The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1896, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1896. WALT I went late into the Colum the oiher evening, which is able thing to do. & ill-doing, I paused in the foyer to wait till the curtain w a familiar voice struck m s ment. It was Maxine there was | no mist g I peered through the curtains, wondering how the fair divorcee had been spirited there. But no! Bianche | Bates occupied the center of the stage, Blanche Bates in the corporeal presence, which philosophers say is a mere bubble, and in this case it was more true than usual, for her underlying perso: seemed to be that of M Miss Bates’ mannerisms and ges which used to be quick and nervous, had taken on the more placid and ruminant— if one m. y itof alady—mannerismsof Maxime Ellioit; ber voice hzd caught the | inflections of Maxine Elliott’s voice and her smooth, rather affected way of reeling | off her sentences, with a little gasp here | and there, as if to suggest an emotion | which she was not quite capable of ex- | pressing. Strangest of all, in the T tation of her part, Miss Bates’ mind | seemed to be running in the Eiliott chan- nels. ia Theater | apardon- | Blanche Bates may be an ardent wor- shiper at Maxine Elliott’s shrine,and in her artless admiration have unconsciously mimicked the ricks of her voice and man- ner. If she has done it with malice afore- thouzht she certainly deserves to be con- Sratulated on her remarkable success, but having established her sbility to do this | sort of thing, she should give it up as | | quickly as possible. Maxine Elliott her- self bears unmistakable traces of having tried to copy Ada Rehun—most of the Daly graduates are afflicted with the Rehan gasp—ana Miss Bates may be aim- ing at higher game than the fair Maxine when she plays a ia Elliott. and clever enough, though, to work out ber own saivation and throw models to the winds. “The Railroad of Love’’ in which Blanche Batesand the other Frawleys were playing, is one of those idyllic comedies in which the characters live and move and have their being only to make love, or be made love to. There are a couple of fathers, and 2 few relations thrown in, but the fathers have but a single thought— that of seeine their childr n wed. They lie awake at night pondering on suiiable mates for treir offspring, and the sole topic of conversation during their waking hours is of wedding bells and marriage sett.e- ments. Comedies from the German are apt 1o be that way, particularly comedies where the great Augustin Daly has had a i fingerin the pie. *“Th: Railroad of Love’’ is as beautifully, wholly and absorbiugly given up to Cupid and his wiles us “Countess Guek1” is, and every one re- members that “Gucki’’ begins, continues and enas in =ffairs of the heart. It is just like devouring a feast of straw- berries and whipped cream, to “*assist,”’ as the French say, at one of these comedies. Life is depicted as we dreamed of it at! £p FESSLER, AT MOROSCOS f?@ |in the mad, She is bright ¢ LFHyY BALLET § n sweet sixicen, but viewed in the light of more mature judgment, I, for one, cannot dispel a dire foreboding as to the future of the characters, when they are all married and done for. What will they talk about? What will the fathers have to occapy their minds, when the love affairs of their children no loncer burden them? How will the children while away the weary hours without the assistance of Cupid? In “The Railroad of Love,” Cousin *“Va1” will no doubt have her hands full looking after that butterfly lieutenant of hers. He is just the sort of man who would be *“to one thing constant never.” “The Railroad of Love” just suits the Frawley company. They make love and are loved brightly, charmingly and con- vincingly. There is a perennia! youthful- ness abeut them—a sort of Men may come and men may go, But we make love forever, ‘Which charms afresh every time they do it. You could not imagine them loving misguided way in which Romeo and Juiiat loved, and suffered and died. The Frawley lovers are well bred, polite and decorous, just as tender and impassioned as the rules of etiquette will permit them to be, but quite incapable of growing vulgariy despairing or ve- ement. The Fraw'eys have had such long practice in polite comedies of “The Ratiroad of Love” sort that I believe they could compile a valnable volume for th- etiquette series on “How to Make Love With Propriety.” To judge from the Tivoli programme, one would say that the theater employed a modest and retiring Mahatma to write its music. No composer's name is given on the prozramme except William Lorraine’s for that graceful music of the baliet suite. Yes! it must be a Ma- hatma who composed the rest of *‘Jack and the Beanstalk,” and he writes charm- ing music—bright, catchy and tuneful, and yet not popular enough to be vulgar or trivial. It does not matter to the pub- lic how he gets his inspirations, but my own opinion is that he keeps up occult re- lations with such masters of operetta as Offenbach, Franz von Suppe, Audran, Jobann Strauss, etc. Some of these mas- ters are living and some have joined the great majority, but that does not make any difference; the Tivoli's Mahatma gets out on the astral plane, meets them all, discusses tbe newest tbings in comic opera, and comes home laden with bright and up-to-date inspirations for the Tivoli's next extravaganza. I have not heard the latest effusions of Strauss, Audran, etc., but judging from their earlier operettas they are not doing much better work than the Tivoii's Muhatma. It was natural that Delia Fox’s operas should fail a little flat compared with “Babes in the Wood,”’ the music of Little Trooper” for instance almost dc- served the fate, and if you compare the music of *“Jack an1 the Beanstalk’’ with the music in “The Brownies”—well! as Mrs, Malaprop classically observes, *'Ca- parisons are odorous.” The long and the shortof the matter is that the Mahatma at the Tivoli has spoilt us by pampering us on such bright, sparkling music, that we have grown too exacting in our comic opera tastes. Ii is years since I saw a ballet d’action, but an irrepressible longing to behold one seized me after spend- ing the other evening at the Or- pheum, and finding that more by good luck than by good manacement Gustav Walter has all the materials to hand for giving, not the “*Excelsior” of ‘‘La Mala- aetta,” but one of the many pretty bailets d’action that teil their stories by panto- mime, without spectacalar effects. If Adrien Kiralfy is not unworthy of his brothers lie knows a thing or two about putting on such productions, and the ac- compiished Phoites are equal to all the requirements of the pantomime business. As for the Orpheum coryphees, they are getting very nicelv broken into dancing, and if only a few tucks could be taken out of the Orpheum staze to lenzthen it Gus- tav Walter might fairly dazzle the San Francisco public with a ballet-pantomime such as no manager would risk the cost of bringing across the continent. It is by a mere chance that all the materials are here, and I fear they will not be utilized, but as they say in “‘Patienrce’’: *Suchan opportunity may not occur again.” MARIE EVELYN. = Green-Room Gossip. Among the many would-be artists who tormented Gustave Walter tor engage- ments on the Orpheum Circuit while he was in New York was a typical *‘leg it” of | the kind more often pictured in the comic | papers than szen in real life. He followed the vaudevilie manager about, and oneday cornered him in a restaurant where theat- rical people are wont to congregate. He stated his business, and Waiter replied: “Lets me seevat you can do; if you makes me laugh I gives you an engagement.’’ Forthwith the actor mounted a round- table and started to give ‘‘bits’’ from “Romeo and Juliet.” In his enthusiasm he overstepped the center point of the table and came tumbling down, table and all. Mr. Walter laughed, but the actor is still waiting to be booked on the Orpheum Circuit. They were young, they wore new clothes and had other characteristics that bespoke the wedding tour. They enterea the lobby of ths Murray Hill Theater on Monday night, Without unlinking arms the happy pair walked up to the box-office. He asked: *“Is Mr. Myles playing in the ‘Maccaroon?"” The treasurer was about to reply when tbe blushing bride exclaimed: “Why, Edward, you mean Andrew Myies in ‘Mackerel.””’ *No, Kitty,” he corrected, *‘you are a little mixed. It's—ic's—it’s—"" “It’s Andrew Mack in *Myles Aroon,’”” ventured the treasurer as ha laid down two cardboards and said, “Two dollars, | please.”” Baldwin Theater. “Palmer Cox’s Brownies” has but eight nights and, ihree matinees more at the Baldwin Theater. Many amusing local- isms have been interpolated during the past week, ana for the remaining perform- ances will be materially added to. “The Browiies” will close ‘each evening as usual with the aerial ballet, which has be- come one of the most applauded of the many 1nteresting featcres of the perform- every performance commencing with this evening's, her popular number, “Ben Boit.” 01 Monday, January 4, Denman Thomp- son’s fuvorite pl “The Oid Homestead,"” comes to tiie Baldwin. _The company will bring the originai old Homestead Double Quartet ana a choir of twenty selecied voices. Grand Opera-House A war drama, “Across the Potomac,” { replaces “‘She’’ at Morosco’s Grand Opera- house on Monday night. It is the work of Augustus Pitou and Colonel Edwarda Alfriend. Colonel Alfriend 15 a Union soldier who pays due homage to tae cour- age and sincerity of the Southern soldiers, In fact, while the hero 1s a Msssachusetts man, bis sweetheart is from Virginia and Irer noble young br.ther is in the Con- federate army. There are to be some elaborate scenic effects, especially in the great battl: scene, in which an entire company of the First Regiment, N. G. C., | will participate. Beautiiul Cora Macey, who played She during the past week, is cast tor the female spy and wears men’s clothes. Tivoli T)pzra—House. The holiday production of “Jack and the Beanstalk” at the Tivoli Opera-house has met with great success and will be contin- ued until further notice. The three grand ballets and the artistic grouping of the coryphees urder the direction of Mons. Remonde have made quit: a hit, and so bave the fancy steps of the male dancer, Henella. The specialties, the cow and all the other features o’ “Jack and the Bean- stalk,” are good, and Ferris Hartman, W. H. West, Joan J. Raffael, Rhys Thomas, Maurice Darcy, Fred Kavanagh, W. H. Tooker, Master Jack Robertson, Josie In- tropidi, Elvia Crox Seabrooke, Amie Suits, Anna Schnabel appear to advantage in the leading roles. i A second edition is now in preparation, in which many new songs, dances and jokes will be introduced. Golumbia Theater. This is the farewell week of the Frawley company, and it will be ceiebrated by a triple bill. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, that comical comedy by ing tale, “The Tinted Venus.”” Niobe, a $70,000 statue, 2000 years oid, is sud- denly brought to life at an evening recep- tion given by a wealthy New York insur- ance man, the electric wires used in illu- minating her with incande-cent lizhts effecting the marvelous reincarnation. Her garments, which are decidedly an- tique in character, are replaced by a more modern costume, and sne is made one of the guests of the evening. Her manners and customs are those of ancient Greece, and the complications arising from her being thrown in with nineteenth century people provide the amusement. The cast will include Beatrice Lieb as Niobe and the other paris will be plared by George Osbourne, Hugo Toland, Fran- cis Powers, Frank Clayton, May Buckley, Maude Hine, Frances Newton and Miss Bouvier. Miss Rosella La Faiile will make her reappearance as Caroline Dunn. At the Ghutes. R. M. Brown, a one-legged cyclist who is going around the world on his wheel, has been engaged by the Haight-street management and will coast down the chutes and will land in the lake on his bicycle this afternoon and evening. Emil Markeberg will make a balloon ascension and parachute drop at 4 o’clock, and Jules Korto, the wonderful equilibrist, will walk down the chutes on a globe aft- ernoon and evening. The Animatoscope shows a number of new scenes and it is rapidly becoming one of the features of the grounds. The San Francisco and Oakland school children are availing themselves of the management’s vacation invitation and pleasant days see the place packed. Loie Fuller's Return. La Loie Fuller will produce a panto- mime entitled a ‘‘Paris Tragedy,” as a feature of her engagement of four nights at the California Theater, commencing Thursday evening. The dancer has re- turned this way en route to Mexico, where she is to fill an engagement booked some months ago and which she is under contract fo fill prior to her departure to China. La Loie intends to make the pan- tomime the bill for her re-entree to the Parisian stage next year. It calls for no small amouat of puntomimic talent and Martha Morton, *“‘His Wife’s Fathez,” will 53k Vivian Vauaun invag S 6‘02 AT THE BALDWITN E —— = o, be performed. It has been in the Frawley repertoire only a few months, but during that time it has provea a drawing card. On Thursday and Friday nights and atthe Friday matinee, “The Great Unknown” I form the bill. This 1s an Augustin Daly comedy which was successful durinz the last Frawiey season. ‘‘Men and Women,”” one of the best cf the De Mille and Belasco piays, wiil form the bill at the Saturday matinee and on Saturday night, and It will serve as the farewell performance on Sunday evening. The Frawley company will not return to the Columbia till next summer. , Shortly they wiil start on a tour of the East. On Wednesday night, the 30th inst, the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers' As- sociation will take a benefit at the Colum- bia Theater, At the Orpheum. ‘With new evolutions for the ballets and some changes in the vaudeville end of the programme, the bill at the Orpheum for this week promises to be even stronzer than last. Kiralfy has been putting his coryphees through new marches, etc., and the aerial hallet has some new light effects, while the human butterflies have learned new curves of flight. Zazelle and Vernon, the funny acrobats of last week, are on the bill and Cushman and Holcomb have new songs. Cler- mont’s trained animals ars in the last week of their engagement. The Phoites and their clever pantomime play an im- portant part in the holiday bill. Tue Dunbar sisters remain. Abachi and Masand, two new-comers, are said to be about the best acrobats and tumblers that Gustav Walter has yet dis- covered. Ricazar Theater. “The Cricket on the Hearth” will be withdrawn from the Alcazar after to-day, and to-morrow evening *Niobe,” a three- act comedy by Harry and Edwara Poul- ton, adapters of “‘Erminie,’”” will be pre- sented. < ance. Little Gertie Carlisle, at the request of many of her admirers, wiil render at The story was in some points sug- gested by Anstey's extravagant and amus- Miss Fuller has secured the service of one of the cleverest artists in tbis line to as- BRownIES sist her in this act. Besides the panto- mime Miss Fuller will bring out new dances, iancluding the “Chinese Lady,” *The Shadow Dance,” ete. There will be two matinees, one on Friday (New Year’s day) and another on Saturday. “Messiah” for Gharity. A very successful performance of “The Messiah'” was given in the First M. E. Church, San Jose, last Monday and Tues- day, for the benefit of the Associated Chariti A large audience was present, and the various numbvers of Handel's masterpiece were received with unstinted applause. A large and efficient chorus of San Jose singers, conducted by James Hamilton Howe, rendered the choruses, and the solo artists were: Mme. Yda de Seminario, soprano; Miss Carrie Fuster McCiellan, contralio; Mr. Frank Coffin, tenor; Mr. 8. Homer Henley, basso; Pro- fessor F. Loui King, organist; Miss Ada Churchill, pianist. Gircus Royal. At the horse show at the Circus Royal kicking, rearing and bucking horses con- tinue to be truined in a manner which shows the power of man over the horse, particularly of Professor Gleason, the King of Horse-tamers. Where They Laugh. Tlere is generally some joke or point in a play whicnh the audience applauds more uproariously than all the other witticisms. It is not always the author’s most cher- ished joke, and it is very seidom the best bit ot ¢ialogue in the play, but night after night the audicnce insists on hailing it with delight, for some mysterious reason which even the actors themselves cannot explain. The following are the points where the biggest laugh cowes in at some of the hol- iday preparations: At the Baldwin—*The Brownies.”” The leader of the German bana, com- menting upon the eating oi roosters, says: “I never eat roosters! I fool him! I eat him when he is a egg.’’ At the Tiveli—"Jack and the ‘‘Bean- stalk.”” The jealous queen finds the King at Mrs. Sitmpson’s dairy, and, knowing him to be a great flirt, the following conversa- tion ensues: Queen Intropodi—Where is the milk- maid you came to see? < King Hartman (very absent-mindedly) —The milk is made down at the pump, my dear, Dramatic Brevities. ‘Walter Sanford is in London, using his old plays. William Gillette is to supply Henry E. Dixie with a new play. Louis James has just finished a disastrous tour in the Sonth. There will be special New Year's dsy mati- nees at the theaters. The ballet of “Cleopatra” will shortly be presented at the Tivoli. )My Friend from India” is to be produced in London on January 16. “Jack and the Beanstalk” was written and arranged by George E. Lask. The Lyceum Compvany, with its entire new repertoire, wiil be one of the summer attrac- tions at the Baidwin. The receipts of the Coghlan benefit will be held in trust by Charles Frohman, Abe Hum- mel and William Perzel. Nat Goodwin will play & New York engage- ment after all. He will use his new play, “An Americsn Citizen.” Modj:ska’s oomln’. tour under the manage- ment of Al Hayman & Co. will extenu over a period of but four Joseoh Haworth willleave the cast of “Sue” and come direct West to join Modjeska. Hels to p.ay lead with the star. Annie Buits will shortly sing Lottie Colllus.: latest success, I Went to Paris With Papa, in *Jack and the Beanstalk.” J. K. Emmett secured a divorce from Emily Lytton last week. Mr. Emmett will continue his season to the continuous house. Lillian Nordica s said to have discovered & wonderful tenor in Chicago, whom she thinks, with some schooling, will become famous. W. H. Crane willi come here late in the sea- 8on and proauce his entire repertoire, includ- ing his latest success, *‘A Fool for Fortune.” When Margaret Mather goes to Wallack's Theater she promises a production of Cym- beline” which, she declares, will compare with Henry Irving’s in London. The Chicago pressis very enthusiasticcon- cerning “The Prodigal Father.” which is now o its way 1o the coast and will be seen at the Columbia Theater in January. Mrs. Langtry has a rival in the way of a rac- ing actress. Mile. Marsy of the Comedie Fran- caise, whose name figured so prowinently in the Max Lebaudy case, was one of the chief bidders at the sale of Camille other day. nc’s stud the There is already being manifested a dectded interest in the series oi Lillian Nordica's ope. ratic concerts to be held at the Baldwin Thege ter during the week of January 18. The scenes in Otis Skinner’s new romantie play, “A Soldier df Fortune,” are laid in Italy at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the time being the second invasion of that coun. try by the armies of France. H. Beerbohm Tree's Svengall is strikingly original and forcible. He looks more like Du Maurier’s hypnotist musieian ihan any of the riraitnres of the fumous character yetseen n New York. A lady has come forward to say that a work written by her suggested toV on Barrett the idea of his *Sign of the Cross.” Barrett dis- misses the charge of plagiurism in a lof Marcus Superbus vein. Tne dramatist-noveli says he doesn’t owe anything o anybody, he got his story entirely out of his own head, then he goes on to say he acknowledges r indebtedness to anybody except to Suetoniy, Seneca, Tacitus and other classical autho ties, “which are, of course, open (0 anybody.” What a wonderful thing this learning is! NEW A “A PARIS TRAGE TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ONLY FOUR NIGHTS. S“THE CHINESE LADY.” LA CALIFORNIA THEA QUEEN OF DANCE LA LOIE “NEW DANCES” “NEW DANCES” LA LOIE. “NEW DANCES” A NEW ATION “NEW DANCES’ LA LOIE IN A NEW ROLE' “A PARIS TRAGEDY"? (Pantomime from the French) LOIE’S POSITIVE GOOD-BY Management William A. Brady Direction George M. Welty and Alf. EUinghouse TER, THURS. EVG., DEC. 31 DEC. 31. MATINEE NEW YEAR’S DAY MATINEE SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 Popular Prices—Entire Dress Circle. $1; Entire Balcony. 50c and 75c. Seats Ready Tuesday Morning at the Box-Oflice. L MAYMEN DWIN 5 INCORP'D BflnEATRE PROPS. THIS (SUNDAY) NIGHT AND LAST PERFORMANCES! LAST PERFORMANCES! EVERY NIGHT NEXT WEEK. Farewell Performance Sunday Night, January 3. Matinees Wednesdav, Ne 'w Year’s and Sa urday. C. B. JEFFERSON, KLAW AND HRLANGER'S . THE GREAT BIG SUCCESS, Palmer Cox’s BROWNIES! THE FLYING BALLET ! This Much Discussed Feature Positively Presented in Every Performance. — THE FUNNY GERMAN BAND — THE ORIENTAL DANCING GIRLS DISAPPEARING DEMONS AND GERTIE CARLISLE, SAN FRANCISCO'S FAVORITE, 1 FUL RENDITION OF “BEN BOLT !" ! WANDERING MINSTRELS ! OTHER GREAT NOVELTIES ! HER WONDER- Secure Seats INow. Maondav, Jan. 4, Doanma ~ Th ma-~ - "¢ Faman TheO'd Homastand” P COLUMBIA FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO...... THEATER. +e......Lessees and Managers. Monday Night “Tuesduy Night Wednesday Nig| Thur.day Night Fridey Matinee Friday Night. Saturday Matine Suturday Nigh £ Sunday (Fareweil) N January 4..... ... Tght. THEN COMES THE !‘ABE\:’;:}LL WEE ——LAST PERFORMANCE OF—— GITEF RAILIROAD OF :OUVE!’ —10-N1GH OD-BY UNTIL NEXT SUMMER! COMMENCING MONDAY, DEC. 28. 2 MATINEES. THEFRAWLEY COMPANY A Great Triple Bill—By Unanimous Request. Friday (New Year’s) .January 1. Siturday anuary 2. | His Wife’s Father. The Great Unknown. | Men and Women. MR. JOSEPH MURPHY, MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE WALTER MOROSCO...Sole Lessee and Manager. Commencing Monday ... THIS AFTERNOON AND TO-NIGHT. Last Performances of “SETERE!’ ‘WITH I1S SPLENDID SCENERY. - December 28th A Revival of the Stirring Urama of the Lat Rebsilion, CROSS THE POTOMAG! Acknowledged the Bost War P'ay Ever Written. MAGNIFICENT SCENERY ! A STRENGTHENED CAST! INTRICATE MECHANISM ! 100—PHOPLE ON THE STAGE——1CO ——SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S DAY MATINEE ON FRIDAY— Evening Prices—10c, 25¢ and 50¢.. ..... M MATINEES S TURDAY AND SUNDAY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING LAST PEKFORMANCES OF “THE CRICKET OF THE HEARTH!” MONDAY EV'G, DEC*MBER 28, ENEW YEAR’S DAY, ers’ Fu lously Funny ‘I hree-Act Comedy, NIORE K. WITH GEORGE OSBOURNE, HUGO TOLAND, And Our Great Companv in the Cast. ON& BIG LAUGH FROM BEGINNING TO END. Order seats by tclephone, Black 991. Night—15c, 25¢, 35c. 50c. Matinee—15c, 25c, 85 Cihun, O'Farrell Street, 1€ ween Stockton and PowsiL Matinee To-Day (Sunday), Dec. 27. Parquet, any sear, 25¢; Balcony, any seal, 10% Children, 10c, any part. AnUnrivaled Christmas Vaudeville Feast. The Original a'd ihe only NIl 8 NS EURO- PEAN A RIAL BALLET an! KIRALFY'S RESPLENDENT BALLET PAGEANT. The Grandest ~pectacle k'ver Proluced ia this Clty, LAST APPEARANCE OF GALLETTI'S MONKEY COMEDIANS 1 And CUSIHMAN and HOLCOMB. THE CHUTES. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPECIALLl E. M. BROWN, The One-Legged Cyclist! will Coast Chutes and lund (o the lake on his wn‘a:r Afternoon—Ballcon Ascension by EMEL MARKEBEKG. KORTO ‘Walking down the Chutes on a Globe, and Potato Race. Evening—Anima oscope, Korto and Bicycle Races. ADMISSION, 10 CT<. | CHILDREN, 5 CT8. Peones Pais Bul o B Ak nson . - TO-NIGHT. —T0-NIGHT: BIG SUCCESs—BIG SUCCESS enear GLEASON ! G2 GREAT GREAT 5 King of Horse-Tamers. POPULAR PRICES. _POPULAR 10¢, %0¢, 30c, 50c. IR T:VOLI OPERA-HOUS= MBS ERNESTINE KRETINA, Proprietor & Maaagst THE HOME TRIUMPH! OUR HOLIDAY SPECTACLE! “JACK ——AND THF— BEANSTALK!” 3 GRAND BALLETS!-3 4 SUPERB TRANSFORMATIONS!—4 SPLENDID CA-T! ENTRANCING SPECIALTIES! A Treat for Young and Old—A Well= rilled Christmastide Pudding of SONG, DANCE AND HUMOR. Popula- Prices........ ««.25¢c 2an1 503, TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. (By kind permission of MRS, ERNESTINE KRELING.) THIS AFTERNOON, AT 2 O’CLOCK, FIFTH ANNUAL BENEFIT OF THE Theatrical Mechanies’ Assoeiation! FARCE! MUSIC! SPECIALTIES! Every Theater in the City will be rppresented. The Biggest Bill Ever Given!l ADMISSION (including Reserved Seat) 50 CEN! SUTRO BATHS. $1000 IN PRIZES! Grand International Tug-of-War! TO-DAY, SUNDAY. December 27, 1896. See Frogramme. America vs. 'relan i, Canada vs. Denmark. Sweden vi. Norway. Germany vs. Portugal. Ita.y vs. Slavonia. Gener:al Admission 25 Cents. CENTRAL PARK. TO-DAY A. 2 P. M. BASEBAILI:! 8, F. ATHLETICS VS. SANTA CLARA ' )