The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1898, Page 27

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1898.' 27 & nuN REVIEW OF a dull week at the New York the- | s ational. of Knowledge,” a Tanquerayan plot, written by{ X 1, the once innocent author rty Hall,” and presented by | Daniel Frohman's eum Theater | Company. The Brothers Charles and Daniel, are doing their no- be: for the venturesome soclal | n. Charles’ Empire | s I wrote in another column | ge last Sunday, is given over to Paul Potter’s “The Congqueror , sexey study in immorals, and | rton’ of Knowledge” is being exploited for the entertainment | Danie play of the Biblical title has| sed another riot among the critics, and will deubtl prosper. The Grand | Old Man of c sm, William Winter, scorches it through one and one-hailf | d, solid columns of the Tri- ‘ king once again his fight| the soiled subject of the degen- | rwright. Mr. Winter says| doubtless there are rotten the world, it is not necessary to | to discover the fact, and fur- | s t no woman of decency should 1bjected to the performance of h tainted trash. The other conserv- stand-by, Mr. Dittmar of the ses the piece with unusual asm, scorns a single prurient al- 1 says it is a play that will he lighter men of the craft seriously. No' two of them seem agreed on any particular point except that they all comment on the brilliant cynicism of the lines, which, according to the critic of the Commer- cial Advertiser, have “almost the pol- ish of Oscar Wilde, or of a new tinpan.” . of the br bune, 1sion ger. it les: stance digest of the story of “The Tree of Knowledge:” Nigil Stanyan, when a young stu- dent of theology, has been the para- mour of a wicked woman med Belle. Brian Holingshead, his friend, knowing nothing of her tarnished past, marries her, and Nigil, when he hears of this concluc the policy of honor is silence. Subsequently Brian lo: his fortune and Belle plans to run away with Roupell, the rich vill Here is a long and the principal cynic of the play. Nigil over- ¥ the plotting and, ever having | ts of Brian at heart (accord- of seeing them), goes to reviews for her the bitter- ness of his own broken life and pleads | that she will not de: t Brian. To this | she returns only epigrammatic imper- ul laughter, until , lays hands on her upon a couch. Here the s and her 'quick wit | n to diabolical ac- With hot indignatiod she tells | Brian that Nigil has attempted ‘an as- | Then there is a furious nbat of words. Nigil takes his de- »arture in Dbitterne Belle give: ian some sort of sleeping.potion and »s with Roupell. 1 this has occupied four acts. To make the “happy ending,” another is added in which Nigil is well in the way ying a virtuous girl. . . Such is the fable of “The Tree of ywledge.” Now for the moral. the ive, the problem, the raison d’etre r this is no ordinary nastiness, like > Conquerors,” but acknowledged all of London, and most of to be the work of an ex- man, whatever be its t on her. sk of flippan P In the dullness of my own town I am borrowing the trouble: New York. During the past week I have read no less than a dozen notices of the | play. After it was first g in Lon- don by George Alexander—some time in October—I read the accounts in the principal English pap And still, after all this reading, I do not get the most clear idea of Mr. Carton’s pur- pose, unless it be the us toriety and immediate commercial suc- cess, which I should hesitate to believe | of the thoroughly uninspired but none | the less legitimate workman who built | “Liberty Hall.” | It is probable that Mr. Carton intends | ¢ Inverting | one of no- | NN i3 BURRARRANRNRNRRNRABURLULLNBURRRRNRR R RN 23 %3 8532 % 58 53 o A LONG-DISTANCE THE - NEWEST DRAMATIC SENSATION. BY ASHTON STEVENS. the old dramatic situation. Instead of not turn out | & woman betrayed by a man and left | of New York anything other than a The |to expiate hér compliance by marriage | with the soft-hearted subhero in the last act, there is in “The Tree of Knowledge” a man wronged by a wo- man and made to suffer all the ills, or s0 many of them as his sex will per- rohman, | mit, and married to a virtuous girl in | the last act. The bad Belle has wan- tonly allured Nigel Stanyan and pluck- ed the pearl of innocence from his youth. Then she has thrown him to the dogs, or to anybody else who may a | have wanted him, exactly as the black- | hearted gent of the parlor melodrama |of a few years ago was wont to treat the truthful girl. Mr. Carton gives good Lyceum folk, | US @ man with a decollete past and a | soft-hearted woman to marry him. And although this has been done before, it has not been done quite in the same way. Nigel does not retire from the gay world,*but he takes his throw- down seriously to heart, and is almost as much of a wreck as a woman would be in similar circumstances, and sees to it that the virtuous girl knows just what kind of a man she is marrying. Whatever problem may be sing Mr. Carton is perhaps summari in this speech of Nigt “The world is hard, and justly hard, on the man who is dastard enough to tear from a trusting girl her robe of purity; but surely there is another side of the picture. What of the ruin that women sometimes bring on men? What of the wanton who beckons to him to climb the tree of knowledge, and she glances down through the dank leaves, points with mocking finger to the foothold in the rottin, that other feet have worn ence may be' right; heaven may be a fable, but at least there is a hell. I know it. found it in a woman’s arms.” PRI Presumably this speech of Nigil's is not a sample of that bright tinpan cynicism which dazzled the critic of the Commercial Advertiser into the Os- car Wilde comparison. It seems more like the glittering tinware Jean Libb; However, Nigil is the v: tim rather than the exploiter of cyni- cism under the tree of Knowledge. Belle is banal. She says, with evil brilliancy, that virtue is a matter of temperament.” And Roupell, the calm, erior villain, fairly showers para- s and back-action aphorisms. It I have do: | is notable that his conquest of Belle (or hers of him, whichever way it is to be regarded) is made without a sin- gle indulgence of sentimentality. ‘“You are not deluding yourself with any idea that I care about you?” queries Belle. “We shall suit one another,” he an- swers. “We are not There are no warm extenuating emo- tions in the sins of “The Tree of Knowledge.” s e The fact that a play of this kind and the perhaps less excusable one of Mr. Potter’s are thriving at the two most respected theaters in New York—bar Augustin Daly’s Theater, which, by the way, will devcte its Lenten season to cinematographic reproductions of the Crucifixion of Christ—marks an important fluctuation in the taste and toleration of the play going public. It means, no doubt, that we are to have a return of the drama that is not fit for the “ypung person”; for playwriters and managers are commonly prone to fashioning their enterprises on those which have been most immediately succe ul. It is difficult to foretell whether this will be of any real benefit to the stage.” Many persons who hold the theater to be something better than the receptacle for cardboard romances, plush upholstered = melodramas and other forms of optimistic but unlifelike ywriting, would welcome almost any license so long as it might include the chance of a real play now and then. But the difficulty is that so few of the public want anything that is real. “The Tree of Knowledge” bids fair to pros- per; “The Conquerors,” it is estimated by experts, will run all season; and | “John Gabriel Borkman,” a Ibsen’s great play that deals hardly at all in | the superficial aspect of sexual deprav- ity, but mainly in the seamy side of the soul, achieved precisely ome per- formance, and that.to an accompani- ment of hoots and hisses from almost all of the metropolitan newspaper: So NRRRNBBRUBRABBRBRRRRRBRE RN B8 of Laura sentimental.” | NEW YORK LR SRR R 228 % 23es | it is hard to see in the present attitude | variation of that free and easy taste which supported several seasons of | Tenderloin vulgarity and underclothes | orgies. ASHTON STEVENS. "THE OUTER WORLD. | Gomment and News of Distant | | Plays and Players. Beerbohm Tree's production of “Juli- us Caesar’” at Her Majesty’s Theater is the occasion of no end of comment and discussion from the London critics. | From all accounts, Mr. Tree endeavors to relieve Julius of a deal of the pomp | [ ‘ and circumstance with which theatri- | cal tradition has invested him. Rome | B. C. 44 and 43 is said to be none the less picturesque, but much more excit- ing and human as it is now pictured by Alma Tadema. The stage of the theater has been ruthlessly sacrificed to Mr. Tadema's itleas of illusion and realism. In order to enhance natural- ness and get the desired effect of pala- tial architecture, all the proscenium borders and draperies have been re- moved. The entire height of the stage is disclosed, and the towering buildings | are represented with a magnificence never hitherto attempted, even at the Lyceum. The scene on which thegreatest pains | have been lavished is that of the Fo- | rTum. In Mr. Tree’s version all the | events of the second act transpire here, | including the assassination of Caesar | and the oration of Antony. And every | inch of the enormous stage is utilized | and thronged by a crowd several hun- | dred strong. . Contrary to custom the Forum is not depicted as a grave and solemn place, where only whiskered sages congregat- ed and Cicero composed such .orations as “De Amicitia” and “De Senectute,” but rather as a gay and festive center, full of bustle and color, all in striking contrast to the one figure lying in the midst, eloquent in death as in life. The historical record of the scenes which followed the close of Mark An- tony’s oration and the succeeding out- burst of popular feeling are, it is said, closely adhered to. Therefore, it is to be supposed that in Mr. Tree's production of “Julius Caesar” the platform is torn up and its broken timbers piled in a high heap; chairs and benches added ‘| to it, together with contributions -of costumes from actors, instruments from musicians, swords from soldiers, jewels and scarfs from women, and toys and trinkets from the children—all to build the pyre that celebrates a Cae- sar's funeral. plays Marc Antony, Lewis Waller, Brutus, and Charles Fulton, Caesar. Lucius is represented by Mrs. Tree and Calpurnia by Miss Lily Hanbury. The success is unques- tioned, the Irving production of “Peter the Great” being positively routed from the Lyceum. Heretofore it never has been definite- ly settled whether Maurice Barrymore was to be designated to the world as “getor,” “beauty” or “wit” But the Mr. Tree manager of Proctor’s Theater (where Mr. Barrwmore is doing a vaudeville sketch) seems to have settled it with the announcement that “the star fea- ture of the bill will be Mr. Maurice Barrymore, the father-in-law to the son of an English baronet.” It is not so long ago since John Philip Sousa was conducting band concerts in the grounds of the White House at a salary of $30 a week. To-day he draws royalties on his compositions that amount to $25,000 a year, divides about $300 a week with Charles Klgein on “El Capitan,” and gets the lion's share of the earnings of the Sousa Band. Villiers Stanford,the Englishmanwho composed ‘“Shamus O’Brien,” the only Irish opera ever written that amounts to anything, is hard at work on a new score which deals with a seventeenth- century subject, Why shouldn’'t Mr. O'Sullivan bring the new opera along with him next season when he comes to home and the Tivoli? As soon as the negotiations are com- pleted for a Melba season in Australia, San Francisco will have the chance to hear Patti's only successor. describes the decline of Shakespeare and the rise of herself. May will soon try to stamp her stout genids on the taste of London. The letter ends in this delightful humor: “I should like to suc- ceed in London, because I am an American.” After invading nearly everything in contemporary life the cinematograph finally has been utilized to project the principal . episodes of the ‘Passion Play.” Twenty years ago Salmi Morse, who made the hair of San Francisco stand on end with this mor- bid spectacle, attempted to repeat it in what is now Proctor’s Theater, New York, but public indignation drove the production from the stage. In Boston the cinemetograph recently did a prof- itable business with the scenes of the | Crucifixion and the Last Supper, and | the other afternoon the same scenes were projected in-the New York Eden Musee for the benefit of an audience composed mainly of newspaper men, and which resulted in nothing more serious than a column of free adver- tising in each of the papers. The Her- ald man says: “In speaking of sacred subjects one hesitates to descend to anything triv- ial, but really the donkey in the Flight into Egypt, who, after the Virgin is helped from the saddle, turns and be- gins to eat grass by the wayside, was one of the most realistic bits in the whole series.” Mr. Augustin Daly alsos will dally with the Oberammergau drama, giving up his New York theater to cinemato- graphic reproductions of it during the theater season. ‘What will the New York press agent not do to get his paragraphs printed and copied?, Fanny Rice's paid poet says that her New York theater will be the most exclusive house in the coun- try, seating exactly 1000 persons, at prices ranging from Two (2) to Five (5) dollars a chair. Phew! At the recent meeting of the incorpo- rated Society of Musicians in London Sir John Stainer discoursed earnestly on the question as to whether the state ought not to interfere in what is be- coming a serious danger to musical life —the growing number of incompetent and brazen music teachers, whose op- erations are often extended so ingeni- ously that honest teachers are crowded to the wall. As the state protects mu- sical property by copyright he sees no reason why it should not alsé interfere to save poor, confiding mothers and widows from wasting their little all on charlatans. The speaker inclined to | the opinion that there ought to be a representative body, with statutory power of licensing teachers after duly May Irwin writes a long letter to a | testing their qualifications. St. Louls paper in which she gracefully Sir John's argument .applies with even: greater force to this city, the paradise of humbug music teachers and bogus ‘conservatories.” Charles Coghlan has made one of the hits of his Ife in “The Magic Box,” a Coghlanized Dumas play. He even made a curtain speech the other night, the first from him that is on record. It is stated that two days before.the death of Alphonse Daudet he concluded a play in collaboration with Leon Hen- nique, founded upon “La Petite Pa- roissg.” The piece is intended for the Gymnase. ‘Willilam Gillette will appear at the Garrick ‘Theater, London, on_April 15, in his farce, “Too Much Johnson.” ‘When Gillette was thought to be too ill to make the return trip, he said: “There is only one man I could hope- fully see taking ‘Johnson’ to London, and that is Willie Collier.” 3 Tivoli. “The Pearl of Pekin,” a light operat- humor and picturesque scenes and cos- tumes, will hold the Tivoli stage until further notice. It is an excellent en- tertainment and deserves prosperity. The cast especially includes Edwin Stevens as the great Tyfoo, a part that is in his funniest lines, Florence Wal- cott as the Celestial Pearl, Edith Hall as the French vivandiere, and Georgie Cooper, Jennie Stockmeyer, Gray and Hannah Davis, who, as four would-be Chinese maids, score one of the hits of the performance. { Galifornia. § Black Pattl’s Troubadors will give their opening performances to-night at the California Theater. The first sketch is called “At Jolly Coon-ey Island,” the scenery showing the “Bow- ery” of that famous Sunday resort. In this sketch all the comedians and sing- ers of the company are given full sway in a carnival of coon songs, buck dances, cake-walks, glees, shouts and Jjubilee choruses. Then fqllows an act of gpecialties cul- minating in what is described as a “kaleidoscope = of the opera.” This opera arrangement lasts forty minutes, and includes concerted and solo selec- tions from ‘Trovatore,”” ‘Carmen,” “Faust,” “Bohemian Girl,” *“Grand Duchess,” “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and “The Daughter of the Regiment.” The company includes, besides Miss Sissieretta Jones, the Black Patti, who sang at the Orpheum several seasons ago, Ernest Hogan, comedian and a well-known writer of coon songs; Mat- tie Philip, who is said to be a brilliant exponent of the modern rag-timer, and the Meredith Sisters, “Kid” Fraser, Anthony D. Bird, Walter Richards, ‘Will H. Pierce, H. S. Wooton, Gustave Hall, C. S. Bell, Tom Logan, Charles L. Moore and Alice Mackay. Columbia. The Columbia is rapidly being put into.shape and will reopen, handsomer than ever, it is promised, on Friday night, with the new star, Harry Corson Clarke and his new company.' Then we shall find out just what did happen to Jores. Mr. Broadhurst's piece, “What Hap- pened to Jones,” which personally he has been rehearsing for several weeks, is a farcical comedy in four acts. The story treats of one Ebenezer Goodly, a professor of physical culture. His family consists of a wife, her maiden sister and two beautiful daughters. They are expecting a visitor in the per- son of the Rey. Anthony Goodly, who it appears has been living in the An- tipodes for over thirty years and has been in constant correspondence with his maiden sister-in-law. The first act opens with the household in a flurry of excitement and preparation, as he is expected momentarily. In the mean- time a suitor for the hand of one of Mr. Goodly’s daughters induces Eben- ezer to accompany him to a glove con- test in the interest of anatomy, and, after some persuasion, the professor goes. The contest is supposed to take place in a private club, and the police raid the place. The professor and the young man es- cape and are pursued by what they suppose is a policeman, but who s none other than a fellow-spectator, who is being pursued himself. This man enters the house a few minutes after the professor, and after a few ex- planations relates how he has whipped the policeman, and the complications begin. This is Jones. He is a sort of drummer, who lives by his wits, and says, in explaining his business, that “when he strikes a slow town he sells prayerbooks, a lively town playing cards.” As the police are around and in the house all the time they are com- pelled to shield Jones, and to the fam- fly he is introduced as the reverend brother of Ebenezer. The spurious and the genuine Revs. Goodly meet in many situations that are pledged to be funny. So the story complicates itself through three acts. In the company supporting Mr. Clarke are his mother, Mrs. Adele Clarke; Miss Affie Warner, J. B. Polk, John Allison, Miss Maude Allison, Miss Clara Rainford and H. S. Northrup. Orpheum. Gautier and his horse are doing one of the cleverest and most artistic acts ever seen at the Orpheum. No one should miss seing it. The Damm Broth- ers are acrobats out of the ordinary, and the Nawns are still popular in their Irish sketch. The new bill for this week comprises ie production of really good music, good Gracie | a whole string of new attractions. The great Clivette, assisted by Mlle. Cli- vette, will apear in a unique entertain- ment of magic, jugglery and ‘“digital silhouettes.” This act was secured in Europe by Mr. Walter, who says that Clivette, as a shadowgraphist, has no superior in all Burope. Fillis’ dogs are another novelty. The troupe consists of sixteen dogs, one of which is known as the canine Paderewski. Francisco Collenz, until recently a .tenor of the Del Conte Italian Opera Company, will appear in operatic selections. The Gloss Brothers, gladiatorial acrobats, will execute statuesque poses and acrobatic changes. Adelman and Lowe, musical specialists, promise some novel work in their line. They are said to be especial- ly good in xylophone duets. The bio- graph will have some new views. Alcazar. If not the greatest, at least the most successful farce of the decade is “Char- ley’s Aunt.” - It is now six or seven years since Brandon Thomas wrote the, plece, and it is still running-in London. The American records show 200nightsin New York, 150 in Boston, ditto Chicago. The. Alcazar offers a short and merry season of the “Aunt,” commencing to- orrow night with no less person than ‘rederick Paulding, the one-time play- er of Romeo, in the myst i of the titular personage. Wright Hunt- ington will be the Charley, and William H. Pascoe the Jack. Agita Fallon will play Donna Louisa, Gertrude Foster, Amy, and Flora Kingsley, Kitty. : Baldwin. To-morrow night “The Girl From Paris” commences her third and final week at the Baldwin, giving the last performance a week from to-night, The following week will bring the open< ing of the popular Bostonians in thg new comic opera by Harry Smith and Victor Hubert. The work comes to ug indorsed by Boston, Philadeiphia and New York. The action of “The Serenade” takes place in Spain at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and it affords the finest possible opportunities for effect- ive stage pictures, a circumstance said to be taken advantage of by the pro- ducers. It introduces for set pieces an ancient castle, a monastery and a con- vent. * The costumes, as well as the scenery, are said to be rich, artistic and picturesque. One thing sure to pleass will be the return of such old-time fa orites. as Henry Clay Barnabee, Wil- liam H. MacDonald, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Eugene Cowles, Alice Nielsen, George Frothingham, Harry Brown and Josephine Bartlett. The opera is pro- nounced both humorous and melodious, fitting the personalities of the princi- pal artists to perfection. Its humor is evolved of a song, ‘“The Serenade,” which is sung by nearly every member of the company, choruses included. The Bostonians number seventy this season, with a well-selected orchestra under the direction of S. L. Studley. ‘ Morosco’s. Harry Mainhall, the newly engaged leading man of Morosco's stock com- pany, will make his first appearance at the Grand to-morrow night in the title part of John A. Stevens’ melodrama, “The Unknown.” Mr. Mainhall is a melodramatic actor of considerable reputation. He played the leading role in “Tennessee’s Partner” at the Co- lumbia last year, and he is also remem- bered by many for his work in support- ing the tragedian, W. E. Sheridan, and - as a prominent member of the old Stockwell Company. The play is well known on Mission street and is of the exciting type that pleases Morosco’s patrons. The me- chanical and scenic effects will be well cared for, and the prominent parts al- lotted to Maude Edna Hall, Julia Blane, Fred Butler, Landers Stevens, Morti- mer Snow and Leslie Morosco. = Symphony. Beethoven will be represented at Thursday’s concert at the Tivoli by his “Heroic” symphony, a work which Scheel has given here before with splendid interpretation. Liszt's sym- phonic poem, “The Preludes,” Rein- ecke’s “Peace Jubilee” overture, and the “Entrancé of the Gods in Wall- halla,” from Wagner's “Rheingold.” halla,” from Wagner’s “Rheingold” are the other pieces. Garr Goncert. On the evening of the 15th inst. Mrs. Carmichael Carr will give a concert at the Sherman & Clay Hall in aid of the men’s Institate. Among those who nave volunteered to assist Mrs. Carr are Mrs. W. McGavin, Miss Hulda Anderson, Mr. Michelena and a double quartet from the Loring Club. Olympia. The -new bill at the Olympia Music Hall will comprise theJacksons, “Ebony Laugh Makers’”; Miss Mabel Bowman, a dancing soubrette; Mons. Salvini, in operatic selections; W. H. Howard, in grotesque comedy work, and several of last week’s people. The Chutes. Crowds daily visit the Chutes, Chi- quita. being the strong attraction. A clever vaudeville bill is also given in the free theater. A working gold mine is one of the new sights at the Chutes. - to p ta problem b | | AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. e S e S A A A A A Z Sl vl S e b s Seats by Phono San Francisco, Cal,, Estab. 1887 EXTRA... TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. ALCAZA THIS, SUNDAY, EVENING, of Main 254. Last Performance “VICTOR DURAND.” TO-MORROW NIGHT ... . iiBrme= Branden Thomas’ Farcical Comedy, CHARLEY'S AUNT. ... FIRST TIME AT "-E’_ZEG‘ 350, 50¢c. ALCAZAR PRICES— Tuesday Night, Testimonialto Fred Belasco. RACING! RACING! RACING! __CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB— Winter meeting, 1867-98, Beginning MONDAY, February 17, to February 19, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACETRACK. RACING MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNEBDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND BATURDAY. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. RACES START AT 2:15 P. M. SHARP.—— , 1:30, 2:00, 2:30 and 2 p. m., fth train stopping at the entrance Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound Returning—Trains leavé the Track at 4:15 and 4:45 p. m., and immediately after the last woe. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. THE LYBECK CYCLE SKATING RINK, Howard st., bet. 30 and 4tn. Optical Illusions. Orchestra music. Open daily from 9:30 a. m. . m.; 7 to 10 p. m. General 15c; Ladies’ Bkates, Free. A Dance Will Be Given Regu- larly Every Wednesday and Saturday Even- i~ Siarting Februasy 2, WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, A Great Bill of American and European Novelties. GUSTAV ¥ WALTER: “DiscTor Geneaar. Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1804 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas City, Mo., Estab. 1897 FEBRUARY 7th. THE GREATEST ARTIST IN EIS LINE EXTANT! CLIVETTE! Assisted by MLLE. CLIVETTE, In & Wonderfal Exhibition of Magio, Jugglery, , Mental Phenomena and Laughable Bilhousttes. 16--FILLIS DOGS--16 THE CANINE MARVEL OF THE DAY. BROTHERS GLOSS, l Gladistorial Acrobats. ADELMAN & LOWE, Xylophons and Glassophons Artists. s FRANCISCO COLLENZ, THE EMINENT ITALIAN TENOR. THE - GREA T - GAUTIER Most Thrilling Equestrisn Act Ever Seen in America. .. THE NAWNS.. Irish Comedisns. HERS DAMM, Eccentrio Acrobats. I BROT THE BIOLCRAPH = E GREATEST OF PROJECTOSCOPE MACHINES. ALL NEW SCENES. MATINEE TO-DAY, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY G. Last Appesrancs of AL WILBON, CARLETTA, DOLLINE OOLE AND ALMONT & DUMONT. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcon. ¥, 10¢; Children, 10¢, any part, * #RIEDLANDER GOTTLOB 8 C° Lessics & nanaueny Beginning To—Nig'ht, Sunday, And Continuing for the . Next Two Weeks, First Appearance in San Franclsco of the World-Famous. and Unrivaled Black Patti Troubadours! A Veritable Revelation! COON COMEDY COON SONGS " JUBILEE SHOUTS CAKE WALKS BUCK DANCES VAUDEVILLE OPERATIC REVIEWS, The stage, performance is the quintessence:of tefined fun and sweet melody, and is intended for the ENJOYMENT OF ALL, especially ladies and children. Bring the little ones to the matinee, they will enjoy it better than the circus. Everybody should bring their-shouting voice, for it will be required during the CAKE WALK!. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-| ‘Walter Morosco... Sole Lessee and 'l’lg.xl:,asgs-' oo Performances. of U DOWN IN DIXIE »— i o fht Wit onsives Bt rst earance e ell-Known v ARRY MAINHALL, ontie Actor, " In the Title Role of John A. Stevens' Great Melod rama, —“THE UNKNOWN !”?— A ’rhnuéngtlg‘u stgn: fv.“fa s mc-hm Great ver o rloes, 106, Zhc And B06 T - EES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Event MAT THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL BOSTONIAN FEB. 14 MONDAY Direction of FRANK L. PERLEY. Included among HENRY CLAY BARNABEE, EUGENE COWLES, GEORGE FROTHINGHAM, JOSEPHINE BARTLETT, ELEI;(%R (;Iél‘?’l'l. HARRY B CHARLES R. HAWLEY, -And- S! WILLIAM H. MACDONALD, ALICE NIELSEN, WILLIAM E. PHILP, GRAFTON BAKER, HELENA FREDERICKS, ‘W. H. FITZGERALD, JENNIE HAWLEY JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS. S. L. STUDLEY...ceeeere GRAND CHORUS +ssss.Musical Director AND ORCHES’ First Time Here—the New Comic Opera, .. THE SERENADE .. Book by HARRY B. SMITH. Music by VICTOR HERBERT. As Sung by the Bostonians 150 Nights at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY! TASTEFUL COSTUMES! BRILLIANT EFFECTS! Sale of Seats and Boxes Commences Thursday, February 10th. BA[DW]U_I;IEATER. TO-NIGHT AND ALL NEXT WEEK! Last Performances. Edw. E. Rice’s Superb Spectacle, E GIRL FROM PARIS ~ COMING! MARTEAU ' THE GREAT FRENCH VIOLINIST. DURING MARCH. A SuRR AL N Dates, place, etc., in later announcements. Monday, Feb. 14—THE BOSTONIANS. Direction: Henry Wolfsohn. BUSH-ST. THEATER. OLYMPIA__ Cormer of teson ana The Thalia German Hebrew Opera Company, | —— -~ Eddy Stiests Wednesday “agd Sunday Nights, February iost Beautiful Musio Hall in America. £ ind the Side-split! 3 g Comedy, B e P ALARR (“Dis Nachtwand: lurlsn'). Box office open daily from 10 a. m. :30 p. m. - Hear JESSIE MILLER, LILLIAN LESLIE, _AND S and Our Olio_of Specalties. Ma To-Day. Adfission free. Theater Heated. MRS. ERNESTINE ERELING. Proprietor & Manages EVERY 'EVENING, A SUCCESS EQUAL TO “THE GBISHA.” The Merry Operatic Fantasle, “THE PEARL OF PEKIN!” ——A GREAT CAST— —SEE— THE MERRY CHIN-CHIN GIRLS! —HEAR— ALL THE LATEST SONGS! SONG—DANCE—BALLET! Popular _prices. ...%5c_an OTEN. BOX OFFICE ALWAYS - SAN FRAN(ISCO SYMPHONY SOCIETY. FRITZ SCHEEL ........... ....Muslical Director SIXTH CONCERT. TIVOLI _OPERA-HOUSE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, Feb. 10, at 3:15. PROGRAMME. 3 Overture, ‘‘Peace Jubilee'” .Car]_Reinecke a 500 Symphony No. 3, “Heroic” ... Beethoven Entrance of the Gods Wall Relngold) e .Johannes Brahma ludes” -(after .r 8 h Poer mhm.rtlno) - .Franz_Liszt Prices, including reserved seats—s1 50, §1 and . Seats on sale at Tivoll Opera-house, com- mencing Monday morning, February 7. 300,000 People Have Seen CHIQUITA! The Smallest Woman on Earth. —THE CHUTES — Every Afternoon and Evening, Rain or ne. THE THEATER IS THOROUGHLY HEATED. 10c to ncluding Vaudeville; Children, e. viste DR, JORDAN'S Gront Huseum of Anatomy 1051 MABEET 5T. bet. 6th & 7th, 8.7, Cal. The Largestof its kindin the World. ~ DR. JORDAN—Private Diseases. Consultation free. Write for Beok Philosophy of Marriage. WAILED FREE.