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THE STAGE
"The Prisoner of Zenda" is a fascinating
drama, bu» I believe that nine spectators
out of every ten go home from It with a
hungry, unsatisfied yearning — not for
more "Zenda" (the play is already in four
acts and a prologue), but they want the
curtain to ring down on a more satisfac
tory conclusion.
Edward Rose has developed the love
making scenes between Princess Flavia
and her handsome impostor to as great a
length as Wagnerian love duos. Flavia
loves Rudolph; Rudolph loves Flavia.
She looks love into his eyes and he looks
love into hers, and the linked sweetness,
long drawn out, is so pretty and poetical
that the audience escapes by a hair's
breadth from being nauseated. But after
playing old gooseberry for so long people
are sent home with a vision of the lovers
torn apart forever. All the good love
making lost, and for the sake of what,
pray? Not even for the drunken, de
graded cousin. Once on the throne he
could have let Flavia go away with her
tourist. It is for the sake of the People —
with a capital P — the nation of Ruritania,
that pretty, red-haired Flavia is separated
from the hero she has loved through three
acts and is given to a drunken brute she
despises. "Hang the people!" your aver
age spectator wants to say. "They're not
in the play and I don't care what becomes
of them."
That's the selfishness of the average
theater-goer. Novel readers can swallow
tons of self-sacrifice for the sake of mere
abstractions, but the theater-goer refuses
to feel the least sympathy for what he
does not see with his own eyes and hear
with bis own ears. It is a beautiful idea —
in a novel — this nnselfish devotion of
Flavia to her people. The people's inter
ests are as much above those of the indi
vidual as patriotism is above mere per
sonal advancement, and in a novel, with
the help of description, we can realize it
ail, but in a play, bah ! we none of us have
enough imagination.
I don't think any other ending was
possible in "The Prisoner of Zenda," but
lhat does not prevent the denouement
from being apainst our theater - going
ethics. In a play we want to see the
Heroine's fate settled, either in the bonds
of holy matrimony, or else beneath the
sod. We can go home rejoicing when she
is led to the altar by the right man, and
we can take a grim satisfaction in seeing
.her stabbed, or poisoned, or burned to
death. But expect us to go home happy
when she is about to marry a weak
minded fool? No, Mr. Rose, we have not
fortitude enough to enjoy the sacrifice,
even for the sake of the people — with a
capital P-
But Hope and Rose have made a de
jightfnl play, if they do ask us to sympa
thize with an abstraction. They have
taken us back to the realms of romance,
out of which fin-de-siecle realists, with
their commonplace immorality, have
been trying so hard to banish us. There
may Dot be much romarice in our poor
workaday world, but we like sometimes
to dream idly that there is.
The theatrical welkin has been ringing
for a week with praise of Hackett's re
marKable versatility and his physical
charms. With that length of limb, dash
of manner and tenderness in love-making,
his doom as a matinee girl's idol is already
sealed. I nope he won't grow vain and
puffed up. They say he is a very nice
youth at present — he is on the right side
of 25 — and if he keeps his head he ought
to have a great future.
Could Rose have had a sneaking desire
to compose a grand opera when he
adapted "The Prisoner of Zenda" for stage
purposes? Something to out -Massenet
the "Navarraise" which takes the cake for
lots of noise and start;? ng accompaniment ?
Jf so, he has followed the Wagnerian
tradition of concealing the people who
pake this music, but there must be at
least a score of them behind the scenes
actively engaged in executing the "noises
without," which occur continually in
Rose's stage directions. No sooner is the
curtain up than night is made hideous by
midnight revelers brawling in chorus
without. Directly after a carriage is heard
rattling over cobblestones that make
Market street seem paved with velvet by
comparison. With much labored noise
the vehicle departs and Amelia Rassendyll
begins a laugh without, so long and so
sustained that a hyena's vocal efforts
would fade into little staccato interjec
tions compared with it. The rest of the
play is given to an accompaniment of
bands, shouting, hurrahing, national
anthem, storm, with thunder and light
ning, bells ringing, swords clashing, battle
raging, more shouting and more hurrah
ing, and the whole of the final scene is
gone through to the strains of a prolonged
dirge and the tolling of the passing bell
for the defunct Black Elphberg. It was
all very effective, but the tax on the
actors' lungs and voices would have been
relieved if they had burst into recitative.
Luckily most of them are blessed with
strong lungs, and can defy the tumult;
all but Miss Odell, whose voice is too
leggero for grand opera. Poor Miss Odell !
at times she has to labor to be heard till
the veins stand out on her neck like bits
of whipcord.
'La, la, la." This little interjection was
the crowning joy of "Trilby" audiences in
Martinetti'i time. Thp orchestra chuckled,
tlie family circle bubbled over with delight
and the gallery cried for more "La, la, la."
But alas! "When other iips," etc., and
the Trader lips are not framed on the
French model. We remember you, wicked
little Martinetti, when we see Mr. Trader
wearing your Zouave bloomers and giving
us '"La, la, la." His zou-zou is a sDorty
little American, who has never been to
Paris, not even on a cheap excursion — re
turn ticket, available for a month. As for
the chic and elan of the seasoned bouie
vardie — "La, la, la."
Speaking for my own part, I never could
see the fascination of Wilton Lackaye's
Svengali. He was too fat and flabby for
the role; his face was pasty and his hands
— the salient point in a hypnotist — were
as expressionless as two strings of sau
sages. His characterization was melo
dramatic and intense enough, but was
ghoulishly inhuman. Now, speaking for
my own part, I like Charles Kent in the
role much better. He is naturally built
on Svengali lines, has a lean and hungry
look and bis long, claw-like hands are
eloquently expressive. His conception of
the character is more bnrnan and possible 1
than Wilton Lackaye's and, best of all, he
understands and effectively expresses the
grim, saturnine humor which Dv Maurier
gave Svengali. Wilton Lackaye's Sven
gali had no more mirth than a cow.
"Trilby" has experienced a good many
changes in the cast since it was here last,
and much of the glory of the studio scene
has departed ; but given the new Svengali,
I like "Trilby 1 " better than of yore— if
the stage manager could but be persuaded
to abandon the ridiculous given calcium
light, with which the hypnotist's footsteps
are dogged all over thefstage.
Miss Edith Crane has come back from
Australia with a buxom air of blooming
health and a habit of making her head
quaver Jike an aspen leaf, that would lead
one at first sight to fear mat she had con
tracted the palsy. It is impossible, how
ever, that much hypnotizing can have
given the handsome young actress such a
dread disease; her very appearance, which
is blooming as that of a rose, soothes
all anxiety on that score. I suppose
Miss Crane thinks shaking her head
is an effective way of expressing
violent emotion, but a Jittle of
that sort of thing «oes a long way. I own
that it is a very difficult feat, a sort of pro
longed trill of the cranium, that would
send an ordinary woman to a darkened
room, to mop her aching brows with eau
de cologne. But Miss Crane seems to have
learned the art of continually wriggling
her head without suffering any after incon
venience, and she is so proud of her ac
complishment that she "does it and does
it again." It's very difficult. I wish it
were impossible.
The Jheater Hat
(A DRAMA OF THE DAY.)
Scene— One of the San Francisco theater*
Time— The present.
[Enter Mr. and Mrs. Eastern States.]
Mrs. E. S.— l never enjoyed a trip so much In
my life as this visit to California. The people
are so polite and considerate and the climate
is like champagne.
Mr. E. &— Yes; I feel at peace with all the
world.
[Enter three California belles in theater hats.
Th, y ocaipy the scat* in front of those of the
Eastern States and entirely obliterate the stage.]
Mr. E. H.— Great bcoul whm's this, i cau't
see anything.
Mrs. E. S. (sarcastically) — Except waving
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1896.
ostrich plumes. (Craning her neck) Has the
curtain gone up yet?
Mr. E. 8. (snappishly)—! don't know.
Mr.<. JE. S.— l mink it has. Its;ems to me
thut I tan henr some one talking, but those
hats muffle the sound.
Mr. E. S. ! 1 the hats.
Mrs. E. S.— Oh, Theodore, how wicked to use
such awful lai>sua?2, and you said a moment
ago that you felt at peace with all the world.
Mr. E. S.— So 1 did, madarae, but holy Jeru
salem! 1 did not know then that 1 was to
spend the evening in front of a milliner's bar
gain counter.
Mrs. E. B.— l'm sure the curtain has gone up,
for I can hear some one singing. Can't you
hear it, Theodore ?
Mr. K. S. (sullenly glaring at the hat*)— " So.
[A pause, during which Mrs. Eastern States
wriggles in her teat to get a peep at. the stage, and
tiie lines of evil on ilr. Eastern gates' face
harden.]
Mr. E. S. (jumping up)— I'm going to the man-
agement to complain. I paid to see the play,
and I mean to see it.
SCENE 11.
The Foyer— {Mr. Eastern States and a wily
impresario discovered in heated discussion.)
Mr. E. S.— Can't you make those women take
off their hais ? In the East-
Wily Impresario— ln the East, oh, yes. But
you're not in the East. In the West we have a
beautiful untrammeled liberty, k —
Mr. E. S.— Liberty? Rats! I call it license.
W. I. (shocked and pained)— Those ladies pay
for their seats p.ikl they have a rignt to occupy
them as they please.
Mr. K. S. (eagerly)— If I pay for my seat have
I a right to occupy it as I please?
W. I.— Certainly.
Mr. E. S.— From the floor to the celling?
W. I.— Thai's your privilege.
Mr. E. 8. {chuckling)— TV. en I'll wish you good
evening. (They part, with mutual expressions of
esteem and admiration.)
SCENE 111.
(The Theater.)
Enter Mr. Eastern States with a much befrilled
parasol.
Mrs. Eastern States (in surprise)— Theodore,
•what in the world made you go to ihe hotel for
my parr.sol?
Mr. Eastern States, without replying, opens the
parasol and holds it over his head. (Comviotion
in the theater and cries of "Throw him out! He's
crczyl"
Indignant Usher— Put that thing down.
Mr. E. S. (calmly)— Your manager told me the
seat was mine from the floor upward, and this
does not extend beyond my seat. Measure
and see. (Continues to hold up the parasol,
while the commotion increases.)
Wily Impresario (who has rushed to the
scene of action)— Sir, I implore you, desist.
Mr. E. a— l shall do nothing of the sort till
those ladies desist I— (Riot in the theater,
during the progress of which the three California
belles are htard loudly declaring that Mr. Eastern
Slates is an inconsiderate wretch and no gentle
man. Mr. Eastern Stales makes a gallant re
sistance, but he is finally overpowered -and is
thrown out < if the theater, struggling to the last,
white Mrs. Eastern States follows, weeping.
CURTAIN.
Ourselves — And still there are people who
say that woman — lovely woman — is crushed
beneath the iron heel of man.
Mabie Evelyn.
Qreerxroom Gossip.
She was a tall, distinguished young
woman, with fluffy blonde hair, and she
sailed up to Ferris Hartman the morning
| of the first rehearsal of "Babes in the
Wood," and said:
"Mr. Hartman, I am engaged dv the Ti
voli management to play prima donna
roles."
"Indeed," replied Ferris, politely lifting
his hat and casting a sidelong glance at
the cast of characters he held in his hand.
"You are? Ahem."
"Engaged as prima donna assoluta."
"Certainly, madame," said the come
dian, smiling inwardly as he saw that no
stranger was in the cast, "will you sing
here, please?" and he placed the aspiring
blonde among ti.e chorus girls.
For three days she warbled contentedly
among the damsels who do amazon
marches at the Tivoli. On the morning of
the fourth day she sailed up to Hartman
and asked him majestically: "Is this the
prima donna part that I'm playing, Mr.
Hartman?"
"No, madams, it is not," said Ferris
deprecatingly.
"What part is itf '
"Not any part. Yon are singing in the
chorus."
"The chorus!" gasped the blonde,
clutching at some of the scenery for sup
port. "I have been tricked into singing
in the chorus!" And then, drawing her
self ap proudly, she cried, "I wish you
good-day, Mr. Hartman," and sailed out
of the theater.
"And she h*s never been back again,"
said Ferris Hartman yesterday. "I have
not the least idea who she was. There
were a lot of new faces in the chorus when
I came back from my vacation, but what
on earth made that young woman think
she had been engaged as prima dorma — it
beats me."
Baldwin Jheater.
Only one more week remains of "The
Prisoner of Zenda" at the Baldwin
Theater.
On Monday evening, October 19, Julia
Marlowe TaDer and .Robert Taber be^in a
three-weeks' ensapement. They will open
in a new play, "Romola," fo/inded on
George Eliot's novel and written by
Elwyn A. Barron.
Every one knows that in her famous
Italian story George Eliot has paid little
attention to the mere development of the
plot; he has dealt in a bro.-id and virile
manner with the development of the
characters, particularly tiiose of the glit
tering but delusive Tito and the sensitive
noble Roraola.
It is said tnat the dramatist has suc
ceeded in transferring these characters to
his play very much as the novelist con
ceived them, and they doubtless afford
ample scope for the display of talent on
the part of the accomplished Julia Mar
lowe Taber and Robert, her husband.
Columbia Theater.
The last week of "Triby" opens at the
Columbia Theater to-morrow night. Al
though on its return visit, the play drew
large houses last week.
The new farce-comedy, "Town Topics,"
will be presented at the Columbia Theater
after "Trilby" by the Broadway Comedi
ans. It ik in three acts, interspersed with
specialties introduced by a chosen lot ot
furce-comedy people. Among the com
pany are William Keller, William H.
Mack, John Queen, James Tcnbrook,
Puillip Ott, Joseph Harrington, William
Nelson, Frank Caverly, A. M. Miller, Be
atrice Norman, Nellie Sennett, Lylian
Heckler, Luella Miller, Elise Nugent,
Laura Wainsford, Freda Peel and Mamie
Welty.
/U the Alcazar.
To-morrow evening the company at the
Alcazar will present Horace Wigan's play,
"The Wife's Peril." This is an emotional
drama, in which the strong human pas
sions are exemplified. It has not been
seen here for some years. Mrs. Langtry
made her first success in the piece. Friend
ship is the mainspring of the action.
The cast includes all the favorites, Sul
livan, Doane, Polk, May Buckley, Beatrice
Lieb and Miss Bates.
"The Wife's Peril" will be followed by
"An Ugly Duckling," connected with the
famous Belasco-Fairbanks suit in New
York and about which so much curiosity
was aroused. This will be its first repre
sentation here.
Qrand Opera-J-lous c.
L. R. block .veil is to close his engage
ment at the Grand this week with "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," in which he will act his
part of "Marks, tli« Lawyer." The play
will also serve to introduce to fcforosco's
patrons Waller Fessler, the new "viillain,"
who is to appear as Simon Legree. Little
Mildred has been specially engaged for
this performance to play Eva.
Much is expected of Lottie Williams
as Toppy. In the plantation scenes there
will be jubilee singers and champion
dancers. There will also bti the usual ac
companiment of bloodhounds, a trick
donkey and an elaborate apotteosis when
the angels will be sbown carrying little
Eva through the "Gates Ajar."
Ji\toli Opera-House.
The comic opera season at the Tivoli
Opera-house will be inaugurated to-mor
row evening with a presentation of a new
spectacular operatic burlesque in three
acts, entitled "The Babes in the Woods."
Ferris Hartman, the popular comedian,
found time, during the intervals in his
fishing this summer, to write this new
and very much up-to-date version of the
fairy taie. His work is a hodge-podge of
local events, and some of the latest songs
received from the East and London. The
topics of local interest include a good deal
about a famous will case and a parade of
the young Jadies of the chorus in the cos
tunips of San Francisco bicycling clubs.
Miss Lilly Post, a primi donna well
known In this City, will make her reap
pearance in this work. The rest of the
cast will include: Elvira Crox Seabrooke
and Maurice Darcy as Tommy and Sally,
the two poor little rich babes; John J.
Raffael and Bernice Holmes, as Lord and
Lady Macasser; Ferris Hartman as Weary
Willie, and Dusty Roads, his partner, will
be portrayed by W. H. West; Rtiys
Thomas as the Doctor; W. H. Tooker as
the school director known as Uncle Josh.
Special scenery and costumes have been
made for "The Babes in the Wood."
/U the Orpheum.
The Hawaiian Band and Glee Club have
proved such pleasing offerings to Orpheum
audiences that Gustave Walter has re-en
gaged them for another week before let
ting them depart for their island borne.
The Mengler sisters, who are said to be
a remarkable pair of soubrettes, make their
debut at the Orpheum to-morrow, direct
from the Alhambra Theater, London.
The Lucifers also make their appear
ance this week, and some very funny work
is expected from them. They are acro
bats and manage to do all their
athletic feats in a way that provokes
laughter. Ando, Omne and Little Al
ricnt are a trio of Japs who are expected
to do some very clever juggling, balancing
and sleighr-of-hand irickn. C. H. Unthan
has been retained and will perform more
wonders for a man born without hands.
Gertie Cochran will also remain, and
Master Waiter Leon has new imitations to
»render. Riley and Hughes, the planta
tion dancers, are also to be held over.
y\t the Ghutes.
Enthusiasm on the subject of shooting
the chutes is still unabated, as the attend
ance at this Haight-street resort on fine
days attests. The performances of Pirri,
the demon bicyclist, and Vosmer, the
aeronaut, are enjoyed by all. The man
agement will shortly add other attractions
to their list; Peary's north pole expedi
tion, in miniature, will soon be seen, and
also the famous gold piano, which won
the prizes at the World's Fair and the
Midwinter exposition. On Monday next
a six-day bicycle contest will commence
between picked men from the San Fran
cisco Road Club and the California Cycling
Club. The winning club will be awarded
a silver cup, and three other prizes will be
given to the best individual riders.
Hir\richs-Beel Goncerts.
The first of the series of thn-e Hinrichs-
Beel symphony concerts is to take place
at the Baldwin Theater next Friday after
noon at 3:15. There will be over fifty
musicians in the orchestra, and the pro
gramme will include: Vorspiel, "The
Meistersinger" (Wagner); symphony,
"The New World" (Dvorak); waltz from
ballot "Dornroeschen" (Sleeping Beauty)
(Tschaikowsky); overture, "Leonore No.
3" (Beethoven). Maurice de Vries will be
the vocal soloist at the first concert.
Dramatic Brevities.
The entire Mapleson Imperial Opera Com
pany will arrive in New York before the end
of next week.
Wilton Lsckaye is in possession of a new play
called "Captain Bob," with Virginia as the
locale of the story.
"The Geisha," the new Japanese opera, by
the author of "Tha Gaiety Girl," is coming to
San Francisco in the spring.
"A Knight of the i,ogt Cause" Is the name of
a curtain which the author, George S. W'heatly,
a young San Francisco playwright of some
promise, has had accepted by the manager ot
A California Actress.
Miss Anna Daly, the clever young California actiess, is about to leave for tbe East
to join Rose Coghlan's company in New York for a tour of the Southern States,
which begins November L Next Thursday evening a farewell benefit performance
will be tendered Miss Daly in Native Sons' Hall, on Mason street. It is expected that
Miss Italy's many friends will rally in forco to say good-by to the yountr actress, who
has always so cheerfully given her talent and energies in the cause of local charity.
Mis 3 Anna Daly won the admiration of the Rose Coghlan Company, as well as of the
San Francisco public, when she appeared as Mercedes, at the California Theater, last
summer in a dramatization of "Carmen." Her work showed such remarkable grace
and ability for a debutante that Miss Rose Coghlan decided at once to secure the
young Californian's services for her next tour.
the Columbia Theater School of Acting. The
leading role, Aunt Phcebe, an ole black
mammy of ante-bellum days, is said to be a
clever piece of original character drawing.
"Darkest Russia," the melodramatic success
by Grattan Donnelly, is to be the opening pro
duction of the season at the California Theater.
Delia Fox Is now on her way to the coast,
preparatory to playing a limited engagement
at the Baldwin, following tho Tabera' season.
ALL CONDEMN IT.
fetors and Actresses CjiVe Their
VieWs orv the Theater
JHat.
James K. Hackett is delighted with the
Baldwin management's enterprise in try
ing to squelch the theater hat. He Bays
he has sat in audiences himself, and has
sadly realized the need of such a reform.
"In New York," said Mr. Hackett, "all
the best theaters have managed to sup
press the hat, for I have noticed lately
that the ladies sit during the perform
ances either without hats or with very
small bonnets. The next time I play in
San Francisco I fully expect that the femi
nine portion of the audience will be minus
the much-discussed theater hat."
"Oh! take 'em oft," exclaimed Jennie,
the genial Mme. Vinard, of "Trilby"
fame. "I sat behind a lady the other day,
in one of your San Francisco theaters, and
she had on a regular cart wheel. 'Will
you please take off your hat, or change
seats with me?' I said to her — and she took
it off. I wish they'd do here as they do in
Australia. However poor the women are,
they take off their hats. Even tbe little
girl in the gallery never sits with anything
on her head. There was a touching' thing
happened in Melbourne, at our farewell
performance. The crush was immense.
One woman had gone to the gallery in a
fine new theater hat, which she took off
during the play. She was so jammed by
tbe people going out, that she could not
get it on again, the hat was trampled
under foot, and the poor lady had to go
home without anything on her head. Yes,
that's a case I heard of personally, and it's
just one instance of virtue not being re
warded."
L. R. Stockwell says that an actor may
not be able to see the theater hats from
the stage, but he can feel the restlessness
of the audience, caused by unsuccessful
efforts to peer at him round the obstruc
tive millinery. "I don't mind little hats
in the theater, they do not obstruct things
much, but big hats certainly react on the
performers. I believe in time the
ladies here will do as they have done in
New York — take the big hat off. Last
winter I was in New York for six months,
and noticed that even at matinees, where
there was no sort of full dress, the ladies
removed their hats. They were good
natured about it, too. One day at the
American Theater, I remember overhear
ing a lady, who was behind a big hat say,
'Just my luck to get behind that.' The
lady who was wearinz it at once turned
round and said: 'Why if it annoys you,
madam, Til take it off.' That is what I
call being amiable."
Lew Hawkins, the colored monologue
artist, has pondered long and deeply on
the subject of theater hats. He says he
first gave his attention to them during a
tour through New England with Prim
rose & West's Minstrels. "Big hats were
all the go just then, and I often saw that
people in the audience who were hidden
behind them would get mad because they
could not see anything and go out in the
middle of the performance. This is what
I'd do if I owned a theater: I would block
out a part of it for big hats, and all the
ladie-t who wore them would have to sit
there and right it out among themselves.
"Just imagine about two hundred ladies
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GREATEST LYCEUM SUCCESS,
THE PRISONER jamesTr^kett
(T\C 7-pMnA And Other Members of the Original
\jr JLt LJr\) Lyceum Theater Cast.
An Intensely Interesting Drama, Beautifully Presented and Faultless In Detail.
JBSTTHK BIG SUCCESS OF THE SEASON^
EXTRA— Beginning MONDAY, Oct. I 9— Limited Engagement,
Julia Marlowe Taber 3 Robert Taller,
WITH THETR OWN COMPANY, IN THE FOLLOWING REPERTORY;
FIRST WEEK: ... SECOND WEEK: ..."
Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- i.R,»«nT > •' Monday, Tuesday and Saturday Nights
day and Saturday Matinee, BOaOLA> .."BOJIEO AND JULIET"
By Elwyn A. Barren, founded on George Wednesday and Thursday
Eliot a novel. .................. ..."TWELFTH NIGHT"
Thursday a d Friday ...-AS YOU LIKJS IT" rnday .... M rj CH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"
Saturday Night -
...."MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" Saturday Matinee "AS YOU LIKE IT"
All Presented With Complete and Beautiful Scenery and Powerful Casts.
-tar Seats for MAKLOffK-TABIiK Ready Thursday, October 15.
MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
'•' •■'■-" ' The Handsomest Family Theater la America.
WALTER M0R05C0......'. .; Sole Lessee anl M«na*»j j
THIS AFTERNOON rnTT-Cip-fp >Dr\"Vr A\T 7 A AUGUSTIN DALY'S I
AND to-nighi,... lJtlJli ISlljr JDUIN AIM Zj A. dainty comedy.
COMMENCING MONDAY ...........: OCTOBER 12, 1896,
Farewell Week— L. R. STOCKWELL as Marks Farewell Week
In an Elaborate Scenic Revival of
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Introducing: the Powerful Actor, WALTER FESSLER, as Simon Legree.
-A. CAST -WTITHOUT AN EQUALS
VICTORY 8ATEMAN......... ..........EL1ZA 'V LITTLE MILDRED. .......EVA
HOWARD KYLE UNCLE TOM Js LOTTIE WILLIAMS..... ........TOPSY
Colored Jubilee Singers! Ferocious Bloodhounds! A Trick Donkey !
EVENING PRICES-lOc, 25c and 50c. MATINKES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
TUP r»UTTTro and GREATEST
I rl X l^rlU 1 ho. SCENIC RAILWAY
1 1 1 i-d W1 1 W A t-(W, QN EARTH-
OPEN DAILY FROM 1 TO 11 P. M.
2UEOJXTS. :F\ j3l. JUL AGrIISTEL I — .
Greatest Saxophone Soloist In the World.
THIS AFTERNOON AT 4:30 ANTJ THIS EVENING AT 10,
ANTONIO PIRRI!
Will Coast the Chutes on a Steams Bicycle.
Master John Qleason, the Boy Drum Major I
Military Concert. Mullen Sisters, Cornetists—
And Beautiful Stereopticon .Views in the Open Air.
BICYCLISTS' WEEK COMMENCES TO-MORROW
San Francisco Road Club and California Cycling Club Will Compete for
Valuable ; Frizes.
Admission. 10 Cents. Children Including Kerry- Go-Rtmnd Ride. 5 Cents.
f\ O TIVOLf OPERA-HOUS2
' : '\ ~ If i^( m \ ]*i f*\ fl* ''-■ Mki.Kbsmti»e Kret.inq. Proprietor & M»o»3«c
■■' VJI 1 A ■" 101 ) I L A J Li TO-NIGHT NIGHT
V\A/WV V/ Ealfe's Ballad Opera, i
Belasco, Doane & Jobdaw. .Lessee? & Managers. . ' " : ** ■ SATAN F I I A"
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING __ " -QB— ~
I-ast Performances of The Power of Love,
'^>--w^^«-«s^^^-^--^v^--w^^^--^-«-w^^^ TO-MORROW EVENING
ilfll Snnirn I IPP 111 The Opening Comic Opera Season!
MfIKK t-ll 1 Iff- l" BABES IN THE WOOD
111 Hal It IL U ,|l L I Operatic Burlesque, In 3 acts, by Ferris Hrirtman.
■ ■■■■■■■■■■■» ■»■■ «■ ■ .. — — Urst Appearance of --
"*y*' — "T <VW WWWAWW^ MISS LILLY POST,
Preceded by Sidney Grondy'a One-act Comedietta, '■') Pr Keappewanc« P o'f n0 "
•^^^.,^l,^-^^^ ' -FERRIS HAt: TMAN—
1■ * ■ tinn <ob *» • EKk ** ■■>■«%• The * avortte Comedian.
IN HONOR BOUND! -^g^^-
™ BALDWIN THEATER.
PRICES-Evening: 15c, 25c, 35c and 50o. S IM? E I HINRIOHS-RFFI
Matinee: 15c, 85c and 350. SKATS I "' n " IUn ' J BfctU
Secure Seat, by Telephone. Blac k 991. £oWJl\| STMPHOM CONCERTS
MONDAYETENING .....October 13 (ORCHESTRA Or ?S0
i MRS. LANGTRY'S BIG HIT. . FIRST CONOB3RT
' V NEXT FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS
THE WIFE'S PERIL! -«SJ«r-
An intense Emotional Drama of the Times. , .'. Brilliant Programme, Including
— — DVORAK' NEW WORLD SYMPHONY;
I COMINO-The Big New York Success, Aria From "Flying Dutchman."
mllfl V lUTf I L r I i'iiifi ? - MAURICE DE_VKIES. SOLOIST.
1)\ILI l/llUlLliill I S 6 ? 1 *?? (Inclndln-.- reserved) ...... ';..-.»i.00
I •■:■■:-■■■-■- .- ■..^■■a.-... J < iV3 -;^ : ,;, , .......... .-.,-... ..■,..; » err (Including re5erved).......:..... bo
GRAND PROMENADE^ CONCERTsT"
•■"■- — -UNDER THE AUSPICES OP THE——
German General Benevolent Society,
German Ladies' General Benevolent Society.
GUSTAV HINRICHS - - - - - Musical Director "
MESCHAIVICS'
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCT. 17 AND 18, 1896, AT 8P M. '
TICKETS, 50 CENTS.
suggestion were carried out a gentleman
who took a lady in a big hat would have
to suffer along with her. A peivleman is
not supposed to find any fault; hedaresn't
find any faun, but the second iim« he
went into the place reserved for bie hats
he'd insist on seeing: some of the perform
ance himself." Mr. Hawkins added he
had one other idea, but he feared it was
not a profitable one. "You might build a
theater expressly for big hats, but there 'd
be no money in it," he said, shaking his
head pensively. "I have figured it out,
and i ieel quite sure that notuing bat the
front rows would ever be sold."
"If you are in a box and the gentlemen
behind you like to stand up it's all right,"
said Elvira Crox Seabrooke, the Tivoli's
new soubrette, "but otherwise nobody
witn any respect for any one else would
wear one. The theater hat is dead ir» the
East. Frohman's Theater won't p.ljow ie
within their walls. I have not worn a hat
myself in the theater for six years. I was
engaged for three months this year at the
Summer Garden in Clevpland, Ohio. It is
ir. the open air, but no smokine i* allowed.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays were
the swell nights, and very fsjshionable
people go. Even there the ladies take off
their hats," and Mrs. Seabrooke laid a
perceptible stress on the word "ladies 11
which plainly intimated that vi her opin
ion the people "who hhd no respect for
any one else" are not to be included in
that category.
Gertie Cochran, the six-year-old memory
wonder at the Orpheum, has very pro
nounced views on the theater hat. "Those
great big things, with roses standing
straight up and feathers zoxdr every way?**
asked the phenomenon, waving her short
arms like a semaphore, in a vain effort to
indicate the geometrical proportions of
the reai theater hat. "Oh ! I would not
go to the theater in one of those things,
and I wouldn't let my dolly go, either,"
and Miss Cochran implanted a chaste kiss
on the china brow of "Trilby," her latest
and most cherished possession, "I'll just
show yon what I wear myself when I go
to the' theater, and Trilby is gome to have
one, too." The phenomenon bopped upon
a chair, and by standing on her tiptoes
was just able to reach from a hook a tiny
netted hood of red s:lk. She smooched
down her tumbled curls, carefully ad
justed the close-fitting bit of netting to
her head, and, tying the strings under her
chin, remarked, naively, "That's my
theater hat."
