The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1898, Page 27

THE SAN OOUfiODOO ¥ 8 L0 0 06 0 30 k the stars of the Bos. ! 1 very good to their rere has been a gener- ic of small illnesses among icdonald has been out of the t since the opening up In th tonians past wee! e ery time at which 1 write, and in on ence Mr. Hawley has becomz ustomed to seeing and hearing him- f Alvarado, which he ings, and sings enthusiasm ensational voice. ay and Wednes . | being re- abee is approach- period of youth changeth. He is he was several years erald, adult, was al- ute. Mr. Fitzgerald is stage manager—and an the way—so I suppose who is the most available ted for the part. But from he-stage point of sight zgerald is not a com- he introduces a personal > the topical song which far eal features that time have already fastened mic institution of sure the mem- as the melan- d e - of the Bos- an actor asks who cannot act actor trained in his n about Mr. Fitz- could neither 1 h who an g act, but could direct a whole - of singers and actors with hed art. But after all, it may n the guilele Barnabee who Fitzgerald to the front as a In some of Tuesday's papers, rw, it was hinted that Barna- ought to abdicate. s known that Mr. Fitzgerald is in succession I do mot think ¥ d doesn't happen on a long as it st night, I am always willing to »eing “‘among those present’ at T o rmance in which the under- are permitted to escape from 1abitual obscurity. I sympathize geniuses whose flame en, y whose rude exuber- And I ad- with which they the selfish > understudy must live a life of | anting idleness—ever ready to | > scene and electrify the and hypnotize the critics and e vain, inglorious pretensions bostor who until then has athlessly to the part—ever see- BY aov?cpcoocoooo So long | s impertinent suggestion will be | ASHTON STEVENS. SeoTY 3] SBons coe T e =] o o AT THE COLUMBIA 2.0 Hiss JeNNniE HAWLEY AT THE BALDWIN yvellowing eyes by the usurping rival), counting in fancy the bales of rich flowers, the pouches of perfumed mail, the imperial raise of salary that await on triumph. Ever anxious, eager, pas- sionate for opportunity denied, the un- THEIR OPERA, THEIR INDISPOSITIONS AND THEIR UNDERSTUDIES. faged FRANCISCO - CALL, morning news. They have been made in a night. All that an actor will ac- complish in years, an actress often ex- ceeds in as many weeks. It is now or never with the woman. To be success- | ful she must first succeed, and this while she is young and almost un- schooled. Her study of her “art,” the detail and the analytical process of it, come after her success. The first flush of fame is what awakens all the forces of her personality. And after all, per- | sonality is generally the basis of woman’s success on the stage. o Yielite It gave me pleasure in an earlier is- sue to chronicle the success of Miss Eleanor Giusti in Miss Nielsen’s part | of Yvonne. I went to the Baldwin that | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1898. a Melba might have trembled to live | up to them. But Miss Giusti’s suc- | cess was modest and real in spite of her eulogists, in spite of an audience that bristled with her personal friends, \each one of whom was there to insist |upon her success; for Miss Giusti is a 'San Francisco girl and devotedly loved, | ! I should imagine, by those who know | her. It cannot be said in truth that she finds herself made after a single lpertorm&nce. There was nothing me- | teoric about her singing, and she acted |as almost any clever amateur might | have acted In similar circumstances. But what she did do was to reveal that personal charm which, in both vocal | and histrionic work, is the spine of | success. Miss Glusti is in no sense a startler; theré is nothing of the dia- bolic, the insinuating, in her profes- | sional make-up, and she hasn’'t the | sporty twist of Alice Nielsen; on the | contrary, her personality beams with | the large, easy, good nature that is so | signal in Jessie Bartlett Davis. There ls in her presence something well-man- NELLIE HARRIS AT THE RPHEUM ter, the alarm, that will bring action [Thursday night in a somewhat skepti- and give freedom to the pace leaps in the blood: the understudy, particularly with the | published about Miss Giusti. young woman woman does she must do quickly. Ac- | u that | I sympathize with nderstudy. What | | qualities | voice, there is no | own, and the Bostonians might | on the decline of the Davis | Jessie Bartlett is indgstructibly well. « . {1t. | than “Robin Hood"—a difference that 0 °oo quo,@Q\ Qg | nered, affable and unquestionably re- And as she bears out these in a true, companionable reason why she should not become a characteristic and valuable Bostonian. Next season Miss Nielsen and her bankers will be out ‘in the starry realms with troubles of their do worse than give Miss Giusti a serious trial: spectable. PR It will depend solely upon that good nature of Jessie Bartlett Davis whether her understudy, Miss Jennie Hawley, has a chance at the calcium and the glory during this engagement. It is of no use for Miss Hawley to build hopes health. A rehearing of “The Serenade” sug- gests to me nothing new to say about ‘While it is less intimately tuneful is shared by every other piece of the kind that has been written in the coun- try—still it is tuneful enough, and in both song and story fits the Bostonians very neatly. I haven't even yet been able to grasp all the intricacies of Mr. Smith’s book; but that does not mat- ter. The song’s the thing with the Bos- tonians. This unique band of all-stars —or no stars, just as you please—be- lieves in the good old fashioned comic opera that is to be sung; and the prominence must be divided with some showing of equality. The soprano can- not be ignored; it would not be a Bos- tonian performance if Jessie Bartlett were not well to the front; Macdonald simply must be the barytone singer; Barnabee will have his little fun; ditto Frothingham; and who would dare to slight Cowles, the only basso in the business; and the tenor, even though he be In a sense an outsider in the present regime, must be given some- thing to do in order to maintain the balance. And such super-fair distribu- tion excludes -all one-or-two-star operas. I do not envy the man his job who sets about. writing a plece for the Bostonians, and I think that in “The Serenade” Harry B. Smith and Victor Herbert have builded tactfully well. ASHTON STEVENS. Golumbia. The new week consists mainly of con- tinuances. The Columbia bids for the attention of the first-nighters with Ma- rie Wainwright in a recent Englith cal mood. So much, too much, of the . % \x’rlendly “advance notice” had been | Play called 'Shall We Forgive Her?' Her fair | The title suggests a problem; the story, face was pictured to the extent of |as much of it as may be discovered in | many square inches in nearly all of the advance, suggests melodrama. The press agent is inclined to call it melo- | tional scenery. ! vagabond miner, and his mistress. ‘Wainwright’s first appearance in a play of melodramatic nature. The press agent forgets that Miss Wainwright's last appearance here was in support of ‘Wilton Lackeye, and that she played the heroine in “Captain Bob.” “Shall We Forgive Her?” is sald to be a play ‘built upon purely legitimate dramatic lines,” and in no manner de- pendent on mechanical effects or sensa- The first scene is in Queensland, where live Neil Garth, a She is a young woman who had known him in England, and, when left an orphan, had gone to him in the colonies as his fiancee; but he had not kept his prom- ise, and she, a stranger in a strange land, had accepted the alternative of living with him. But, says the press agent, her finer sense revolts at the life she is compelled to lead and she re- solves to return to England. Before leaving Queensland, she has an oppor- tunity to save the life of a young en- gineer whom Garth attempts to rob. Garth turns upon. her, and in turn her’life is saved by the young en- gineer. To London goes the wronged heroine, where she enters upon charitable work in the slums in association with Paul | Elsworth, a missionary, who once had been in the colonies. West, and marries him without men- tioning her past; and all goes happily until the evil Garth appears on the scene, threatening exposure. She bribes him, and while so doing is overheard by Joana, a poor relative and former housekeeper of Oliver’s, who is very much in love with that gentleman, and who straightway informs him of his wife's dark past. The wife is driven from home in spite of the intercession of a friendly cousin; and Oliver awak- ens from the shock to find himself blind. Having lost everything that life holds dear, the unfortunate heroine is now driven to “literary pursuits”—as the press agent calls them—and earns enough money to secretly support her | blind husband and their child, and to | secure the services of a noted oculist who performs an operation that re- stores his sight. The details are now explained to the husband, and all ends joyously. ‘What becomes of the young engineer is not told in the press agent’s ac- count. Tivoli. “The Vice-Admiral,” MilloecKer’s nautical comic opera, will be sung at the Tivoli Monday evening. The opera was originally presented in this city at the Baldwin Theater by the Conried Opera Company, and afterward repre- sented at the Tivoli on two successive occasions with success. The score is one of the most airy of German comic operas, and possesses many popular solos, duets, trios, en- | sembles, finales and marches. The cast will include Edwin Stevens as the Spanish grandee, Don Mirabo- lante; Florence Wolcott and Edith Hall as his daughters, Serafina and Sybyl- lina; Tillie Salinger as their Cinder- ella-like dependent, Gilda, an orphan; John J. Raffael as the Marquis Henry de Villeneuve, rear admiral in the French service; Phil Branson in one of his greatest successes, Punto, the mas- querading saflor; Thomas C. Leary will be the Donna Candida de Quesada, the widow of the commander of a frig- ate and quite a sea dog; Arthur Boyce and Fred Kavanagh have the parts of her foppish twin sons, Don Narcisso and Don Deodado, and George Cooper iz the leader of the serenaders, Don Carambola. The Grand. “The Last Stroke,” a play dealing with the Cuban struggle, goes on at the Grand next week. The plece is advertised as one of Jacob Litt's re- cent New York successes, and in point of tlmelmess is certainly up to the min- ute. The scene is laid in Florida, at the home of Richard Vance, who has just She meets Oliver | [ taken unto himself a young wife. The American Consul at Caranzas, Cuba, pays him a visit and effects his rescue from his burning home, which has been fired by the villain, who also abducts the wife. Two years later the wife, be- lieving her husband dead, becomes a nun and devotes herself to nursing wounded Cubans. Vance appears at Caranzas as a volunteer in the Cuban army, and detecting the villain in an assault upon the Consul's niece res- cues her, while the renegade escapes by leaping from a high cliff. In the third act a night attack upon the rec- tory is led by the e8caped villain at the head of Spanish mercenaries, who are gallantly repelled by the Cuban sol- diers. In the fourth act Vance, who has been condemned to death on a false charge, is again rescued by the Ameri- can Consul. The play is said to abound in stirring situations, and the stage settings are promised to be of an elab- orate nature. Orpheum. The Orpheum announces several changes and five new a:ts for next week’s bill. A strong drawing card is expected in Lima Pantzer, who claims to be the artiste supreme of the high wire, and another novel feature will be the acrobatic turn by the Carl Damman troupe who are said to do a turn quite different from anything that has yet been seen at the Orpheum. Otheér fea- tures are George W. Day, a monologue entertainer, who is something of an PBastern celebrity in his line; M. Lawrence, the trick bicyelist, and Mat- thews and Harrls in a sketch that is sald to Dbe exceedingly funny. The holdovers include Filson & Errol, who have scored a success; the musical favorites, Adelman and Lowe, and Maud Beall Price, vocalist and mimic. ' Baldwin. The Bostonians will continue in “The Serenade” all of this week. The fol- lowing week will be devoted to a re- vival of “Robin Hood,” and the one following that to their new work, “Rip | Van Winkle.” Galifornia. Black Patti's Troubadours have dona so well at the California that the man- agement has concluded to retain them another week. . Alcazar. “Charley’s Aunt” continues to crowd the Alcazar at every performance. It will play a week longer, giving way to the comedy drama, “False Shame.” Symphony. There will be no symphony at Thurs- day’s symphony concert at the Tivoli, but two symphonic poems will be played by Mr. Scheel and his band: Moskowski's “Joan of Arc” suite and Saint Saens’ ‘“Rouet d’Omphale” (“Omphale’s Spinning Wheel”). Bee- thoven's “Coriolanus” is the overture and Wagner will be represented by the tremendous scene of *“Wotan's Farewell and Fire Magic” from “Die ‘Walkure.” Chutes. Chiquita will postpone her TLondon engagement and remain another fort- night. Olympia. This popular concert hall will have a big new. bill this week. In a week or two Augustin Daly's company will adventure into that most serious of Shakespeare’s comedies, “Merchant of Venice,” and Ada Rehan will at last realize her long-cherished ambition to play Portia. The Castle Square Opera Company, an organization modeled after our own Tivoli Company, is this week present- ing in New York the eccentric double bill of “Cavalleria” and “Pinafore.” ADVERTISEMENTS. First-Class Work. Extracted—WITH: Electricity as employed by and expense. Our prices are of first-class dentists. Gold Fillings trom Cleaning Teeth from Plates, warranted to fit, from. No charge We will gtve tion without pain. Bridge work, per tooth, from.. German, French and Swedi: ephone Mint 1544 Hours, 9 to 63 METROPOLITAN T. S. HIGGINS, D.D.S. METROPOLITAN DENTAL PARLORS. LESS DENTAL O! Lo E‘l‘.elh Fll_}ad» us prevents pain; saves you time ne-half those charged by other xtracting when plates are ordered. 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THIS AFTERNOON, * ALBERT RICHARDS Will dive 90 feet into 3 feet of water. 10c to all, including Vaudeville; children, 5c. GUSTAV WEEK COMMENCING MONDHY' San Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1804 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas éxty, WA LT ER. “DirecTor GengRAL Mo., Estab. 1897 FEBRUARY 2lst. Q—-nzw ARTISTS—ALL VAUDEVILLE cums—Q “=*LINA PANTZER Premiere Danseuse de Fil-de-Fer. MATTHEWS and HARRIS s e s e kers. ' GEORGE W. DAY, | M. C. LAWRENCE, Wm‘ld i Trlcl( Bicyclist. __Monologue Comedian. 4-CARL DAMMAN TROUPE-4 Europe’s Acrobatic Marvel. THE GREATEST HIT OF THE YEAR! FIT.SON & ERROL In Their ll' Anl Dunty c.lll“l“-l “A TLP ON THE DI“Y." 4 Laugh From Btart to Finish. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. | e e ot oy Lessee and Manager | P e ormantes of - SHENANDOAIL" | Third week of the popular actor HARRY | MAINHAL in the first production in lhla‘ city of t GREAT CUBAN WAR DRAMA | “THE LAST STROKE.” { A stirring romantic story of Cuba’s fight for | freedom. Great battle scene. ~Grand tableau | of sinking of the Ma! NS S OTIDAY. M,\TNEE (Tuesday), | WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDA Evening prices—ioc, 250 454 We. Mattnees J Saturdav. and SUDAAY. ADELMAN & LOWE, Xylophone Artists. . MAUD BEAL PRICE, Vunll-e lnl Mimie. Ty GREAT AMERICAN BIOGRAPH NEW VIEWS EXTRA HOLIDAY MATINEE TUESDAY, Feb. 22—WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. | MATINEE TO-DAY, Sunday, Feb, 20, Pera“*cig¥.ec’ LAST APPEARANCE OF AL WILSON, CLIVETTE, BROTHERS DAMM AND OTHERS. i 25c; Balcony, 10c; 0c, any seat. Ca Tiealrd CRIEDLANDER GOTTLOB 8(° ussiss 8 Avanm TO-NIGHT Was originally infended as the closing date, but In consequence of the EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS And the immense demand for seats to the performances ot BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS! The engagement has been EXTENDED ONE WEEK LONGER And the final performance Will positively take place next Sunday night, 8s engagements else- where prohibit further extension. Seats now selling for all remaining performances. COON SONGS. COON COMEDY. X COON FUN GALORE. THE GREAT CAKE WALK. f @(Dflnnfl GOTTLOB BLC° Lssers & Ammmeny TO-NIGHT—Last time Harry Corson Clarke, In the immense comedy success “WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES.” It's the funniest ever. Monday night—Marie Wainwright in “SHALL WE FORGIVE HER.” Beginning to-morrow, second and last The Famous Original BOSTONIANS, Barnabee and MacDonald, Prwrlnm-. Direction Frank L. Presenting the new comic cpqn success «“THE SERENADE.” COLUMBIA Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. ... Lessee: TWO WEEKS «“SHALL FORGIV BEGINNING MONDAY... .--.THE ACCOMPIJSHBD ACTRESS.:... MARIE. ... WAINWRIG In Jacob Litt’s Production of the New Play, THEATER. ..Lessees and Managers. FEB. 2i, T! E HER.” A STIRRING, WHOLESOME, HUMAN PLAY, FAULTLESSLY STAGED AND ACTED. NEXT ATTRAOTION—PRINROSE & WEST'S MINSTRELS. THIS AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK SHARP, . SIXTH ANNUAL BENEFIT —OF THE— THEATRICAL MECHANICS' ASSOCIATION! & IN AID OF THEIR CHARITY AND BENEVOLENT FUND. .. THE GREATEST PROGRAMME EVER OFFERED.- Numbers by the Bostonians, Black MTmmmMmr.flwll. Harry Corson Clarke, Orpheum and Morosco Companies, Mrs. John Morrissey, Etta Butler. Louis Butler and A HOST OF TALENT! POPULAR PRICES!! COLUMBIA THEATER—Speciall| TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. MRs. ERNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manager LAST NIGHT “SAID_PASHA,” TO-MORROW EVENING “The Vligjfldmltnl." LOOK OUT.FOR REQUESTED REVIVAL OF HTHR GBISHA. . prices. + BOX OFFI SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY SOCIETY. FRITZ SCHEEL, Musical Director. —SEVENTH CONCERT: nvou OPERA HOUSE, THURSDAY, AF- ERNOO! LOC! N)‘EB.M,AT!ISOC K. Pm ovmun ““Coriolanus,” Bee: thoven; ic poem, ‘“Joan of Arc,” M kowsky; "~ *' s a’ hale,” Saint Saen Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire, from the *“Walkure,'* Wagner. Prices, including reserved seat, '$1 50, §1 and 75 cents, Seats on sale at the Tivoll Dgfll‘l hculle commencing to-morrow morning, Fel 'COMING! MARTEAU THE GREAT FRENCH VIOLINIST. DURING MARCH. ° Dates, place, etc., in later announcements. 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