The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1899. o 29 C0000000000000000000000000000000000 THE BUILDING PHANTOM THEATERS By Ashton Stevens. CO000CO0OCOO000OVC0000000000COD000CO0000 The recent epidemic of romantic drama’ how he scrawled in a big, boyish hand, has taught them the use of gaudy| ‘I am the monarch of the s ritz clothes and sidearms and a something | Williams.”” Can’t you guess the rest? of that sonorous elocution that the|-—how years af ard they met on the Bard demand These moderns will | Lyceum stage and she confronted him perhaps hold in the proper disesteem | with that very same autograph album those fake traditions in acting and in- | and he said, “What, you aren’t that terpretation that have done more than | little lemon-haired girl?” and how they anything else to keep Shakespeare out | hoth laughed and worked happily to- of touch with the popular, end-of-the- | gether ever after, or for the season century theater, and bring about a|anyway? Of course you can. But the nice little renascence of a very musical | lovely part of the story is the happen- and uplifting style of drama. At any | ing along at the same time of “Pina- rate the enterprise of the players in | fore” and Fritz Williams and Effie venturing on what for many years has| Shannon The press agent who 0000000000 V00000000 been regarded as almost fatal territory, | thought that out is a topical wonder. and the grit of the managers in risking = the productions canrot be too highly Golumbia. s not probable that all cessful, but if commended. It is these people will be st In announcing tiie successful st : liance of Herbert Kelcey and Effic |only a few succeed others will be en-| nop in “The Moth and the Flame | couraged and the ball set arolling; and | Columbia Theater, beginni in | morrow night, the manageme edian” | house promises one of the best maybe the new century will f | “tragedian” and “‘classic « | something better than terms of re- | Lyceum Theater successc e and the Flame' is said to be a play k : S | a moral, an intensely dramatic produc- tion, dealing with the fashionable social s agent is MOW- | jire ‘ot New York Ci it is an The passionate pre idays excessively partial te pulling the | American play S el | long arm of coincidence (or the leg of | and deals with ican saciety is a ci Cu: ance altc r favorable in the drs |in giving his human w plumpness of space in the ne matic critic—just as you pr ares the pror Hape )| éyes of an Amercan audience. It tell | story of the love of an honest man f puré young woman, a New York society | i ionable church be € 8 very eratic S E brium Slack Wire Looks Easy, bu: dJust Try to Do } bee in this business. If it did not the Grand sociaty belle and the villain is’about to [ that he had fi I WA : < e Varinave baen be solemnized in New Yor ost_fash- | schooling; anc i by eap prices and its managers congregation, ‘“‘the other won n" in |%\\‘ Satliag wwald whive ‘thes nee case, the wronged wife, appears on the e | scene, and rushing down the church aisle| The new bill at the now sacking silver. There is some talk s y | calls ‘a peremptory halt to the marriage | now acts. and one « T ¥ un- | of building playhouse in the Palace | | ceremony, at the same time uttering an | 5 C0 (Lo ey ) it G hils entrasdt onane | impassioned denunciation of the groom. | D¢ th o = - Eof D ¢ e n.sn L omy | The climax of this act, as the groom | Toon and Mong Chet street but Market such a move would be nothing yman he | who ve been attract d_and fells her to the floor, | of the East to the exter while his afflanced wife rushes horror- | poon" oo the subject stricken from the church, is said to be | <€l M08 A0 SENEES O one of the most dramatic hrilling he Sunday ps T and the magazines. A pec trikes a cowardly blow at the w has betray short of folly. And even that principal thoroughfare heater wou t the crowd ther than s extremely locati this hotel in the America drama In the last act the tension gradually relaxes | work is that they do and the audience sees the villain cbtain- but touching ing his just deserts, while honesty, truth aterializes in a vy 1 have | L bt that the syndicate will con- | and love triumph. e . g x st if it lingers long in the | S new St s i - f the press. The man- Tivoli. the blackface comedians. u favor when here ly Van, the min and the Dor At the Tivoli Opera-house “Orpt e and Eurydice” will receive its last pre- | 1, in yndicate need another Francisco properly P i sentatio ¢ o-morrow | dians. P 1 on their map, and would, ntation to-night, to-morr I am told on better-ths 1 autt evening De Koven and romantic e am told on better-than-usual author comic opera in three he Manda- Kneisel Goncerts. t | build it themselves if the wor: me to the wor But you may at .they will not do this if the rin,” will be sung for the first time in this city. The libretto and cs are said to be written in Smith’s best style and the | D€ music is reported tuneful and catchy. The | Friday ¢ The Kneisel Quartet will ber concerts at Sherman & Clay Hall n =nin t 815 o'clock and Sat- two cham- Xt wag Any well n do it at an an | gent ind local spirited capl to build it g : 2 o'clock. The first It is much easier than |for the | mandarin of Fuchau, where the scene of | Urday afternoon at 3 o'cl £ ‘n. firs | the opera is placed, bears a striking re- | Programme will comprise Mozart's ¢ SRR Sz | tet in D minor; Schumann’s quartet in ¥ semblance to Fan-' 'an, a vagabond, and | and Sme rtet in minor ana’s qua husband, or any of the | Just now the plays of William Shake- | : on this the story hinges. The mandarin | major getansis e : ss tr: nd is | speare seem to be one of their | sees Jesso, the vagabond's wife, and falls | This last work is a remarkable one, and s ne time whe periodic oms rica Maude in love with her, but the laws of China | was written after the compc became 2 3 ‘ { allow a man ¢ twelve wives, with | totally deaf. The second programme will one on th { which comfortable quantity he is already | include Hayan's quartet in G major provided. Complications ensue in a rush- | thoven's quartet in B flat majo ing manner and fun reigns Ada Made what I‘ 1 e hit in Juliet part | JLERDLS and Schubert’s quartet in D mir = Kneis onstitute the I ring quar- Grand Opera-House tet now before the public, and will - | corded a hearty welcome tured the public fancy and is dof | eplendid business at the Grana Opera- | The Ghutes. house. The singers have raised them- At the Chutes the list of performers selves greatly in popular esteem by | will include Weston and Herbert, musical their admirable performance of ‘“‘Caval- | comedians; Martin Franklyn, a parodist leria Rusticana.”” To-morrow evening | and dancer; Waldo and Elliot, aerial co | they present Strauss’ “Gypsy Baron.’ | s; the Morrells, banjoists; An- | which certainly ought to do a big busi- |t argas, barytone; Lucretia Vineent, | ne: The opera is rich in delightful mel- | and Little Maud, a child s ody and contains a story which is exceed- | Arizona Bill and Zoma Belle, | ingly interesting and is told with .m.,,“’“'mu are in the e wi Jon ascension this afternoon, and on able and picturesque surroundin s Tt oy Areteus miES Tl pers production is to be bea 1 autifully mounted, | formance will be given | and the costum - which are exceec ndsome, have arrived from the The Southwell Opera Company ara fame tia, while her com- Mann, the Hebrew ctrician, anticipates | self in part of is Mr. Mann the only nbitions have turned Wil- iter will find | liamward. Henry Miller has already peared in “Hamlet” with what is re- als are now | ported to be tive success (we will an- [ soon be able to judge for ourselves); of | Nat Goodwir oting a part of his v | midnight oil to the study of Shylock; | o and Dutch California. prima . 34 \ o g et st will include the three for the synd William Faversham and James K. Hack- and the two leading tenors. It is| An elaborate production of which means just | ette said to give d take great | Sandor Barinkay i Browiles’ in Faity.-od” homas H. | cox | 1l | { Persse, ount Carnaro, Art Lx\(nmm Zsupan, William Wolff; | traction at a time. For in- | ple in their respective parts of Ro- | mpany, hez meo and Mercutio in the Maude Adams ird M . | production; and David Belasco in -his extended and | cdd hours is preparing a Leslie Carter ement, | version of Winter's Tale.” And the Columbia, | thus th free and royalfyless Il other high- |legitimate bids fair to come into actual Mr. »d- | competition with the profane works of recent playwriters. This is good for 3 peare, and also good for the modern player, who is apt to become a cramped special in these days of | E BA F HE e GLEVER HEAD TO HEAD BALANGING FEATS OF THE ESGAMILLOS AT THE ORPHEUM. of the actors and actresses that I have | But this yarn about Effie Shannon,|part of the Adiniral. The same event- | belle, who, however, falls a victim to the ned are immensely popular with | who comes to us to-morrow night. and | ful night marked the debut of | fuplicity of an aristocratic scoundre for a man of evil record and a fugitive | very latest march, ‘Hand theatergoer (to whom | Fritz Williams, who leaves us to-night, | Miss Shannon, who was cast s | him to the verge of matrimony, but es. | from justice, whose character now | Sear” (st Hine) = 9 in abstract offers few | and “Pinafore,” which has filling [ one of his s or his cousins | capes marriage with him at the foot of | Not. it also pictures how the Sher'ff of | piider,” for violin and their legitimate en-|us with pleasant reminisce the |or his aunts was not | the aitar. S the play had quietly furnished the girl® neous numbers bound to be rewarded by a|Grand dur t i ‘nious in that says ) e reveals father with the means for her education be n_under J children’s _pa and how he loved the girl Kate and never | ander st [& ous attention at least. There is|and timely enough to be true. It seems ) hannon, “who w little reason why all actors worthy of | that long, long ago Mr. Wil made | ously in love with the proudly strutting ven at the California 1.eat-r , Friday and Saturday, June under the auspices of the C Club. Over 200 chil Delamotta; Pali, Nace Boneville: Saffi. Edith Mason: anor Guistl and Daisy Thorn alternately; Mirabella, Bertha Ricei; : Czria, Hattie Belle Ladd. 0 ympia. alifornia n will take part. The Olympia has for its new cards the Alcazar. Hartwell sisters, who are said to be very On Monday evening at the Alcazar will | Clever acrobatic dancers; the four Sal- e 5 acazar will | Sinis, acrobats, and Way and Maitiand, be revived “In Mizzoura,” the pl: has been accepted in the West as “The : : Old Homestead” is in the far . and Musical Mention, | which is incidentally a much finer drama | Haydn’s symphony in G major (the | than Thompson’s It is a picture of | military)); an arrangement for stri | country lffe in Missouri. It relates the | orchestra of “The Old F Home, secret love a blacksmith’s daughter had |by Carl Busch (first time h So bee we Unitarian evening isicale by the M as not tumultu- | in short dr told her. It tells that when Kate re- | church, Oakla atitha mar % |turned home from one of the Eastern| The enteenth m g s 3 . : : it T | #400." The shadow of a crime eminaries she frowned upon him and | zie Musical Society of 100 vo will : the name should not be able to make a | his first appearance on any c in a|admiral. 1 remember well how I| ha curtain falls on & suicide Coffed at the thought of mATTYIng & man | civen in the Oad-Feltows: Hall an T v cation mea 0o0d showing in the Shakespeare plays. ' Boston production of “Pinafore” in the | brought him my autograph album and | ond act, as the of 0 beneath her in education, not knowing | day night. Anmszmm | AN USEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA THEATER, TIVOLI OPERA - HOUSE. Mr! Ernestine Kreling.... Proprietor and Mgr. 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