The morning call., 1892-09-14
IT ECHOES EMPYILY NOW.
Mr.. BouVier's Baldwin and
It's Vacant Chairs.
POOR LILLIAN RUSSELL
shortsighted Management Causes the Singer
Much Chagrin-Ths Tivoli Draws
Big Audiences.

We notice that Alfred Bowler OF the
Baldwin. who seems to have learned moth
| ing by experience as manager and less as
| a nolitician. and has forgotten as we'll the
ordeals through which his superior, Al Hay
man, passed in this city, is advertising the
list of the local daily papers in which his
house advertises.
Publicity, he must know. is the lie of his
trade and if he have any sense he ought to
draw deductions from the results of such
advertising in the papers he names. What
are these results?
We dropped into the Baldwin last evening
and found that to hear Russell In La
Cigae" the auditorium was only half filed.
There were nearly six vacant rows of seats
in the dress circle. THE circus" they say,
us the cause" Nonsense when offered 10
view OF such tbeater as the Baldwin. The
T. Henry French boom has failed is the
fact.
1t is. as Thaekeray SAYS in one of his
essays, case of being found out. The
public have seen Lillian's dresses and are
satisfied. They have seen Lillian act and
heard her sing and are dissatisfied. They
hear better singer at the 1ivoil, al less
price. and are not willing TO pay dollar
and a half for Russell.
Now, Mr.. Bowler, seeing that your sys-
TEN OF business is 10 make up Tor limited
attendance by decreasing your advertising
media, had you not better cut of few or
all Of the papers from the list you publish.
and cOnfine yourself to dead walls, shop
windows and dodgers?
Six vacant lows! You will save money
by it in a small way. Keep friends with I.
Henry French. the entrepreneur, who has
lip like motherleSs foal at his prospective
losses, and, perhaps, make peace with your
superior, Al Hayman. when he arrives and
inquiries about bis percentages.
We are sorry for one member OF this COM
pany. Henry I. Carleton, whose mind must
be filled with memories of his former vocal
istie greatness and popularity. Last night,
although singing with bis old verye. he did
not receive a hand tor his best work-the
small audience seemed to be as dull as the
fat weed that rotS at ease by Lethe's wharf.
They propose 10 run LA Cigale" for
three weeks. BY that time. il will be. from
present appearances, 1.-THE dry clcala," as
Tennyson says, THAT sings at eve"
The Tivol had quite numerous auditory
last evening 10 hear The Musketeers," an
oft-repeated but always acceptable Varney
opera. We were particularly impressed by
Mr.. Phil BraDson's rendering of Narcisse
de Brissac. captain of the Red Musketeers.
he seems TO nave rpgained all his old vocal
power. and excels himself In the solo of the
first act, repetition of which was effusively
Tedemanded. Miss Oracle Plaisted. too, is
singing with an unexpected vivacity and
acting with more power and gracefulness
than formerly. Mr. Arthur Messmer as
Goutran de Snlanges is maintaining his
prestige as a tenor So are Olmi, Hartmann
and knight in their respective lines. II one
wishes 10 hear comic opera we'll sung, and
not at an exhaustive price, the Tiyoli just
now Is the best place 20 hear ii.
The Grsmer-Greene play, 1.-The New
South" is expected TO run for three weeks
at the theater where il is now play ed 1t
Will be trimmed up in the meantime to
catch the Eastern people.
The Aleazar is Drifting Apart" from
public interest.
There is nothing worthy of note at the
new California.
The Bush.street is waiting for Dan
Sully, should he choose to come.
Park, Market street, has strong attraction
for the public. young and old, just now
Last evening the vast area was crowded,
new life seemed infused into all tie spec
tators. Whether the visitor looks at the
menagerie. the graceful hOrsemanship in
the ring, or is disposed to glut the sense Of
sight by dwelling on the spectacular gl0ries
OF Solomon and his temple, with his yisi-
tant, the Queen Of Sheba, be will find in
each OF these new wonders for the mind
TO dwell upon, new food for thought. Rob-
inSOn's circus, as we see it now, is re-
maTka bic example Of what enterprise can
do in the show business. II is a magnificent
evolution from the early sawdust period,
and the wonder Of the age