The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1898 29 CO0000000N000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 THE MYSTERIOUS MRS.RYLEY AND THE IMPOSSIBLE 00000000000000 CC000 I am sorry that “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle” turns out to of so little ac- count. 1t completely knocks cut the brilliant sermon on the woman drama- tist which I had in mind for this Sab- bath, with Madeline Lucette Ryley for the timely te 1 wonder if dramatists aritable to critics as to t it is their work which de- ; of criticism? reflection, any- MR. BUGLE. BY ASHTON STEVENS, dled in a chain of comic circumstances that may be wholly extravagant SO long as they maintain some semblance of plausibility and preserve suspense. o e Mrs. Ryley’s scheme is preposterously unplausible. From one end of “Mr. Bu- gle” to the other there is nosuspense, no | speculation as to what will happen | next, because everything that happened before only scattered and blurred the -, The more new plays I see the Tay. The o efied to my colleagues | interest and obscured all idea of & e he other day I read in |Pivotal point in the plot. You know el w York Commercial Advertiser. & newspaper of conspicuous reserve and reliability, a s h of Julia Marlowe’s, in which she said that we have 1o drama nowadays because we have no dramatic critics. 1 should have plea ured in arguing the point with M Marlowe, 1 would have—-only, on Teading the next day’s Commercial Ad- vertiser, I found that that paper had, with tomary reserve and relia- bility, published Miss Marlowe's entire denial of the speech. But about Mrs. Ryley, 1 feel particularly put out, re- Imembering the glad ink poured over earlier efforts of this industrious.young wom In recalling certain trustful prophecies of the wonderful Mrs. Ry- Jey-to-be, I admit the fallibility of dra- matic eriticism, even in The Call. Aft- er all, critics would do wiser to deal exclusively in the past and present and Jet the future take care of itself. 1 should hate to know Mrs. Ryley through only her “Mr. Bugle,” and at- tempt to cast her future on the mer- its of that farge, In such circum- stances the publication of her horo- | scope would be libel. | | il And yet “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle” is, for all its structural weakness and amiable inanities, unmistakably and characteristically Mrs. Ryley’s. Ina mild way it is a caricature of her bet- | ter style. a The dialogue, while not so sharp as that of “An American Citi- stopher Jr.,”” is still, | ages, on the same zen” or even “Chr in its brightest pa scheme of sublimated vaudevilleze; and the the whole social atmosphere of piece is touched with that unconsci disregard of the cc ns which apparent in all of h k. Mrs. Riley is not a writer of smart pla The mental fashions of her | manners, the characters are far from urban. Her | portraiture of the American quality, | like Henry Arthur Jones', when he gives us jukes and loidies in their an- cestral halls, is scarecly convincing. In my wildest prophecy I could not have included »dy of manners among the possible accomplishments of Mrs. Ryley. But what she showed a al grasp of in » American Citi- s that type of character most ribed in the title of the ched the American cit- jzen, the ye one of to-day, as he ver has been done in any other play of my acquaintance. She sketched him | with all his comic weekly wit, vaude- ville sigram, commereial fertility, sound heart,. quick nerve, good sense and enthusiastic manners. She showed the first stage représentation of that phase of young American:sm which meets the more serious emotions of life with a jest, and, like as not, a vaude- ville jest at that; the young American who is hopelessly, irreverently, damna- bly impregnated with American humor. And Nat Goodwin played the part, which wi hing less than an ideali- zation of h He has done big- ger things, but his skin never fitted him closer than did this part of Beres- ford Cruger in “An American Citizen piece. She I have no doubt that Mrs. Ryley copied Nat Goodwin shamelessly when she wrote “An American Citizen” for him, but at all events she succeeded in striking one true note of American cter, and, whatever the trustful- chz ness of the stors a live man in she wrote a play with But nobody lives in “Mr. Bugle.” The only attempts at human identity are in a comic aunt of rhetorical sarcasm, her brat of a son, who wears precocious spectacles and makes a business of fall- ing over chairs, and an imperturbable servant, suggestively humorous. The brat, I think, is new to the stage, al- though he died in print with the last generation of newspaper humorists, but not valuable; the two others are an- tiquely English. The comic aunt and her tumbling offspring have no place at all in the plot, and the servant has served in earlier pieces in his same sug- gestive capacity. This leaves the per- sonages involved in the actual intrigue— o0 completely involved in a series of fe- rociously misfit situations that the sig- nal specialty of each seems Ilunacy. Mrs. Ryley may say that this is not se- rious drama, ner even comedy, but farce. She calls it, if you please, “a legitimate farce,” a description that perhaps is used only to distinguish it from the song and dance and under- clothes affairs which are commonly in- cluded in the farce class, but neverthe- less one that inspires expectations of just the sort of farce Mrs. Ryley did not write. And that is good farce in which one; two or more persons of se- on | that Tom is jealous, that Betty is capri- cious, that their betrothal must not be announced les* his rich relation change the will, and that she assumes at ran- dom and at their mutual instigation the nam: of Mrs. Bugle in order to se- cure the liberty that is granted matron or widow, and to scare away outside suitors. This much of the piece is | plain sailing for anybod But th- com- plications that commence with Tom's discovering the absence of a door | key, which has been taken from Betty's | room by her cousin Allan, and continue |to a point where Tom believes there really is a Mr. Sugle, married to Betty, in the person ot his own house and body servant, are mere drool. In | an earlier notice I praised the ‘cigar scene” and the few clever spurts in the | dialogue, and let pass as an ingenuous Ryleyism that episode in which the servant's night off is taken by Tom to be conclusive eviden : of the relation- ship between him (servant\ and Betty. And after a second inspection I can do | no further kindness—unless it be in not lingering on Joseph Holland, Gretchen | Lyons and other good players, who are mething less in the | made to seem paretic opportunities of their parts. ASHTON STEVENS. THE OUTER WORLD. Distant and Players. The theatrical paragraphers are say- Ingthat Henry Irving is broken-hearted News of Plays C0OO0000000OOOOO000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO00000000 I be, are more or less humorously befud- | late in the summer, but since the fail- | | | as wellas financlally crippled by the fire | which destroyed the warehouse in which the scenerv and properties of nearly all his elaborate Shakespearean productions were stored. The entire scenic outfit of more than thirty plays | was destroyed. painted by the foremost scenic artists Two hundred “cloths,” | © 0000000000000 ure of “Peter the Great” if seems to have broken out again, and it is gen- erally understood now that uniess tre fair Ellen sees fit to change her mind again this is the last season she wiil | appear at the Lyceum. ‘It is said that Henry Irving will not act in “Cyrano de Bergerac’ after all | and The New York papers have taken up the subject of the too frequent benefit performances which impose on actors managers. With few exceptions —the most notable one being Modjeska, who thinks that if vaudeville and other artists are able to appear in *‘continuous” bills and are not taxed, as all actors are in some countries, surely they can do a little extra work now and then for -either charity or art—both managers and actors vote the benefit an imposition and a nuisance. The directors of the Actors’ Fund have taken a hand in the matter and will see to it that a law _is passed which will reserve for the Fund a fair per- centage of the receipts of every bene- fit performance. Here is a bouquet of new engage- ments: Marie Burroughs will reappear with John L. Stoddart in “The Bonnie Briar Bush.” Selina Fetter is going into vaudeville with a condensation of “Captain Impudence.” Maude Granger Is a star again in “Camille," Janny Janauschek in “Mary Stuart” and Cora Tanner in “Alone in London.” Marie Celeste and Louise Royce have joined the Castle Square Company for the cast the pains he took to secure the English | rights. His next production wiil be | with Mr. Kelcey and Miss Shannon in “The Medicine Man,” the joint work of H. D. Trail, the editor of Literature, | “The Moth and the Flame” at the Ly- ceum. and Robert Hichens, the young bar- Budapest is crowding its Royal Opera of “Sinbad.” rister who wrote “The Green Carna- tion.” This will mark the first appear- ance in years of Irving in modern | House to see a ballet founded on Rider clothes. Hypnotism furnishes the me- | Haggard's weird story of “She.” The tive of the play, Sir Henry hypno- tically detecting a murderer. novel, “Cleopatra,” ng again of “Cyrano de Ber- |duce Kallikrates and Amenartas. Mansfleld finally has secured | likrates, in his capacity of priest, as- Speaki gerac,’ Eleanor Moretti will be | ballet consists of twelve tableaux, the | | first being taken from the companton | in order to intro- | Kal- | the American rights and will produce | the now famous French play early in the autumn. Henry Irving’s r2ason for not producing “Cyrano” in London is said to be based on the fact that Miss Terry and young Irving, who journeyed to Paris especially to see the original performance, pronounce it un- translatable, too poetically undramatic | for the English tongue and English | taste. However, this news will have only a stimulating effect on Mansfield, | | who in more than one curtain speech | of this era, and many elaborate scenes | stretched on frames, have gone forever. The loss comes all the heavier upon | him just now when, owing to the com- plete failure of “Peter the Great,” he has found it necessary to revive his repertory until a new play can be got ready, a task which takes anywhere from eight weeks to three months. Another rumored thorn in the Eng- lish actor’s side at present is the change that has come over Ellen Terry. As long ago as last May it was com- mon talk in London that Irving and Miss Terry were not on the best of terms and that the actress had threat- ened to resign from the company and take a theater on her own account, with Frank Cooper as her leading man. has confessed himself a several times better actor and manager than his col- | sists at the mystic rites of Isis, and, heme.” The latest addition to the list | during the progress of the orgies, es- capes with his secret lover, Amenartas, under the curse of Isis. Then is intro- duced the cave of the Fire of Life, guarded by an old hermit. Ayesha (She) wins her way to this secret spot by descending in the basket used for (‘nn\'eyin? food to the hermit. From this poinf on the story follows the nar- rative of the novel. Ada Rehan’s illness compels her to abandon a projected revival of “The Merchant of Venice,” in which she has | been preparing to enact Portia for the league of the London Lyceum, ek N oh :; o 5 | first me. n e - current perform- When Miss Ethel Barrymore's en- | apces at Daly's, Lettice Bairfar an gagement to Laurence Irving was an- | symes the leading role whenever Miss nounced her father, Maurice Barry-| Rehan is unable to do it. The favorite more, cabled: “Haye just heard of | aetress will after this week retire until your engagement. Heartiest congrat- | next season. ulations.” Scarcely a fortnight later | o came the news that the emgagement | Coppee’s “Le Passant,” done into was broken off. Whereupon Mr. Barry- | English verse, will be given a single more again cabled, “Have just heard | performance at the Astoria, New York, that your engagement is off.” Still con- | this week, with handsome Julius Opp gratulate you.” as the boy and Marie Burroughs as the Actor Davies is responsible for the 8irl foregoing paragraph. | The incidental music in the play of Lillian Russell, according to a rumor, | - The Tree of Knowledge,” at the Ly- is considering a proposition to star ceum. is selected = from themes of Jointly with De Wolf Hopper next sea- | Tchaikowsky’s “Pathetic” symphony. cert in Berlin, four or more years ago, Moszkowski was asked who there was to take the great pianist's place or even aspire to #t. He pointed to a slender, thoughtful-looking lad, who had sat in the front row, absorbing the work of the master, and said: “That boy, Josef Hofmann. be Rubinstein's successor.” Moszkowski was then teaching Hof- mann composition, as d’Albert and Ru- binstein were teaching him tha piano, and he only voiced the opinfon of the few who at that time had heard the boy play. Hofmann is already a great planist, says the critic of the Commercial Ad+ vertiser, a great virtuoso. He has in a seemingly unlimited degree all those quallties that go to make a great mu- siclan. Whether he will become that time alone will tell, but in the face ef what we know of him as a boy of ten | and now as youth of twenty, we see no reason to doubt that the future holds much for him. He has been wisely | trained; his genius has been carefully and tenderly fostered; and if to-day he is in so many respects & man before his | time, why should we doubt that the | coming years, with their deepening and broadening effect, with such rich and | fertile material to work with, will not complete the work that has been so grandly begun? In Italy the names of popular operas are given to musical papers. Thus, there are published In the land of sun- shine and art musical journals bearing tles, “Amico Fritz,” “Fra Dia- He will “Trovatore,” “Il Pirata,” “Rigo- “Falstaff,” and “The armen,” “La Bo- “Mefistofele™ Mascot, GRETCHEN LYONS ceeeee HAT THE 3| BALDWIN LITTLE VENIE AT TRHE ALCAZAR. | is “Zanetto,” so called after a new | opera by Mascagni. | “Violinist Henri Marteau is a Swede, | not a Frenchman,” says the Philadel- | phia” Record. T A comic opera, founded on “The Cat | and the Cherub,” will soon be produced in Vienna. Clement Scott has resumed work as | dramatic critic of the Daily Telegraph. | A special feature of the- benefit | tendered Nellie Farren at Drury Lane | on the 17th inst. was a street band | composed entirely of the conductors of | the orchestras of the various London | theaters. Nearly every prominent ac- tor and actress in London was on the programme. Sir Henry Irving recited “The Dream of Eugene Aram.” San Francisco seems to be catching on to the latest theatrical fad, which is building theaters on paper. Baldwin. To-morrow night at the Baldwin “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle” will com- mence the second and last week of its engagement. On the Monday follow- : Held, the best advertised cafe cham-i euse who ever came to America. Every- body has heard of Anna Held, her milk | i'baths and champagne shampoos, her | runaway in Central! Park, her acting in the streets on Christmas day for the benefit of the unfed, the sermons that have been preached against her, the poems that have been written in her | praise by passionate press agents. She | will appear in the original specialties ' which shocked and attracted New | York, sing the unexpurgated version of | “Won‘t You Come Out and Play With | Me?" and introduce a new farce by’ Paul Welstach and Joseph Grismer, en- | titled “A Gay Deceiver.” Doubtless the | most important part of the evening, | from an artistic point. will be the first | Iproductlon here of Chester Fernald's, Chinatown play, “The Cat and the, Cherub.” Golumbia. week of Rice's ““1492,” a spectacular | Baldwin some time ago. The Kilanyli living pictures, “8ix Daily Hints From Paris,” “The Hurrah Dudes” and the “Animated Music Sheet” are special features. Stuart. the lady Patti, will| be the “impersonator’” this time. The | organization numbers seventy and In- | | i holding mon: The Columbia offers f{ts patrons a | burlesque that was first seen at the| the widow’s |to ten years in prison. farce to-morrow night, giving an Eng- lish plece by the name of “The Girl Up to Date.” The title is supposed to be descriptive of the central character, & young woman named Winnie Tiveston, Wwho, in the ambiguous language of tge Alcazar's press agent, is said to be '@ phrenclogical study from the rise to the fall of the curtain.” It would need a phrenologist .or an astrolcger to trans- late into sense the press agent's fore- cast of the plot. The following Is it: The sister to Winnie as the curtain rises is a bride of but a few days to Charles Fullalove. Stopping with him is his er- ratic uncle, Fullalove, who poses as a deacon. and who by court rites is in trust left to Charley. The Uncle gives Charley out of this money at_his marriage, the sum of 1 pounds. This money his nephew invested without his knowledge. into the Apollo Concert Hall. His absence from home in ntion to business. evenings, was ed upon by the uncle as leading & double life. This fact was made known to hig wife by the uncle. Plans to shadow his footsteps were laid in the attempt to have him placed under hypnotic power. The hypnotist engaged happened to be the man doing an act at the Apoilo hall. he result w looki s that the uncle was made subject. and to the amazement of S proved to be regular Don Ju Not content with disgraceing his ally knocked out on the Apollo stage, a professional boxer. When brought too. he saw that he had_ been made the victim of his own trap. and that his nephew was not the erring young man after all which he had been taken for. Charley was then handed aver all cludes among others Master Thomas 1 the money left to him and a happy sequel Meade, the boy tenor; the Herald Square quartet,-Tom Peasley, Marie | Conchita, George D. Cunningham, H. | J. Turner and George Ovey. James J. Corbett follows in Charles T. Vincent's comedy melodrama, “A Naval Cadet.” Marle Jansen in “Nancy Hanks” will be an early attraction at the Columbia. Tivoli. The Tivoll opens out in musical farce this week with a melodized version of | “The Widow O'Brien,” a piece of howl- ing fun that has been done at the Tiv- oli several times before now with glad | results. Thomas C. Leary will be the | Widow; Edwin Stevens, the lubricated | Count Mennaggio; Tillie Salinger, the sweet Dora McAllister, daughter by her first husband: Georgie Cooper, the stepsister Nora; Edith Hall, | the colored maid; Arthur Donaldson, | the explosive Captain Cranberry; Phil | Branson, his demure son Tom; John J. Raffael, the young blood from. Bos- relatives he public closes the farcical stor | Aok Morosco's. The attraction at Morosco’s next ceek will be Oliver Byron's melodrama, pper Hand,” with which he starred the country a few years ago. The play has been a mint to Byron and still yields rich royalties. It is in five acts, replete with sensational incldents and comic relief. It tells the story of Jack Lamar, a whole-souled fellow, | who steps forth from the ranks of the people and marries the woman he | loves, incurring thereby the bitter ha- tred of her wealthy mother, who (to- scoundrelly lawyer, New- ton Darke, who is also a disappointed suitor) plots his undoing. He is false- |1y accused of murder, and sentenced He escapes in the second act, with brain craged | by wrongs and suffering. He wanders to the home of his wife, but is driven |away by the mother. Eventually his reason is restored, he is reunited to his | wife, his enemies confused and over- come and everything hapoily ended. All the favorites of the company are in the cast, and Fred Tjader has beem specially engaged for a comedy role. There will be a number of specialties: introduced by members of the com- pany; also a sensational explosiom scene during the prison outbreak. Orpheum. The important changes at the Or- pheum this week especially include a one-act comedy entitled “Mrs. Hogan’s Music Teacher,” in which the principal gether with a | parts are played by Charles T. Ellis. Mrs. Ellis; Clara Barry, Thomas Grady and Michael Welch. This is something of a new departure for the Orpheum, but is in keeping with the latest vaude- ville fad in having a comedy or dra- matic skit in which the parts are played by people from the legitimate stage. In marked contrast to this is the act by McCale and McDaniels, who are said to be the greatest Irish knockabout | ton; Arthur Boyce, the Pinkerton de- tective, and Alf James, the coon stew- ard, a part which he is said to have {made very tunny in John E. Sheridan's | production of this same farce, under ti- } tle of “Fun on the Brstcl.” The chorus will have its chance in the concert hall scene of the second act, { which will consist largely of songs and specialties. | Aime Lachaume, the picked orchestra under the concert mastership of John . Marquardt, will | participate in a concert at the Metro- | politan Temple this evening. Marteau |and Lachaume will conduct alternate- |ly. Marteau will play Mendelssohn's concerto and Saint Saens’ Rondo Cap~ ricioso; Lachaume will play Weber's “Concertstuck” and conduct Schubert’'s “Unfinished Symphony.” Other orches- | tral pieces will be the overtures to Tannhauser and “Frieschutz.” Marteau | is said to be quite an accomplished conductor. Mrs. Alfred Abbey, soprano, and G. | 8. Wanhell, basso, will give an operatic |and song recital in the Young Men's _Auditorium on Tuesday evening, the 29th inst. Ernest Lent, a cellist of reputation, will be the soloist at the ninth concert | of the Symphony Society, which will | take place Thursday afternoon in the | Tivoll. He will play Saint-Saens’ violon- | cello concert in A minor, and the string | band, augmented by horn and harp, will | play Mr. Lent's “Rhapsodie Erotique,” under the direction of the composer. | The symphony which Mr. Scheel has | selected is Brahms' second (D major); | the overture will be Schumann's “Julius Caesar.” - Galifornia. F. Marion Crawford, i most popular of living American novel- | ists, will give three lectures in the Cali- fornia Theater on Monday, Tuesday perhaps the As a rule, gocd writers are not good speakers, but Mr. Crawford is credited is said to induige in easy, sensible elo- cution and to infuse magnetic person- | ality into his talks. His knowledge of modern Italy surpasses that of any oth- er writer of the language, and special interest should be attracted to his open- ing lecture, l"Leo XIII in the Vatican.” “The Orig- | inal Mr. Isaacs’ Early Newspaper Ex- periences in India” will be the theme | &n Tuesday evening, and “Italian Home Life in the Middle Ages” Wednesday's subject. Seats for the opening lecture are now on sale at the offices of the Young Men's Institute in the Parrott building. Alcazar. After finishing a most successful week of “The District Attorney,” the Alcazar stock company will return to rious purpose, and simple-head if need quarrel, however, was patched up | son. One day. after Rubinstein’s last con- | ing the first nighters will see Anna o CAMUSEMENTR. o AMUSEMENTS. e a AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. MUHUSGU!S GBAHD DPEBA'HUUSE. qfid@”mm 4 2 CWt PHONZ T g S A DOLLAR SHOW FOR A DIME! EOANDES z fi(muun A ALCAZ;&R. MAIN 254. THE FINEST COLLECTION OF Walter Morosco. Sole Lessee and Manager THIS AFTERNOON AND TO-NIGHT. Last Two Performances of “THE ENGLISH ROSE.” Commencing TO-MORROW NIGHT, March 21, Grand Reproduction of Oliver Byron's Great Play, THE UPPER HAND. FREDERICK and LA in Her Engagement of the Character Comedian, UND, the Infant Prodlgy, falties ng Plot, New Scenic and Mechanical vening Prices, 10c, Matinees turday and Sunday. 3 CALIFORNIA THEATER. To-Night, Last Time, The Great Farce Comedy Success, TOWN TOPICS. With the Celebrated KELLER AND MACK, 0, higher. awlord, Effects. %c and 60c. WOR! SLLE] Prices—i5c, 2c-and Masch %—F. Marion Cr WITLVOB »l—(.! LLSSEEY & mamscie TO-NIGHT, (Sunday), and _All Next Week. MOST EXCELLENT LAUGHING ! | Madellve Lucette Ryley's Merry Comedy, the i 'MYSTERIOUS 'MR. BUGLE. A Spasm of Laughter in 3 Acts — Prescnted By— JOSEPH HOLLAND And a Splendid Cast. REGULAR PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT. BEAUTIFUL ANNA HELD. —~———MARCH 28— March 28—JAMES J. CORBETT. The Home of Comedy. This Sunday Night—Last Performance of THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. TO-MORROW (MONDAY NIGHT), A Muscle-Twitching. Eye-Batting Farce UNCLE DUDLEY —OR— THE GIRL UP-TO-DATE. A Plot of the Present Generation. LITTLE VENIE, of +First Born" Fame. Specialties Galorel In a Feiching Take-off and New. PRICES TO CONJURE BY. Orchestrs Beats, 500; Dress Cirele, 50s, 350 ; Bal- cony, 350, 25e, 150. TO-NIGHT —LAST TINME—— Primrse & West's Big Minsrels EXTRA... Beg. To-Morrow, Monday, America’s Greatest Indoor Show, RICE’S “1492.” 60—-PEOPLE—60 Beauty Galore. ) Handsome Accessorles. ‘We have a telephone (Main 234) to accommo- date those desiring to order seats from a dis- { MATINEE TO-DAY_(SUNDAY), MARCH 20. | Parquet, any seat, 25c; balcony, 10¢; children, | 10¢, any part. | WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, MARCH 21, | "CHARLES T. ELLIS and COMPANY in the one-nct_comedy, “Mrs. Hogan's Music Teach- er’: McCALE' & McDANIELS, knockabout Irish comedy; MASTER WADE COCHRANE, mental wonder; CARL DAMMON TROUPE, greatest acrobats; last week of BURKE & FORREST, ATHAS & COLLINS, RUDINOFF, J%gf‘i_PHINE SABEL and the JOSE QUIN- E- iJM"_COURSIN G_PARK, GRAND COURSING THIS DAY. ALL-AGED STAKE AND PUPPIES, Trains leave Third and Townsend streets— Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.. 12:55 p.m. Sundays, 11 g.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. Valencia street flve minutes later. Return- ing leave the park 6 p.m. and immediately after the last course. San Mateo electric cars every ten minutes. WILD ANIMALS Ever Shown in This Country is at the ese ZOO. ... IN THE CHUTES. CAPTAIN CARDONO and His Group of TRAINED _LIONS d ATTRACTIONS WITHOUT NUMBER. SPECIAL—Two Afternoon Performances To- day. at 2 and 4 o'clock. Open Daily from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. 10c to All, Including Zoo, etc.; Children, Se. CHIQUITA RECEIVES AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. SPECIAL EXCURSION TO SAN JOSE AND THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY. Natural carnival of buds and blossoms. On SATURDAY, March 26, at $:30 a. m.. a spe- clal train wiil leave the Southern Pacific depot, at Fourth and Tonsend streets, for San Jose, return Satupday night er on any Sunday train. One-half fare for the round trip. Come and | and Wednesday evenings of next week. | with being an amiable exception. He which has for its subject | comedians in the business. A novelty turn is expected from Master ‘Wade Cochran, a precocious youth of 6, who is so well versed in biblical, historical and geographical matters that he finds ready answers to a list or over twenty thousand questions. The work of his sister, Gertie Cochran Wade. is well known to Orpheum patrons and it is <laimed that Master Wade does the.better turn of the two. The Carl Damman troupe return for one week. From last week's bill there have been retained Josephine Sabel in an entirely new line of songs, Rudi- noff in new fantastic delineations, the Jose Quintet, Athas and Collins, and Burke and Forrest. All of the hold- overs enter the last week of their en- gagemert. Chutes. Zoo at the Chutes is an ever g attraction. From the baby lions up to “Jolly,” the elephant, the 300 animals are carefully studied every day. The bill in the free theater is good and concludes with Captain Car- dono’s “‘African Lion Hunt,” a thrilling exhibition. Two performances are given on Sunday afternoons, at 2 and 6 o’clock. Chiquita still receives every afternoon and evening. Olympia. The vaudeville bill at the Olympia Music Hall includes the Albions, gro- tesque acrobats, Zanfrella and Walsh, “novelty perch artists,”” the Adams sis- ters, vocalists and several others. Musical Notes. Henri Marteau, the French violinist, pianist, and a AMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mus. ERNFSTING KRELING. Proprietor & Manages THIS EVENING! The Most Amusing of Musical Comedies, “THE WIDOW 0'BRIEN Superb Cast! Bright Durlesques! Brilllant Light Effects! Up-to-date Medleys! ancing Specialties! Magnificent Scenery! ~The Heart of Maryland” Travesty upon “I Trovatore.” THREE HOURS OF FUN. Popular Prices....... ...%c and 5o No Telephone Orders Received. SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY SOCIETY, FRITZ SCHEEL, Musical Director. NINTH CONCERT -— Tivoli Opera House, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, March 24, at 3:15. Programme: Overture, ““Julius Caesar'* (Schu- mann); vicloncello concerto, A minor, Op. 33 (Saint Saens), Mr. Ernest Lent: symphony No. 2D major ' (Drahms): Rhapsodle Erotique (Ernest Lent), string orchestra, horn and harp, under the direction of the composer; vorspiel, *‘Die Melstersinger’’ (Wagner). Prices, including reserved seat. 3150, §1 and 75c. Sale of seats commences at_the Tivoll Opera_House on Monday morning., March 21. see the beautiful Santa Clara Vailey when its — Comer of Meson ani t fruit orchards are in bloom. 'Roads and | ” OL_YM_.E],é Eddy Streatr. rives lined with great natural bouquets of | “America's most beautiful music hall. Great- unrivaled beauty and fragras rriages | est free bill In the world. The 3 ALBIONS, will meet the train and excursions to the Wil- | growesque comedians: ZANFRELLA =& lows, Campbells, Los Gatof. Saratoga, Alum | WALSH. porch artists; ADAMS SISTERS, Rock, essa and other points of nterest | Balladists: MONTALAIS soubrette: ARNEL~ ‘alley of orchard trees at helght | DO and fen others. Matinee t i of bloom. Lsion free.