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At the Baldwin.

Miss Pauline Hall was popular in San
Francisco when she appeared here several
years ago. Since that time she has added
considerably to her fame in various parts
of the country, so that her appearance to-
morrow evening at the Baldwin Theater
may justly be called an event in local
dramatic circles.
The company with which Miss Hall will
present the new musical comedy "Dorcas'
includes such favorites as: Miss Jeanette
st. Henry, Eva Davenport, Drew Donald
son, Mabel Irvine, Hugh Chilve-s, Edgar
Temple Saylor, Charles Bradshaw, Neil
O'Brien, Charles Meyer and Charles
Earle
"Dorcas" contains some thirty odd
musical numbers, which have been COM
posed and arranged by well-known Euro
pean musicians, notably Johann Strauss,
Millocker and DR.. Carl Zeller. The pre-
sentation here will be entirely new, all the
costumes being imported from the famous
workshops of the French modistes, Worth
and Felix. A largely augmented orchestra
will be under the leadership of the English
conductor and composer, W. Hydes.
1t was the Paultons who adapted "Dor-
cas-" from the German for Miss Hall The
scenes are laid in England toward the
close of the seventeenth century and the
plot turns on the complications that arise
out of number of DISCUSSES and imper-
sonations. Lord. Lam bourne desires to
marry his sister, Lady Honoria, to his in
innate friend, Lord Beauregard. Beaure-
gard, wishing to acquaint himself with the
merits of Lady Honoria, decides to accom-
pany Lord Lambourne to his home in
cognito and so assumes the role of secre-
tary to Lord Lambourne under the name
of Master Roland. Lady Honoria is pos
sessed with the same desire to study her
prospective husbands character unknown
to him and to consummate this DISCUSSES
herself as boy peddler. She is successful
in concealing her identity even from her
brother, from whom she has been sep
arated for number of years.
A number of humorous and affecting in
cidents arise from this condition of things,
all of them tending to show the heroine
and Lord Beauregard in the most favorable
light. The complications and the counter
DISCUSSES are Strengthened out at last and
the curtain falls on the prospective mar
rage of Lady Honoria and the sutton her
brother designed for her. Hugh Chilvers
plays the part of Lord Lambourne and
Edgar Temple Saylor that of Lord Beaure-
gard
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is looked forward to with great interest and
on some sides, with great apprehension.
THE TENNIS I TOURNAMENT
A Spirited Game Was Played at
the California Club
Grounds.
Young Adams and Van Wyck the
Features of the After
noon.

The opening rounds of club tourna-
ment by the California Lawn Tennis Club
were played yesterday at the club grounds,
corner of Bush and Scott streets. There
were Is entries for the tournament, % Of
whom put in an appearance. The four
courts were continuously occupied and the
games were spirited, in many instances
eliciting applause from the audience, COM
posed principally of ladies.
In the meeting between A. Cheesbrough,
class 2, and S. III. Adams, class 3, the latter,
though loser, showed wonderful skill and
quickness for a boy of Is years. Chees-
brough is one of the best players in the
club and peculiarly scientific player, but
he found that it required all his science to
make a score of rs, 1913 against the lad.
He remarked after he had finished and
shaken hanus with the boy, as a token of
his appreciation of the youngsters work,
that he did not want to meet him again
with the same odds. 1t was one of the
best matches of the afternoon and was
roundly applauded.
DR.. c. B. Root and w. Stauff, both class
2 men, played quite an even match and
attracted much attention. Some of the
most clever shots made during the after
noon were by Parker, who drove Hovey
hard, but lost by So, 81. Hovey, how
ever, lost to Van Wyck in the sec
ond round meeting Van Wyck's cool
ness with considerable nervousness
Van Wyck had beaten Lindeman
in the first round and surprised everybody
by his excellent work. He is one of the
coolest-headed young men in the club and
handles the racket artistically and effect
lively.
The odds given were: Glass men gave
class men Is, class gave class 15, class
l gave class 80.
The tournament will be resumed this
morning at 10 o'clock.
Following is the score made yesterday
class 3, by score of Is, 1913.
DR.. G. B. Root, class 2, beat w. Stauff, class 2,
26, Ga, 64
Dr. E. Allison, class l, won from F. s..
Mitchell, class /, by default.
j. 6. Hooper, class 2, beat R. j. Davis, class 2,
$40, 6-3, Sd
W. Wells, class 8, won from R. Harrison, class
2, by default.
R. H. Hovey, class 2, beat H. c. Parker, class
2, So, 6-1.
class Q, 6-3, 7-5.
P. P. Butler, class 8, beat Lawler, class 8.
26, 6-3, IS.
DR.. George Rothganger class Q, beat F. Hof-
man, class 8, 6-3, 6-3.
R. N. Whitney, class 1, beat N. A. Eckart
class 3, 60, Ga.
A. Chessbrough, class 2, won from II. B.
Ravens, class 3, by default.
DR.. C.. B. Root, class 2, beat d. E. Allison,
class l, 60, rs.
w. Wells, class 8, won from ]. G. Hooper,
class p by default
l.. Van Wyck, class 2, beat z. IL. Hoyey, class
q 60, 2-6, 6-3.
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the political machinery of New York,
though audiences elsewhere can heartily
sympathize with its telling hits against
bribery and corruption. The company al
the Columbia give it to great advantage,
and the stage accessories leave nothing to
be desired.
II Stockwell had no other record than his
impersonation of vulgar political boss
a man ignorant of all pure and honest SEN
timents-his acting of that part would give
him high rank in his profession. Dixey
is particularly finished in the Office scene,
where he snubs this political swindler. 1t
is obvious that he and his lines are not on
familiar terms, but his experience and
sang froid tide him over the hiatus so well
that the public loses nothing.
1t might be said that Miss Coghlan's
somewhat mature charms are hardly suited
to the role of bride. But if she is not in
the. first blush of youth neither is the
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The Eastern papers comment with salts
faction on the great success which has at
tended the engagement OF John Drew and
his company at the Baldwin. Some OF
them add the suggestion that it was not
John Drew himself who proved the
real magnet, but charming Maud Adams,
and that without her the leading mans
plight would be worse than Henry lrvlngs
If he were bereft of the sprightly Ellen
Terry.
Maud Adams was certainly the salvation
of christopher Jr." the play produced
here last week by the company; she acted
her role so easily and SO bewitchingly
that one even forgave the wild improba
bility of her not having attended her
own wedding when she was married
off-hand by her irate papa to Christopher
Jr. Having once accepted the story the
Young man tells of his mysterious
bride, the play contains some inter-
esting developments, but the yarn is Sc
we're strain to put upon the confidence OF
the audience at the very outset of drama.
christopher Jr." is an English play,
and though this fact Gid not initiate
against its success, the action of the piece
would have been more Ineligible from the
outset if it had been produced under its
original conditions. In England curtain
raiser is nearly always interposed as buffer
between a late-dining public and the play
of the evening. tits the fate of the curtain
raiser to be drowned in the frou-frou of silk
gowns and the clatter of seats being low
cred, but after this sacrifice, peace and
tranquility reign at the very outset of the
drama that follows.
Now christopher Jr." plunges, from
the opening lines, into explanations which
are absolutely necessary for real compre-
hension of the action that follows. The
Baldwin is fashionable, that is to say,
late-coming audience, and the conclusion
is obvious-some of the auditors did not
grasp the story of the play till it was half
over.
When dramatic authors write work
which they hope to have produced before
a fashionable American audience it ought
to be impressed upon them to fill in the
first ten minutes with action that is pan
tomimic or with dialogue. which need not
absolutely be heard in order TO understand
the action of the play.
1.-THE District Attorney" is a powerful
play, almost melodramatic in its situa-
tons. 1t is supposed to lay bare some of
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bridegroom, judging from his makeup. so
the marriage is what would be termed
suitable match. Indeed, a younger man
than Beach makes the District Attorney
would hardly have the stamina to venture
on the heroic course he determines to pur-
sue. The Rose, albeit somewhat full
blown, looks very lovely in the drawing
room scene and fully warrants the deyo-
ton shown by her lover.
Clever Miss Margaret Craven has not an
acceptable part. In the eyes of the au-
dience she has to appear suspicious, and
when the convict justly repudiates her for
mismanaging his affairs one feels inclined
to say, "Serves her right" A word of
praise is due to Miss May Warning as the
maid servant. She is the bright little
maid of real life rather than the pert nom
descgipt usually accepted in her place on
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Grand Onera-Honse.

"The Great Metropolis" will be revived
at the Grand tomorrow night. 1t is play
that when originally produced there, over
year ago, proved the chief attraction OF
the season.
is represented in the long list of characters
required to produce 1.-The Great Metrop-
Oils" The play is distinctively American
in its dramatis person@ and in its sur
roundings, and the plot of the modern
melodrama with its old story of love and
villainy, suffering and heroism, is per-
haps its least attraction.
1.-The Great Metropolis" is play with
out an anti-climax where the situations
are striking and strong. Comedy that is
original and makes one laugh, willy nilly,
is threaded throughout the i've acts and
happily relieves the more somber scenes.
The spectacular feature of the piece is,
however, its most realistic point. Since it
was presented year ago big strides have
been made in electrical effects, and Man
ager Morosco's electricians and scenic
artists promise remarkable storm scene.
There is also beautiful picture on the
East River, showing Brooklyn Bridge and
distant view of the city by moonlight.
The entire strength of the houses COM
pany will be utilized for the presentation.
Following is the full cast:
Jack Holt. ....................H Coulter Brinker
win Webster Of Sandy Hook Iife,savlng sta
Benamin Bert real estate agent and notary Eayes
Pupnc.. Cnaries W. swain
airy nvansittart Leslie
Captain Cair, iighthoase.keeper at Sandy Hook
..........................A. Z. henderson
Daily, Berts office William Henri
Mr. Holt, Jacks father. .........J. Harry Benrimo
Patrick Kelly, the seaman rescued. Frank Hatch
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At the Orph cum t..

Pearl Andrews, the American rival of
that remarkable English mimic, Cissie
Lotus, will appear at the Orpheum to-
morrow night.
1t is stated that Miss Andrews has been
naturally mimic from early childhood.
Before reaching her teens she astonished
the members of her family and their &C.
quaintances by her clever reproductions of
the work and business of actors, actresses
and operate celebrities whom she had seen
on the stage.
Her father, William S. Andrews. was for
some years popular comedian. He also
lectured successfully on humor, illustrat-
ing his lectures with character stories told
in many dialects. His daughter had, there
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Hugh j. Emmett's performances on the
violin have established him in popular
favor; they are not exactly classical, but
their strong point is that they are enter
tanning. When Emmett initiates the
young lady asked to sing at an evening
party every one in the audience seems to
recognize her. probably because her name
is legion. Emmett's marvellous feats of
ventriloquism bring him an ovation
which prevents the continuance of the
performance for at least five minutes.
The Russian songs and dances and the
novel costumes of the Farbianu troupe con-
tinued to give great popular satisfaction,
and all the other acts went briskly and
well.
Three centuries ago. when William
Shakespeare was a popular playwright at
the Globe Theater, managers were not in
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Alice. She is one of the first graduates
from the Columbia school of art.
The Stockwell company of players will
only remain at the Columbia Theater
three weeks more. At the request of many
of his old friends Mr.. Stockwell has de-
cided tc devote one week to a production
of "The Magistrate.
A special matinee has been arranged for
next Sunday afternoon, the I'D, when a
burlesque diversion will be given, entitled
Gan Afternoon With Dixey."
The programme will embrace all of his
original and novel specialties and dances,
and his famous limitations and impersona-
tions of actors and prominent personages.
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Dramatic News in Brief.


The preliminary season at the Fifth
avenue Theater was short-lived affair.
''The Bathing Girl" a so-called comic
opera, which f. c. Whitney produced on
that occasion, lasted for just one night.
? Word received from New York is to the
effect that E. II. Sothern's production of
sThe Prisoner of Zenda," dramatization
of Anthony Hopes novel of that name,
was the greatest success he has ever been
engaged in. The romantic spirit of the
story is said to be admirably preserved, and
Mr.. Sothern fitted with part in which
he appears to greater advantage than ever
before.
''The City of Pleasure" bold. bald and,
on some accounts, disgusting French play,
and "The Sporting Duchess" a cheap Eng
lish melodrama, seem to have achieved a
dismal and well-deserved failure in New
York. One newspaper says of "The City
of Pleasure" that it was probably one of
the worst dramatic exhibitions ever given
in New York, and all the leading critics
agree that 1.-THE Sporting Duchess is
merely an affair of upholstery and finn
fam, with vulgar scene, stolen from 8 os
Intimes," as its only title to dramatic
coherence.
It is announced that Sarah Bernhardt is
at Belle lie en- Mer, on the Brittany coast,
and is employing her leisure in writing her
memoirs. AS her life has been rather an
eventful one, as she yields very caustie
pen. and as she is noted for her keen wit
sparkling repartee and unforgiv1ng charac'
ter, the advent of her forthcoming volume
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ng his part quite interesting. Leslie was

ing his part quite interesting. Leslie was
a capital niger boy.
More than the customary share of COM
edy was devoted to the amusing love-
making of Miss Blanc and Charles Swain,
but there was not any too much of it to
please the audience. Swain seemed ubiqui-
tous-here, there and everywhere at once
kissing, drinking and lecturing on astron-
omy. Miss Blanc's admirers were more
sincere than complimentary, for although
she was fat and fair she did not look forty.
Miss Hall, as usual. was quite equal to her
part, but she was dressed more for canter
in the park than for ride across the bor-
der-land of the Rio Grande.
The Orpheum's long and varied pro-
gramme was received with the usual en-
thusiasm last week. The ''tough" girl
afforded glimpse ofNew York life in the
lowest stratum of society. Her gift of repair
tee might be envied by those in the high
est. Her dialogue is original, too, for Miss
Remington is the authoress of the act in
which she and W. E. Hines appear.
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The parts were evenly distributed and were
all well played. Coulter Brinker again
shone by not overacting his part. The
idea is prevalent that melodrama, how
ever intense, must still be exaggerated, but
this leading man evidently does not be-
lieve in painting the lily; as consequence
his work is more impressive.
A. c. Henderson is q welcome addition
to the company, and for once Edmund
Yates personality was not SO progressively
apparent as usual. He succeeded in max
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ever since the time of its production in
pioneer days by the various opera COM
panies who sang at the Jenny Lind
Theater, the Academy of Music and Ma
CURES Opera-house.
In the character of Lucia Ida Valerga
made her greatest successes both in this
country and in Europe. Alice Nelson will
alternate with her in this role.
Martin Pache will sing the part of the
soldier lover, Lord Edgar of Raverswood
John ]. Rafael that of Sir Henry Ashton,
her brother; Arthur Mesmer, her in
tended Sir Arthur Bucklaw; George II.
Broderick, the old minister, Raymond
w. H. West, Norman, one of Sir Henry's
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Columbia Theater.

On account of the success of 1.-THE Dis
trict Attorney" the Columbia Theater
management has decided to continue the
play for another week.
There will be no Saturday matinee per-
Torrance, however, as the Stockwell com.
pany of players in their entirety will par
ticipate in the open-air performance to be
given on Sutro Heights next Saturday of
"As You Like It" for the benefit of the
Charming Auxiliary and the Society for
Christian Work. A special matinee per-
Torrance will be given instead on Thurs
day afternoon.
In the cast of "The District Attorney"
stage, made an excellent appearance as
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by the original company; Robert Down
ing, who will present a fnl repertoire. in
Guiding his new piece, Helena; "In Old
Kentucky :; May Irwin in her new farce,
THE Widow JONES'" will make her first
appearance in this city as star; Thomas
Keene; THE War of Wealth." new and
highly successful melodrama produced on
spectacular scale by Jacob Lift; Louis
James; Roland Reed; Peter F. DALEY in
his new play, THE Night Clerk; 'The
Twentieth Century Girl"; Clown Topics,
q n
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German Comedy Company.

The last performance but one of the Con-
ried German Comedy Company will take
place tonight at the Baldwin Theater,
when the screaming farce, Der Unglau-
bige Thomas" C''The Doubling Thomas"),
by Laufs and Jacoby, authors of "All the
Comforts of Home" will be presented.
The play is preceded by the one-act cur
tain-raiser, "Ich Heirathe Meme Tochter."
Both dramas are to be presented with the
original cast.
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Growers Alcazar.

Notice will be found elsewhere of the
initial performance at the Alcazar Thea
ter under Manager Growers direction,
which took place last night. 1t is the in
tention of the management to follow up
a series of high-class comedy productions.
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California Theater.

The California Theater will reopen
shortly for the winter and spring season,
and from the beginning will present long
list of attractions, which will be: Her
mann the great, with Indian fakir; the
great comedy success, "Charley's Aunt, !"
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fore, natural inclination toward dramatic
art. Her versatility in mimetic and dia-
lectic work has won much praise from the
Eastern press. The young lady comes to
San Francisco from Madison square
Theater, New York
Herbert and Weston, musical comedians,
have also been added to to-morrow's bill at
the Orpheum. The success of Hines and
Remington. Dryden and Mitchell, Hugh
Emmett, Mortland, Thompson and Bush,
ETC., has led to their retention for one more
week,
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TivoIi opera-House,

Lucia di Lammermoor' will be pro-
duced tomorrow night at the Tivoli Opera
house, with Ida Valerga in the title role.
This work Of Donizetti's has always been
vorite with San Francisco tn eater-goers
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settings that recall gorgeous extravaganzas
and transformation scenes prepare the
mind for something more trivial and
iocund than the thrilling garden scene in
Faust
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followers, and Mabella Baker Alice, Lucy's

followers, and MabeIIa Baker, Alice, Lucy's
attendant
The next production will be revival of
Bizet's romantic grand opera, Carmen"
with Ida Valerga and Alice earle alter
mating in the leading role; Laura Millard
as Michaela, Martin Pache as Don Jose
and John J. Rafael as the dashing torea-
dor, Escarillo.
After this "Trovatore, ia Traviata,"
'Ernani' and ''rhe Merry Wives of Wind
sor" will be presented.
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DRAMATIC REVIEW AND NEWS.
Interesting Items Concerning Current Theatrical
Attractions.
Attractions.

the stage. Good servants grease the
wheels in the mimic world as much as
they do in reality and. are as rarely met
with.
Life on the Rio Grande," as portrayed
at Morosco's last week, must be an inter
esting experience.
The cast of the play was not so large as
usual at the Grand, but one did not miss
the crowded stage of the preceding week.
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1.-THE District Attorney" is a powerful
play, almost melodramatic in its situa-
tons. 1t is supposed to lay bare some of
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