The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1898, Page 29

MODJESKA, IN After spending the better part of the week in the Baldwin retouching my | “CLEOPATRA™ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1898. AT THE BALDWIN. {llusion of his performance. The wo- men of the company balance much bet- | Jewess.” Enobarbus., Modjeska, of course, will be | the Cleopatra, and her first assumption of the part, which is so different from :ny other in’ her repertory, is anxfously ex- ected, “Antony and Cleopatra’” will be | the bill for the balance of the week. Frawley’'s reorganized company comes to the Baldwin the following Monday in “An Enemy to the King.” The Golumbia. Miss Nance O'Neil, who is to make her stellar debut in her native city to-morrow ! night at the California Theater, has been | on the stage only a few years, but in that short time she has attracted the favor- | able attention of nearly all the eritics in | America. Her appearance to-morrow | night should surely be of interest to the | playgoers of San francisco. She comesi with the McKee Rankin Company, ~nd will_appear in the opening performance as the Leah in Mosenthal’s ‘“Deborah,” newly adapted and rechristened ‘‘The e company that supports the ;\'oung star includes among its members McKee Rankin, Herbert Carr, Henry ‘Weayer Jr., Lionel Barrymore, Charles Vicker, Olive Otis, Melville Emory - 1 others. The re| enoay to be presented in this city by Misg 'Neil includes *‘Ca- mille,” “Magda,” “The New East Lynne” and “Rosa Colombo.” to-night at the New Comedy Theater, Harry Corson Clark opening to-morrow here last season. It is an admirable farce, thoroughly American in humor and situation, and has made successes all over America. Mr. Clark’'s company_includes many of the people who helped In last season’s success: Charles Charters, C. W. Terriss, John Allison, Mrs. Adele Clarke and Miss Maude Allison. The rest of the cast is made up of players more or less new to us. “Jones” ‘will be preceded by the cur- tain-raiser “One Touch of Nature,” which was last presented here by James [} 0000000000000000000000000OOOOOO0000000000000060000000 o ! 000000000000000C00000000000000000000000000000000000000C itals. It will be given with new scenery, costumes, appropriate accessories, an en- larged chorus, augmented orchestra of soloists, a ballet and & full complement of supernumeraries. Fraulein Marle Brandis will be the Queen of Sheba; Elvia Crox will sing the role of Sulamith, the High Priest's daugh- ter, and Helen Mernill, the slave, As- taroth; Sig.’ Maurice de Vries will be the King Solomon of history; Rhys Thomas, Antar, the young soldler; W. H. West, the grand chamberlain, Baal-Hanan; and Willlam Schuster, the High Prjest.” On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday even- Flotow's ‘" will_be sun Anna Lichter in her favorite role of Lady Harriet, the waiting maid to the Queen; Mary Linck as her companion, Nancy: Sig. Bdgardo Zerni as the young farmer, Lionel, and William Pruetts as the Plun: & The Alcazar. The play selected to run with the fare- well performances of “The First Born"” next week is promised to be the strong- est first part play which has so far been Crosby, Thomas Tuther, H. A. Weaver, | Produced at that house. In fact, it is | will make an entire change of programme Mrs. Horace McVicker, Stella Bonirace, | “Lend Me Your Wite,” virtually a three | and will confine her efforts to songs and Mabel Fraine, Ricca Allen, Affle Me- | hours’ show. The story tells of a certain | character changes of the popular order. young man who is left a large sum of money, to be pald to him in semi-annual installments, when he shall take unto himself a wife. Not wishing to unite in matrimonial bonds, he deceives the uncie .| who has charge of his property. The - New Comedy Theater. Tncle ammounces hia Intentlons:to, pay. his | oro o Jiipls Musle hall e it The Pacheco season comes to an end | nephew and wife a visit. aslly, T o At el Y Arcarican Arine. Haldt the crafty young man, proposes to his chum, Tom Buntington, that the latter night in “What Happened to Jones,” the | Just loan him his wile untll the uncle | iaineq. Seatin farce which he so successtylly introduced | many and absurdly humorous. “In Mis. v, = Ry Chutes and Zoo. souri” is in preparation at the Alcazar. Morosco's. The new play announced for to-morrow night at Morosco’s is “The Coast Guard,” an American comedy melodrama in four acts, by Lewis Mitchell and James Vin- cent, with scenes laid on Long Island. It possessses the usual sensatlonal ele- ments. A shipwreck, with a realistic rescue by the crew of the lifesaving sta- cial Saturday matinee | with | special e ement by the mina ement is that of Miss Maude Miller, dhughter of Joaquin Miller, the poet, who has been | with Augustin’ Dajy, Oliyer Byron and | other Eastern managers. She has been cast for the leading emotional character of the | play, that of Rose Van Sicklen, daughter of the lighthouse keeper. A number of other new people have been added to the clever stock company to complete the long cast. The .Orpheum. - The headliner of thé new Orpheum bill is Mile. Jeanne Franko, a violln virtuoso of some ronown, who has but recently made her debut in vaudeville. It is said that she has been a scnsation in Eastern [ houses. The comedy feaure of the bill | is expected from the two Paolis and their trained dog. - The Paolis are European acrobats and- have trained -their dog to take the part of the third man.- Another novelty Is Louis Cazeau, illusionist and magician from Paris. Felix Morris and his company will put “on ‘“The V: bond,” "an old-time curtain-raiser, which Mr. Morris has always played with marked success. Miss Bessie -Bonehill The hold-overs include Hines and Rem- ington,. Favor and Sinclalr, Towzoonin Arabs and the blograph. The Olympia. Kelly and Violette sin, and several of the ol descriptive songs, favorites are re- At the Chutes Free Theater the bill will be almost entirely new and will include Marie Wood, a soprano who-is pledged to have received the approbation of Melba; Camelia, a Spanish dancer, who now con- ceals her colors and_announces herself as a Cuban; George Harrison, a German comedian and monologist, and Burns and Evans, the “Farmer and the Clown,” who conclude a sensational performance with a breakaway ladder act. Oro, Clifford and Oro, in their skit, “Fun in a Chinese MODJESKA'S MISSIONARY WORK 3 and the Rehabilitation 3 e OF THE BALDWIN THEATER. o BY ASHTON STEVENS. § (RN P4 admiration of Modjeska and thanking | ter than the men. The only memorable heaven that once again the theater is| maid seryant that I have seen in “Mag- a safe place for a sensitive person, I|da” was Miss Anna Daly’s of Tuesday tion; a revolving lighthouse’ and large practical working steam dredger are the | mechanical features, while the marine Family,” have made such a hit that they will be retained, as will also Cotton and Moll, triple horizontal bar experts. H. Stoddard and Miss Maude Harrison. The Tivoli. feel like a man that has taken | might; and in the same play Miss Grace The Tivoll will . e slceglc settings will be picturesque and Migs -May Bckley, who was: to have in a bottls 's sarsa- 8 FEag e e Tivoll will present a novelty for | elaborate. a 7y n a bottl of somebody’s sarsa- Fisher played Marie very delicately and | the elghth week of its grand opera sea-| The production will be marked by the | been one of John Drew’s supporting com- parilla and is inspired to write to| very vividly, and Mrs. Hanna E. Sar- | (00 €€ FoP0 O o Bl O katurday | debut of the Waterman Sisters, two San | pany, has been transfetred to the com- the manufacturer and confess how | gent made the comic aunt more credible | ;14 sunday venings the first presenta- | Francisco girls, whose' many friends | pany headed by Annie Russell. Manager good and pure and happy the com- |than I had ever known h B hatore. |b o aan ByS e St promise to give them a rousing ovation, | Frohman predicts a brilllant future for 2 = . o | ad ever known her to be before. | tions in this city of Goldmark’s historical | 3y overflowing audience and many floral | the California actress, and the change | pound has made him feel. Why, it is| v a few months since I was saying | this very column that the drama here was dead, that refined literary pe 1ken to books, slippers a , that—worst of all!— | the profession of dramatic criticism | could no longer be reckoned among the | necessary evils! When, presto! Em- | peror Frohman announces his forgive- s and his willingness to give San | Francisco a place on the map, and | sends 1 Henry Miller; and now, better still, Modjeska is here; and the | season to come is full with brilliant prospects. The critic may stop writ- ing plays and go to work; the retired playgoer, rested and fresh, be coaxed | back to the pleasures of the stage, and the manager grow honorably rich. Is it a wonder I feel like writing a testi- monial? - : It was hardly to be expected that ev- erybody who used to go to the play | .. in the days when San Francisco got | its reputation as the actor’'s paradise would turn out at the first invitation | ¢ the rehabilitated theater. Some, | iderable number in the circum- | have attended the Modjeska performances this past week. And| Henry Miller's engagement was, I am | told, fortunate as a whole through the signal hit of “Heartsease,” a little su- | gar-coated play that was just the thing to delight very young ladles and very | old gentlemen. So while the new sea- son at the Baldwin has not been break- | ing records it is doing just what it ought to do for the theatrical vitality of the town. It is making play going popular again among a class that had long given it up as a sort of second rate vice. The dramatic epicureans | turned out bravely for Magda Tuesday | night, and there was.an atmosphere of brains all over the house, way up to peanut row in the gallery; for many of these special folk—the real, not the faghionable supporters of symphony concerts, intelléctual drama, unfversity extension lectures and what not—are poor beyond convenience. However, it {s not this little cult alone which has come back, but many of the old sleek crowd of first nighters who can enjoy Jesser dramatists than Shakespeare and Suderman. And on such patrons as these depend the fortunes of a thea- ter. The exclusive special drama is a beautiful thing, but it will not always pay the actors and the rent. Had Miss Tlood given her millions to endow an independent theater instead of, a col- lege of commerce things would not be thus. But commerce got the millions, and we must still take our drama ac- cording to the tradesmanship of the managers. The tradesmanship of the Baldwin management had a sorry ex- perience, but it learned a lesson, and is now en the rise. There won’t be any more tenderloin vaudeville at the Bald- win, for one thing sure; and for an- other, Modjeska is there doing the mis- sionary work of her life. A year'ago in New York Modjeska preached against the sins of the theatrical syndi- cate. Now she seems to have forgiven the syndicate as it in turn forgave us, and she is playing in a syndicate thea- It is an hour for glad hands all stances, ter. round. P As 1 have suggested in notices throughout the week, Modjeska’'s com- pany 'is not entirely admirable. Mr. Herman is an actor of the old husky school who seems never to quite recover from his assoclation with Fred- erick Warde. In the not exacting part of Leicester in “Mary Stuart” he showed a certain easiness and agility that have been altogether lacking in his subsequent impersonations. His Macheth was mere sound run wild and gesture stiffened and enlarged beyond the scale of mortal man. It was with- out feeling, without understanding. And in. the delicate part of the rector in “Magda” he was equally gladialorial. Of the men Mr. Lonergan alone seems to have improved the passing hour, and even he still frequently stands as one in pain and gnaws his words unprettily. The life of Mr. Lonergan has not been ull beer and bouquets. Years ago in this same town he hired a house and essayed to be a Hamlet—without a net, and at the risk of his life, you might T have not heard of him in’the say. part since, but otherwise he has done better. He is a thoughtful actor and too young and too clever to cling to annoying little mannerisms that any minute are apt to.break up the whole | | advantage of to the fullest extent. . . About Modjeska's work in the old | parts, one can say only the old things —which I have been saying all week— and be thankful that they may still be said. She is a genius, one of the three incontestably great women who are left to the stage. Her personality and methods are absolutely her own; her impersonations come “fresh from life, not stale from the stage.” Not to have seen her as Mary Stuart, as Magda, as Camille, is to have missed three of the artistic opportunities of the century. People tell me that Modjeska is grow- ing old, very old. I suppose I ought to be sorry, but somehow I am not as long as she has the genius and grace to keep me from finding it out. ASHTON STEVENS. ElEe ey The Baldwin. 8o many and persistent have been the requests that Modjeska has decided to give one performance of “‘Adrienne Le- couvreur,” the play in which San Fran- ciscans first saw her and which was the beginning of her great artistic career. This play will be given on Monday night. On Tuesday evening the star will appear for the last time as Mary Stuart. She will also give San Francisco the nonor of see- ing for the first time on any stage her new and elaborate production of “Antony and Cleopatra.” is production is Cali- fornian in its entirety, scenery, costumes gnd properties all having been prepared ere. The wonderful scenic possibilities of this story of the East have been (a¥§n o alace of Cleopatra, with its surround- Fn[.;s of luxuriousness and ease, the Ori- ental splendor of the gallery, her mas- sive tomb and the palace of Caesar in Rome will all be superbly pictured by the artist, and all the appointments will be gorgeous and historically correct. It is promised that the production will be in 4l respects worthy of the great artist| who presents it. Biblical work, “The Queen of Sheba,” will be given. This powerful music-drama for the past few years has been one of the relgning sensations of the European cap- | tributes are therefore to be expected. | They are handsome native daughters, with_contralto voices, which are said to blend in remarkable degree. Another | was made by the astute manager so as | to afford Miss Buckley the greater op- | portunities offered by “Katherine,” the | play in which Miss Russell is to star. ® ® ® L4 ° g @ Play Which May @ L4 ® YRANO DE BERGERAC” is a drama in rhymed verse, the gcenes of which are laid in the seventeenth century. It tells the lovely tragedy in the life of | an historical character, a mad poet and dramatist, duellist and soldier, who was cursed with as huge and disreput- able a feature as Nosey the Dwarf In the fairy tale. Its author is a young playwright from Marseilles. These are facts which hardly account for the tre- mendous success which has attended the play in Paris and the principal cities of France ever since its first ap- pearance in December last at the Porte Saint-Martin, with Coquelin in the title role. Poor and foolish plays have had such triumphs. A famous actor like Coque- 1in might invest a comparatively feeble piece for the theater with the magic of his personality. Some whim of the pub- lic, or some appeal to a patriotic or religious idea might carry a play for hundreds of nights. But “Cyrano de Bergerac” does not depend on the strength of the actor who takes its leading part, nor is there any appeal the Season. 06006000000000000000000000600600000600000¢ PP0PCOPPPOVPPPPPRO0PP099P20PP200000990¢ “Cyrano de Bergerac,” 3 @ ® @ Be the Bensation of : ® L4 fad. Read in cold print, without the help of scenery and of trained artists, |1t is a fascinating piece of literary art | which holds one absorbed to the very close of its fifth act. Although the young dramatist knows | his stage work well and provides strik- ing scenes, so far as surroundings go, for four out of the five acts, yvet the | self-abnegation that Cyrano shows may | seem unnatural and his heroics peril- | ously near to rant, while the climax | might be thought unsuited to the re- quirements of the boards to-day which | call for the most violent and peopled stage at the close of the last act. But Cyrano can rant because he is still in character; his ranting, however, is so spiced with wit and perfumed with | poetry that no one can take offense; it is sublime fooling; it is dare-devil talk that makes one ponder and smile; it is paradox after Shakespeare's heart. Cyrano is the study of a man of noble mind and great learning, as well as marvelous wit, whose life has been ruined by a physical peculiarity that sets him apart from the rest of man- kind. His own apologia addressed to | his friend Le Bret reveals the presence | of a lifelong bitterness because of that monstrous feature of his, added to a | passion for independence and combat. He acts the bully and swashbuckler, tyrants, hypocrites and cowards and crushes or shows them up. He is a poet and playwright, but will not truckle to.influential patron or pukb- lisher. He first comes on the scene in | his double character of fantastic bully | and critic; it is at the old Paris theater | where Moliere’s and Corneille’s plays were acted; he stops the performance of an actor whom he dislikes because he is a ridiculous actor and has dared to ogle from the stage Roxane, the | cousin whom he (Cyrano) madly loves. | Cyrano has loved his cousin Roxane | from childhood, 4but never dared to breathe it because he is so hideous. Both have come to Paris from their home in Languedoc; he is the most valiant, feared and witty member of the corps of Gascony cadets, she is a beauty given over to the prevailing fashion of literary languish and fop- pery—a beauty and a ‘“previous lady” | who Indulges In the strained senti- mental jargon of the day and despises plain prose. In Paris they never meet each other until Roxane falls in love at sight with a handsome northerner who has just received a commission to join the Gascony cadets, a corps of poor but fierce nobles who make it warm for an outsider; then she recalls her cousin Cyrano, makes an appoint- ment with him and puts the youth she | loves under his powerful protection. | Their meeting is at a great cook shop kept by a poet pastry cook, who, with his motley following of starving au- thors and scullions, furnishes the chief | humor of the play. For a moment Cyrano imagines that she may be in- terested in him, though the fact that | she calls him at the outset “almost my | brother” should have warned him. Em- | barrassed to tell him her errand, she | notices that his hand is wounded, in- NANCE O'NEIL, IN kerchief and while holding his hand manages to approach the point. As she proceeds his hopes rise, until, de- scribing the man she loves, she comes | to “handsome.” Then Cyrano knows | the truth and staggers to his feet; but he grits his teeth and promises to be the protector of his rival. The situation gives a chance for ter- rible conflicts in Cyrano’s soul, but it is only the beginning of his tragedy. | Having promised to guard the favored one, he finds himself writing for Baron Christian -such love letters to Roxane as the younger man cannot so much as | imagine. His is the bitter-sweet of | pouring out his soul to the woman he adores and knowing that she will never suspect him as the author. The balcony scene is one of the new- est and boldest bits of playwright’s work since Shakespeare, the spirit of whose works, by the way, is suggested taroughout this striking and original | drama. Darkness and the conversation held in whispers favor the deception. Cyrano pleads .passionately the love that Christian cannot utter, and, in- | deed, can hardly feel, and when the | moment comes to ascend the balcony | and take the kiss that has been won | by flights of great poetic beauty, Cy- | rano pushes Christian forward and en- | Joys the bitterness with a dash of | sweet that lies in the thought. | 1t is the mental conflict in Cyrano as | much as his strongly marked traits| that holds the reader of this drama, and to the thoughtful theatergoer must | furnish more than half the fascination “THE JEWESS,” AT THE COLUMBIA satisfaction of the discovery. not of an adaptation, but of something radically new. The Duc de Guiche, who has been pursuing Roxane with a lawless pas- sion, discovers that she loves Christian, and so—hoping to get him killed in the war—orders him and the)rest of the cadets away to the siege of Arras; it is to Cyrano wita the Nose that Roxane entrusts her handsome young bride- groom, to save him from the open weapons of the Spaniards and the treacherous machinations of the Duke. Christian 1s killed in the war after a hurried marriage with Roxane, but Cy- rano prevents him from making a deathbed confession of the trick played on his young wife by whispering him that she knows all and is content. She enters a nunnery, where she thinks and dreams of her dead, and for fourteen yvears Cyrano visits her once a week without reveali g the secret of his love. That secret she herself discovers the very day that Cyrano, wo.o_has been treacherously assaulted from behind by some enemy, crawls out to make the last visit to her and die in her presence. That death is of a piece with the rest of the play, magnificent like the heroes of the Elizabethan drama; the dying champion sees visions of the foes he has assaulted so well but so fruitlessly —Compromise, Prejudice, Cowardice, Folly, Lies—and in his dying burst of heroic madness he staggers to his feet, draws his sword, puts his back against a tree and executes the big movements of the old-fashioned sword play as he denounces and stabs these airy phan- i t for Anthony, Mr. | when the piece i: d. < 3 i fi;fi,g}fi"finciéfi and Mr. e for |in the drama to a popular fancy or |but like Robin Hood he singles out the | sists upon binding it up with her hand- | of Hamletp and SFS:syte,dbu?n:ritt:ht]hé P bm(l'fr;:lARLES DE KAY. AMUSEMENTS. ANUSEMENTS. AMUSFMENTS. e A A e A e e A e Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angel'cs. C,fl‘ ,» Estab. 1894 _San WALTER WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas élty, 1')10., Estab. 1897 SEPTEMBER 19TH. 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