The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 1898. 29 . ¥ ¥ " TN S READ my Tuesday morning n apers to di that th ¢ critics were not agreed as to goods and ds of the Tivoll's uction of ano de B e- rac According to the E 1 i audience; it had no 1d did not ation; accord- + very good idea d was a spe- whose ly apprec by ng to the C peramental i three more, equally out with the evening pa uld understand the feelin Yorker who bought twelve the day after Mansfield’'s no” performance. After dozen assorted opinions he lisgust and wrote an in- r to the Herald, all about y of criticism; then he went the night and paid $7 to a per for two Mansfield seats. dging by the numerous audi- ) peopled the Tivoli, have ince the opening, I should the New y that reat many San Franciscans had llowed the New Yorker's ex mple. . oo L Dramatic criticism is, as any critic vou, a noble and uplifting pro- the theaters without which losed and civilization retard yet been reduced to the oldest old almost to outlive « ill stands r an the in- ions of individual ably different in cation and taste. riticism never has ex will exist in the judg- man or any one only definite, final , the general throng ppreciators who in bunches make t 1 popularity and who, link- ntly into the years, make ed posterity. The profes. at best a taster whose to try to keep ahead of one th blic appetite. It is a difficult keep ah of the public in and so you usually find the ] wing the crowd at a friendly | H 1ggestion; ay. H independent power metimes he can best office is that ecords disaster and but he does n nothing could have led up wder verd rano” tha t on the Tivoli's “Cy- this variety of comment by The pe« are interested and in the fate of the pro- luctton, and they go to the Tivoli to 1g. = rano” is a most un- y. It is picturesque heroic, but it is very get it Eng- n idiom. Of a lot in the it is boind to do that un- il some English-writing Rostand takes but just the same the Glac s and M F. Guillemard edi- tion is reasonably poetic throughout, 1 ens and the Tivoli com- reat deal of that po- z the play with clean , besides address and pl of action. And it is notable fact that the poet the SUre metaphor and cl. ic allusion, € 1l phrase,” are as enthu- ppreciated by the Tivoli e the lively incident and 1l bosh to say that the « sits yawning ring the g :ches, wondering when the g and dance will commence. The i crowd is an elusive quality: dur- ng the holiday pieces it is one thing, | ng the comic opera season another, | Three more | performance 1 | make | to | own thinking and their own | Disagreement of the Qrities Over the &ivoli “Qyrapo” By Ashton Stevens. PR R RN RN AR RN NRANRRURRRRNRRRRIRNIRNRS j another. Tt fits itself to the attraction. When “Tannhauser” or *“Lohengrin” or “The Dutchman” is the bill, the au- dience is eared accordingly. When the silly season is on with “Ship Ahoy” or something of like character, the au- dience is of appropriate irresponsibility. And so with ‘“Cyrano”; everybody | knows more or less about the play, and | it draws its own crowd. The wonder- | ful thing to me is that the comvany— the same one that was tripping and | tra-laing through comic opera the week before—should be able to give this intelligent, legitimate performance of a | plece so easily burlesqued. I went to the Tivoli last Monday night with a caricaturist and a special collection of derogatory adjectives. Caricaturists are by nature relentless, and this one drew his comic pictures and saw to it that they were dul printed; while I came away to praise and apologize for all the low-down jokes 1 had thrown at the enterprise in advance. Nearly everybody went that night with, po- etically speaking, a dead cat concealed | about his person. But before the first act had half finished we were all inter- ested, even excited, in the beauty and valor of the play; and before the night was over we were calling the curtain up on Edwin Stevens six and seven times in succession. Mr. Stevens may not have been the idc-! Cyrano—in fact, he is not that even now, with his per- formance considerably improvei—but he gave the part a vigorous identity; and his reading was informed and im- aginative, showing an intimacy with every phase of the play. Often his tem- perament, which is not a boiling one, would deny Cyrano that Vesuvian qual- ity which one can’t help but feel in the lines; but on the whole his perform- ance was consistent, sensitive and ar- tistic. When you take into account the sort of work he has been doing ever since parting from Augustin Daly, this feat of his is a prodigious triumph. How- ever, it ks no odds for the actor’s past. Mr. Stevens’ Cyrano will stand on its own merit as a kéen, distinguish- ed impersonation. I have no more in- clination now to dilate on the rest of | than I had on Monday night. the, cast | In one scene at least Miss Crox plays Roxane with the right feeling. The other players are so manw and so un- obtrusively good and bad in their re- spective roles and yet so fairly effective in the ensemble, that I would rather spare the catalogue and praise the stage manager for a production that is really a credit to the town. . ASHTON STEVENS, | —— The Galifornia. The first ‘scene in “A Boy Wanted,” € Blaney's extravaganza which opens at the California to-night, repre- sents the offices of the Evening Keg, a The offices are invad- country newspaper. {ed by a company of barnstormers. The | crushed tragedian, whose performance | had been roasted in the Keg, comes to | lick the critic. While searching for him mes entangled in the printing , is drawn through it and comes out the latest edition printed on his | clothes. The second act shows the ex- | terior of the Starvation Hotel, where a number of mechanical effects are intro- d. “The Boy” is challenged by the a rival hotel and is trained for the fistic encounter by the soubrette. The | fight takes place in full view of the audi- ence, and real blows are exchanged. The last ‘act is inside the hotel with dances and jokes galore. Twenty al ty performers are in the cast and a lively show is promised. The Golumbia. jayest Manbattah” is not much of a but there are several valuable fun- in the cast. New specialties will introduced in the third act this week. A revival of Evans & Hoey's old-time be A Parlor Match,” follows. The been touched up with new v music, The compan in- J. W. Kingsley, Mark Suilivan, James T. Galloway, M. J. Sullivan, Walter Ware, Hugh Mack, Wililam McKeough, Tom 'Browne, Peter Randall, Harriet Sheldon, Vila Sayne, Adele ide Manning, Hattie Vera, Georgie Manning, Floye Redledge and Edith Hoyt. The Tivoli. The excellent production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” at the Tivoli continues all of this week. The performance commences Archer, | Sellery and Bartlett, a trio of singers, dancers and comedigns, appear in “Di- vorces While You Wait,” sald to be a clever comedy skit. The holdovers in- clude Harry Atkinson, Emma Carus, Joe ;‘lyn”n. Lillle Western and the Wilson amily. The Olympia The Olympia has several new attrac- tions, including Miss Emily Scheidle, aeriai artiste, from Australia, and Forman and Howlett, banjoists, from New York. The Chutes. The Business at the Chutes Free Theater has been so large of late that the man- agement has decided to immediately build a gallery that will seat nearly two thou- sand. This will give the Chutes Theater a larger seating capacity than any other place of amusement in the city. Next week Maud Gage, a whistler, di- rect from Hopkins' Theater in Chicago, will make her first ‘appearance .here, as will also Omne, a female magiclan, sald to be very clever. The Bendix Recital. Otto Bendix, the well-known pianist, will give a recital in the Sherman & Clay Hall next ‘Friday evening, December 9. He | will play for the first time in this city EEREENRRRNERES rations are being made for the produc- tion of the Christmas !gectacle. ““The Yellow Dwarf,” which will be put on with a wealth of color, light, music, mirth and dance. Several clever ballet dancers are being imported for the Christmas piece, and the resourceful management prom- ises a record production. New Gomedy. “Ole Olsen” comes to the Comedy to- morrow night. This is announced as the farewell tour of the Swedish farce come- dy. The old favorites are in the com- pany, including Miss St. George Hussey, the Irish woman. The songs, specialties and dances are said to be snatched from the latest metropolitan successes. The‘}\lca;ar. The new week at the Alcazar will be de- voted to a revival of Gillette’s famous | adaptation, “The Private Secretary,” and a curtain-raiser written by Miss Louis Veiller of this city and called “Keeping Up Appearances.” This curtain-raiser was played successfully at the Baldwin several seasons ago by one of the big New York companies. It deals with an - ,h!_l ’ i i | CAMILLA URSO AT THE \ ORPHEUM. . isode in the lives of a young couple who had separated after a little over two years of married life, but to keep up appearances during a brief visit to the wife’'s father had arranged to spend their third anniversary together. This they do, | carrying out their parts quite dramati- | cally, and after his leave-taking resolve that the one roof was quite large enough in the future for them both. In the pro- duction of “The Private BSecretary” | George Osbourne will assume the roll of | Cattermole, which he originally created, | and Howard Scott will play his original | part of the curate. “ Morosco's. | To-morrow evening “Blacklisted,” a melodrama_with labor troubles for its | motive, will be performed at Morosco’s. | The plot bears a slight resemblance to | that of ““The Lost Paradise.” There are | several very striking scenes; ' notably | the interior of the mill with the entire machinery in full motion, the destruc- { tion of the mill by fire and the clash be- tween the military and the strikers. | The play hinges upon a wrongful ac- cusation of murder, whereby Frank Lyn- voung foreman of the mill, is inged. st will include the full Morosco stock company. James M. Brophy will play the persecuted young foreman, and Lorena Atwood will have the role of Mary Vernon, the daughter of the lead- E = the “Sonate Tragica’” of E. A. Mac- er of the strikers. Marfe Winson, the |, ozart's “Fantasie’ ¥ mino lively soubrette, has had her engagement B,Ogflz'hymlzn?ftt'; Ii";glln;ue ’:m% %‘c’hfi.‘ extended and will appear as ‘‘Buttons,” | mann’s ‘“Etudes Symphoniques” will also a waif. The play contains a very strong | be given. child character,” for which little Venie g Wells of “First Born” fame has been specially engaged. Several popular vau- deville turns will be interpola ted. M The Orpheum. The Orpheum has a number of new cards for this week. At the head of the THE OUTER WORLD. CGomment and -News of Distant Plays and Players. [list 1s Camille Urso, the celebrated vio- ' {liniste, who necds o introduction here, | S e e o pe | where e as always e V' H ' T Paul Batty's trained animals are regarded | Ushed, Henry Arthur Jones writes: I | by the management as the best ever seen | KNow of no critic who can be safely in the Orpheum. Arensen, a European trusted to arrive at a wrong effect with CAHERON &HorACE T, THE COLVMBIA ing effort as Mr. Willlam Archer. Any one who has followed the career of Mr. Archer’s especial f)rotegel must have noticed that they all come to certain fail- ure and misfortune, as surely as Sandra- 50‘! patients all died of the fever. And a ramatist who wishes for a modest amount of success with his public may . well be alarmed lest in some unlucky moment Mr. Archer may lay hands on him and discover his plays to be master- pleces. And if this be thought to be im- possible in my own case, I can only again refer to the astonishing list of plays which e has discovered to be masterpleces. I leclare that not one of us is safe from him. And any playwright who is placed in_this precarijous position may well con- sider how he may discourage Mr. Archer and ‘so escape the disaster of his praise. But, indeed, I have no such selfisn motive, and my only thought is to take Mr. Archer out of the mean little byways where he has froped so long and to set him with his face forward on the main highway of the drama’s advancement.” Another preface worth reading is that to “The Ambassadors,” the play by John Oliver Hobbs that was brought out in London last June and is now published for the first time. These are some of Mrs. Craigie’s theories of dramatic art: “Stage dialogue may have or may not | have many qualities, but it must be emo- | tional, It rests primarily on feeling. Wit, philosophy, moral truths, poetic language WRupy —all these count as nothing unless there is feeling of an obvious, ordinary kind. Great passions and the ‘“‘enormous” are, on the other hand, beyond spectacular representation. Love is probably the sole great passion which an audience of aver- age men and women can endure for more than one act and to a tragic issue. Large exhibitions of ambition, jealousy, avarice, revenge, pride, fear and the like please but few minds. The more emotions con- veyed or hinted at the better, no doubt, vet not one of them, with the solitary ex- ception already named, should be raised lundulg; to the depression of the others. | The theater is a place of relaxation. | _‘“When the majority of pleasure-seekers | find a piece tedious it is a failure beyond question as a play. When the majority find a plece agreeable to their taste it must have fulfilled, at all events, one vital condition of its existence as a piece. It is at least an entertainment. The vul- gar, much abused popular melodrama has this unfailing characteristic—it will hold. in the face of every esthetic objection, your cheerful attention. In a comedy life must be presented in a deliberately arti- ficial way—that is to say, presented under strictly artificial conditions. No one, for instance, in looking at a portrait, is asked to mistake it for a wax model or a real personage. In admiring a 12-inch land- scape we do not blame the artist, because we are unable to scamper in reality over his fields or pluck the lilacs in his garden. ‘We go to him neither for a deception nor an imitation—but for an idea, an illustra- tion or a statement.” 0 Some more of Mr. Zangwill's epigrams: A woman may be moved to sublime tears at a symphony concert and pay her music mistress 25 cents per hour tor mu- sic lessons. The gallery god who kicks his wife is ugually the most rapturous applauder of the ethics of the melodrama. Certain players have passed .beyond criticism, but certain plays are dead and printed. You can buy them for 25 cents a dozen, and they are mostly bad. Since ' Shakespeare's time only two plays have been written that are at once literary and living—"The School for Scandal” and *“She Stoops to Conquer.” Both were written by Irishmen. The work of Bulwer Lytton and Sheri- dan Knowles looks literary—as an over- dressed female looks fashionable to a servant girl. The critic no more remembers every play he sees than a Congressman.re- members every baby he kisses. The fight between Yvette Guilbert and Francisque Sarcey, the eminent French critic, still continues. The following is from the last letter written by M. Sarcey to.the saucy Yvette: ‘‘Belleve me, mad- emoiselle, instead of wasting your time writing letters, useless at best, you would do better to meditate upon the advice of a critic who may be right, even though he paid for his seat. That critic strongly supported and praised you when you first appeared, because you then gave new life to the light, popular song by a little grain of originality, because you had your own manner-and a talent. It is not he who has changed.” . In Sol Smith Russell’s new play, “The Honorable John Grigsby,” the star plays a lawyer, who, although not endowed with wealth, never turns a client away and spends most of his time defending the poor and penniless. The principal action moves around a young school teacher, who has incurred the displeas- ure of a rich politician and newspaper editor because she had undertaken the education of some negro children. The girl’s mother had been deserted in early life by her husband, the father of the girl. ~Through accident Grigsby discov- ers the politiclan fis. really the girl's father and compels him to do her jus- tice. She in turn marries Grigsby's son and happiness is well distributed. It is not yet certain that the play will be a success, though announcement is made that “Uncle Dick” has been permanently retired. Israel Zangwill is dramatizing his fa- mous stories, “The Children of the Ghetto.” A There are queer happenings in New York State occasionally. A manager in Utica found he had booked two attrac- tions for the same date. He was forced to give both entertainments, the second beginning at Il o’clock p. m. ‘Willlam H. Crane is appearing at the Knickerbocker in a comedy written for him by Eugene W resbrey, and entitled “Worth a Millios According to the New York criticisms the title does not indicate the value of the play. Gabrielle ’Annunzio has finished a new play entitled “The Dream of an Autumn Night.” By all accounts it contains noth- ing that could be fairly called indecent. Its chief peculiarity is that all the impor- tant characters are female; that none of them is respectable is, of course, not pe- culiar. One woman—a countess—murders her husband for the sake of a young man who is infatuated with a Venetian cour- tesan, and the other—the courtesan—gets the young man to take her to the Coun- tess’ palace. The Countess sets fire to the ondola of the courtesan, who is cremated. use is to play the Countess. ‘When Mme. Scalchl comes to this coun- try this time she will travel alone for the first time, she just having been divorced from her husband, Count Lolli, who was her manager as well. He also sold the wines manufactured on her estates in Italy, and he was an altogether devoted husband. Actresses with odd names seem to be a fad with Daniel Frohman just now. In the cast of “Trelawny at the Wells,” with which he is to begin the thirteenth annual season of the Lyceum Stock Company, are Hilda Spong, Ethel Hornick and Helma Nelson. They have important parts. From all indications New York is about to enter upon the richest operatic season it has ever known. The subscription sale of boxes and seats for the Grau Company closed last Saturday, and it was stated that the total amount received is $350,000, very close to $200,000 more than was taken in 1895-96. Nearly all the boxes have been taken for the entire season. There will be performances on fifty-one nights, and sev- enteen afternoons, covering a period of seventeen weeks, . Assuming that Richard Mansfield is a human being, moved by impulses usually found in control, he must have felt some satisfaction the other day in declining to ive a ‘“professional matinee,” says the St. Louls Republic. An unusually long petition was addressed to him, signed by nearly every actor of importance then'in the metropolls, asking for the favor of an extra performance of “Cyrano.” It would be interesting to know just what proportion of the signers of the petition ave been Mr. Mansfleld’s maligners for many a year. Certainly there {s no man in the profession of the theater who has been as freely and as persistently assail- ed by his own fellows as Mr. ansfield. Many of his petitioners are, no doubt, honest admirers of the Mansfield genius, but many others on the list have gloried in the Mansfleld misfortunes and envied the Mansfield good luck. It was a good deal to ask him to put aside néeded rest, o?en the theater and bring out a troupe of players to entertain the profession that has never been his friend and sup%&;rtel‘, and it is not surprising that Mr. Mans- field replied with a note of thanks that politely said no. CELLINI'S FAMOUS ESERAPE] Few more exciting stories have ever been written than the autobiograhy of Benvenuto Cellini, artist, worker in precious metals, sol- dier and hero. He lived in. troublous times, and his skilx and bravery made him many enemies. Eventually he incurred the enmity of i the Pope, and was promptly seized and | shut up in the giant castle of San An- gelo. His escape from the fortress is one of the most remarkable achievements | @ man ever lived to tell. ‘When he was first imprisoned he was so well treated he never even dreamed | of attempting escape. He was allowed the run of the castle on his own parole, | and given his goldsmith’s-tools. | But the governor, unfortunately, went mad, and one of his delusions was that Cellini had wings and could fly likeabat. Hetherefore ordered him intu close confinement. At the same time a rumor reached the prisoner that the Pope intended to sentence him to im- prisonment for life. Immediately Cellini resolved to es- cape. He was on excellent terms with his guards, who admired his skill and pluck, so any small luxuries he easily got hold of, among them four pairs cf new heavy sheets. He had also stowed away in his bed a large and sharp knife and a pair of pincers. His cell was high in a tower, his win- dow looking into a courtyard seventy feet below. But this window was too high and too small to get out of. Out- side his door there was, however, one easier to climb ihrough. To the door he turned his attention. | It was thick and heavily plated inside with iron plates secured by nails. After | making two ropes of his eight sheets Cellini set himself to draw the nails from the door. It was the work of many nights. Each nail, as he drew it, he replaced with one formed of wax and carefully colored with rust to resemble iron. At last they were all out. It was a bright moonlight night when, with his sharp knife the prisoner cut through the wood of his door and slipped the outside bolits. inen he climbed through the window on to a steeply slanting roof and gazed into the abyss below. He discovered there was nothing to tie a rope to but a projecting tile, and of this he much doubted the strength. Still his courage did not fail. He made one line, the longest, as fast as he could and then slipped over the rope and swung dangling into the air. His rope swayed so badly that he was in great danger of falling, but every- thing held, and slowly he let himself down foot by foot until at last he stood in the ecourtyard below. He looked about, and a bitter disappointment dawned upon him. He was almost as badly off as ever. The walls surrounding the inclosure, which had from above looked so small, were fourteen feet at least in height and no way of scaling them appeared. Feverishly Cellini began hunting for some means of exit. The danger of be- |ing seen by the guards was great, but this he had to risk. Minute after min- ute he crept about the gloomy inclos- ure until suddenly he tripped and al- most fell over something loose beneath the wall. It was a long pole which had no doubt been used for scaffolding. He raised it cautiously, and by its aid soon reached the top of the wall. To his horror this was edged with sharp spikes and on the far side fell at least forty feet into the dry ditch below. But he still had his second rope, and this he fixed firmly to the chevaux de frise and swung cut on his second per- ilous descent. Unluckily his left hand fell across the spikes and was horribly torn by their rusty edges. It was tor- ment unspeakable to use it as he climbed. Yet with clenched teeth he began his new task. ‘Again the swinging against rough masonry and the sickening sensation of giddiness. His hand, too, was becoming numbed and useless. At last, quite suddenly, it gave way, and the next thing the poor goldsmith | knew was a sickening thud as he landed | on the hard earth below. Half stunned, he lay still a moment and then tried to rise, A start of agony. His left leg was broken below the knee. Yet even this last misfortune could not quench his spirit. Cutting off a Continued on Page Thirty-two. 1 ¢ g the grand opera son yet | promptly at 7:50" o’clock. Great prepa-!equilibrist, is another novelty. Baker, | so much precision and honest, painstak- AMUSEMENTS. e AMU;SEMENTS.’ s AMUGEMENTS. San Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1894 Sacramento, Cal,, Estab. 1897 e D THEATHR. Kansas City, Mo., Estab. 1897 TO-NI Last Performances of the Unsurpassed Success, < KOSTER & BIAL'S Farcical ‘I‘x”a\“ganzi‘A)i:i:I . AYEST e Etie | Change of iALL and . . Absolute SPCClaltleS! NEW THE_NC ROMAN OF THEM ALL!" Y] ssisted by M CHANSON POPULAIR I'AKE YOUR CLOTH ILMOYLE and ODDS AND ENDS, % «ss AND. .-. The Brand New Topical Song, THE LATEST— “IF 1 WERE UNCLE SAM?’ GHT AND ALL WEEK | “|A Cast of 25 FirstCla's Artists, SUN.. Dec. 4. Beg. TO-NIGHT, Si%: %5 MATCHLESS IN MERIT AND MAGNITUDE. CHAS. E. BLANEY'S ANB0y Wanted JUST P:(lR FUN. | | THE FUNNIEST COMEDY EVER WRITTEN. 12 HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE ACTS. 1 12 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. T, ORIGINAL, R NED, VEL AND ELABORATE. '3 SETS of SCENERY. MORE MUSIC THAN A COMIC OPERA. POPULAR PRICES. December 11 = = = = DAN SULLY ine. by 4lh ToBAIARIRANE COMPLETE SCERERY> EN.TOURAGE A PARLOR MATCH." ccember 12 CHUTES AND 700! VERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A Big, Bright Bill_uithe Free Theater ! THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, Monster Benefit Tendered to C. W, YVOSMER, The Daring Young Aeronaut, Who Was Injured October 9. He Will Ascend With His NEW BALLOON, HANGING BY HIS TEETH! NGO, the Gorilla Man: JOE STORMS JR., g-Outang, and SALLY. Chimpanzee. JERY THURSDAY, AMATEUR NIGHT. including Zoo and Theater; Children, bc; ys and Holidays, 10c. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs. Erpestine Kreling, Proprietor and Mgr. THIS EVENING AT 8 PRECISELY. Edmond Rostand’s Romantic Play, CYRANO DE ; BERGERAC! SUPERB CAST. Splendid Scenery. Appropriate Accessories. A Perfect Production in Every Detail. MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY. « Next.... Popular Prices A ed Seat for the Matin Our Telephone, Bush 9. WALTER ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, DECEMBER 5. .New Stars _of Unparalleled Brilliancy and Thrilling Novelties...... Extraordinary Vaudeville Engagement of the Concert Star MME. CAMILLA URSO THE WORLD-FAMOUS VIOLINISTE. «...THE GREATEST OF EUROPEAN NOVELTIES., --PAUL BATTY'S AGROBATIC BEARS-- The Sensational Animal Act of the Nineteenth Century. BAKER, SELLERY & BARTLETT In “DIVORCES WHILE YOU WAIT" —Introducing Operatio Selections and Comedy Bits. . ARNESE +~JOE FLYNN.'.i..E'MMA CARUS.. Unique Monologulst. Greatest Female Baritone. Bty HARRY ATKINSON Must Imitator. LILLIE WESTERN | ™= WILSON FAMILY Premiere Instrumentalist. New Batch of Coon Comedy. MATINEE T0-DAY (Sunday), Dec, 5th. Paravet,any seak 25c; aicony toc; PRESS CLUB ENTERTAINMENT. 'COLUMBIA THEATER ROSENTHAL. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 8, 1868. EVENING DEC. 2 & AFTERNOON DEC, 31, EIGHT SHOWS IN ONE! The Greatest of European Equilibrists. PARK..ccove Speclajties from Every Playhouse in the City. NAT: ARS. SECURE SEATS EARLY. BOX OFFICE ERCTS AT o # NOW OPEN. BACRAMENTO va. WATSONVILLE, i X AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER. Formerly the Popular Bush. TO-NIGHT: DECEMBER ith Appearance of thy HENDERSON COMPANY HENDERSON COMPANY In Dumas’ Masterplece, THE CRUST OF SOCIETY- THE CRUST OF SOCIETY- THE CRUST OF SOCIETY: To-Morrow Night and All the Week. MATINEES—SATURDAY and SUNDAY The Greatest of All Swedish Comedy Successes, OLE OLSEN WITH NEW FEATURES. UP-TO-DATE SPECIALTIES. AND A GREAT COMEDY CAST, ~——Including— —————MISS ST. GEORGE HASSEY——— Evening Prices 5e, e, e, He Matinee Price: 15¢ and 25 SEATS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE AND EM- PORIUM. SUNDAY ———Next Monday- “SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR.” EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAMME! SUNDAY..........DECEMBER 4, At 1:30 p. m. THE ‘World Famous ROY RIO FIRE KINGS! MONSTER PROGRAMME IN FREE VAUDE- VILLE AMPHITHEATER. BALLOON "ASCENSION AND PARACHUTE REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCH in New Cafe. ‘Admission, 10c (no further charge); children ke Gen Miies Electrie Cars. Valencta, Mission and Sutter strect lines transfer. AMUSFMENTS. ALCAZAR THEATER. Last Time of T“O'N IGHT! “THE POLITICIAY,” TO-MORROW NIGHT AND DURING ENTIRE WEEK, SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL, The Private Secretary. And Louise Veillers' One-Act - ity ct Comedietta En. KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. PRICES, 1bc, 2c, e, 5c. OLYMPIA, .. 54 9 Cor. Mason. America’s Most Beautiful “fusic Hall, ONLY FREE THEATER PLAYING EAST- ERN "STARS. Direct From New York, FORMAN AND HOWLETT, ‘World’s Greatest Banjolsts. MISS EMILY SCHEINDLE, Great Australian Aeriel Star. THE GREAT FREADA, Wonderful Turkish Dancer. OMNE, Only Japanese Juggler in the World. AND TEN GREAT STAR ACTS. ADMISSION FREE. <MATINEE SUNDAY. RACING! RACING! RACING! CALIFOKRNIA JOCKEY CLUB Winter Meeti; 1898-99, beginning MONDAY, Nov. 28, to SATURDAY, Deec. 10, inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, We ) Thurs. day, Friday and Saturday. Raln or shine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. Ferry na. :lz'nlm' 2, :Aln ns ~ sto) Track. Buy Ut ters Retu: and 3 p. m. at the entrance to the ferry tickets to Shell Mound. and 4:45 p. m. ..&".A:Z:..'&?, i e E THOS. 1, WILLIAMS R, Prostdont. R. B MILROY, Secretary. 5 connecting ce OPERA MOR0800’SGRA HOUSE ‘WavLTER Monrosco, Sole Lessee and Manager. TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. Last Performances of THE COMMODORE! WEEK OF DECEMBER § First Time In This City of * BLACKLISTED.” POPULAR PRICES, 10c, %c, 50c. INGLESIDE COURSING PARK. TO-DAY. TO-DAY. Puppy Stake —AND— Open Stake. $700 ADDED. Take a Mission-street car and it will lsnd you at the gates. ADMISSION, 25c. LADIES FREE, SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.S HALL, 228 SUTTER ST. FRIDAY EVENING « PIANO % Given By «wOTTO BENDIX.. st Time in San Francisca of E. A. MAC WELL'S Sonate Tragica. RESERVED SEATS, Tse. On Sale, Beginning Thursday Morning, Dee. 8, at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s. SUTRO BATHS. SUNDAY, DECEMRRR 4, at 2:30 p. m. SWIMMING RACES FOR VALUABLE PRIZES, ANDAEIIJIE‘IC BY THE GAULOISE BAND. | DEC. $§ DO CBATHING