The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1898. PPPIPIVPILPIVVPCIVPPIPOPP 0329900090000 00000000000000000000000 %6 RS ® PS © PS Py - Blanche Bates as the Ibsen Missionary Of - the Woolly West. By Ashton Stevens. 46000000000 POPPLO900202090200990300000000000200030080800000000000006000 6 The Frawleys say good-by to-night, | but not in “An Enemy to the King." The ladies are crying for more Ibsen, | “A Doll's House” will be repeated | awley will not leave us his | n of a romantic leading parting plcture. Blanche | Bates, who night by night has gained | in popular favor, is now the theatrical | heroine of the hour. She had the au- ious enterprist to give an Ibsen | tinee; the public liked it, and she is | hter than ever. Miss Bates | of the right stuff; there are| brains in her acting, and she aid to fail. The English-| g women who have succeeded in n parts are few; the English- poken performances of Ibsen that 50 pular theatrical superstition, cruel fact, that Englished n and the box office do not balance the opulent side. I don't believe that Miss Bates dreamed of attracting an | audlence as numerous as the one that filled the Baldwin Friday afternoon; and I don't believe that she was cock- | sure of her own personal success in the | part of Nora. But she made the plunge with nerve, and, better still, with ar- | tistic preparation; and in the minds of | th e who take the drama serfously she | d wonders. Among the arch-Ibsenites | (by the way, I think the Ibsenites have conspired more than anybody else ito ep Ibsen from being popular) she 11 be honored as the ploneer mission- f the woolly West; and locally, if | 't stop with the success of one lay, she will be regarded as an entire | itution of modern dramatic art. At rate it is only a question of time when a street will be named after Blanche Bates. Seriously, though, Miss | Bates not only acted a famous Ibsen part with sanity and distinction, but she gave us a production that was ad- mirable in nearly every detail. B5he has broken the ice and there is no fur- ther reason why we should not have an intelligent, human play now and then, just as well as music of the bet- ter kind under the auspices of & sym- phony society. Writing of symphonies reminds me that the Symphony Society commences season on the afternoon of the 7th inst.—this time in the Orpheum, re an audience -of 1800 may be ed without calling into service the s under the gallery. Fritz Scheel the personnel of the or- ill be practically the same as | The only important changes | ations of Messrs. Lisser, and Zech from the direc y and the election to it-of H. J. Stew- nd that Mr. Stewart is )ry committee on musie, supply the announcements es to the press, and that he will “manage” the in- eccentric Scheel. But this half enough work for a man of rUs gy~ Why can’'t he em- odd hours in getting up the programmes that were al- musing a feature of last w musiclans can write werth ding, and H. J. one of them. PO n who can write— years and more wrote the ms for the Chicago Tri- a front authority on music is Willlam Armstrong. rong went to England last Nordica ands lectured on and song com- British w He talks Wednesday after- in the Columbia Theater on American composers, with musical il- lustrations by Fritz Scheel and a sym- phony orchestra, and if you are search- ing for something unique, cuitivated and delightful I recommend Mr. Arm- | strong’s afternoon. s “The Drama” in New York the metropolitan critics have been gb- ing for him hot ‘and heavy. Mr. Zang- will thinks that something besides art dictates the modern play and its mod- eérn manager and actor. He says in this country what he has often said before in London, and the New York critics who are now roasting him seem | to take it that the entire lecture is new and evolved for the speclal insult of New York. Here are some of Mr. Zangwill's observations: In the great old days two boards and a passion made a drama; to-day it needs two sticks and & wardrobe. In London, when a play by a new au- thor is introduced, he is usually part fin- ancier, or the manager is part author. The old Greek dramatists pald and trained the actors; the English actors pay and traln their dramatists. One epigram that will long be remem- bered and quoted is as to the “‘adapters” of French plays: They steal their litera- ture from the French and leave out the literature. They protect the morals of audlences by legitimatizing the bastards of French creation and translating the indecent into unintelligible. The modern actor ignores mathema‘ics and belleves the part greater than the whole. When I want to amuse my servant girl I send her to see a play that contains a steam engine and a snowstorm. She can see both by looking out of the window, | but it delights her to see them In the | wrong place. Biblical personages’ are not allowed on | the stage except in oratorfos—Elijah may appear only In & dress suit. o v Poor Edward Belll He went the pace, and now he is walking home. I saw him the other night at the Comedy Theatér in “A Scrap of Paper,” en- vironed by the Henderson i il THE MAGICIAN AT THE CHUTE and my heart went out to him in sym- pathy. Whatever sins Mr. Bell mav have committed against the Frawleys and Los Angeles were, in my opinion, | explated on the spot. The Henderson company is such a liberal fifty cents’ worth of bad acting that it ought to at- tract attention even in San Francisco. | buv lots of strange amount of money. Certainly the Henderson company is more than Mr. Bell deserved. And to get it here, that is rubbing things in. Helping the Hende S ravage one- where you can things with that | night stands is bad enough, but to be compelled to lead them openly in San Francisco where friends and enemies | abound—that is a terrible deal. Poor | Bell in his elegant overcoat of furs. playing for all that is in him to the ac- companiment of a low-priced edition of Maxine Elliot, and “heavy” gentleman with misfit voice and whiskers, is one | of the saddest things ever seen in the ASHTON STEVENS. The Baldwin. business. company. to-morrow night, tells® a merry, rollicking story, something of & rarity In farcical comedies. It begins in 2 quiet and orderly manner at the apart- ments of a Miss Dorothy Mayland, an | win Theater the for ay. his tasts. The ok and jumping in boarding-house. actress who has been secretly marriad to the leading man of the company. The name of the theater at which they are playing is the Morality. The name has atever to do with the play, but the author, Grant Stewart, gets a good deal of genuine amusement in having the manager of the theater a rank opponent of the marriage compact. From the standpoint taken by the manager it be- comes necessary for the young players to keep their marriage secret. Hence trouble and confusion arise when both are introduced into the househoid of the wealthy Hunter-Chasers. The earlier scenes of the play are along the strict lines of light comedy The leading man Tom Genowln, has also written a play that he wishes 'very | much to have placed upon the stage. He finds upon meeting Mrs. Hunter-Chase that she is imbued with the idea of be- that it will give “Vanity's Victim," the lay he has written, a production, he of- . 2 p “Mistakes Will Happen,” which opens | fers to coach her 1n the leading part. His Ever since Mr. Zangwill lectured on | an engagement of two weeks at the Bald-} wife, Dorothy Mayland, on ‘the other | stage is brilliantly lighted all the time, | performance at the hands of this splendid | standard favorite dramas, it holds so coming an amateur actress and thinking | MURRAY S MACK P oRMA satisfactorily to everybody concerned and | Murray and Mack are the satisfaction of | makers; their humor is as o has | burlesque glove contest is said to be ex-| he had led in the past. His practice had found an angel and will be produced at | 1 Jacob Litt has made the production nd it is said to be a very elaborate one. e company which he has gathered to- | for two weeks. gether includes Charles Dickson, Henri- etta Crosman, Nanette Comstock, Charles Edmund Law- Ben Deane and he owing that ast. T Harbury, rence, “Adah tting more and more comj nmduggvo %fu;"mn a u z TR Lo 3 g ety agn Bags ] Sy Everything is settled audience has Carrie Behr, Eckert, Franklin Garland. The Golumbia, Kellar, the magiclan, appears at Columbia this week. sald to be a simple statement of what he did at Dalv's Theater in New York | addition of several new songs. The cast every night during his four months' run |of “Glrofle-Girofla” was said to be the first act ends and the “Vanity's Vietim” The following | there last season: | 'The stage is open and clear from all | doubt receive a hearty welcome. There is one chair in the Anna Lichter will be heard in the title | middle of the stage and directly above it | role on Monddy and Friday evenings, and | been seen In this city since it was pro- Aside | Miss Crolx Wednesday and Sunday even- | obstruetions. depends a bi| electric arc light. from these, there isn't a scrap of furni- | ture or ornamentation of any kind. The |is in rehearsal and will receive a careful | Gustavus much to a scene in which both couples make an appoint- ment to consider the manuscript, and by a singular fatality they are both for the same day, hour and place. of the second act takes house of the Hunter-Chases, complications which follow the fact that there are two sets of husbands and wives to decelve one another—one in the he other below, each feelin; at every strange nolse, yet omised—are of laughter The action lace in the coach the guilty the | is t, x;r. Kellar takes his seat in the chair, makes a few passes and commands his body to dissolve into thin air, It gr: ually and slowly fades until the back of the ‘chair {s seen through his form. Fin- ally It disappears altogether, much as a cloud of mist would be dissipated the morning sun. He doesn't walk off the stage at all; he ulmplg sits still and slow- ly vanishes. Then he sits in the same c‘ln.h‘ and turfis himself into Mrs. Kel- lar, who steps to the footlights and speans to the audience. The Galifornia. Murray and Mack, in “Finnigan s Ball,” a farce comedy play, is at the California Theater to-night and throughout the weelp Many new featurds have been added to the skit since it was here be- fore. _ The cast includes Fred Wilson, Len Delmore, Bfll; Barry, Harry Hop- ing, Fred de Voe, Frank Watters, Misses Kifle Beck, Relne Gale, Fannfe and 1 Trumbull, Mona Carrington, l\B‘l.n:ch. Creago and Kittis Hawthorne. JULI RN AV PEARMC MOROSCOS . pringipal fun old. Their tremely ludicrous. “Northern Lights,” an army drama, comes to the California on the 13th Inst. The Tivoli. At the Tivoll next week four perform- ances will be devoted to the prelentatlnnl of “Girofle-Girofia” and four to “The Cir- cus Queen.” The above mentioned operas | both scored big hits at this house, and | many of the Tivoll's patrons have evinced a deaire to witness them again. “The Cir- | cus Queen” will ail be brightened by the | | no | best ever seen In_ this city, and will Miss | ings. Oscar Weil's new opera, ‘‘Suzette in the full glare of the big light, er W. H. Leahy is ex- | much of intense interest that it is als hand, thinks to do her husband a great service by interesting Hunter-Chase in S: In this she has no difficulty, e old humbug finds the actress a most charming woman and Vel? n . Man ;oeged zmk tro"rfx New York next week with a lot of the latest Eastern successes. New Gomedy. The railroad scene in the “Heart of Chicago,” which plays an engagement of one week at the Comedy Theater, bezin- ning to-morrow night, is loudly heralded. If it is anything like what is promised it is worth going to see. By means of a skillful {llusion a train vll'enllr five miles away is lm;ugglt :?s “’r‘nemu‘mf'xf‘fl g bad themgg. o scenery tells a deal of the history ot Chicago from the fl:: t: the World's Fair. A capable com- pany is promised. The Alcazar from At the Alcazar this week”l farce (’he French called “Dr. Bill will be pre- sented by the stock company. Dr. Brown retired from his profession when he took unto himself for a wife Louisa Ferman, so as to keep her and her parents in lgnorance of the gay life been largely among the society members of the fair sex. The bride’'s father pro- tests against Brown remaining in fdle- ness, and unbeknown to him has printed and distributed in the sporting part of London several thousand cards advertis- ing his son-in-law’s grofess!on. Many of these cards fall into the hands of Brown’'s old admirers, who knew him only as “Dr. BilL."” Then the tenderloin patients flock to him and the complications come fast and furious. { Morosco’s. The new attraction at Morosco's Grand Opera House this week is a superb re- vival of David Belasco's dramatization of Adolphe Belot's French novel, “The Stranglers of Paris.” 'the play has not duced to enthusiastic audiences at th Alcazar Theater by Lewis Morrison l.n3 Levick. Like all of the old AMUSEMENTS. BALDWI Gottlob, Marx & Co., Lessees and Managers. 0909090902 04090€00000004060. BEGINNING MONDA l\g TO-NIGHT 66 ¢ IBSEN’S...... 2 BLANCHE eco00® —— A Doll’'s House” BATES as Nora. Y NIGHT. MR. JACOB LITT PRESENTS GRANT STEWART'S SUCCESSFUL COMEDY, e | x Kok K MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY. | THE COMEDY g SUCCESS OF THE YEAR. ..MISTAKES.. WILL APPEN! .. A GREAT COMPANY, HEADED BY “T0 SEE IT IS TO LAUGH” Cont WALTER wses WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, BTARS FROM COMIO OPERA, TRE LEGITIMATE AND VAUDEVILLE COMBINED IN A GREAT BILL. AMUSEMENTS. San Francisco, Cal., Estab. IBSZ Leos Angeles, Cal., Estab. 189. ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. Sac) nto, Cal., Estab, 1897 m:u ity, Mo., Estab. 1897 NOVEMBER 7..co Important Engagement of the Famous Queen of Comic Opers, M'sS PAULINE HALL Renderiag Populsr Bongs sad Operatic Gems Made Famos by This Oelebrated Artist. MISS BEATRICE MORELAND, Assisted by CHAS. M. SEAY, Prosenting Mr. Geo. M. Coban’s Latest Oomedy, “A GAME OF GOLF. CHARLES DICKSON AND HENRIETTA CROSMAN, WILLIAM GILLETTE IN “SECRET SE.RVICE." Entire New Aot by the World's Greatest Illusionist, CARL HERTZ sssisten sy MLLE. D’ALTON Presenting Their Bensational Illusion, “AEROLITHE,” or the Mystery of the Alr. UM Marx & Co., Lessees and Managers. Appearance in San o THE PEERLESS MAGICIAN ELLAR Assisted by MRS. KELLAR. BIA THEATER -3 TWO WEEKS November 7. Matinee Saturday. Francisco Presenting a Serles of Startling Illusions, So Weird and Inexplieable As to Appear Almost Supernatural, Exploiting the MYSTERIES OF THE MAHATMA PRIESTS OF INDIA. Projection of the Astral Body! Growing of ibuted in the audience! Tranef s, GET RID OF YOUR WIFE The Mysteries of the Blue Room DARKENED STAGES-EVERYTHING IN FULL C¥KELLAR NEVER WORKS ON whose Bodles Gradually Fade Hindoo Marvel, in which the Laws of Gravity are he Great Simia Seance,”” exploiting all Modern Spiritualistic Deceptions! the Orange Tree from Seed to Ripened Fruit, orming Women Into Men! Disintegration of Away into Thin Alr, ‘‘The Mystery of Defled! ““The Princess Quick Divorces INSTANTLY! by Machinery! Phenomena Without Paralel LIGHT, WITHOUT SCREE NS, TRAPS OR COVERS, GOTTLOB, MARX & CO., Lessees and Managers, With the People, The Greatest Comedy Event of the Season. = AND.». Their Latest Doings, '-CALlF(;RNIA THEATER. POPULAR 53 i e TO-NIGHT! {kty, “THOSE FUNNY FOLKS,"” MURRAY MACK The Famous Original Irish C?!nedlnnu, “In INNIGAN'S wmBALL BIGGEST ON et CAST COMEDY . RECORD. EXTRAI SUNDAY NIGHT, NOV. 13, Willlam Calder's Steriing Company in Harkins and Barbours' ROMANTIC MILITARY PLAY, “THE NORTHERN LIGHTS” RAYMON MOORE. Entirs Changs of Bengs. NEWSBOYS’ QUINTET In New Repertoire. PEARL ANDREWS. New Impersonations. SELLS & YOUNG, Comody Aor JOHN C. RICE AND SALLY COHEN In & New Oomedy Sketoh, ' THE KLEPTOMANIACS,” Imtroducing Dances by Mr. Rice and Miss Bt Return Engsgoment—THE BIOGRAPH I-With Eatire Now Views. MATINEE TO-DAY (Sunday), Nov, Bth. oo st octor ey aanr 1! .SPECIAL TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8, AT 2:30 P. M., MONSTER FAREWELL POPULAR HEINRICH’S RECITAL. MRE. MAX HEINRIOH, Barytone; MRS. MAX HEINRIOH, Seprano ; MISS JULIA HEINRIOH, Contralte, Popular Belections | Popular Prices | 25¢ and 50c. Beats Now on Sale at Orpheum Bex Offiee. TO-NIGHT YOU HAD YOUR LAUGH THIS YEAR? _RLEQTION HAVE ||1o. ALCAZAR THEATER. N. C. GOODWIN'S “AMBITION.” [ONLY FREE MORROW NIGHT, DR. OLYMPIA, corei,. America’s Most Beautiful Music Hall THEATER PLAYING EAST- TRY . BTARS THE NEW YORK FAVORITES, MULVEY and INMAN, Thelr Great S Itles. DIRECT Hw}r ngv YOE-S_Q‘A“V A GREAT SENSATH Four Florences! BILL.. The Rour Vlorey From the Garden Theater, New York. BETTRNS Aungnpesd THEARAY NIGHT IRENE FRANKLIN, MATINER SUNDAY., ADMISSION FREE, AMUSEMENTS. OPERA MOROSCO’S GRAND i ALTXR Mor08c0, Sole Lessee and Manages. WEEK OF NOVEMBER 7, 1885 GRAND PRODUCTION Of the Great French Melodrama, Stranglers of Paris A Panorama of the World's Gay Metropolls. Exciting plot. Strong cast. Great scenes. Seats on Sale at the Box Office And Main Floor of the Emporium. POPULAR PRICES Telephone Green 861, Reserved Scats . . . 25 and 50¢ Family Circle and Gallery . . 10c MATINEES Saturday and Sunday TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs, Ernestino Kreling, Proprietor and Mgr. LAST PERFORMANCE—TO-NIGHT 1I8E <. GRAND. DUCHESS. Presented by the Leading Opera Organization of America. Next “GIROPLE-GIROFLA and “CIRCUS QUEEN."" Coming—""SUZETTE. Popular Prices ..... -..0z.....25¢ and S0 A Reserved Seat for the Matines, 3e. COLUMBIA THEATER. GOTTLOB, MARX &CO., Lessees and Managers, TO-NIGHT, SUNDAY, LAST TIME. - The Highly Praised Production, A SOWING THE WIND. The Great Sex Against Sex Drama. MONDAY, KELLAR, the Great Magician. INGLESIDE COURSING PARK. |7 ‘e’ HEXT SHTURDAY AND SUNDAY. sure of an enthusfastic welcome from the audiences at the Grand. Mr. Brophy, as Jagon the strs.ngler will have a powerful role calling for his best efforts. iss At- wood will be the Mathilde of the cast, and may be depended upon for a strong dramatic impersonation. The play is in seven acts and has a long cast. The gflnclpq scenes are the bridge over the ;}ne and the prison pen of a convict ship. The Orpheum. Pauline Hall will appear at the Orpheum this week in popular songs and operatic selections. Several character songs she will costume appropriately. Another card is Beatrice Moreland, who attained con- glderable fame as a’ comedienne in the Frohman company and later with Seol Smith Russell, in “A Game of Golf,” writ- ten by George M. Cohan, who is well known to Orpheum patrons as a_member of the Four Cohans. John C. Rice and Sally Cohen have a new comedy skit en- titled “The Kleptomaniacs,” and Carl Hertz, the magician, puts on an entirely new act, including his sensational {llusion, “Kerolithe,” in which Mile. & Aiton dances, pirouettes, turns somersaults, etc., in midair. Raymon Moore has a new repertoire and the Newsboys' quintet ap- pear in a new act. The Olympia. The Olympia Music Hall has Mulvey and' Inman, who were recently seen at the Orpheum, in an entirely new act. The Ghutes. At the Chutes Free Theater the pro- gramme will be new from beginning to end next week, and a lot of good things are promised. The bill will include Durno, a magiclan direct from New York, said to be very clever; Marie Kellar, an oper- atic soprano, who studled under Marchesi; Ed O'Connor, Irish comedian, and Mlle. Garnett, a slack-wire performer. Steinle and Simmen, a character singing duo, will lntl]‘fi‘dllc. an original Philippine cake- wal A Musical Lecture, The ladies of the Channing Auxiliary announce a lecture to bé given by Mrs. William Armstrong on ‘“American Com- posers” at the Columbia Theater next Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Ar‘m!(ron% will be assisted by Fritz Scheel and his symphony orchesira, and among other compositions the “Gaslic” ugmvhony by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, and the “Indian” suite by E. A. MacDowell, will be played. This will be the first time that a lecture has ever been iilus- trated with music, and as it is the first big musical event of the season the house should be crowded. Frank Mathieu's Benefit. Frank Mathieu, the popular yourig San Franciscan who recently adopted the stage as a profession, will be given a benefit at the Native Sons’ Hall next Wednesday evening, prior to his going on the road with the Frawleys. The pro- gramme will be made up of musfcal num- &grs by Miss Alice Ames, Miss Marie ilson, Frank Mitchell and George Mc- Bride, followed by the comedietta “My Uncle's_Wili,” particlpated in by Miss Mabel Reed, Albert McKinnon and Mr. Mathieu. The beneficiary will also give Meredith's ‘“Aux Italiens.” Mr. Mathieu has hundreds of friends in the city, and the house will undoubtedly be packed. ———— s B. J. Morgan, who has been playing John Storm in “The Christian,” is obliged to return to-his position in the New York Lyceum Company, 8o Viola Allen's man- agers have engaged Joseph Haworth to take his place, the change to go Into effect November 22, when the company plays at the Columbia Theater, Brooklyn. Since we are to have Ibsen with us it may be well to get wused to anti-Ibsenite criticism. The following is written by William Winter: “As to Mr. Ibsen—who is the most colos- sal bore of the century, whose plays have invariably failed, at least in this country, and some of those writings (‘‘Ghosts,” for example, and “Little Eyolf”) are so unclean in subject that the reading of them almost causes physical nausea— when people begin to talk about him as an artist, and to descant on his ‘moral intentions," there is nothing more to be sald.” : AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER. (Formerly the Popular Bush.) “SOUVENIR" Matinee To-Day—and this Evening ~—LABT TIMES— “THE CRUST OF SOCIETY” TO-MORROW (MONDAY) NIGHT, STARTING EVERY EVENING, Only Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Lcoy 4. THE HEART CARTER'S | +s:OF... e CHCAGO! Spectacular Production! Elegant Special Scenery. ANM“I wv‘:lcle:.dul Mechanical De< Mly:ct‘e-r!mll Electrical Ef- BlG A_Vivid Picture ol the Great Fire. The Marvelos SUWESSI SEE Approaching ¥Mn L Introducing & Splendid Lipe of HIGH-CLASS SPECIALTIES! PRICES Sihesiicna'sis pats. aatiory e Seats—Comedy Theater and Emporium. SUNDAY, NOV. 6, AT 1:30 P. M., ALL THIS SHOW AND MORE. THRILLING TIGHT-ROPE WALK. H 71500 Feet Long, 500 Fest High. | BALLOON ASCENSION AND PAR- ACHUTE JUMP; EDUCATED COCK- R ATOOS; BALANCING LADDER; E WRESTLING MATCH; AERIAL CLOWN; BIRD AERONAUT; CON- CERT; CORNET SOLO. A 1 L Admission 10c, no further ch % children under § years free. Tl-lm Mateo electric cars. Mission, cla and Sutter street lines .~ lquors sold in Glen Park. RACING! RACING! ' RACING! ¢ oMl - CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB ‘Winter Meeting 1808-99, nning SATURDAY, October 29, to November 12, inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK, Raeing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurse day, Friday and Saturday. Rain or Shine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. L 1 N A G : Valen- er. No at the entrance tickets to Shell hfl\r.htho &nrxh:‘l 4 immediately after race, WILLIAMS JR., President. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. SUTRO BATHS. NDAY, NOVEMBER 6, AT 2:30 P. M. PUPPY AND OPEN STAKES. "SWIMMING RACES ALL THE CRACK GREYHOUNDS IN AMERICA WILL BE IN THE RUNNING, Take o Misslon-street car and it will' land you at the gates. ADMISSION—25 cents. LADIES FREE, FOR VALUABLE PRIZES, AND MUSIC BY THE GAULOISE BAND. ADMISSION, 10c................CHILDREN, ja Open daily from 7 8. m. to 6 p. m. ROSENTHAL. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, EVENING DEC, 3 & ARTERNOON DEC. &