The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-18
ADJUSTMENTS.
MidWeek Notes of Business at the
Different TheaterS.
She Stops to Conquer" Now and Forty
Years AgO-Mr. James O'Neill-" The
Private Secretary Etc.

choicest players OF ms Day let We are
willing to wager there are many IN this city
who remember the halcyon days Of the
drama in New York. and can remember
too. the line Of old English comedies Burton
produced, including Goldsmith's She
Stoops to Conquer" that Stuart Robson
has mbibed such a liking for and has re-
'vived lust now with such mastery effect at
the Baldwin Some Of the fr0sty-p0wed
theater-goers Of forty years ago sat IN the
auditorium Of the Baldwin on Monday and
Tuesday night and recalled, no doubt a
Burtouian cast of this comedy, Let's think.
tt would run about in this way: Tony
Lumpkin. Burton; Hardcastle, Blake;
Young Marlowe, Lester Nolack; Hastings,
George Jordan; Kate HadcastIe, Mary
TAYLOR: Miss Neville, Mrs. Sims; Mrs
Harjcasue, Mrs. Hoey OF Mrs. Hughes
And if perfectly unbiased and free from
the prejudices that years are ant to
engender, the old theateT-goeTs aforesaid
would, at the same time, be fain to confess
there was not much 10 choose between me
players of forty years ago and those Of to-
day. 4 little more breadth and uuc uon,
perhaps, IN such characters as Lumpkln
and HaTdcastlp, and iD the TCySteTeTS al Inc
Three Jolly Pigeons but TO all lntentS
aud purposes they would admit that Gold
smith is quite as well interpreted By Rob
son and bus players now as he MAS by Bur
ton and his company four decades ago. No
oldsteT, we may add, but what would hasten
10 cOncede also that the exquisite realism ID
the setting of the Baldwin stage, seen By
the lights Of the times and read Oy cont'm-
pOTRneOus history, has never been equaled
IN America, where tie production II an En-
glish comedy was concerned. As we have
Burton IN our eye, it is just as we'll 20 say
that never, ID all his career did ltenter INTO
his calculation t. dress and mount one OF his
pieces q such q finished way as Robson has
chosen TO DO "She Stops to Conquer"
And for very good reasons Coin was
scarce. Actors did more work in those days
than tie stage carpenter and maChlnlSt
Nj James O'Neil is now bidding fare
well, so far as this city is concerned, in a
one weeks engagement at the Bush-Street,
70 bis Old friend aud f0rtune-maker, Monte
Crist0." 1t is not mounted as brilliantly,
nor is he playing Edmund DanJes with the
same spirit that he did in the earlier years
ois<h association WIKI the Dumas drama.
10 fact O'Neil and the CQun' are about to
part company, for the actor g had for
some time chat tired feeling, lie only
remedy for VII eli is a new play, and that
he has found in Henry de BeSUgenCy."
de has long been off with the Old love, and
viii soon be on with the new. We met
O'Neiu tie other day aud had a long and
pleasant chat about old times, in which the
Passion Play episode waSiult forgotten.
We learn from him that the text Of this
work has been thrown into 0TatO1o form,
and il Is more than probable it will be pro-
duced at the Chicago Auditorium On as
grand or grandeT styIs-alI the Il &c pictures
and settings being pTeseTVtd-as II was
originally at the Grand Opera House IN San
Francisco during the forthcoming Column
bian Exposition al the lake city. That
WIde-aN2ke manager, MI David Heud +
son, has the project under consideration
Only O'Neil. viii not be IN It. He never
sang & note IN his life.
They are doing very good work at the
Alcazar with The Private Secretary; bet
ter than they thought they would do when
they put tie piece on for Mr. Longs benefit.
There was a sort Of latent feeling that, O5-
bourne and Slockwel being away, the ven
ture would be made with a crippled cast.
Bat this was & mistake, There has been an
agTeeaU disappointment all round. Mr..
Leo Cooper has come out so strongly as
CEttermole that the original Of the role is
not missed. Mr. Cyril Young plays Gibs on,
The COckney tailor, with greater YTaisem-
blance than Mr.. >tuCkwell, because he has
the advantage OF an English manner and.
smack Of Bow Bells ID his spec ch and as
for Long, he ClapS you on the Rev. Nj.
Spauldng's character with all the ease and
comfort that he would assume well-WOrn
shoe. M White treasurer, and MI Snap
per. secretary, take a benefit al this house
on Friday night next
Tomorrow evening Mr.. Roland Reed will
dismiss The Club Friend" at the New
California 10 favor Of his old success, LEND
Ae-Your Wife" Reed has done very well
with tie piece first named, better, perhaps,
than IL deserved; but, ike every popular
actor, be has the faculty Of casting a sort Of
personal glamour over doubtful and bad
spots IL the performance, and induigent
eyes always faI 70 mark them, lie viii
play the week out with Lend Ne YouT
Wife, and then comes the Hanlons' pantO-
mime spectacle, "SupeTba."
THE Merry War will continue at the
TiyOl all this week.
"The Marjolaine" is the attraction at The
OTpheum.
Forget Ne Not" in which Miss Lorraine
Hollis challenges attention as the adven-
tUress, Stephanie de Mohrivart, will be con-
tnued at the Bijou until Friday tomorrow
evening, when The Clemenceau Case" will
be presented, with Miss Hollis as la, of
course. We had thought this WTetched in
suit 10 dramatic art had come to a natural
and deserved death on our local stage; but
it appears Miss Hollis has undertaken TO
galvanize tie supposed corpse into tempo
raTy life. There Is 10 reason for its exist
ence, excepting that this young lady seems
determined TO make a dramatic mistake
whenever it is possible 10 do so.
Pantomimel What memories of bygone
productions and familiar scenes the name
Rwakensl The Ravels. that neveT-to-be-
forgotten family Of artists, and George Fox,
the world-Tenowned Humpty- Dumptyl To
be sure, their offerings would not be consid-
cred spectacular in the present era OF ex-
travagant expenditure In the dramatic
world; and so their worthy successors, the
Hanl0ns, knowing the advanced ideas OF
amusement patrons, have adopted in a great
measure the form Of pantomime, adding to
it a varied attractiVeness Of specially ov-
elites and scenic splendOls unknown to
their predecessors in this popular line OF
entertainment. "Superbd," which will be
seen here next week, is said to outriVal all
their former efforts in this direction.
MI Walter j. Lamb is here in advance of
COnreid's Opera Company. that opens next
Monday at the Bush-street Theater with
MllOcker's new American work, Poor
Jonathan" This company will be remem-
bered for the brilliant success it met with at
the Grand Opera House some two years ago
in - The Kings Fool" Conreid is a thor
Oughly good leader and manager, and his
people are always iTst-class. He will have
no others. If they are not Al when en-
gagged be soon makes them so by constant
and intelligent drilling and rehearsing.
The next musical event for which our
public is on the tiptoe of expectation will
be the production Of the Stewart-O' Connell
opera, =" Bluff King Hail." at the Grand
Opera House next Wednesday evening for
the benefit OF the Art Association. From
the spirited bidding at the auction sale OF
seats yesterday all our society people are
for the enterprise, 1t would seem, heart,
soul and purse THO sale of premiums was
the most successful ever held In this city