The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1898. 29 CONO0000000000000000000000000000 003858388888588388838588388335838888833388388838588333833 Q0 . THE ORPHEUM AND THE £ 00 o0 o0 ©0 %o o6 00 oo 00 b4 oo o0 ©0 23 BLANCHE BATES AND IBSEN. & 00 ©o 20 ¢ oo rpheum nowadays | fortnight, partly to show, and partly to bask in | inshine of prosperity and That the Orpheum pleases most of the time a question: it opulent fact, the sor- the other managers in delight of the great care- While the other managers people to be with their hair and their nds the vaudeville enterpreneurs n O'Farrel! street grow sleeker and »re besparkled every hour; and even en the other theaters are booming is the same old case of sardine space d stand ven't 3 room ou t the Orpheum. oticed when peo are doubt where to go that they gen- ally turn up at the Orpheum? The disadvantages are so few; one grows stomed to the unbeautiful audi- i, the scurrying walters with the d 2 man who is properly armed I love to go there and lounge imagine that I am not working ille exacts the minimum of ntion from the auditor, and, when in the right va eville mood, gives the maximum of comfort.” And ¢ s something restful in the com- >ial of the and the unpretentlo crowd. All sorts of house too swell and r es that di everybody oyer to the foreign shes your boots, ve s but tw: ry dis- titles—downstair 1 The crowd is so big that do not seem to count, and helps out the Orph audler re compo: the sawed-off comedies e had to be fierce and unheard now th bill; and a um are are of a than before. A few years 11d have believed that the Orphe »wd would e stood for Miss Norman and the elever s which she Is pleased to or for Mr. ty-seven minutes - which is almost pure comedy? who would have believed a few Mr. and Mrs. Rayle : Orpheum or any Mr. Royle is author of a “Friends.” matic f possesse that practically his life with the few years back. ter a Ken- d a distinguished nality is to me ir? he May she b has t and she acts with Having on t absolutely withou I am not a snob in the actor: but I do ask as tment of a well-bred the player aragement of the Royles that not a a professional ncipal point {s that s . from N York, who clubman " BALDWIN THEATER. TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME. THE FRAWLEY COMPANY IN THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Com- S e MONDAY FAREWELL WEEK OF THE FRAWLEY COMPANY And BLANCHE BATES FIRST SIX NIGHTS AND SATURDAY MATI} Initial Presentation Here o THE TRANSIT OF LEO.. Prettily Staged! the Comedy, An Excellent Comedy Cast! »v. 6—Farewell Night. MY TO THE KING.” SPECIAL—Friday Afternoon November 4 and 3 o'clock, first IBSEN per- formanee In this city. A DOLL’S HOUSE BLANCHE BATES as Nora. A Strong Cast Throughout. EXTRA! Two Weeks—BEGINNING MONDAY, NOV, 7. MISTAKES WILL HAPPENI A Great Company Headed by Irwin mag- | mized and sublimated. Her | n an authenticated lord ori the stage | s any other sort, and am | | It is not to | s a speclalty of enjoying life, was | BY @ASHTON STEVENS. my neighbor the other night when I| saw the Royles in “Captain Impu-] dence.” He tried to discourage my | enthusiasm by talking sadly about the | decadence of vaudeville. He said that | the variety had lost all its character | through the introduction of these le-| gitimate turns, that they knocked all the ginger out of the bill, that they | were against the first principles of a vaudeville show, which are snap and | speed. He sighed for the days of the | black-faced monologuist in the linen | duster, the bounding acrobat, the con- torting young lady who swallowed her | toes, the half-skirted girl with daring | dances and more daring songs. “Why | this show Is absolutely respectable,” he | said, disgustedly. “You could bring | our family to see this.”” I told him t tamilies always had been features Q Q < [+ [*] o [ 4, . _ANNIE DRIBER AT THE CALIFORNIA cvooocacooooconcocosao_g‘g “my fun in the least. V0000000000000 000 0000 ompany ©0 00 [+ 1] 00 2000000002000000020000000000000000 ©0 OO0000000000000000000000000000000088888888800 practically given it up. But I couldn’t convincé him. He said that only act- ors who were “has beens” and failures went into this work, and that the pub- lic in New York was sick of it, and that it was merely a question of weeks before San Francisco wouid feel the same. ‘“The ‘legitimate’ fad is on the wane now in New York,” continued my companion; “you mark me, that when one of these broken-down lead- ing men looks for a vaudevilie job next year the manager will ask him if he can do a double back-action song and dance. ‘This legitimate fake is played out. If the actors want to stay in vaudeville with short hours and long salaries they had better fall in- and 2 ERNEST HASTINGS g AT THE ALCAZAR O0000QP00T0BO00D00VOOORVYLLBOOUOD the business in the good old But these bodeful remarks didn’t spoil Nothing couid be quicker, cleaner and more complete than Mr. and Mrs. Royle and their of two in “Captain Impu- dence.” I saw the piece in its premiere of the Orpheum audiences, but that it | and in its entirety some three years had taken a couple of yvears to work up the proper appreciation of the “le- gitimate” sketches, and that these etches were usually the most expen- e ones on the programme. “I don’t care what they cost,” he growled: | “they are nothing but stuffers to pad out the show with. If you want vaude- ville you want that and nothing el It's all very well to go to a music hall, but how is a man to know that he will see a variety show after he gets there?” I told him that our sorrow | for several years and our trouble with the theatrical trust had been in not knowing where to go to escape a va- riety show, and that the Orpheum had not gone in for the legitimate until the Baldwin and other big. theaters had | back at the California. There were at | least sixty-seven seperate plays in it then, ranging from melodramas to comic operas. The mills grind slowly, but I am glad to see that at last Mr. Royle has parted company with the unworthy sixty-six. ol e A somewhat legitimate and quite humorous turn entitled “Our Honey- moon” is contributed by John C. Rice and Sally Cohen. Mr. Ricé you will remember as the happy person who | was kissed one whole season by May Irwin and another by Marie Dressler in “Courted Into Court.” Miss Cohen was in the company, but her oscula- | tory chances with Mr. Rice were few. Now she has him all to herself and uses commendable moderation, I think. Mr. Rice is really funny this time in that lilmber, nasal way of his. Mr. Rice still writhes archly, but with hardly as much insinuation as last year; in fact condensing has greatly improved his quality. And still speaking of things con- densed, they have a miniature version of Anna Held at the Orpheum in the person of little Charlie Rossow, one of the famous midgets of that name. He is the tiniest, funniest and humanest of all the female impersonators, and later on in the show he displays his masculinity in a heart to heart boxing match with his brother. T e The wierd, the curious, the cog- nescenti, the Ibsenites, the critics and the “purfesh” will turn in to the Bald- win in force next Friday afternoon to see Blanche Bates and the Frawleys in “A Doll's House.” No matter what happens it will be a record event, marking the first performance of an MLLE DALTON AT.THE ORPHEU IRENE FRANKLIN L AT THE ~ “')OL)’MPIA o AT MOROSCOS. Ibsen play In San Franciseo. Miss Bates has done wonderful work this season, especially in “The Dancing Girl,” where she revealed a new streak of temperament and led me to hope that some day she might play “Car- men.” Whether she can play Nora for anything ltke what is in the part Is a more serious question; it is easy—so easy—to overplay, and to underplay it brings about an even worse result. In America particularly, the difficulty lies 1 in making the character,probable. Peo- ple delight in complicating Ibsen, who | writes practical plays for the practical theater. I hope that Miss Bates and the company will realize that the wiz- ard of the north is as simple as Sardou | or Shakespeare, and that of all Ibsen’s pleces, “A Doll’s House” comes the nearest to being “popular.” There is really no reason why we should follow | up the performance with a fight about | its meaning. Also I hope that Miss Bates will not tire herself with the | tarantella in the second act. The dance | was her sad moment In “The Dancing | Girl,” and if she all but cut this one | she will be merely following the pre- cedent of nearly all the great European actresses who have played Nora. ASHTON STEVENS. . The Baidwin. The final performance of “The Prisoner of Zenda” by the Frawley company will be given at the Baldwin Theater tg- night. To-morrow night the company Will enter upon the last week of its stay in this city, and as these will be the # N w3l ‘;’Ls_ ) EowiN STEVENS AT THE TIVOLL. FeREREAS=T MM S A | final appearances for nearly a dozen months, local theater-goers will no doubt turn out In force. The bill for the first six nights and the Saturday matinee is Augustin _Daly’s latest comedy “The | Transit of Leo,” a work from the Ger-| man. The plece is highly spoken of and | 1s sald to contain all the best elements of that class of comedy with which we have | become so well acquainted. There are | some excellent character bits in the plece and the comedy element 1s offset by a pretty love story. “The Transit of Leo will be preceded each evening by a new | one-act play from the pen of G. Fostery Platt, called “A Backwoods Betrothal, which tells a story of life in the heart of (‘i-’fié“?-?nwnpy season at the B: close on Sunday night, the 6th ber, with a_request performanc 5 e Kin Enémy to the K or the performance of is the cast | ";‘elr»:;ll's House,” which will be given in the Baldwin on Friday afternoon: Theodore Roberts Blanche Bates _Louis Payne ciile La Verne sam Edwards By themselves Eleanor Carey < aldwin will of Nevem- e of “An | Torvald Helmer Nora, his wife | Doctor Rank Mrs. Lind, Nils_Krosstad The Helmers' th Anna, their nurse }A maid servant va Dennison A porter . r. Conway A ess account of the play And here is a pre a0 an treatise upon bseni e in matrimonial alliances. isting conditions The moral of the play seeks to point out | the absolute necessity of thorough self- knowledge in each, and mutual confi- dence in each other, that to secure true happiness there must be but one line of thought between husband and wife, each bearing an equal important relation to | the other. In “A Doll’s House” Nora, the | wife, worships Torvald, her husband, as a | superior and almost supreme being. To | save him from punishment for an excus- | able crime committed in his youth, she | commits forgery. Making this sacrifice in his behalf she discovers that her idol has been one of brass with feet of clay, and that in truth she is the superior be- ing, s0 much so that there can never again be/any harmony between them, and | so they part. The Golumbia. | Sydney Grundy’s “Sowing the Wind” | commences a week’s engagement at the Columbia to-morrow evening. This pla.y.‘ which promises to rank as the great ef- fort of Sydney Grundy’s life, is now in its third season in this country. In New York, Chicago and other large citfes it | was the theatrical sensation of the year 1893-94, and its popularity is stiil great. | It selects from the two sexes an able | champion and representative of each and puts them against each other in one of the flercest and most relentless intellec- | tual conflicts ever depicted on the stage. The woman has been thrust into the world without the boon of lawful parent- | age, and through the irony of fate the | man responsible for her situation is now the guardian of her lover standing be- | tween her and the only happiness which she has ever dreamed, obje to her marriage because of the very con- | ditions that have resulted from his own vouthful perversity, though his relation- ship to her is not made known to him | until the denouement of the play. The woman, stung and maddened by the terri- ble injustice that rests upon her, and yet OLIVE MADISON :T%I’HE- COMEDY. & | unconscious that she is speakifg to the | author of her first great wrong, bursts up- on him in a moment of wild emotion, with a most fearful arraignment to the sterner Sex for its pitiless {reatment of woman- hood. The man, wounded by the truth- fulness of the charge, ; ‘the secret conscieusness of his own guilt, rallies from the staggering effects of the assaults and rughes to a desperate de- fense. The. contest is on, the battle cry is “Sex against sex.’ The cast includes Howard Hall, W. H. 'Iurner, Thomas David, Julien’ Barton, A. D. Richardson, William J. Cornflll. R. A. Bennett, Walter Matthews, Amelia Gardner, Janet Bar- rington, Eugenie Hayden, Ella Bailey Robertson and other > The Galifornia. The yellow kid will be Introduced to the local stage at the California to-night in the farce comedy “Hogan's Alley.” The yellow kid pictures are hardly as well known here as in New York, but still they are familiar, and doubtless many_persons will be interested to see how Micky Dugan fares as the central figure in a farce comedy. In addition to_the latest songs, ballads | | agencies and warfare and writhing in | who, in his efforts to pass a bill that will free Cuba, engages the enmity of the father of the girl-he loves and the fath- er's accomplices. Temptation Is strong, but duty conquers. Ernest Hastings, George Osbourne, Gretchen Lyons and many others of the Alcazar company are in the cast. The Tivoli. One of Offenbach’s _delightful comic operas, “The Grand Duchess,” will be the bill this week at the Tivoll. Anna Lichter will have the titie part, and the new soubrette, Anna Meyers, will sing Wanda. Elvia Crox will be the Prince Paul; Edwin Stevens, the Baron Puck, and Phil Pruett a| W. E Branson, the Fritz. William pears as the comic General and West,. as the Baron. With the excellent company now at the Tivoll these revivals of classic comic opera are more than entertaining—they are educational. New Gomedy The Henderson company, an organiza- tion that played a long season at the Great Northern Theater in Chicago last year, opens at the New Comedy, Mon- day night, in Sardou's well-known work, “A Scrap of Paper,” continuing that play until Thursday. evening, when ‘“The Crust of Sofiety” will go on and finish out the week. - Both plays have been seen in San Francisco before, so it remains only to give the list of players and which are: Edward M. Bell, Russell Bassett, Adelaide Firzalien, Cartie’ Clarke Warde, Frankie Raymond, Alma Shyrma, Grace D. Pierce, Frank C. Thomipson, Harry F. Adams, Kingsley Benedict, Charles Fleming, Frederick Tjader and Jean de Lacy. Morosco's. “The Indian,” a comparatively new play, by Lewis Morrison, will be seen here’ for the first time:at Morosco’s to- morrow night. It is a spectacular melo- drama of ‘Washington and the Western | frontier, and the story is said to be based on facts. It throws the warm light of at - the Indian practiced by the Sioux. Mr. Brophy will impersonate the two Indian heroes, Blue Feather and Red Feather, and Miss Atwood will be ‘the American girl. Two newcomers are in the cast, Henry Napler, late with Mod- jeska, and Miss Isis Maynard. The 0r7ph2u'm Of the new people who will appear at melodrama on thieve { the Orpheum Carl Hertz is regarded as the star attraction. He will appear in his famous illusion, “Vanity Fair,” in which his assistant, Mile. d’Alton, while standing before a mirror, suddenly dis- appears. A peculiarity of the work done by Carl Hertz is that jt is all done on the open stage without the ald of cur- tains or screens and fn full light. The Newsboys' Quintet is regarded as a musi- cal novelty, They have made a hit in the East. Raymon Moore, the popular song_ writer, will sing his own songs, and Pearl Andrews, the mimic, will imi- tate famous actresses. Sells and Youns, acrobats and pantomimists, are from the Wintergarten, Berlin. John C. Rice and Sally Cohen remain, and so do the Ros- | sow” midgets. Mr. and Mrs. Royle will present a new comedy sKit. The Olympia. Irene Franklin begins the last week of her efigagement at the Olympia with a new programme. Chutes. Lillian F. Smith and her shooting sis- | ter and father are giving exhibitions of marksmanship at the Chutes Free Thea- ter. They will be retajned next week, with McBride and James, Irish comedi- | ans, and Eusapia, in her ‘“poutical trans- formation dance.” The Le Roys, tripla Ting athletes, and Arturo Salvini, tenor, will be new. The Voorsanger Goncert. | To-morrow night at Sherman & Clay’'s Hall Miss Charlotte O. Voorsanger will give a concert which will contain many | excellent features. Miss Voorsanger will | be assisted by Chevalier Maurice de | Vries, Signor M. Martinez, Mrs. C. Roper | and others. AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER. Evenings -.... 2 | SOUVE! S WEDNESDAY, SUNDAY, 2c to all part: 15¢ LAST OF—("GOOD-BYE?") “Where’s Matilda?” (Monday) Night, galler: Commencing To-morrow = Tuesday, Wednesday Matinee and and rag-time ditties, several new fea- | (Monday, tures have been given the road produc- | Night), tion, including Hogan's Alley and Cycle Club and illuminated roof garden. T The Alcazar. The Alcazar will help along the elec tion. fever this week with Henry Gu Carleton’s political drama, “Ambition,” which was written for and played by Nat Goodwin. an honest Senator, Obediah Beck by name, AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA THEATER. TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME. MATHEWS & BULGER | BT | By the Sad SgaWaves | ! BEGINNING TO-MORROW Engagement for One Week. Matinee Saturday. SOWING THE WIND THE GREAT SEX AGAINST SEX DRAMA Sydney Grundy's Masterplece, | THE | NEW |YORK EMPIRE THEATER SUCCESS Presented by & Cast of PARTICULAR EXCELLENCE. PERFECTLY STAGED, Monday, November 7. CALIFORNIA THEATER. BEGINNING TO- The Latest Laughing Creation, HOGAN'’'S - ALLEY With its Yellow Kids—The Oniy Mickey Dugan. PRICES—15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. San 11 AMUSEMENTS. ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY. QCTOBER 31. NEW GREAT AND ALL- Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1893 Sacramento, Cal,, Estab. 1897 Kansas élty, Mo., Estab. 1897 Tily Sensational Tilusion, *“VANITY F. Alhambra Theater, London. Mr. MILILE. Conjurer, Prestidigitateur and V., AIR," THE CZAR OF ALL THE WORLD'S MAGICIAN CARL HERTZ sionist, in his Entertalnment of Wonders, which had a run of Five Hundred Nights at thé Heriz s assisted in ‘his DALTON s, including his performances by the beautiful 5—SINGERS, DANCERS, For Two Beasons the Principal Feature of Hyde's Comedians. THE NEWSBOYS' QUINTETTE COMEDIANS, ARTISTS—S5 PEARL ANDREWS The Queen of Mimicry. SELLS & YOUN The Continental Pantomigists and Acrobats. 2 n Sl AMERIOA'S MOBT "2t FAMOUS BALLADIST --RAYMON MOORE-- In Bel Owa Obmposi JOHN C. Ag@’e SALLY COHEN In “OUR HONEYMOON." ROSSOWMIDGETS CHARLIE Rossow In New Spectalties. MR. AND MRS. EDWIN MI Presenting Mr. Royle's Latest Farce-Comedy, “THE HIGHBALL FAMILY.” LTON ROYLE and Gompany MATINEE T0-DAY (Sunday), Oct, 30th Persue t, any seat, 25c; Balcony 10¢; Children 10c, any part. Charles Dickson and Henrietta Crosman, TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs, Ernestine Kreling, Proprietor and Manager. | GIROFLE | GIROFLA TIME. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. Offenbach’s Great Opera “GRAND DUCHESS.” Popular Prices ... 25¢c and G0c A Reserved Seat for the Matinee, ¢, . Our Telephone. Bush 9. KELLAR, the Great Magician. OPERA MOROSCO’S GRAND huis W aLTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manager. To-Day and To-Night—Last 2 Times of “STREETS OF NEW YORK.” TO-MORROW NIGHT, FIRST TIME HERE OF Lewis Morrison's Great Eastern Success, ==«THE INDIAN.” ROMANTIC STORY, EXCITING SCENES, PICTURESQUE 'COSTUMES. POPULAR PRICES Telephone Green 861, Reserved Seats, , . . 28 and 80c. Family Circle and QGallery, . . 10c. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Coming--FINNEGAN’S BALL Mason, OLYMPIA, Mo America’s Most Beautiful Music Hall. ONLY FREE THEATER PLAYING EAST- ERN STARS. DIRECT FROM NEW YORK AND A GREAT SENSATION. The Four Florences! World's Greatest Acrobats. LAST WEEK Gf' THE FAVORITE IRENE FRANKLIN. The Great Hit of the Season in New Songs." IRENE FRANKLIN. At gy e MATINEE SUNDAY. ADMISSION FRER. Twenty-fourth —— Grand Anniversary Ball. ~—OF THE— NORDDEUTSCHER VEREIN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1898, B R Saratoga Hall, 814 Geary St. Admieston 50c. Ladies Free, COMMENCING AT 8 P. M, RACING! RACING! RACING! CALIFO«Ni.« cULKrY CLUB Winter Meeting 1808-99, beginning SATURDAY, October 2§, to November 12, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Th ey, Friday and Saturday. Rain or Shine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY, Races Start at 2:15 p. m., Sharp. Ferryboats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and 12:30, 1, 1:40, 2, 2:30 and 8 p. m., connecting with trains stopping at the entrance to the Sheil Mound. Track. Buy your ferry tickets to Returning—Trains leave the Track at after last race, S gt R. B. MILROY, R., President. AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR THEATER. The hero of the play is | Presenting Victorien Sardou’s’ Brilllant Comedy . ‘A OF PAPER!” EVERY PLAY THE PLAYERS: — Ed M. Bell, IAE™ MAY BLOSSOM | BEAUTIFULLY| S o, TO-MORROW NIGHT AND DURING ENTIRE WEEK. MATINEE SATURDAY. C. GOODWIN'S SUCCESSFUL COMEDY ‘AMBITION!” Jllustrating life as it is in political circles at Washington, D. C. Prices: 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50c¢. | CHUTES AND 200! EVERY AFTERNOONAND EVENING. BIG BILL in the FREE THEATER. The LE ROYS, Triple Ring Athletes; AR- TURO SALVINI, Lyric Tenor; LILLIAN F. SMITH, Champion Rifle Shot of the World, with her SISTER and FATHER; McBRIDE | and JAMES, the Celtic Kings; KELLY and VIOLETTE, and EUSAPIA, Political Trans- formation Dancer. EVERY THUR3SDAY—Amateur Night. TWO MONSTER PYTHONS IN THE ZOO. N. Jean de Lacy, Charles Fleming, Miss Adelaide allen. Frankie M. Raymond, Olive Madison, Carrie Clarke Ward, Alma Shyrma, Grace D. Pierce, Etc., Ete. Fitze ADMIRABLY PRESENTED. Chicago Hera'd. Thursday and Friday Evenings, Saturday Mate inee, Saturday ht, Sunday Matinee and Sunday Night, THE CRUST OF SOCIETY. Each Presentation' With Entire ‘New Scenery. NEXT W s Lincoln J. Carter's Realism, THE HEART OF CHICAGO. Seats, Comedy Theater and 710 Market st. INGLESIDE COURSING PARK. TO-DAY—SUNDAY, THE GREAT MATCH RACE RETWEEN Rock Island Boy and Mayflower For $1150. LSO— OPEN STAKE. Take Mission street car and it will land you at the gates. Admission 25c. Ladies free. | | | | |SAPLING AND 10c, Including Zoo and Theater; Children, c; | Sundays and Holidays, 10c. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, MOUNTED SWORD CONTEST! Cagt. Waller—Sergt. Moffatt. Balloon ascension and parachute jump— PROF. HENRY. the magician—Triple horizontal bars—Acrobatic feats—Aerial artists—Arnoldo, the equilibrist—Cornet Solo — Clowns—New vaudeville stage — Morro castle—Donkey riding for the chil- | dren and other amusements and attrac- tions. _ ADMISSION.... .. AT Children Under § Years Free. Take San Mateo Electric cars. Mission, Valencia and Sutter st. cars transfer. No Liquors Sold in Glen Park. ROSENTHAL. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, EVENING DEC, 20 & AFTERNOON DEC. 3L T SUTRO BATHS. SUNDAY, 0{,']‘08;2730, AT 2:30 P. M., SWIMMING RACES FOR VALUABLE PRIZES AND MUSIC BY THE GAULOISE BAND. ADMISSION, 10c. CHILDR: se. Open Dally From 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. CONCERT GIVEN BY MISS CHARLOTTE VOORSANGER Assisted by Chevalier Maurice de Vries, Sig. M. Martinez, Mise C. Roper and others. MONDAY EVENING, OCT. AT SHERMAN, CLAY & CO'S HALL. TICKETS. 50 cents BASEBALL! RECREATION PARIK, The Ol4 Rivals, TO! N vs, TO-DAY, AT 2:56 P. M. |