The morning call., 1893-07-30

Despite the tightness of the m0nay market
and a reported paralysis in The local business
world II seems after all that San francisco is
10 have plenty OF amusement this summer.
With the exception of the AcaZar and the
Rush-street thea;ers all the legitimate play
houses are open and running TO full benches.
LeavItt, we are informed, proposes to open his
house in September, either under his own d.
rection or by an agent in whom he has con-
fdence and who has better acquaintance with
tie methods of San Francisco than the young
gentleman who acted as his locum teneDs
while ago and under whose administration
The house was closed for lack OF patronage.
There is stirring among the dry bones, too,
In the neighbOrhood OF the Alcazar, which.
since that theater closed ard the busting
George Walenrod is missing, contemporaneous
with the withdrawal of the Olympic Club from
the building, has been such dark and DESC
late vicinity that not even the incandeScent
light could put fair face on 1t. The growing
probability of midwinier fair ia Golden Gate
Park, and a consequent influx of people, inf1u-
ences the speculative mind to reopen the Aca-
Ear as regular theater If there be no specu-
latiOn in Wallenrod's eyes in regard 10 the mat
Ter two or three other persons are able to see
possibilities of coin by reilluming The foot
lights of this theater and ordering the
play to begin. With its probable reopen
OF the closure from the Orpheum also. and the
hum OF active life will be heard
once more whereEnow. as; the lrlshman
remarked. there is nothing stirring but
Gently confirmed on appeal, closing all the
dives and cellar quasi theaters is having It's
effect, TOO on the galleries OF all the legitimate
houses aud Is. no doubt, the cause, among
others, leading TO better feeling among active
managers and at The same time fostering the
idea of putting theaterS now closed in the
IN N - hA NhntPsnp1A rational
amusement in a community so mercurlal as that
of San Francisco i always desirable, and there
Is no KIND OF relaxation that possesses these
quail lies III such iigh degree as system OF
well-regulaled theaters. They act as safety
valves.
"Aristocracy.
Bronson Towards new comedy drama,
"Arstocracy," which ran for five months al
Pamer's Theater, New York, lasi season, will
be given its first presentation III this city at the
Baldwin Theater to-morrow evening. Howard
spent over two years in writing this play and il
is consider ed The best. as it has been the most
successful up 10 date that he has written.
PRECIs OF THE PLAY.
"Arisrocracvn deals with social life and tells
the story of California family suddenly grown
rich striving after society position. The ad-
ventures of jefferson stockton, ali al chi million
ARE and sef-made man OF San Francisco, de-
string 10 buy for his wife and child social recog
milton in the highest circles, and who sets out 10
do il as be would proceed 10 buy any other pur.
chasable commodity furnish The incidents for
the stage presentation.
While in America. StOckton's daughter has
become engaged TO the eldest son of a knicker-
booker family OF wealth and great SOCIAL pres
tige. The mother OF the young man objects TO
the match, and when the girl is in London she
manages TO bring about a misunderstanding
between tie young people and the match is
broken OF. Virginia StocktOn, warm hearted
girl but rash and impulsive, hears that her
former lover Stuyvesant Laurence, i. about TO
marry another girl In New York. Under the
sting of disappointment she accepts an offer OF
marriage made TO her by Prince Emil Won
Haldenwald. a rascal of the first water, who
has already been dismissed from the house OF
her father. The Prince has acquired the polish
OF the best society of Vienna and Paris, but it
IS equaled by his vicIousness. His family
IS utterly worthless. Not only does
the Prince begin at once 10 neglect
bis young wife, but he exerls an un-
wholesome influence on the wife of Jefferson
Stockton, Vlrginia's stepmother. When the
.amily return 10 New York, the Prince brings
matters 10 a climax by forcing Mrs. Stockton 10
appeal 10 her husband for protection. She is
weak woman aud admits 10 Stockton she has
yielded more or less 10 the spell thrown around
her by The Prince. Stockton elects him from
where the Prince has died from wounds re-
ceiYed in duel with his best friend. the Duke
de Nigny- Nolante. This disposes OF The
dilemma, and the audience Is allowed TO infer
after The curtain falls that happiness will once
more reign in the Stockton family, and that
Virginia will marry her old lover, who has
remained single.
The Stocktous will be played by Maurice
Barrymore. Miss Mary Hampton, Miss Blanche
Walsh and John II. Browne
The parts of Hamilton Stuart Laurence. Mrs.
Laurence, Miss katherine n-Broeck Laur-
ence and Stuyvesant Laurence, representing
The American aristocracy, will be played by
Neil Warner, Miss Heien Tracy, Miss Maud
White and S. Miller Kent.
The arstocracy OF the Old World will be rep
resented by Prince Won Haldenwald, played by
William FaverSbam; Octave de Vigny- VOlante.
played by Frederick Bond; the Marquis OF
N0rmandie, played by Bruce McRae, aud the
Earl OF CaryStCn Leigh, played by j. b. Buck
stone.
The sale OF seats for the entire engagement
has been very large, aud doubtless the matinees
Will bring out the largest audiences ever seen
inside OF a theater in this city.