The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1898, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, 4L 444444+ 4P+ L PP P44+ 44444444444+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 44+ 44444944 Droduced at the Theatre Porte-Saint- ::Q0»#0¢f#44»0#??9900#4000¢9?¢00?¢#+f¢#4##f+§¢?9¢+¢40#?49 Dcflflrtln, h; P&flsflgfm Pecembgr. with | 'oquelin in the e role, has been tht > 4+ | createst French success of recen! 164 V AI D V I I I E 4+ | times. The London Telegraph gives an | ++ ’ 4+ | account of part of the play, in which | BB 4+ | it says that the central character, Cy- | T 4+ | rano, so admirably played—false nose | 04 SPE ( :H O F and ‘all—by M. Coquelin, fs an ugly. +4 4+ | lovable, unselfish hero, who, when he Sy 4+ | finds that his love for his cousin Rox- 708 4+ ane is not returned, and that she loveS| SI H N ’ 33| Christian de Neuvillette, devotes him- | ++ = 3 | seit to the task of writing love letters | +4+ ® 25 | to help his rival’s suit. Christian gets | 2 = . ++ killed in the wars, and Cyrano himself | Pl 4+ is sufler‘ingl from s.‘ molx;tal disease. In a beautiful scene in the fifth act th 4 By ASHTON STEVENS. :: Secret of the love letters fs at lnst aist | covered. yrano is, at Roxane's re- | + 4+ 4+ 0000&¢0¢¢¢¢#0#‘##&4####5#66‘0&#########Q&#‘##O#%##‘*‘qUESt. reading the last message from | P R R { DR o S A R o R R e RS R LS e R R el herdeadlover.(ltkisaalreahdydusk,yetl What I miss most in the Primrose & | th: z f “ " Cyrano seems to know the words by | Fw \UX]Z\;:‘gnx ;s in] :Vesn n’;‘;ey e one, I believe, that is published on| of “Peter the Great” George Bernard | peart. So the lady finds out the truth. have a new interlocutor this time, Mr. B. S irns, a fine figure of a man If, large, genial and really assist- ) the end men and their jokes, but a long jump short of Mr. West. Cairns hs which so dis hims: ful 1 inguished Mr. West from other interlocutors; he does not seem assured that the world is his; he has legs that make quite a seemly show- ing in their silken hose, but he seems never to be enthralled by them; he scarcely notices them at all, in fact; and he fans himself practical bus- slike way, quite different from the lures and blandishments with which Mr. West used to invest this innocent affectation. I never can think of Mr. ‘West apart from his sumptuous person and the arch delight he took in it. To n the world was always fresh and glad so long as he had his health and | beauty and those splendid legs and heaving shoulders and just that hint of gentlemanly embonpoint beneath the walstcoat. He Is a strange institution, anyway, the interlocutor. I remember in the old days when the interlocutor would sometimes be the bass singer, too, and would herald with fine speech, not only the efforts of the boy soprano, the London tenor, the Russian barytone | and the fabulous comic singers, but his own turn as well with impartial en- thusiasm; and would belch forth in deep, abdominal tones “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” or some grim bal- 1ad that dealt in grave diggers and the ad. I re nber one of t e basso- interlocutors—he was a gigantic fellow, close on to 7 fi him to t af singing an embalm- ing-party ditty whose hilarious motto was “Six feet of earth make us all of It got so that undertaking and sea were Inseparably asso- ciated in my appreciation of the inter- locutor. 1 used to wonder when the end men found the heart to, make him the cue and butt of their rude jokes, 1 thought, he could easily v one of them and comfort- the luckless devil beneath he low D in one of his graveyard songs. But the world, the minstrel shows and I aged together, and finally I saw evolved the satin-upholstered minstrels that obtain to-day, with the handsome and harmless Mr. West in the interlocut chair. I that modernity has improved the min- strel show, but I can say that in my experience Mr. West is the most en- gaging perso the modern him sadly. swallow ar b performance, and I miss . At best the modern minstrels, for all their fine clothes and scenery, are a long way behind the old-timers in point of characters and real fun. For several it was a trustful device of 1d West to preface their own spectacular show with a short performance by real niggers. The nig- gers were exposed as the “horrible ex- ample” of minstrelsy in the past, and he modern burnt-cork artists got the and rich flowers. But this convincing evidence of the superiority of the new. When min- strelsy was in its palmiest day, when it had individuality, local color and hu- mor unborrowed and all its own, the minstrels were white, not black, men. To-day it has no color, no individual process; in fact. the olad traditions of the business practically have been abandoned until the performance is a variety show pure and simple. Taken om its own variety standpoint I t k the Primrose and West perform- ance quite as good this season as it was last, and surely it fits the Colum- bia’s clientele and prices much better than it did the Baldwin's. songsarenotably weak. The only one T can recall is Mr. Primros Nigger, Never Die,” and that although by Metz, the man who wrote “There’ll Be a Hot Time,” is lamentably easy to for- get; and the “living sheet-music” which goes with this song is not eonspicu- ously alive either, as most of the coon faces are bogus. The best work is done by the Mowatt trio of Indian club jug- glers and George Wilson, the inde- structible endman, who were here last season, and E. M. Hall, the best of &ll the old-time banjo-players. .« s At the Orpheum they manage the living sheet music better by supplying Babel with something close to the ad- vertised quota of live coons, but, as in the minstrels, the act does not get a fair trial for the lack of a catchy song. Sabel is all her old self and even a little more; she sings liL> a steam whistle. shouts like two, and is entirely some- thing immediate, galvanic and special. This week she will increase the number ofcoonstosixty-five and try .anew song, not that beaming pride | and with a voice on | can't say | ality that ever adormed | But the | “Nigger, | another page ot this paper. I hope it | proves a winner, for Sabel herself is a clever explosion and the act 1s expen- | sive and enterprising and new to us. | even if not original with her. “iale The most satisfying of the Orpheum turns—and the whole bill is startingly | ahead of anything the house has. of- | | |fered in the last two or three dull| | months—are supplied by the Jose quin- tet and Rudinoff the Russian. Jose | still retains the boyish counter-tenor | inits reedy superlative, and the quintet | is the best of its popular kind that I| have heard, although it does add weird | and impossible harmonies to the i already committed against Mascagni's poor battered intermezzo. The Russian is an all-round wonder; everything he does is new and entertainingly valu- | | able. He is the one man I haveseenwho ex can rivet his audience while he ecutes a sketch, and his drawings, pecially those on the smoked tin, are | ahead of the usual vaudeville art, and then he has a pretty trick of imitation {n the warbling of ‘‘nightingale’scourt- sh and his shadow pictures are fu- riously vivid. Rudinoff is tremendous- | 1y versatile and a graceful, humorous personality shines in all his work. « s e London | My mail tells me that the | eritics have been set wagging again, and this time over no less person than Henry Irving. The actor delivered a | speech at the annual dinner of the Playgoers’ Club, in which he said a few things that, while true enough, admit of strenuous reply. In these sly terms Sir Henry comments on interviews with and paragraphs about the mem- bers of his profession. Some people who were intended by na- ture to adorn an inviolable privacy are constantly thrust upon us by paragraph- ers and interviewers, whose existence is a dubious blessing, until it Is assumed by censors of the stage that this busi- ness is part and parcel of theatrical ad- vertisement. Columns of this sort of rubbish are printed every week; and many an actor is pestered to death for titbits about his ox and his ass and| everything that is his. Occasionally you may read solemn articles about the ins tiable vanity of the actor, which must be gratified at any cost—as though van- ity were peculiar to any section of the community! But what this organized gossip really advertises is the industry of the gentfemen who collect it, and the smartness of the papers in which it is cir- culated. At first blush this sounds noble and | Just—that is, if you do not happen to | know that Henry Irving long has been | and still is the best advertised actor in England; that no small measure of his large success is directly attributable to the friendly ‘“paragraph,” “interview" | and other “rubbish” written by these organized gossipers ‘‘whose existence is a dubious blessing”; and that recent- | | truth, but that the parsens needn't read | | sermons to the stage on ‘hat account, | | Marteau’s Hair—Before and After Serving in the French Army. | own congregation, who employ | stage, and only three actresses!” | laro, who is now dead, used to tell a | | And find the hollows where these flowers grew. |d Shaw, one of the foremost critics of ngland, because, as his manager said, three lines of adverse criticism in the Saturday Review would be of no value to the Lyceum Theater. ASHTON STEVENS. THE OUTER WORLD. News and Gomment of Distant Roxane (putting her hand on his shoulder)—HOW can you read? It Is quite dark. (He starts to find her so near him, and his head sinks on his breast. A | long silence. Then in the darkness she speaks.) And for fourteen years he has played this game! Cyrano—Roxanel Roxane—It was you— Cyrano—No, no! Roxane—I understand all the gener- ous imposture: The letters, it was| you—-7= Cyrano—No, ne! Roxane—The dear, mad words, they | were yours! The voice irn the night, 1 was yours! The soul that spoke to me, it was yours: Cyrano—No, no; I did not love you. Roxane—You loved me. Cyrano—No; it was the other. You loved me. Plays and Players. Poor Clement Scott! Nearly every- bedy has taken a whack at him since that unvarnished interview about the morality of actresses. Only Bernard | Shaw and Robert Buchanan were con- | spicuously in the defense of their col- league. Shaw, with his usual open: Roxane—It was you. ness, says that Scott told but half the | Cyrano—No. Roxane—Already you hesitate. as they would do better to look to their laun- dresses to shine and starch their Sun- day linen at wages that virtually com- pel immorality. Buchanan settles the subjeet with a single epigram: “Twen- ty thousand virtuous women on thel Few people know that Scott wrote the words of “Promise Me.” Selina Do- good story on the London critic. She| joked shamelessly about his infatuation | for her, and the climax came when she explained how he used to write lyrics for private circulation. One day, while at luncheon with two other actresses who were among the public favorites of the hour, the three women began to compare their notes. “I say, girls,” said Miss Dolaro, “a new poem was sent to me this morn- | ing. I'll tell you the first line. Then I l\_\-l?m you to guess who it sounds i With roguish twinkle in her eyes, Dolaro struck a mock posture and be- gan: Oh! Promise me that some day you and I— But, without waiting to give her an answer, the second actress burst in hastily: May take our love together to some sky— Then, suddenly, the deep contralto voice of the third actress intoned sol- emnly: Where we may be alone and faith renew Cyrano—No, dear love, I did not love you. Roxane—Why for fourteen years have you been silent, when on this letter, | he is nothing, these tears are | That was enough. In less than an- | other minute those three women had tried and convicted Scott of three-ply deception; and the story of his duplic- ity—thanks to the vivacity of Miss Dolaro’s tongue—was soon a standing | his! joke in every club in London. oxane—Then, why break this sub- And this all took place years and |lime silence of yours t-day? vears before Reginald de Koven had | So the scene runs on with increasing covered the poem, and, with the as- | pathos. The hero is dying, but has | sistance of Jessie Bartlett Davis made | not been able to deny himself a final it once more famous. | interview with his lady love. At the | 1ast he wins from Roxane’s lips his first | and only kiss. ano—This blood on the letter is Richard Mansfield is endeavoring to secure the American rights for Ed- | dependent on mutual reticence. | the consequences mantully)—The lives of | other men before you have been warped MARCH 13, 1898. the play conducted by Martha Morton. Mr. Davies says that the performance was like trying to force a full length portrait into a pocket picture frame— large fragments of both “Carmen” and !\‘Xéss Seligman lapped over on either side. Here are some more imitation Oscar Wildisms from “The Tree of Knowl- edge,” which has just closed in Lon- c;on and will last the season out ir New ork: Monica—Mamma, don’t abuse the major. The major is a brick. Mrs. Stanyon—Possibly; but you needn't throw him at my head all the time. Nigil (referring to the clever rascal of the play)—His one delight is to make him- self out to be worse than he is. M&Jmca—Really? I doubt if he'll suc- ceed. Nigil—I think I could be happy If it were not— Roupell—Your past? You treat your past as a child does the seed it has planted out of sight tne day before—you dig it up to see how it's getting on. Why don't you sow forgetfulness and get L.onica to help you? Roupell—Married happiness 1is largely Belle (the deserted adventuress to her former lover)—There is no quality so austere as the virtue of a man who has seen some one else. 0la Sir Mostyn—Optimism is the intoxi- cant of youth and the narcotic of age. Nigil (advising his erring friend to face and bent. Lay yours on the anvil and hammer it stralght again. Monica—T should like to bring a little happiness to you. Sorrows are often only phintoms that will disappear if we let in | a little daylight. | The lovesick major—The matrimonial | brigade is the finest branch in the service. | Belle—Walt untll you're under fire! Monica refuses the major but offers him | friendship. | I see you want | Major—Friendship! Ah i I can expect at to put me on half pay—al my time of life. The Sun says it's an ill wind that blows no theatrical manager good. Not | only has the disaster to the Maine | caused “The White Heather” to play to larger business than ever on ac- count of its realistic scene at the bot- tom of the sea, but an extra force of | o can be canned too mond Rostand’s “‘Cyrano de Bergirac,” | Even 1y he refused to admit to the first night | the poetic play which, since it was first lmuch, writes Acteon Davies apropos of | day upon a melo playwrights is now working night and drama which will bring Minnie Seligman’s vaudeville version of | the Cuban situation essentially up to | first time at the Baldwin Theater to- 25 date. Most of the Cuban dramas are now doing one night stands, having ex- hausted their popularity in the big cities, but nearly all the managers of the combination theaters in New York are now trying their utmost to cancel the contracts of the companies that they had engaged for next week in or- der to bring the shop-worn Cuban plays back to the metropolis at once. Much interest in New York is ex- hibited in the return of Josef Hoff- mann, who played with Thomas’' Or- chestra last Tuesday week. When last heard in America young Hoffmann was a child prodigy; now, from all ac- counts, he has fulfilled the promise of his youth and must be reckoned one of the very first pianists of the world. Golumbia. There will be another week of Prim- rose & West’s minstrels at the Colum- bia, during which new songs and spe- cialties will be introduced, and then comes Rice's ‘1492, a musical ex- travaganza that appeared at the Bald- win nearly two years since. The female impersonator of the present production is Stuart, the “Male Patti.” The Her- ald Square Quartet, Thomas Meade, the boy tenor, and some sixty others are of the company. Baldwin. The ‘“Mysterious Mr. Bugle,” a play that has received no little attention from the Eastern critics and even from the monthly reviews since its success- ful production at the New York Ly- ceum Theater, will be presented for the morrow night. The play is from the pen of Madeleine Lucette Ryley, who also wrote “Christopher Jr.” and “An American Citizen,” both of which found much favor in San Francisco. In “Mysterious Mr. Bugle” there is said to be no attempt at sentiment or any- thing in the nature of a serious story. For this good reason it is called a farce, though it is sald to be written in the spirit of comedy and to appeal more to lovers of the witty than. lovers of the silly. _The humor of the situations is évolved from the white lies of one Betty Fondacre and the unreasonable jealousy of her fiance, Tom Pollinger. Tom having a wealthy but eccentric grandmother to propitiate, persuades Betty to keep her engagement to him a secret, and, being of a jealous dis- position, he makes Betty pretend that she is a married woman in order that would-be suitors be kept at bay. They agree that she shall call her- self Mrs. Bugle, a name they choose | at random. This causes Betty to tell any number of harmless fibs which in- volve her in endless difficulties, one of which makes her cousin, Allan Fond- | acre, conclude that Tom Pollinger is in love with Betty’s sister Julia, which | discovery he confides to Betty. Out- raged at her lover's duplicity, Betty re- venges herself by telling Tom that there really is a Mr. Bugle, and that what he has supposed was a sham is a reality. This brings matters up to concert pitch, and the latter part of the play concerns Tom's jealous anxiety concerning the mythical Mr. Bugle, who is not entirely accounted for un- til the final curtain rings down. Prominent in the cast is Mr. Joseph Holland, who has not been here for a long time, but who will be none the less welcome on that account. Other names more or less familiar are Gretch- en Lyons, Winona Shannon, Agnes Findlay, Edgar Norton, Lucius Hen- derscn and Charles Collins. California. The California will be reopened to- night with a revised nroduction of “Pown Topics,” a farce comedy which was given at the Columbia a season or two ago. A radical change has been UDINOFF, the talented Russian, | who is now at the Orpheum, has | furnished The Call with some of his freehand trick drawing, in which he excels. Only those who have seen him work can understand how quickly he executes his ideas in black and white. With a sheet of paper and with a black crayon he in less than half a minute makes a few quick strokes, a dot or two and there appears a tangled mass of lines which at first sight appear meaningless to the audience, for his pictures are drawn upside down. The moment the sketch Is turned to an upright position | cels is in that similar to {llustrations the result of his deft work becomes ap- | parent. He has with these few strokes | of the crayon drawn the head of a man or woman that ranks as a character sketch. Another line of work in which he ex- “double-header When viewed one position one character appears, and when the picture is turned another way an entirely different profile comes to illustrations furnished used in this connection, and are known as | TURN THESE PICTURES UPSIDE DOWN AND YOU'LL SEE— | The Call had to be done in.pen and ink and much more carefully executed than his work for the stage, but even in_ this the five sketches were finished in fifteen minutes. fr. Rudinoff does not intend to follow adeville, but hopes some day to return to art. At present he is dealing with the} Try Your Best to Turn These Faces Upside Down. AMUSEMENTS. " Baltforme it ERIEDLANDER GOTTLOB 6 L% uussits & s Beginning TO-NIGHT, Sunday, March 13. CUT | THE COMEDY HIT, o Town 15¢ ‘ Topics 25¢ ; 50c | = POSITIVELY NO HIGHER. 15¢, 25¢, 50c. OLYMPIA— ComE: of Meson and Eodesimintiaolini ddy Streets. America’s most beautiful music hall. Great- est free bill in the world. ADAM SISTERS, balladists; MONTALAIS, soubrette; LESLIE, vocalist; DRAW world-famous juggler; | Presented by WORLD, KELLER & MACK and a BIG COMEDY COMPANY. BALDWIN FIRST TIME IN S. THE A Legi “CHRISTOPHER JR.” “‘AN AND AN EFFI( + MULLIN & WARD, novelty boxing d ten others. Matines to-day. Admission free. i +R+E+E+E+ R [} Lmimin AMUSEMENTS. +E+8+E+E+0+E+E+E IR BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 14, MYSTERIOUS MR. BUGLE. timate Farce in 3 Acts by Madeleine Lucette Ryley, author of PRESENTED BY JOSEPH HOLLAND Coming—Beautiful Anna Held and “‘The Cat and Cherub.” AMUSEMENTS. @tmnnml GOTTLOB 8CPLessras & namammy TO-NIGHT AND ALL NEXT WEEK. A SUREAVINNER - - PRIMAOSE & WEST'S BIG MINSTRELS - - GEORGE PRIMROSE, AMERICA’'S GREAT- ST _ MINSTREL: 'GEORGE _ WILSON, RINCE OF COMEDIANS; E. M. HALL, FA- MOUS BANJOIST, AND 40 OTHERS. Telephone, Red 2241. HATCH BROS. MR. AND MRS. DURWARD LELY, Rocitals of Scottish Song and Story. ¥. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2L «A NICHT WI' BURNS.” TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 'ROSE, THISTLE AND SHAMROCK. General Admission, §0c; Reserved Seats, 75c. Seats on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, cor- ner Kearny and Sutter sts.,'on and after March 7 or at Box Office Evenings of Concers. INGLESIDE COURSING PARK. CLASSIC STAKE! NEW DOGS--OLD DOGS--CRACK DOGS ! Big Moneyl:—_Big Money! Tics and Consolation Stake To-Day- THEATER. B E! P AN FRANCISCO. AMERICAN CITIZEN,” Etc. CIENT CAST. AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR. THIS SUNDAY NIGHT. Last Performance of “A GILDED FOOL!” TO-MORROW MONDAY NIGHT, A Political Story of To-Day, The American Theater (New York City) Success. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SPECIAL SCENERY AND EFFECTS. ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY. Prices—15c, 25¢, 85¢, 50c. Seats by Phone Main 254. ALWAYS CROWDED. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. ‘Walter Morosco........Sole Lessee and Manager Last Two Performances of “THE WOMAN IN BLACK." Commencing To-morrow, March 14, Revival of ‘the Great Irish Racing Drama, YrEE ENGLISH ROSH.” GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE ST. PAT- RICK’S DAY. Celtic Wit. Romance. Picturesque Scenery. Evening Prices, 10c, 25c, G0c. Matinees Satur- day and Sunday. stage as a means to an end. tending the art school at Munich he de- veloped his talent as an entertainer in the little sociables among the students, and when the time came that he found himself short of means he then began to ‘u’{r‘: his 1(;\19!]". to account. Chere is also a little romance in his life. For a time Rudinoff retired mm; monastery, and it is said that some of the sketches he executed on the wall are still the wonder of the monks. He con- cluded, however, that his life as a priest would not be a success and he returned to the world and for a time was engaged as illustrator on the Parisian magazine. Later he took to the stage, and hopes within a year to return to the art school at Munich. While at- | they will make a hit. made in the prices, 50 cents being the highest. Alcazar. “The District Attorney,” a political and social play written by Harrison Grey Fiske and Charles Kline and well known here, will be presented at the Alcazar next week. “A Gilded Fool” will be played to-night for the last time. One of John Drew’s successes, “The Butterflies,” by Henry Guy Carle- ton, will be given at the Alcazar In the near future. Tivoli. ‘With Sunday night's performance the Tivoli's “Geisha” production will come to a close and then good-by to the prettiest musical comedy of recent years and one of the most creditable performances ever given by a local company. The piece to follow is “The Widow O'Brien,” a howling farce with copious musical interpolations. Morosco's. “The English Rose,” from the pens of Robert Buchanan and George R. Sims, will be the production at Mo- rosco’s this week. It is a picturesque meledrama, with a judiclous mingling of pathetic and humorous scenes, and was origin.lly produced at the Adelphi Theater in London, where it had a phe- nomenal run. Its success was repeated when produced in this country. Itmade its last appearance here at Morosco’s a little over two years ago. Its title would hardly indicate that it is an Irish play, but it is, the scenes being locat- ed in the vicinity of Westport, a flour~ ishing seaport town in County Mayo, Ireland. The plot has to do with the landlord question and the rent riots, the sensa- tional element belng in the third acty when a tenant murders his landlord and the hero is accused of the crime. The comedy element which prevaily throughout the drama is of a compara- tively superior order, and its Celtic hu- mor greatly relieves the melodramatio incidents. A striking representation of the ruins of Bally-Veeney- Castle, a view of a mountain road by moonlight, and a representation of the famous “Devil's Bridge” will be scenic fea- tures of the production. The cast is a long one, requiring the full strength of the company and several additions. Orpheum. In addition to the already strong bill at the Orpheum several new attrac- tions will mark the new week. Prom- inent among them is Will H. Fox, whose humorous impersonations at the pilanoforte have given him the title of the vaudeville Paderewskl. Athas and Collins have been brought from Aus- tralia for the Orpheum circuit. They are classed as the very best of Aus- tralian vaudevillers and it is expected Burke and For- rest, whose work was so well received here about one year ago, Wwill return with a flumber of new and good things. The Orpheum has had cake walkers and buck and wing dancing, all by genuine colored people, but now come Mr. and Mrs. Tom McIntosh, a colored team, who confine their efforts to straight comedy. The hold-overs include Rudinoff, whose smoke pictures, imitations and shadowgraphing have made him a great Orpheum favorite; Josephine Sa- bel and the human music sheet, with a new line of songs, several of which are entirely new to the Pacific Coast, and the Jose Quintet in new selections. Ghutes. A big collection of wild animals is now on exhibition at the Chutes. There are twenty-two lions, an elephant and almost everything else in the quadru- ped line. Chiquita is still there, and for some time will continue to receive every afternoon and evening. A good vaudeville show is given in the Free Theater, and this afternoon two per- formances will be given at 2 and 4 o’clock. 3 Olympia. The Olympia Music Hall offers a va- ried bill of music and vaudeville. Marteau’s Recitals. Yesterday afterncon at the Young Men’s Hall Marteau gave the first of a proposed series of independent recitals, assisted by Lachaume, the pianist. In an auditorium smaller than the Tivoll's the playing of the young violinist sounded to especially good advantage. He repeated his tri- umph of Thursday by playing again the first Bach sonata for violin alone. He and Lachaume played a so- nata by Caesar Frank with fine effect, and all the shorter pieces were received with genuine applause. A second re- cital with an entirely new programme will be given on Wednesday evening in the same hall. AMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mgis. ERNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manages —THIS EVENING— ——SONG! DANCE! FUN!— The Brilliant Japanese Musical Comedy, “THE GEISHA!” A Story of a Teahouse. The Prettiest Production of the Year. POPULAR PRICES 2 AND 50 CENTS. AMUSEMENTS. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, MAR. 14. 'Will H. Fox, comedian-pianist; Bush & For- rest, comedy sketch artists; Athas & Collins, Australia’s favorites; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Me- Intosh, ebony fun; Jose Quintet, greatest vocal- ists: Josephine Sabel, vivacious chanteuse, in- troducing the great Human Music Sheet—50 col- ored vocalists; Rudinoff, fantastic delineator; Webb & Hassan, hand acrobats; Smith & Cook, Ing comedians. by ., Balcony, l0e. Opera Reserved Seats, Chairs and Box Seats, SIX FREE LECTURES On Bpirit, Soul Phrenology and Health, st METROPOLITAN TEMPLE on Fifth st., near Market, by MRS. 0. S. FOWLER, ‘Widow of the Iste Prof. 0. 8. Fowler, the Cele- brated Phrenologist of New York. Monday, March 14, 8 p. m.—"'Spirit, Soul and Phrenology.”” Tuesday, March 15, 2:30 m.—*“The Mys- teries of Women,” ladies only. ‘Wednesday, h 16, £:30 p. m.—*Afflictions of Women," ladles only. March 13, § p. m.—'“Manhood; Its Faults,’ gentlemen only. Saturday, March 19, . m.—‘Electrlcity; Its_Application to Disease.” Classes taught the appiication of electricity to_cure disease, begh March 22. Phre- nological examinations daily from 9 a. m. till 9 p._m. un‘il March 31, at the Callfornia Hotel, on Bush st., near Kearny. On account of unsatisfactory telephone serv- fce no orders for seats will be received here- after. THE FINEST COLLECTION OF KAk WILD ANIMALS: Yk Ever Shown in this Country is at the e e ZOO .. IN THE CHUTES. THE ELEPHANT, ~JOLLY,” LIKES CHII- CHIQUITA AND A BIG SHOW. CARDONO and His Group of TRAINED LIONS. SPECIAL— Two Afternoon Performances To~ day, at 2 and 4 o'clock. Feeding of the Carnivora at 5 and 10:30 p. m. Open Dally from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. 10c ta All, Including Zoo, etc.; Children, Be. Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM. Wednesday Evening. March 16, SECOND VIOLIN RECITAL. MARTEAU ! Accompanied by LACHAUME, TANT ST, —— AN ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME — Reserved Seats, §1 50, at the San Francisco Music Store, 225 Sutter st RACINGI RACING! RACING! —~—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB— Winter Meeting, 1597-9, Beginning MONDAY, March 7, to March 19, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. RACING MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND BATURDAY. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. ——RACES START AT 2:15 P. M. SHARP.—— boats leave San Francisco at 13 m, '30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30 and . connecting with train stopping at the entrance %o track. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 8nd 4:45 p. m., and immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. W' JR., Pres. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. ALSO CAPTAIN