The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
The rivoli revives Dorothy tomorrow.


The Tivoli revives Dorothy" tomorrow.
The Iilliputians open at the Baldwin tonight
"a Man Among Men" is to be the next attrac.
tion at MoroSoo's.
Levy, the well-known cornetist, opens at the
Orpheum tomorrow.
The James NJ. Ward Company plays for an
other week at the Alcazar.
Fred C. Whitney, the light-opera impressario,
is organizing comedy company for next sea-
son.
"All the Comforts of Home" viii be put on
the boards of the Columbia Theater, following
Captain Swift
Charles H. Pratt, manager of Marie Tavary
Grand Opera Company, proposes to send an
agent to Europe this spring in search of novel
ties in the operate line.
Carrie Roma, the prima donna of the United
States Marine band concert tour, is described
by Memphis newspaper as resembling Du
Maurier's celebrated heroine.
Robert Downing has closed his season OF
thirty-seven weeks, which he says is the most
prosperous he has ever had, and has turned
gardener for the summer months at his coun-
try place at Bennings, lear the National capital.
Augustin DAILY does not seem to have made
much of a hit with his company at Washington
during his recent visit there. Jay Durham of
the Washington News says that Miss Rehan is
full of mannerisms and that the repertoire OF
plays is stale.
J. A Crabtree, brother of Lolita and formerly
manager of the Park Theater Boston, cables
from London TO Theatrical Tidings that he has
purchased the American rights OF Gentleman
Joe" and viii bring to America an English
company to produce it.
Fanny Davenport attributes any misfortune
she may have to birds. She never allows any
to be about the theater during her engage
ment, and she recently rejected set of scenery
on which the artist had given vent to his fancy
in the shape OF a peacock.
Apropos of the statement that Richard Mans
field, in his Garrick Theater in New York, is
the pioneer in having an orchestra without
brass instruments, William Furst, the comic
opera composer, taps his baton and remarks that
the band he directs at the Empire Theater has
always been without the blare of brass.
The scene of ''The Wizard of the Nile" the
new comic opera by Victor Herbert and Harry
B. Smith, in ancient Egypt Cleopatra is an
incidental figure, but she is not likely to con-
fict with any other stage Cleopatra. In fact
the daughter of the Ptolemies is shown in this
piece as a schoolgirl who is entirely ignorant
of love.
composer of songs who resides at Wichita
Kansas, writes TO Jessie Bartlett Davis, the fav.
orite contralto of the Bostonians: sit was
composed The Wristlets Which Mollie Wore
sung with greet success by Flossie Romaine OF
the Standard Comedy Company. Ifyou viii sing
my new song, Mamies New Calico Dress
win dedicate it 10 you.'' Mrs. Davis will not
sing the new song this season at any rate.
Theatrically speaking, last week was a
memorable one, for it marked two eras
which will probably produce important
results.
The opening of the pretty new Columbia
Theater on Monday, which was quite a
brilliant and fashionable event, showed
that Messrs. Friedlander & Gottlob have
the sympathies of the public in their new
undertaking. If one can Judge from one
weeks success, their theater has taken a
permanent place among the houses OF
amusement in this City.
The other important theatrical event OF
last week was the great success of the
Ysaye concerts. This success means more
than the mere fact that the great Belgian
violinist found as ready a recognition in
San Francisco as in New York or Boston.
Local chauvinism may rejoice in that, but
music-lovers see in it a promise OF more
good things to come. 1t is often said with
some show Of truth that the price of ad.
mission to theaters is so low here thai
great artists, who are used to ten franc and
half-guinea rates in Europe, do not care to
risk the long journey from Chicago to Sar
Francisco III order to charge at the end O
il rates that are normal to them, but thai
must seem exorbitant to the public here
This question OF remuneration has fire
quently prevented famous performers from
coming here till age has made them stal,
TO Eastern and European audiences.
Now, apart from the seasons of Italiar
and German opera in the East last winter
Ysaye was the great musical sensation
He has come TO California with the bloom
of his first Eastern success fresh upon him
and the fact that he has found so read,
and cordial an appreciation here-advancet
rates notwithstanding-will doubtless sery
as an encouragement TO Paderewski an,
many other artists who, up to the present
have considered Chicago the Western limi
OF an American tour.
"HUMPTY DUMPTY UP TO DATE.n
The Play in Which the Lilliputians Appear a
the Baldwin.
The Lilliputians, after two years absenc
from the Pacific Coast omen q short on