The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-09
AT THE THEATERS.
Sully Interests a Large
Audience.
"Good Old Times" at Morosco's.
BuIIet-Proof Coat at the Orpheum.
Sword-Eater at the Wigwam.

Daniel Sully, in "The Millionaire"
opened his engagement at the New Cali
fornia with an attendance that filed every
seat in The auditorium. This Is all the
more rem arkable because Leander Rich
ardson's play in the same hands is not new
here. 1t proves evidently that the work
has innate merit. and that recent events
the great railroad strike, especiaily-have
given an interest to lis different episodes
that otherwise would have been lacking. 1t
was we'll played throughout. Discounting
the sentimentality of the first act and the
third. we had the eminent practically of the
"R cky Gorge" in the second, the railroad
building scene, where the contractor,
James OBrien Daniel Sully), is fighting
for his financial Life. and this seemed to
catch the audience as something that
affected the serious business of existence.
Not that the scenes in the Lenox mansion
ACTS first and third-were devoid of
merit. On the contrary, they were full of
interest. and the introduction Of the in
fantile element in the person of Flossie
Van Buren, (Baby Ethel gave softening
and agreeable influence to the surround
lngs. 1t was haven OF rest after hard
won battle-the battle where the con-
tractor fought against the coin bined wealth
to protect his own rights. 1t lie play that
ought to strike close home to the public
heart at the present time.
The living pictures that followed were
beautiful presentations, Per Sc; the defect
is tn at the orchestra does not give music
to fill up the gaps. The quiet waits are
tedious. The music ought not to cease till
4 Ia al hal pntu IN "a n
lights and announces the picture. and then
il should die out in pianlssimo cadenza.
This would be much more effective.
Good Old Times" was presented for
the first time at the Grand Opera-house
last night to packed audience. The
piece is highly melodramatic and abounds
in opportunities for the leading characters.
The opening scene is in a lovely rural spot
in England, where a series of crimes re-
suits in the transportation of the three
leading male characters to the penal set
Element at Tasmania. One of these. John
Langley, however. is convicted upon the
confession of crime committed by his
wife. In her love for him she follows her
husband across the seas, and after three
her household as servant. From this on
The situations are interesting enough.
There is an outbreak of convicts, and the
devoted wife and her two female dome sites
are captured and carried off to the woods,
to be rescued in the last act by John Lang
lev and his trusted friend Coldbath Joe.
FL. Coulter Brinker, in the leading role,
sustained his part with ability through
out, and was well supported by Lucille
La Verne as Mrs. John Langley. Nina
Gleason as Lucy Granger and Julia Blanc
as the Irish cook at Big Tree farm de-
| fha To-
fully selec ed. The piece Is we'll mounted,
and deserves good patronage.
The Kendals have that delightful little
piece GA Scrap of Paper" in their roper
toire for this engagement at the Baldwin.
Their opening will be "The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray," Pinero's ri>que society play
that everybody is anxious to see. espe-
| cially as Mrs. Kendall takes the leading
character. The sale of seats and boxes
| for this engagement will commence al the
Bald win on Thursday, October Is. There
will be no advance IN prices.
A very general public interest has fol-
lowed the announcement for the reopening
of the Stockwell Theater by the Growers
and their comedy company. A remark
ably good bill, "The Privats Secretary"
and "Joe's Girls" with the extreme of
moderate prices, promises a large audi
ence. Seats viii be placed on sale this
morning at the Siockweil Theater for the
opening Saturday night of the Leonard
Grover Comuany In THE Private Secre-
tary" and .Joe's Girls" The double bill
will be presented for one week, after
which 'My Son-in-Law" and other COM
edy dramas will be put on.
"Church and Stage" Theodore Kre-
mer's new society drama, to be produced
at the Bush-s.reet Theater on Monday
next. the 10Th inst, with the author and
Miss Jeffreys Lewis in the leading parts,
has been generally talked about, and the
applications for seats be5leak crowded
attendance. Curiosity has been aroused
aud must be satisfied.
Notwithstanding the Philharmonic mu-
sicale elsew here. Scheels grand popular
concert at the Auditorium was fully at
tended. although many OF the people came
late This seems to be the fashion 10 our
city. Art must courtesy 10 social custom.
The ensemble music of the programme was
deliciously rendered, especially the an
dante contabile of Tschaikowsky and
Reinecke's prelude to liking Manfred"
There were three solos during the even
ing, however, that call for especial men,
iion-Mr. Nathan Landberger's violin
rendering of Wieniawsky's "Legende,"
followed by an encore, in which this
brilliant young vi0linlst gave us Rem
iniscences of Posen"-not Sanl of
Posen," it may be added, but some
bsrOir remembrance of the lana OF Kos
cinsko and Poniatowski. namesake OF the
young Pole, WAC mas just become matri-
mon ally allied to Beth Sperry. Mr.. X.
Grieuauer was most deServedly applauded
for Wagner violoncello .Albnm blatt, +"
aud Mr. Otto Lenhart for the Hauptman
cernet solo. We do not think the gentle
man is equal to Levy. LIBERAL or Ar
buckle in his emboucbure. but his solo
was above the average. Scheei aid not
conduct on this occasion; he was at the
Phiharmonics. His place was taken by
Marguardt, who acquitted himself re-
arkably we'll A grand gala night will
be- gwen at the Auditorium on the fifteenth
an n versary Of the conduct0rship OF Jo-
liam Strauss.
A pocket edition of Colonel II. /. Kow-
alsky stepped on the stage at the Orpheum
last evening, and after an attendant had
invited any gentleman to step up on the
stage and get shot at and no one re-
sponded, the four-foot reduction OF our
well-known attorney came forward and
remarked, Itch bien elm pleatzepgean-
bIetz," or something that sounded like
that, and the packed house yelled. For
Herr Zeitung was only about four feet
high and had an av0irdupOls. natural or
al fetal, that must have made him weigh