The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1898. 29 thing to be Will Happen,” which ) farce that no young s father to as a is need bl HowevV be architecture, in motive it eatrical desome want clean far , too, We lever ones n just the same s piece is not cleve with the new the devi is within which is for all so long policy, most un- atist an a lim exploitation, provid to held to a alw rob- for his ccount for the mbitious nature 4 yrward in the = profit that ce has been r the hack write of They have taken o be in closer result is Conquer- edge” and hock and can wailow in strenuous Ibsen o imitation of & strenu. y, or a brilliantly fantas- satire by George Bernard ned and derided. Limit riter, I say, and give the urgent atist a chance to utter himself. A farce ought not to deal in the vital passions and probl and make them part of the cheap smirking stock in trade of theatrical commerce. The most indecent play I ever saw on as a piece called “Don’t Tell d,” which was produce - Frawleys and lately given New York under another title. It written by Augustus Thomas, the the American play writers, d as a farce, ang of al it was the most s is not the only brutal. Mr. American who We a two years' si hxrk just recov- ge of native the qual- now 1ook- now because ion of farce are American farce is less typified in “The Man From Me “What Happened to Jones, matter how long delay coming of the Ameri a the American farce is an imm fact. The American is by n e and habit humorous; he is sharp, and inventive in his fun. Look Ir cc weeklies, which beat the i for'smart; wholesome fun! And is no reason why the theater d lag m ears behind » history of lit- he long run the own. It ts , but =o is the S fpm hooks Hhs Books try for nowadays, just as plays do, vith plays the effort usually Large immediate populari- you t from actors. 11s th < and the newspapers are the dead- Y liest enemies of literary art. The book that is most like your favorite morn- g paper sells best—that is, quickest. It has to se!l out in a rush. People care almost as little about last | year books as they do about last year's papers. The same with plays. A few of the better plays and a few of the better books live on a bit to linger- ing deaths in cheaper editions. (Of se I am not considering the abso- masterpie(‘e ) The ne e r by ('](‘riu‘ [OJOXOROJOXO] 4 in favor | is | s BY ASHTON STEVENS. that has made possible the modern theater, just as it has made the actor the most notorious figure that stands on two legs. Howeyer, to go back to farces, the one at the Baldwin which ted me off on this ramble is a ng effort in the right moral direc- tion prise. Among the characters are an actor and an actress whose marriage , for professional reasons, a secret. He has written a play and each, un known to the other, is working to have | body produce it. After a most in and unfarce-like first act.in which nothing happens, you are shown | the interior of a coach house with a flight of stairs at either side leading to the loft. The aector lionaire’s wife, who in private is given | to calcium dreams, and he reads from the play with an idea to coaching her; in the heroine’s part. A man with his | maiden play will stop at nothing, not ied amateur. To the same ar business come | som It lacks plot, character and sur- | | Dutch servant girl even at this time has in tow a mil- | [OJOXOXOROROROXCROROFOROROXORORORORORCAOROJOROROROROROROROXCIC] MISTAKES THAT HAPPEN - AT THE BALDWIN [cicJolololofojolofoloJofofofoJoJofofofofoJoXolo) | married Iives and who | prohibition which some still avail them- on a sim the actress and the millior She doesn’t exactly want to make an actor out of him; she will be satisfied ta see } him an angel. One couple is down stairs, the other is in the loft; and dis- covering that they are not alone the | good old game of hide and seek com- | menc As the actress and the -old | | gentleman run down one flight of stairs | d at marital in- | actor and amateur run up the | By miraculous coincidence they ‘With two flights of stairs | the other. do not meet. and a quartet bent on blindness this coincidence may be kept running ad lib. -In “‘Mistakes Will Happen’ ‘it seems to' be limited only by the endurance of the company, which seems to be in the pink of sprint- condition. An incidental attraction of this act is a real coupe and a stream of real water which is played into the vehicle and over its occupants. ' The next act is rather clever in a purely ing verbal way for an act of “explanation, but the cleverness is too long in the coming. Charles Dickson, as the actor, I} HENR:ETTA cRosM AT SEHAEEs BALDMWIN - - AN BALDWIN THEATER. GOTTLOB, MARX & CO., Lessees and Mgrs. NO PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT. BEGINNING MONDAY. LAST WEEK. Th= Langhing Success of the Year, ob Litt Presents um Stewart's Suc- cessful Mistakes WILL Happen. T COMPANY, aded by Mr. Ja A GR H ARLES DICKSON and HENRIETTA CROSHAN. ERV { | | | i | ;Ises an interesting production of “Suu of - agile stage persons | bXousht to the house of a great | all the women do | in favor of the author is that he does | [oJoJoJoJoJOJOJOXOJO] is as light and easy as ever and doubt- less would distinguish himself if the stuff were in the part, and Miss Henri- etta Crossman plays the amateur with fleet humor and a certain worldliness of manner that is very charming. In fact well, Miss Carrie Behr getting new fun out of the old of day. Something besides cleanliness not expand on the subject of secretly married player folk. He leaves the idea practically untouched to a cleverer | man, and I hope that somebody of that description will take it up soon. If anybody ever needed to scorch in the sunshine of comedy and smart under the sting of satire it is the manager who will not let his players live quiet will give Mr. Zangwill the chance to say this: “Once | actors were not permitted to marry—a‘ selves of.” These managerial enemies to art and posterity ought to be ex- posed. \SHTON STEVENS. —— Tl\e Tivoli. For to-morrow night the Tivoli prom- zette,” a comic opera that was sung with | success by the Bostonians. The music is written by Oscar Weil, a musician of na- tional ‘repute, who has been especially identified, with the musical progress of San Francisco. The book is Irom the French and the, story skeletonized is as follows: Suzette has been drugged lord an made to assume his dress and title. She is a simple country girl, unused to fine manners, but during _the action of the piece she completely turns the tables on the Marquis, who has made her the vic- tim of this practical joke, The Tivoli com- pany, which has never been stronger than at present, will contribute this cast: Suzette (alternating) Anna Lichter Annle Myers Wm. Pruette .Elvia Crox win Stevene The Marquis of Tollebranch The Marchioness. Captain Vieubec. Jouarde. William H. West .Ashley Barkelew Fred Kavanagh The Baldwin. “Mistakes Will Happen” continues all week at the Baldwin. On the following Monday night William Gillette will in- troduce cisco. This piece, which deals with the Rebellion, {s reputed to be the greatest war play ever written. It has been a 000000008 0SB0 ‘“‘Secret Service’” to San Fran- | trans-Atlantic success, the London critics pronouncing it to be the melodrama Of the century. ‘‘Secret Service” started- the boom for American plays in England. The Golumbia. The Columbia offers the same bill for the new week—Kellar, the magician. Kellar gives a good entertainment, excel- ling in cabinet and cage illusions. His erformance is versatile, finished, and al- {) ogether enjoyable. Morosco’s A melodrama new to us, and called “A | Midnight Trust,” will be the bill for the week at Morosco’'s. The story handles the usual quantity of crime and virtue, and among the special sensations is a “crush room’—like that described in one of Sherlock Holmes' stories—where walls | contract - on_ tne unfortunate victim. | Brophy will be the hero and Lorena At- wood the heroine; Marie Winston has been engaged for the soubrette part, and several extra vaudeville speclalists will contribute to the performance. The Alcazar The Alcazar offers a strong bill in “A Fool of Fortune,” the play written for William Crane by Martha Morton and played here by him with considerable success at_the Baldwin a season or two “A Fool of Fortune” is a strong | ago. i | character comedy with a tragic ending, {and will put the stock company at the Alcazar on its metal. The part of Elisha Cunningham is the most ambitious ever attempted by Mr Crane. The - Galifornia. At the California to-night will be given the first performance in this city of Northern Lights,” a melodramaof many sensations and much scenery. The story is of army and Indian life in the West, and the cast is contributed by William Calder’s company. New Gomedy. The Comedy, too, offers melodrama in the shape of “Under the Dome,” whose rincipal sensation is in a scene of the urricane which swept the harbor of Apia in 1889. It is a naval play, full of war- ships and courage, and quite in keeping with the melodramatic feelings of the hour. The Henderson company returns the week following to play again in “The Crust of Soclety.” The Orpheu’r\ The Orpheum fis still the most popular Dlflcetln \ow}l; and has for this week six hew turns—Harry Lacey, supported b Miss Ida Van Siclen, h’] a é’n‘ined) sklyl entitled “Bob Rackett's Pajamas’; Miss Flo Irwin in a sketch entitied “The Gay Miss Con Herbert's troupe of trained canines; Frank and Don in a burlesque on prize fighting; the Flood Brothers, BEATRICE MORELAND AT THE ORPHEUM- m////// MAUD MiLLER" AT MOROSCOS LAVRA CREWS AT THE ALCAZAR (‘fl% . v <%l g¢ o TT—————————— MADELINE HUNT AMUSEMENTS‘ COLUMBIA THEATER. GOTTLOB, MARX & CO., Lessees and Mgrs. TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY). Monday begins Second and ‘Last Week. The Peerless Magician, KELLAR Assisted by MRS. KELLAR. In a Serles of MYSTIFYING ORIENTAL IL- LUSIONS. NEW FEATURES: AN ODD TITLF FOR THE MOST ASTOUNDING F VER PRO- § DUCED BY A M er X A man seated on a chalr at footlights, se- bound and his hands heid by ¢ commit- stantly disappears at Kellar's command, THE MYSTERY OF L’HASSA. A Mahatma Marvel in Which Kellar Defles the Laws of Gravitiation. GET RID OF YOUR WIFE. The Comedy Number of a Marvelous Pro- m 21—"AT GAY U)\FY ISLAND."” CALIFORNIA THEATHR. GOTTLOB, MARX & CO., Lessees and Mgrs. PRICES:| Coumencivg. To-viGam I, | (Sunday), November 13, 5%, |wMm. CALDER 35 And Company AND 500 In a Magnificent Scenic Produc- e 'tion’ of Harkins and Barbour's ROMANTIC MILITARY PLAY, DRTHERN - LIGATS 50 PEOPLE ON THE STAGE, TWO WEEKS. TiV()L' OPERA- HOUSI: Kreling, Proprietor and Mgr. LAST TIME, alc Operas, GIROFLE-GIROFLA., —TO-MOF The New ROW T NING—- edy Opera, “SUZETT SICAL TREAT P, Popular \ A Reserved SUTRO BATHS SUNDAY, NOV. 13, AT 2: P M SWIMMING RACES FOR VAL AND MUSIC BY ABLE PR “HE GAULOL BAND. ADMISSION 10: - - CHILDREN 33 Open Dally from 7 A. M. to 8 P. M. Bathing from 7 A. M. to 5 P. M. | | | STRANGLERS OF PARIS. | POPULAR PRIGES Nov. OPERA MOROSCO’S GRAND W aLTER Morosco, Sole Lessee and Manager. and To-Night—Last Performances of To-Day ‘OMMENCING MONDAY, NOVEMBER Production on_This Coast of and Ellis' Great Eastern Succes 14, First valdron A Miduight Trust AN IMMENSE CAST—A POWERFUL PLAY. i¢lephone Green 861, Reserved Scats . 28 and ~0c Family Circle and Gallery . . 10¢ MATINEES Saturday and Sunday pScats on sale at box office and main floor Smportum. MATINEE SATURDAY. Mason, OLYMPIA, Cor. Eddy. America’s Most Beautiful Music Hall. PACKED TO THE DOORS NIGHTLY. ONLY FiBEE THEATER FPLAYING EAST- ERN BTAR! THE NEW YORK FAVORITES, MULVEY and INMAN, In Thelr Great Specialties. LAST WEEK OF THE CELEBRATED The Four Florences! Return of the Favorites, KELLY AND VIOLETTE, Very Latest Coon Songs, AlD A WONDERFUL SHOW Of Ten Great Acts. MATINEE SUNDAY. ADMISSION FREE. ORPHEUM—EXTRA. FIRST CONCERT. SAN Fnlnwusuo SYMPHONY SBOCIETY. Director. 17, FRITZ SCHEEL, Musical THURSDAY AFTERNOON, Nov. PROGRAMME .CL Symphony No. 4, ~p. 36, Tnhalkomk 3 ture and sulte in A minor, RICES Toc, $1 and X Seats on eale at the OQrpheum on and after | to-morrow (Monday) No-ember 14 at 3:15. ROSENTHAL. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, EVENING DEC. 29 & AFTERNOON DEC. 31 Weekly Cal, $1.50 per Year AMUSEME. San WALTER 10 ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH. T BRIGHT NEW STARS AND NOVELTIES — oS, Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1894 Sacramento, Cal., Estab. 1897 Kansas éity, Mo., Estab. 1897 10 ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY MR. In the OF THE GREAT COMEDY STAR. HARRY LACY he Charming Comedy Conceit Written by Himself, Entitled ‘BOB RACKETT'S PAJAMAS."” Assisted by MISS IDA VAN SICLEN AND Company. Debut in San Francisco of Vaudeville's latest acquisition, MISS FLO IRWI And WALTER HAWLEY Presenting the Up-to-Date Comedy “THE GAY MISS CON."" JAMES CULLEN America’s Favorite Descriptive Vocalst. BROTHERS FLOOD Monarchs of the Acrobatie World. __ FRANK AND Eccentric Comedians and Comedy Boxers. DO Greatest Animal Novelty on Earth. HERBERT'S TROUPE OF DOGS 22 in Number—In the Most Thrilling Trioks Ever Dons by Dogs on the Vaudeville Stage. PAULINE HALL The Famous Operatic Star in a New Repertoire. BEATRICE MORELAND And cHas. In Their Great Laughing Hit, “A Gama [-THE BIOGRAPH- With new Serles of Views. SEAY ot Golt." MATINEE TO-DAY (Sunday), Nov. 3th. Paraue t, any seat, 25c; Balcony 10¢; Children 10c, any part. SUNDAY, NOV. 13, 189, at 1:30 p, m., Grand Concert BY THE 'ARK BAND. T R Jump by Professor Hagal, (yeather permitting). GLEN PARK PARADISE FOR_ CHILDREN, Plenty of Swings, See-saws, Fly- ing Dutchmen; Merry-go-Rounc Donkey Hldlnx. Morro Castle, mll of Animal and Deer Paddocks; Seal Lak Tarks Aviasrs Squirrei House; New Pavilion. Admission 10c. Children under § years free. Take Ban Mateo Eleo- tric road. Valencia, Mission and Sutter street cars transfer. No liquors sold in Glea Park. a INGLESIDE COURSING PARK. TO-DAY _LSUNDAY OPEN STAKE! November 19 and 20—MERCED CONSOLA- ;XgN STAKE and OPEN STAKE. Entrance, 24—OPEN STAKE. Entrance, Novembej and 21—-NON-WINNERS' STAKE lnd SAPLING STAKE. Take a Mission-street car and it will land you at the gates. ADMISSION 25c. LADIES FREE. No'vember AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR THEATER. TO-! MDRROW NIGHT o 1 FODL OF H Crane’s Comedy.... FORTUNE.. Presented by THE ALCAZAR STOCK. Unique Stage Settings—Special Scenery. Seats by Phone Main 254. PRICES 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50c. COMEDY THEATER. Souvenir MATINEE TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT THE HEART OF CHICAGO. TO-MORROW (MONDAY) NIGHT. Lincoln J. Carter's Masterpiece of Stage Realism UNDER the DOME! ENTIRE NEW COMPANY. EVERY EVENING—MAT. SAT. AND SUN. NEXT MONDAY THE HENDERSON CO. PRICES—Matinees, 2c to all parts; 15c gal- lery. Evenings, 15c, 25¢, 3¢ and b Seats—Comedy Theater and Emporium. | RACING from Monday, Nov. 14, to| ) Saturday, Nov, 26, nclaslve. 0 Five or More Ruaging Races Daiy, m-r; or Beautiful_Grounds. Superior Ac%nmmudallona g FIRET RACE R. R. Traife, 12:6 and 1:15 .~ Ledye Third topping at Valenci immediately atte treet e oi):) Kearny-street and Mission-street cars every three minutes, dlrect to track without change. ~Fillmore- street cars transfer each vuy. ADMISSION TC THE TRACK, $1.00. §. N. ANDROUS, President. F. H. GREEN, Secretary. QOOMINNNO § : horizontal bar performers; James Cullen, descriptive singer, comedian and mono- ogist. The Chutes. The animals are doing ‘well the at Chutes, and in the Free Theater a blg new variety show fs offered, * mcluding acrobats, magicians, dances and sing- ers. The Olympia Mulvey and Inman, black face speclal- ists, are a feature at the Olympia. Music. Willlam Armstrong’s plea for *‘Ameri- can composers,” given i{n the Columbia Thu afternoon, has already taken local effect. Mr. Scheel has graciously promised Mr. Armstrong that musfcal America_shall be represented on every programme during the coming symphony season. —_——— THE GRIPPLE GREEK Production of Cyrano Bergerac AN INTERVIEW, ““At the Palace, out in Cripple, playing repertoire— “Tne Hidden Hand, “The Fire Patrol,” ‘M’liss,’ and many more Of that same kind of dramas that I can't enumerate— My wife gnd I and Jimmy being Star Trium- we've been virate. ‘We did right well? Oh, yes, sir—we made a tidy stack, But lost it all producing this ‘Cyrano Ber- gerac.’ ““Forget the ‘de?” Not much, sir. fellows there Are brejudiced against a name that has an upish air. They know exactly what they want—demand the newest plays— So when the New York papers came they caught the latest craze And came sround to warn us that they'd rip us up the back You see the Unless we promptly gave ‘em this ‘Cyrano Bergerac.’ ““We sent for it—at last it came. ‘Great Scott,’ says Jim, ‘it's Greek, Or Latin or some foreign tongue that none of us can speak!’ That stumped us'—'till we ran across the chef of Wolfe's Hotel, A greasy little Dago—but he knew the lingo well And w0 he took the drama to his evil-smelling \ ANNA LicHTER And mmed his talents loose upon ‘Cyrano Ber- gerac.’ “He worked like mad, that Dago did, through he night and day all n' and expurgin' and improvin' on The play. AT yHE TivoLl AT THE ComM EDY.. He introduced some clever gags and dances for Roxane And ralied the adsptation to & Rish aitistie plane. And let me tell you, wasn't any lack Of good dramatic action in ‘Cyrano Bergerac." when ‘twas done there ““The costumes and the settings were elabo- rately planned— That is, we did the best we could with what we had on hand— And—well, to make the story short, the even- ing came at last, And brought with it an audlence I've never seen surpassed. From Pemberton and Victor, from Gillette and Rusty Tack The hoys came down In ¢rowds to see ‘Cyrano Bergerac.’ @ “The curtain rose amid applause—the or- chestra forgot To finish up the overture—excitement was so ot. The play began—you've seen it, sir? It's beau- tiful—you're right— But_you have never seen It as we put it onm that night. Of course, I played the title-role, and when I entered—back— 1 swore we had & winner in ‘Cyrano Bergerac.’ “But Bioody Bill, of Pemberton, up from his seat aros And Taid'a bet with Canyon Kid he'd amputate my nose From where he stood. He drew his gun—a shot—the bullet bore My property proboscis clear across to Bene nett’s store. ‘He made a hit? That's true, sir—but after that, alac The boys ahowed little interest in ‘Cyrano Ber- gerac.” *“That's all there is to tell, sir—it went from bad to worse, Whenever I came on the stage some hobo with a curse, Would rise up in the galle Bloody BIll, And mutilate ‘my makeup with his — re- volver skill, We closer' the house, and walked the ties—I'm py to be back— Aml ever will play agatn ‘Cyrano Bergera —RANDOLPH HARTLEY, in the Mirror. B — AMUSEMENTS. CHUTES AND 200! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. “CONGO,” the Gorilla Man. *JOE STORMS JR.,” Orang-Outang, and “SALLY,” only Chimpanzee *m —~aerica. Al; captured 808 wmiles up the Gaboon River, on the west cOast of ATMes. AND NEW XMOVING PICTURES! NEW RILL IN THE FREE THEATER. the same as Every THURSDAY, AMATEUR NIGHT, 10c, including Zoo and Theater; Children, Bo; Sundays and Holldays, 10c. BASEBALL! RECREATION PARK, WATSONVILLE vs. OAKLAND. Billy Lange of Ch!clm wlll play with Watson- TO-DAY. AT LB P A