The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1897, Page 27

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1897. 27 g‘nfifrz TEETBEEY W’b’mg A new romantic dramas, & musical comedy, a biz c mposer new LRLLELEEEEE LS A MUSICAL COMEDY, A PLAY OR TWO, SOME VAUDEVILLE AND A FEW REMARKS. BY ASHTON STEVENS. 2229299222200 022290220202229922222292 20200000002 0299200888RR220298 But one never knows nowadays whethgr | who | these things azre opera comique, opera | vlayed the pavo, a symphony concert, a | bouffe, operetta, operatic !arce, comic ora- production of a celebratea Gillette farce, & quartet of variety noveities—it bas been a live week for anybody whos=e business it 18 1o see and hearall such things. 1 ap- preciate the prodigality of the gods, but I would be content with a lesser variety and more “‘Geisha.”” I have not been to the Tivoli since the Sunday nizht open- ing, and 1 am sorry for myself. Itisa simism,of youth and brings t.e mellow enjoyment of maturity. And think ol getuing it out of anything Japanese at this date—out of Japan, that soiled and ragged land, thumbmarked by tour- ists and cheap br.c-a-brackers, dogeared by tattiing correspondents and done to death by Edwin Arnold. **u I approached *“lne Geisha” gingerly last Sunday night. And there never was a bappier man than I when it turned out te be nothing more formiasvle than Eng- lish musical comedy set in a Jipanese locale. When Donald Graham, nows his Jupan \ike an Arnold, told me at the kimono costumes were distinetly un-Japanese, and that the girls did not even know how to tie their obis, my fe- licity rose bigherstill. There is no “First Born” local fidelity in “The Geisha.” The Chon Kina tune is Japanese, ana there the connection ceases. The rest is hajpy English—or happ er American, for Edwin Stevens has largely incorporated his own humor In the lines of the Marquis Imar, and Thomas Leary hasspilled his own bol- ing temperamentall over the Chinaman. T e bock is the onlv weak feature of the piece, and the more you disfigure it the beiter it is. But the lyrics are sacred and I wish some one would impress it on Miss who | } should have barred the blue waists worn Walcott that every syllable of O Mimosa | San’s is public property and too precious to e swallowed entirely by herself. Look- ing over the score 1 fina that the text of the ““Amorous Goldfish” is even as dis- tinguished as the music. Beyond the tune, which Miss Walcott hummed very sweetly, I had no idea what it was all about. And you may see for yourself kow important is this piscatorial tragedy: A goldfish wam in a big glass bowl, As aear little goidfish do; And she loved with the whole 0f her heart and the ocean wave, hat he ioved her, 100, a 1 she thought 1 diove my glit—glit—glicter n his hear: give way O the birds that Lwit—twit--twitter. A pathetic story is the gold fish's, and tle . Camille of 1 the teahouse of Ten Thousand Joy« Two other verses tell of the beautiful girl wno lured the officer’s >ve to other waters til a some careless soul b & smash kuocked over the big glass bowl, 4 there o ca pe: dead and cold Lay the poor little flsh 1n her frock of gold. And all of this sentiment and convelution lost as Miss Walcott’s enunciation. in the shuffle of «"x L know that sane ~pecch is not the rule © comic operetta; it seemed never to have en the general order at the Tivoli-uniil 'd Stevens came batk. Sanday night I scovered the choras in the act ation. Heéretofore the Tivoli other comic choruses, has voiced a vocsbuiary bounded by tiddle- tum at one end and la-la-lee at ths other. Well, the litterateurs who provide rhyme and conversation for musical diversions are getting to be of importance. Musical comedy has usurped the place of comic lingual | |a | bas EpprovuEmie o O Mitross Bany Wied Seth Antericaniaiiictives. xiv il fanny torio or musical comely until one reads | the programme. Tue dis inctions are too fine for the normally equipped intelligence | —it is safer 10 leave 1he classification to! the librestist. | w*x | One of the large beauties ot “The Geisha” is that it needs no classification. | | It is not like ordinary melodizea frivolity | show like this that chases away the pes- | —it fnvols. You are swept into an | amiable vortex of sparkling nothing. | Beyond the tunes—which cling like a birthmark—there 1s nothing to think | about. The whole scheme is the very sensuousness of forgetiuiness. If I did not | fear Japanese simile I should say it sym- | bolizes the plum blossom and the lotus. | And while this sort of show may not lift the standard of the drama, it 1s an in- | valuable antidote againsi the bad blood | oue accamulates along the hara routine | of everyday life, and tie disappointment experienced in seeing <0 many pieces that ostensibly aim high, but o‘ten miss the | mark. I should recommend t.ut ‘The Geisha" be attended by all employers who underpay their clerks, all women who are | unkind to their husbands, all husbands who are driven into tne gav world for the | jors of life, and all pertons who are too | #ood 10 be really happy, together wiih all professional anu diletiante critics. “The | Geisba” will do them good. It moved | me 1o so much amiability that in my notice of Tuesday morrving I did little but praise everything and everybody con- nected with the production. I hope it is not too late now to retract a little. I in act 1 by he four English girls of Lady Corstance’s yachting party. Those blue waisis are not pretiy, and they do not seem to have been tailored expressly for the young women who rejoiced in them Sunday night, or maybe some mistzkes were made iu their disiribution. I would | aiso join protest with one of my colleagues who thinks that Mr. Stevens should be | riven a song to sing, even if it has to be taken away from somebody else. With these exceptions I stand by my first im- pressions. **» | Stevens’ work in the part of the Mar- | quie is of the mos:t generous sort. Aside rom looking after his own fun he must be ever assistiul the efforts of the] others. Often the scene hangs on his ap- preciation, as it were—by some taciful mim tic trick or timely comment bLe calls attention to the humor of a song, a dance, a word, and thus we get the full signifi- cance by the reflection in him. It is es- pecally due to BStevens and Leary that the comedy iiself makes | good showing. The Muq-:is“ been handsomely inoculated 1o Chinee, I understand, was a quite conven- tiona! mock-villain in the London and New York productions. Leary makes the part ihe most popuiar one of the piece, and not a little by interlarding it witn gags of home manufacture. There have been cccasions where Leary has been branded rough and terrible by common | consent, but he expiates his former ac- | Geisha.” complishruents very cleverly in ‘“‘The | I think Miss Heli, the new soubrette, is the best thing tuat has hap- pened the Tivoli company in many a day, and when she dircoyers that the work of one clever gir, and nothing in excess of one, will even add to her present vogue, I am sure that she will use the soft pedal on | the acting just a little bit. | dure only.one poet at a tiie. | that the hgrde-t blow at the bigger thea- opera, at least in the printed programme. [ It used to be said inat Paris cou'd en- I tiove San Francisco is not going to be equally ex- | clusive in the matter of theatricsl enter- tainments. Down in my heart I know ters here is struck by the smaller ones, Scene From “An American Beauty,” Golumbia. { Y mueuiis X 23, 3, | | | spend the evening profitably? And in | what different. everybody’s enjoyment. principally the Tivoli and the Orpheum. The prices at these houses practically ex- clude any pecuniary speculation. The patron’s only gemble is, Am I gomng to more times than not he is, Thus, Tiveli- going and Orpheum-going have btecome habitual with thousands. And say what you like, but a variely show or a comic musical show that is clever in its kind will eventua!ly aull the appetite for the higher—or, at least, the mediocre higher— | achievements in the arama. * *e At the Tivoli the s-asons change from heavy opera to lightest musical farce. There is no limi! to the smount of genu ine art that may be lavished upon a Tivoli audience. During the reign of Hartman there was a silly superstition among Tivoli folk that ihe fun had to be magni- fied to ten Limes mortal size to be discern- ible by the audience, but since Sievens has been doing the fun-making it has been toned down to human proportions with anvthing but aisastrous eff ct on the box- flice. At the Orpheum it issome- The geilery makes or breaks an act there, ana the gallery does not care for high art, except in such rare instances as the good opera singers who sang there last year, and| the little red band of Buda-Pestb, | which, by blending a beautiful picture with precocious brass-blowing, bas maintained popularity for months. What the clubman or the woman of the world might consider an ideal vaudeville | diversion wou'd seldom go with the gods upstairs, And so it is that (he Superior | Person who goes to the variety —and «verybody goes more or less now—must take his or her pleasure from the ac: that 15 prescribed by the auditor who makes no pretense to superiority beyend de- manding novelty and skilled execution of it. In the case of such a wonder as Lew Dockstadter, or even Press Eldridge, who exaggerates the Dockstadter idea there is | Aurevoir” with her masculinized speiler voice. Itis hard work to fairly criticize the people’s vaudeville, and it is the one department of the ‘‘perfesh’” where one must consider the people’s opinion. * e No one can question the expensiveness of the show Manager Walter ofters week after week the year round. You may compare his programmes with those of Keith’s or Koster & Bial’s or any of the big New York houses, and while the Or- pteum may be surpassed in one or two big cards the bi s a whole will average the best the country. It is im- possible to pad the Orpheum programme with bad acts. The audience will not have them; and tie gallery has a not too gentle method of showing its displeas- ure. A few weeks ago a young woman who had sung at the Tivoli wiithout ~ meeting absolute disaster was billed at the Orpheum and “triea out’” before a Sunday night audi- ence. Her act proved to be unintentional- ly ludgicrous, and the gallery guyed it. xt day most of the newspapers pub- lished notices that ~he was 100 ill to fulfill her contract. Chevalier was offered to Gustave” Walter by the Frohmans, but Chevalier carried & supporting company Gharles Bryant, Alcazar. | nobility of variety people who would have been | massacred at the Orpheum, anrd Walter's | option lay en the whole outfit, so he re- | fused with thanks. | The Orpbeum zudiences will not tgke “stuffer>’”” under any circumstances, nor | do they crave the scanda'ized ladies of quality and suicide-inspirers who are sent trom Europe to New York every year. Puta Duchess in red and green fleshlings | and try ber on at the Orpheum ard if she | cannot do a turn that is clever in itself| | the boys upstairs will be insulted by the association, * **e The Alcazar once triel the scandalized in the persons aqf the Sholto Douglasses, and the poor littie lady and her gentleman earned their salaries as sal- aries were never earned before or since in | this town. The gallery that faced them | must bhave been recruited from the Or- pheum. It was a terror. | 1t made remarks beside which a bouquet | of eggs would bave b-en a pleasure. Those ‘ rough-and-tumble days are only a memory ‘ and lower portions of the audience; and, of course, & clean, lithe acrobstic turn is But the spoken line—and there we upproach the institu- tion of drama—must in its aliusion form of humor comply with the gallery | idea of how this sort of thing should be | done. Eidridee's jokes area fair example, | or take the Dunns, the feature of this | week's bil. Brother Dunn you will re- | member for his clever service under Henderson in the days of big spectacular | pieces. He is an expert along the lines of | extravaganza and burlesque; his legs fairly | twinkie in the dance; he smules a smile | that, aside from its supervdenta! appoint- | ments, is irresistibly magnetic; heisa com- | vetent craf.sman. But observe his line: they are often funny, but the tun, to ex- press it in vaudevillese, is dead common. The funniest thing he said the other night when I was there was in a direct state- ment 10 the audience concerning Sister | Dunn. “Tolook at her,” he said, “you | wouldn’t beheve she was the mother of | five children.”” The fun lay in its truth. The now *“Miss Dunn’’ was once the wite ot Ezra Kendall, and five littie Kendalls did she give him in tribute 10 tne a ance. And this is what brings the | variety acior close to his audience. He | concedes the andience cquality with him- self from the start; he is intimate,confiden- tial. The audience derives its vleasure | from pariicipation rather than tne old scheme of iliusion. And this is one of the things that work against the modern stag=. ; | | Tauke Miss Collins, the young woman | who wu.stles, and who whistles well and in perfect time—which will never be s of her predecessor, Frank Lawton. Her little | feat, which ises-entially artistic, although .. 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SALE OPENS THURS,, 0CT. 28. ina popular vein, is received with noih- ing like the raptuore that atiends upon | the young woman who makes curdiing | “*Miserere” and “Say | | ington has the pose of naturalness, the | | of its br: “The Ensign,” Morosco’s. now. Under a new management the little stock band seems to have come 10 stay. The Chinatown play drew everybody | during its run, and out of that crowd a | safe clientele has sprung in support of the theater. The present company is not so well apprinted as the one that has gone missionarying with “The Firs: Born” to | New Yo.k, but it numbers several clever | people, and the introduction of new bilood { nearly every week points to a steady ef- fort at improvement. The periormances of “Too Mnch Johnson” this week show that the Alc:zar can play firce without offending the fastidious. Wrizht Hunt. affability of Peter F. Daile; . without much | and many excsiient points of | actor. He plavs Billings with the farcie. | tion | developments?’ Mr. and Mrs. Herschell, Galifornia Theater. good simulation of the implacable Wil- liam Gallett, whose art of acting, you wiil remember, consists in not acting; also, he smokes the *‘Too Much Johnson” cigars with pleasing conviction. Itisstranee, but true, that most actors | make a frightful function of smoking on the stage. Nat Goodwin once tola me that what he believed to be a fair test of “naturalness” in modern comedy was for an aclorto com» upon an empty staze, remicve his tile and topcoat, ring for a| servant, order a drink, swatlow it, cut off | the end of a cigar, accept a light from the | servant, be heiped into bis coat and make | his exit—all the time maintaining the de- | meanor of a human being. Huntington’s | style is normal ana be does the trifles easily and, as Sir Henry says, while trifles | make verfection, perfection is no trifle It was my fortune to strike “Too Much Johnson” on a nizht when the advertised portrayer of Johnson was on the she.f. The understudy had his grand op- poriunity, and he used it to the limit. I| have never seen fiercer faciaiisms nor | heard more cavernous pectoriloquial ef- | fects than those which this young man lavished on the character. M Bates | finds a bappy outlet for that comically emotional voice ot hers in the mother-in- Iaw; she is really splendid; and . Miss | Kinesley, I think, would do well with the soubrette part if sne could reduce her vower by about two-thirds. Her present giggle-xurgle 1s too vast for the littie Al- cazar. | 0 " I have not been to see Mr. Rose’s stir- ring adaptation of “‘Under the Red Robe’’ since the opening, but I can readily be- | lieve the press agent, who says the acting has improved since that awful night | when L. was supposed to adorn the Baldwin stage to point a Frohman moral. It eouldn’t te mucn worse. With the ex- ception of Miss Hampton and Mr. Mc-} Glynn the company is a weak one, and | the real spell of the piay is denied. But | if Mr. Morris will find some means of | spurring his parlor emotions to a pitch | that will account for the splendid devo- | of M:ss Hampton’s Renee de Cocheforet, at least the prime motive of the play would not be lost. | ASHTON ETEVENS, | { Golumbia. ““‘An American Beauty” is the descrip- tive title of a lizht operatic conceit in wh.ch Lillian Ru'sell was the central figure at the Casino last season. It comes to the Columbia Monday in the hands of Corinne and a company of fifty. It is that the scenery and effects and per- sonal vestments of the company require nearly an entire train ot cars for | their transportation. As it is promised\ that the chorus and most of the | feminine principals are of most en- | trancing physical charm, and as me} eloquent press agent himself asks: *What is more delightful than a graceful form showing its dainty curves and exquisite and as it is also espe- | cially stipulated that the music and jokes | are light unto evanescence, it is only natural to surmise that the principal items on the larce freight bill are scenery anda masculine wearing apparei. Judging by Corinne’s former appesrances in San Francisco she carries a very small and modest trunk, a esomewbat mammoth diamond casket. Everything that is gorgeous an+ glisten- ing i- said to find a place in ““An Ameri- can Beauty'’—handsome stage pictures, spirited marches, fleet ballets, fresh young faces and fresh young voices, and a com- Esny of gdod comic opera entertainers, frank David is the principal comedian, Charles Fostelle is his cnief aid. Owen Fuzgerald is the lyric tenor, Miss Octavia Barpe is the young woman whose act ng is underscorea and Miss Bertie Crawford is the soubrette. Gracie and Reynolds are the grotesque, Miss Liilian Stewart and Miss Fannie Ferris are the “Casino Girls,” and J. K. Adams, a townsman of ours, is one of the comedians and the stage manager of the organization. The times are ripe for just such gaudy specta- cie as “‘An American Beauty” is pledged to be by its promoter Morosco’s. “The Ensign'’ is announced for next week at Morosco’s. This is a play whici has always been well received in San Francisco. It was one of the successes of the first Frawley season, and was played to enthuriastic auliences by Mr. Brophy during his last engagement at the Graud. | Next week Mr. Pascoe will figure in the titie role, anda it is said that his con- ception the | | i | { | of part is interestingly | different from Mr. Bropby’s. The | Ensign, as portrayed by Mr. Brophy, was reckless dare - de: wh met misfortune with a laugh and faced death with a sneer. Mr. Pascoe conceives bim to be quiet, manly, self-contained and courageous, and plays him with no more melodrama than the story demands, and depends on well-managed climaxes for the effects. The cast inciudes severa! new people, and more new features. Baby Rutn has gone over from the Alcazar, where her cunning specialties made a telling hit, and will play the touching vart of the lutie child who took her doll to cailon the President. The production will be un‘er the superintendence of W. L Gieason,and special attention has been given to scenic effects. Baldwin. “Under the Red Robe” is still holding forth at the Baldwin, where to-morrow night it commences the second and last week of its engazement. “*The actors have evinced a disposition toward improvement in their work, and at any raie the audi- ences seem to be exceedingly well ira- pressed with Mr. Rose’s dramatization,” says the press acent. The play is really excellent, one of the best romantic pieces we have had recently, and in the part of Rence de Cocheforet Miss Mary Hampton does considerable good acting, strongin conception and feeling. Mr. McGlynn is very much to the good, too, in the panto- mimic role of Clon. Toe next attraction at the Baldwin will be “Lost, Sirayed or Stolen,” a mausical | comedy affair that made a reputation in New York last year. We are promised ‘red C. Whitney's original company. [he piece has been likened by traveled writers to a two or three hours’ visit to raris, so truthful is the phase of Parisian lile. 'The company includes: Charles Dickson, Harry Clay Blaney, Harry Al. len, C. J. Alden, Ckarles E. Burke, Bert Thayer, Lucius Henderson, Al Hoibrook, Harry ley, Anna O'Keete, Mabel Bouton, Oriska Woden, Marie Mather and Adelaide Nye. The Aicazar. The tribulations of Faddish and the wiles of the imperturbable Billings wiil be | aired for another week at the Alcazar, that is to say, “Too Much Johnson’’ will bave a two weeks’ run. The theater has been crowded nigntiy since the opening | and gives promise of another equally profitable week. This merited recoenition of a good farce, well acted, handsomely and appro- priateiy siaged. Wright Huntington as Billings bas done his best work at this £ Mo Mile. Orbassany, Orpheum. theater so far, and Mrs. Bates is capi- tal as _the aristocrauc Mrs. Batterson. Fred Strong has the voice and person with which to depict the lascivious John- *on, and the part is well cared for. Charles Bates has modifiea the Frenchman and now finds favor with the audiences. Then there is Wallace Shaw, who, through strange circumstances, is reduced 1o boot- cleaning, and Frank Thompson, who plays the servant of Johnson, and several | others, ail of whom have pulied together for a special effort in *‘Too Much Joun- son.” The next piece to be staged at the Aleazar is “Tue Highest Bidder,” played for several seasons by E. H. Sothern and last season with marked success by Frank Worthing and the Frawley Company. The Orpheum. The ‘*‘American Biograph,”’ which is evidently some new imjrovementof ths vitascope, is one of the new attractions for the Orpheum. It will display “‘Me- Kinley at Home,” “How a Young Man Makes Love,” “*In a Bowery Cafe,” and a dozen and more other scenes. Mile. Or- tasang and her troupe of trained cockatoos will execute novel tricks, and Miss Edna Collins will whistle new selections. Miss Collins is cecidedly an artist. Ola Hay- den will continue to sing “A Hot Time,” assisted by the cake-walk chorus, but ber other numbers will be new. Press Ei- dridge promises to unload another cargo of well-preserved jokes and sing 8 new song that has been written for him by a local composer. and the Dunus have a new sketch. The Hungarian Boys’ band starts on a concert tour next week. The Tivoli. “The Geisha'’ has made such a hit at the Tivoli that it is hard to tell when a new piece will be rehearsed. The Tivoli enterprise in securing the piece from Augustin Daly has only b-en outdone by the brilliancy of the Tivoli production. 1 out the long cast flaws are not easily found, the singing is good, the cos- tumes tresh and bright and the scenery would bea credit to any theater. The music has become public propert the shops report a big demand for “Geisha’ tcores. Beginning to-aay, Adgie, the daring dancing girl, will begin her tenth and last week at the Chutes. The lions will b: fed every evening during the performance on the stage in view of 1the audience, and the rest of the programme wiil be contributed to by the Girards, whose pantomime and gymnastic work has seldom been equaled here; the Zovarrows, aerial performers; W. H. Sothern, lyric tenor, who will sing for the first time in this eity, and the Wil« liams Bros., acrobatic comedians. Nearly a dozen views for the chuteoscope have just been received from Paris, and they will be shown during the ensuing week. The management of Satro baths an- | nounces a lively bill for this afternoon. [ The Martelles (Agnes and Harry), fancy, trick and acrobatic bicyclists, make their first appearance. Oro and Beil presenta new knockabout act, Trixeda dances her contortion dance and armion makes Ler farewell appearance. Three teams of fiva | men each will contest for a $10 purse in a | 500-vard relay rac | Oberon. | Thestandard of the musical programmes | presented at this favorite resort continues | to win the approval of large andiences. Stark’s magnetism as a leader and his skill as a violin soloist, combined with the talented ensemble work of the Vienna | Orchestra, are decidediy a big attraction. i Musical Mention. The Italian Grand Opera Company which opens the season at the California on Tuesday, | November 2, recently played a short season in Los Angeles, and the newspapers of that city speak highly of both the individual and en- semble work of the organization. The orches- | trais commend=d and large panegyrics tene dered Pietro Vallini for his musiciaaly direc- tion. Nini Mrzzi, who sang the uame part in “Gioconda,” is spoken of es a very dra- | matic soprano with a big voice under easy ex- | ecution, and Adelina Fanton evidently made | & good impression in ihe part of the blind mother. Agostini, the tenor, and Cioni, the | barytone, are enthusiastically complimented | 1n both the Heraid aud Times notices—only | the Times eritic evidently forgot to finish his | story when he wrote: “Cioni sang with such | effect last night that the house rose at him | again and again.” The opera 10 fornia is the e opening night at the C focond: the next night (Wednesday). “Othello”; Friday nighr, “L'Africaine”; Saturday matinee, a repeti: | tion of “Gioconda,” and Saturday night, | *“Cavalleria” and “Fagliacci. | _Among the artists are: Linda Montanari, Nina Mazzi. Adelina Fanton, a young woman of the unostentations name of Benvenuta Bolaco Drog, Francisco Collenz, Giuseppe Agostini, Cesare Cious, Luigi Francesconi and | Beatrice Franco, the lntter a late addition to | the company, who is said to do _remarkable York in the coutralto 1ole in “The Masked Baler Hugo Mansfeldt announces a recital to be given at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s Hall Monday evening, November 1, under the management of William L. Greenbaum. a large repertoire and shin | his performances of the great concertos. Ho | made a notable success during the symphony | concerts by his rendition of the difficuli Raff concerto. “At this recital he will play twa en- | tire concertos, besid | bers, that are new to A s particalarly in MUSEMENT, NOV. 9. ITALIAN ERA CO. ... I'roprietors. Theaser, City of Mexico. NEW TO-DAY BEG. TUES. WEDNESDAY-“MA-KED B " STICANA ' a d “P\GLI \A(in,(i % ‘TROVATOR .. “‘L . BOH.ME " 1 ime here... (SN MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), Oct. 24, Parquet, uny seat, 2oc; Balcon e, Chilaren, an Tast Appearance of—O’BRIEN & HAVEL. JENNIE AND ARYHUR DUNN, D b Artists; RILGE. “Mother Hubbard » wors KNABEN KAPELLE aud a Grea: Vay _ MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALtk SOROSCO . ~0le Lessee and Manager 1ast Two Ferformanc s of IR < EIE | 2 To-Noriow. Octoba- 5, WI. LIAM | 1. PASC E, in e Glorious Nava Drama, | “THE ENSICN!” New Leople in (he Casi! 8 eeful Rucnic Features! rices—1us, 230 and b0 | Y. roniagosk o undar SUTRO BATHS. THIS AFIERNOON (Sunday), Oct. 24, GREAT SPECIAL () AXD 3QUATIC BILL! THE MARTELLES. TRIXE (A, ORO & BELL CHAKMION. 50 -YARD RELAY RACEH FOV MEN 3 team. (f5 men ench. $10 10 the winning to ADMIS>. 0N 10c. CHILD k.. Lathi <, wiih admission, 25c: culidren, THE GEISHA — PRIEDLANTLR.GOTTLOD A& Co- 125975 a=0 mAAGLRS -+ LAST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT! MR, DIGEBY BELL, Iu the Delightful Comedy, THE HOOSIER DOCTOR, TO-MORROW (Monday) EVENIN 1he New, Beautliu: Comic Opera, AN AMERICAN BEAUTY | Peerless CORINNE, And 50 In the Company. * A MAGNIFICENT PROSUCIION FROM EVERY STANDPOINT. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MBS ERNESTIN K KRELING, Froprietor & Manages THIS EVENING At 8 O’clock, THE COMIC OPER i SEASON! GORGEOUS PRODUCTION Of b Japanese Mu.ical Comedy, SUPERE CAST— éxcl{fisxéN Steamer San Fafacl Fostponed til Sunday, October 31, 1897, on Account of Westher. GEORG HENSCHEL Will give 8 few voeal lessons during his scay in San Fanc.sco, Irom Octuber 25 unul November 14 Address HENRY WOLFSOHXN, Manager, Palace Hotel. San Fiancisco, Splendid Chorus, Excelient Orchestra A SAN FRANCISCO i KIUMPH ! POPULAR PRICES . ~-25¢ and 50¢ Seats on Sale One Week in Advance, T FEW 7TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. | THE MUSICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON! ,BALDWIN THEA NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS, CALIFORNIA THEATER. TUESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENAGS AND SITURDAY AFTERNOOY. THE ONLY APPEARANCES IN SAN FRANCISCO of the World- MR, AND MRS, GEORG HENSCHEL, renowned Vocalists, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. HENRY WOLFSOHN. RESERVED SEATS, $1.50... ... ADMI>SION, $1.00. Seats on sale at the warerooms of the San Francisco Music and Piano Com- pany, 225 Sutter street. TER. LHAYMAN & Lo (Uncorporat - Froprie.sc TO-MORROW MO! Y BEGINS THE LAST WEEK. CHARLES FKOHMAN PRESENTS ‘The Brilliant Romance, 'UNDER THE RED ROBE. Adapted by “dward Rose From ihe novel by Stanley Weyman. 300 NIGHTS AT THE EMPIRE THEATER, NEW YORK. - EXTRA-—MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, SBEATS ON SALE THURSDAY, CCL ¢ BASEBALL TO-DAY (SUNDAY) AT CALIFORNIA LEAGUE GROUNDS Cor. Sixtegnth and Folsom Sts. The Boston v_liloomer Girls §. F. Athletic Baseball Club. GAME CALLED AT 2 0'CLOCK. Don't fail to see the Lady Champion Baseball Clubof B ston, Ma s. This will be ihe siar game of the s ason. |- BASEBALL. RECREATION PARK, Eighth and Harrison Sts. CALIFORNIA STATE SERIES. STOC‘IgTO NS RELI \NCE. TO-DAY AT 2:'5 P. M. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.’5 HALL. MONDAY EVENING.. .. Nov. 1, at 8:15 HUGO MANSFELDT'S PIANO RECITAL Two Entire Concertos, G:ieg’s and Lizst's Admission $1 00, Including Keserved Seat. ‘The Latest Musical Comedy tuccess, " ” 5. “LONT, STRAYED OR STOLE THE CHUTES AND FREE THEATER Every Afternoon and Evening, Positively Last Week of ADGIE AND HER LIONS ! THE ... ORIGINAL ... GIRARDS! Th+ WiLELIAMS BEOTHER erobtic Comedias: W. H. SOTH = N, Tenor, and the ZOY ARROWS, Aeri 1 Artists. New Views willbeshown by the CHUT K- OSCOPE. | Lious will be fed on e stage every evening. Admission to all 1ve, Children 5o. . OBERON. GRAND CONCERT EVERY EVENING BY STARKS. :. VIENNA .:. ORCHESTRA !