The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
M|DWEEK THEATER NOTES,
The VARIETIES IN THE PASSING
SHOW " ENTERTAIN AT THE
BALDWIN. \
A GOOD PERFORMANCE OF "CAvA1.
LERIA RUsTICANA AT
THE TIvOLI.

"The Passing Show" is the sort of per-
Torrance that seasoned theater-goer
| would be likely to see if he partook of
plum pudding and Welsh rarebit for
supper and retired to rest to let them fight
it out. In that sleep dreams would come
and phantasmagoria like 1.-THE Passing
| Show would be a very appropriate sort
| of q vision under the circumstances.
| This performance which is entertaining
| Baldwin audiences is sort of continuous
burlesque on most of the recent perform
ances, THE Amazons," Sowing the
| Wind" etc., etc. When one has seen the
| play that is being produced, it is easy to
admire the caricatures. When one has not
| seen the original, one has TO subsist,
dramatically speaking upon the dancing,
| the costumes and sometimes the singing.
1.-The Passing Show is really superior
| sort of variety entertainment, where the
specialties follow thick and fast on one
another ana keep the audience on the
| qui vive to know what unexpected turn
will come next.
Offenbach's Marriage by Lantern" is
used to fill up the bill, but the real attrac-
ton at the Tivoli this week is the "Caval-
leria Rusticana," in which Ida Valerga
| and Martin Pache carry off all the honors.
| Valerga is histrionically and vocally good
Santuzza. She acts and sings with passion
and intensity, and Pache's declamatory
methods make him especially suited to in
| terpreting the passionate, brutal role
| of Tarridu. These twos artists carry
| all before them with dramatic
intensity that exactly fits in with the
| fierce Sicilian story. Poor Rafael is left
| behind in the race. Alto is always
| thankless part, but Rafael sings his
| postillion s song in a way that is pos
itively tame. When his jealousy is aroused
he grows little more intense, but not
| enough so. The Tivoli chorus is rather
hampered by Mascagni's music, but "Let
US sing is well given. Taken altogether,
"Cavalleria Rusticana" is we'll worth
| seeing.
prince Ananias" is drawing as it de-
serves TO do at the Columbia Theater. The
bright, pretty music is well sung, and
Barnabee's jokes prove hugely entertain
ing. The Bostonians' new work. "a War
time Wedding" is said to be q serious
opera. If successful it will take its place
in their repertoire.
"Pink Dominoes" is doing good business
at Growers Alcazar. 1t is capital farce
comedy, and is well played in fact, the
| play is O case of the survival of the fittest.
1t describes adventures at Cremorne a
| place of entertainment in London that h as
| long become a thing OF the past, while
Pink Dominoes" is still f1ourishing.
Oracle Plaisted's part suits her especially
we'll, and Miss Remark plays the confid-
ing, deceived and forgiving wife naturally
| and well.
In "a Dark Secret" at Morosco's the
plot works naturally and easily up to the
climax, and the parts are well sustained.
Henley Regatta is most realistically pre-
sented. nothing being forgotten, even to
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Miss Thrupp's songs and dances are
splendid, and Robert Macarthur rightly
receives an ovation.
At the Orpheum the new attractions vie
with one another in popular favor. Ella