The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
MIDWEEK THEkTER NOTES
Continued Success of In Old
Kentucky" at the Cali
fornia.
Yelled AlluSionS in "a Canting
Scoundrel" at the Alcazar-" Uncle
Toms Cabin"

''In Old Kentucky" continues to afford
satisfaction to large audiences at the Cali
fornia Theater. The cleverly constructed
play is sufficient in itself to appeal to the
theater- going public. but in the present
performance the playwTight's efforts are
not only enhanced by an excellent all
round performance, but are also eked out
by some remarkably clever specialties,
which served as foil to the melodramatic
incidents which occur during the course
OF the performance.
The pickanniny band is one of the best
hits among the 'specialties," so to speak,
which abound during the course of I'm
Old Kentucky" The colored children evil
IDENTIFY enjoy their part in the evening s
entertainment quite as much as the audi
ence does, and they act with a spirit and
abandon which add immensely to the
mirth aroused by the comedy part of the
play. Taken altogether, with its thrilling
racing scene, its sensational leap across
the canyon and strong local Kentucky
flavor, the melodrama now running at the
California Theater is one of the best per-
formances that has been seen in this City
for long time.
''Men and Women" at the Columbia
Theater is one of the most successful per-
formances yet produced by the Frawley
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Osborne. among the men," are especially
at home in their roles, and the women"
are all so good that it seems invidious to
make distinctions between them.
"The Editor" continues to please the
audiences at Morosco's by its breeziness
and its suitability to the company that is
performing it. Swain is in his element as
Tim the Porter, and Coulter Brinker is es-
pecially suited to the part of Stephen
Marion.
The more or less yelled illusions to local
people of light and leading in church CIR
cles which ga Canting Scoundrer' con-
tains are proving interesting conundrums
to the audiences at Growers Alcazar. The
play contains plenty of fun and is acted in
q sprightly manner.
DIR. Bissell's lightning modelling is
teaching Orpheum audiences how TO make
a portrait bust while you wait, and the ex-
celIent licensees achieved by the model
er's apparently haphazard way of pelting
a board with handfuls of clay proves 9
never-failing source of delight 10 the be-
holders. Rachael Walkers singing is
meeting with more success this week thar
ever.
"Ixion" will be succeeded next Monday
at the Tivoli by 1.-THE Gentle Savage"
The Bush-street Theater is to see a per
Torrance of "Uncle Toms Cabin" mex
week which has been spoken of in higI
terms in other cities. The Cook TwiI
Sisters Company will play the favorite
drama.
The San Francisco Symphony Orchestr,
will give a grand concert on Friday after
noon IN Golden Gate Hall. The following
program will be performed: Overture t
/ "Tltus," Mozart; Transcription, Faust
| Gounod; Vorspiel, "Lohengrin," Wagner
aria, "Is Not His Word Like Fire,
Elijah" Mendelssohn; Babillage (fo
strings), Gillet; Aragonaise "Le Cid,
Massenet; introduction, third act "Lohen
| grin" Wagner; violin solo. Carmen Fan
tasie' (Bizet), Bernhard Mollenhauer, witt
orchestra; Summer Evening" (waltz)
Waldteufel.