The San Francisco call., 1896-06-04
AT THE CITY THEATERS,
Ada Rehan Will Appear at the
Baldwin To- Night in a
Double Bill.
How the Gallery Boys Long to Join
in the Soudanese Fray at the
Grand.

Ada Rehan and the DAILY. company re-
peated their excellent performance OF
Twelfth Night" at the Baldwin Theater
last night There are only few more
days left in which to see the organization.
Three productions not given during the
present season will be crowded into that
time. Tonight will see the double bill OF
''The Bellies Stratagem" and THE Honey
moon" and the rest of the week will be
given to "The Tanning of the Shrew."
Next Monday Nat c. Goodwin will pre-
sent his new play "In Mizzoura" at the
Baldwin.
The Frawley Company has settled
well down to its work in "The
Two Escutcheons," and the audiences,
which continue to be almost as
large as on the opening night are
that occasion, when the recognition of old
favorites and the welcome extended to the
work of the new performers retarded the
action of the play and made it well on to-
ward midnight before people left the thea
ter.
Most of the new members of the com.
pany have continued the favorable i'm
preston they made on Monday "The
Two Escutcheons" goes with good deal
of verve.
Next week Miss Martha Morton's
comedy drama, written for William H.
Crane, Will be produced by the Frawleys
at the Colum bia.
"The Soudan" is one of the biggest pro-
ductions that the Grand has seen under
Morosco's management, and it has found
exceptional favor, for it caters to all
tastes. For the lovers of good old stereo-
typed melodrama there is the prosecuted
wife, hunted by the villain, who comes on
dressed in black seeking where to Law her
head and that of her child; admirers of
the lighter features fairly revel in the
deeds of Leslie Morosco, as a comic law
yer's clerk Since his travels abroad
Leslie has acquired more finish in his act
ing, az we'll as an English accent, which
he uses very nicely and does not exag-
gerate.
1t is the spectacular features in "The
Soudan" which appeal most to the audi
ence, however.
At the assault of the desert city the
gallery boys get so excited that only tn e
certainty of breaking their necks prevents
them from jumping down and taking a
hand in the fray.
"Olivette" is drawing good houses to the
Tivoh. Next week Dellinger's comic
opera, Lorraine, - will be produced. with
Marie Millard, the bright young daughter
of the late Harrison B. Millard, in the title
role.
The Orpheum bill continues to fill the
house. Dixon, Bowers and Dixon make
up excelently as the three hayseeds and
their dancing delights the audience, truth
to tell, quite as much as that of the high
priced and graceful Papinta The hard
working McAvoy and May are prime
favorites and Lizzie B. Raymond's singing
is as popular as ever. The Meers brothers
continue to do startling feats on yerv
slack wire, and the rest OF the bill is up to
the Orpheum's standard.
Preparations are now nearly complete
for the opening of the California stock
company season on the 18th inst.
A testimonial benefit will be tendere d to
Miss Margaret Craven at the New Auditor.
ium on the 18th inst.
The DAILY company opens at the Mac
donough Theauer, Oakland, next Monday.
A novel play, entitled miss Jerry"
will be produced at Metropolitan Temple
next Monday.
The coalfields of the United States have
an araa of nearly 100000 square miles, or
ten times that of all the other coal-pro-
ducing countries in the world.