The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1897, Page 28

THE SAN FRANCIS CO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1897T. EDAOND. HAYES' ORPHEUM - SUSTAVE ,,E\/\CK AS THE BADON readers “double double toil and trouble" in trying to decipher The succes of the “Chimmie Fadden” I sketches reatly lay in the fact that beneath Jtue Bowery jurgon and the author's rambling style he had made carefully | studied types of tough character. Town- | send was fortanate in finding a clever coliaborator to assist in sorting his char. | cters and applying them to stage pur- posss. and tne result of their joint labors isa play whieb bristles with interesting | rence, Nellie Sawyer. Nina Cook, Jimmy Horn, Gustave Levick and Gus T The Zanfrettas will perform an aerial act. Alcazar Theater. “A Scrap of Paper” by Palerave and |Simpsun will form this week’s bill. It was one of the great successes of the Ken- \ dals when they were managing St. James | Theater, London, in conjunction with | Joun Hare, and has ever since remained a favorite with playgoers. Hugo Toland, who has been out of the castfor a week on accont of sickness, wmakes his reappéarance as Pro-per Cour: mont, the traveler and man of the worl Beatrice” Lieb will be seen as Suzaune, | Mrs. Kendal’s part. May Buckley, who | bas been very ill for two weeks, comes | back to play t e part of Mathilde. Fran- cis Powers, Gordon Fosier, Mrs. F. M. Bates. Miss Belmour, Juliet Crosby and Miss Tiaball will ali be in the cast. Grand Opera-House. sensational melodrame, entitled “Out in the Streets,” will be produced to-mor- row night. It is by the author of “The Orphans of New York,” which was played 2 few weeks ago at the Grand. ‘ Out in the Streets” teems with deeds of daring, most of which are accomplished by Mortimer Snow as Harry Farley. The story will be made more forceful by re- markable mechanical effects, the most thrilling of which will be rescue of a blind child by young Farley, who rows with her across a river on which burning oil is T contralto, in_selections from *Rigoletto,” *I Lombardi,” ete., and_the comedietta, A French Marri iage.” Emily Lytton, for- merly Mrs. J. K. Emmet, and Edniond Hayes, a leading man well known in the City, will appear in the farce. The Finneys, wonderful swimmers, will indulge in naiatorial feats in a large glass tank; the Pantzer trio, twisters, turners and benders, will make their first appear- ancein the City, and the Renfos, aerial- ists, will show new kinds of trapeze tricks. Joun and Bertha Gleason, Ward and Cnrran and Ara, Z:lra and Vora will re- main on the program At the Chutes. The Chutes are now runnming regularly every afternoon and evening. This after- noon and evening James J. Corbett will spar a number of rounds with John Mec- Vey on the new big stage at the foot of the lake. Emil Markeberg wiil make a bal- loon ascension in the afternoon, and the Jupanese acrobats, Ordway, the trick leyciist, and a wire-walker will give ex- hibitions, Modjeska L. News comes from Los Angeles that in | consequence of Modjeska’s sudden illness there was no performance on Wednesday night, and the great actress’ condition has since been such as to make tne abandon- ment of the tour an absolute necessity. It was intended to end the tour in O ak- land on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the advance bookings were very heavy. L 5 == » p ’m,/, AT THE CALIFORNIA NINA a= DANDIN AT THE CALI FORNY It is almost impossible to take up a Sun- day newspaper or a popular mesgazine without coming across articles with such headlines es ““Muscular Development of Our Maidens,” “Why the End of the Ce: tury Girl Is Better Formed Than Venus, or “How Our Youths Are Stronger Than Hercules.” The impression conveyed by these articles is that the ancient Greeks and Romans were not the only pebbles ou the beach; in fact, that they were smalier and more insignificant than the pebbles of to-day. When one has got thoroughly imbued with these ideds it isa terrible blow to nineteenth century pride to see a play like “Spartacus.” Dio mio! which is the original of dear me, what scarecrows those supers looked in togas, and most of | the principals had the same lean and hungry look about their limbs, Muscular development, indeed! Louis James and Guy Lindsley were the oniy men who had any muscular development to admire. Asfor Miss Alma Kruger, she isa very | beautiful young lady, arms were never designed for classic | draperies. 1f the average every-day Roman had not been a finer specimen of bumanity than the average every-day super, togas would never have remained in fashion & week in ancient Rome. | | but her angular | Somehow those supers in “Spartacus” worried me, They all seemed designed by nature 1o play the role of the lean apothecary in “Romeo ard Juliet”; and | not one of them knew enough about act- ing to “bear a banner in a stern, impres- | sive manner.” The arena scene was made | more picturesque by the presence of young | lady supers, who looked pleasant in the boxes. When the gladiators cried havoc and let loose the dogs of war the young ladies never moved a muscle. They saw their fellow-Romans thrown in the sind aof the arena and the gladiators sweeping all before them, but they smiled on bland- 1y, just as if they were posing to ba photo- graphed. The conduct of those maidens was the touch of unreality which de- stroyed the illusion of an otherwise very thrilling scene. It is, no doubt, an almost { superbuman task to make supers act, or | else more stage manazers would see that they did it; but would it be impossible to | make those girls give some siens of terror | and dismay? Spartacus”’ is a very fine vehicle for Louis James to show his mastery over the toga style of acting. He laoks a fine figure of & man and declaims his bom- bastic lines in a manly, heroic way. He has shown his sincerity, too, by spending agood deal of money in mounting the drama picturesquely, but as far as gen- eral popularity is concerned it was money thrown away. For thesake of seeing one or two heroic roles finely interpreted, fin de siecle audiences will not flock to a play like “Spartacus.” Dr. Bird tried to ap- peal to a whole gamut of emotions—love of liberty, patriotism, maternal, paternal and fraternal zffeciion, etc.—but there is a hollow, artificial ring about most of his fine sentiments that does not deceive the sophisticated playgoer of to-dsy. Two decades ago the trend of the arama was not toward realism, and thank Heaven we do not all of us now belong to the / ("d //h 1 ly u ‘u//l N M o~ e et 1] " it ! hL ([APT3 J/ %% 1 /'/ i mummmnll‘ “w(/ BN W e A // i 4TH ACT OF “CHIMMIE FADDEN* floating, Among the people especially en- i / //,/ gl a”/ "" "l / _;/ / COLUMBIA THEATRE Ibsen, Hauptm: cult, but their * , Maeterlinck, Pinero beap, tawdry, bilious logic’’ (as Lyman B. Glover calls it) has | made us skeptical about guilelessly ac- cepting the highfatutin’ notions that two decades ago playgoers seem to have thought very fine sentiments indeed. When William Gillette sat down to write “The Professor” he must have been uncertain whether to produce a farce- comedy, a melodrama or a tender, roman- tic play,so he compromised by giving them all in layers, like a ham and veal sandwich. Layer No. 1, where the pur- blind Prolessor proposes to every girl he meets, is broad farce-comedy. Melodrama makes its appearance in the second act with the entrance of the villain Brown, one of those husky-voiced, unwashed, out-and-out ruffians who steal infants of tender years and bully and abuse their ill-gotten prey. If there had been any doubt as to whether Brown had escaped from melodrama it would have been set atrest when the Professor felled him to the earth with one blow—in the presence of ladies the hero of melodrama always finds one blow sufficient to lay the villain low. The third layer of *‘The Professor” lapses into tender seniiments, and before parting with his audience—just to sbow that there is no ill-feeling— Giilette gives them a second slice of broa i farce-comedy, in which the Professor is bombarded with pseude love-letters from a lot of mis- chievous bovs and giris, and cries wildly, “Lemme go!" and bounds through a win- dow to escape, after which, seeing that no one is making the faintest effort to detain bim, he remains. Thess little ups and downs in the styze of “Tne Professor” give the members of the Alcazar Company plenty of opportuni- ties for showing their versatility. J. B. Polk, as the hero, is 2 fine specimen of the pedagozic walking encyclopedia of useless knowledge, and as Daisy Brown, the chiid of the woods, Miss Bertha Foltz is de- lightfully ciever and Jifelike. She looks the mere slip of a girl that Daisy is sup- posed to be, and she acts her part with ail the unconscious vim and abandon of a frank-hearted child-woman. Seeing is believing, and a great many people had to see “Chimmie Fadaen’’ at the Columbia to be convinced that Town- send’s rambling, discarsive sketches had been welded into a coherent play. En- thusiasts who like to be in the swim con- sider it rank heresy to utter a word against anything written 1n the jargon of the Bowery—the spot which seems rapidly becoming the dearest to every American heart. The veriest twaddle written in the Bowery jargon is hailed as inspired, and the commonest type of Bowery character is gazed at (on the stage) with an admira. tion approaching to awe. For my part— I loathe dialect stories, and only read some of Townsend's sketches as peo- ple take tonics and constitutionals, be- cause they are supposed to be invigorat- ing—when I have to pronounce four or five words on every page aloud to guess at the meaning, as most people have to do in dialect stories, I never can help deploring the wicked waste of time taken by the au- thor to write the dialect only to give his types and quaint language, though ifs great fascination lies in the fact that the Bowery is writien all over it. erature and Bowery songs continues it msy come to pass that two thousand years hence, when intelligent Japanese tourists fly over to visit the silent ruins of New York, the students of dead languages will say to their guides: *“‘Don’t show us the vulgar ruins of Wall street, of Fifth avenue; there is no literature connected with them. We want to muse by moon- light in the classic Bowery.” M.uuz EVELYN. Baldwin Theater. Louis James will produce for the first time in San Francisco to-morrow night his new comedy, "My Lo:d and Some Ladies,” an adaptation from one of Scribe's most famous successes, which bas veen r.modeled to suit James. The hero of the play is Lord Bolingbroke, the im- pecunious Tory politician, who so bitter- ly opposed the policy whereby the Whigs strove to humble Louis XIV of France tlluranz the reign of Queen Anne of Eng- an The Queen’s favorite was the Duchess of Marlborough, whose hushand was routing Louis’ forces in the Low Countries. For personal motives the Duchess wishea the war 10 be continued. Bolingbroke was for stopping the drain on the treasury caused by Mariborougb’s victories. The piay deals with the strusgle of the Duchess and Bolingbroke for supremacy. The reperioire for the week is as fol- lows: Monday, Tuesday and Friday even- ings and Saturday matinee, “My Lord and Some L«dles ; Wednesday and Sun- day, *‘Othbello”; Thursday, *‘Hamlet.” James A. Herne in his own comedy- drama, “Shore Acre~ ' is announced as the attraction at the Baldwin Theater on Monday evenlnc lhe 2: hl!' Golumbia Theater. “Chimmie Fa.de which has enter- tained theater-goers during the past week, will be seen for one week longer, after which it will make a brief tour of the California cities and then return to the East. Hopper, at the conclusion of his California tour, will return 10 New York again before the season closes. Fannie Rice will be seen at the Colum- bia Theater after *Chimmie Fadden.” The company supportin: her th:s season includes Alice Gaillard, Kate Michelena, Beckie Haight, George bmdencl Charles H. Drew, Francis Gaillard, John Conley, J. 8. Terry, Ralph Bicknell, Jobn Kir- komp, jobnson Haige, John Strong and Frank E. Morse. During Miss Rice's en- za ement here she will produce *‘A Flower Girl of Paris” and “At the French Ball.” CGalifornia Theater. “Qur Little Cinderella” Company will open a week’s engagement at the Califor- nia Theater to-morrow night. A good many spectacular effects are promised, and efforts have been made to obtain the cleverest children procurable for the vari- ous roles. Cinderella will be taken care of by little Rosina d’Ennery, whoisto make her professional debut with this company. The prince will be r'-yed by little Alice Condon, who is well known in this City. Daisy Grogan will be the fairy queen, and other children in the cast are: Daisy Sawyer, Flossy Sawyer, May Law- 1f tue present passion for Bowery lit- | gaged for this production are Nat M. Wills who did the tramp_specialty in “The Prodigsi Father,” Cora Macey, Arline Wyatt, Rosamonde_0'Connell and Baby Lewis. There will be singing and daucing _specialties by Mr. Wills, Miss Wratt, Edward Heron and Lottie Wil- liams. Tivoli Opera-House Last night a special edition of the up- to-date extravaganza, * din, or the Wonderful Lamp,” was given. Ferris Hartman, Anlnu Suits, J. J. Raffael, Josie Intropidi, W. H. West, Elvia Crox Ses- brooke and Rhys Thomas all had new specialties. One of the most taking inci- dents of the new production is a new a: raugement of the divertissement “La Danse des Fleurs Electriques.”” In this beautiful display are over 500 miniature lights. The new production wilt be a special bill, including Gilbert and Sulllvun s **Pa- tience, or Buntiorne’s Bride,” with Ferri« Hartman as the esthetic poet, preceded mythological tale. In rhis will appear Elvia Crox Seabrooke, B:rnice Holmes, Rhbys Thomas and W. H. West. The artists of the company are hard at work preparing a special production of Nicola:’s famous comic_opera, the “Merry Wives of Windsor.”” Laura Millard wiil reappear as Mrs, Ford. At the Orpheum. The bill at the Orpheum will be changed almost entirely this week. The principal novelties will be the grand oners quartet, composed of Guille, Abramoff, Miss Julia Cotte, soprano, and M'ss Dor: Busch NEW TO-DAT ANTSEMENTS. THE THEOSOPHICAL 1CAN (HZOSOPHISTS, Whobave traviled arvund (he WOr.d 01 bebalf the Theosopuical Movement which Zun in America by, MADAMI: . BLAVATSKV. An, dersaip of | MeS KATHERINE ‘- TL s GLE' Having arrived in San Francisco, Invite the pubiic 2 um eting in 044 Fellows’ Hall. corner Market and Stree s, AT 8 0'CLOCK, v usaters will give adareses on Brotherhgod, Tolerition and Kindred heosophical Topics. The Theosopmical Ihovemmtnt L sogéctarian 11 fharscter sad cooperates wilh all who woek for the bplitiing or humanit The Members of - the Party Are: Mie RATHERIN A TINGLeY, Lealer of the | Theosop ical Movement wor . T. HARGROVE, President of the Theosop! eal Socieries in America, Kurope an1 Australasin. LAUDE FALLS WRIGHT, President of the ew YOr. Theosophical Society and Secectary to the Iate Madame Blavataky and 1o William 4% cLavos FaLLs WRIGHT, Lecturer to the Enstern States in America. H. T. PATTER~ON, Pre-ident of the Brooklyn Theosophical Soclecy, - M. PIrKCE, Representative of the School for Ihe Bevival of tie Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. V. W. WILLIAMS of Engian SEY BARCEAY o SRR or London, Engla.d. MUSICAL SELECTIONS. p o throughout the The members Gt the Crusade wish It to be dis- tine.iy understord that they bave uo connection with tha organization 0 whicn Colone. O cott is pre.ident and 10 which Mrs. - noie Besant beiongs. The hegdquerters of the Swn Fra.cisco Theo- sophical $o je:y are at room 30, 8.9 Market st. ‘Ihe punlic meetings are heid in the Academy of Sciences Hail, 813 Market s ., on every Sunday and Tuesasy evenings at 8 o'clock. by Von Suppe’s melodious one-act oper- | etta, “Lovely Galatea,” founded upon the T W////II/ AI// | ADMISSION 100 Yesterday, however, all the monev was re- funded, as there is no hope of Modjeska NI Tl ///////// i Il % — being able to play the engagement. She is said to be a very sick woman. Monster Benefit. Arrangements are beinz completed for a monster benefit in aid of the Actors’ Fund of America, to take place at the Baldwin Theater on some afternoon in the week of February 22. The manage- ment of the affair has secured James A. Herne, who comes here with *“Shore Acres,” Fanny Rice, the Tivoli company and some of the best acts from the Orpheum. Trebelli's Last Goncert. Afine progremme has been arranged for the Trebeili concertat the California Thealter this evenin:. Itis given in detail in #mother co'umn, NEW 70-DAY—AMUSEMENTL. FAREWELL TO NIGHT LAST THY GREATIS LS RGERO ¢ THE AG ! TREBELLI! R ST CiownTalent. Comipicts ClLIF()R\L\ THEATER. BOX OFFIC: OPEY FROM 1) A. M. PROGRAMME. 2. Ara from nmg«le “Caro Nome...... Verdl Sille. Trevelts 8 Evooution of the Nuns, from “Robert le Dia -Meyerbeer 4. Swedish Polska Son, Danstrom Nl . Violoncello Solo, 2d Herr Artho: Welss. Air de I'Intante, from “Le Cid,” (e Spain when distribniing aims (0 1he poo on leaving the Caibedral on Easter morning.) Mile. Trevellt. 7. Madrigal... - Victor Harris ‘Mons. 1. ¢ repanx. 8. Polacca from “Mignon”. - Mlle. Treos 9. Vio oncello Soie, Gavotte in D. Herr Arthur Welss. 10. Melodie, N cus Vous Verrons’ ‘Ambrose Thomas FPopper Charles L. Hess Mons. L. Cropaux. 11. Chanson trom “La Reine 1opaze,” belile” i Petite Victor Masse Mile. Tr ALCAZAR!: MONDAY .FEBRUARY 15 THE SU\.CFS& OF TWO CONTINENTS. tardou’s Famous Comedy, ' SCRAP GF PAPER,” SUMPTUOUSLY MOUNTED, EVEKYTHING NEW, HUGO TOLAND, J. B. POLK And the Entire Company. Last Performances To- v & 28nd '8 of Gii- let'e's “c.medy “Ine “rofesso Prices—15c, 25¢, 35¢ and 300, Phone for seats— Black 991 THE CHUTES. THIS AFTEENOON AND EVENING. JAMES J. CORBETT Will Spar With JOHN McVEY of Fhiladeiphia. BALLOON AScENsION: Bmstvo e o oaker: JomN. ~ S awash Athlete: of Aitractions. ANIMATOSCOPE EVERY NIGHT. No Extra Charge. CHILDREN 5c NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. BS P i FRANCISCO. CAL. esma. im57. LOS ANGELES CAL. s, iasa GQUSTAV WALTER. DirecTor Genzrar NEW YORK OFFICE, Ravillon Building, 13-15 West 28th S¢ U'Farrell St., et. Stockion and Powell SAN FRANCISCO’S GREAT MUSIC HALL. W elx Coxmmencing Mondav. Feob. 15, = o A N SW COMPANY:! 87 14 NEW | MAf NETS-14 V7% vRG BV "o o RopRoM rof. =Y THE CHAMPIN ALL KO- ND SWIMMER OF THE WORLD, assisted by - ECEIINTINT MISS MARIE FINNEY t'le Hcmue af Lnndm EDMOND HAYES EMILY I_YTTON AND WALTER H:\ ES, A FRE\CH M»\RRI\G TNOTED * S (;IE{L GERTRUDE, | THE FUsiy BLANCHE. DEMONS, JOHN 'Avn BERTHA GL Dancing Artis Grana OPERA QUAR'I“-E‘Tv A. L. GUILL.. Tenor. MISS JULIA ¢ LTE, Prima -onna Soprano SIGN R ABHRAMOGCF. Basso, SCH.' Prima Donna Contralto, In Selections fiom Grana Operas, Soios, Duets, Trios, Quarteis and Scenes from Operas MATINEE TO-DAY ASUNDAY), FEB. 14. Parquet, anv seat. Balcon. anv. wa . 10c: Children 10c. any nart BALDWIN THEATER. THE EMINENT ACTOR, MR. LOUIS JAMES Under the Management of WAGENHALS and KEMPER. TO-NIGHT “SPARTACUS! ” (SUNDAY) N EXT WEEIR! Monday, Tuesday and Friday Nights and Saturday Matinee, the Brilliant Comedy, “MY LORD AND SOME LADIES!” AL HAYMAN & CO. (Inc.), Proprietors. (FIRST TIME IN SAN FRANCISCO). Wednesday and Sunday Nights, 1 Thursday Night, “OTHBELLO! HAMLETI!"” Eaturday Night (by Request) HIULIUS CESAR! EZ COMMENCING MONDAY, FEB. 22, JAMES A. HERNE In His Original Creation of NATHANIEL BERRY In the Saccesstul Play of American Home Life, SHORE ACRES SEATS READY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 CALIFORNIA THEATER. AL HAYMAN & CO. (Incorporated), Propristors. TO-MORROW (MONDAY) EVENING AN EVENT! OUR LITTLE CINDERELLA COMPANY. A SUPERB PRODUCTION OF THE FAIRY PLAY, PRESENTED BY 49 —CHILDREN—<49 LITTLE ROSINA D’ENNERY, LITILE FLO#bV 8. LITTLE DAISY GROGAN, LITTL LE NINA COOK. LITTL JITTL LITTL NEW AND GORGEOUS SCENERY. LEGANT AND CO u.\ touv\ws ATCHY AND ORTGINAL MUST The Elltlru Production Interspersed With UP-TO-DATE SPECIALTIES, Pri 25cto 81. A goodress-v dseaton th~ lower floorfor 50¢. Last CROWDS 'ETery Member of the O 1 Complny COLUMBIA THEATER y’eflazsu 'WHERE Gu - THE CHARLES [}HIMM[E FADDEN February 22. THIS AFTERNOON AND TO. Last Performances of A MILE A MINUTE! MOROSCO’S Sl GRAND OPERA-HOUSE WALTER MOROSCO. . Sole Lessee and Manaser. | With Its Speeding Engine. | 1 Oommenoxn Monday, February 1l5th izt Fradtesin on This Coast of the 1hrilling Comedy Drama 0UT IN THE STREETS! N. WOOD, Aunthor of “ORPHANS OF NEW YORK,” Etc. MANY NEW PEOPLE! ALL: NEW SCENERY! Wonderful Mechanical Effects! REFINED SPECIALTIES! SONGS AND DANCES! STARTLING SITUATIONS! EVENING PRICES=10c. 25¢_n ' 50-. — MATINEE This Afternoon at 2. COLUMBIA THEATER. | EXTRA Next Thursday Afternoon, February i at 3:30 Sharp, SECOND SYNPHONY CONCIRT 55 DUSICIANS. GUSTAV HINRICHS, Conductor. MAGNIFICENT PROG{AMM?Y, Inc.uding Beethoven's e ee———————————————— TiVOL! OPERA-HOUS= MEsKRNESTING KRipix . Proprietor & Manager THE HOT SHOW! —TO=- IGI—IT——— (=4 OUR UP-TO-DAY ALADDIN, P, Or, THE WONDERF UL L. \: GRFA'T \CASE:C R . Ths Late: “La D-nle des F nsation. s Electriques!’’ LTIES. THE SiX LITTLE TAILORS. Box-oftice now open. Reserved seats 50c and §1. GOLDEN GATE HALL. THE EVANT CFTHE ¢ £ASONT |un C l\lll's of Fi Tonul 3 g ol u['l";‘ ."'l-um. A jetn| RACING! RACINGI RACING! Commencing Tuesday l-x( ‘:,hu 16t THE BEkAMNID - BUI -0 RS.? —CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB— <THE A - Under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Andres and in nid of St. Peter's, San Francisco. The Bishop of Ca L'ornld will take (e chalr, | Body of hall ani front row ;;\( balcony, s: b o -+ By no ng. SUTRO BATHS. | o From 7 A. i. to 6 2. P D imming Season 1897, e Bathing, Ipcludin d'\l:,uzil:fllun—A ults % o General Admission, 10¢; Children, 5o WINTER MEETING. 1896-'97, Beginning Monday, Feb. 8, to l"eb 20, Inclusiva OAKLAND RAC ACK. Kacing Monda; A hursday, e Wi, ay,, Friday and Siturday. Rainor =hine. FIVE OR MORE R p | PReturning—Trains leave the Ts 4:45 P . and immediately after the last = THOMAS 1. WILLIAMS JR, Presidens R. B. MILEOY, Secretary.