The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1899, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1899 29 @ O+O4I04E40404OIO4IIOH O 0+ OPOP O+ L0046+ 04 ”\m\WM®¢€*O‘Q‘g@i*mg:wm@f@¢@0\o¢@¢@9@0-9M¢NM¢©+®0@¢06. “Just dropped in on mother.” This home than Hosea talks of a di- & Sasce o 2 S e i 0®¢®¢®0®§©OM¢M®G®¢®MX is the climacteric finish of act 1. How | vorce, and a young millionaire P« 2, Hosea walks to New York, hunts day | from New York hangs over the +4 : ©¢ | and night for his sister, sends money | back of her chair and asks matrimoni- ¢ . g‘ home to mother, wins the lawsuit that | ally if he may sit next her at diuner. $3 . v {%|eives him title to about the half | The realism stops short at Hosea's real -+ 1] " ®§‘ all Peaceful Valley, returns home to|shave scene, done with real soap and 23 5 34| find his long-lost sister (who, after all, | water, and his overalls, which are un- pP EU‘ ;2 had been legitimately wedded to the |impeachably the right riveted thing. +3 @i, villain) and the beautiful metropomani “Peaceful Valley” is a good natured 23 5@ | heiress who had always admired him | serio-comic of the stage stagy, and o @ B + for his courage and independent‘clmhes | the Alcazar company gives it for what ++ y @shton Stevens. 2‘1 and dialect—how, I say, all this hap- |it is; and so some large entertainment PO +O4O £ ©o | pens I shall not attempt to detail |is afforded both those who admire the X gf'f;f "' 50 Mffiwg«&@m@f@wo@ww« ‘<§>§¢®¢@§@t@¢@¢e¢.@¢“@4“@¢M.fi‘ Doubtless vou know as much about it | play and those who do not. ® +oroses PHOPOHOPOPOIOPOIOPOHIHIPOPOIH OO OHDH PHOPODIOHO+I+O+O40+ O+0+0@ | g I do. “Peaceful Valley” is a play ASHTON, STEVENS, EEINC ceful Valley” at the|ican Drama is a strong possibility, if sea on both cheeks that sim | of obvious sequences—the long arm of 2 : efu s as s , it s ple-minded | °f °P . The Golumbia. Alcaz reminds me that the|indeed it b already achieved | 3 A 3 | coincidence (I wonder why they don’t 2 b Dlay ot Torde et | e not already an achieves c'ou‘ntr:\ bc(;_w dumps him off the hotel | call it a leg) is pulled to the limit, and | The TLouis James-Kathryn Kidder- g e e Sl G | veranda down the cabbagé ETOWN| . erything happens and unhappens | Frederick Warde combination will begin t In' @ day Gwhen thoss | mountain side. “Where is he?" then| y,q a5 easy as in a fairy tale. Even | a limited season at the Columbia Theater - AL m'd“;\; N th i OS¢ | ‘“Peaceful Valley,” which suggested |asks some one, and Hosoa answers:|poor lost sgister 18 no sooner | to-morrow evening. Each of the three Ve come ans, Na x00dwin, H. Crane and Sol Smith Rus- around his own ecialty a dis- dy-drams We had ( of youthful comedy Crane play K and commer- Y ell play of e rural character. to their person- k a rs were their slaves, t pubiic nad accepted i icters, and. so it hey wou stick to those char he of their prof happily the pubii old game w and he 2 Nathan Hale.” a ally tragic A Fool of racter of operator he now 1f. which oma Frar 1cco their now recog- 1ce by Nat G of the greatest of Ameri- and and nsfield the » thousan canc He to see man, he of another e have not have quit ntricities; of record t ina play he scored his first season in New York. It used f him that he made a fc ry year, And the the actor. 1 the reputa- 1 through “Al- turns 1 as one a beautify definite In Mizzoura' is as fine nd local manners is of action. Clyde e” is said to rank cut for Richard au Brummell.” These have mentioned, the of to emancipate the na- 1 it is only natural American pla i tailor-made pieces r tame and silly in hodern drematic compo- t written in flagrant f the humors and bland- the actor-purchaser. Wag- that taught ridiculous method of In fact he made a new r Until recently the actor, with countably few has made his name and foreign plays—in plays to ich he had to fit his acting, not the way round. It is a pleasant thing think of the American author or working hand in hand, so to speak, with the actor in his proper of appreciator and interpreter; drama that is rigidly modeled onal whims and graces of has very small association ature. And from all tokens i appear that to-day the Amer- ope less merics tions in =i | this rather solemn train of thought, is { typical of the play that retarded civili- 1 the American stage. This is that it does not have its mo- ments of value. Quite the contrary. I found a great deal in it the other night that v :nuinely entertaining, and as not Sol Sm Hast was playing the principal | 't of Hosea Howe, I could for once that part at something like its ) Mr. ‘Russell, like Mr. ilways managed to make a| ven the whole play, look to be much better than it really it was where the mischief The people loved and popu- e actors in a certain cut and k, while good plays else went unwritten for lack rement. Take out of the popular, personal spell of the r and you throw a terrible search- I do not \is in dispraise of Mr. Hastings' yrmance of Hosea Howe, which is 1 better than he or you or I had ison to believe it would be: but is like a coat tailored for a man ith a hump; put a straight-backed ow in it and he fills in too well in and not enough in another. what little I have seen of Mr. st acting I should say that it is emphatically of the humpless variety. He is actor of versatile authority, and impersonations are generally areful and consistent, and yet fairly r aneous in.their effect. It is only ubbing in the obvious to say that he annot play Hosea as well as the yer who inspired the play, and only justice to what must be a herculean his < | | | | | | | | effort to say that he acuits himself | better than would most stock com- | pany leading men in a similar trial | Hosea, as you perhaps remember, is a |good young man who lives on a “perpendicular farm” in the | White Mountains with his widowed | mother. He has managed to acquire | education and religion and to preserve a rural dialect as thick as Den- man Thompson’'s or James A. Hearne's. | His sister has been betrayed by the vil- | Jain from the city; and when the villain | turns up at the hotel in Peaceful Valley La couple of years later and slaps Ho- KATHRYN <IDDER CoLuMBIA - C FREDERICK WARDE_, CorumMBjA.. stars is widely and favorably known in San Francisco by reason of his or her former appearance here at the head of an individual company, while the former | association of Messrs, Warde and Jame'fl is a pleasant memory to many who have witnessed their many productions. An exceptional repertoire, ranging from the brightest of Richard Brinsley Sheri- dan’s comedies to the most intense of the Shakespearean tragedies, has been select- ed. - The repertoire for the first week is as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday | and Friday evenings and Saturday mati- nee, “The School for Scandal’; \qu]ne& day and Sunday evenings, “‘Othello/ and Saturday evening, acbeth.”” Each play | is promised an elaborate scenic equip- ment and a cast of exceptional strength. “The Sign of the Cro follows this engagement. The Galifornia. The general excellence of the cast of “Why Smith Left Home” has not been lost sight of by the public, and the friends of Maclyn Arbuckle, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Dorothy Usner and Rose Stuart have rallied at the California during the past week to the enthusiastic support of | their favorites. Smith affords good fun and plenty of it, and for a rarity in farce it is clean fun. The several character- izations, such as Mrs. Yeamans' Irish cook, Ered W. Peters Frenchman and C. Jay Williams' German Count, add ma- and Evans, who have recently taken to vaudeville in preference to the legitimate stage. They are said to have a very funny skit.” Milton and Dollie Nobles, who have scored such a hit, will be seen another week in “Why Walker Re- | formed.” Other hold-overs are: . Della_Rocco, in new repertoire; Derenda and Breen, club jugglers; W Qzeola, balancing acrobat, and Clorindy, with new songs and specialties. The Ghutes. A varied bill will be presented at the Chutes Free Theater next week. Pianka for the first time In the history of lion- taming will work with her beasts in ab- solute darkness. She will enter the cage attired in evening dress, the lights will be extinguished, and when the house is il- luminated again she will appear in cir- cus costume. “The Passion Play” as given at Oberammergau will be shown by the animatoscope. The same production ran afternoons for several months at the Baldwin Theater last year. Querita Vin- cent, a_dancer from New York, and the three De Bolien brothérs, acrobats, will be new. The amateur amazon march will be given for the last time Thursday night. The Olympia. The Olympia has several new turns for this week. The chief attraction is Con- trali and Van Gofe, sensational acrobats, terially to the laughtersprovoking possi- | who are said to have a great reputation bilities of the play. This will be the last | in the East. olete Dale, the acrobatic week of “Why Smith Left Home.” Black | buck and wing dancer, is another card. Patti's Troubadours come to the Califor- e nia on the 13th inst. T. M. A Benefit. The Tivoli. The local lodge of the Theatrical Me- “Suzette,” Oscar Weil's merry comedy | Shanical Association, composed of the opera, one of the early successes of this | ™ I‘"‘E‘"dn‘“" t’ce;‘e‘va‘.‘”! h°‘é" "(‘i@“' season at the Tivoli, will be revived this | 2RnUal benefit at the Aleazar, Sunday o e cast will include Annie My. | Afternoon, February 19. The programme os & o - | will include attractions rom every theater ers as the tomboyish Suzette, Willlam | in the city and the “First Born” will be Pruette as the Marquis of Tollebranche, | produced with a juvenile cast under the Bernice Holmes (for the first time) as | direction of George Osbourne. the Marchioness, Arthur Boyce as the | innkeeper’s son. Edwin Stevens as Cap- | tain Vieubec and William H. West as his colored servant. On Thursday evening a | benefit will be tendered to the free ward | and clinic of the California Eye and Ear | at the Orpheum. On this occasion’the fol- Hospital. | lowing programme will be rendered: Preparations are being made for the | overture, ““Tannhauser” e Symphony Goncert. The seventh concert of the season takes place on Thursday afternoon, February 9, first presentation in this city of Stange | 2. Symphon: oan of Arc' Kowsk: and Bdwards' fantastic operetta, “Made- | 3. Vorapiel, “Lohengrin’ Woagner leine, or .the Magic Kiss,” an opera | 4. Scherzo, ‘‘Midsummer founded on the famous Normandy story | 5 iz of the Baron de Grimm. | 5. Abendlied . Schumann — s ‘RThF 5;!1!"11 .- ......Raff The Alcazar. bapsca 4 bk The Alcazar has done a big business Garrzno’'s Goncerts. with “Peaceful Valley,” and will continue that production this week. An early at-| Teresa Carreno will give three recitals traction will be a spicy farce from the| at the Metropolitan Temple on Monday French, called A Bad Lot. and Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoon of the coming week. The musi- cal community is greatly interested in her advent and her brief season promises to New Gomedy. After being closed for six nights for | preparations of M. B. Leavitt’s spectacu- | be a brilliant one. lar extravaganza, “Spider and Fly,” the | Concerning a recent Eastern appearance Comedy will reopen to-night. The organi- | a critic remarks: *‘Carreno has the power zation is headed by Lilly Post, who is| of a Busoni as well as the sentiment of a Paderewski. In fact she molds both into one, and brings out the nice shading e fects just as they are required. Her runs are clear, staccato, crisp and true, and the pianissimo cadenzas abound, literally drip out in perfect form. Combined with the masterly power of conception and executive strength is a wonderful tech- nique that reminds one forcibly at times of the fingering of Rosenthal.” Her programme for to-morrow evening will be as follows: Pantasie Chromatique and Fugue (Bulow's edition) B Bach Sonata—C sharp, minor, op. 27, No. 2 4 ivsonsseliaaassssisssdsse 3 . Beethoven Adagio, Allegretto, Allegro Molto. Two Preludes—B flat, G flat; Nocturne—G major, op. 37; Etude—G flat; Polonals A flat. op. 53 -Chopin Tmprompty, op. 1 _Schubert Soiree de Vienne bert-Liszt La Campanella, Ef aganini-Lisst Sonetto Del Petrarc: Hongroise, No. 6. Lisat THE OUTER WORLD. Gomment and News of Distant Plays and Players. The theater is in need of a Disraeli to write of its curiosities. The bankruptcy proceedings of Thomas Q. Seabrooke, whose liabilities are $39.075 and his assets a scarfpin, would certainly be recorded in it. R Maurice Barrymore may be ome of our next season’s stars. Mr. Barrymore is to roduce in London a play founded upon Vetherlandic history during the time of Alva. It is to be called ‘The Double Cipher.” The business which Richard. Mansfield and ‘“Cyrano de Bergerac” are doing in the West is calculated to take one's breath away. The gross receipts for the last week Yn Chicago were $17,500. One week in Cincinnati realized $16,000. ‘William A. Brady bought the entire out- fit of ‘“The Sorrows of S " “for 3T and will send it on the road with Lewis Morrison in the leading role. The astute Mr. Brady has in mind the fact that the stage version of Marie Corelli's story though a failure in London, was succes: ful in the provinces The big Olympia Music Hall of New York is to reopen its doors in April. A big spectacular extravaganza called “The Man in the Moon’ is being arranged for it by Louis Harrison, Stanislaus Stange, Sydney Rosenfeld, Glen McDonough, Gus- tave Kerker and Ludwig Englaender. George W. Lederer will be the manager. De Kontski, the composer of the once well known piano composition, *“The Awakening of the Lion,” who is now 80 years old, is on a concert tour in Russia, where he is said to have made a pro- nounced success, in spite of his age. ‘““The Awakening of the Lion” was composed over fifty years ago. well known to local play-goers. The pru duction has been rewritten and elaborated and now everything is sald to be brand new ahd up to date. There are fifty peo- ple in the production. A ballet and chorus of sixteen beautiful girls are features. The Orpheum. The Orpheum’s new bill includes Pro- fessor Maeat's dog and monkey show, which was seen here about two years ago and attracted no little attention at the time. Schrode brothers, acrobatic panto- mimists, are said to be the new rivals ot Caron and Herbert. The Schrodes come from the Winter Garden, Berlin, where they have a great reputation. The new comedy sketch team of the bill is Stine AMUSEMENTS. @iiforma“ & FINAL PERFORMANCES BROADHURST’S STUPENDOUS 8UCCESS, “THE FUNNIEST THING YET. LAUGH- TER FROM START TO FINISH.”— —Bulletia. Coming—Black Patti’s Troubadours. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs. Ernestine Kreling, Proprietor and Mgr. THIS EVENING—LAST TIME, Oftenbach’s Celebrated Comlc Opers, LA PERICHOLE" TO-MORROW EVENING And All the Week—By Request, ,,,MSUZETT [ Oscar Weil's Comedy Opera, THURSDAY EVENING—Benefit “FREE WARD AND CLINIC" of the CALI- FORNIA EYE AND EAR HOBPITAL." —— A GREAT BILL. LOOK OUT FOR. MADELEINE, or THE MAGICKISS POPULAR PRICES...............2¢ and 50o N. B.—A reserved seat for the matinee...25e Our Telephone, Bush 9 AMUSEMENTS. C e EXTRAORDINARY EVENT! Beg. MONDAY NIGHT. Managers Wagenhals & Kemper Present the Great Triple Star Combination, Louis James Kathryn Kidder Frederick Warde nings and Saturday Matinee, “THE S8CHOOL FOR SCANDAL.” Wed. & Sun. E\‘!ll. Sat. Evening. OTHELLO/MACBETH Each Play a Production of Scenic Splendor. ALCAZAR THEATER. SUER'® RUSSELL’S Quaint Comedy Drama PEACEFUL VALLEY! To-Morrow THE (Monday) LAST Starts WEEK Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Bve- | February 18 . . . » “GOLD MINE.” AN USEMENTS. GRAND INTERNATIONAL 6-DAY CYCLE RACE For the Championship of the World! CHAMPIONS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE ENTERED. MECHANICS’ PAVILION, February 13-19. 20 STARTERS!—AMONG THE CONTESTANTS ARE:——20 STARTERS ! CHAMPION MILLER recSnC888E Uuices. KRAFTS of San Francisco. IERCE of Canada STEVENS of Buffalo, WALLER of Germany. GIMM of Pittsburg, the 24-hour champlon. ASHINGER and ALBERT of New York. TURVILLE of Phiiadelphia. HALE, NAWN and PILKINGTON of Ireland. BARNABY of Boston. CHAP! of Atlanta. HAMMAN Ci . FREDERICK of France. L e Short-distance races, in which all the crack amateur and professional riders of the country will take part, on February 1lith, 12th and 13th, and during the six-day race. Sanctioned by the C. A.'C. C. ———THE WORLD FAMOUS- JIMIMY MICHAEL, Better known as the ‘‘Welsh Rarebit’’; Eddle Bald; Harry Flkes, holder of the hour record (34 miles and 1220 vards), and “‘Baby" Gibson, the Cincinnati phenomenon, will ride February 1ith, 12th and 13th and each afternoon and evening during the six-day race, paced by human and petroleum tandems. ¢ HENRI FOURNIER of France and His Petroleum Multicycles. Under the auspices of the AMERICAN CYCLE RACIN OCIATION,” the peer of all cycle racing promoters. The Tace wilb take place on the banked track ever con- structed. ADMISSION ADMISSION DAWSON, JULIUS and ARONSON of Sweden. .50 CENTS | Reserved seats and boxes on sale Thursda; 50 CENTS | at 10 a. m., Emporium, main floor. . L..OLYMPIA .0 LX) Fddy St.. Cor. Maso. Most Beautiful Music Hzll In America. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), Feb. 5. Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Chil- dren, 10c, any part of the house. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, Feb, 6th. NEW AND IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS PROF. M AC ART And His Porforming | D0B@S snd MONKEYS | Funniest Animal Act in the World. STINE & EVANS, in Merry Comedy Melange. SCHRODE BROS., Acrobatic Pantomimists. MILTON AND DOLLIE OB ES In “WHY WALKER REFORMED." MLLE. DE ROCCA, Celebrated Violiniste. DERENDA AND BREEN, Club Jugglers. WILLIE: OZEOLA, Balancing Acrobat. Last Week of the Great Rag-Time Opera CLORINDY CLORINDY Matinee Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Notable Engagement of the Hastern Stars \GONTRALI & VAN GOFRE New York's Sensational Acrobats. The Great Novelty Card VIOLET DALE The Chick Acrobatic Buck and Wing Dancer. ——AND—— 12 BIG SPECIALTIES | MATIN! 12 AND NOVELTIES TO-DAY. ADMISSION FR! Weak Men and Women sHOL'LD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE great Mexican remedy; gives health and strength to sexual organs. Depot, 323 Market. AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER (Formerly the Popular Bush.) TWO GRAND GALA WEEKS, COMMENCING TO-NIGHT, Feb. 5, MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE NEW PRODUCTION OF M. B. LEAVITT'S Gorgeous Spectacular Extravaganza, SPIDER AND ~FPLY.. SO---PEOPLE---50 15 NOVEL VAUDEVILLE FEATURES. THE MAGNIFICENT SCENERY. THI: GORGEOUS COSTUMES. THE SUPERB BALLETS. THE GOLD AND SILVER MARCH. Comedy, Opera, Burlesque, Spectacle, Brilliantly Blended. Matchless Chorus of Sixteen Begutiful Girls. FIRST TIME HERE—THE NEW HITS. Yankee Doodle Boys; The Widow Brown; Threw ‘em Down, Dewey: The Domesties of the Palace: Sousa Vivindere Band: The Mer- maids’ Revels; The Chefs of the Occidental, POPULAR PRICES. Seats at Box Office and Emporium. CHUTES AND ZO0OO! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GREAT BILL in the FREE THEATER ..PIANKA.. Changes Her Costume in HerDen of Lions in ABSOLUTE DARKNESS! THE BEAUTIFUL PASSION PLAY As Given at Oberammergau, Reproduced by the Animatoscope, and A HOST OF NOVELTIES! The Living OSSIFIED MAN Greater Than Chiquita! Greater Than Cannon! 10c, including Zoo and Theater; Children, Gc; Sundays and Holidays, 10c. AMUSEMENTS. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE. Owing to the snow blockade in Colorado, MME. CARRENO wiil not arrive until Tuesday. THE FIRST RECITAL will be given WEDNESDAY EVENING, Feb. 8, 8:15 P. M. Tickets sold for Monday evening oan be exchanged for Wednesday st the Ban Fr Musio Co., 225 Sutter THE 3 GRAND RECITALS! WORLD’S VWednesday Evening . . . . Feb. 8 GREATEST Friday Evening. ......Feb. 10 PIANISTE. Saturday Matinee .. . . .Feb. 1i ARRENO At the end of the dashing MacDowell Con- PMGES: ;I,oo, 3|,50, s?,flfl, certo, which was played throughout with a most fasclnating musical rhythm, the audience, which had been spellbound up to the last SHATS ON SALH moment, burst all bounds, and would not be AT THEH SAN FRAN- CISCO MUSIC CO. 286 SUTTHR ST. appeased until the artist had played not one CHICKERING PIANO USED. but two encore numbers with exquisite dell- cacy. Chicago Times-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1899, F' c. J' C' INGLESIDE TRACK. “The most magnificent track in America.”’— Spirit of the Times. FIVE OR MORE .. THE .. STEEPLECHASE At CENTRALESI;’ARK. 8UCC! EVERYBODY RI . [ON 10, INCLUDING HORSES. THE WEEKLY CALL, $1 per Year. RACES DAILY! February 6 to February 18. Wednesday—THE TARPEY SBTAKES. Handieap. For three-year-olds and upward. One mile and a_furlong. 5 Trains leave Third-street station at 12:45 and D. m. ROUND-TRIP TICKETS, 2 CENTS. Blectric cars on Mission and Kearny streets every three minutes. ADMISSION—ONE DOLLAR. 8. N. ANDROUS, President. F. H. GREEN, R Secretary. S —— BRUSHES ;" B was: Urewers, bookbinders, cundy-makers, canners, dyers, flourmills, foundries, laundries, paper- Pangers, _ printers, _painters, ahoe faciories, stablemen, tar-roofers, tanners. tailors, ete, BUCHANAN BROS,, Brush Manufacturers, 609 Sacramento St FOR BARBERS, BAK- ers, bootblacks, bath- Enlarged to 16 Pages