuart has new songs and the three Dunbar gisters promise new ‘‘coster” songs and aunces. The aerial baliet and Kiralfy’s grand opera ballet will open one week from to-night. Alcazar Theater. The production of “Alabama’s has made the most pronounced hit since the new management took control of the theater. 1t will be continued tnis week with the same brilliant cast. At the Ghutes. The Chutes bave a new attraction to offer to-day in an exhibition of te United Siates live-saving service. A life-line will be shot from a mortar to aship at the end of the lake, and men will be rescued frcm, an apparently serious predicament. Bob Fitzsimmons will give an exhibi- both ariernoon and evening of his pugilistic powers, and at half past 4 Emil Murieberg will make a balloon ascension and parachute drop. Rosenthal Is Better. It has been feared for some weeks past that the attack of typhoid fever from which Moritz Rosenihal was suffering in Chicago would necessiiate the abandon- ment of his tour, but Messrs. Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. have just received a tele- gram frcm Woifson stating that the great pianist is progressing very favorably to- ward recovery and that as soon as he is able to travel he will be moved to Los Angeles to recuperate. The doctors be- lieve that by the end of January Rosen- thal will be able to resume his tour, and he is expected in this City early in Feb- ruary. Sl THE BROWNIE MAN IN TOWN. How Palmer Gox, an Old-Time San Franciscan, Found the Little People. Palmer Cox, the artist, who went years ago from San Francisco to New York to find fame as an illustrator of fees and hob- goblins, is living at present in an atmos- phere permeated with Brownies. He is personally conducting his play, * The Brownies,” through the length and preadth of the Jland, and he has just piloted the company to this City, where he used to dream of Brownies when he was a boy. The artist-illustrator is accompanied by a_gentleman named Dougles, who ¥rote SCENE INACT 3 ~ AT THE ALCAZAR weeks. “The Brownies' is described as an entertainment of the nature of %1492, with more eiaborate spectacuiar effects. The organization numbers over 10 people. Among the performers are ldz Mulle, Frank Deshon, Marie Celeste, Ida Brooks, Sol Solomon, Charles Hagan and Robert Cummings, thes Brothers Borani, di-ap-! vearing demons, Newhouse and Waffle, and little Gertie Curiisie. The Oriental bailet, the dance of the waiter girls, the electr cal serenade to the singing moon, the flying ballet, the German band, the chase of the ma.ic firefly, the airship and colossal seabird witl all prove noveliiesto | San Francisco theater-goers. Golumbia Theater. “The Cotton King’” has proved suci a success at the Columbin Theater that it will be continued for anotner week. Sut- ton Vane's latest melodrama gives plenty of opportunities for sen:ationzl acting and staging, and tne scene in ihe calico printing mili with the elevator at work is quite a triumph of reali=m. The Frawley company is expected to arrive here irom Honoiulu on the 17th inst., and it will open at the Columbia the following Monday with a new Daly pro- duction.” During the holidays the com- pany will present both “Love in Tandem” and “The Railroad of Love.” Grand Opera-House. Another sensational melodrama,entitled ““The Police Patrol,”’ wiil open at the Grand to-morrow night. As its title indi- cates, it concerns the bluecoated defenders oi the peace. In the first act a millisnaire is murdered when le interrunts a gang of thieves at work on his safe. OFf course, the wrong people are suspected and it is only through tue exertions of a heroic police captain (Howard Kyie) that the real cul- Prus are run to earth. Ameong other in- terestiug scenes is one in the pol.ce patrol IN ALABAMA the music for *‘The Brownies,” and who is so exactly like a Brownie himself that you have to look at him twice to be quite ure that ne is not a fantasje cf Palmer Cox’s brain. . Examination of his physi- oznomy forces you to admit that Mr. Douglas is real, though his resemblance to u Palmer Cox Brownie continues to fas- cinate yon and compels you to keep your eyes glued on him in a way which is not consistent with the rules of gooa breeding. | But asif Mr. Douglas and the company were not enough DBrownieland, Pzlmer Cox has to keep the ballroliing by talking continually about Brownies and spendiny his leisure moments in drawing them, as he is under a fifteen years’' contract to go evolving them coatinuaiiy out of hisinner consciousncss. Reporters come to inter- v.ew him about Brownies, and oid- ume friends of h.s, who have grown into middle-aged, prosperou: bnsiness men, drop into the cflice of the Baldwin The- ater, apd exclaim: *“‘Hello, Cox! [ want to congratuiate you, o.d fellow—hear yon have made a fortune out of Brownies.” And Cox hns to go on telling iresh relays of visitors how it came about thathe in- vaded the realms of Brownieland. It seems that he was writing for chil- { dren’s magzaz nes in New York and vanted scme odd characters for illustrations that couid point a moral as well as adorn a tale. *‘It was not natural to make animals talk,”” he said, *‘besides 1 wanted a talker that could take a hign moral stani- noint, sometning like Puck, with his *What fools these mortais be.” I had been | brought up among Scotch people and had heard a ereat deal about the traditions of the Highlands, where they still believe in fees and hobgoblins. Brownies had always taken my fancy. They were intel- ligent, observing littie fellows, who knew all about mortals and helped them when | they were good, The Brownies could | point the moral I wanted to my stories, so I utilized them. They were .a new de-l parture in literature and made a hit from the first.” Dramatic Brevities. Rose Coghlan says she will not join Palmer’s company piaying “Heartsense.”” Howard Gould is now playing the leading part in the “Prisoner of Zenda.” Mr. McKee Rankin of ~The Danites” fame has joined the vaudeville cohorts. «Iskander” is the title of a new play which Frederick Warde intends to produce. George Holland has “The Jilt” in rehearsal, in which Amy Lee will play Phy:lis. : Marcus Mayer has arranged for a production in London of “The Mandarin’ at Daly’s The- ater. Arrangements gre well forward for Miss Msud Adams and John Drew to play a season in London, beginning next May. Jonn Drew is ‘already weil known on the other side from nis performances with Augustin Daly’s company. gy i shic Clay M. Greene has written a new play on New England life, which Jacob Litt will pro- duce. Al Hayman is still makinga tour of the West. He issaid to be after a number of thea- ters for next season. Charies E. Cook, formerly manager of the Macdonough Thenter in Oakland, Cal., has joined Nat Goodwin as advance agent. 4 grand testimonial benefit will be tendered to Pietro Sossi at Saratoga Hgll on the 18th inst, when “The Golden Giant’’ will be per= formed. The ballets of the rustics, the sprightly jockeys and the leading siars of the heavens are all features of “Jack and the Beanstalk's” novel dances. Colonel Mapleson has again fallen by the wayside, as il was feared that he might, and there is reason to believe that his career us impresurio 1s at last absolutely closed. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. e - TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY), LAST TIME, L MAYTIAN l Ano Co, Ln“ INCORP'D, HEATRE "\ PROPS. IN THE DOUBLE BILL & Wilton Lackaye MOLIERE"” AND CAPT, BOB!"" TWO CONCERTS—To-Morrow (Monday) Evening and Tuesday Evening. AND HER YAW Maximilian Dick, Io a Brilliant Programme. The most remarkable voice recorded by histor I ew York Herald CON; RT COMPANY, INCLUDING Violin Virtuoso, & Georgiclla Lay, Pianist PRICES-$2, $1 50, 1 and 50c. AND A AND A EXTRA | rvo HALF HALF veexs | ONLY! Beginning Thursday Night, December 17. EVERY NIGHT, including SUNDAY NIGHT, with MATI~ & NEES WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY, CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S, C. B. Jefterson, Klaw & Erlanger's WONDERFUL PRODUCTION PALMER COX'S BROWNIES! 4] R PR “““&a,f « ”R{fl’fi“ w D0000LAY mfi%’% The Storm and Shipwreck at Sea! YWYV The Storm and Shipwreck at Sea! The Destruction of the Palace! The Destruction of the Palace ! *“Daybreak in Brownieland!” **Daybreak in Brownieland !” 4 WEEKS IN CHICAGO! 4 WEEKS IN PHILADELPHIA Www"l’«/wwvv)'v‘v'mV The Farthquake and Voleano! NN N The Earthquake and Voleano! NN NN N NN NN NNV { 1 il i i [ . "i W uw an w m . 150 MGHTS IN NEW YORK ! L %ééh% 4 WE KS IN BOSTON ! The Compact in Vulean’s Cave—The Bridal Procession in the Rain of Roses—The Mysteri ous Guests With ‘Their ~trange Presents—The Abduction—The Brownles Adrift in Miiocean—Tne Rescue of the Dude by the Grea: Sea Bird—In the i Moon—The Orfental Bullet of Beautiful Women. Demons—The German Band—7The Shapely Waiter Girls—THE FLYING BALLET. chanted Country—Tae Eilectric Fireflies—The Singing ~The Wandering Minvirels— . he Disappeanng In the Great Extravaganza, including 1da Mulle, Frank Deshon, Marie lOO Celeste, Ida Brooks, Sol Solomon, Charles Hagan IOO and Robert Cumming. MOROSCO'S Last Performances of GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALIER MOROSCO...Sole Lessee and Manager Commencing Monday “THE PROMISED LAND" A Thrilling, Sensational Play. .. December 14ath M.guificent Mechanical and Scenic Production of a Wonderful Success, The Police Patrol! A Fascinating Melodrama by Scott Marble. REPLETE WITH SENSATIONS! OVERFLOWING WITH FUN! =-—Trained White Horses and the Police Patrol-—= Faithful Representation of Haymarket Square, the Scene of Chicago’s Awful Anarchist Rlots. Evening Prices—10¢, 25¢ and 50¢ M “TINEE SATURDAY AN (] TRICQLAMOLR.GOTTLOD & o+ LESSES AT HATAGLRS - TO- AND. Menr | Ties TEE ILAST WEEBK Of the Marveloas Production and Nothing Its £qual JOSEPH GRISMER AND FH@EBE DAVIES And a Specially Selected Company in the Greatest of All Melodramatic Successes, THE COTTON KING! 1he Wonueriul Miil Scene! Tie Perfect llevator Scene! Allin Full Operation. December 21-Return of the Favorites— — 1 HE FRAWLEY COMPANY— O’Farrell st., bet. Stockton and Powell. Belasco, Jordan & La Faille | e:sees and Managers, Afternoon and Evening and All of Next Week. A Pertect Production of tbe Story of the South, ALABAMA. (by Augustus Thomas.) SPEGRBAL ENGAGEMENT OF GEORGE OSBOURNE. AND HUGO TOLAND. Order seats by telephone, Black 991, Kight—16¢, 25¢, 35c. 50c. Matinee—15c, 25¢, 356, [ THE FAVORITES 1] || THE ] FRAWLEY :I! —— COMPARY. The most perfact D amatic_Orsani- —— Zati. 1 that has ever v 8 ted “Frisco. OUR OWN HOME COMPANY WIll return from their Trumrhant Trip to tlonolulu to again appear at the COLUMBIA THEATER During the Holiday Weeks. Week Dee. 21—Augns:in Daly’s Beautiful Comedy, THE RAILROAD OF LOVE, NEES—Chrittmas, Friday, Dec. 25: Sat- New 1 ear, Friday, Jan. 1; Satur- The Regular Popular Prices. Reserved Sea s—Nigot: 25¢, 50c. 75¢ and $1.00. Maunce—25¢, 50¢ an{ 7oc. Ses son §.le commencing Thursday, December 17,809 A. M. O'Farrell Siree, 1¢ ween Stackton and Poweil. Matinee To-Day (Suaday), Deec. 13. Purquet, any sest, 2503 Baicony, any seaw 3% Chiidren. 10c, any par. SEE the COMEDY BIi . of the SEASON ALL THE LITILE FOLK SHOULD SEE& THE FIANO PLAYING POV Le And GALLETII'S FUNNY MONKEYS, AND THE OTHER GKEAT ACT>. Last Appearance of 1 HAT. HER and MA RBLE, COMING—Nilsson's ~.uropean Aerial Ballet (the original fiying ba'let) in coujunction with Kiralty's Grand Opera Builet of fitty Coryphees and five Premicres—the grandest ballet ever produced in Calizorniv. ® & ¢ TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MBS KRNXSTINE KREriNa, Proprietor & Maoags To-Night Liast Time. Offenbuch’s Operatic Fantasie “THE BRIGANDS.” ——TO-MORROW EVENING—— Five Nights Only, «THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.” pecial Engagement of MISS BELLE THORNE. Saturday Evening.. December 19 “JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.” Our Gorgeous Hollday Spectacle. Ponula- Prices. .....25¢c and 50, BUSH-STREET THEATER. Sunday Evening, December 20. onize:ti's ‘i fagic Opera, 1L POLIUTO (THE MARTYRS), Wit Be Preduced by the Italian Soc ety Philharmonic, Under the Direction of A. SPADINA, at the tueater Sunday morning, Seats on_sale December 18 TESTIMONIAL CONCERT e e L WILLIAM H. HOLT, Organist and Lirector of Grace Crurch Chotr, By the Choir of th- Chureh, Asslsted by Mr. Bernard Mollennnuer (v Ir. Tom Hil, Press Tilton and Mr. W. lolinist), Ciun Quartet, Mr. L. 1 letcher B. KiLg (accompanists), Mrs, Conductor, M. r RANK enor Gruce Chuch). of ths Youn: Men’s Chris- ‘ation. 1 i4, at 8 P. M. CENTRAL PARK. TO-DAY AL 2 P. M. BASERA I.X.! SACRAMENTOS VS, ALERTS, tian Ass PIEDMONT BATHS THEATER, At 2 P. M. Sunday, December 13. Grand Vaudeville Fntertainment. Music by Bosner’s Hungarian Orchestra. Admission, inc.u‘ing a swim or tub bath 5o Cluidren nnder 12 = - 2o Admission to entertainmen: swim or tub bath—adu.ts. . Admission to_enterisinment. not incindi swim or tub bath—childr n under 12 Reserved seats—Adults 35c. children be; seats S0c. THE CHUTES. ANOTHER l-!-l() DAY. Afternoon and evening—Bob Fitzsim- mous will ilustrate the Sharkey kiock- 0uL b ow and spar three rouuds witn Jack Sterz er and Duu Hickey on the stoge at the foot of the lnke. At 4:30—Buloog 1o: incl 15¢ box PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB ({ NGLESIDE TRACK), The only Xerrect Winter Racetrack in America, RACIVG 82 RACING Racing From Monday, Dec, 14, to Satur- day, Dec.rflfi. Inclusive. "Five or HMore Races Daily, Rain or Shins. FIRST KACE AT 2 P. M. Towhsead st depor. temnerau'] %y UIF and Fare for Round Trip, incl mission to trounds. opl.m.;.c TaE Al “laks Mission-s.. electric line airect to track, The G. H. Mumm & Co. Stakes, saturda ascension by Markeberg. Speciul—Won- de fal exbibition of the U. o 1 1fe-saving - ervice. Admission, 10¢: children Se. v | W.s Leaxe, ‘The Palace Hotel Stakes, ~:turday, Dec, |2, A. B SFRECKELS, Presidens Kecreiary,