The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1899, Page 29

» THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1899 POROPOAOPPOOEO A A A A AR A IO KA O OGO OO OO OORCOOCOCOCGO00CH W K ¥ w1 (10 2000 C OO BOC HONRBO0 66 6O COOHHOABEE SO BOOOME SO EROOE COOOONOUIAA R A COOOOONOEON QOO | CP00000PPOPOPOPOOOOPS ing. Even our dear here while the grand opera is on, will figure but smally i the columns of the press. Grand opera is in the air and the music critic wants his innings. When other subjects exhaust them- selves he always has himself to fall back on. Herr Bosworth of the Exam- ner_will apologize for hurling Italian- rd the hateful word Dago, and Sig- or Lucchesi of the Wasp will forgive him, and they will kiss and make up ind rival neighborly in the fling of the adulatory adjectives at the delights of [talian masterpieces old and new. Mr. Robertson of the Chronicle will bring forth incontestible souvenirs of the arliest Patti season and discover a | enascence of belle canto”; Mr. Davies, the singer’s and actor’s friend f the News Letter, will write impor- | tantly about Covent Garden, from Carl R to Sir Augustus Harris; and un- Musical Doctor H. J. Stewart is of an opinion that Puccini’s * >hem a finer than Pucecini ‘Manon Lescaut” nd ycurs most | obediently will probably revive their 10W fraternal wrangle of last season in the -olumns of the Post and the Call. Now is the time to subscribe. { A g | Seriously, though, the newspapers g 't settle down to work too soon on 4 his opera proposition. An opera sea- %X | <on has to be boomed just as well as 3 | a biey ment. 1t is the duty of SEueooanaoox oy | m an eariier is the Ellis ope: have so pe the a season afte: there will be n 2 will be repre- on the the 6th, 13th W is hac er per became singe the 3 of 1 and andoned of frivolity ar v the cry of the th that w 1 there will be noth- th ng and the will case of Wa T~ 20 about their ryday fashion? you don’t know st of the press. He erson in jour- i Sy alis ( his turns him = ss ubject is not stoj has been bot- Franci s namite can’t m will give to prove to eally alive and )W on you will standing in s Musical Dic- ad his “Travi to a perfect carnival of m. On papers where and an- dramatic lordly, will ce of his where one AMUSEMENTS. TO-NIGHT AND ALL WEEK. BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS. BLACK PATTI - - ERNEST HOBAN And. 30 Other Individual Hits. FAST—FURIOUS—FUN. Fridsy Eveniog—Complimentary Beefit to Treas- wrer L A. Morgausters. ‘armer than the armest, sad it'sa INNER. )il Feb. 27 - - NANCE O’NEIL. COLUMRIA o .LAST TIME—TO-NIGHT. ARDE Combi atio: UAL,” Beg, MONDAY NIGHT, WILSON BARRETT’S Greal Keligions and Historicz] Drama, i’1HL ¢ Presented by £T'S LunDON COMPANY, s DALTON, ater, London. WILLIAM GR Melba sea- a THEATER. | convince to man, woman and child in the vicinity that this season is too important to be every newspaper missed. As I said when Melba visited us last year—with not even the shadow | of the present Ellis company—the the- atrical credit of the town depends on the pecuniary success of the engage- ment. Melba's short season in the Cali- fornia Theater was fabulously success- ful. Our old records had been long forgot; we needed some new ones and we made them. And it wasn't so long fter that Charles Frohman fo AV i‘ 3 AMUSE. San F; | WEEX CCMMENCING M | PACIFIC COAST VAUDEVILL J. K. Presenting Choice Selectlons, Solos ORPHEUM DEBUT OF THET WORLD-FAMOU: MURRAY:CLARALANE VPO OOOPOOOQCOOOCOSS WHEN THE GRAND OPERA OPENS Forecast of the Coming Season. By @shton Stevens. old friends the |us and gave San Francisco a place on Bostonians, who aré fated to arrive } the map once more. Let us advertise ourselves to the world as prodigal pa- high-priced shows and the Grau is season here with the greatest opera company in the Everything is off if the Ellis And I Under | the direction of William Parry, late of | the Metropolitan, we are promised a | staging of the old French and Itallan such as we Melba we | trons of managers will do the rest. seriously considering a world. engagement is not fortunate. | think it will be a huge success. | operas and of “Boheme” never have seen before. 1o # i i Tt b Al ) : S B i\"’ [I { 'J’fllmu HANNAH DAVIS... TIiIvOoL.l., know to be the only successor to Patti, and besides Melba we are to have Gadski, 2 superlative German It is a pity we cannot hear G the Wagner pieces, but she of v atile character and rtist ill doubt- i oS -GN OF THE CRoss. Col__uMB’A.. PPOOPOPOOOPOOOOOOOOS \‘)@@@@@)@@@@@@@®3@®®®@@®Q®®@O®¢)®®®®®QOO PPPPPPP00060006600 00 ® £ & @ L 4 @ @ @ ® © @ @ less give a thrilling performance in such a work as the “Huguenots.” An- other soprano from whom big things are expected is De Lussan. She has already made herself felt Europeanly, so the fact that she is an American girl There is afloat, mot verified at this writing, that Jean de Reszke may be induced to make the trip with the Ellis company. He is acknowledged to be the greatest of living singing actors. But do not set your heart too warmly on Jean; his coming is entirely a matter of con- a rumor jecture at present. A tenor certainty is Bonnard, long associated with the first | | tenor parts in the French operas at the | Theatre de Monnaie, Brussels. He has | sung “opposites” to Melba in the Co- | vent Garden season, and will do the same here. Pandolfini is the Ttalian | tenor, clear and sympathetic, a beauti- ful phraser, and said to excel in the | role of Rodolfo in “Boheme.” Ben- saude is the principal Italian barytone. | We will hear him as Marcello in “Bo- | heme,” which character he created in the first production at Turin. Bou- | douresque is the principal French | basso. He has held the position for two years with the Ellis company. | Rains and De Vries and Viviani are | male singers whose work is more or | less familiar to local opera-goers. The orchestra is the Boston Symphony, ®ne of the finest in the world. Seppilli is the conductor; Richard Fried his asso- ciate. Seppilli is a classmate and inti- mate of Puccini, and one of the great- est of the Italian leaders; so with Melba | as Mimi, De Lussan as Musette, Pan- dolfini as Rodolfo, Bensaude as Mar- cello, De Vries as Schaunard, Bou- douresque as Colline, Parry directing the stage and Seppilli at the baton, we may expect nothing short of a mar- | velous performance of the ‘‘Boheme.” . | In all a dozen performances will be given lected from this repertors “Faust, Romeo and Juliet,” ‘“Barber of Seville,” “Traviata, Carmen, need not mar our appreciation. | “Aida,” “Cavalleria,” “Pagliacci,” “Mignon,” “Lucia ” “La Fille du Regi- ment,” “Rigoletto,” “Huguenots” and the “Boheme.” Day and night the work of rebuilding and renovation is being pushed at old Morosco’s, and the result promises to be something that bears a very close resemblance to a modern opera house. The sale of sea- son tickets commences a week from to-morrow. And may the line of pat- rons stretch from south of Market to North Beach! The Golumbia. “The Sign of the Cross,”” Wilson Bar- rett's religious drama, will be seen for the first time in this city to-morrow night at the Columbia Theater. the play, briefly told, is as follows: Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, is ordered by Nero to exterminate the fast- increasing sect of Christians. He meets in the street a beautiful young girl who is defending an old man against an at- tack of the rabble. Interfering, he sends the girl to her home under the protection of one of his guards. When he finds that she is suspected of belonging to the de- a boatman and warns her of her danger. News is brought to the girl while he is there that Stephanus, a young Christian boy, has been arrested. He is_ tortured on the rack in order to wring from him information regarding the meeting piace of the faithful. Marcus arrives just in season to learn that the girl Mercia will be at the meeting. With his guards he hurries to the grove where the Christians {are engaged in worship, and is_just in time ave the girl's 'life. the other ners she is taken to the palace of Marcus and there, while a drunken evel is in progress in the next room, he vin_her for his own evil ends. elf from his embrace she r s o door only to find it locked. Just as Marcus is again about to clasp her in his arms a flash of lightning, fol- lowed by a_terrific crash of thunder, and deafens him. Holding the le above her head, the girl exclaims: | “It is the sign! The Master has spoken! You cannot harm me now!' Marcus crouches at her feet, filled with supersti- tious fear, and the curtain falls. In the next act, urged on by a jealous woman who loves Marcus, Popped urge | Nero to refuse to pardon Mercia unless |she will publicly renounce her faith. Marcus goes to her in her dungecon, where she is about to go out to be devoured by wild beasts in the arena. He tells her of Nero's answer to his appeal and begs her to live and be his wife. When he finds that she will be steadfast to her faith and will not deny Christ, he tells | her that his lingering doubts 'are fled; that he, too, is a Christian and will die with her. Hand in hand they go into the arena just as the curtain fails. The part of Marcus will be played by Charles Dalton, and Irene Rooke will im- { personate the Christian girl, Mercia. The is from the Lyric The- ater, e also the scenery, cos- tumes and appointments. | The Tivoli. ““Madeleine, or The Magic Kiss Tivoll has proved a fitting Successo | “The Wedding Day,” “Jupiter | o The story of spised sect he goes to her disguised as | { pheum are J. K. Murray | operatic_stars, whose | th | Square Opera C: 29 «Brian Boru,” the other compositions of Stanislaus Stange amd Julian Edwards, and will be continued until further no- tice. The scenery, costumes and acces- sories are new and tasty, and the east, which includes Anna Lichter, Annie My- ers, Ida Wyatt, Bernice Holmes, Phil Branson, dwin Stevens, Willlam H. ‘West, Willlam Pruette, Arthur Boyce and Fred Kavanagh, does justice to both the COoMED al and comedy situations. The al- reliabie chc and orchestra find n d finales to their liking h ning a special perform given for the benefit of the International convention, Independent Or- der B'nai B'rith. =i The Galifornia. The Black Patti Troubadours, who are playing to big houses at the California Theater, will remain one week : The ragtime ballads, cakewalk buck ncing and operatic singing dulged in by the Troubadours and in- the funny Ernest Hogan are the chief f: tors of this unique success. The musical portion, which is the best of the show would be improved by a few rehearsals of the orchestra, which was in very bad accord at the opening performances. The Aicazar. The Alcazar stock company will be se this week in a ri 1 of Belasco & Fy well-known Indian war drama, ‘“The G I Left Behind Me.”” Ernest Hastings w have the George Webster will be the Parlow and George Osbourne the »art of Lieutenant Hawksworth; Lieu tenant erieral Kennion. Miss len D! ate Kennion, ¥y 1~ be Lucy Hawksworth S Iber’s Ann’’ and Miss the Indian _girl. Charles cast for the Indian Chief ““Scar for Major Burle New Gomedy. The final performances of “Spider and Fly” will be given in the Comedy this afternoon and to-night, after which the house closes until Saturday night, when John L. Sullivan, heavy weight pugilist, appears in his new capa light come- dian in a burletta calleu “A Trip Across the Ocean.” Just for old time's sake John L. will spar a realistic round or two, but the Test of the show will be vaudeville and safe athletics. There is a scene in the piece that shows the training quarters of a pugilist, and it is uere that the ex- fxnd Clarence Montaine 1. champion does his fistic turn. His oppo- nent is no less a celebrity than Jake hil- rain. It will not be as serious a battle as was the one that took place between these same gentlemen in Richmond, Miss in the yea 1, but some lively work is promised, as well as several clever gins in the vaudeville part of the show. The_‘Orpheum. At the head of the new bill at the Or- and Clara Lane names have beer of the best knowr the country. notably mpany, the Casti ny and the Murray 1 identified many ) es in y Carlton Opera my MENTS. rancisco, Cal., Estab, 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab, 1884 ansas City, Mo., Estab. 1897 Omaha, Neb., Estab, 1898 CO., Proprietors. ONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. JEW LIST OFLEQU?EVIELE‘ LEGITIMATE AND OPERATIC STARS! OPERATIC STARS nd Duets from various operas and Appropriately Costumed Celebrated European Premiere Danseu: America’s Funniest Comedy Sketch Artliste. Versatile Comedians. i CAR ....LAN G and KELLER.. Descriptive Vocalists. LAST WEEK OF T | MATINEE TO-DAY (Surday), Feb, 19 D; ECIAL FEATURES AT W SDAY TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs. Ernestine Kreling, Proprietor and Mgr. EVERY ¥AN, WOMAN and CHILD SHOULD SEE THE GREATEST SUCCESS SINCE “THE MIKADO.” The Fantastic Comic Opera, 'MADELEINE, Or, THE MAGIC KISS. EACH NUMB*BAA Ifif%{;‘é{vf’ EACH LINE ——EYERY EVENING— 1 OKLY MATIREE SAEHDAY AT2P. M. 2¢ and 50c seat for the matinee, 25c. | lephone, Bush 9. | Popular Prices N. B.—A re Ous MLLE. EDITH CRALSKEE _“'A PICTURE FROM LIFE.” "~ CONROY and McDONALD PROF. iACART The Best-Trained Animal Act on the Vaudeville Stage. se, in Her Famous Character Dances. LEW BLOOM and JANE COOPER The Tramp and the Talented Actress in ' P. C. SHORTIS Old-time Banjo Expert. TER DE HAVEN sno BONNIE MAIE __A Great Hit——America’s Youngest Comedians est Con A Great Hit. l....SCGHRflDr BROS. reat Comedy Acrobats. HE LAUGHMAKER, AND HiS DOGS AND MONKEYS! Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony 10c; _ Children 10c, any part of the house. th MATINEFS W: DNE~DAY, SATUPDAY AND SUNDAY. MATINEE- ASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY— America’s Most Beautiful Music Hall. 6—GREAT NEW EASTERN STARS—6 SHERMAN and MORRISEY Far-Famed Acrobats and Comedians. THEONLY L YNWOOD urope’s Greatest Contortionist. IDA HOWELL, Chic Songstress. MARIE D. WOOD, Soprano. CONTRALLI & VAN GOFRE, Acrobats 2 s QUERITA VINCENTesx New York's Favorite Songstress and Dancer. AND TEN GREAT ACTS. AMUSEMENTS. 'GRAND OPERA HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO SEASON OF GRAND OPERA IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN. MR. CHARLES A. ELLIS announces a series of twelve performances by the ELLIS BEGINNING MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 13. Terminating Saturday afterncon, March %, THE NEW YORKM SYMPHONY. D ORCHESTRA. The lst of principals includes: Mmes, Melba, Gadski, De Lussan, Olitzka, Chalia, Mattfeld, Van Cauteren, . Bon- nard, Pandolfini, Van Hoose, Del o, Ben- saude, Boudouresque, Stehmann, Rains, Rosa, Viviani. Conductors—Armando Seppilll, Richard Fried. Stage director—Willlam Parry. The sale of segson tickets for the season of twelve perfor) ances opens on JFebruary 27, at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s. of season tickets, §50, $40, $30, $20, according to location. Boxes for the season, seating 4, 250; those seating five and six in proportion. The sale of tickets for single performances will open on Monday, March 6. Prices, 35, 34, 33, | $2, according to location; prices of boxes for single performances, seating four, Melba nights. §40; other nights, $25; those seating five and eix in proportion. Applications for boxes should be made to Mr. Alfred Bouvier, erman, Clay & repertoire Wil lowing operas: Faust, Barber of Seville La Traviata, Co. be given from the fol- Romeo et Juliette, Alda, Les Huguenots, Rigoletto, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Boheme, 1 Pagliacei, Lucla, Mignon, Carmen, La Fille du Regiment. RACING! RACING! RACIN@! CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB Winter Meeting 1898-99, beginning MONDAY, Feb. 2, to SATURDAY, Mbrch 4, inclusive, OAKLAND RACC 'TRACK Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday. Rain or shine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. Races Start at 2:16 p. m., Sharp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. ana 12:20, 1, 1 30 and 3 p. m., connecting with trains stopping at the ent: o the ck. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound, Returning—Trains leave the Track at 4:1§ 445 p. . and lmmediately atter last race. 0S. H. WILLIA. e ADMISSION FREE. MATINEE SUI MS JR., President. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. ALCAZAR---EXTRA! This (Sunday) Afternoon, at 2 0’Clock Sharp, Seventh Annual Benefit of San Francisco Lodge Ro. 21, ..THEATRICAL MECHA “THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES” THE BEST BILL GREAT ARRAY WM. WEST and Their Pickaninn from the Orpheum, “‘The First the First Act of *‘Peaceful Vall Fok i kdde ke ek AMUSE: FREDERICK WARDE, BLACK PATTL ERNEST HOGAN, MURIEL RINGGOLD, BLACK PATTI SEXTETTE, EDWIN STEVENS and TILLIE MORRISEY, Soprano; ANTONIO VARGAS, Barltone, and S. MENT NICAL ASSOCIATION.. EVER OFFERED! OF TALENT, INCLUDING » : * ies from the Tivoli, Speclaitles % Born” with a Juvenile Cast; % x * ey’ by the Alcazar Stock Co. X 'ALCAZAR THEATER. A GOLD MINE AND DURING ENTIRE WEEK , Washington's TO.NIGHT-- TO-NIGHT— T0-MOR OW Nlfiifi MATINEE WEI onal War Drama, Belasco and Fyle's N THE GIRL | LEFT BERIND ME a0 450, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢. CHUTES AND 100! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PIANKA \ i nges Her Costume in Her Den of Lions in Qe arkness. The Beautiful “PASSION PLAY, as given at Oberammergau, repro- duced by the Animatoscope. VIOLET DALE, | Contortion Dancer: the MORRELLES, Comedy Banjoists; JACK SYMONDS, Monologist, and | A Great Bill in the Free Theater THE LIVING OSSIFIED MAN. Greatest Curiosity on Earth! Austraiian Iguanas in the Zoo. 10c, including Zoo and Theater; Children, be; Sundays and Holidays, 10c. Weekly Call, $1.00 per Tear | exhibitions MECHANICS’ PAVILION TO-NIGHT.. FINISH OF THE CREAT 6G-DAY CYCLE RACE. —ALSO-—- Ten-mile match race, HARRY ELKES, can middle-distance champion, ve. JA ‘TON, the Indoor King, each rider to be paced by ten tandem teams. AFTERNOON PROGRAMME: First time in California, an Australian pur- | four riders, DOWNIN( i and GOODMAN. Unii i es all three. There will | also be a tandem and single pursuit races and ¢ Elkes, Jimmy Michael and Eddie ADMISSION, 30 CENTS. Reserved seats at box office at Pavilion. .. THE .. STEEPLECHASE At CENTRAL PARK. Ameri- Y EA- Bald. RyxForD SISTERS Lane Opera Company. At the Orpheum Mr. Murray and Miss Lane appear in se- lections from popular operas, which they RFD"’D\'!E(E!Y costume. Another star is lle. Craske, the premiere danseuse, wha has been a Star feature with several of the best known spectacular productions in this country. She appears in a number of character dances. The comedy fea- ture of the bill is Bloom and Cooper. Of A ! this team the m an, Lew Bloom, is best known as “Hoyt's Tra ran he having made a great suc as the tramp in several of Hoyt's farce comedies. ‘lne hold-overs include Conroy and McDonald, P. C. Shortis, Carter de Haven and Bon- nie Maie, Lang and Keeler, the Schrode brothers and Professor Macart’s dogs and monke The Chutes. At the Chutes Free Theater Violet Dale will buck and wing; Jack Symonds, a monologist, promises to tell some new slurnls‘gand Charles and May Morrell, | comedy banjoists and sketch artists, will appear for the first time here after a lon| and suc ful Eastern tour. lda Howell, the re: er serio-comic, will change her songs “The jion Play” as shown by the animatoscope will be con- | tinued. Pianka, the ‘‘lady of lions,” has | been re-engaged and will continue _to thrill. Another amateur ballet Thursday night. | | The Olympia. | The Otympia, in addition to the “One Lynwood,” the contortionist, who has scored such a hit, has four new acts, in- cluding Annie Goldie, in songs and dances; Querita Vincent, coon singer; Maie Ver- fon, Soubrette, and Sherman and Mor- risey, comedian | T. M. A Benefit The seventh annual benefit of the local lodge of the Theatrical Mechanical Asso- clation will take place at the Alcazar this afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp. The pro- gramme is long and crowded with the | best things in the city. Brother Freder- | ick Warde will deitver the address of wel- “The First Born” Then | come, after which i be produced with a juvenile cast. will come an_olio, participated in by the | folfowing: Sissirietta Jones, the “‘Black | Patti;” Ernest Hogan; Muriel Ringgold, | the Black _Patti sextet, Derenda and Breen and Lang and Keeler from the | Orpheum; Sister Tillie Morrisey, _so- | prano; Edwin Stevens and William West and their pickanninies from the Tivoli in “Dinah Lou;” Senor Antonio Vargas, the barytone; and Master Arnold Grazer, the soung toe dancer. The performance will coneclude with the first act of “Peaceful alley,” by the Alcazar stock company. The “men behind the scenes” are always the first to volunteer in a charitable cause and the house will be packed. Steeplechase Another permanent side-show attraction has been added to the many in San Fran- the form of a “steeple in Central Park. The * s a system of life-size hobby ho which carry riders and race on four parallel tracks. The racing admits of considerable sport, and altogether the | invention is an improvement on the old- fashioned scenic railway. Everybody rides—men, women and children. Music Mme. Carreno paid a very pretty tribute to a local composer, Mr. R. A. Lucchesi, by accepting the dedication of his “Con- certo Romantico,” op. 61, with the under- standing that she play it in Berlin at some future date, prcbably with the Philhar- monic orchestra, under the direction of Nikish. Hother Wismer and Fred Mauser will, with the assistance of Frank M. Coffin, give a concert at Sherman & Clay Hall on the evening of the 28th. The pro- gramme will comprise the Goldmark vio- lin concerto, Goc Concerto Roman- cisco in erected ps s tique and a collection of songs by Arthur Sullivan. Keith's. No cards. We will treat all alike. Mme. Alma E. Keith, Phelan building. * —_—————————— POO000O00P0000206 0 The Sunday Call, 32 pages, delivered at your home by mail for 8150 a year. Subscribe for it. (X4 ® * ® & S ® & ® ® * ® * $000000000000000000 AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER. (Formerly the Popular Bush), MATINEE TO-DAY—TO-NIGHT AT 8. Last Two Performances POPULAR SPECTACULAR EX- TRAVAGANZA, SPIDER AND FLY. —With Tts Wealth of— Gorgeous Scenery, Magnificent Costumes, Sensational Vaudeville Features Ard Pretty Girls. OF THE Commencing Saturday Night, Feb. 2, “THE NOBLEST ROMAN OF THEM ALL." JOHN L SULLIVAN. Big Vaudeville and Athletic Combination. Popular Prices. ts Now Selling. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. INGLESIBE COURSING PARK REGUHB-BR@NG STAKE! 96 ENTRIES! - - - =96 ENTRIESI BIG MONEY. CORKING HARES. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. JOHN GRACE, Judge. JAMES GRACE, Slipper. + N. B.—Judge Grace shall announce the scors after each course, which shall be placed on the BlackRoard. A HUGE SUCCESS. OPEN DAILY monls TO 1L D B8, ADMISSION 10, INCLUDING HORSES. Take # Mission-street car and it will land you at the gate. ADMISSION, 25c. LADIES FRER.