The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1897, Page 28

'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1897. The foreig who visit these shores and w bout our institutionsare apt to proclaim that Americans live only to make haste to grow rich. They speak of us as a people who rise-in the morning betimes aud hurry throuzh breakfast, to have more time for dollar hunting. All through the heat and burden of the day the American man is supposed 1o chase the elusive dollar, barely ta time to wolf a ch, and atnight the business of dollar acquiring foliows him home and | mingles with his drean | Americans do not deny this soft im- peachment. Cbservation has led me to believe, however, that the one place where | the American man leaves doliar acquiring | behind him is the theater. When the | curtain is up and the limelight on the | stage the latest market quotations are an | empty dream to him, and the business of | getting rich is dwarfed into insignificance for the moment by the hero’'s honest efforts to foul the villain. Martha Morton’s **A Fool of Fortune” is builz all round the elusive doilar. The course of true love follows the nps and | downs of the stock market. The aestiny | of all the cuaracters hangs on dol even the final retribution is decided by | the click of the ticker. This state of | things, wtile possibly true to life, is not | calculated 1o enthuse an American audience. Business men chafe under the | “shop” in ‘the piay, and nine-tenths of | the women rack their brains for fwo acts | and a half to understand it all and then decide that stocks and shares are a dark | mystery anyway, and it is not worth mas- | rs, and | tering their intricacies for the sake of one | play. “What is he begging so hard for?” | asked a dazzling, perfumed creature in front of me at the Baldwin of her youth- ful escort, as Powers fell on his knees and pleaded with the energy of ‘despair for some of the Sunsetstock. ‘He says he | has sold Sunset and now he is begging for | 2!l he is worth to buy some again.” | “Time is coming to deliver,”” explained the youthful escort, sucking the knob of his cane and trying tolook wise. “De- liver?" queried tue dazzling crexture. “Do you mean to tell me any one wou'd pay a man like. that Powers for Sunset if necould mnot give him the stock right away? How czn a man sell stocks if he | bas not got them, anyway?’ The| escort withdrew the knob ‘of his cane from his mouth and looked at | ber with a hopeless, despairing expres- | sion. He evidenily knew it was impos- | sibie to bea: th intricacies of buying and | selling stocks inio her herd while the piay i Was going on—or afterward either for tha: | matter—but be was young and in loveand | wanted to earn a reputation for wisdom. Sc he was rash enou:h to try to expiain. From a few remarks she made, as he put on her cape at the end of the yerformance, | I should say that he seriously imperiled | bis, chances of ever calling her his. “Tom,’’ she said witheringly, as she rose togo. “Ialwavs thought tnat you were a good, upright business man, but if vou mean to tell me that you would sell stocks when you had not got any! Well, I don’t call it honest.”” And she swept out, lea ing him to foliow, crnshed and humiliated. Martba Morton has rried hard to make the stoch market only the peg on which 2,6 J‘;:( i, ‘| tune with the old swagger and audacity, and bears no 1l will to the partner who ruined him. He only reproaches the bat- tered, seedy-looking Lloyd because he has lost all pride in his appearance. Wy don’t you take more pleasure in looking respectable?”’ he asks grumblingly, and taking a rose from his own frayed but | carefully inked buttonkoie, he asks his partner to smarten himsslf up with it. The scene between the two is rich in touches of human nature, and would do | credit to a Daudet or a Coppee. Crane played the delichtfully human character of Elisha for all it was worth. His breczy spryness was almost indecent, | considering Cunningham’s years, but it suited the characier and charmed the luuuxence. His clever take-off of Sousa’s P s Z7EnE JONN, a‘.‘:gfl‘;g‘iwigm at )"\ ”f"f" - NS 6 | “‘1 ™ e SUE. to hang human characters and human emotions, bur, tough hew it as she will, business is prosaic, and it clogs the inier- | est of “A Fool of Fortune” considerably. [ The entrance of Powers, the scheming | operator, or Lioyd, the hero’s paruuer, is always the forernnner of a business dis- cussion. Audiences hate business discus- sions, even if they are enlivened by the suggestion of impending ruin, so no amount of good acting on the part of Powers or of Lloyd won favor till the last act. Then Percy Brovke’s feeling bit of im personation as the broken-down pariner | 18 so cffective :hat he is forgiven for buy- ing Sunset and discussing the doubtful wisdom oi the purchase for two acts. Powers was finally taken into favor be- cause he pleaded for Sunset in the last act with real energy and despair. Why Pow- ers wanted Sunset, or what he would have done with it if he had gotit were ques- tions that very few of the women could have answered. A cynical Frenciman once said that woman’s mind 1s only a gallery of echoes, | and Martha Morton is often accused of being more than usually feminine in this respect. There is no denying that “A Fool ot Fortune” contains echoes of “The Henrietta,” Unkind people go so far as to say that Miss Morton (she was Miss when she wrote it) wanted to try what sbe could do with “The Henrietta’’ sub- ject. In spite of this likeness, however, of the business and the dull first It bas quaintly delineated touches play. ot character, the climax is unusvaily ar- | tisticand last but not least it affords the versatile William H. Crane opporiunities of beguiling his audiences of their iaugh- | ter and their tears. There is nothing very heroic in the role Crane plays. Elisha Cunringham is a Wall-street broker, and, incidentally, a snob of the first water. He wears loud, imported clothes, makes use of *!like’”’ as a | copjunction, and boasts braggingly that the Prince of Wales shook hands with Lim on the grand stand at Epsom. But | Elisha’s vulgarity is not aggressive; be is | too breezy an. jovial and childlike and bland to jarupon any one. When heis up in the world Elisha wiil not go back on an old friend, and when he is down in the depths he struggles bravely to fight for- A Kool of Fortune'’ is really aclever YOU NEVER SPOKE TO NE LIKE THAT BEFORE " condue'ing was a sample of the overflow- ing exuberance that characterized Elisha’s days of prosperity, and when adversity ! marked him for its own the pathos of Crane’s efforts to keep up the old spryness beguiled sensitive members of the audience of their tears. Miss Frances Stevens, who played the mgenue, is a vivacious California girl, and many of her friends and admirers were in evidence at the Baldwin Theater on Mon- | day night to welcome her home from her Eastern successes. Nothing captures the dear public so | much as a brand-new freak. Well-mean- ing people talk about inspiration and gerius and all that sort of twaddle, but they know in their hearts that genius would starve every time if it were forced | into competition with a real liva freak. If you have any curiosity to prote the popu- lar passion for ireaks drop into the Or- pheum and see B! Zobedie go' throuzh his | “Exercises Surprenants d’Equilibre.” The way that boy defies all the laws of nature and art in the manipulation of his limbs is (enough to make artists wecep and sculptors grow pale and shud- der. El Zobedie wuses his feet for hands and hands for feet and ends by doing *‘Tu-ra-ra, boom-de-ay,” in the attitude that ancient navigators atirib- uted to inhabitants of the Antipodes. While he is doing it he looks less human than some of the contortions that fascin- ate your eyes in josshouses. The audi- ences show an appreciation for his ex- treme freakiness by salvos of applause. Zobedie is just the sort of *‘turn” that hits the taste for freaks purveyed to by music halls and saffron journalism. Don’t worry, the public does not want senti- ment. It is being slowly educated up to enjoy freaks, and it gets them. Michelena dropped a gaglet into the performance of “Mignon” on Monday night that wou!d have astonished tbe late lamented Ambroise Thomas and his { librettist. Mignon had just appropriated Feiina’s finery and war paint when Wil- helm Meister entered and was supposed to gently guy her for her quick change. In- stead of saying the lines of the opera, Michelena (Wilhelm Meister), gazing® at the transmogritied M.guon, inquired feel- ingly, *“Where did you gat that hat?"’ (he | Grunay’s pronounced it ‘that’at”). The gaglet was ! the hit of the evening. MaRrie EVELYN. Baldwin Theater. Crane will give “A Virginia Courtship’’ its first production in any theater to- morrow night. The work, which is by Eugene Presbrey, deals with eurly colo- nial days. The story and the scenes take one back to the beginring of ihe present century, when Virginiu was a colony and the country boasted of roomy old man- siens, of sturdy men and fair women, and when the chasc, the minuet and the heav- ily laden dining-table furnizhed the pleasures of the hour. In fact Presbrey admits that he took for his models the old-fashioned comedies. The story is one of loveand intrigue. : Maj r Richard Fairfsx is the principal cnaracter, The major is a fiery, vejppery old gentleman, whose kinsman, Lord Fairfax, was one of the earliest settlers in the colon From his ancestors the major h inherited many aristocratic tstes. Adjoining the major's estate is that of a very preity French widow, Mme. Constance Robert. The two are great | friend -, but take different sides when war breaks out between France and England. The love-making complications which | center round the estrangement of the two families form the basis ot the plot. Crane will be Major Fairfax. Columbia Theater. On account of sudden illuess Francis Carlisie has been compelled to retire from the Frawley Company. This has neces- sitated a siop being put to the rehear-als of “‘Sue,”’ which was to have been prc- duced to-morrow night. The manage- ment has decided to revive De Mille and Belasco’s ““I'he Wife,” one of ihe most popular plavs in the Frawley repertoire. Rehearsals for Augustus Thomas’ new play are now going actively forward. TI'he author ays that this is his one ewe lamb of comedy, ana those who have attended the rehearsals pred:ct that Thomas will do as well in comedy as he has formerly done in plays of a more -erious nature. Rlcazar Theater. The success of “The First Born” con- | tinues to be so great that the manage- ment bas decided to continue 1t next week. This will be positively its last | week, for the Garrick Theater, New York, awaits its actors. Preceding the Chinese three-act farce, play, Sidney “A Serious | | Tangle,” will be vpresented. This is a tried play and one that has always eiven satisfaction. O-bourne will play Uncle John, and Miss Foster, the new member of the company, Mrs. Featterstone, a gay married woman. sses Buckley and Crosby and Messrs. Toland, Fullerton and Stear wil' also be in the cast. “Hize Kirke” has been in preparation for two weeks ana will follow this week’s | bill. Wright Huntington has been secured as leadine man by the Alcazar. He will ar- rive here in a few d Grand 0perajj'{ouse. “Siaves of Gold,” from the pen of Emil | Grandin, will be the attraction at Mo- | rosco’s next week. It is an exciting | melodrama, dealing with & miser’s love for his glistening hoard, and his s&ttempt to unlawfully secure more pelf by substi- ung another child for the lawful heiress to a large fortune, who has just died. In the third act some of the leading characters are emtombed in the coal mine, which the viilain has fired. The scene shows the inlerior workings of the mine; an explosion and fire scene and | finaliy a flood of real water submerging | the mine, just as the rescuing party arrives. TJivoli Opera-House. Wagnerian opera will occupy the whole of this week. “The Fiying Dutchman” will be given, with fine scenic effects and a cast includ- ing: William Mertens as Van der Decken, the Dutchman; Sig. Ab:amoff as Daland, the Norwegian captain; Rbys Thomas as Erik, the hunisman; Arthur Boyce as the steersman; Tillie Sulinger as the poetic Senta, and Bernice Holmes as Mary, her nurse. The male chorus will consist of twentv-four voices. Wagner based his poem on one of the best known of Northern European popu- lar lezends, that of the Dutch captain who swore 1o double the Cape of Good jHoDa in the teeth of a iurious gale, or | keep on sailing forever. The devil tock bim at his word, uniess he would find a woman to love him unto death. On Mon- oay Effi: Stewart will sing Senta. On Tuesduy, Thursday and Saturday even- ines “Loheng. will be repeated, with Effie Stewart, Katherine Fleming-Hin- | richs, Signor' Michelens, Wilbam Me:- tens, John J. Raffael, W. H. West and Slgn’n’:r V.vianiin the cast. *The Hugue- nots” is 1 prepara:ion. At the Orpheum. Eight new faces will be seen tbis week. The Nicholl sisters, two pretty girls who blacken their faces and do “coon’’ songs and dances, heaa the list. They come from London and are hizhly spoken of throughoutv the East. The original Girards, Kate and Emil, the cele- brated “leg mania” performers, are on the list, as weil as Richard Pitrot, the famous mimic. In addition to the well-known person- ages whom he portrays e will ada several local celebrities 10 his lis'. Irene Frank- Iin will be new to Ban Francisco. Sheisu young -character impersonator, and her work has mude her a favorite with many audiences. McCarthy ana Reyno ds, Irish character sketch urtists and great San | ists, Mr, and Mrs. George Henschel, who are they call “cross walk talk.” EI Zotedie, } Adrienne Ancion and Jobn C. Fox and | Katie Allen remuin. The Oberon. Herr Stark’s friendsand admirers turned out in force to welcome his Vienna Or- chestra back to the Oberon last week. | The programmes were Lighly interesting and were sprritedly rendered. Many of the well-known patrons of music werein attendance during the week. At Sutro Baths. An interesting bill of specialties, in ad- dition to exciting water events, is prom- ised at the Sutro Baths this afiernoou. Ozara, a performer on the tight wire, will make his first appearance. Les Remondes will preseut new character dances, the three Leondas will appear in their acro- batic act and Antonio Perri will balance objects varying from a cartwheel to a strip of “urdinary newspaper—all on his chin or nose. The relay race for bogs over a 220- yard stretch will be swam, with three ieams of (hree boys each competing. A 100-yara obstacle race for men will also be contested and prizes will be awarded tue winners of each event. At the Ghutes. At the Chutes free theater, Florine, a fire dancer, will make her first appearance in America, and by special request Pro- fessor Mariin’s trained dogs and Dan Meader's Royal Marioneties will be re- tained. The marionettes are great favorites of the youngsters. A number of other specialty performers will makeup the bill. The feature, how- ever,will be the ‘‘Chuteoscope,’’ said to be the best projecting machine. Tne views for the opening are a number ot European scenes, The scenic railway, chutes, haunted swing, “Trip to Ogden,” merry- go-round and many other attractions at the Haight-street grounds are as popular as ever. Musical Mention. The celebrated Spanish tenor, Antonio Aramburo, will give thrae concer s at 2 Sutter street on Tuesday evening, Septem- ber 21; Thursday evening, 23d, and Friday evening, 24th. He will be assisted by Miss Anita Casals, a soprano of high range, Miss Ida Valerga and Carlyle Petersilea. The critics of South Americ: ~peak of | Antonio Aramburo in terms of the high- est praise. | Miss May Lucine Potvin, the young pi- anist, who created such a favorable im- pression on her last appearance, has de- cided to give another recital before her departure East. This will take place at 223 Sutter street next Wednesday even- ing. Dramatic Brevities. Miss Tillie Salinger has sung with success this summer in Chicago, St. Louis and Louis ville, Miss Virginia Cranna will give & dramatic entertainment at Native Sons’ Hall next Wed- nesdny evening. | Frank Rushworth, a young tenor from Chi cago, whom Mr. Hammerstein cisims to have i “discovered,” has been engaged for the *La Poupee” east. A. M. Palmer, with & whoop and a yell, has | emerged from Cimmerian Chicago to inform | us all that he has signed a contract to man- | age Richard Mansfield. Tnat is all right, but who will manage Palmer? The managers of Miss Isabelle Evesson, who stars jointly with Estelie Clayton this season, are sendiug forth notices that Isabelie owns a valuable diamond, iormerly the property of Prince Georze of Prussis. This s, of course, & preliminary to the suid jewel being stolen. Francis Coppee, one of France's most suc- cessful drimatists, is a very sick man. To read.the articles that he bas written sirce his illness is a sad task. He apologizes in every line tor fear that his pen has lost some of its charm, and he teils you of his bandages and the sickening smell of the drugs that pervade his chamber. Henry Wolfsohn announces some excellent musical attractions for San Frencisco this winter. The first will be the celebrated vocal- expected here toward the end of October. In addition to being a singer, George Henschel has cutquite s swath in London as a cou- ductor and & composer. Another socfely: woman is booked for the stage. She is Miss Martha Leonard, the duughter of Colonel Robert Leonard of Bed- ford, N. Y., who returned from Europe re- cently. Miss Leonard, who 1s well known in New York society, was about to make her debut as an actress two years ago, but the objections of her family prevented it. It looks very much in Parisas though there would be a big boom in historical plays this season. The popular theaters are going in entirely for them, and the elder Dumas’ “La Jeunesse de Louis XIV” is to be revived at a big noue. This was the play over which Dumas won his celebrated bet of guaranteeinz to write a five-act drama on any siven subject in three falt | the French writer, has decided to | dramatic criticism with ostrich- iarming. He declares that to any one who has once eaten an ostrich omelette life be- comes an empty dream if you have not got them always haidy, and he s conviiced that the bird will inerésse and multinly und lay eggs by the dozeu in France. Sarcey hes de- | cided to experiment in rearing ostriches at Naiterre—where the rosieres come from. Sarcey, combine Sarah Bernhardt has changed her plans, and the Renaissance will open with Decourcelle’s adaptation o1 “Secret Service,” instead of with M. Porto Riche’s “Le Passe,” and after this comes “Hamlet” For the time beirng Sarah is down at the Fort des Poulains—the weird old casile that she has rendered habita. | ble on the most suri-teaten point of La Belle isle en Marmeil. She is credited with studring “Hamlet” at miduight, in the dreary ruins of the fort, only a portion of which has ever been rcclaimed by her irom the decay and ruin of centurics. Hall Caine, in certain quarters, is getting nimself disiiked, and on the part of those whose backs are up it is urged that in his latest production, “The Christian’—novel and piay—he has forgotien that, where Christian vircues are concerned, “the greatest of these is charity,”. and that be has altogether ig- uored that part of “the Christian” duty which in dealings with our neighbors orders the avoidauce of evi-speaking and slander- inz. His account of “Glory’s’ goings-on | while engaged ss a nurse, wita a return to hospitai at 3 o’clock in the morning, is re- carded esa eruel libel upon a vody ol youug ladies who claim 10 be not only hard-working but honorable. “Ridiculous and absurd”’ are | the terms employed when Hall Caine's de- scbrhllm.\ of nurses and students is talked about. The 1900 Celebration Committee. The 1900 celebration committee of Bay City Parlor No. 104, N.§ G. W., met last Wednes- day night and elected the following officers: H.G. W. Dinkelspicl chateman, L Lindeman Eugene W. Levy treasurer, Charles Lindeman secretary. The following committees were then appointed: Press, printing end uniform, Julius Gabric! (chair: man), M. Savannah, E' W. Levy; decorations and headquarters, A. Israelsky (chairman); Sanford- Feigenbaum, Saul Magner; finance, M. Savannak (chairmin). E. W. Levy, =. Feig: enbaum, M. £. Licht, I Lindemau; music, D. L. Hollub ‘man), LLindeman, B.L Gunz- vurger; retreshments, C. Lindeman (chair- man), M. E. Licht, A. Israelsky. This commit- tee was appointed by Bay City Parlor for the purpose of ruising funds xnd making prepara- tions for the graud joint celebration of the N. S. G. W.. to be hela 1n Sun Francisco Septem- byr 9, 1900. Arrangements nave already been made by tne committea for a grand bencfit, minstrel entertainment and ball to be heid m N. S. G. W. building on Thursday evening, November 2 paiae T UL RUBUIEE Leazue of the Cross Cadets. The armory members of Company L, League of the Crods Cadets, will give an entertain- ment and social at Mission Parlor Hall, Seven- teanth strect, above Valencia, on Friday even- ing, October 1. Au interesting entertain- ment is promised. The proceeds will go toward the armory fund. vice-chairma, The Perfume of Violets ‘The purity of the lily, the glow of the rose, and the flush of Heb’o cnmb‘inn in Pozzoxy’ Francisco favorites, will make their ap- pearance atter a long absence in what ‘wondrous Powder. HEAVY BATTERY SHOTS. Result of the Annual Practice With Solid and Shell An- nounced. The Proportion of Projectiles Fired That Struck the Vertical Tar- gets Aimed At The result of the annual firing practice of the heavy batt ries of the Third Artil- lery stationed on this coast for the current year is announced in weneral orders by command of Brigadier-General Shafter. With the 15 inch guns used in coast de- fense there was used solid shot weighing 450 pounds and shell weighing from 343 to 350 pounds, and the cherges of powder were irom 60 pounds mammoth to 130 pounds sphero-hexagon. The batteries engaged in tow practice were A and L of Alcatrez, D, H and 1of Augei Island, E of Fort Mason, G and K of the Presidio and M of Fort Canby, Wash. Each bat- tery fired 8 rounds, 3with s ot and 5 with shell. The range was between 2470 and 2700 yards. Batteries A, E, G, H and L each made 2 hits on the vertical target, D and I are credited with 3 hits, K with 4 hits and M with only 1 nit. D madel ricochet and 3 ricochet hits. The value of the hits ranged from 4 1o 16.5. Battery D o1 Angel Island ix credited in the order of merit with No. 1, while Battery M of Fort Canby is the lowest on the list, namely. 9. With the 12- nch breech-loading rifles three roumids were lired by all the bat- teries except the one from Fort Canby. The proj: used w-1-hed 1000 pounds projected by 36) and 460 pound< of pow- der. The average range was 676) yards. On the vertical target Baiteries D and E each made one bit, H, 1 and L each made two hits, and A three hits, while G and d d not make a hit. A is credited witp two and D wiih one ricochet shot. A fs, No.'1in the order of meritand K stand§ lowest, namely, e ghth. Battery M pracuiced at Fort Canby the eight-mnch rifle, firing five shots 1700-yard range and five more at yard range, using a ballasted shell we ing 161 pounds projected by thirty pounds of powder. At the first named range the batiery scored four and at lu-t named two hit The meaa absolute de- viation was 3’ The eighi batteries, which do not in- clude the one at For: Canby, vracticed with the twelve-inch breech-loading rifled mortar using 1000-pound shot. with charges of powder varying trom 4)3{ to 70 pcunds, at ranges varying from 430 10 4971, and irom 7223 to 7370 yards. Not one battery made a hit on the vertical tar- get, and the mean absolute devialicn in yards was from 71.33 to 406.66. ‘With the 36 breecu-locading morfar twenty-pound shell and twenty=poun shrapnel projected with smokeless povw- der, the vatteries fired eignt rounds of shell and seven of shrapnel. With i former the range variea trom 1 10 143 = 2700- vards, and with the latter fro: 13740 541 yards. W th shell the d:viation wa from 6 09 10 5 rards, and with shrap Batterv G, diavie 55 iummies; H. 52; 4 40; L, 27; E. 22; 1,12, and A and D, 0. Toree shots were fired with the fitteen- inch pneumatic gun, using aummy pro- jectiles, at 3451, 1500 and 2542 vards ranges ‘The air pressure in eacn case was 1002 pounds to the square incn. The firstshot struck 159 yards short and 55 right, the second 305 yards snort and 50 left and the third 272 yards short and 24 to tne left. Lo NERR Damages for McLean Brothers, In the United States Circuit Court yesterday ajuryin the case of the McLean Brothers against the Mountsin Copper mine brought in a verdict in favor of the plamntiffs for $20,105 85. The suit was bronght to recover onna contract for work cone and materials furnished. . Alleged False Imprisonment. J. W. Ellis has sued John allagher fo false charge of an inn $50,000 damages because of o und arrest for alieged swindling keeper. NEW TO-DAY-AMUSEMENTS. FRANCISCO. CAL. estas. 1857, 10S ANGELES CAL. esma.1as GUSTAV WALTER. Director-G=neral. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, SEPT. 2O0TEH. THE In Their Unr oRIG IRARDS —EMIL Grotesque Comiqu s. E3-NEW WORLD-RENOWNED VAUDEVILLE MAGNETS- &3 NICHOLS sisters <or ations. + haracter Tmper. nator. McCARTHY AND REYNOLDS, Tiish Char.¢ | OF A Positive Novelty—1 ruly Wonderful— Durect trom St. Petersburg. 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ORCHENTRA ! ¥ winlshed ADER WA 40 a0 phanE g e K NABE N=KAPELLE. 40—Little Natural-Bo n Musicians—40 ) Y q0k Parquet, ai Balcony. any seat, 10c; [MATINEE T0-DAY (SUNDAY o ; ! S . BALDWIN THEATER. [ALCAZAR roplrisco aaso AL HAYMAN & Co. (Incorporated). .... Proprieocs e 4 Beginning Monday .. _September 20 —TO=NIGET — FIRST FIMt ON ANY STAGE Last opportunity to see AN AMERICAN GIRL:! WM. H. CRANE L4 - TEHE FIRST BORN And his admi-able company, in the new comedy _ S 2 % 3 illuscratiy - of ihe manners and cusiom- of Vi-- | Beginnin= TO-MORROW (M 'NDAY) NIGHT, ginia during the ear y pa:t of the century. entiied und all the week, with Saturday Matinee, COURTSHIP. LAST WEEK. ® | 150,000 San Franciscans have already seen it. By Eugene W. Presbrey. 1,000,000 New Ycrsers are anxious o see it. Malor Bichand Fulehus. onrerre o W ITBIDS YOU FAREWELL CRpbaii Tom! Fuitfaxs, Walt The Pretiies , Uniquest, Most Enchanting and Betty }airfa. Miss Kate L ster | Consummate Dram Tragedy of Chinese Lite ever Amos Kendal eorge fi' de Vers wriiten—Powers’ Litt'e Play, Juck Neville. .. 3 Bovd Putnum Nime. Constance Robert. Miss Aunie Irish R 1 B dipaeins| THE FIRST BORN! Marie . Miss Louise Closser | Preceded by a Grundy Demestic farce—One of this Squire Fenwicl Wi liam Hoag | author’s best. Laura Fenwick. iss Frances Steven: T Eersele: Vincent Serr-tio A SERIOUS TANGLE! Neal har.es . ¢ otth Characters by our Finished Stock Company. Sam ..Percy Brooke e m. E. Buterfield | SEE LITTLE VENIE IN SPECIALTIES. ADEQUATE SCENERY! 5 e o e PICT URESQUE COSTUME gihleszar Prices include reserved seats—50c, 3o, ARTISTIC EMBXLLISHMENTS ! it is policy to have seats reserved for you— Only Ma'inee Saturday. |’Phone Black, 1105 il . TIVOLIOPERA-HOUSE MRS, ERNESTIN E KRELING, Proprietor & Manages 5 THE GRAND UPERA SEASON —— e AGO—T-T—\ Under the direction of M. Gustav Hincichs. IEDLAR o & 9 1LIES AZDHATAGERS -~ e LIS iy S TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME. ‘ LAST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGAT OF | PRTTIA | N My T THE TW. LVE TéMPTATIONS. 7 Reiurn of the Fupnlar Favorites, b THE FRAWLEY COMPANY. e Commencing Monday kEvening, Sep'. 20, Grand ; FGREAD CAs Tt B Eevival of De Mille & Beiasco's Greatest APPROPRIAT < ACCESSORIES ! Dramatic Triumph, g - . 1 NEXT WEEK—GRAND WAGNER FESTIVAL TEIE WIF_E o Monday, Wednesday. Friday and suaday, The piay that has the lonze-t run of any of Hrip e ey g g the Frobma i prodve .ons. THE 'l"L\ ING ‘l)l'Tt’H N Presented by th» entirs Exc liunt Cast of The & 2l 2 Fraw.e Company. Sept. 27th—First pro ucrion on apy stage of X Augustus Thomas' new com-dy, oy ON SALE. “DONT TE L HER HU BAND.” Popular Price: 25¢ and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTEL MOROSCU. . .~ole Lessee and Manager. GOLDEN G ATE HA LL. THIS AFFERNOON and TO-NIGHT M M Last Ferformances of 1 He ENGINEER,” Fertormaices o ENGINET ME. IViOUNTFORD Great “cenic |, o 2 % S ey Netodrama, ¢ SLAVES OF GOLD.” ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCES! Great Fxplosion Sce e; the Flooded Mine: a | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 8 P. M., { To rent of Water Submerges the Stage: Tragedy. Patnos ana Fun. »|CITY LIFE IN JERUSALEM Eveninz Prices—10¢, 25¢ and 50c. Among the Oriental “Four Hundred.” Muine <« Every v - undav. ‘ Magniflcent Costumes! CURIOUS CUSLOM>. TICKETS—-30 CENTS Seats secured at Shermun. Clay & Co.’s without extra charge. ARAMBURO, THE WORLT -RENOWAED TENOR, Assistea by Mlles. lda Valerga. Anita Casals, Mr. Carlyle Petorselia. Next Tuesday, Tiursday and ¥ Eveuings, Srerman, Cluy & Co's H 223 Sutter street. ...Admission 50¢ Sut And Fres Theacer. ES. INDIKE tdren He S S'fr m the Ail 10, s Adniission to NOTARY PUBLIC. A. J. HENRY, NOTARY : UBLIC, 638 MARKKT -T., OPP PALACS HOTEL Telephono 570. Hesidence $u9 Vaacs sirees 1elcphone “Churcu” 15