The morning call., 1894-08-21
Edward Harrigan plays "Old Lavender" al
the MacdOnough, Oakland, To-. night.

Gilbert and Sullivan are the greatest and
most successful cOllahorators who ever wrote
English operas, and "Iolanthe," produced at
the Tivoli last evening. has NOT duh line or
an undressing number IN the entire compO-
sitiOn. Whether it was the revival OF this al
ways welcome work or the curiosity excited
by the first production of the bona i1de "lving
pictures" that packed The house to the doors is
hard TO tell, but Suflce II TO say that the Eddy
street Theater has not held such an audience
for many an opening night. When Miss God
frey sang
oh, Captain Shawl type of love kept under.
Could thy brigade with cold cascade
Clean out this house, wonder.
Every one gaZed anXlously at the doors to see
whether or not the Fire Marshal was going 10
reduce the size of the crowd, as seems To be his
wont of late. The performance was very salts
factory and the nightmare" song Of the Chan
cellor. than which there is no more difficult
Datter jingle TO sing, was rendered by Ferris
Hartman as It has never before been given here
He played the part of the old lOrd IN clean
straight manner and al the same Time eX-
tracted every particle of fun possible He
was eXcellenty aided In the comedy
parts by Phil BransOn and George Olmi
While Jack Rafael as StTephOn increased the
favorable impression thai he created last week.
Miss Godfrey maintained her reputation as
being one OF the best eXpOnents of parts like
the fairy queen" in the country and Miss
Salinger maze charming Phyllis. Miss Thorn.
son seems TO improve on acquaintance al
though her IOlanthe was srit1e stacy. The
Se0tfl'S SOLO as sung Dy new man. Francis
Nicholas, showed marvelOusly strong and
well-schoOled bass voice, and the chorus
worked as cOnscentlously as usual.
Mr.. NasRs pictures which followed the
opera were revelation OF artistic Skill and eff.
feet. The house WIS darkened and from the
front or some pOrtieres shapely page an
nOunced In clear voice the work TO be pre-
sented The curtains raised aud as observed
from the rear OF the house almost perfect re-
productions of such paintings as the IAN.
gelus," "Nydia The Blind Girl,""At the Well"
nd n ere I'M nf fhot
appreciated was that OF "Me anu jack" when
a cute, nude y0ungster sat up with his dog
companion and gazed at sketch OF blue sea.
Those who expected TO see anything sugges-
tive were grievously disappointed. A more ~.
tractive bill has not been presented at the
TivOli for long time, and it will undoubtedly
d aw large audiences Tor some time.
The Princess DolgOrouky. violin virtuoso
was the drawing card at The Orpheum last
evening, and she scored an immense success
She was recalled no less than eight times, and
her lecIions, all OF the classical order, showed
that an Orpbeum audience knows when thing
is good. The house was crowded, and Sad AL
farabPs graceful rquilibrlstic feats, tile BraatZ
Brothers In their act and the rest OF the cana
bic company SCI we'd 10 keep up the reputation
that Manager Walter has established as a snc
cessful amusement caterer. He has a number
OF novelties en- route.
San Francisco musicians will have an oppor-
tunity of being the first Americans to pass
upon Costa Doomcheif, the boy yiolinist, this
evening ut METROPOLITAN Temple. The youth
comes from Russia laden down with epcomi-
ums and IN his native land be Is called "rhe
small Paganini." a number of local mnsi
clans have heard him in a private recital and
nothing bit words OF praise have been ex-
pressed for him: The Emperor and Empress
and members Of The royal family OF RiIssIa
listened TO him and expressed their appreeia
ton by presenting him with a gold watch OTna-
mented with the lmperlal eagle. The lad will
attempt most ambitious programme which is
as follows:
Concerto No. l..,,,........,.,.. Rarfot
.ss.ss.s.sss .OOStEa DOOmCleH
Fantastic de Popera. "Ascoldova Moguila"
Nfeuxtemps
LES Iseau4 sut ArOIo .--..........-.... Hauser
''Le Rossignol".... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Vieuxtemns
"Obertass' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ieniarsEgi
rahtSlsle us 1 opera nlolse '..-........ Paganini
bohemian Dance Observation-Disclosures aehaz