The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1898, Page 27

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 189 @ AGENT. BY ASHTON STEVENS. PPOHOOOOOO0000H0 6O $OP0OOV0000000000000600000000060 Tt strikes me as rather important|stuff he writes. The “artful press that “The Girl from Paris,” which is| agent” is a feeble sarcasm of the poor planned especially for the entertain- | dramatic editor who has to resort to ment of the worldy, which is now near- | clairvoyance before he can tell his read- n@@é}@@@@@("@@0@@@@!@@@@0@000@0@@0@09@@@@@@@0@00@066'9@06@00! <~\<"‘®<-)<‘)®'@@@©®@@@@@6@@@@@@@@0@@@@@@@@@v‘@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@: WHAT “THE GIRL FROM PARIS” NEEDS IS A LIVE, PALPITATING PRESS ©e ©6 oo ©s o6 ©o o6 @o bo @o ©o ve os @®®©®®©®0®®©®€)®€*"56‘\‘*”’»G"v-@@@@’e\é\@@@@@O@@ COELOOFOPPPOP®POOOOOIOEL introduction of Napoleon, who hovers around the movement rather more as a name than a person, is made to im- part a certain historical flavor that is ®e | ing its 1000th performance in London, | and in its second season in New York, should come all the way to San Fran- no better purpose than to | ke a hoosiers’ holiday. cisco to During the st part of the Golden Jubilee week, | while our country cousins were with us tho nds strong, the Baldwin was | a place to be crushed and stifled in; but now, as the town resumes some- thing of its normal size and taste, night by night the rows of empty seats creep closer to the stage. This is not an encouraging outlook r a three- gement, and unle some- aordinarily ympelling is done in the way of advertising—sorpe- thing that will m the show so talked about that the people who have not seen it will not be able to stay away from it—I am sure that we will get another black eye in New York, where ulready we are considered un- certain, coy and hard to please. | I do not see where the critics can be | of further tance; for the ones who write fic nd that this is a love- | lyshow are g0 pre nd unimaginative | in the manner of their prevarication | that they do even less good than the or s who tell the truth about the pro- duction and give credit to the little in it that is good. (I do not mean to be disrespectful to any of my colleagues; therefore it seems safer and wiser and | a politer to imply that they prevaricate | rather than that they really think “The Girl from Paris” is all they crack it up to be). What is needed is a press agent electrical enterprise who will seize upon the sensational »-ssibilities of the fece and the company and hypnotize itors of the local newspapers into | bel that the performance de- | serves the attention of the press. B of A brilliant press agent would have 1 fficulty in convincing the av- that things happen in Girl from Paris” which deserve lumns of moral rebuke; some would even permit him to write the moral rebuke himself and set it off with photographic corroboration. The mere ise that the disinterested crit- lavis on the funny German of Harry Hermsen, the firecracker major f J. «C. Marlowe, the quartet of fresh- ly scrubbed and tailored young men‘ E the good-looking young women is | sufficient to lure the town from | ts fireside these chill nights. A press nt is needed who will tell how near | Girl from Paris” approaches the | f the law, why some of the jokes i some of Edgar Halstead’s lifelike s in the-Scottish kilt would make | lor blush, where the clever French- an and his cane and his Kisses pass | - bounds of niceness, and how many -ards of lingerie and legs are used in | entire performance. | T It is upon the lively amplification of such details as these that success de- | pends. You or I might discuss at grave length the fatty degeneration of | the drama that lurks in hybrid musi- | cal jeville farces and never be the | sending a single person to iwin. A specialist is needed, - who will either denounce or | ite the subject with a swift, au- | tative pen. I can see him doing a page, with fllustrations, on The | tions of NineteenthCentury Pant- | s as Traced by Professor Edward | Rice; another on The Dangers of | nese Laundry Starch as Discovered | a Lady Member of “The Girl from | Paris” company; another on How Ma- | Gilrcy Plays Her Part Without | Getting Rheumatism, ! . the mie . * T don’t know of a press agent this gide of New York who i3 equal to the emergenc Those we have here, with one exception (now my life is safe), are a slow, sorry lot who couldn’t mus- | ter the imagination of a policeman nor write a paragraph in coherent English if their lives depended on it. The pub- lic has a vague idea that the press is| imposed on by the'press agents. Why, | the local press agent, bar that lone ex- | ception, couldn’t impose on the office boy of a newspaper; it is not in the | mechanism of a linotype to set the | a letter something on the order of this | | son commits several jokes that are po | will return to us in an elaborate re- agreeable, no doubt, to the admirers of ers what is booked at the theaters for | that sangulnary bandit over whoos the coming week. name the magic of imaginative fiction - . . for almost a century has been weaving At all events “The Girl from Paris” | the garlands of honorable renown. Mr. Win also says that Miss Marlowe', Valeska is the best work she has ever will have a slim season if something not dome, and done soon. Per-| Vi rew Tork soon. ven in New . haps ‘the . Baldwin ‘mansgement|® 0 vew Tork can unearth some gifted ama-| This delightful patter is by Winfield teur who will turn ocut inspired Moody, the editor of The Bookbuyer. “copy, some dilettante journalist who will know just how to touch off the tenderloin charms of the performance; or perhaps one of the clergy might be induced to condemn it; or a rumor | might be floated that the supposedly | real lace worn by the quartet of danc- ing girls is nothing less than filagreed | asbestos; or Herr Bosworth might be importuned to do for the musical num- | bers of the piece what he did for Bee- | thoven's fifth symphony; or, as a last resort, cne of the managers might write s Huneker, in the Courler, says Moody out-Gilberts the author of “Pinafore,” and should write a libretto. It is part of Mr. Moody's contribution one, which is written by good old B. F. | Keith, the vaudeville king, and sent to | me by his trusty press agent: | man’s opportunities for ben- | an to be quite as large s as they would be minister of the s opportunities f which presen some of »st powerful agents we have for neral welfare of the community at | the people in and out of the o are seeking to elevate our : s. I am happy in the belief that many of the vaudeville managers at home and abroad are beginning to see the increased financial benefits acecru- | ing from ystem of amusement c: | that appeals to the good sense of al | spectable citizens and elicits the able commendation of the occupan the bench, the pulpit, the editorial chair and others in high places whose good opinion and counte: ¢ is the best tes- timonial that any amusement manager can ask for. | TR e | By the way, I hope that somebody in authority at the Orpheum will read to “Al” Wilson this noble letter of Mr. Keith's; at every performance Mr. Wil- itively foul. enme s THE OUTER WORLD. Gomment and News of Distant Plays and Players. ‘ Mrs. Leslie Carter will soon leave for | London, where, at the Adelphi, she will play in “The Heart of Maryland.” She | ASHTON STEVENS. { vival of “A Winter's Tale,” under the direction of David Belasco. Ye gods! By that time who will be the author— Belasco or -Bacon? to the annual Secribner dinner, occur- ring in a musical masque, “The Priest and the Player,” which was written for that oceasion. | If you want a receipt Known to the world hat popular mystery Since the complete text of that ter- o drematist great, for t rible Clement Scott interview, which | . (Yee! Yes! Yes! Yes') fired the indignation of the players Of | Take all of the queer situations in history, England and America, has reached | Pile them all up on your own little plate— (Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes?) this country the retaliatory attacks on | the London critic have in a measure abated. Principal of what Scott says is this “It is nearly impossible for a woman | to remain pure who adopts the stage as a profession. Everything is against her. = Temptation surrounds her in every shape and on every side; her prospects frequently depend upon the | nature and extent of her compliance, and after all human nature is very weak. These drawbacks are the things that render it impossible for a lady to | remain a lady. But what is infinitely more to be deplored is that the woman who endeavors to keep her purity is| almost of necessity foredoomed to fail- ure in her career. “What I have said to you will prob- | ably give great offense to certain peo- ple, but they are just the people I should not care about in the least, and, after all, they need not put the cap on | unless it fits them, and I should think ‘The humor of Adam blaming his wife for it, Whims, Noah in shipping the flea, Dame Lot looking backward and losing her life for it, Absalom hanged by his hair in a tree! The patient Ulysses delayed in Ogygia, Plous Aen -telling his tale, oung Paris pursuing restorsum vestigia, Nero inviting his Ma for a sail; tive quib of Phoenician philol olished in Grectan mythol really forgotten the rest of ‘em; nd turn 'em and learn ‘em by s art. artiss prmp— bers of Horace = genlus for making y erful wisdom of Ba d Bellamy, awful of Mr. Hall Caine, if they do find it fits they will at least | ring grandeur of Marie Corelli, my have the good worldly sense to keep | after the late Thomas Paine: Maclaren, of banality, such a fact to themselves.” it Julia Marlowe’s new romantic play is an adaptation of Rudolph Stratz’s “The Tall Prussian,” under.the English title of “The Countess Valeska.” Its scene is laid in Poland in 1807; its action is supposed to pass on the evening of a battle; it presents an episode in the ex- perience of a noble young woman who is in sympathy with Napoleon, but in love with a Polish officer. She har- bors the officer on the night of the bat- tle of Friedland, and he repays her by | attempting to poison Napoleon. Wil- liam Winter says that the chief situa- tions are devised with skill; that the Whos the fello or two— Rainsford and Abbott and Potter and Dix, Oliver Herford and Sienklewicz! = yes! Yes! Yes!) uses all that is best of plays run a year ( Take from these g ‘em, Say you have really forgotten the rest of 'em; Twist 'em and turn ‘em and learn 'em by heart, youw've sounded the depths of the dra- matist’s art. And “All plays, I am coming to believe, have the same story writes Vance Thompson. “There are two lovers, united in the first act, separated more s | unded the depths of the dre- | d Hoyt and Gillette and Pinero, | or less widely and by various means in | the intermediate acts, only to come to- | | gether in the last act (this is comedy), |or to remain separated—and this is tragedy. If you think it over you will | discover that this is the story of al- | most every play, and so—if you will | permit me—I will reduce M. Polti's | | thirty-six dramatic situations to one.” | One night during her recent tour of thé French provinces Yvette Guilbert | found that a song which attacked her art and personality had been liberally | circulated among the audience. Walk- | ing down to the lights she said: “Ladles and Gentlemen: On reaching | your village I find that a song hostile to me has been distributed in the thea- ter and elsewhere. The poet doubtless realized his injustice, for he did not sign his work. But, to show that my contempt for such anonymous vulgari- ties is equaled only by my good humor, I ask your permission to sing you these verses of a man who, perhaps, in his whole life will have but this one chance to be applauded.” Here is a man who cannot distin- guish between a Sousa march and the beery product of the Berlin march composers! He is the critic of the Lon- don Sunday Sun, and he writes that Mr. Sousa has never attempted any- thing better than the common or gar- den quickstep march, which the Ger- mans turn out in books at the rate of twenty-fcur for ten pence. Wilton Lackaye is still a star and said to be doing fairly well on the road | -THEY ARE PLAIN ByT CONSPICUOUS since entirely abandoning the hypnotic | business. His plays this season are ] 0 the last degree—that is to | , they deal in heroes who are act- | | “Moliere,” which Mr. Lackaye | | gave here last season, is serving him | in Chicago as the curtain raiser to | “David Garrick.” The new play writ- | | ten for him by F. T. Reinan and W. T. | | Price is called “The Royal Secret.” It | 1s in the time of Louis XIV, and the | central character is Mondoroy, the | actor. . | g | __Professor Charles Mills Gayley of the | University of California, who is spend- ing a year at Oxford, England, in the preparation of a new edition of the English comedies, for the Macmillan | Company, has finished outlining the B ® < ors. work. He has secured the services of | several prominent scholars in America and England, tc whom the editorship of various authors has been intrusted. The list of editors includes: Professors Brander Matthews and G. R. Carpenter of Columbia College, Beers of Yale, Ewald Fluger of Stanford, Alexis F. Lange of the University of Califorina, F. B. Gummere of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, the author of “Germanic Origins,” Professor Wcodberry of Co- lumbia, the Shelley, Poe and Emerson scholars, and the eminent Shakespea- rean critic, Professor Dowden of Trin- ity College, Dublin. Rejane has received from the Czar a bracelet ornamented with rubies. She was defiant enough of art to wear it in Paris when she opened as Sappho, who is supposed in the first act to have sold all of her jewels. “The Second Mrs. Tanquery” was re- cently given in Italian at Monte Carlo. Duse played the part. The lady of the soiled past took her poison in full view of the audience and the original play was described on the programme as written by Sir Arthur Pinero. Paul Potter's new play, “The Con- querors,” has met with a secofd sensa- tion in New York. The fir ¢ was in the play itself. The heroine is assaulted by willain No. 1, who relents at the fa- tal moment, and then by villain No. 2, who is killed in the nick of time by vil- lain No. 1. The heroine becom:s un- conscious in the excitement of the scene and much of the efter part of the play v ws MINERAL SPRING; l is devoted to her anxiety as to just what really happened. A nasty sub- ject! "Now comes the Dramatic Mirror with evidence that the first act of “The Conquerors™ is stolen from Maupas- sant’s “Mlle. Fifi,” and the rest of it lifted almost bodily from Sardou's “La Haine.” HANS A The Damrosch-Ellis opera season at the Metropolitan is doing well for all that “La Traviata” was the opening bill, and Melba was somewhat scorched by the critics, who could not forget that Patti and Sembrich had sung Violetta in New York. The critic of the Even- ing Post has little to say about the fancy-work music, but he waxes wrath- ful over the cod-liver-oiled Camille of Dumas. “Even the highest histrionic 27 art cannot make such a heroine any- thing but repulsive to a healthy-minded person,” he writes. “The psychopath- ology of the French drama does not include anything more morbid and un- real than this consumptive harlot sac- rificing herself for a lover. The whole story is so silly that, with or without music, it is high-time that it should be banished from the stage. Future gen- erations will marvel at our coarse taste in tolerating such mawkish rub- bish." Willlam Archer and Miss Diana White have completed a translation, from the Danish, of Dr. Georg Brandes’ critical study of Shakespeare. Dr. Brandes is by many Europeans re- garded as the most important dramatic critic of the day. Tivoli. The Tivoli promises an interesting | production to-morrow night in “The Pearl of Pekin,” a light operatic plece, the music by Charles Lecocq, to which | has been added several solos and en- sembles by Gustav Kerker; the book is from the French of Suru and Chivot, Englished by Charles Alfred Byrne. Both Mr. Byrne and Mr. Kerker are Americans, and the American popular- ity of the piece is in no small measure due to their work. Edwin Stevens, whese yvacation ends with to-night's performance of “Brian Boru,” has the elaborate part of the great Tyfoo, a mandarin and the Gov- ernor of Pekin; Miss Walcott is his daughter, the Pearl of Pekin, and Miss | Edith Hall is Finette, a vivandicre and the wife of Petite Pierre, the French quartermaster, who goes in for inn- keeping in China. Finette is really the heroine, although her name does not give the title to the piece. The law of Tsing, which prevails in the plot, prescribes that if a stranger once sees the face of a Chinese girl he must forthwith marry her, or else be impaled. The Pearl of Pekin strays from home, and is seen by Petite Plerre, the French innkeeper. ~When Tyfoo hears of this he buries family pride, and insists that Petite Pierre shall marry his daughter. The wedding takes place, to the immense wrath of Finette, who arrives toc late to stop the ceremony. The unwilling bigamist tells her that as soon as he can he will escape and join her. This, how- ever, does not satisfy the jealous Fi- nette, who plots with the Pearl of Pe- kin to take her place and personate her on the wedding night. The scheme is successfully carried out, and Petite Pierre and Finette (disguised as a Chi- nese lady) are conducted in state to the bridal chamber. But the trick played by Finette is discovered by Ty- foo the next day, and, always in obedi- ence to the laws of Tsing, Petite Pierre is brought up for trial. The council condemn him to be impaled, but be- fore the sentence can be executed Fi- nette attends to it that everybody gets full of champagne. Then the crew of | the French man-of-war arrive, and all | ends happily in a Franco-Chinese cho- rus. { Phil Branson has been cast for Pe- | tite Pierre, a part which he played in the first production, and Thomas Leary has a good chance as Sosoriki, the com- | ical factotum of Tyfoo. A Chinese ballet and orchestra, new | scenery by Fest, new costumes and a | liberal interpolation of new music are promised in the production. | Fritz Scheel has been engaged to | conduct a series of popular matinee | concerts at the Tivoli, commencing | Saturday, February 19. The band will be composed of the entire Tivoli or- chestra and about twenty-five extra musicians. Alcazar. Henry Guy Carlton, who wrote Nat | Goodwin's “Ambition” and John | Drew’s “The Butterflies,” will be rep- | resented at the Alcazar this week in | “Victor Durand,” a melodrama in four | acts that was first produced at Wal- lack’s twelve years ago. This is the plot: | Vietor Durand and his friend, Paul | Dean, leave Monte Cario together, where Dean has made 3 big winning | at the tables. Near Paris Dean is dis- | covered in a railway carriage, mur- | dered and robbed. Antonio Sparza, a | tool of the real criminal, testifies that | Durand committed the crime, and the | hero is sentenced to the galleys for life. After two years, however, he | escapes and goes to Rome under an | assumed name, where he begins a new | life, and eventually marries. On the wedding journey his wife induces him |to stop in Paris. His desire to shun | society creates suspicion, and at the | instigation of one the Baron de Mer- sac, his identity is discovered. He is | finally saved through the efforts of his | wife, who, with the assistance of de- | tectives, fastens the crime upon none | other than the haughty baron. | - Wright Huntington, Frederick Paul- | ding and W. H. Pascoe, who has be- come a regular member of the Alcazar company since the expiration of his contract with Morosco, will be promi- nent in the cast. The play was last seen here during a Frohman engagement at the Baldwin about ten years ago, so it will be a novelty to many theater goers. “Char- ley’'s Aunt” is in preparation to fol- low. | Baldwin. | “The Girl From Paris” has two | weeks more to run at the Baldwin, in- | cluding Sunday nights, after which time come th» Bostonians. 1t has nct | as yet been settled whether these vop- I--lfir artists will open in a revival of NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. | <*TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. | Mrs. ERNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manager TO-NIGHT! LAST TIME! Of the Romantic Irish Comic Opera, “BRIAN BORU.” TO-MORROW EVENING—The Merry Fantase, THE PEARL OF PEKIN! Reappearance of the Brilliant Comedian, MR. EDWIN STEVENS. Song—Dance—Humor. Popular prices. € RAND OPERA-HOUSE. Last 2 Performanoes of ““Brother for Brother. Commencing To-Morrow, danuary 31, Initial Production_of the Sensational Scenic Melodrama CDOWN IN DIXIE picting the South Beautiful scenery. The thrilling rescue from the cotton mill. Negro specialties, songs and dances Acme Quartet in melo- dles of the South. Evening prices—10, 25 and D times. scenes. press in the burnin Auring reconstruction | Highly sensational | NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. San Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1894 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas City, Mo., Estab. 1897 WALTER. DirecTor GeNErar [WEEK COMMENCING MOND THE MOST MARVELOUS EQUESTRIAN ACT IN THE WORLD! The GREAT GAUTIER The Fearless Frenchmen Who Ess BStartled All Europe by His Sensational Feats of High- Bcohool Horsemanship. Greatest Exhibition of Nerve on Part of & Rider and the Instinet of an Animal Ever Witnessed. In Their Original Sketeh, “‘ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.” 50c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Comer of Meson and OLYMPIA— rg,f) 500, The Most Beautiful Music Hall in America. MATINEE TO-DAY. MATINEE TO-DAY. KIRCHNER'S LADIES’ ORCHESTRA. The Female Levy of the World, JESSIE MILLAR, Cornet Soloist. The Feature of Barnum & Bailey's Great Band, LILLIAN LESLIE, Descriptwe Vocalist. ME -BALLE, Character Singer. HEALEY AND STEVENS, Dashing Sou- brettes, S. SALVL The Great Tenor. TAN, Violin Soloist. ER, Musical Specialties. Admission Free! Admission Free! » House Thoroughly Heated. THE LYBECK CYCLE SKATING RINK, Howard st., between Third and Fourth. Moving Pictures and Optical Illusions. Orchestra-music. Open daily from a. m. t0 12 m.; 2 to 4:30 p. m.; 7 to 10 p. m. General Admission, 10c; Gents' Slaces, g’c Ladies’ ven i;’(;:mt Irish cm-nyLTflE. NAWN BROTHERS DAMM, Eccentric Acrobats, From the Wintergarten, Berlin. THE JACKSONS The Geauine Ebony Laughmakers. AL WILSON, . Germea Gomsdisa " ALMONT & DUMONT, Instramentsl Hussars. THE GREAT AMERICAN BIOGRAPH The Most Perfect of Projectoscopes. New Beries of Life Scenes. MATINEE TO-DAY, SUNDAY, mvames. xarsias sesicuins s 52 sior a soxem, CARLETTA, Artist Elastic Supreme. DOLLINE COLE, World’s Femals Barytone. EBkates, Free. A Dance Will Be Regu- larly Every Wednesday and Saturday Even- ings. Starting February | JANUARY 30th. PROFESS0R GALLANDO AND CARTER DE HAVEN, Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcony. 10¢; Children, 10¢, any part, NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. Seats by Phone ALCAZAR g —THIS SUNDAY NIGHT,— Last time of the Laughing Farce, ‘“ARABIAN NIGHTS!” TO-MORROW NIGHT, Henry Guy Carleton’s Drama, VICTOR DURAND! BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND STAGE EFFECTS FIRST APPEARANCE AT THIS THEATER OF MR. WM. H. PASCOE. IMACRONOUGH THEATER, HE COMES! 2 NIGHTS ONLY. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 4th and 5th, The Quaintest of the Quaint, - WILLIE COLLIER ; “THE MAN t FROM MEXICO!” oot sezerse STAND UP! And! your seats early you will have to 1f you do mot reserve BUSH-STREET THEATER. The Thalis German Hebrew Opera Company. Saturday and Sunday Nights, Jan. 29 and Bos FALI L OF JERUSALEM.” datly from 16 open a. m. to 5:30 Pom. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. * K Kk K X KX fimn GOTTLOB 8 €0 4t3sies & mansim EEEEEEED] The Swellest Thing in Town! HR KKK K KL KR KK XK R R A TO-NIGHT AND ALL NEXT WEEK THE | EDWARD E. RICE'S SUPERB SPECTACLE | Monday, February i4 GIRL FROM PARIS Hear! Sister Mary Jane's Top Note. Seel A Galaxy of Feminine Beauty. THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL BOSTONIANS, EEEE R R R R L TS b CALIFORNIA THEATER," Bush st., above Kearny. Tel. Man 1731 TO-NIGHT—SUNDAY—LAST TIME. Rich & Harris' Comedy Production, COURTED INTO COURT! Presented by Marife Dressler, John C. Rice and a Splendid Comedy Company. Beginning Monday, Theater Closes for One Week. ——SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6— Black Pattl’'s Troubadours. INGLESIDE CBE.RSING PARK. OPEN CRACK STAKE. East Against the West. Sunday - = = = 10:30 A. M. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB INGLESIDE TRACK. RACING FROM MONDAY, dJan. 23, to SATURDAY, Feb. 5, inclusive. Fire or More Haces Daily, Rain or Shine. FIRST RACE AT 2 P, M. S. P. R. R, Trains 11:45and 1:15 P. M. Daily. Leave Third-st. station, stopping at Valen- cla st. Returning immediately lf::r the races, ELECTRIC CAR LINES. Kearny-st. ind Mission-st. cars every three minutes, direct to track without change. Fill- more-st. cars transfer each way. i S. N. ANDROUS, President. l F. H. GREEN, “Robdbin Hood,” or in Victor Herbert's new comic opera, “The Serenaders.” Herbert's work was very successful at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York, last seuscn. Among the Bostorians this yesr are: Tenry Clay Earnabee, W. H. MacDon- ald, Jessie Bartictt Davis, Eugene Cowles, George Frothingham, William E. Philp, Nellie Giusti, S. L. Studley, the musical director, and our own little Alice Neilson, who is said to have de- veloped into one of the cleverest wo- men in comic opera. Galifornia. To-night is the last chance to see Marle Dressler at the California in “Courted Into Court.” Miss Dressler has scored a personal hit of magni- tude in San Francisco, and it is to be hoped she will call again every season. Mr. Sparks and Mr. Kruger will be re- membered, too, for their clever work, and let us hope that this brilliant band of farce-comedy players will follow the example of May Irwin and forswear the terrible McNally. Commencing Monday the California will be darkened for six nights. On Sunday night it will be double dark- ened by the Black Patti's Troubadours, who will then commence an engage- ment of two weeks. The organization numbers fifty singers, dancers and vaudeville specialists, and is said to ba the best assortment of Afro-American ginger that ever went on the road. Ernest Hogan, the composer-comedian, is of the company, and will give us tha authentic ragtime coon song at first hand. Morosco's. “Down in Dixey,” ‘a melodrama of the South, will be the new piece at Mo- rosco's. A sensational escape from death in a cotton press and the flames of a burning building will be the most exciting of the situations; a pickanin- ny band and the introduction of songs, speclalties and buck and wing dances will furnish the local touch and the contract to the thrilling and romantic motive of the plot. Mortimer Snow has been cast for the part of Jack, the heroic son of Judge Calhoun, the Southern planter, and as Georgia, the humble “work-out” with whom Jack is violently in love, Miss Hall should be at her characteristic best. Landers Stevens, Fred = Butler, Julia Blanc are prominently cast. The scenery will play its usual conspicu- ous part. Orpheum. The Great Gautier and his trained horses promise to contribute the par- ticular sensation to the new bill at the Orphcum. This act, it is said, is not the usual one of marching and drilling, but something swift, dangerous and al- together different from anything ever given outside of a circus tent. Among other new people are the Jacksons, who do a colored grotesque comedy sketch; the Nawns, who have been seen here before, in a new skit that gives Tow Nawn the part of an Irishman; and the Brothers Damm, who execute acrobatic feats that are said to be unprofane and thrilling. The biograph will have a new set of pic- tures. The hold-overs include Al Wilson, the German monologuist, who is very popular with some of the audience; Dollie Cole, in new baritone songs, and Carletta, the great contortionist. Al- mont and Dumont have returned for an extra week of musical specialties. Golumbia. The scars of fire and stains of water are rapidly disappearing in the Colum- bia, and it is expected that this popular theater will reopen about the middle of February with Harry Corson Clarke and a new company in Broadhurst’'s farce, “What Happened to Jones?” Af- fie Warner will be prominent in the company. Olympia. The Olympla Music Hall manage- ment announces the continuance of Kirchner’s Ladies’ Orchestra, and a big list of specialties. Chutes. Chiquita is happy at the Chutes. The spacious theater is packed every after- noon and evening, and on Saturdays. Sundays and the past few holidays it has been necessary to give additional performances. The programme for the week includes nearly everything in the variety line, from a tight-rope walker to a high art soprano. Skating. The Lybeck Rink, on Howard street, between Third and Fourth, has brought about a new popularity for skating. Moving pictures and optical illusions nightly are displayed for the entertainment of the -skaters. Com- mencing Wednesday night, a weekly dance, beginning at 10 p. m., will be a feature. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. MINING FAIR ——AND—= KLONDIKE ... EXPOSITION A MECHANICS' PAVILION. Open Monday Morning until 6 P. M., 7:30 to 10:30 P. M. Monday _afternoon—Chil- Special features Ly dancing bears and dren’s entertainment, other attractions. Rogers and his magnificent military band— Afternoon and evering. CARAMEL WRAPPING CONTEST—Young ladies’” champlonship from Sarony’s factory, novel and_interesting: at night. MISS DAVIES, AFTERNOON AND NIGHT, KLONDIKE COOKING LECTURES. Free moving pictures all day. For other features see the great Hydraullc Mine, Underground Tunnel, Ore Chambers. KLONDIKE OUTFITTING —AND— PACKING EXHIBITIONS. Statistical Monument. Wonderful exhibition of gold dust and nuggets. County displays. Hear the Miners' ~uartet in old miners’ songs, afternoon and evening both. See Bartholomew's educated horses, “‘Trip to Dawson City,"”" Tesla's electrical exhibition. In fact the most wonderful exhibition ever given on the coast. See Tuesday's papers for programme of spe- clal events. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Chiidren 15 Cents. CHIQUITA THE " CONDENSED CUBAN PATRIOT,” And Smallest Woman on Earth! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING at —THE CHUTES — RAIN OR SHINE. Wil Drive Onto the Stage in the Tinfest Car- riage Ever Bullt. THE THEATER IS THOROUGHLY HEATED. Special Performance To-day at One. 10¢ to all, including Vaudeville; Children, Sc. SAN FRANCISCO ORATORIO SOCIETY. JAMES HAMILTON HOWE, Conductor. Nintn Concert, Metropolitan Hall, “Thursay, February CREATION.” " Soloists, Mrs. Priest-Fine, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Campbell, ed_Seats, 5ic, at Byron Mauzy's, 306 Reserv Post