The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1904, Page 19

FR ANCISCO* CALL, SUNDAY, MAY LANCHE PARTINGTON =, if you care to vaudeville house in the ed, and questioned from Folies Bergeres, n house, than the -I've sung in ail of I'd rather d than a sec- You don’t I like to sing. I y I bad on lessons— but five—from Dr. 1 studied with n, too, in Parts. I adore Rehan’s! Brown—no, amy velvet! I want my voice only »r speaking purposes, though.” e And next year you do ‘Humpty e nodded. g g 1 is season—" » down to good hard work in w aude- sques—hope I'll get good, & parts”—she wished. I began at the i then Miss Aug's pickles ar- h some unimportant broiled nd French frieq and things nd things.” I took teast would touch nothing we got to table talk a8 sh, m st have killed horrid,” sh~ decided, crisply now, a lishing a pickle. “I dom’t like I tell you m't like erry’s, don't like that anything. I like kee 3 and cabbage and—whisper m, you kraut. Pretzels are my ado- g too! And I don't like jewelry.” T t to London?” I looked at the long string of irregu- lar pearis round her neck. “Oh, these are different. These ater of ell, I love them. I do e house everything but sleep in "em.” It’s the only onefthe King, ~ Somehow, then, after much gossip, of England goes to. I stayed there nine We got back to the London theaters, on,” she sigk e Th ITH THE PLAYER + % ¢ SOUBRETTE WHO WILL .4PPE:~1R AT FISCHER'S THIS WEEK TALKS OF HER CAREER. g of a Joan ¥y, that she >u know, = was of woman just for a minute.” Awkwardly expressed, perhaps, but I think you will look far before find- ing a finer bit of feminine chivalry. 1 haven’t fou BILL OF GOOD THINC READY FOR THEATER S THIS WEEK Beginning to-morrow night at the Columbia Theater Maude Adams will enter upon her first engagement in San Fra i h be: a star. co since The other event of the week will be the reopening to-night of Fischer's Theater. The house has been much im- proved and will begin the new on with an entire new burlesque company, and the management claims the theater is now one of the safest and west of New York. most comfortable e Nothing but praise is heard for the new Neill-Morosco stock company that made its first appearance this week at the California. / B By special request Melbourne Mac- Dowell gives this afternoon at the Grand Opera-house a single matinee performance of “Gismonda.” To- night and for the remainder of the week the actor will appear in “The Empress Theodora.” A special mat- inee is announced for to-morrow. . . The Alcazar will have the stirring romantic play, “Toligate Inn,” for bill this week. They begin with a special Frohman to be leading woman of his companies. The contract is for five . years. With Miss Dora de Filippe in the - . . role of the doll, the favorite “Toy Ralph Stuast will Maker” will be revived for one week under the management of Ed Thur- at the Tivoli this week. Much curi- naer. osity is evinced at the appearance of matinee performance to-morrow af- ternoon. Bk M star next seaso M g Virginia Harned is to spend the sum- a new “doll,” ers vin &0 " Nen; A"": <o .k 3 ";: mer in .\usrz’n. and expects to sail mads the /part so happily. Known within the next two weeks. local playgoers. A special matinee e g is announced for to-morrow. 2T 8w The “Prince of Pilsen” was recently very well received in London. The Central also begins with a mat- - . . inee performance to-morrow and of- Cecilla Loftus Is to sail shortiy for fore the Jively thriller, “A Celebrated London to confer with Israel Zangwill S : over his mew play, “The Serio-Comic Pie e Marcel's living art studies are still GOVerness. the reigning sensation at the Orpheum and showdd not be missed. The new numbers for the week promise ex- cellently. LOr R In the suit brought by Louis James against the Oriental Hotel of Dallas, Tex., a verdict of $4000 was rendered . last Wednesday. Mr. James was ac- The Chutes Theater has a good bill. cused of stealing a pillow from the The Darwinian Temple, as they call hotel, and he brought suit for $20,000. the monkey-hbuse out there, has al- - - . ways several excellent turns. The Bostonians’ new opera, “The > Queen of Laughter,” was a great suc- NEWS OF HAPPENINGS "cess at its initial performance at the AMONG THE NEW AND Nixon Theater, Pittsburg. OLD STAGE FAVORITES . . - : The latest issue of the Dramatic Ermeti Novelll, the greatest Italian t . actor of the period, will make his first MIfTor of New York has these kind appearance in America next season. He w"';;:;;o::‘e‘_‘?‘? i;::c'isui'::m;::x. will bring his own company and will °T 8t, in D appear in a repertoire of his most suc- to gét a hearing for his two comic T " operas, “Prince Asmodeus” and “The cessful roles. g Lily of Che-Foo™: “Theodore Vogt, musical director The 10 per cent tax on playgoing deadheads in New York went into ef- and composer of San Francisco, gave fect last week at the Savoy Theater, &n orchestral rehelt,al of "the scores The first victim was Charles Cherry, °f tWo o(. his comic operas, ‘Prince Maxine Elliot's leading man. Asmodeus’ and ‘Lily of Che-Foo," at - - . the Knickerbocker Theater last W. H. Crane, John Drew, Margaret Thursday afternoon. An invited com- Anglin, N. C. Goodwin and Maxine El- pany, which included several well liot sailed for Burope last week on the known managers, singers and critics, Deutschland. was present. “Mr. Vogt's music is rich in balance The Iroquois Theater in Chicago has and melody and is suggestive of the passed into the hands of Hyde & Beh- old Italian school of composition. The man of Brooklyn and Harry Davis of orchestration, however, shows the in- Pittsburg. It will be devoted to vaude- fiyence of the German school. In the ville and will be ready l‘)y next season. gpening number of ‘The Lily of Che- Foo' there is a deal of delightfully w‘r;,f:;”mf:fifl',’,vh; C‘."‘f,‘:";dm:_ characteristic musical trickery, such which he will produce in this country 28 is to be found in Sir Arthur Sulli- next season. van's scores. Altogether the music is B W considerably above the present day Julia Dean has been signed by Daniel standard in New York. Mr. Vogt, ob- viously, piano b now does popular The two scores pla and they were m “The wo of and ‘The Lily of Che-Foo" as prac- tical operettas co of course, be in the leas ing the orches: mu The m time to say that that which shall manently above his hall bring about the “renaissance’ English musie. Dream of Gerontius” does indeed show a vital power, a soaring imagination, real “The a fervor of religious exaltation, a dramatic impulse, a command of the resources of choral and orchestral writing, that put it far above any other piece of sic brought forth in Eng- land for and that have conquered acceptance for it wherever it has become known, in Germany as well as in Eungland, and now here. But nothing eise that he has done has equaled this cantata in the hold it has taken upon the musical public. Not the overture “Cockaigne,” nor the songs entitied “Sea Pictures,” and “The Pipes of Pan,” nor the orchestral piece “Contrasts,” which completes the list of his compositions that had hereto- fore been heard in this city, are enough to confirm the impression -that “The Dream of Gerontius” has made. His earlier works are not widely known, and attracted little attention when they were first brought out. The next forth- coming products of his imagination will be watched with much eagerness, to see if they carry out the promise contained in his most famous work. Yet it must be remembered that Dr. Elgar is neither a young man nor a beginner. & o8 Mabel McKinley bhas written a two- act comic opera, the scene of which is laid in Washington. It is to be pro- duced next season with Miss McKinley in the leading role. . B - Annie Russell will appear next sea- son in “Brother Jacques,” a comedy from the Vaudeville, Paris. She will open at Washington, D. C., Novem- ber 1, AND THE MUSIC_FOLKC the M Club wa Emilia T yver to a great few songs good. bad ly scarred probably f the £ her stage adow Song™ is to protes to swallow a d was glad, the with quite charm singer. It showed of symw Mr. nied in sel X ! lowed with a selo minor ballade, dled. The audienc naturedly encored. favored us. U the “house” again politely The .pianist again promptl the opportuni The 2 deserved the sticky bit of schooiroom sentiment upon which Mr. Lew then wasted some taste and several minutes. Then the sin “Hush Thee, My sympathetic effec was encored—: then the Zu Singen, dered and at encore 1 fled. St. Clair wil venge one day. to sit through not tv encores when she is a comic queen. And I'll venture the ageous prophecy that it won't be long to thed. flacin > b cour~