The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 7

fFE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1902. BOYS PLAY PHAT RASES LICENSE OF HIGHWAYMEN 0N SPEGULATORS Three Youngsters Hold Theater Ticket Sellers Up Another in Must Pay $300 a the Park. | Month. | | Frank Jacobs, a Chicago Lad, | Is Knocked Down and Robbed of $5. LT LR Board Directs Spring Val- ley to File List of Its Expenditures, The ordinance prohibiting the sale Three small boys who are well known ' theater or opera tickets at any place ex police enacted the role of foot Golden Gate Park Sunday afternoon in the most approved fashion, their victim theater and fixing the license for ticket nother small boy who was walking | peddlers at $300 per month was passed friend. The | to print yesterday by the Board of Su- 14 years of | pervisors. Solly Black-| The ordinance was introduced at the re- before Police | quest of the Allied Theatrical Managers d the cases were | ot this city, who declare that the busi- 18 to see if Mul-| ness of ticket speculating has grown to consent to having | alarming proportions, much to the in- tier Reform School. | convenience of the public, which is over- vears of age, WhO| .ngrged for the tickets it buys 0. They appea Judge Fritz yesterday continued thii this mc «}'s parents sent to the k Jacobs, 1 wil of | cept the office of the management of the | i a visit to his un- | < 0 McAllister street,| Charies Ackerman, representing the pe ark Sunday after- an i r, a smaller boy, Wadleigh and Blackman, ¢ bicycles, stopped them ed Jacobs for a dime. not engaged in a legitimate business, as they obstruct the sidewalks and Inter- buy tickets at the office. Ackerman said bs down and held his cap | e to prevent him from caMing | ile one of the other boys took | gold plece from him. The | | raising of prices at the theaters in or- der to drive the speculators out of busi- ness, Attorney W. P. Johnson, representing the speculators, argued that their busi- ncss was a convenjence to the public, and 'erred to a petition signed by ffty- three citizens that the license be not in- creased. Johnson claimed that the Su- nervisors had not the power to impose a prohibitive license on any business. Supervisor Curtis held that ticket spec- | was an evil, ads then jumped on their | le awa: bs returned to his uncle's he told him of the robbery and the otified the police. Policeman W. who is attached to the Boys Ald Soclety. was detalled on E about midnight he found 1 a restaurant at Third and Ste- streets. He took them to the City and booked them for a public in- They adm taking the gold m Jacobs, and said that after 1g the bicycles back to Fourth street had a dinne a restaurant and h Returning from t to the restaurant streets and had 3 ficient to abolish the practice,” said Cur- tis, “then we should make it $500 or $1000 per month kave built up a legitimate business should be hampered by t b ein siness."” held that men who had 3 n Scott app ed. E et e Sgiod thousands of dollars invest- Rapy’ & . but have | €d in the amusement business were en- ed to the benefit of a burdensome cense on ticket speculators. “Ticket speculating is an lllexlflm.’c(e Lusiness.” said Brandenstein, “and an! increased license will correct the evil and | u'd be imposed.’ L»- Spring Valley Water Works was | -ted by the board to furnish a de- ir escape each making th Pm se-Pleasing Prices bags, pocketbooks, er. Traveling rolls, he Leather Goods | Vail & Co., .|| s, wrist the year commencing July 1, 1901, and ending June 30, 1%2; for the year end- ing December 31, 1802, and for the six | months ending December 31, 1902. The statements must include the amounts of salaries or wages of each of its em- ployes, the amount paid for advertising and to whom, the amount pald for coun- s2i fees and to whom, and the amount paid for commissions and to whom. Child Stealer Is Held. Frank Parkes was held to answer be- | re sperior Court by Police Judge | ¥ on a charge of child bonds or $2000 cash. city on December § with daughter of Malachi Nc -second street, and took ockton and then to Bakersfield, Quality, Styles and Prices Satisfy. Good values in every An ACCEP'AN! Gift | Leather goods, pictures and frames, sta- upenmw little | tionery, statuary, clocks and fancy goods 2io Park. Call | our speclalties. Banborn, Vail & Co., 741 o tor particuiars. - | Sarket strect. Open evenings. . ————————— LA i L te of Missourl mar-| More coffee is used in the United States pared with the pre- | than in any other country, the annual increase of over | consumption being not far from 450,000,000 of last | pounds, for which American importers 259. pay about $%0,000.000 to the growers. Beauty and Grace Face to Face When the Nicest One you know gets a dainty dressing table. Next after you, and fine apparel, there’s nothing dearer to the heart feminine than fine furniture for personal use. Dressing tables in hand carved solid mahogany, dainty birdseye maple, and beautifully marked quartered go!den oak. Furniture lovliness for feminine lovliness; from 9.50 » 55.00 Give a Gift of a Gilt Chair It’ll make a holiday remembrance bright as the gold which covers it. They come in many designs, sizes and prices. This one, silk upholstered and a durable frame For $3.75 Many Things at Little Cost— Parlor Tables. Pedestals. Hall Mirrors. Tabourettes, Onyx top Tables. In the Drapery ‘Department, Newest Sofa Cushions Lots of Rockers and Chairs expressly For The Little Folks Cane, cane seated, daintily upholsterad, And Cute Little Morris Chairs And Christmas Only Tewo Days Away Open Evenings Till Then A 233 235 237 Post Street. ed statement of its operating expenses | titioners, said that ticket speculators are | cept theater-goers who are on the way to | money o ! e ame sus | it was the duty of the Supervisors to ” five-dollar gold piece | Protect the public, for if the license was silver. Mullaney promptly | not increased it would result in the and should be | “If a license of $3%0 monthly is not suf- | It is not right that men who | speculators to the detri- | department, | | i | bunch of cotton umbrellas | tumultuous | perfect of its Kind | Levi—than which no more need be sald. With a little catch in his breath and a|. pathy DAVID WARFIELD AS SIMON LEVI GIVES GREAT CHARACTER SKETCH Big Audience Greets Former San Franciscan~-*‘His Absent Boy "’ Wins Quick Success at Republic---** Charlie’s Aunt’ Produces Mirth---Nance O Neil Appears as Camille at funny dialect jokes of the five clowns. The two principal characters, Dan and Charles A. Mason, were applauded last night evers more liberally than they were on their first appearance. The l'un:o wm undoubtedly continue to prove a drawing card during the entire Lhrlsunas week. Tivoli. *“Jack and the Beanstalk,” the Tivoll's Christmas offering, was presented before a very large audience last night and every one of the hundred -musical and humorous speclalties was encored again and again. The plece is crowded full of fun to begin at Alcazar Grand LIC OF S8AN FRANCISCO. LS HERE was just “Warfleld” blaz- L ing over the Columbia's front door last night and indoors there was just Warfleld, too, in “The Auctioneer. Twelve years ago Dave—now David—Warfleld left his na- tive city and he came back last night to a welcome that shook the rafters. It | met him as he first appeared, with a “to mix vith the silk under one arm and a “second-handed” Easter other, coming flat-footed down the worn stairs of the old auction shop on the East side. But he could not be enticed Into a speech. The first act’s end was another moment, but not until the close of the second act, when the catcalls and whistliing must have rather aston- ished the sedate walls of the Columbla, did Mr. Warfield respond to the nolsy demand. The speech was as tasteful and as Warfleld’s Simon ones™ the right-hand box, little teary “This Is little glance up to where pretty Mrs. Wa —was sitting 3 the night I hav f for twelve years, ever sin I left here. I have reached the height of my ambition, I've come home a star. Your welcome has rather overwhelmed me, but 1 thank you, thank you for it with all my heart.” Very truly has David Warfleld ‘“‘come home a star.” One could foresee it even from his method of coming home. He has not been preceded by the usual syrupy extracts from the “Arizona Kicker' and the “Milpitas Mall."” Neither has his | shadow been cast by an autographed edi- tion of “The Auctioneer.” Neither again is the Warfleld picture postal abroad in the land “so that you can notice it.”" It is by the sheer, subtle duminance of a per- sonality at once fine and strong, of a keen intelligence, of a broad and tender sym- with his kind, that Warfleld marches straight to starhood. One hardly knows how much Belasco there Is In “The Auctioneer,” a play credited to Lee Arthur and Charles Kiein, but it fits the Warfleld personality to a hair in its chief role. Almost as little as the frame of a picture the rest of the play matters It is full of incident, much of it super- fluous to the weaving of the story, yet 8li of touching new facets in the charag- ter of the East 8ide auctioneer. Poverty, long ycars of it, courageously borne, then & sudden accession of wealth, and again @ fall into deepest penury is the story of Bimon Levi. It is told by Warfield with a finesse, distinction, truth, pathos, humor, that make the picture stand out like a Dickens portrait. Your laugh is not well on your lips until he has you with that queer little strangle in your throat that would mean tears if he did not have you chortling again the next second. The character is painted in full light and shade and not a tint lost between. All the queer gullelessness and shrewd- ness combined, the deep family affection, the childish delight in splendor and fine courage In affliction that mark the poor Hebrew of Levi's class, are here in their fullness. By actor and author alike there is displayed a fine reserve in the treatment of the character. It {s emi- nently character art as opposed to the Hebrew” caricature one is 80 joylessly fa- millar with, and as such (s delightfully refreshing. Simon Levl Is new to the rtage, but while there I8 a David War- field he will always be most welcome. Marle Eagan, of the rest of the cast, is a beautiful Hibernian lady, just as delicately and humorously handled as is Warfield's Levl. No one else matters much to the story, but Maria Davis s sympathetic and very human as Mrs, lily under the | vi, and Robert Fischer is stunning as Callahan, a ward politician. The plece is excellently mounted, the first scene of the auction shop, with its varied junk, belng highly realistic. The sale of seats is very large. The Lawlor *Concert. A large and fashionable audience listened to the fine programme provided by Miss Lillie Lawlor last night at Steinway Hall. The singer was greeted with large enthu- siasmn, and showed herself to be an artist of distinction and with a charming volce. Miss Lawlor has also an exceptionally handsome stage presence, and won all present by her charm of manner. Her most successful number was the *‘Be- loved, It Is Morn,” by Florence Aylward, though she showed very happily her strong dramatic sense in the “Ballade du | Desespere,” by Bemberg. was assisted by the Minett! quartet, which gave quartets by Dvorak and Tschaikowsky most successtully. Fred Maurer accompanied with his usual am- ple taste. Alcazar. “The farce comedy “Charley's Aunt” commenced a two weeks' holiday run at the Alcazar Theater. last night and from the hilarious reéeption accorded it crowd- ed houses can safely be predicted. The situations are so mlrth-prnvnklnx and come so naturally that one’s risible facul- ties are kept in full play from the rise to the fall of the curtain. last night was /incessunt and hearty. Frank Bacon as Lord Fancourt Babber- ley, who {mpersonates Charley's aunt, was the center of attraction and gave exceedingly clever and racy character- ization of the part, keeping nicely within the bounds of propriety. He is possessed of a rich fund of humor and understands how to use it. Ernest Hastings and Al- bert Morrison as Jack Chesney and Charles Wykeham, the two undergradu- ates, were thoroughly enjoyabie and helped materfally in piling . up the fun. Henry Shumer as Colonel Sir Francis Chesney and Thomas Keirns as Stephen Spettigue were excellent. Miss Jullet Crosby as Kitty Verdun was convincing and effective, while Agnes Ranken gave a very pleasing portrayal of Amy Spetti- gue. Miss Marle Howe was Donna Lucla and played the part with dignity and charm. Oza Waldrop was sweet and charming as Ella Delahay. Republic. The Theater Republic Stock Company produced Sydney Rosenfeld's comedy of “His Absent Boy” last evening and It went off very briskly, with nothing to mar or break the continuity of the fua with which'it is liberally sprinkled. Harry Corson Clarke as the supposititious parent of the missing offspring did his usually comie stunt in the situations in which a vivid imagination involved him. Helen Mac- Gregor assisted to sink him deeper in his woes in the character of his wife, George De Long as Burney, Margaret Dale Owen as Mrs, Burney, James Keano as Jack Mackaye, Virginia Brissac as Nita, Mabel Werne Mrs. Mackaye and Edmund Brees Colonel Mickaye were accom- plices in the fun. Bome of the best work was done by Julla Walcott as Magglo, the servant. No one is expected to take such a plot serlously. It s to laugh and the audience enjoyed what was offered Immensely. Grand Opera-House. In Dumas’ ever popular ‘Camllle” Nance O'Nell finds ample opportunity of dieplaying the emotional quality of her art, and that she has that quality in the high artistic sense she proved last night to a crowded and discriminating house. Particularly forceful was she in the in Miss Lawlor | The laughter | THREE STARS OF THE THEATRICAL FIRMAMENT WHO ARE APPEARING NIGHTLY AT LOCAL PLAY- HOUSES AND CONTRIBUTING LARGELY'TO THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE AMUSEMENT LOVING PUB- { different f{rom the part as plaved and s ————} | with, and when Hartman, Webb, ham and Annie Myers have al to help the thing along their hearers can never go home with painless sides. The, songs are all new. The jokes, of which there are many, are fresh and local. The chorus is excellent and unusually full of life. The cow, whose career is guided by Conlan and Ryder, makes all manner of fun. Little Cecil Cowles sings a very pretty song, to follow which for encores she has two others. She sang all three last night and the audienge quite enthu- sfastically and at length®applauded for more. Others of the cast who did splen- did work and added much to the general 6} entertailnment were Frances Gibson, Hu- nice Gilman, Aimee . Leicester, Bertha Davis, Joseph Fogerty, Thomas Nannery and Fred Kavanagh. Central. The hearts of young and old are being made glad this week at the Central with a goregous production of the extravagan- za and Christmas pantomime, ‘“Humpty Dumpty,” which had a successful open- ing last night at this popular playhouse. Not since the old Woodward’s Gardens days has this rendition of the histories handed down by Mother Goose been wit- nessed on the stage here, and a large au- dience was highly pleased at the wealth of beautiful scenery, electrical effects and bewildering transformation scenes which the management has been to a great expense to present. The children’s class at Hinman's School of Dancing, 1412 Polk street, between Pine and California, will give a party Saturday evening, December 27. —_—— Dean of Winchester. LONDON, Dec. 22.—Rev. Richard Wood Stevens, dean of Winchester, is dead. ARIR Bares' AT THNE Corumpin ADVERTISEMENTS. 0S PIANOS Artistic Musical Durable 50,000 in use 2000 sold on the Paeific Coast se. CUItAZ 250 SOLE AGENTS OLDEST AND STRONGEST HOUSE ON THE PACIFIC COAST i6 to 20 O’Farre| (Curtaz Bullding) Planos sold on any reasonable terms to responsible parties. We can sell a b: tter piano for less money (quality considered) to responsible parties than any house on the coast. -+ terview with the father of Armand Duval in the third act, and in the denouement of the baliroom scene In the fourth. On both occasions when the curtain was lowered It was raised again and again in response to the plaudits of the delighted audience. Miss O'Nell's support is fairly good. The Armand of Edward J. Ratcliffe is rather delicately Cockneyfled and so very spoken by American actors that it im- parts a novel chill along with the thrill to the artietic nerves of the critic. His denunciation of Camille at the close of the fourth act was his best bit of work and was an excellent background for Miss are the attributes that have made these m O'Neil's acting. Despite the fact that m"rfll:‘,';'g m Fred J. Butler looked like a real one visit San Fraa- in the character of Monsieur Duval he who carried off the part creditably and con- ““tels cisco. | sclentiously. The play was ged with great care and scenery and costumes were true to chronology, so that the French atmosphere pervaded it all. HOITT’S SCHOOL HOIEL'S [ any aniveraity or for Susintes: School Orpheum. Nat M. Wills, the Happy Tramp and the best all-round monologist that has ever appeared In this city, is at the Orpheum this week. He is the “headliner” of the Orpheum road show that appears annu- ally at the O'Farrell-street theater. He is entitled to the place, most of his gags belng” new and his manner of working them extremely good. Every other turn | on the programme is on a par with that of Wills, Spring term will Nfln Jan. 6, ’-L la’A . HOITT, Ph. D., Principal. AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE REPUBLIC™- Phone South 26. s A LAUGHING TRIUMPH. Legngn California. “Rudolph and Adolph,” with their ex- cecedingly laughable farce, are continuing to draw good houses at the California. The play abounds with ludicrous situa- tions and one cannot help Jaughing at the HIS ABSENT BOY HELP for the HOUSEWIFE CAL!F;Q‘RNIA MaS0A and 5 AND 4 The Funniest Ever, Next Week, Noted_Comedian, Y BERESFOI Wrong Mr. Wright. MECHANICS' PA\IILION monovuan HEATED. ELLERY’S For Stomach Disorders Cout and bvopop TO-.NIGHT—NATIONAL GUARD NIGHT. CELESTINo Best NATURAL Alkaline Water ——en 420 Broadway, N, Y, King Dodo, La Fille du Poet and Peasant, American iment, Fantasle. 8! CHRISTMAS\ MATINEE. PRICES. L % POPULAR HCES P enings—30c, Matinees—2c, Reserved Seats at Sherman. Clay & Co.'s. AMUSEMENTS. rHE CENTRAL=Z Market su-n. Near, an. Pnon South 353, Rvu AND sgnmt. “"‘“ "EW YEAR'S DAT . Comical Extravaganss and Pantomtme. HUMPTY DUMPTY The greatest spectacular pro- duction ever given in the his- . tory of this city. See our gor- m‘:l‘ transformation, s Drea” _Great Hes, funny Uu scenes, our funny clnm. 3 EVBMINGS, 10¢ PrICES—RAmnee=, 10c, oo 5 ’s-. SPECIAL MATINEES ONLY next Wednes- rnoons. Both'ell Browne's Sy e nmnfix.:n o6 “ANTONY AND %fl% = over FX X anuren in the TIVOLIGES EVERY EVENING AT § SHARP! MATINEES" cflnlmAgr DAY AND SATUR- “BRILLIANT AND BREEZY" is the holiday b lar Extravaganza. The Newest of the New, Jack and the Beanstalk Songs, the Topical Hits and Funny Jokes. HEAR the New the SEE ';'arm.u\ PRICES—28c. Telephone SPECIAL MATINEE CHRISTMAS. ORPHEUM ROAD SHOW! Nat M. Wills; Long and Cotton; Raw- son and June; Kokin; Galetti’s Actors; The Me- lani Trio; 5 Freres : Luca, “l: Roy, Mlle. Talma and Leon Basco. Reserved Seats, 25c: Balcony, 10¢; Box Seats and Opera Chairs, 50c. COLUMBIA = IGBT, INCLUDING SUNDAY. e N E SATURDAY. r:x'nu MATINEES —_CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S— First Appearance Here of DAVID WARFIELD THE AUCTIONEER. Original New York Company and Productiom. pirection DAVID BELASCO. _____________. GRAND' s GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE CHRISTMAS. USUAL SATURDAY MATINEE. ATURDAY AND SUNDAY. CHRISTMAS, SATURDA . A NIGHT OF TERROR FOR THE BLUES, CHARLEY’S AUNT. mnnm—:xmm nm.“lu... lltflt.l& TSe -ll‘l:llm ’t.-e.fi m.mlfllfl MM THE CHUTES! Illgh-CIa“ Spechltie. in the Theater EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A TWO POUND BABY BORN DEE€: 1, Now i he Infant ncabaer e 2082, B, e The Chutes Phone Is Park 23. A 8 TO ONH SHOT! ‘Worth Ten Times Our 80s, 7c; Saturday. Sonday and B ineés, 25c and S0c 5 Children at Matinees, 100 and mnmnm Hiske a5d Hany Hermerm . oces, ‘THE GEEZER o |Racing New California Joekey Club Ingleside Track uhn‘a"afl‘& e e Weak Men and Women IOULD USE Mexican