The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1898. 29 " - : : CHESTER BAILEY FERNALD'S : VERSION OF “THE FIRST BORN.” BY ASHTON STEVENS. 1f gone into the vaudeville br iness and to skim the milky way of Anna . I suppose we never would have e opportunity of finding cut for ourselves just what is the relationship etween the Chinatown melodrama of ster Bailey Fernald and the China- n melodrama of Francis Powers. * the Chinatown play has had its * wondership and is gone from fads of men. In London, where on easy tires and “Charley’s brating its fifteen hun- rformance is reckoned in the 4 r of its first run, “The Cat and the Cherub” may still be taken in tourists and strangers. Over here| atown has been wined off the dra- | ic map. The punk, the tomtom and hatchet-man are among the dead— among the lately dead, the deadest of all. But, while it may not be meet to ag- gravate the post-mortem with a com- plete comparative study of the values, absurdities and plagiarisms of the two plays, I cannot, on the other hand, let the one serious dramatic present- n we have had in months. Having Mr. Fernald’s newspaper commun- n, in which he pleads not guilty Baldwin production of his play f th and having witnessed the play a sec- ond ti e and made every human al- for the impotency of its enact- I feel it in me to be marvelously t in writing about it. I have even gone to the 1 of familiarizing my- f with Mr. Fernald's book of China- town sketch from the title of one of of his play—"The . You may have title has nothing to » with the play itself. It has as lit- to do with this play as the play to do with Mr. Fernald's stories. 1 Mr. Fernald dramatized any or all s own stories h ould never have 1 Mr. Powers of plagiarizinghim. ticed that thi In the title of one of them to atown play, Mr. Fernald e a ate protest against Mr. him an inge ous re- r that he not the only Colum- that Chinatown ever knew. And if you have the acquaintance of Mr. Fernald’s book you mast admit that ,the verbal characteristics of Mr. Pow- learned doctor are, to a certain spired by those of a similar the book. Several little the doctor’s super- and the appellation, Chu applied to a locomotive ly i nd doubtless sug- the book. How- hardly the exclusive in- notori sted to Pow Mr. Fernald, the “Choo-, , for one, having been elab- saged many ye ago by w his first cable car shee, no pullee, But the stage ), divisions and developmentsare mphatically after Powers—and, for all | of Fernald’s happy metaphor and other accomplishment, a long, long eatrical effec- I grant you that Powers must have | read the Fernald book before writing Born '; that its sketches, sent him dreaming through | and al sinatown, und the corner—neverthe- is more his own than “Macbeth” Is Shakespeare's. And it is this Powers’ play, not the Century sto- | es, which Mr. Fernald has dramatized > of “The Cat and the Cher- | * just as Richard Le Gallienne re- | ged Edward Fitzgerald, | calling | b Le Gallienne’s “Omar Khay: The ending of Mr. Fernald's version | endidly grim and fascinating, but | pt from its full strength by bad play- ghting, cr too many literary xlour-i nstance. The time has come when | vengeance will claim its own—you feel it. The doctor and his son’s murderer sit side b de on the bench—the same bench where they had sat in the open- ing of the piece. And because it is the same bench and the same characte; Mr. Fernald must need exploit the “re- current theme,” repeat the opening re- marks about retribution, while’his au- dience fidgets for the vengeance de- taired. The approach has made inev- itable the murderer’s doom; nothing re- mains but the deed, tv be done in de- cent leisureline: if you like, but with | enough celerity not to lose you the spell and plague you with the horrible | Cat and the Cherub” had not | idea that perhaps the learned doctor is | going to talk his victim to death. S0 e This final scene is to be deplored at length because so far as the mode of the killing 3 rcerned it is original with Mr. Fernald and altogether it is a wonderfil scene gone somewhat wrong. It is so wonderful, in fact, that David Belasco no s oner saw it than he incorporated it in the London pro- duction of “Tre First Born"—as fine a compliment as Belasco ever paid to any author. The res of “The Cat and the Cherub” is so constructed as to stan” even less serious criticism than Powers' play. Powers’ crudities, resulting from an in- genuous disregard of the cant as well as the vital tricks of playwriting, were often fortunate. They were the result of a complete technical trustfulness title to the piece he might do even bet- | ter than that, however, by way of dam- rather than too great knowledge of the | cheap tricks of cheap playwriters. Fer- | ages. ASHTON STEVENS, JHE OUTER WORLD. News and Gomment of Distant Plays and Players. We may thank Willlam Greenbaum for a fortnight of novel entertainment which will be given in the Baldwin some time this month. It will be re- membered that the wife of Lechaume, the pianist, is no less person than Pilar Morin, the pantomime artiste, who startled New York several seasons ago with her disrobing act in “Orange Blos- soms,” and who lately has been appear- ing at the Waldorf-Astoria in several pantomimic productions. Through Le- chaume Mr. Greenbaum has made ar- rangements by which Pilar Morin, Ma- dame Severine (another silent actress of reputation) and the original Wal- nald, on the other hand, knows too dorf-Astorla company will appear here a mute tragedy by banally much. AT THE | CALIFORNIA atmosphere of the Chinatown play he| Vance Thompson, the music by devices of | chaume, has introduced all the puny English melodrama—from the nov see-it-and-now-you-don't trapdoor the long-lost Drury Lane soliloquy, to Into the tense, tragic in “In Old Japan,” the dark ..delphi aside. There is even| a touch of British comic relief in the love scene, and the villain gives an accurate forecast of what he Is about to do next at punctual intervals throughout the play. No wonder the solid British public preferred “The Cat and the Cherub.” . s e Even with good acting and careful staging I do not see that these struct- ural crimes could be concealed, no more and sloppy staging at the Baldwin are responsible for the >mblances to Powers’ play. Perhaps it is too much to expect the Anna Held outfit to be supplied with sixty-four quarts of pure milk daily and real actors too. But since Mlle. Held's little side show turns out to be the least valuable part of the Le- This piece occupies about an hour in the playing, and the one in- tended for the second week, “The Dres- den Shepherdess,” about the same length of time; so the balance of the entertainment will be supplied by Fritz Scheel and a full orchestra, in such pieces as Tschaikowski's “Pathetic phony” and Moszkowski’'s “Joan of suite. The whole scheme is es- sentially artistic, and, to a certain ex- tent, exclusive, and should attract first- class audiences. It will be a rare sen- sation to witness a mute show wherein | subtle pose and eloquent movement are the only language: for pantomine is al- most of the lost arts. The Del Conte Opera Company has —it amounts to the same in this|than I can believe that the bad acting | been having all sorts of bad business and good press notices on the road, a new manager having been se- lected and the name of the organization changed to the Royal Italian Opera Company. Agostini and Montari are still with the company, but will, as an- nounced in this paper several weeks tem of subordinating the music of the lines to naturalism, says that the in- terpretation is good, but bound by | hard and fast English traditions. The National Zeitung makes a comparison that is of interest to us: “Those who ! have seen Edwin Booth will ‘not be able to place Mr. Forbes Robertson among the first rank of Engiish dra- matic artists. He succeeds in single passages in much that is full of intel- lect, Interest and temperament. The renowned masters, such as Salvini, he has studied with profit, but the fas- cination of personality and gift of or- iginality necessary to the central fig- ure in a representation claiming a high measure of respect are lacking in him.” * Although he has directed that every courtesy shall be extended to Forbes Robertson and Mrs. Pat Campbell, the Kaiser is said to be dubious as to the wisdom of honoring them by his pres- ence at the theater. The ostensible rea- son is that “Mrs. Tanqueray” belongs to a class of play whose moral ten- dency has never found favor in German households. What a quaint attitude for the compatriots of Herr Sudermann, the author of “Die Heimat,” and “Die Ehre,” and of Herr Lindau, whose “Der Schatten"—if Scott Clement can be be- lieved—bore more than a mere resem- blance to Mr. Pinero’s problem! Bernhardt rejected Edmond Ro- stand’s “Cyranio de Bergerac,” but the wonderful young Frenchman is now en- joying the revenge of writing a play for Sarah at her urgent request. It, too, will be in verse. Louis James will risk cremation next week by submitting “A Cava- lier of France” to a New York audi- ence. At last the Bostonians have secured De Koven's ‘“Rob Roy,” which we will hear for the first time next season. Before concluding her engagement in “Tess of the d'Urbervilles,” Mrs. Fiske 1of James, who ascended into heaven | in his comedies and descended Into hell | In his tragedies, and died at the age o 152 in his native town, rises a wonder- ful personality in grand and distinct | outlines, with ali the vivid coloring of | life, from the pages of his books, before the eyes of all who read them with an | open, receptive mind, with sanity of | jJudgment and simple su!ceilibfll(y to | the power of genius. 3 The Belasco-Thall Stock Company, which recently opened a three months’ engagement at the New Burbank The- ater, Los Angeles, is playing to crowd- ed houses nightly. Little Gertie Carlisle has been en- the cabin boy in his production of “The Purser,” which is to have its first presentation in this country at the Baldwip on the 25th inst. A novel competition that should send the youthful poets and musicians of Germany to their desks and planos has been started by the members of the | Casino ‘at Trarbach. cn the Moselle. ;One thousand bottle of the finest wines of .the district will be given to the poet and composer who shall produce with- in the current year such.a song as is suited, in the opinion of the committee, to become a Volkslied for the German speaking world. If the words and the music are by different persons, then each is to receive 500 bottles. And here in the land of the grape is thé Musi- clans’ Club of our own town offering mere medals to thirsty composers! Charles Hoyt has written the first speeches of his new farce, “A Day and a Night,” which will almost immedi- ately go into rehearsal. The plot of the play concerns the son of a New Eng- land minister, who goes to New York to engage a choir singer and speedily gets into the swim. This new type of “‘Stranger in New York” has had a | expects to produce a new play, adapted | Marguerite Merrington, author of | aptain Letterblair,” from the Ger- | man. Mrs. Fiske will have the role of a | cripple. | When Miss Ada Crehan made her first appearance at Daly’s Theater many years ago the papers came out the following day chrouicling the im- | mense hit made by a Miss Ada C. Re- | han. And that is how the famous co- | medienne won her name. Two pianists were compelled to post- | pone their performances last month | through venturing out on the deadly | bike. In New York Joseph Hofmann sprained his right hand and in Lon- don Moritz Rosenthal sprained his left. | Had they been in the same town they | might have patched out a single per- | formance. e An optimistic writer in the Dramatic | Mirror states that a score of real Paris | cherus girls are to be imported by the | Casino management to give a new sen- | sation to the jaded palates of the Ten- / /‘I & < 2 2 “THe (BT AND Tre (rerun AT THE BALDWI village sweetheart, but she had left home and gone upon the stage. She discovers him behind the scenes upon a visit to one ot the theaters, and. in her eagerness to talk to him again as- sumes a disguise. How the lové ro- mance concludes—amid the usual spe- clalties—can be easily guessed. Mr. Hoyt has, it is said, utilized a rehearsal for his last act. Georgia Caine is to be the heroine. Verdi is well again, well enough, in- deed, to be interviewed at Genoa for a German paper. He astounded his in- terlocutor by declaring the finest opera of his acquaintance to be “Nero,” that long talked of work which never yet has been produced. Verdi declares it to be & masterpiece, but Boito keeps on altering it. *Boito is never con- tented,” he says. ‘‘He flings away the noblest melodies when his treatment of them seems to be not free from faults.” Boito was with difficulty persuaded not to throw the whole music into the fire one day, when Verdi declared he wished he could have had such a libretto. | Augustin Daly’s company numbers | on its roster the sons of two well- | known dramatic critics—Jefferson ‘Winter, whose father is William Win- ter of the New York Tribune, and Eric Scott, whose father is Cleraent Scott of the London Telegraph. | The Commercial Advertiser says that | because Shakespeare could improve old | plays written by men like Mr. Daly, it does not follow that Mr. Daly can im- | prove old plays written by men like | Shakespeare. | Golumbia. | At the Columbia to-morrow night | James A. Herne will re-present his | kitchen masterpiece, “Shore Acres,” | which enjoyed considerable popularity | ago, return here for the Tivoli's sum- | derloinese, and that the season 1898-99 | at the Baldwin some time ago and triple bill, the quality of the acting is| to be indignantly regretted by persons who patronize the Baldwin on the as- sumption that it Is a first-class theater. Mr. Fernald unquestionably is getting worse than he deserves in the acting of “The Cat and the Cherub,” and by his own confession he gathers no royalties | The Berliner Tageblatt, on the performance. mer season of legitimate opera. The Berlin critics are not overwhelm- ingly enthusiastic over Forbes Robert- son’s Hamlet, although they applaud it in moderation. says that Mr. Robertson is completely one with Hamlet, even if he interprets him somewhat more sentimentally and in more stately fashion than usual. . AxvssMENTS ALCAZAR THEATER Fred Belasco, Lessee. Mark Thall, Manager. TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY), Last Performance of the Egyptian Farce, THE MUMMY. ——TO-MORROW NIGHT—— The Screaming Farce, JANE. The Madison Square Theater, New York, ONLY LAUGHING SUCCESS. SRR 15¢,25¢, 35¢, 50c. PRICES. SEATS BY TELEPHONE MAIN 24. BAR AIN MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY. UNION COURSING PARK. SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1598, 64 - - CRACKAJACKS - - 64 The Fastest Hounds on the Coast. "he Finest Coursing Park in America. nd streets u1 a. m, 11:30 a. m and 1:30 p. m. -fourth and Valencia streets five min- er. Leave the park at 6 p. m. and s leave Third and Townse: ock an, ely after last course, T5 every ten mintues. San Mateo elec- AMUSEMENTS. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), APRIL 3. Parquet, Any Seat, 2c; Balcony, 10c; Chil- dren, 10c, Any Seat. Week Commencing MONDAY, April 4, GREAT NEW FEATURES From the Folies Dergere, Paris. BEAUTIFUL BARTHO. BEWILDERING BARTHO. BEWITCHING BARTHO. The Chic Parisian Danseuse, a Genuine Artiste and One That Fulfills Expectations. MANDOLA, Globe Equilibrist. JOHN W. WEST, Musical Monologuist. MIRIAM AINSWORTH, Singing Soubrette. THE FIVE WHIRLWINDS, Arabian Acro- bats. WATSON, HUTCHINGS & EDWARDS, Comedy Stars. MONTGOMERY & STONE, Black Face Comedians. GLISSANDOS, Grotesque Musical Clowns. CHARLES T. ELLIS AND COMPANY, New Camedy SKit. BASEBALL! RECREATION PARK, Eighth and Harrison Streets, TO-DAY AT 2 P. M. SACRAMENTO V8. OAKLAND. FREE CARS from Market and Eighth streets to the GROUNDS. R RN NN RRRURARERRRRRRR . BR8N AMUSEMENTS. | will form a-chapter in our theatrical | annals which friends and admirers of the stage will not linger over. | _The following are the closing lines of | speare, which has just been done into | English: | The William Shakespeare who was | born at Stratford-on-Avon in the reign | which is now in the sixth season of its | presentation. “The Old Homestead” | practically is dead outside the small | towns, but “Shore Acres” is still quite The Boersen Courler | Brandes’ remarkable book on Shake- | young, and whatever opinions one may have of it as serious drama, it centainly is one of the most popular and pleasing of the American picture plays. Mr. Herne's supporting company is i | T whose critic | of Queen Elizabeth, who “lived and | the same, with but few exceptions, as With a perfect | emphatically favors the German sys- {wrote in London in her reign and that | appeared at the Baldwin a.year ago, AMUSEMENTS. I AMUSEMENTS. B G R R R R R RS S S NN NN RN RRRARNRNRNRBRRRRRRS BALDWIN. SHE WINS! ANNA HELD OWNS THE TOWN! TO-NIGHT aii*Weex, A NEW REPERTOIRE OF SONGS, Including Mile. Held's Original Creation, THE ANIMATED SONG-SHEET. You Have Seen the Imitations, Now See The Real Thing. The Laugh-Creating Farce, A GAY ‘With All the Favorite Farceurs. Monday, April 11-HOYT'S ““A 8 - @ ERIN NEW YORK. T, R R R R RN S RS RS N BN NSNS N R RSN NSNS RERERERERERS DECEIVER, FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO'S THEATERS. COLUMBIA. 7 CALIFORNIA. TWO WEEKS, COMMENCING MONDAY, APR. SATURDAY MATINEES ONLY. MR. JAMES A. In His Original Creation of NATHANIEL BERRY, In His Beautiful Comedy Drama, HORE ACRE Direction of Henry C. Miner. THE MANAGEMENT Guarantees a Production of ‘‘Shore Acres' Superior in Every Detall to That Given at the Baldwin Theater Year Ago. Coming—*“NANCY HANKS.” Ath i To-NIGHT a2 - ONE WEEX ONLY—BEGINNING WILLIAM JEROME'S Herald Square Comedians Presenting the Latest Laugh-Provoker A JAY ««IN .. NEW YORK 15 VAUDEVII-_Lmia teaTures 15 Preet—156¢, 25, 50C—gj. Sunday, April 10-EDWARD HARRIGAN. Including Dainty MAUDE NUGENT, ‘The Girl ‘Who Wrote “Sweet Rosie 0’Grady.”’ RNV LS gaged by Ferris Hartman to appear as ! T including Robert Fischer, James T. Gal- { loway, Herbert Flansburgh, Franklin Garland, J. J. Ashton, James V. Dailey, i Charles E, Fisher, Robert L. Clark, and | Misses Grace Gayler Clark, Marion Cul- ‘len, Myra Clark, Lucille Walker, Mat- tie St. John, Gladys Crolius, Edith Taliaferro, Hazel K. Clark and Julie A. { Herne, the actor-dramatist’s eldest daughter, who will appear as Helen Berry. Miss Herne was born in this city seventeen years ago. Baldwin. The only change in the Baldwin’s triple bill is in Anna Held's vaudeville turn. She will learn several new songs and use the animated music sheet, | scored with the heads of forty live col- ored citizens. “A Gay Deceiver” will and the Cherub” to close ft. The following Monday night brings the first production here of Hoyt's | latest farce, A Stranger in New York. This is the only one of the Hoyt pro- ductions in which the author and his manager, Mr. McKee, are directly in- terested, the rest having been let out ! on royalties. New York hotel life and | the cocktail habit are especial subjects for satire in “A Stranger.” Among those to appear in the farce are Anna Boyd, Joe Coyne, Charles Dungan, John Dudley. W. H. Hatter, Harry Rogers, Steve Maley, Sam Ma- rion, Minnie McEvoy, Minnie Bridges, Camille Cleveland, Lizzie McCoy and Nellie. McCoy. GCalifornia. This evening the California Theater will open its doors for the presentation of the farce comedy “A Jay in New York,” by William Jerome and his Herald-square comedians. “A Jay in New York” is built for the purpose of presenting a number of people in a —_ ZEN AT THE Cowme 2 Tpo?f\‘ftfi‘.’f\ L most becoming manner so as to allow specialties, comedy sketches and hu- | morous dialogue. Among the principal | members of the company are William | Jerome, W. C. Davies, Harry Taft, Nick Conway, Maud Nugent, Thomas H. Sedgwick, L. Grand, George A. ‘Crag, Robert North, Dave Hilton, Len- | ora Wilson, Carrie Massoni, Bessie | Robbins and Clint Robbins. Maud Nu- | gent, who will appear in the role of Daisy Day, is one of the best known song writers in this country, her ongs, ‘“Sweet Rosie O'Grady” and ‘Mamie Reilly,” being decidedly popu- | lar compositions. Harry Taft, of the { company, is a wonderful boy whistler. | The Robbins are the originators of a new school of wooden-shoe dancing. The revival of “Old Lavender,” by author-actor Edward Harrigan at the | California Theatet on Sunday evening, the 10th inst., undoubtedly will be heartily welcomed. In the character | of Old Lavender Mr. Harrigan has al- ways scored a hit. It is among his best, if not the best, of his impersona- tions. Dave Braham's songs will be new to the young theater-goers and a charm to the old-timers. The Damrosch Grand Opera Company, headed by the famous Melba, Is to ap- pear at the California for three nights only, April 19, 21 and 23. The announce- ment of the coming of so important an aggregation of lyric artists will cer- tainly tend to awaken universal opera enthusiasm. The announcement is made by Fried- lander, Gottlob & Marx that “Trilby" will soon be put on at the California by a specially organized company, and at cheap prices. Tivoli. Commencing to-morrow night and lasting five nights of Holy Week, the Tivoli singers will appear in “The Bo- hemian Girl.” Fernando Michelena is speclally engaged for the part of Thad- deus. Others of the cast are Edwin Stevens, John Raffael, Phil Branson, Duncan Smith, Florence Wolcott and Irene Mull. On Saturday evening the Easter bur- lesque which has been in preparation Arabian Nights’ story of “Sinbad the Sallor,” will receive its initial presenta- tion. Ballets, specialties, songs, dances, gags, eccentricities, scenery, costumes, accessories and cast are promised in j continue to open the biil and “The Cat | for some time and is founded upon the | T | new and extravagant combination to | make a Tivolian holiday. *‘Bob™ Mit- | chell. a clever amateur, whose Chinese impersonations are well known locally. will make his professional debut in the Easter piece. Helen Merrill will play Sinbad, and Carrie Roma. a merited fa- vorite, will return to the Tivoli stage in a prominent part. Alcazar. With to-morrow night's performance of “Jane” the Alcazar revives one of its most successful comedy properties. The | piece needs no introduction, it always | has been successful here, it was a very | profitable venture for the Alcazar some { months ago and this revival of one week should in a measure duplicate the | other success. Morosco's. | ! The most pretentious production that has been attempted at Morosco's for | some weeks will be, it is pledged, the elaborate revival of “Hands Across the Sea,” in which irry Mainhall plays the leadipg role of John Dudley, the young English farmer, who. leaving his Devonshire home upon his honeymoon, is overtaken in Paris by the dire mis- ! fortune whi-h is the usual fate of heroes of the melodrama. Count Paul, a French gamester, becomes infatuated with Dudley’s beautiful English bride and is persuaded by the villair to de- clare his love, which leads to an im- portant scene in the gambling rooms | of Mme. Valerie, where the presumptu- ous fop is chastiscd by the noble young | husband. Immediately after the vil- lain murders Count Paul, imputing the crime to the hero, who is condemned by | the French courts; but his sentence is afterward commuted to penal servi- tude for life at New Caledonia—whence he escapes, naturc..y. | In the for~th act the most important setting of the play occurs, showing an elaborate scene of the deck of a steamer at sea. Dudley is rescued from an open boat; the rescuing steamer is over- hauled by a French corvette and Dud- ley demanded. The _ritish captain es- pouses his cause, and when the steam- er reaches the port of Sydney, Aus- | tralia, the hero's innocence is fully es- tablished and a happy finale ensues. ‘W. L. Gleason has been specially en- | gaged to supplement the regular com- | pany, of which Maud Edna Hall, Lor- | ena Atwood, Queen Purssell, Fred But- | ler, Maurice Stewart, Landers Stevens and Mortimer Snow have been cast for | important roles. | A new scene of the harbor of Sydney | is in preparation for this production. . Orpheum. The bill at the Orpheum will La | strengthened this week by the addition | of four new acts, chief among which | is Mlle. Bartho the Parisian dancer, who recently has been appearing at | Koster & Bial's. She has an interna- | tional reputation :s a danseuse, and | has on several occasions appeared as premiere danseuse at the Folles Ber- gere, Paris. She will appear here in transformation dr-ces. Another nov- elty of the bill will be Mandcla, who styles himself the master of equipoise. He is credited with doing some wonder- ful feats of balancing and juggling, making his work the more difficult by performing his act while on a revolving globe. John W. West, known as the ““Musical Moke,” will do an eccentric musical turn, and Miriam Ainsworth, Australian singing and dancing sou- brette, will appear in specialties. The hold-overs include the Five Whirlwinds, who are among the most sensational acrobats that have yet ap- peared on the Orpheum circuit; Mont- gomery and Stone the acme of black- face business; the Glissandos and sev- eral others. Chutes. The new bill in the Chutes Theater is full of novelty, the only old feature | being Captain Carono,’s ‘*“‘African | Lion Hunt,” one of the most thrilling animal acts ever staged. Chiquita en- | tertains every afternoon and evening, | and the zoo is open daily from 10 in the morning to 11 at night. Olympia. |‘ The Olympia Music Hall has a long | list of attractions to supplement the selections by Kirchner's ladies’ orches- tra. The vaudeville olio includes Mlle. Adelita, Spanish dancer; Clifford Jack- lin, tenor;.Dolly Paxton, singing sou- brette; Mae Tunison, balladist; Inez and Antoinette, Parisian danseuses, and several others. Music. Most “testimonin' benefits” are im- positions and bores, both to the per- formers and patrons. But there are exceptions now and then, a positive two of which are the concerts to be given at Sherman & Clay Hall on Wednesday evening, the 13th inst., and the follow- ing Saturday afternoon in aid of Pietro Marino, the young violinist of this city, who is anxious to return to Brussels and finish up his violin studies. If any one here deserves a benefit it is young Marino. He has exceptional talent, and with a couple of years more of hard work in the right atmosphere he is apt to become a briliant artist. Mr. Green- baum, thq secretary of the Symphony Socief has the business end of the concerts in hand, and Mrs. Carr, Mr. Lent and Mr. Abramoff are among | those who have volunteered their pro- fessional services. Albert Marks will bring a great musi- cal attraction to the chast in May, hav- ing made arrangements by which we will hear the famous Kneisel String Quartet, one of the finest organiza- | tions of the kind in the world. The tenth concert of the San Fran- cisco Symphony Society will take place at the Tivoli on Thursday afternoon, April 14. The change is owing to the fact that the date originally announced came in holy weel AMUSEMENTS. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE Walter Morosco. Sole Lessee and Manager. / Last Performances of “TEN NIGHTS IN'A BAR ROOM.” Commencing To-morrow, April 4, Grand Production of Henry Pettit's Famous Drama, ‘““HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.” With a Powerful Cast and Realistic Scenlc Effects. Nettleford Farm, La Prison, - Parls. g i Deck Scene on Great Ocean Steamship “'Australasian.” Beautiful Scene, Sydney Harbor, Australia. . Beautiful Costumes. Good Comedy. Evenin day and g COLUMBIA THEATER. TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY), LAST TIME. JAMES J. CORBETT and his _Admirable Dramatic Company in Charles T. Vincent's Coryedy Drama, “A NAVAL CADET.” Next Monday— James A. Herne In “SHORE ACRES.'" BASEBALL! CENTRAL PARK. PACIFIC STATES WABEBALL LEAGUE. Champlonship Games of Pacific Coast. TO-DAY AT 2 P. M. OLYMPICS vs. SAN JOSE. JAMES J. CORBETT On first base for the Olymoics. KNELL and STEFFANI, Pitchera. Admission as usual, Prices, 10c, 25¢, §0c.. Matinees Satur- unday. AMUSEMENTS. | TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mis. ERNESTINE KRELING. Proprietor & Manage: TO-NIGHT—LAST NIGHT. “THE WIDOW D'BRIEN” TO-MORROW EVENING, “THE BOHEMIAN GIRL!” —With— | SIG. FERNANDO MICHELENA AS THAD- DEUS. | LOOK OUT FOR “SINBAD.” | Popular Prices -%c and 500 No Telephone Orders Received. EXHIBITION OF ANIMAL TRAINING * From 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Dally at the ZOO IN THE CHUTES. PROF. CANIAC and His Ferocious Performe ing JAGUAR and LEOPARDS and AT- + TRACTIONS WITHOUT NUMBER. Open Daily from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. SPECIAL! Two Afternoon Performances To-Day at 2 and 4 o'clock. Doors open at 1 p. m. 10c to all, including Zoo, etc. Children, Sun-’ 1 days and Holidays) 10c. OLYMPIA__ Comer of Meson and e R R (S Eddy Streets. America’s most beautiful music hall. Great- est free bill in the worid. MLLE. ADEDITA, Spanish Dancer; COLLINS YOCHLIN. Great Tenor; MAE TUNISON, operatic selections; DOLLY PAXTON, bailadist. and ten others. | MATINEE TO-DAY, Admission tree.