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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-04

meet the Chamber OF Deputies tomorrow ana
make a s,atement regarding the position OF
affairs and ,neir Intentions persistent runlor
circulatcs that the Cabinet Will retire. hins
Uumbert to-day had interviews with Prime
Minister Crlspi and Sgnor Farin, President OF
the Senate. The subjects discussed nj the IT.
tcrvicw were presumably the Italian defeat ana
the course TO be pursued by the Government.
but what II any decision was arrived at Is un-
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
Tivoli Opera-House.

The comic opera season at the Tivo1i
Opera-house will be inaugurated to-mor-
row evening with a presentation of a new
spectacular operate burlesque in three
acts, entitled "The Babes in the Woods"
Ferris Hartman, the popular comedian,
found time, during the intervals In his
fishing this summer. to write this new
and very much up-to-date version of the
fairy tale. His work is hodge-podge OF
local events, and some of the latest songs
received from the East and London. The
topics OF local interest include good deal
about famous will case and a parade OF
the young ladies of the chorus in the cos
tunes of San Francisco bicy cling clubs.
Miss Lilly Post, prima donna well
known in this City, will make her reap
pearance i'll this work. The rest of the
cast will include: Elvira Crox Seabrooke
and Maurice Darcy as Tommy and Sally
the two poor little rich babes; John j.
Rafael and Bernice Holmes, as Lord and
Lady Macasser; Ferris Hartman as Weary
Willie, and Dusty Roads, his partner, viii
be portrayed by w. H. West; Rnys
Thomas as the Doctor; w. Fl. Tooker as
the school director known as Uncle JOSH
Special scenery and costumes have been
made for 1.-THE Babes in the Wood"
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AT the Orpheum.

The Hawaiian Band and Glee Club have
proved such pleasing offerings to Orpheum
audiences that Gustave Walter has re-en-
gagged them for another week before let
ting them depart for their island home.
The Mengler sisters, who are said to be
remarkable pair of soubrettes. make their
debut at the Orpheum tomorrow, direct
from the Alhambra Theater, London.
The Lucifers also make their appear
ance this week, and some very funny work
is expected from them. They are aero
bats and manage to do all their
athletic feats in a way that provokes
laughter. Ando, Omne and Little AL
right are trio of Japs who are expected
to do some very clever juggling, balancing
and sleighr-of- hand tricks. G. 81. Unthan
has been retained and will perform more
wonders for a man born without hands.
Gertie Cochran will also remain, and
Master Walter Leon has new limitations to
Gender Riley and Hughes, the planta-
tion dancers, are also to be held over.
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ALL CONDEMN IT.
Actors and Actresses Give Their
Views on the Theater
Hat.

James K. Hackett is delighted with the
ing to squelch the theater hat. He says
he has sat in audiences himself, and has
sadly realized the need of such reform.
''In New York." said Mr.. Hackett, sail
the best theaters have managed to sup
press the hat, for I have noticed lately
that the ladies sit during the perform
ances either without nats or with very
small bonnets. The next time [ play in
San Francisco / fully expect that the femi-
nine portion of the audience will be minus
the much-dlscussed theater hat"
"Ohi take 'em off," exclaimed Jennie,
the genial Nine. Wizard, of 'eTrilby"
fame. 81 sat behind a lady the other day,
in one of your San Francisco theaters, and
she had on a regular cart wheel. Will
you please take off your hat, or change
seats with me?' / said to her-and she took
it off. l wish they'd do here as they do in
Australia. However poor the women are,
they take off their hats. Even the little
girl in the gallery never sits with any thing
on her head. There was touching thing
happened in Melbourne, at our farewell
performance. The crush was immense.
One woman had gone to the gallery in a
during the play. She was so jammed by
the people going out, that she could not
get it on again, the hat was trampled
under foot, and the poor lady had to go
home without anything on her head. Yes,
that's a case heard of personally, and it, 8
just one instance of virtue not being re-
warded."
L. R. Stockwell says that an actor may
not be able to see the theater hats from
the stage. but he can feel the restlessness
of the audience. caused by unsuccessful
efforts to peer at him round the obstruc-
tive millinery. 81 don't mind little hats
in the theater. they do not obstruct things
much, but big hats certainly react on the
performers. l believe in time the
ladies here will do as they have done in
New York-take the big hat off. Last
winter / was in New York for six months,
and noticed that even at matinees, where
there was no sort of full dress, the ladies
| removed their hats. They were good
natured about it. too One day at the
American Theater, l remember overhear-
ing lady, who was behind big hat say,
Just my luck to get behind that The
lady who was wearing it at once turned
round and said: why if 1t annoys YOU
madam. I'll take it Off That is what
call being amiable."
Lew Hawkins, the coloreo monoiogue
artist, has pondered long and deeply on
the subject of theater hats. He says he
first gave his attention to them during a
tour through New England with Prim-
rose & Vests Minstrels. big hats were
all the go just then, and 1 often saw that
people in the audience who were hidden
behind them would get mad because they
could not see ANYTHING and 90 out in the
middle of the performance. This is what
I'd do if owned theater: 1 would block
out part of it for big hats, and all the
ladies who wore them would have to sit
there and fight it out among themselves.
.'Just imagine about two hundred ladies
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Greenroom Gossip.

She was a tall, distin guished young
woman, with fluffy blonde hair, and she
sailed up to Ferris Hartman the mornin g
of the first rehearsal of "Babes in the
Wood" and said:
voli management to play prima donna
roles"
Indeed" replied Ferris, politely lifting
his hat and casting sidelong glance at
the cast of characters he held in his hand.
You are? Ahem."
Engaged as prima donna assoluta."
Certainly, madame" said the come
dian, smiling inwardly as he saw that no
stranger was in the cast, twill you sing
here, please ?" and he placed the aspiring
blonde among the chorus girls.
For three days she warb led contentedIy
among the damsels who do amazon
marches at the Tivoli On the morning of
the fourt h day she sailed up to Hartman
and asked him majestically: ''Is this the
prima donna part that I'm playing, Mr..
Hartmann"
mo, madame, it is not" said Ferris
deprecatingly.
"What part is it?''
MOI any part. lou are singing IN the
chorus"
1.-THE chorusp gasped the blonde,
clutching at some of the scenery fo- sup
port. II have been tricked into singing
in the chorusp' And then, drawing her.
self up proudly. she cried, II wish you
good-day, Mr.. Hartman" and sailed out
of the theater
And she has never been back again, /"
said Ferris Hartman yesterday. 81 have
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AT the Chutes.

Enthusiasm on the subject of shooting
the chutes is still unabated, as the attend
ance at this Haight-street resort on fine
days attests. The performances of Pirri,
the demon bioyclist, and Vosmer. the
aeronaut, are enjoyed by all. The man.
agement will shortly add other attractions
to their list; Peary's north pole expedi-
ton, in miniature, will soon be seen, and
also the famous gold piano. which won
the prizes at the Worlds Fair and the
Midwinter exposition. On Monday next
six-day bicycle contest will commence
between picked men from the San Fran
cisco Road Club and the California Cycling
Club. The winning club will be awarded
silver cup, and three other prizes will be
given to the best indiyidua al riders.
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Baldwin Theater.

Only one more week remains of "The
Prisoner of Zenda" at the Baldwin
Theater.
On Monday evening, October 10, julia
Mariowe Taber and Robert 7 aber begin q
three-weeks' engagement. They will open
in new play. "Romola," founded on
George Eliot's novel and written by
Elwyn A. Barron.
Every one knows that in her famous
italian story George Eliot has paid little
attention to the mere development of the
plot; he has dealt in a broad and virile
manner with the development of the
characters, particularly those of the gilt
tering but delusive Tito and the sensitive
noble Romoa.
1t is said that the dramatist has sue
ceeded in transferring these characters to
his play very much as the novelist con-
ceived them, and they doubtless afford
ample scope for the display of talent on
the part of the accom- plished Julia Mar
lowe Taber and Robert, her husband.
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AT the AIcazar.

Tomorrow evening the company at the
Alcazar will present Horace Wigan's play,
1.-The Wife's PERIL" This is an emotional
drama, in which the strong human pas
sions are exempllfed. 1t has not been
seen here for some years. Mrs. Langtry
made her first success in the piece. Friend
ship Is the handspring of the action.
The cast includes all the favorites, Sui
livan. Doane, Polk, May Buckley, Beatrice
L1eb and Miss Bates.
THE W1fe's Peril" will be followed by
"An Ugly Duckling," connected with the
famous Belasco-F Fairbanks suit in New
York and about which so much curiosity
was aroused. This will be its first repre-
sentation here
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and the gallery cried for more la, la, la. /"
But alas! "When other lips" etc., and
the Trader lips are not framed on the
French mod el. We remem Der you, wicked
little Martinetti, when we see Mr.. Trader
wearing your Zouave bloomers and giving
US f'La, la, la." His zou-zou is a sporty
little American, who has never been TO
Paris, not even on cheap excurson-re-
turn ticket. available for month. As for
the chic and elan of the seasoned boule-
yardie-"La, la, Ia"
Speaking for my own part, never could
see the fascination OF Wilton Lackaye's
Svengali. He was too fat and fabby for
the role; his face was pasty and his hands
the salient point in hypnotlst-were
as expressionless as two strings of sau-
sages. His characterization was melo-
dramatic and intense enough, but was
ghoulishly inhuman. Now, speaking for
my own part, like Charles Kent in the
role much better. He is naturally built
on Svengali lines, has lean and hungry
look and his long, claw-like hands are
eloquently expressive. His conception of
the character is more human and possible
than Wilton Lackaye's and, best of all, he
understands and effectively expresses the
grim, saturnine humor which Du Maurier
gave Svengali. Wilton Lackaye's Sven
gall bad no more firth than a cow.
"Trilbv" has experienced good many
changes in the cast since it was here last,
and much of the glory of the studio scene
has departed; but given the new Svengali,
like ''Trilby'' better than of yore-if
the stage manager could but be persuad ded
to abandon the ridiculous green calcium
light. with which the hypnotist's footsteps
are dogged all over thastage.
Miss Edith Crane has come back from
Australia with buxom air of blooming
health and habit of making her head
quayer like an aspen Leaf that would lead
one at first sight 10 fear that she had con-
tracted the palsy. 1t is impossible, how
ever, that much hypnotizing can have
given the handsome young actress such a
dread disease; her very appearance, which
is blooming as that of rose, soothes
all anxiety on that score. 1 suppose
Miss Crane thinks shaking her head
is an effective way of expressing
violent emotion, but a little of
that sort of thing goes long way. own
that it is very difficult feat, a sort of pro-
longed trill of the Uranium, that would
send an ordinary woman to a darkened
room, to mop her aching brows with eau
de cologne. But Miss Crane seems To have
learned the art OF continually wriggling
her head without suffering any after incon-
venience, and she is SO proud of her ac-
complishment that she ''does it and does
it again." It's very difficult. 1 wish it
were impossible.
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ost1ich plumes. tcransng her neen Has the

ostrich plumes. (Craning her necE Has the
curtain gone up yet?
Mr.. E. S. (sndppishIy)-I don't know.
Mrs. E. ST. think it has. It seems to me
that l can hear some one talking, but those
hats muffie the sound.
Mr.. e. S.--l - the hats.
Mrs. f. S--Oh, Theodore, how wicked to use
such AWFUL language, and you said a moment
ago that you felt a peace with all the world.
Mr.. E. $50 | did, madame, but holy Jeru-
saleml did not know then that l was to
spend the evening in front of milliner's bar
gain counter.
Mrs. E. S.-pm sure the curtain has gone up,
for / can hear some one singing. Can't you
hear 1t, Theodore
Mr.. L. S. (Sutlenly giaring at the hats)-No.
IA pause, during Chich Mrs. Eastern States
lgrigg[es an her seat to get peep at the stage, and
the lines of euiI on Mr.. Eastern States face
hdrden.l
Mr. E. S. Cumming upl-I'm going to the man
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Columbia Theater.

The last week of 'Triby" opens at the
Columbia Theater tomorrow night. AL
though on it's return visit, the play drew
large houses last week.
The new farce-comedy, ''Town Topics
will be presented at the Columbia Theater
after "Trilby" by the Broadway Comedi-
ans. 1t is in three acts, interspersed with
specialties introduced by chosen lot OF
pany are William Keller, William n.
Mack, John Queen, James Tenbrook,
Phillip OFT, Joseph Harrington, William
Nelson, Frank Caverly, A. M. Miller, Be-
atrice Norman, Nellie Sennett. Lyliau
Heckler, Luella Miller, Elise Nugent.
Laura Wainsford, Freda Peel and Mamie
Welty.
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Grand Opera-Hous e.

L. r. Stock we'll is to close his engage
ment at the Grand this week with "Uncle
Toms Cabin" in which he will act his
part of Marks, the Lawyer The play
will also serve to introduce to Morosco's 8
patrons Waller Fessler, the new william, -
who is to appear as Simon Legree. Little
Mildred has been specially engaged for
this performance to play Eva
Much is expected of Lottie Williams
as Topsy. In the plantation scenes there
will be jubilee singers and champion
dancers. There will also be the usual ac-
compartment of bloodhounds, a trick
donkey and an elaborate apott costs when
the angels will be shown carrying little
Eva through the "Gates Aiar."
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suggestion were carried out gentleman
| who took lady in big hat would have
to suffer along with her. A gentleman is
not supposed 10 find any fault; he daresn't
find any fauiI, but the second lime he
went into the place reserved for big hats
he'd insist on seeing some of the perform
ance himself" Mr.. Hawkins added he
had one other idea, but he feared it was
not profitable one. ''Yo ou might build
theater expressly for big hats but there'd
] be no money in it, he said, shaking his
| head pensively. II have figured it out,
and leel quite sure that nothing but the
front rows would ever ae sold."
| "If you are in box and the gentlemen
behind you like to stand up it's all right"
said lvira Crox Seabrooke. the Tivoli's
new soubrette, "but otherwise nobody
with any respect for any one else would
wear one. The theater hat is dead IL the
East Frohman's Theater won't allow it
within their walls. have not worn hat
myself in the theater for six wears. | was
engaged for three months this wear at the
Summer Garden i'll Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is
in the open air, but no smoking is allowed.
Tuesdays, Th ursdays and Frioays were
the swell nights, and very fashionable
people go. Even mere the ladies' take off
their hats" and Mrs. Seabrooke laid a
perceptible stress on the word nIadies''
which plainly intimated that i'm her opin-
ion the people 'who had no resnect for
any one else' are not to be included in
that category.
Gertie Cochran, the six-yesr-old memory
wonder at the Orpheum, has very pro.
nounced views on the theater hat. "Those
great big things, with roses standing
straig ht up and feathers going every way76
asked the phenomenon, waving her short
arms like semaphore, in vain effort to
indicate the geometrical proportions of
the real theater hat. "Oh l would not
go to the theater in one of those things,
and 1 wouldn't let my dolly go, either
and Miss Cochran implanted chaste kiss
on the china brow Of ''Trilby," her latest
and most cherished possession "Tll just
show you what wear myself when l go
to the theater, and Trilby is going to have
one too." The phenomenon hoped upon
chair, and by standing on her tiptoes
was just able to reach from hook tiny
netted hood OF red silk. She smooJhed
down her tumbled curls, carefully ad-
! justed the close fitting bit of netting to
her head, and, tying the strings under her
chin, remarked, naively, "That's my
theater hal"
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the Columbia Theater School of Acting. The
leading role, Aunt Phoebe, an ole black
nanny of ante-bellum days, is said to be q
clever piece of original character drawing.
Darkest Russia" the melodramatic success
by Grattan DonneIly, is to be the opening pro-
Della Fox is now on her way to the coast
preparatory to playing limited engagement
at the Baldwin, following the Tabers' season
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The Jheater Hat.
"a DRAMA OF THE NV

"a DHAMA OF THE DAY.)
ScENE-One cf the San Francisco theaters.
TIME-The present.
Enter Mr.. and hrs. Eastern Statesl
Mrs: I. ST. never enjoyed trip SO much In
my life as this visit to California. The neon.e
are so polite and considerate and the climate
is like champagne.
Mr.. E. S.-Yes; feel at peace with all the
world
Enter three California bellies II, theater hats.
They occupy the seats in front of those of the
Eastern States and entirely obliterote the sta6el
Mr.. l.. S.-Great Scottl what's this can't
see anything.
Mrs. E. S. tsarcGsticatty) : Except waving
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Hinrichs-BeeI Concerts.

The first of the series of three Hinrichs-
Beel symphony concerts is to take place
at the Baldwin Theater next Friday after
noon at 3:15. There will be over fifty
musicians in tho orchestra, and the pro-
gramme will include: Vorspiel, "The
Meistersinger" (Wagner); symphony,
The New World" (Dvorak); waltz from
ballet "Dornroeschen" (Sleeping Beauty
lTschaikowsky); overture, "Leonore No.
8" (Beethoven) Maurice de Vries will be
the vocal soloist at the first concert.
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not the least idea who she was. There
were lot of new faces in the chorus when
came back from my vacation, but what
on earth made that young woman think
she had been engaged as prima donna-it
beats me-"
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a
be
Miss Daily admiration the Rose Cogan COMPANY OF the
public appeared Ther last
servic he n
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

"a knight of the Lost Cause" is the name of
curtain which the au thor George S. Wheatly,
young San Francisco playwright of some
promise, has had accepted by the manag er OF
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sitting together, all in big hats, what a
sensation they'd make" and Mr.. Hawkins
chortled with gee at the picture. ''If my
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'The Geisha," the new Japanese opera. by
the author of .The Gaiety Girl" is coming to
San Francisco in the spring
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Dramatic Brevities.

The entire Mapleson Imperial Opera Com
pany will arrive in New York before the end
of next week.
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agement to complain. / paid to see the play,
and mean to see it.
SCENE II.
THE FoYER-(Mr. Eastern States and q tuily
fmpresdrio discovered In heated discussion.)
Mr.. Z. S.-Can't you make those women take
off their hats In the East
Willy Impresario-In the East, oh, yes. But
you're not in the East. In the West we have a
beautiful untrammeled liberty, a.
Mr.. E. S.-Liberty? Ratsl l call 1t license.
w. /. shocked and pdined)-Those ladies pay
for their seats and they have right to occupy
Mr. +. S. (eagerly)-H / pay for my seat have
l right to occupy it as pleasef
w. L-Certainly.
Mr.. E. s-From the floor to the ceiling?
W. I.-That's your privilege.
MT. E. s. (chuckling)-Tnen Pll wish you good
evening. (Ihey port, NTH mutual expressions OF
esteem and ddmfration.)
SCENE III.
(The Theater.)
Enter Ar. Eastern States with much befrflled
pdTGSOL.
Mrs Eastern States (tn surprise)-Theodore,
what in the world made you go to The hotel for
my parssol?
pdrdsoI and holds 1t ouer his head (Connaotion
in the thedter and cries Of "Throw him out He's
crszyi"
Indignant Usher-Put that thing down.
Mr.. E. S. (cdlnty)-Your manager told me the
seat was mine from the floor upward, and this
does not extend beyond my seat. Measure
and see. Continues TO hold up the parasol,
auhile the cOmHotiOn iRcreases.)
Willy lmpresario (who has rushed to the
scene of action)-sir, I implore you, desist
Mr.. f. 81 shall do nothing of the sort till
during the progress of auhfch the three California
bellies heard loudly declaring that Mr.. Eastern
States is an inconsiderdte aoretch and no gentle
man. Mr.. Eastern States makes q gallant re-
sistance, but he Is finally ouerpo,0ered and is
thrown out of the thedter, struggling to the last,
aChfle Mrs. Eastern States fotlotps tUeeping.
CURTAIN
OURsELvEs-And still there are people who
say that woman-lovely woman-is crushed
beneath the iron heel of man.
MARIE EVELYN.
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Wilton Lackaye is in possession of new play
called Captain Bob," with Virginia as the
locale of the story.
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SCENE II

agement to complain. paid to see the play,
and mean to see it.
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LA, la, Ia" This little inrerjection was
the crowning joy of "Trilby" audiences in
Bartinetti's time. The orchestra chuckled,
the family circle dubbed over with delight
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-08-11
LITTLE APPARENT RELIEF.
II Ii Just - Hot as Ever in New York
City.

IL ls just - Hot Ever In New York
City.
NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-Although the
sky is overcast with clouds there was
little apparent relief at noon from the
intense heat which has prevailed with
out intermissiOn for week. At IL
O'Clock the temperature was SS deg. ac-
cording to the thermometer, but on the
street 1t was all the way from S3 to
deg. warmer while the humidity, 55
per cent, made the atmosphere seem
ifeless and sitting.
Reports of prostrations and deaths
from heat began to reach police head
quarters early in the day. The first in
stallment given out at o'clock showed
seven prostrations and seven deaths
ascribed to the heat.
In Brooklyn, numerous cases of sun.
stroke have been reported and from
points throughout the state come tales
Of suffering from the heat to a degree
beyond anything experienced in many
years. At Hoboken, N. j., two deaths
are recorded. At Orange one man died
of heat and ut Brunswick. N. j., three.
At Boston and in other cities Of New
England, there are the same conditions
as exist here. Providence, r. l., re.
ports three deaths and two prostrations,
Sunday i'll New York and Brooklyn
there were fifty deaths and over hun.
dred prostratiOns.
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WORST WEEK ON RECORD
Deaths From Heat at St. Louis Unprece-
dented.

Deaths From Heat at st. Louis Unprece-
dented.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1l.-Not before i'll
the history of st. Louis has its inhabi-
tants suffered SO much from the heat
as during the past week. The highest
point reached by the thermometer was
100 in the shade, and on no one day was
the maximum below 95 On the streets
the heat was more intense and the rec
ord higher.
City Physician Sutter declared that
the record Of heat prostrations and
deaths at the hospital for the past week
is unprecedented in it's history. He re.
ports that ITO cases, all serious, were
cared for and that 10 Of these died,
while more are still in critical condi.
ton. This is not the complete record
for the city, for at least that many more
cases were taken to the dispensaries
where many died and others were sent
from there to various hospitals or their
homes for treatment.