The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2’ 1898. 29 000000000000 00000000000000000000O0O0O00 ° POETIC DRAMA IN ENGLAND AT THE ORPHEUM when a | rano’s big nose. Roderigo rises to his | "¢ tragedy in blank | mettle and forthwith purchases rich thing better than a‘ and sonorous garments as would be- -rhaps | come his station and develops into a| shio#able and poetic lover. The love | ges are delicately capricious and Roderigo is Faith itself; while she loves for all there | the day is coming 1ocern end wl‘ the centur of poet drama, the immediate and | beautiful. p: return tout t % | Bea i ven to Rostand’s | F nere | % America has | IS in her, is ever haunted by her “in-| 1 but eve rybody here dependence” and her tragic doubt _uudJ ol o : \t. | curiosity. This bit of the dialogue gives | kKo.ow ething a hx\l[ L4 { longer confused | the idea: —If a woman tonte. one with all her soul and found it stands for a pl 1 beautiful one, whos People | Beatrix | Loved heard his ready lies roetic Y : rs a frightfully big nose andl nd }\ ew them lles; saw he was doubly £ sl a alse— sorts of secret valor and ‘G'f | False both ways—flouted both, What | should she do? Roderigo—You are a sphi speak in riddles, What put so mad & thought into your brain? Beatrix—Is it mad thought? Roderigo- vTht"‘e :.re no such men. eatri e are! }3...‘1‘.‘: el L 5 ace him thus: “You lie e girl he loves. ¢ been a popular suc- , but like the Ibsen ce on Eng- | S It is a pe- -day shnkospnue‘s‘ sible for only one | nx to-night. You | Beatrix-Not so; you ype of !n\‘<\u\l Their problems come rmquhnmw1 i their farces from France. | W a little time since Sydney | With his £ and all her soul; enmar] ad brought her life It 1s.0 Grundy wrote an essay in which he | count’her oforth as dead—living, but 3 of contessing why i et () the pa L confeneng W the fount of charity | it was easier and more profitable to . Michael came from | write plays that already had been writ- He said that the public him for wasting hi on adaptations made an in-| custom of going to see the fons and sta 1 work. ant of the I publishes his plays h-speaking countries, uth, she’d say, “I'll not | loveless and alone ed by the lie turned to sterile h t in a thirsty 1 What of the man? in turn eager for Rod- | and repelled by its inten- first suspicious, jealous, | is ix )'s love Be e is v find out that they hav. ‘e, then all tenderness and sub- Then he says, “‘the Brit The part sounds every note s exhausted me I minine temperament, so it Miss heen‘ a that the criticisms of acting of it have not British critle « ve exhausted the position urprise ersole’ ) his as sa 1y Review and marrie: sweet bouquets. The story concludes s t (who Is rich). h the killing of Roderigo by an un- ithor of “Lady Wind ipulous rival. There is an immense and “An Ideal Husbar ene where his body is carried to her onted by su he me to him!” she cries, and | ama is the herself with a poisoned ring. Ir.. Pinero s earn- | And then this exalted speech: bt a t over the| ;.o cpall know the taste of tears, or Ibsen re r is always | gh moral. You | I for bl Never know aught but . = rapture— s books if You | not you shall wed us, Father— play—and God himself, a sort | Before His Throne!—Before His— that the poetic| “The Termagant” is written in high language and in the eld elaborate mode, g stuff in it, and mix- and heroi is a cert hilosophy that is | very poignant. popular fate of the production is not vet defl way to become a fash- but there is str ed with er and The 3 yduced in London just the s ed who knows where the | e D! And part at Her he: iter, London Maje t sucee of this part is a ng |boom for verse drama will stop? It| Beatrix of Mora: she ls ca. | May even go so far as to include Wil- nd her people ; liam Shakespeare, a d make him a real quantity in the pleasures of his play- going countrymen . It seems to me that the variety busi- de | ness is getting to have more \'uriuky‘ ved | about it and is generally looking up. | an | At the Orpheum, for instance, every | her own choosing. So | show doesn’t look alike and the gal- | igo over the deep blue | lery is no longer the high and mighty | critic whose hiss is law. They still tz re of their gallery at the Orpheum, | ¢ gone s comes ng it plenty of its own kind of fun, and sound, but his clothes | but the humble patrons of the 50 cent and see not a bit im- | plush down stairs are also reckoned American | with in the g, and the “sawed- | atrix’'s humane de- | off” comedy has come to stay. They quite over- | started the local vogue for these little appearanc comedy acts with very bad ones. I re- the fir: poo membe | traditions of the | happens—i 000000000000 0000 00 00000000000 successful with the crowd that I trem- bled for the fate of one that should be really sane and legitimate. But the gallery was not offended, and since then the tapering process has gone se- renely on until now you cah see Felix Morris or Lilllan Berkart, or Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan do a fairly refined and coherent playette without the least personal risk. I am a sturdy bellever | in the “sawed-off” play. It ought to | be just as important in the drama as the short story is in fiction. Kipling | can say it all in twenty minutes—why | not the play writer? I was pleased | | with “The Man Upstairs,” the Gus Thomas piece that Mr. and Mrs. Dun- stan and thelr condensed company have been doing all week at the Orpheum. Not that it is better than other short pleces of Mr. Thomas’, but because, in such compact time, it seems to get out all the vital essence and action of a farce. Farces, with their first act of introduction and last of explanation, have always been too long. It is the short joke that captures the long laugh. “The Man Upstairs” exploits the good old motive of the wrong room, and it has the tenderloin twist that seems always to mark Mr. Thomas in his lighter vein; but it is quick, witty and after all quite innocuous, and suc- ssfully given by the Dunstans and lhmr company. I dislike always to be o viling at thei “purfesh,” but isn’t it | queer that the minute a ‘“legitimate” | actor gets on the vaudeville stage he thinks he has to make his work just twice as large and noisy in order to have it a go? I can understand that the surroundings—acrobats, animals and Maggie Weston we have at last got the Great American Servant Girl safely landed on the stage. ASHTON S1TVENS. The Olifams at the Alhambra The Baldwin. Costume drama at the Baldwin will give to-morrow night, mpany will app ast Word,” one of Mr. adaptations from and quartets—of vaudeville must in- | fluence the logitimate genius, but I| way to Daly comedy honestly believe that half the present | When the Frawley | in “The L effort would get twice the effect. One | successful part in this piece—a noisy one, it S0 | German of Von Schoenthau. Miss Bat perfectly written and per- | will play the Baroness Vera, and M Between Mr. Thomas | Roberts the Secretary, while Mr. Fraw pla; @\\\\\\\\\\\\\\W\\ul{flfifim the | cazar that it will be continued all of this haired Sheriff, the production is, on the whole, most creditaole. Maybelle Bow- | man does a clever bit of character as Lizbeth, and Geox_‘\ge Osbourne, Wallace Shaw "Clarence Montaine and Howard Scott do their usual best. David Be- co’s famous old lyceum money-maker, The Wife,” is to follow. i ;///1/////////////// Morosco's. Manager Morosco will inaugurate the | with a reproduction of the comedy drama | “The Runaway Wife,” which was writ- | ten by Fred G. .iaeder and McKee Ran- | kin. The story opens with a scene of | Arthur Eastman’s studio in New York in | 1872. an artist, is married to Lady daughter’ of a penniless peer. Alice, To the | sur- he goes beyond his means. In the struggle ith financial difficulties he strain and b | blind and Wit and child. on the Pennsy m of his sister-in-law, who is a picious woman, who re=enl.s the charge she considers has been thrust_ upon her. Talbot Vane, a former | rival for the hand of Lady Alice, hears | of their impoverishment, and calls to offer assistance. Arthur has been unreason- ably jealous of Vane. In his m|=er) he | unjustly upbraids his wife | him to make a home for he Arthur, after her departure, still miscon- struing her actions, goes forth with the boy to battle in his blindness with the world. Fifteen years later the characters meet in England under most dramatic cir- cumstances. New Gomedy Theater. military drama, “The Signal of Liberty,’ by M. Jossey, will be given at the New Comedy. Among the people which the war with § t into Ymml_ ce none_ is mo v hated than Sutcher” Weyler e more cted and admired Fighting vane. Th Secking for characters for his play, the author has selected these two men—one to stir up patriotism and the other hatred. The Alhambra. The star card for the new bill at the Alhambra is Robert Downing in a com- pressed version of ‘“The Gladiator.” Mr. Downing is said to have made a big suc- of his vaudeville work. His short- ce word combat is said to be very realistis Another _‘legitimate” act will be the ren- dition of parts of Oppenbach’s sparkling operetta, “The Rose of Auvergne,” by Will S. Rising, supported by Lillian Kim- ble and Elmer Ellsworth. ~And still an- other is offered in George C. Boniface and ley is cast as the son, Harry Rutherell. The role of the old musician will be i the hands of Mr. Keefe. Others in the | cast are Sam Edwards, Alfred Hickman, | G. Foster Platt, Robert G. Wilson, John | 4 1. Burke, Carey Livingstone, Fanchon | Nonna Ferner, who present a little com- Campbell, Georgia Welles, Adora An- shington life called, “A Game drews and Eva Dennison. TheA—‘Ear. Thomas' Western idyl, “In is doing so well at the Al-| The Golumbia. At the Columbia Theater Nance O'Neil will present “True to Life,” her first New York success, the first four nights and complete the week with *“Camille.” In “True to Life,” a convict, released after twenty-four years, finds, by means of a Augustus Mizzoura,” week. While the Alcazar Stock Com- pany numbers among its members no Nat | Goodwin to play the part of the red- — AI"USEMENTS. San Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1804 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas Clty, Mo., Estab. 1897 ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. | 1 WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, OCTOBER 3D. | | [ ENTIRE NEW BILL BY VAUDEVILLE MONARCHS' AMERICA’S FOPF\IO,\T ECCENTRIC coMF,DlA.\S. CAWTHORNE & FORRESTER, Presenting Their Original Comedy Novelty. HUGH J. EMM ETT MULVEY AND INMAIN, America’s Premier Lady Dancers, “A Damage Suit. i “Ventriloguist, Musician and | Character Impersonator. . .LES FRERES CARPOS.... Premier European Acrobats, in an Act of Novelties and Surpri MR. 'AND MRS. R. J. DUSTAN AND COMPANY Presenting Their Laughable Farce, ‘‘The Man Upstairs. " B LEW HAWKINS, ANGLO-AMERICAN QUARTETTE, | In New Selections. THE BIOGRAPH... MATINEE TO DAY, Sunday, Octoher 2d, obboeooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo COMEDY THEATER =and T0=N|ght Last Performances. NED TO JONES” hnnu Change of Monologue Specialties. THE PAOLIS i And Their Football Do WITH A NEW SFP[ES OF VIEWS, Purquet. any seat, 25c; Balcony 10c; | Children 10c, any part, ¥ “WHAT HAPPEN Our Regular Priccs—Even- ings: 15c, 25¢c, 35¢ and 50c. Matinces: 25¢ to all parts. AY. § ALL RESERV.:D. First Appearance of the JOSSEY-MARVIN CO. in iE SIGNAL OF LIBERTY. ARMY AND NAVY OF THE PRESENT DAY. PICTURED OF THE AMERICAN-SPANISH WAR-—SHOW- 3 OUR BOYS IN ACTUAL BATTLE. “YANKI*.E DOODLE DANDY DEWEY.” SELLING—COMEDY THEATER AND 710 MARKET STREET. Coming—Charming CLARA THROPP, CO000000000000000000000000000000000 A S EYE OF THE x\< IDENT AMERICAN EE @ coooooooéo;fico‘oooovooooooow coo éoooooooooooooooooooo AMUSE)IENTS v THE MOST REMARKABLE COMBINATION EVER PRESENTED ON ANY VAUDEVILLE STAGE. “For next week there is promised at the Alhambra one of the greatest vaudeville shows ever witnessed in San Francisco. Beginnlng ‘October Rosertr DOWNING The Eminent Tragedlan. 1 GEORGE C. BONIFACE and 'MISS NONNA FERNER ‘A GAME OF LOBBY.” Notables from the Legitimate Stage in a Comedy . THE FAMOUS ACTOR SINGER M WILL S. RISING and Company In Orrenhach‘s Sparkllng Operena. "THE ROSE OFAUVERGNE o R LILLIAN F. SMITH | 4 ()]ifans (Assisted by NELLIE SMITH) CHAMPION RIFLE .SHOT OF THE WORLD. A Miss Lilllan has a standing challenge of $1000 Continental to compete with any one in the world for speed Eccentrics. and accuracy with a ri BARRY st FQRD AND LEWlSlMcBRIDE & DALLON *“The New York Sports.” Wil Talk a Bit and Sing a Bit. THE AUSTIN SISTERS Prosenting Their Sensstional Aerial Aot on the Flying Trapese. The Human Fly AIMEE, i Her Phenonensl Act of “Coiling Walking” s Wednesday, Saturday, POPULAR PRICES! s e Ohildren 100, any so MATINE'E TO-DAY, SUNDAY, 2:15. Sunday, 0@@@@@@@@@@O@@@@OO@@O@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ O [0} 3 BALDWIN THEATER. COLUMBIA THEATER. ¢ ® TONIGHT (SUNDAY), LAST TIME, TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME, g ® NANCE O'NEIL IN 2 AN ENEMY TO THE KING! OLIVER TiisTi g ® BEOINNlNG TO-MORROW, ® Second Week of the New B’“'“"‘“ifl?}g"vg‘_;; OiVENINQ. @® S FRAWLEY COMPANY o 5 awosuancie eates. | [NANCIE ¢ ® THE ® z O’NEIL ¢ 2= LAST s O imenn And the McKEE RANKIN CO. @ Gty oMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thycs- ® ‘ ‘N’ ORD' venings—First Time Here—The @ oy Drama, < * TRUETOLIFE ° Blanche Bates as Vera. St ® REGULAR FRAWLEY PRICES, ) ® 25c, S0c, 75c and $1. CAMILLE. @ o = THEY'RE COMING— © Next Pav.. THE DANCING GIRL. MATHEWS AND BULGER. @ @® olofefeXeXoofofeloYoloYoofoYeYololofofofo¥cXoofofofoloXooYoRoXc) AMUSEMENTS. B e THE CREAT WALLACE CIRCLS| MUSEUM, MENAGERIE AND ROYAL ROMAN HIPPODROME. . SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15t e CENTRAL PARK. | FIRST PERFORMANCE. . « | TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY THEREAFTER FOR ONE WEEK. THE MIGHTIEST AND MOST MAGNIFICENT AMUSEMENT INSTITUTION OF THIS CENTURY! | Three Rings, Half-Mile Race Track, 1000 Features, 100 Phenomenal Acts, 25 Clowns, 20 Hur- | ricane Races, 4 Trains, 1500 Employes, § Bands, 30 Cages, A Drove of Camels, 15 Open Dens, A Herd of Elephants. . $2000 DAILY EXPENSES. | THE GREATEST PERFORMERS IN THE KNOWN WORLD are with the Great Wallace Shows this Season, Including THE NINE NELSONS, $10,000 Challenge Act. | THE ANGELOS, Aerialists. THE 7 STIRKS, Bicycle and Skating Experts. THE 10 DELLAMEADS, Statuary Artists. MLLE. NORDA FRENCH, Mysterious Globe. 10 Prjncipal Male and Female Equestrians. THE 3 PETITS, Aerial Bar Extraordinary. LEON and Singing Mule, “Trilby.” THE SISTERS VORTEX, Triple Revolving Trapeze.’ GRAND SPECTACULAR BALLET, 19 Coryphees, led by Premier Danseuses. THE STREET PARADE, The finest ever put on any streets, will be made SATURDAY, OCTOBER I57hH, Admission, 50 Cents; Children, 25 Cents. Performances Begin at 2 P. M. and 8 P. M. Doors Open One Hour Earlier. BALDWIN THEATER—SPECIAL.| CHUTES_AND Zoo. EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER §, QONTINGHD SUEcHes o At 3:30 o'clock, Grand Concert. Given by PIETRO MARINO. P ODDIE R 0 S S, Violinist—YSAYE'S PRIDE! Muzino’'s Japanese Acrobats, ‘The Kminent Soprano, Assisted by And a big bill In the Free Theater, including HUGO MANSFELDT, the “YOUNG SANDOW," AGNES CASTOR Pranist, and a Symphony Orchestra of 35 Pleces, rect from the Orpheum. NEW MOVING PICTURI FINEST ANIMALS IN (‘APTIVITY IN THE 10c, including Zoo — Thunler. Children, 5c; Sundays and Holidays, 10c. Soprano, and the SANKEY BROTHERS, di- under the Direction of o Mason—GREAT NEW . L. VON DER MEHDEN JR. |OLYMPH 53 &5 11 CREAT o ey, NADINE ALLENY THE AMERICAN ANNA HE] KELLY & VIOLETTE MARTIN'S WONDERFUL DOGS: \ Admission Free. M-t!nu Suaw Sale of Seats Begins Monday Morning at § o'clock. Seats §2, §1 50, $1 and S0c 'DO, and others. ! | second week of Mr. Brophy's engagement { fo Arthur, who has achieved fame as | her with the luxuries he thinks | | | | | | | Beginning to-morrow evening the new: hotograph of himself in her possession, is daughter, who was born after his im. prisonment. " A gentleman of humanita- rian principles offers the jailbird aid te start in business and, not knowing the re- lationship between the two, falls in love with the daughter. She refus willing to_burden him with her convict relativ h f; the gentleman’s home y farewell, is found u again arrested, He refuses to give an account of himself r fear of dragging down his daughter’s | pame and is about to be resentenced when she compels him to acknowledge their re- lationship and be saved. The Tivolli Opera House will revive for | seven nights only and a special Saturday matinee, = Balfe's ever popular ballad opera, “The Bohemian Gitlo With & cast, including Elvia Croxas Arline, Mary Linck he Queen of the g g homas Thaddeus and William Pruette - as roheim. Edwin Stevens will make appearance in nearly three shoof. Phil Branson will On Monday evening, | his | months as Dev | be the Florestine. | October 10, the regular comic opera_sea- son will begin with a DI duction of the merry operatic fant he Circug Queen. Many of the I'\\or'ka of last season will appear. The Orpr\eum ‘With four new acts and a number of | changes by the hold-overs the Orpheum | promises one of its strongest bills for this week. Among the new comers are Caw- thorne and Forrester, who will appear in. a little sketch entitled, “A Damage Sait in which Mr. Cawthorne plays his favor- ite part of an Irishman. One of the real old time turns is looked for from Mulvey ;I;Jd’nuinfiatg v\]ho El’et (‘:jrediled with being e cleverest dancer: vaudeville stage. petiddalie The Olympia. The Olympia Music Hall this week has Irene Franklin in her clever songs and character_{mpersonations. The bill_also includes Lillian Monterey in descriptiva songs, Nadine Allen, the soubre Kelly and Violette. A Chutes and Zoo. At the Chutes Free Theater Pietro Ma- nno the renowned young violinist, will v _compositions of his own. The San- ke\' Brothers, acrobats, who hn\'cem:}ge a hit at the Orpheum, will be transferred to Halght street. Agnes Castor, a so- k) prano, said to be good, will sing for the ge in'a tug of war with twenty first time here, and the “Young Ss & Aret time oung Sandow’ soldiers. Wismer Recital. Hother Wismer, violinist, assisted by Mrs. Alfred Abbey, soprano; Mrs. Ma- thilde Wismer, mezzo-soprano, and S. G. Fleishman, pianist, will give a recital in Sherman & Clay Hall on Thursday even- ing. Following is the excellent ro- gramme: Sonata Op. 105. A minor, piano and violin (Schumann); songs (a) “Dem Unendlichen—“To the ' Infinite” (Schu- Iy Glory (Oscar Weil); violin 11 (Hungarian), first move- ment, first time in San Francisco (Joseph Joachim); piano solo ballad, minor (Chopin); violin solos (a), ““__omance” (F. Ries), (b) “Farfalla” (E. Sauret); song, ngde)venlancn,' with violin obligato (Gou- Poddie Ross Goncert. Poddie Ross, a soprano who has been studying in Italy and Germany for seven years, will give a concert at the Baldwin Theater next Thursday afternoon at half- | past 3. She will be assisted by an orches- tra of thirty-five pieces under the direc- tion of L. von der Mehden or. and Hugo Mansfeldt, the pianist. Carl Hertz, the celebrated magician and a Native Son, returns here on the next Australian steamer on his way to Eng- land, which country he left two seasons ago for a tour of the He is ac- companied by Mile. d'A number of clever people. cousin of Louis A. Mo Baldwin, and made his firs at the old Standard Theater. t appearance His success - | has been phenomenal, he having found it te unnecessary to leave England for q a dozen years. o AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR T TO-NIGHT. says: “In Miz- Zoura” was a success in every particular — stage, cast and execution. MERIT TELLS. To-Morrow Night Starts the Last Week of N. C. Goodwin's Missouri Romance, IN MIZZOURA! EVERY ROLE A HIT. Reserved Seats 15¢e, 25¢, 85¢, 50¢. October 10th—David Belasco's Exquisits Plly, £ “THE WIFE. GPERA ' MOROSCO’S GRAND i WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manager. © Last 2 Performances of “TRILBY. BUNDAY MATINEE AT 2 P. M. MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 3, Second Week of JAMES M. BROPHY. Elaborate Production of McKee Rankin's Great. Success, “THE RUNAWAY WIFE!” A Beautiful Domestlc Comedy-Drams. wcan POPULAR PRICES Telephane Green 861, Reserved Seats, . . . 25 and 50c. Family Circle and Gallery, . . 10¢. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: - TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. - Mrs. Ernestine Kreling, Proprietor and Manager, LAST NIGHT OF 'THE GRAND OPERA- EA - Gounod's Tragic Work, ROMEO AND JULIET. TO-MORROW EVENING-““THE BOHEMIAN * IRL." S “AN ALL STAR CAST.” NEXT WEEK—Opening Comic Opera Seasom “THE CIRCUS QUEEN.” ¢ FUN FAST AND. FURIOUS. Popular prices, 25 and &0c. re-. srved seat for the matinee, 25c. Our telephone us! SUTRO BATHS. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1888, at 2:30 p. m. TEST IDEAL DIVING CO! By PROFESSOR DAN GRE MOUS and PROFESSOR Showing the Correct Style of Diving in AR Positions. Also JUVENILE RACES FOR VALUABLE PRIZES. ADMISSION, 10c. CHILDREN, &ec. HOTHER WISMER, VIOLINIST. Concert takes place THURSDAY, October™ erman & Clay Hal Sutter d by Mrs. Abbey, Mrs. Wismer, street, Mr. S. G. Fleishman. Tickets 50c, at principal music_stores. Ten front row , Octo-.. ber 5 and 6, at Sherman & Clay’ extra. ROSENTHAL, THE RENOWNED PIANIST, COMING IN FEBRUARY. BASEBALL! RECREATION PARK. SAN JOSE vs. ATHLETICS. TO-DAY AT 2:15 P. M.