The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1897, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1897 “The top av the mornin’ to yez, but sure an’ it's late yer are.” “Arra, go aisy, if yer think yer after talkin’ the brogue yer wrong, for it's talkin’ thro’ yer hat yer are, an’ Mr. 0'Sul- livan ‘d tell This is the style of conversation which | is in vogue at the Tivoli just now. ~For over a Denis O'Sullivan has toiled through the heat and burden of the day to teach the Tivoli company just the right roll of the tongu- necessary for making n" racy of the “‘ould sod,” ss is beginning to crown his ver so. week q tead of *ach” and “Golt in Himmel There are rough spots in the e of the chorus here and there, lap- ngu when the American touch of n the voice gets the better ot e brogue, and sometimes an Iristman | d not recognize the language as his own, but tre principals have become ab- ly word perfect. An expert would be deceived into swearing that they were imposted direct from Cork or Limerick. in this City to-morrow evening at the Tivoll Opera-house as the celebrated hero of Irish history in the romantic comic opera of three acts, *‘Shamus O'Brien,” which was especially written for him | from the poem by Joseph Sheriden *‘Le | Fanu.” George H. Jessop wrote the text | of “Shamus O’Brien’”” and the music was composed by Dr. C. Villiers Stanford, whose church, ballad and incidental music of the Henry Irving proauctions is well known. this role throughout Great Britain and the Kast and his character.zation and | vocalization met with unstinted praise. The company supporting O'Sullivan in- | cludes Rhys Thomas as the dashing Oap- Mr. O'Sullivan has played | | | [ | We have heard a great deal about | “‘Shamus O'Brien’ since it was first pro- | duced in London over & year ago. The work is a new departure—an Irish opera written by an Irishman. *The Lily of Killarney” is an Irish opera, but 8ir Julius Benedict was far from being an Irishman. | Bal’e and Wailace were Irishmen, but they sought Bohemian girls and Spani<h Bypsies and all sorts of foreigners for their heroines. Not a custom-house on the glovbe would stamp their cperas *Made in Ireland.” When Viliiers Stanford wrote “Shamus O’Brien” he did one of those things that make people exclaim aiter- | ward: “Why in the word did no one think of it before?”’ He got an Irish plot and made his music racy of the Irish soil, | just as Chopin made his music racy of Poland and Grieg is making his music breathe the airs of Scandinavia, and—but their name is legion. Dvorak has tried to ame thing for America in his symphony, “From the New World,” but | Dvorak was not “‘made in America” and somebow his negroes had a way of whis tling Bohemian airs when they should have been teaching Dvorak plantation m Oenosveces emonQs ¢ 0o e ¢ H ) ¢ . [ 9 H ® a3 10 doubt about the character- istic quality of the music in “Sbamus | O'Brien. One cannot sit throuzh half | anactof a rehearsal without catching up | es that make one think of the sengs of | trelang, and once knew a musician who was music-mad | on the subject oi folk songs. He bad never been in Ireland and had not a drop | of Irish blood in his veins, so his testi- | mony was unbiased, but on their intrinsic | merits he said the foik songs of Ireland were the finest in the world. He would | sit at the piano and play them for hours, | and when he stopped to rest made such remarks as, *'The songs of Scottand ! Ban! You like them because you know them. The «ongs of England! Nonsensel Not to te compared to these. Plantation melo- dies! Bah! Nousenss! Justlisten totnis,” snd then be would play one of the fo gotten songs of Irela nd, for, when you | come to think of it, the songs o f Ireland | practically forgotten. Most people's idees of them are confined to Moore's Irish melodies, Balle’s “Killarney” and above everything else, “The Harp That | Once.’ § { | | It is the last orchestral rehearsal but one of “Shamus O’'Brien’” at the Tivoli, and the singing and resinging of the numbers afford a good opportunity of unraveling the tunes from the very mod- era orchestration of Stanford’s opera. “‘Let the army come, with its sword and its gun,” sings the chorns. “Ar-r-my,” yells O'Sullivan jovially. “Ar-r-r-my,” responds the chorus, with a good ringing | *r'’ this time that brings a whiff of the | Emerald I-le with it. A minnt ter the chorus subsides, and Kitty O'Toole 1s ging, “Where is the man that is com- ing to marry me?’ and I think of my friend, the folk-song player. **Where is the man?” is not one of the melodies that he used to rave over, but it has all the characteristics of his pet songs. Some one remar’ steam on,” and that exactly describes the | barytone’s condition, which they say is | hronic at rehearsals, Most singers find | that they have enough to do through their parts, and rest their voices between times, vut O'Sullivan scorns traditions about | resting the voice. He is doing the work | of stage manager, property man, chorus master, musical director, brogue instruct- | or, and operatic hero all rolled into one. George Lask’s occupation :s gone, for he | seems torecognize that 1oo many stage managers would be as bad as too many | cooks. Even Carl Martens conducts with | one eye on the score and the other on O’Sullivan. When *“Shamus O'Brien” was first produced in London O'Sullivan sang the title role. He has gone on sing- ing it ever since, and knows every bit of business and every barof the music by beart. As the barytone gets older and more hardened in stage ways, he will take more care of his voice and have less oves- flowing enthusiasm 1o spare for the gen- eral production, but just at present he has thrown himself heart and soul into mak- ing “Shamus O’Brien” a San Francisco | success. '0’Sullivan has full | The day is hot,and the rehearsal has been long and arduous, but no one’s en- ergy flags. The musicians stolidly play | on, scarcely looking up from the score, the principals go through all the dashing | busfess of **Shamus O'Brien” again and | again, and never seem to grow tired, | though they have none of the exhilarating | features of a performance to inspire them. | The cark theater yawns like an empty | tomb at their feet, and the brick walls | stare behind the jumble of scenery on the | stage. Laura Miliard is absent, and her part is assumed by George Lsk, ia a white sweater and a brown Derby hat. He won’t hear of the British soldiers captur- ing Shamus, and pleads *Let me not live as his widow forlorn,”” but the military | are inexorable, and arag the hero from his loving einbrace. That is the signal for | the end of Act I, and the rehearsal is called off for the company to geta month- ful of lunch. Iask O'Sullivan if he is not worn out, but he responds, “On, it’s aoth- ing when you iike it.” It must take a great deal of liking to make a man enjoy rehearsing all day and singing far into the night, as the members of the company are doing. In pity for | Little Individua | York"” G o eeeo. 6e160c0eeO000e0e0:+0 [ © £ / [+] © i 3 . sider their ardor for the stag- at the sigh of the hard work and the prosaic renear- sals. As we g0 ont of the theater the manager ays: “If you like to come to our last re- hearsal, it is on Sunday night, afier the regular performance—we shall think our- self Jucky if we get tnroush by 4 o’clock on Monday morning.” Marre EveLy Baldwin Theater. There will be a regular performance by “Primrose and West's Minstrels this even- ing and to-morrow night the comnany wiil enter upon its second and fina! week. George Prmrose is 1o sing, for the fir time here, ihe negro melody, “Mr. John- son, Let Me Loose,” and will also give his week promises to e the genuine negro couples. Next weex De Wo!f Hopper comes to the Baldwin with Sousa’s comic opera success, “£i Capitan.” It is said that the production of “El Capitan,” aside from its libretto and musical numbers, scenic and costume spectacle, aumiers over fifty people. Golumbia T;\eaier. The chorus cessful engagement this evening with a performauce of **Mary Pennington, Spin - ter,” and the one-act comedietta, “The The comedians, Ward and Vokes, mided by twenty-six fsrce comedians, will open ing in “A Run which enameled on the Bank,” with a liberal sup. piy of specislties, and new faces for this its third and lastseason. Charles Guyer will be seen as Bow, the bartender. His two years with Hanlon’s *“‘Superba’’ | made him a reputation as a_pantomimist and clown, and bis acrobatic w is said to be remarkable. Lucy Daly, a petite woman who has been with Canary & Lederer’s forces for the pastt 1ee years, and % 0 was also the star in ~In Gay New this season, will the character of Hasty Writer. Charles | Mason. German comedian, and many more new people, have been added this year. Gilberi» Learock, Margaret Daly Vokes, Tony Williams and Joe Kelly of last season’s cast have been retatned. Hugo Marks is the musical director. Qrar\d— Opera-House. Mamie Sheridan Wolford is to assume | the graces and love affairs of a leading lady in “The Smugglers” on Monday evening. This is another of her own plays. It deals with the sea and the reve- nue officers, and tells a story which is made more exciting by realistic mechani- cal and scenic effects. In the prison pens there isa sudden change from an interior | to an exterior, and the hero is shown es- caping by sea from his jailers. In the next act the ship Petrel catches fire, and a | quick change shows the ship blazing in the distance while the hero and the heroine drift by on a spar. Mollie Thompson will play the soubrette role of Pully Watts, in- torducing several new songs. Nat M. Wills isto play a Dutchmat. Lesiie Morosco re- turng to the cast asa comedy Irishman. John J. Fierson, Mortimer Snow, Fred J Butler und Landers Stevens have impor tant parts. Plcazar Jheater. A decided departure from the usual class of plays will be made at the Alcazar to-morrow evening, when Steele Mackaye's well-known comedy drama “A Noble Rogue’’ will be presented. The managers | promise a scenic production of the play, and realistic scenes of Chicago will be shown. A novel effect will be introduced in the fourth act, which takes place on the Clark-s'reet drawbrid ze. The bridge will be worked by water pressure and will swing over the footlights into the aunaito- riam. in the cast inciuding George Osbourne, Hugo Toland, Adele Belgarde, Mrs. F. M Bates, May Buckley, etc. Virginia Jack son, & young actress, makes her first a pearance with the company, as does George Fullerton, who is the son of George Osbourne. The last_performance of Tom Taylor's comedy, “The Overland Route,” will be given this evening. stage-struck boys and girls, managers ought to admit them to an occasional re- hiearsal,10 show them the gingerbread with Tivoli Opera-House. Denis 0’Sullivan, the young California barytone, will mal dancing specialty. Another feature of the | cake walk, to be participated in by forty | is a | Miss Georgia Cayvan will c ose ber suc- | to-morrow even- | sing and dance | ively announced to appear. The Merrilees | trahan swimmer. The entire company will be seen | his debut (in opera) | FINALE 2"PACT « OF SHAMUS OBRIEN cecenes eceeOoe fine songs they are. 1| the gilt off. Many of them would recon- | w?snm\\\& JACY ON~ S Tae S = ALCAZAR St — tain Trevor of the British arm | Darcy, as the informer. Mike Murphy; W. H. West, as Father O'Fiynn, the beloved varisy priest of Ballyhamis; Walter Chamberlain_as S-rgeant Cox; Laura Millard as Nora O’Brien, Snamus’ wife, id Myra Morelia, who has been espe- | cially engaged as Kitty O'Toole; Miss Morella is’ a bright und vivaciov | soprano who scorea many successes in this city with the Abbott, Conreid and Carlton opera companies. New scenery Maaurice | been especially prevared, whie correct costames, appropriate accessories and | light eftects will garnish the productiou. | At the Orpheum. Alberti, the barytone, und Orlandi, the mezzo-soprano, have made hits at the | Orpheum. To-morrow evening they wiil give a number of new solos and duets. Tacianu, from Berlin, a male soprano, wllmake his first appearance here to- | v, as wili also Fanny and Sager | 5 y, juvenils character delineators | Aland Mamie Anderson, the humorons negro speciulists. will also be new, and Ed Lateile, the musical comedian, 'is posi- from the original London drawings hes | engagements of the American players I am gomng to take over. Amony these [ may mention John Drew, E. H. Sothern, | Maud Adams, Nat Goodwin, Hanry Mil- ler, -he Bosionians and De Woif Hopper, all of whom I feel confident will succeed in London if properly presented. “‘When 1 have a theater in London these stars can visit England every season. Until quite recently it was most difficult | 1o secure a theater in London for Ameri- can piays. An American had to stand around, hat in hand, and after several weeks of persistent labor, when it was finally decided to allow him to pay a very nigh rental for a theater then closed, hie was expected to look delighted and made to feel that he had received the height of hospitality. D BvorEs @ MPUAT THE 0s0 s1s0Qaes NAT> WILLS 0AS CONRAD GIESREYER At MorRoscd American company presents ‘Secret Ser: ice’ at the Adeiphi, London, on May nglis management will not only | participate in the profits or losses of the venture, but will p-y their share of the eXpense of the ocear trazispor:ation. AR ! when ‘Never Again’ and ‘Too Much John- son’ are produced in London t.e English management will also take a sharing risk with me. “Among other home products that I propose to arrance for in London is a new drama_and comedy by Martha Morton; David Belasco's ‘Heart of Maryland,” with isters will have new sones and dances, | Harris and Walters will give a new sketch, “‘SBomebody’s Darling,” and Marzelo and Millay will change their burlesque wres:- ling performance. Herr Grais and his trick baboon and donkey continue on the | bill. At m;tes. The Chutes have been attracting large crowds to see Cavill, the wonderful Aus- Every afternoon and evening he gives exhibitions, waiking | across the Chute lake on his hands, stay- | ing under water for over four minutes and showingall kinds of fancy sirokes. The | open-air performances are also in great | tavor and to-4ay a number of special at- tractions will be given, inciuding a bal- loon ascension and parachute drop. The animatoscope shows new views every night. Musical Mention. The first festival of the California Music Festival Association takes place next Wednesday and Taursday at Metropoli- tan Temple. Mme. Genevra Johnstone Bishop, the celebrated oratorio soprano, will bs the star singer of the occasion. | James Hamilton Howe will be the con- ductor sna Bernhard Mollenhauer the concert master. J. Homer Henley, Mrs, | Homer Henley and other local vocalists will assisi. The opening attraction of the festival will be Handel's “Messiab."” The choruses will be augmenied by contin- gents of singers from Oakland, Alameda, San Jose and Sacramento. The following is the pro-ramma of the eighth and last Bacon-Minetti concert of the season, which takes place next Satur- day afternoon at the Association Audi- Concerto grosso for four vioins, 1o and bass, by request (Handel); ¥rom Grief I Cannot Measure” . 7); arielta, “Spesso vibra per su0 mo0co' (A Scarlatti), Miss Alice Walshy (a) “Sicilienne” (Boccierini) (b) **Aria’® (Bach), string sextet; “Ob, Love, Thy Help,”from “Samson und Delitan” (Saint- Siens), Miss Alice Walsh; piano quartet | in A major, by request (Brabms). | st Designs on Europe. Charles Frohman has left for Europe, where he says it is his intention to push American plays and American actors. “[intend,’”” he said belore hisdeparture, “to secure a theater of my own in Lon- don, and this will enable me to extend the the entire American cast, to be presented next season; a production of ‘Lord Chum- ley'; the farce ‘Gambols,’ recently | lnunched successful'y at the Irving Piace Theater, and wuich 1 shall do here in English’ next autumn. I expect also to arrange an opening for the Bostonians in London with ‘The Sarenaders,’ “Ihgve anewdea with English authors, by the way,” added Mr. Frohman, *‘which not only includes the producing of their plays in New York, but in their own country as well. Th=only English attrac- tion that we intend to bring over next season is George Alexander and his St. James' Theater comp: in which theater John Drew will play wnile Mr. Alexander is here.” Pinero’'s New Play. From all accounts Pinero's new play, ““The Princess and the Butterfly” or “The Fantastics,’ is not likely to have a much ionger life than Sardou’s “Spiritism,” and the rumors are that it will soon be with- drawn from St. James’ Theater, London, where it has received its first production. Pinero has tried 1o combine high comedy with something like farce. A critic says: *‘The sentiment and the action of the first twoacts of *The Princessand the Butterfly’ in no way prepare the audience for wi at is to follow. These two acts are a wonder- ful, stinging satire upon the society of our time—especially the second act, which passes at the house of a lady of fashion, who drops out of the play before the real intrigue begins, leaving an interesting little' story, which has been admirably conducted, at a most exciting point, Prac- tically, the play is nearly hslf over betore it begins, foritisonly in the third act that the affairs of the ‘Princess’ and the ‘Buiterfly’ become of paramount :mportance. Then the fun begins, or, rather, the satire ends and the comedy begins. And a very bea tiful comedy itis. - Neurly all that has gone before may be ioreotien, or rememberea afterward as a satire, studded with 1n- dividualized types of men and women of the day. Tne younggentleman who brifngs mechanical toys 10 the houses at which he is a welcome visitor is a rich idea, The scene in which toys are set working is comical in itselt; it "is comical, with a world of meaning underlying the fun for those who will see below the surface of it; yet it is utierly disproportionate, not to itsimmediate purpose, but to its connec- tion with the plot. There is too much at- tention to detail, as the play moves tnis way and that, and even the coming and going of the servants, the pulling down of the magnificent blinds, and trifles of that sort are carried out with a delibera- tion which is only too much like actual life. With the third dct the Princess Pannonia and her friend, Sir George Lamorant, begin to absorb the interest. They are both a little 100 distressed per- haps at tee approach of middle age. He is a bachelor of 45, and she is a widow of 40 wno has passed twenty yearsof her life_as the wife of an elderiy valetudi- narian. In a businesslike way they con- sider the advantage of -marrying oue an- other asa_protective mea-ure against do- ing anything more fooiish “at- their time of lite.”” Sir George’s offer comes at the drama! moment, for the Prircess has just received a proposal of marriage from a young gentieman in the diplomatic ser- vice. Edward Oriel is many years her junior, and the Princess, who loves him, means to conquer the passion she feels for the young man. But her heart overrules her ming, and in the end she marries her lover, while Sir George himself is capti- vated by a winsome, roguish young American-Italian, Fay Zuliani, to whom he had long considered himself only as a guardian, Dramatic Brevities. Felix Morris is 10 go into vaudeville. The Lyceum Theater Company has started on its tour West. Grace Henderson will be fn May Irwin’s company next season. Pete Datley is going to do & nice little turn in the variety houses. James J. Corbett was assisting Thomas E. Shea Jast week in Philadelphia. Three companies are to present the comedy success "My Friend From India” next season. Nat C. Goodwin may open his coming en- gagement at the Baldwin with “David Gar- rick.” Theodore Roberts, well known here, has made a great success in “The Heart of Mary- land.” . Sousa is now conducting & tour on his own accord, having quarreled with the estate of David Blakeley. Minnie Maddern Fiske has been booked ‘to open the mext regular season of the Great Northern Theater in Chicago. Maurice Barrymore has signed to travel over the Hopkins circuit in the West after he fin- ishes his engagement with B, F. Keith, Primrose and West ve secured Raymond Moore, the famous ballsd-writer and singer, for the all-star company for next season. Announcement has just been made of the marriage of Sophie Traubman, the well-known prima donna. She was married last February. The Tivoli's grand-opera season will open early in July. The works will include a full ser‘es of Wagner and a revival of many old fa- vorites. Wilson Barrett says another company will £0 toNew York in the fall to present the “Sign of the Cross” as well as tne ‘Daugnters ol Babylon.” Franz Ebert, the clever Ittle leading come- dian of the Liliputians, is said to have been offered large inducements 1o star ina new burleque. The Daly Company during its stay abroad will travel after its London season, visiting Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Augustus Piton has sold his interest in “Madame Sans Gene” to Katheryn Kiader, who will manage the play next season. not decided who will play the leading part. “Miss Frisco,” the Tivoli’s first annual re- view, will bring together the past and present in s musical way. The principa! roles wili be weli-known chafactors ‘of yesterday and fo- ay. Those of the Empire Theater Company who intended to go abroad in May have been noti- fled to cancel their steamship bookings, as “Under the Red Robe” wiil continue longer than was expected. A series of revivals of French operas comiques will be given shortly at the Tivoli— ““Girofle-Girofl, “La_Perichole,” “La Belle Helene” and “La Fille de Mme. Angot” will be carefully presented. M'ss Jeannie Winston and W.T. Carleton, who liave been absent for some time from the comic-opera stage, are to head the Carleton Opera Company. which, will begin its tour next Monday at St. John, N.'8, Charles Klein has contracted with De Wolf Hopper and John Philip Sousa to furnish the book for a new opera for Mr. Hopper. The hero will, it is«aid, be a sort of modern Cag- liostro, and the titie will probably be, “The Chariatan.” Kate Claxton is being pursued by the vaude- vilijans. She has withs:ood the allurements held out, but s weakening. Perhaps even be- fore this appears she may have signea a con- tract. If sue does succumb, she will at any rate have made a gallant fight against tha love of lucre. When Mary Hampton takes Viola Allen’s part in “Under the Red Robe” on the road, if she only gives as good an imitation of Miss Allen as she did in “Sowing the Wind,” she will be all right. Miss Hampton has evidentiy made & study of Miss Ailew’s methods, and if she hias a chance Lo waich her in (his char- acter the people out of 1own will see the part played as Miss Allen plased it here. Henry Arthur Jones refused to appear at the Criterion Theater, London, during the first presentation of his play “The Physiclan,” so Charles Wyndham had to make a speech for him. Mr. Jones was somewhere not far from the Strand nursing an old gruage. He would not allow himself 1o be hissed irom the pit as he was w fichael Lost His Angel.’’ “The Physician”has made a first-ciass impression at the Criterion. The attempt to provide three stars in one comic opera with parts suitable to their abil. ity and their standing has succeeded far be- yond expectations. Lilllan Kussell neve: iooked vetter. Della Fox was never more chic, while De Angelis was as humorous as he could possibly be. Surely the “Wedding Day” has beenfa wedding day for more than one inter- ested in the Casino. Ths book written by Stanislaus Stange is not as good us is “Brian Boru,” still it is full of witticisms and has & fairly good plot. A new steering device for ships controls the rudder by pneumatic pressure, the air being forced into a_cylinder on either side of the rudder vost by means of the steer- ing wheel in the pilot-hou; —_——— In Scotland colate arops filled with whisky are forcing the once popular pep- permint lozenges out of the market. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. GUSTAV ¥ WALT Weelkx Commencing 6—NEW GREAT VAU ALEXANDER T A CX THE NLX A AL. AND NAMIE Famous Flat-Foot Buck —== s« ALBERTI 4 €cenes from *‘Carm HERR GRAIS | And His Trick Baboon and Donkey. _MERRILEES SISTERS rq Balconv —DIRECT FROM DGCGILEYS The Best Juvenile Comedy Delineators on the Stage. ED. I.AT Dancers, Plantation Singers and Cake-Walkers. ama HARRIS AND WA MATINEE THIS SUNDAY) FES FRANCISCO. CAL. Estaz. 1887, 1O0S ANGELES CAL. estan. 1398, ER. DirecTorR Generar. O'Farrell St., bet. Stockton and Powell. SAN FRANCISCO’S GREAT MUSIC HALL. Monday, April 26, A BILL TO SUIP ALL TASTES—GRAND OPER1, COMEDY AND CIRCUS. DEVILLE STARS!—6 EUROPE—— PHENOTMENAL MALE SOPRANO, SAGER AND FANNY. I .T .5 TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF And ie. ORLANDIl-=— en” in Costum: MARZELO AND MILLAY LTERS. = AFTERNOON. a o (Al MAYPAN AnD Co, NCORP'D PROPS. BALDWR COMMENCING New Acts! GRAND PRIZE EXTRA: .S C HOP TO-NIGET (SUNDAY) AND ALL NEXT WEEK! PRIMROSE AND WEST! BIG MINSTRELS! Including GEORGE WILSON, Prince of Comedians MONDAY NIGHT— LatestSongs! 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Proprietor & Manage: TO-NIGHT LAST TIME Of the Successtul Romaatic Irish Opera, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. XEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR Belasco& Lakaille. Mys. Last Performance To- nghtot Tom Taylor's Comedy, THE OVERLAND ROUTE. ——MONDAY, APRIL 26—— GRAND SCENIC PRODUCTION of STEELE MACKAYE'S DRAMA, “A NOBLE ROGUE!” Don’t Miss the Realistic Draw- bridge Scene! GEO. OBBOURNE a: ...JACK ADAMS (Ris original character.) HUGO TOLAND and the Entire Co. in the Cast. Our Popular Prices. Black 991. THE CHUTES. THIS AFTERNOON | JFIMMY BARRY, Champion Bantam.weight of the World, Will Spar 3 Rounds With Danny Mahoney. BOB ARMSTRONG, Colored Heavywelght, in sclentific exhitiions. Grand open-air performantes and balloon ascen- slon. No Extrs Charge! ADMISSION, 10c. Tetephone for Seats, AND EVENING, CHILDREN, Be. CENTRAL PARK, TO- ‘A¥Y (SUNDAY), AUSTRALIAN BASEBALLERS vs. SAN FRANC.SCO A1 HLETIC CLUB! A3 Game called at 3 o'clock sharp. SUPERB CAST !—— Songs That Reach the Hi — To-Morrow Evening— The London Success. “SHAMUS O’BRIEN!” First Appearance of — MR, DENIS O'SULLIVAN!—— The creator of the title role. Popular Prices: 255 and 50c PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (NGLESIDE TRACK), The only }erivci Winter RaceiraCs i Amerton RACING a3@a®e RACING Racing From Monday, April 19, to Sat- urday, May 1, Inclusive. Five\or More Races Daily, Rain or Shins. FIRST RACE AT 2 P, M. Take Southern FPacific tralay a: ThIEt aal Townsend sts. depot, leaving at 1 and 1:20 . & ¥aro for Round Trip, including Ad- mission to Grounds. 31.00. Take Mission-si. electric line direct to tracz. The Corrigan Stakes Monday, April 19, ‘Lhe Spreckels Cup ~aturday, April 24. The California Hurdle W+ dnessay. April 28. The Ingleside Stakes, 4 miles, Saturday, May 1. = N. ANDROUS, President. F. H. GREEN, Secretary. SUTRO BATHS. OPEN DAILY FROM 7 A. M. UNTIL 11 P. 1l Concert Every Afterncon and Evening. rt. Bathing, including Admission: Adults, 25¢; Chil. d. e, 20¢. General Admission, 10¢ SUTRO BATHS. REMEMBER THE MONSTER “-MAYDAY FESTIVAL— Caiidren, 5o £cfwmbio {Shealwe, 'PRICOLANOLR.GOTTLOD & o+ 135¢5 ATt rARAGLRS - This Sunday Evenfug, Farewell Performance MISS GEORGIA CAY VAN Presenting the Double Bill, “MARY PENNINGTON, SPINSTER" And the One-Act Comedietta, “THE LITTLE INDIVIDUAL.” ‘To-morrow Night, ARD & VOKES, in “ARUNON THE BANKD __SEATS NOW ON SALE METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, APRIL 27 AND 28, *“MESSIAI’” MATINEE CONCERT} MME. GENEVRA BISHQP, soorano, JOBNSTONE Mme. Frances Moelier. 2 Coniraltos: Mr. Frank Homer Healey, haver, Violin Virtuos Nellie Cook, Ple anigte: Mrs. L. J. Murdoch. Mrs. Edith_Joh: eid'r, Accompanistes; Mr. Henry Organist. HAMILTON HOWE, Conductcz, Season Ticke on sale and Frosramme 109Ks ag ’s, 308 Post str PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. EL CAMPO, THE POPULAR BAY RESORT, NOW OPEN EVERY SUNDAY DURING THE SEASON. Music, Dancing, Bowling, Boa ing, Fishing and Other Amusements. Refreshments at City prices. Fare, round trip, 25c, Childr n 15¢; inciuding admission to grounds. THE STEAM ve Tiburon Ferry d 4:00 ¥ . 5 A %, 1:00, WL 00 30+ 78th ANNIVERSARY PICNIC I O. O. F. ——GIVEN BY— OAKLAND REBEKAH LODGES, For the benefit of the ORPHA AT SAN LORENZO GROV DAY, APGIL 26, 189 Round-trip ticket on I aywards elec:ric-cars, in- cluding admission to grove, GUc. ‘Take broad. gsuge ferry from foot of Market street for Fruit- vale station. The electric-cars run from there dir:ct to the grove. ON MON-