The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 41

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Red Phosphorus for Matches. A new material made of non-poison- ous red phosphorus and potassium chlorate has been bought by the Ger- man Government, and is to be substi- tuted in its works for the deleterious and oftentimes more dangerous white phosphorus. Great gain attaches to the fact that it does not ignite easily, hence removing or minimizing the danger from fire. How important this is appears when one is reminded of fires caused by the ignition of white phospho! matches by the sun’s rays. In regard to danger to employes, the commission says explosions are p.ac- tically impossible with the new ma- terial.—Cxchange. with the care and judgment that so of- ten distinguish Mr. Hamiiton’s work. Still, the actor’s triumph was well de- eryed, for his delivery of every line ang true, while in bearing he realized almost to the life the Napoleon of tra- | dition. Daily Express—Napoleon is one of the characters in this strange mixture of tragedy, melodrama and the comedy that is essentially human nature. The | part was played with consummate skill | by Mr. Holbrook Blinn, who gave us in his own creation the most famous | MEN’S FURNISHINGS Note—This week we will show in the indow next to the Stockton-street en- rance a few specimen values from our very ree assortment of MEN'S NECKWEAR and SILK and LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS. ’ Men’s Neckwear Four-in-Hands, Tecks, Puffs and Ascots, | from 80c upward. Men’s Handkerchiefs Fine Linen Hand-Made Initials................ . 28¢4 87 %c¢ and 80c each s t‘.nlen in each box) > Initials. Ceae OC, {Sc and SI.OO [ 0020626000000 isfence. The Sun—Now “Sans Gene” without Napoleon would be as impossible as| Hamlet” without the Prince of Den- | mark. to make Napoleon impressive in such a milieu, and it would be difficult to praise too highly the manner in which Holbrock Bi With all respect to Martin Harvey and ir Henry Irving, Mr. Blinn makes a more satisfactory Napoleon than either of them—in spite of the fact that he s more or less out of the picture all the time. The Morning Post—The Napoleon of Holbrook Blinn was a remarkable per- formance. He was the central figure on the stage; all eyes were on him and Men's Silk ana M:d 065000 CITY OF PARIS DRY GOOPS COMPANY, Ceary 2nd Stookton Streets, Union Squ: criticism would have been only too | 3 ready to- pounce on anything he did GOCSSIP OF PL ,‘,'YS Vvarm&hh;e [hy Richard Harding Davis, which might appear unworthy of the alwiag 4 o |18 which Robert Edeson will be pre- | historic figure he represented. It is AND OF ACTORS | sented on January 1s. no little credit to the actor, therefore, . who will follow to be able to say that he was always dignified and impressive and gave us Miss Marie Tempest, H has made the|Miss Ethel Barrymore at the Hudson | a picture of Napoleon which could not | f r the company of | Theater in “The Marriagé of Kitty,” on | be equaled. pport Miss Alice | November 30, will sail for America on P S Fische ichstein’s farcical | November 18 in com with her| Anna Wilson, a graduate of the| Matter With Su-, husband, mo Gordon Lennox; Ar-| Tivoli and wife of “Jack” Wilson, so s 1 thur Bertram, her acting manager; W. | long connected with it, is now being | ’ aw, La Trove, her stage manager, and heard from. Miss Wilson went to new Isabel | Gilbert Hare, one of the leading mem- bers of her company. Leonard Boyne, York a few months ago and seems al- ready to have obtained a very satis- | . . <l . Savage, with the result that the man- Aubrey Boucicault Is meeting with | ager is considering her for a part in a rable ccess in his performance | new production. Whitney a made n Charlie.” The play is soon extended engagement in the young Californian an offer of the best part he had open, but t the role was not worth Harrls, however, has retained Miss n for a part in a new English comedy opera, in which she may or | may not appear, but for the study of | which she is in receipt of a substantial | cash retainer. . Meantime the young woman—she is just 21—has appeared with much suc- | cess at the Manhattan Theater, in the Capt beg New Y Joseph.Hart and Carrie de Mar are to remal the wmanagement of Wil- liz . even after they cease to appear in * randpa This farce kas been c e road tw years and is said to have earned $50,0 b Tiay iy which Joseph R. Gris- road this season, is “Sky Farm, s on th character this play has called into ex- | The greatest diicully of all is | s out of the ordeal. | Miss Tempest's upporting pla factory footing there. She will be re- and the o s of the organ membered here as Siebel (“Faust”),| tion will f later date. Julian | Frederick (“Mignon™), Pepe (“I'Pag- Magnus is business manager | liacci”) and in other important minor for Miss S rol Miss Wilson has sung for Henry The Installment Man. Peter Grogan, who died at Baltimore this week, is sald to have been the in- ventor 6f the “installment plan.” He began selling furniture in Baltimore and Washington thirty-five or forty vears ago on\regularly deferred pay- ments. His scheme was a good one, and was almost instantly taken up all | over this country, spreading hence to Europe. Such, at any rate, is the claim of the local biographer. The opportunity to furnish a room or a house decently on credit has been a blessing to thousands. It does not vio- late the good old rule, “Pay as you go— if you can’t pay don’t go.” The man who pays on installments is paying as he goes. He simply enjoys the use of the goods before the title to them is vested in him. This Is not an act of grace on the part of the seller—it is | good business policy, because it en- | ables him to sell more goods than he otherwise would. The installment system tends to mar- riage, to home -making, to the ralsing of families, to domestic thrift. Our | lares and penates are still mighty gods, | and the installment payments are in- | cense burned at their shrine. If Peter | Grogan really did invent the system,' | he deserves a monument.—New York | Mail and Express. L S S e e o ) | first production of the Mendelssohn une act operetta, “Return of the Roam- er,” In conjunction with the Homer Lind Liederspiel Company. Following is what the Morning Telegraph has to say of the opera and Miss Wilson: RETURN OF THE ROAMER. Herr Winter, Mayor.. Maurice Hagaman Frau Ursula, his wife Bessle Tannehill Herman Winter, thelr Wm. A. Wegener Lisbeth, their ward.. .Anna Wilson Kauz, & peddler and knave of all trades. . .. Homer Lind | | Martin, & ‘walte “Richard Marsh | Chief interest at the initial matinee | | yesterday of the Homer Lind Lieder- | splel Company at the Manhattan The-\ ater centered in the first production in | @ America of a one-act operetta by Men- delssohn called in English “Return of | the Roamer.” Musically, it was an am- | bitious effort for Mr. Lind and his con- freres, but all concerned acquitted | | themselves to the satisfaction of a| friendly though critical audience. 1 This little opera, light in vein, but | making requisitions on the highest or- | | der of vocal art, was written by the‘ man . ‘great composer seventy-five years ago, | and privately produced on the occasion | | of the silver wedding anniversary of hil‘ parents. It was never published or| | publicly performed during Mendels- | | sohn’s ~ lifetime, but “The Peddler's | Song” and gge or more of the trios have since beco favorites on the concert platform. Its conventional story, wearisome witicisms and unsingable lyrics, as ren- dered into English by H. J. Chorley and Willard Holcomb, are scarcely suitable to the modern stage, and it is only as a peg on which to hang the | music that the play can properly be | considered. Greater proficiency in act- | ing and stage management might have | !improved the general effect, but throughout the programme it was evi- dent that, with one notable exception, Mr. Lind had succeeded in obtaining good singers who were to a great ex- tent unable to act. Anna Wilson, both | ‘hlstrlonlcally and vocally, was excel- 1&nt in the part of Lisbeth in the Men- | delssohn operas. notable for the b tures. One s uty of its stage pic- depicting an apple ADVERTISEMENTS. orchard in aut n, is declared to be ‘:.h beautiful setting shown in any theater this season. most The life of Edgar Allan Poe has been dr;inn:nz-’—d by George C. Hazelton, CHR!STMAS author of “Mistress Nell,” and the play, VER LA“D called “The Raven,” is to be produced at o \Iam'/‘o Campbell with Fredert the star. It will | be presented in New York as one of the | holiday offerings. ‘ | - George Ade is in New York and will remain until his n comedy, “The | Ccunty Chairman,” which has been | very successful in Chicago, is produced Wallack's Theater. New Yorkers MONTHLY A cover in four colors. The prettiest design of 2 e their t opportunity any of the Christmas iving week to judge Mr. Ade as : |a writer of straight comedy. In “The Magazines. | County Chairman” types of the Middle Western village are introduced into a wholesbme love . story. There are ‘ & P | strongly dramatic moments, but the | ;wmy lines and funny situations in The most popular mag- “The County Chairman” give it the ‘n—us George Ade stamp. . . | azine in the West. | In the same production gn which | Denis O'Sullivan has just made such a delightful stir in London, “The Duch: | ess of Dantzic,”. another Californian, | Holbrook Blinn, 1s sharing equal hon- [ors. I noted the fact some Sundays ‘ago. printing a few of the comments |on Mr. O’Sullivan’s part of the per- formance. There are now to hand some S(TI(!f‘isms of Mr. 3linn’s work, that | are no less pleasing to the local patriot. iTh« young actor, by the way, was a | ;Stan{ord student, and a graduate of | the local Boys' High School. For the | last six years Mr. Blinn has been in | S Under ment. new manages - Intensely interesting. Timely articles. The best Western | . | London, gaining a steadily larger | writers. share of public favor. “The Duchess % [of Dantzie,” the new mmamlc opera | New, crisp, bright |]|by Henry Hamilton and 1van caryn, Mr. Blinn as Napoleon seems to have | made the hit of his career so far. The | opera is a setting of the “Sans Gene” | play of Sardou, and it will readily be ‘ imagined that the Napoleonic role is one prolific of opportunities. Mr. Blinn seems to have availed himself of them all, from the following flattering com- men!s The Daily Telegraph—From the | cloud of impressions arising out of | a first night at the theater some | chief memory generally emerges. A | scene, a situation, a character, a mel- ody, an individual performance—any of these it may be that makes dim the rest and holds the center of our recollec- tions. It is safe to say that Saturday’'s audience came away from their intro- duction to “The Duchess of Dantzic” | with one eclipsing memory in their | minds—the figure of the tyrannical lit- tle Corsican holding court in the splendor of the Tuileries. It was a strange thing and one that establishes a record. Hitherto in the music play, whatever its style and description, the character that speaks has played a very mcdest second fiddle to the character that sings. On Saturday, however, one saw the singers out-paced by an actor, the first Napoleon, with never a musical note to utter, towering over his tuneful comrades. That admirable and clear- | cut piece of acting wz3 the night’s most magnetic feature, and Mr. Holbrook Blinn, fortunate in his opportunity, walked away. with the laurel ,wreaths. Incidentally the brilliancy of Mr. Blinn’s portrait of Napoleon is worthy to be noted. 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A POOR 'RELATION An_ideal performance, ONE MORE WEEK quaintly humorous, at. & Sun., 150 to 80o, he Romance of Russia, A EOYAL PRISONEE. MAYE ‘ GENTRAL "= Phone, South 333, Lase | MATINEE TO-DAY—TO-NIGHT LAST TIME. 'MIDNIGHT IN CHINATOWN. TO-MORROW NIGHT—ALL NEXT WEEK. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDATY. The Massive Melodramatic Spectacle, THE COUNTERFEITERS. One of the Stupendous Successes of the Ameri« can Staxe. Rich Comedy! | | | Heart Interest! eat Cast 10c to 50 10c, 15e, 250 Exciting Plot! Thrilling Climaxes PIICES Ifi. enings. OPERA GRAND:ous: fthe Combination Season o Qoo wesk ou17 ATINEE TO-DAY Rowland and Clifford’s Gigantio Scenlo Maelo~ drama, OVER NIAGARA FALLS Astounding Electrical Effects. All Special Scenery. Excellent Company of Eastern Players. Don’t Miss the Marvelously Real- istic Niagara Falls Scene. P!lCES Evenings. Matinees Peecles Commencing MONDAY, November 0. Return Engagement One Week Only wiil CREENBAUM Royal Italian Band DIREC ELLERY’S 50 Men UPEIII%OI‘:EQIL&I{_II‘JSIIYH IIGHT.I 50 Men PROGRAMME CHEANGED NIGETLY. WEDNESDAY NIGET—SPECIAL WAGNER NIGHT. SATURDAY NIGHT—POPULAR RAG-TIME SMOKXKER. Matinees Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Children at matinees, 25¢ to all parts of the house. Special popular prices for this engagement—Re- served seats 75c-50c, and three hundred at 25¢; box and loga seats §1. Box office, Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, Next Wednesday, December 2. EXTRA! EXTRA! ELLERY'S ROYAL ITALIAN EAND At the Marvelous Greek Theater, Berkeley, Benefit of U. C. Dramatic and Musical Fund. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 9, AT 2:30. Admission 50c. Take 1 and 1:30 boats. Tickets at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s. ALHAMBRA THEATER FRIDAY AFTERNOON, Dec. 4, 1803. At 2:30 O'Clock. 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