The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN DAY, MARCH - - 1898. ’ e Befli e A SCHEME FOR GETTING REAL H o] { PLAYS, AND SEVERAL SYMPHONY PARAGRAPHS. FH e EXd <5 BY ASHTON STEVENS. ] 8 8 Often it has been submitted by the | friands of Gustav Walter of the Or- as more dare-devil en- v other manager in the gs have been run- | unsensationally at se several months e to see Mr. Walter the test. Let him give of legitimate drama. The Orpheum needs something different and | 30 do we. By the time you have gone to the Baldw the Columbia, the Alca- even Maiosco’s, and got the variety in every - theaters, the Orpheum has stinction. And si Messrs. , Gottlob & Mars d the managers have made uch a lesser complete jump into a field which Mr. , In his heart, must hold to be Y own, I see no reason why he should not indulge in a little retalia- tory rivalry and give us in the Or- pheum what the other theaters neglect to provide, and with profit to himself | and to us.. I do not mean that Mr. | Walter should abandon the kicker, the Juggler and the comic singer at a single lurch; but he might do as is done in the vaudeville houses of New York, Boston and other places of size and circum- | stance, and in homeopathic doses reac- | quaint us with the drama. It is a poor | variety bill in the East nowadays that does not include condensed *“Car-| men” or canpned “C e or] some boiled down vers! of a real play played by live actors. This system of sawing off masterpleces | and telescoping the genius of the “pur- “ fesh” may not be the noblest way of | uplifting the stage, nor one that would | g to persons of nor- but at least it oing without ether, which | ve been doing for the | « . | ter does not think n the condensed drama legit” fair trials in e been presented at cople as Ed- Lytton, Patrice i the present s. These t representative and their have no oclation er’'s craft. In fact, it ic approval given by 's piece, “A New me made ng the Sunday that the plc- I have e at the Or- and it is never lancing on on EIl ng Dav t red. shice Any way I wish that I m Mr. Walter's announcement o nie ligman, Maur Barrymore or any of the ma tor folk who hav been doti e turns in the vari ety thi eason—if only to frighten the other mana s into booking som g strong and sensible. If all the vaude- ville farces which have rlayed here in the last r had been first cla we still should ha had too much of a good thing; for I fear that lots of quiet cultivated persons w ed to { ie the theater among their pl and now make a specialty of avolding it, will require unusual persuasion before becoming playgoers again. If I could only bring myself to believe that ** Hayman and Charles and Daniel Froh- man and the other sthers of the thrifty blood and the really retired from th in San Francisco, I their revenge has b plete. As it is we ha plated our past fastidic ing the shows of this s than ex- ss in see- An audience might swell hir seen in the Tivoli eve manager in may be Thurs- IRNNRRANANNRNENNEENNNEERNNNENNRNNSRRVVER R R the work of local composers. R R R AR LSRN N NN SUREEERNRRANRERRRRE R Mr. Lent is a good musician; his “Rhapsodie Erotique,” for string or- | chestra, horn and harp, showed that | very prettily—although the music| , o - (S / AT g day afternoon during the symphony season. I have poked seriousness at the women of the Symphony Society for making such a swagger function of | 7 W i | f { | | OOQ@ hearing good music, and I have ques- r more than one to the score of has much idea what | Scheel ar band are doing, but I| have s said, and say a<ain, that | they | male persons who dot their perfumed midst of a Thursday afternoon. If you are in the habit of reading those heavy reviews of the symphony concerts that appear in this paper you may recall | that the appearance of Marteau as the | soloist at the concert before last was regarded by the prophetic ear of your humble servant as the harbinger of as Martezu himself is an artist and entirely all right; but taking into | account our usual distance from first- class soloists, and remembering the dis- mal experiences of Mr. Hinrichs with | local virtuosi, I trembled for the artistic habit was acquired by the fashionable | e patronage alone makes | the concerts possible. Well, the disas- ter happ 1 most fortunately soon, last Thursday, in the ’cello solo of Mr. rnest Lent, which was so palpably bad everybody found it out. I dare say hardly lived up to the yellowness of its title; and those who know him say that he is a fair 'cellist and that his failure of Thursday was due to stage fright. But whatever the accomplish- ments of Mr. was for the best that he played badly. It settles the soloist question on the | right side, and I don’t think the direc- tors will be in a hurry for another ex- periment. ‘While the directors of the Symphony Boclety are perfectly justified in bar- ring out all local soloists, so long as they do it on the simple ground that there is not a violinist or pianist in the county whose solo would not spoil a symphony concert, I do not see why they should exclude the work of all local composers merely because it is 1 men- tioned this to one of the directors the other day, and he said they absoluteiy had to refuse all home-made music. else Mr. Blow, who plays the flute in the orchestra, and Mr. Scrape, who is related to a director, and Mr. Bang, who writes critiques for one of the pa- pers, would fall on them with tons of MSS. and there would be no room left on the programmes for Beethoven and | Tschaikowsky. 1 asked him if Mr. Scheel or some of the musicians of the directory could not pass on submitted AT > =3 — b, /% sl B scores; but he said that that might cause hard feelings and jealousies and that it was safer not to dally with local compositions. So here we are with an almost permanent orchestra— 1 Lent, and with all re- spect and sympathy for him, I think it | —5AMES 1B mBIA THEATERN Neo — A and a leader of phenomenal accom- plishment—whose directors, instead of being eager to find out whether there is any creative musical talent among their townsmen, deliberately plan to discourage creative effort, to make a nome in San Francisco undesirable to any musician whose genius might now and then rise above giving music les- sons at so much per. The directors are to be applauded for getting to- gether the money and the pecple that ake practicable the-maintenance of a big orchestra; but it must be appar- >nt to any one that by stifling the am- tions of every serious musician, who the circumstances) is unfortunate ugh to live in San Francisco, they of which the town stands in sore need. San Francisco does well to be able to hear good music, but would do better to foster something of that real musi- cal feeling which she has never known. I know perhaps less than the symphony directors about the works of local com« posers. T may, indeed, be of a very poor sert. DBut that.should not close the door against anything good that might be written. As it is now if a Mozart were among us he would RETER2ORRDE WHTTH & B c_\_ @ > have to go somewhere else to find out what his music sounded like. And good American composers are so few that there is always the chance of discover- ing one. ASHTON STEVENS. are retarding an art and a civilization | Baldwin. Anna Held, “The Cat and the Che- rub” and “A Gay Deceiver’—this trinity of novelties will be the bffer- ing at the Baldwin Theater for the next two weeks, commencing to-morrow night. The entertainment will open with “The Cat and the Cherub.” This is a dramatization by Chester Balley [Ferna‘ld of his original story of ths same name, which first appeared in the Century Magazine. It portrays life {and character in our Chinatown, a» seen and understood by the Anglo- Saxon mind. It is sald that the play brings out the Celestial racial peculiar- ities with peculiar vividness. The pas- jsion of paternal love for off-spring, |the passion of filial devotion to a| father; the tranquil ownership of a fe- male slave, body and soul; the cool, nerveless, deliberate pursuit of ven- geance by a philosopher; the contemp- uous indifference to the life of an en- emy—these all have a flavor which is distinctly non-American. In the chief personality, Wing Shee, a learned Chinese doctor, the cynicism, | skepticism, sangfroid and subtlety of {thestrange yellow-skinned race are said | to be remarkabiy exhibited. When the {play opens, this man, Wing Shee, is | seen and heard philosophizing on life and death with another Chinaman, Chim Fang. Chim Fang is the villain of the story, and in the developmens of the piot, abducts a Chinese child! (the cherub). The abduction is dis- covered by the son of the philosopher, who Is murdered by Chim Fang. The | powerful and sensational final€ of the play is where the philcsopher, intuitively suspecting the mur- | derer of his son, sits beside him ana| agaln discourses on life and death ln} the same attitude and manner as he | did at the beginning of the play, bring- | ing his discourse to an abrupt dra- matic period by killing the murderer. He chokes Chim Fang with his own queue, and when a policeman ap- proaches, props the body up beside him | and talks to it as the policeman passes | by, and the curtain goes down. 1 It will be interesting iu note the| “Cat and the Cherub's” resemblances to and differences from “The First | Born,” which so soon fell in popular | favor and was a_dead, failure in Lon- | don, where Mr. Fernald's play is stil running. In relief to the almost grewsome Chi- nese story comes a frothy, farcical play, “A Gay Deceiver,” said to be full | curios of ancient origin he has one, the mummified remains of a Rameses, sup- posed to be 4000 years old. Upon this subject Garsop has been experimenting with the aid of sacred oils and elec- tricity, in the hopes of resurrecting it to life, and thus carrying out a translat- ed Egyptian law, which had been found in the tomb with the body. An Egypt- ian Congress is about to convene, an among the assembling delegates is one Professor Smyth, deputed to the con- vention by fhe American Egyptologist Soclety, and his daughter, Hattie. Hat- tie examines the curios and accident- ally presses the button which awakens Rameses. He is informed that no mat- ter what question Is put to him he must always answer in. the affirma= tive. The second act finds Rameses creat- ing no end of confusion and chaos reigning as the curtain falls. The last act explains the mystery and settles several love affairs, which have been in active progress during the earlier scenes of the farce. Morosco's. This week the patrons of Morosco's will see a revival of that rare old tem- perance drama, “Ten Nights in a Bar- room.” New scenery has been painted for the production and spicy specialties will relieve the strain of jim-jams and crime. Harry Mainhall, whose health is re- stored, will reappear with the com- pany in his conception of Joe Morgan, the sot, whose life is reformed through the efforts of Little Mary, his daugh- ter. The latter character will be played by La Petite Lund, the infant prodigy whose clever specialties have been pleasing the patrons during the past week. Landers -Stevens and other stan~.oys of the company will be prom- iner ..y cast. Orpheum. With the opening of Kansas City and St. Louis the Orpheum circuit be- | came the largest vaudeville combina- tion in the country. For this week ths management is able to announce six new turns. Some startling work in the acrobatia line is expected from the Five Whirl- winds, a troupe of Arablan acrobats, who have but recently appeared in this country. Comedy features, however, predominate in the new bill, for each of the new turns is humorous, with the of comic complications and laughable incidents, and dealing with the troubles | which come to a young married man, | who, to explain some peccadilloes, tells | his wife that they were the escapades | of a twin brother who bears a remark- | able resemblance to himself. “A Gay | Deceiver” is interpreted by a company including M. A. Kennedy, W. G. Beach, Edwin Holland, Harry Mills, Lizzie Evans, Marie Valleau, Charlotte Deane and Dolores Lettani. The final scene of “A Gay Deceiver” introduces the feature of the evening, Mile. Held presenting her French and English songs. One or two of the num- | bers she renders in her native tongue, the rest are in broken English. During her engagement here she will sing “The Contra Bass,” “I Want Some One to | Play With Me” and “I Want Dem Presents Back.” California. F. Marion Crawford's forthcoming se- ries of three lectures at the California Theater, beginning to-morrow night, will certainly attract extensive atten- tion, as no writer of modern fiction is more widely read than he. As a lec- turer he has already become highly ap- preciated, and in this city will talk up- on his three most interesting and at- tractive subjects. On Monday evening the theme is to be “Leo XIII intheVat- ican.” ‘‘The Original Mr. Isaacs’ Early Newspaper Experiences in India” will | be given on Tuesday evening, and the Wednesday matinee will be devoted to “Italian Home Life In the Middle} Ages.” Golumbia. Mr. James J. Corbett and Mr. Tod Sloan will be dined on Monday by Mlle. Anna Held. Afterdinner Mr.Corbett will appear for the first time in his native city at the Columbia Theater in the title part-of A Naval Cadet.” Mr. Cor- bett's part calls for fierce melodramatic acting and accomplished pugilistics. The hero's name is Ned Cornell; he has a foster sister, whom Bonivarre, the villain, marries, while Ned is at the Naval Academy. Bonivarre has just deserted a wife and child in Paris. Ned wins the hatred of the villain, who in turn steals the plans of a machine gun | which Ned has invented while at An- napolis. In looking up the past history | of Bonivarre Ned discovers that the deserted wife had died in time to legal- | ize the marriage of the villain to his | foster sister. Bonivarre learns that the | sister has fallen heir to rich properties, and he buries her in an underground den in Paris, where, after many mighty adventures, comes Ned. Great realistic fight scene! The villain and his ac- complices die and all ends with com- fortable serenity. Alcazar. The new piece at the Alcazar will be | “The Mummy.” an English farce Which was played in the East last season by Robert Hilliard. “The Mummy” is in the nature of a satire on Egyptologists. The curtain of the first act rises on the study of Professor Garsop, a learn- ed student of Egyptology. Among other AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ; AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. | AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ¥ ALCAZAR THEATER. San Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 3ALDWIN MATINEE SAT Wm. A. Brady and F. First and Only Appeara Beautiful Bewitching Bewildering The care-dispelling, Sadness-chifting comedy. . . THE CAT AND COMING - & & & ® 1 OO OOOONOCOC00C0000002000C0000000C00C000000CC000COI000C0000CO0R0C0CORC0C00C00 Geves®eeO e Beginning TO-MORROW (MONDAY) NIGHT. | THREE ALLURING ATTRACTIONS ANNA HELD s'yyette Guilbert gave one little vivid picture of Paris life ; Anna Held gives | one Paris itself.” | A GAY.DECEIVER, And the Positive Sensation of the Year, The Cavalleria Rusticana of the Dramartic Stage. _HOYT’S ‘A STRANGER IN NEW YORK.” | P R R LT T L E R LSS RLEEASA SIS SAD PR DAL EEXEZET AR I 22 2 4 COLUMBIA THEATER. TO-NIGHT .SUNDAY LAST TIME, The Burlesque Extravaganza. RICES ‘1as2l” |l.. TO-MORROW NIGHT.. AND ALL WEEK, JAMES J. CORBETT © THEATER: | URDAY ONLY. Ziegfeld Jr. Present nce in San Francisco of THIS SUNDAY NIGHT \ The Very Last Time of % The Girl . . Up to Date. TO-MORROW _(MON- DAY) NIGHT. The Egyptian Farce, I RN, | And His Admirable Dramatic Company In Charles E. Vincent's Comedy-Drama, 'ANAVAL CADE TH E CH ERUB. 11‘“. Entire New York Academy of Music l duction. || REGULAR PRICES.... 256, 50¢, 750 and §1 || April 4th—James A. Herne in “'SHORE 1 ACRES.” POPOOODDDDDDDDOIPEDOPOOODOGOS | | | BALDWIN THEATER. TO-NIGHT, SUNDAY, MARCH 27. FAREWALL POPULAR CONCERT Given by " . " MARTEAU, LACHAUME * . * And a Grand Orchestra. Oonduotors—MARTEAU and LACHAUME. Prigea. flc, T6c- £ and 5150, Seats HoW reads. CALIFORNIA THEATER. Beginning Monday, March 28. TWO NIGHTS and WEDNESDAY MATINEE. The Greatest Living American Novelist, F. MARION CRAWFORD, In a Series of Three Lectures. 1—LEO XIII IN THE VATICAN. 2—MR. ISAACS IN INDIA. 3-ITALIAN HOME LIFE IN MIDDLE AGES. Reserved Seats... ......50c, 75c and $1.0 CENTRAL PARK TO-DAY. AT 2 P. M. GRAND OPENING OF THE SEASON. PACIFIC STATES BASEBALL LEAGUE. CHAMPIONSHIP PACIFIC COAST. SAN FRANCISCO MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE Walter Morosco. Sole Lessee and Manager. Last Two Performances of “THE UPPER HAND.” Commencing TO-MORROW, March 28, Grand Revival of the Great Moral Melodrama, TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM ! Reappearance of HARRY MAINHALL as JOE MORGAN. The Infant Prodigy, LA PETITE LUND, as “<Little Mary.”" SPEC] RS & llIlAL iEWCSCEdNEkg SNI: lfiFFECTB. N an: alties. SANTA CRUZ. Ezlenl.nné Drices, b6, 26, 0o, Matinees Sat- | ADMISSION, %o, I aod Sunday. Though he has been :eu‘d 4]900 years he isa live- it 1y fellow still. R e To accommodate our patrons seats can be tings. | had by telephone—Main TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. | Mus. ERNESTINE KRELING. Proprietor & Manage: THIS EVENING! THE LAUGHING TRIUMPH, The Most Successful of Musical Comedies, “‘THE WIDOW O'BRIEN" THREE HOURS OF FUN. BRIGHT! BREEZY! BRILLIANT! NEW SONGS — DANCES — SKITS — NEW. Popular Prices......... ...25¢ and 50c No Telephone BASEBALL! RECREATION PARK, Eighth and Harrison Sts. ‘SAN FRANCISCO LEAGUE CLUB OAKLA;.‘s ¢LUB. JAMES J. JEFFRIES, the Coming Champion, JL MeDONALD, Will Umpice the Gems. sad GUSTAV ¥ WALTER. DirecTor GENERAL. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, MARCH 28th. 14-GREAT NEW VAUDEVILLE HIGH-FLYERS—1< Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1894 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas élty. Mo., Estab. 1897 THE ARABIAN WONI The 5 Whirlwinds An Acrobatic Act Fall of Noveltiss, Surprises s2d Amasiag Feats of Strength and Agility. MASSAUD, ABACHI, HASSAN. HUSAYA and MUSSA DERS - - WATSON, HUTCHIN @German Comedy Stars, in the Funn, GS AND EDWARDS, - - y Skit, “THE DRAMATIO AGENT.” Gotham’s Singing Soubrette. CARRIE SCOTT GLISANDOS l The Grotesque Musical Clowns. The Bean Brummels ‘MONTGOMERY & STONE, of Black-Face Comed) THE “SOMEWEHAT DIFFERENT COMEDIAN. The Knockabout Hit. McCALE AND McDANIELS, ! ATHAS AND COLLINS, The Australisn Socoesses. In the Up-to-Date MR.CHAS.T.ELLI S »»COMPANY 0GAN'S MUBIC-TEACHER." MATINEE T0-DAY, Sunday, March 27 P="***chieelioc: snypars '°F Lest Appesrance of the JOSE QUINTETTE, JOSEPHINE S8ABEL and the CARL DAMMAN TROUPE. Comer of Masoa and OLYMPIA— ©omg gt Koes, st_beautiful music hall. Great- n the world. MAE TUNISON, Ameri est free bill & NEW WESTERN HOTEL, KEARN! AND WASHINGTON STS.—RE- modeled and renovated. KING, WARD & | lections: DOLLY PAXTON, bailad- | CO, = European: Rooms t0c_to $1 boday, e 3 CALBIONS, _grotesque comedfans; | §6 to $8 week, §3 to $30 month. Free bathsi FUNFRELLA & WALSH, porch artists, and | hot and cold water every room; fire grates ib fon others. Matinee to-day. Admission free. ! everw seam: Tuos oll might - exception of the acrobatic act, and even this contains several grotesque feats. Watson, Hutchings & Edwards head the list of funmakers, with a Ger- man sketch, entitled ‘“‘The Dramatic Agent.” It is said that there are but few better German comedians than Harry Watson, and that Miss Hutch- ings is excellent in songs, dances and soubrette work and Edwards good in tramp parts. Montgomery & Stone are black-face comedians. George H. Wood does a monologue and the Glisandos, grotesque musical clowns, introduce some funny work on the banjo and other Instruments. Carrie Scott will appear in a monologue turn, intro- ducing songs, dances and character changes. Tivoli. The “Widow O'Brien” will continueat the Tivoli until further notice. Mr. Leary is a strong favorite in the part of the widow, and the general cast, which includes Edwin Stevens, Edith Hall, Arthur Donaldson and John J. Raffael, is one of the best ever given the piece. A host of specialties are in- troduced in the second act, including a ripping melody of coon songs and burlesques on “The Heart of Mary- land” and “Il Trovatore."” The “Widow"” will be followed by a few nights of “The Bohemian Girl"— and then the big Easter burlesqus, “Sinbad the Sailor.” Chutes. At the Chutes the elephant, baby lions, wolves, leopards, and all kinds of | quadrupeds, are ‘attracting attention. Captain Cardono’s “African Hunt” is a unique feature, and the vaudeville programme offered in the Chutes Theater is good. Chiquita is l“ home every afternoon and even- ng. Lion Olympia. The Olympia Music Hall announces Mae Tunison in operatic selections, and Dolly Paxton in ballads. The three Albion brothers, Zanfreill and Walsh, Arneldo, Cecilia Marion, the Adams sisters and others close their engage- ments with this week. AMUSEMENTS. This Famous Panter's Marvel ous Sunlight Picture, ¢Interieur de Ferme’’ (Farmbouse Interior), companion piece to “The A Blacksmith,” on view free of charge, beginning Monday, March 28th, At2:30 P. M. A DOLLAR SHOW FOR A DIME! The Finest Collection of “WILD ANIMALS- Ever Shown in This Country is at --THE ZOO - - - ‘ IN THE CHUTES. CAPTAIN CARDONO and His Group of TRAINED LIONS and ATTRACTIONS WITH- OUT NUMBER. SPECIAL—Two Afternoon Performances To- day, at 2 and4 o'clock. Open Datly from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. 10c to All, Including Zoo, etc.; Children om Sundays and Holldays, 10c. CHIQUITA RECEIVES AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. L UNION COURSING PARK. SUNDAY - MARCH 27, 1898 TWO CRACK STAKES. 60 Dogs. 60 Dogs. STRONG HARES. Traine leave Third and Townsend Sunday 11:00 11:30 a. m., 1:30 p. m., Valencia street § minutes later. Returning, ‘leave park at 5'p. m. and immediately, atter the last course. San Mateo electric cars every 10 minutes. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (Ingleside Track.) Racing From Monday, Maroh 21, to Saturdsy, April 2, inclusive. Five or More Races Daily, Rain or Shine. First Race 3t 2 P, M. 8. P. R. R. TRAINS 12:45 and 1'I§ P. M. DAILY. Leave Third station, stopping at Vas lencia street. R ng immediately after the ” ELECTRIC CAR LINES. Kearny and Mission street cars every e e eoei mthout Changs, P More-street cars transfer each way. 5. N. ANDROUS, Presideat. F. H. GREEN, Secrétary,