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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Kingsley will play tae stage-struck
baroness.
TOO Much Johnson" is in preparation
at the AlcaZar.
Tivoli Opera-House.

For the last week of the grand opera
season, under the direction OF Gustav H in.
ricbs. TWO of Verdis operas will be giveE.
On Monday, Wednesday, Friday and
Sunday evenings the lyric drama,
"Rigoletto," or The FOOLS Revenge"
Will be sung with William Mertens as
the jester; Signor Michelena, the Duke oil
Manlua; Sisnor Fiviani. Sparafucile, he
brigand Mile. Anita Casals as Glda, the
TESTERS daughter, and Katherine Fleming
Hinrlchs as the brigand's sister, Mag
dalena. Tuesday, Thursday and SIT
urday evenings will be devoted to
"Il 1rovatore." with Effie Stewart, kath-
eune FiemingHinricbs Bernice Holmes,
Signor Micheena, John j. Rafael. Sgnor
Vlviani and Arthur Boyce in the cast.
Both operas will be staged in a careful
manner.
On Saturday afternoon. October 8, a
grand operate matinee Will be given 10
Gustav Hinrichs, and Wagners lyric
drama, "Lohenglin," will be given with
mented orchestra.
For The week OF October IL, by special
request, Balfe's ballad opera, THE Bo-
hemian Girl" wiil be sung with a cast IN
Guiding Signor Michaeiena, John ]. Rafael,
Edwin Stevens, Effie Stewart, Bernice
Holmes. Tiliie Saiinger and Phil Branson.
The latter will make his temperance
after an absence of over two years.
This popular work is sung by special re-
quest Oi many of the patrons of the house.
who desire 10 hear again its perennial
melodies. The comic opera season will
follow, and the opening opera will be the
New York and London success ''The
Geisha," or Tine story of a Teahouse. I"
Several new artists have been engaged.
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Columbia Theater.

After being postponed to make room
for Augustus Thomas new comedy,
Don't Tell Her Husband" Bret Harte's
"Sue" will be seen for the first time in
this city at the Colum bia Theater to-
morrow night. This play was succe ssfully
presented year ago at Hoyt's Theater, /,
New York
The plot tells the story of an ingenious
little Western girl who leads d weary,
dreary life on the ranch OF her selfish and
hypocritical old father. He marries her
off 10 a man whom she does not love, and
her life is drearier than ever. A circus
acrobat who committed murder comes 10
Su's farm and begs shelter and protection
from the Sheriff. who is on his track. she
hides the acrobat in the barn. and after the
Sheriff has departed on a false scent he
comes out and makes love to her in all the
glory of his circus spangles. Anum ber OF
exciting developments ensue, but the close
of the play sees Sue and her husband re-
cOnciled.
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Alcazar Theater.

A farewell piece, French Flats" will
be put on tomorrow. This is the frs I
time for more than a decade that this
farce comedy has been announced for pro-
ductlon in this city. While the plav was
originally written about fifteen years ago,
the present version-the one the Ale Ear
will use - is an adaptation from the
French. brought up to date BY A. L.
Cozeron, the Partisan dramatist.
As the title of The play indicates, the
action Is supposed to take place in a
French apartment-house. In il figure an
Italian opera-singer, a Portuguese mill
tary OH er, a quaint attorney mimic
and poet, baroness and several stage
struck women. There are twenty speak
ing parts in The play, and every character
is arcically treated.
Wright Huntington will play Reffear-
DIM, the Italian opera-singer, and Miss
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Declined With Thanks.

An admirer of Myron B. r ice of the firm
OF Smvth & Rice, managers Of MY Friend
from India" sent him bulldog the other
day from Buffalo, with letter stating
that if the animal was not wanted to re-
turn 1t by express at the expense of the
sender. Mr.. Rice happened TO have nc
especial use for the bulldog, so he returned
it, at the same time ordering his stenog.
rapher to forward to the owner polite
letter of thanks and expressing regret
that he was not able to accept it.
"Will you dictate the letter." asked the
stenographer.
Thunder, nov' roared Mr.. Rice. who
haT pened TO be very busy at that moment.
go ahead and write it yourself. With all
the experience you have had you ought 10
have TACT enough to decline q bulldog
without giving offense."
'All right, sir, meekly responded the
stenographer.
Two days later the bulldog fancier re-
ceived back his canine, accompanied by
the following highly ornate note of expla-
nation:
Dear Sir: We regret that we are compelled
to decline the bulldog you so kindly submitted
10 US. We have carefully examined IL and are
sincerely sorry that i: does not seem wholly
availa bic for our use.
VI course you are aware that many consid
eratlons besides quality must govern the ac-
ceptance OF bulldogs and the rejection of any
particular bulldog does not necessarily imply
that it is lacking in merit This and hun
dred other reasons may cause the re lection OF
an offered bulldog without reference to i is in
trinslc worth. The simple TACT of refusal
therefore, does not carry with it any adverse
judgment as TO the excellence of the bulldog
but 1t is merely statement that IL cannot be
used at The present time. These general rea
sons Tor the return of au unavailable bulldog
we trust, Will excuse us from giving anything
specific or offering criticism in any particular
case. With thanks for your courtesy we are
very truly yours, MYRoN B. RICE,
per FITZ ZONES
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
At Sutro Baths.

Charmion, the aeriel performer, will give
her first exhibition of lofty trapeze work
this afternoon. Her headlong dives, def,
feet tricks and breakaway swoops are said
to be the most remarkable ever performed
by any woman in midair. Charmion will
join the tiving Jordan troupe next season.
Other specially features are: Orc and
Bell, comedy acrobats; he Mullin Sisters.
cornetists; and the three Leandos' ath-
letic feats. Next Sunday, October 10, Fri z
Scheel and his orchestra of seventy five
pieces will give a popular grand concert.
This noted leader is biz favorite in San
Francisco. and his first appearance for
some seasons Will doubtless draw.
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At the 0rpheum.

On Monday the Adolphi trio. one of
Walters discoveries in Europe, will make
their first appearance in America. They
do an aerIa! horizontal bar act, said TO be
'ensa ional and unique. O. Brien and Ha-
vel, team consisting of an acrobat and a
singing and dancing soubrette, will also
be new. O'BrIen does an act in which he
refuses to go home till morning, and
wanderS thither by a series of eccentric
falls, in which he stands momentarily on
his neck and resumes perpendicularity
without his hands touching the floor.
Mis- Havel cheers him along with
songs, and Miss A.exia Bassin, a mezzo-
soprano from Vienna, will make her first
appearance on the vaudeville stage in
operate selections and ballad singing.
Frank Lawton has been re-engaged for
another week and his entire act will be
changed. Clayton, Jenkins and "Jasper"
remain; so do Irene Franklin, the pre-
cocious child artist; Ell Zobedie, the equl-
hbrist, and Adrienne Ancion. The Hun
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Grand Opera-House.

Manager Morosco announces "Monte
Cristo'' for to- morrow nights prod uction.
The play itself is thoroughly familiar TO
San Francisco audiences, but romantic
interest still attaches itself to Dumas
romance.
The new leading man, who Will play the
part of Edmond Dantes, is w. H. Pascoe.
who has been connected with the James
O'Neill Company for the past six years.
His resem blance 10 o Neill is said TO be so
striking that many people have supposed
that they are father and son. Pascoe has
always played the part of Albert de Nor
GERS 10 O'Neiil's Ed dmond and has always
been his understudy for Dantes. Eastern
critics have praised his work, and has
been considered an able and spirited actor.
The scenic and mechanical fea ures of the
piece have received considerable atten-
ton, and altogether the production is one
of unusual interest to patrons of the
Grand.
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pays of vocal agility. Mr.. Hinrichs did
not give his artists time to acrobat. They
were rushed through on sche iued time as
remorseiessly as if a Metronome de Mar
ziel had been talking away on the con-
! ductor's desk. If he had entered into q
compact to send every one concerned to
bed before midnight be could scarcely
have been in greater haste. Poor Bernice
Holmes suffered most. She made a brave
effort 10 let off the vocal fireworks of 'No-
bil Signo" in the time allowed her, found
she could not do it, and finally became de-
morallZed and lost the pitch. Anita
Casais, the new Spanish prima donna, had
an exciting race with the orchestra TO get
in the forid music of Marguerite de
Valois' role on Hinrichs' time. Toward
the end of the event she threw off her
nervousness, and came in well at the fiji
ism. Micheena never tagged and never
turned hair, neither did Effie Stewart,
and Abramoff made excellent time But
the whole thing reminded one of a sport
ing event.
The weakest point of Gustav Hinrichs'
conducting is always his tendency to ac-
celerate his tempos, but he has never
scampered his artists through the score as
he did last week in THE Huguenots."
Such unseemly haste is habit that ought
to be guarded against. In ola Goconda'
Mr.. Hinrichs entirely took away the
majesty OF the tenor solo, "Cielo Mar"
by giving it half as fast again as 1t is taken
by conductors who studied the opera
under Ponchielli, and the magnificent
final chorus OF LA Gioconda's' second act
was lowered to the fiippancy of bit of
comic op=ra by the haste displayed in Its
rendering. Gustav Hinrichs is a very
gifted and conscientious conductor, but he
is making mistaken applying the habit
of American crush" to the performance of
grand opera. NJ ARIE EVELYN
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of trumpets, and was married in style to
a young lady of this city, to whom he had
been engaged before going to the South
Seas.
He was heralded as man who had
cleaned up fortune in the pearl fisheries
and was made much of by the habltues of
the cocktail route.
Then, in an unguarded moment, he
| took to playing casino and Immediately
got into water deeper than his pearl
divers are wont to encounter. Grant Israel
was is opponent and the game waxed
fast and furious, with Harris on the short
end.
On Wednesday night The game rolled
high and 500 was the stake for twice
around t5e board" When the game
broke up Harris was $500 loser outside of
the ready money he had brought In his
pockets. He agreed to settle the next
day, and in act did pay 500. but the re-
mainder not materialize.
Israel waited patiently. cut began to
| lear Tor his winnings when he heard that
Harris was preparing to leave with his
bride for Tahiti on the barkeEtine Tropic
Bird, that was billed to sail at o'clock
this morning. He was also nettled by
hearing that Sam had paid Rome Harris:
the saloon man, $50 that was owing by
Israel TO the bonface
He decided to bring matters to an issue,
and yesterday procured an order of exam
lnation that directed Harris to appear in
the Justice CourI and answer as to his
, ability to pay the $400 balance.
| Harris when served with the papers
tried to settle for 5000 cash and note for
$780, but Israel wanted more security,
and the pear.y monarch was finally al
lowed TO go by procuring Rome Harris
Endorsement on note for $400 payable in
ninety days. Harris leaves on the Tropic
| Bird.
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he COULDN'T
PLAY CASINO
Sam Harris, the Pearl
King" Drops $500 in a
Friendly Game.
Because He Gould Not Pay
He Was Taken Into
Custody.
A Namesake Comes to His Rescue so
That He Can Sail for Tahiti
To-Day.

Samuel Harris, who is more or less
widely known under the name of the
Pearl King was under the charge of
Deputy Sheriff Billy Ackerson for short
time yesterday, as result of his ina bility
to master the Intricacies of casino as it is
played in San Francisco.
Harris recently came from Tahiti,
where he was engaged in the business of
buying and selling pearls, with flourish
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Baldwin Theater.

H. A. Du Soncbets famous comedy,
"My Friend From India" begins a TWO
weeks engagement tomorrow night 1t
is a farce after tine French style, but with
out the sort of entendre that is usually
served in plays OF farcical nature drawn
from Gallo source. The story is built
around a Kansas City pork-dealer who is
domiciled in New York, where he is try
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

peat their eccentric acrobatic perform
ances and Mile. Lira, a stereopticon skirt
dancer, will appear for the first time.
Adgie has been in Los Angeles, San Diego
ana the south for some time an6 she has
introduced a numbe OF novel features in
her performance. May Tunison, ballad
singer; Boyle and Lewis, sketch team,
and the Chuteoscope will complete the
programme.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
The Oberon.

Herr Siark's popularity as leader is on
the increase. All through the week the
Vienna Orchestra has played to large au-
diences, and he conductor has been re-
peatedIy appla for his artistic solo
work. A new programme will be pre-
Sented tomorrow evening.
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At the Chutes.

At the Chutes Free Theater Adgie and
her trained lions will commence a limited
engagement to-day. Mazuz and Mazett,
the Tramp and the Brakeman" will re-
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Any human being who will have the
presence of mind to clasp the hands be-
hind the back and turn the face toward
the zenith may float at ease and in perfect
sa ETY. in toIerably still water.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Musical Mention.

A pianoforte recital will be given next
"Wednesday afternoon by William Piutti,
at 223 Sutter street.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Calve has, 1t is said, abandoned the inten.
ton of studying Kundry in "Parsifal," bu
Will add Sieglinde and Norma to her reper
toire.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Scot Inglis, the young Australian actor, has
been engaged by Julia Arthur to play the
Duke OF OSmond in "a Lady OF QUALIFY"
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Johnnie Ray and Emma Ray are meeting
with great success in the Eastern States with
the play "a Hot Old Time," by Edgar Seldom.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Mile. Antoinette Trebelli will be the soloist
of the first New York symphony concert
under the direction of Waiter Danroscn
November ).
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Dramatic Brepities.

Guile and Nine Tavary are singing duets
in Eastern vaudeville houses.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

-
Augustus Thomas has come very near
star ting a controversy over wont Tell
Her Hus band, - his first effort at comedy.
There are playgoers who maintain that he
intended the Frawlevs' new play as
satire upon the social ethics of the day;
that he wrote il, in fact, with a determi-
nation: to catch the manners living as
they rise" Other playgoers stoutly up
hold the be lief that Augustus Thomas
oneidea was TO be amusing and frivolous
and altoc ether French, because, they ar
q: que, in French plays and novels the neg
lected, deceived husband Is always placed
in a ridiculous position; no sympathy is
aroused for him, no one espects his mis-
: fortunes. and that is exactly the position
of Thomas Bancroft in Don't Tell Her
Husband" He is OF the avenging indi-
viduaJ OF English and American drama
who aronses respect and touch of awe;
on the contrary, he is poor dupe who is
laughed at all around.
augustus Thomas would probably tell
theater-geers that they could pay their
money and take their choice of whether
his pley was a satire, or was frivolously
which it is himself. He has certainly
made mistake IN describing Don't Tel
Her Husband" as high comedy. High
comedy does not know the methods en-
ployed for raising laugh in Don't FELL
Her Husband" and tarce-comedy has
known and loved them for years. If it
were not that the play is written round
the breaking of one of the ten command
T farc
edy, spun out to make three acts, it is
true, but smart and witty enough TO make
one overlook its length. After the ex-
plantations of the first act one almost loses
sight of the oing that gives rise to
all the fun. Farce-comedy written round
even a veled violation of the decalogue is
so staftlingly un-American, however, that
one cannot but hope that Augustus
Thomas new departure will not be fol-
lowed by farces written round burglaries,
forgeries, suicides and murders.
Fraw, ey has shown good deal OF en-
terprise in mounting another brand-new
play. He is evidently trying to live up to
his promise that he would make his COM
pahy play producing one.
The successful season Of grand opera is
drawing to close at the Tivoil There have
been operas for nearly all tastes wagner
has been well represented, but not SO well
as to crowd out the melodlous strains OF
the early Verdi or the dramatic Efforts
OF ''young" Italy. Even the old 'Hu-
guenots' has found place in the reper-
tory. The revival of Meyerbeer's ponder
Gus work was probably concession to
popular taste. for Gustav Hinrichs did not
treat it so lovingly as most OF the operas.
He conducted il with an air which seemed
to say: "If 'twere done 'twere best done
quickly" and the florid music was dam
aged by the treatment.
There are some fine choruses in the TIM
seify "Huguenots," but the solos depend
chiefly for their effect upon acrobatic dis
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

w. H. Leahy, the business manager of the
Tivoli, is In New York engaging new artists
and contracting for operas.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

George Bernard Snaw's latest play, entitled
1.-The DEVILS Disciple" will receive its initial
production on any stage at the Fifth Avenue
Theater on Monday. October 4, when Richard
Mansfield will begin an engagement at that
lheater.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Miss George Cooper has been engaged fol
the comic opera season at the Tivoli. Miss
Cooper was one of the best Little Lord Faun
tleroy's OF eight years ago.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Marguerite Faure, who is said to be n iece
OF the President OF France made her appear
ance in a serio-comic specially last week at
the st. Nicholas Music Hall. She made a
pleasing appearance and sang her songs after
the manner of all soubrettes Miss Faure has
been preceded by baroness and countess, so
that her relationship to q ru .ec will not help
her TO any great extent
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

'The Girl from Frisco" musical farcical
comedy, by Miron Leffingwell, is to be pro-
duced on October under the management of
J. II. Davis & Co. Rehearssls are in progress
III New York under the direction OF George c.
Jerks.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Max Hirschfeld, the new musical director of
the TIvoIi, will commence his duties with
"The Bohemian Gri.'' Mr.. Hirschfeid was
for two seasons at the Castle Square, Boston.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

"Joy streamed on her young face. the Joy OF a
mind vivid and lucid. BY the manner in
which her look and her smile were asse m bled
rhythmic, united as in verses that firm and
sonorous rhyme attaches, one OWNED in her
the dancer. Her face was animated, livid, was
indignant, caressed, threatened, irrltated,
adored. with marvellous eXactness."
This is not quotation from of Miss
Laura Jean Libbey's masterpieces, nor is it a
symphonic exhibit from the shades of Bloom
ingdale. 1t is only specimen cuIled from
the reporters published accounts of Mile. de
Microbes first rehearsal in New York
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

guest. Among the performers are: May
Vokes. Frederic Bond as Underhopt, the
Kansas City pork-packer, Helen Reimer
and Nita Allen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

ing to launch his family into society. He
has found this trying and hopeless un-
dertaKIn, during two years of constant
endeavor, and then accident puts him In
the way OF realizing his am mbition.
his only son comes home drunk one
night and shares his couch with a SINH
larry conditioned barber whom he has
picked up during the nights debauch
Ihe next morning, in sheer desper ation.
he palms the barber off on his father as a
renowned theosophical adept. Theo sophv
is society's fad of the moment, and the
shrew old pOrk-dealer sees a way 10 graf
lily the an oitions of his daughters.
He Mprisons the barber in his man.
sion, advertises him ex ensively by means
OF bogus interviews and press dispatches
and prepares to have society clamor at
his doors for omission. The piece ends
JOLLY and logically, with the chief victim
OF hoax a confirmed believer in the
miraculous powers OF his theosophist
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-10
PROGRAMME OF THE DAY.

SAN FRANCISCO July a-Today's con-
veation programme VAS as follows
Early morning prayer meetings in the
following c1urcHas. First Baqttsg First
ConEreE att0ual Starr-hiug African VI f
Zion. First Presbyterian, Wesleyan Pres
fytsrian Wescnlinsjer Presbyterian. Tntrd
Congregational Grace Methodist and the
First Congregational church OF Oakland
Daily 70 for lie - dy. Contra Meth
o3.lst Episcopal church
Daily chalk talk. First United Presby-
terrain church.
Mothers ueeiing-Flrst United Presley
terrain church.
Evangeiistic meetings az noon-Young
NeT'S t'artSrian Association auditorium
Chamber II Commerce, Emporium ana
Palace hotel
,qtsaaor noon meetings-Porf mouth
square. Washington square. Union square.
Jefferson square. Hamilton square, Column
a -ft44fe. Rion Iron Works. Chapel ar
Emanuel s. Foarth and Townsend streets
Hail of Records. south side.
tpugl!ttsV conferences -- At various
churches 10 O'Clock.
Officers conferenceS-Earious churches
80 70 80 O'Clock.
Pastors couference-Odd Fellows hall.
30 70 IN o'clock
Daily quiet hour-C'alyary Pres5yte ria
CHURCH - 20 $50 O'Clock.
Mechanics PaVillen-4.50. praise service:
q devotional exercises $50. addresses
n@se qIartette. 100. adjournment: 30
praise service: 30, devotional exercises;
800. singing; p. IA. address. go. ad-
1ournment.
Wosdward's Pavilion-s:3o. praise serv-
ice. devotional exercises. addresses. open
parliament. singing. addresses. open par
lament. anthem, addresses adjournment /.
t,p. praise service. 80 devotional eXer-
cises. SO singing $50 prs seatati0n Of
hammer. 81 singing, $50. address. $50,
adjournment
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TO BE HELD TODAY.
The Ail-Roand Athletic Champion
ship Contest.

The all-round athletic championship
contest Of the \. ". {. ~ which viii tie
held this afternoon. promises to he one
of the most interesting struggles OF The
season. There Will be al bout ten entries.
and rs each contestant Is required 10
compete in the same events II VIII afford
good opportunity 10 Judge OF their re-
specttye merits in varied contests There
is the pole vault. running high jump.
running broad Jump mile run. throwing
the underground hammer and op-yard
dash
The contest is scored by points so IT
Is possible for a man who does poorly
iii one event 20 even up In another In
tn" long run. however. the best average
performer VIII win The maximum
number Of points that can be scored in
any one event is loo. and in order 30 score
at all IL is necessary 70 do What ia called
a qualifying performance To make
this clearer take. for instance. throwing
the underground hammer. In order 10
score one point II is necessary 90 throw
the hammer 50 feet inches. If the dis
lance thrown is loo feet. the performer
Is credited with 100 points
II would not be surprising II the 90
yard try-out-race between Fraser : \.
c.. and Veser, L. Of W. for second place
on the Aii-Washngtcn athletic team.
which completes against Ali-oregon a.
Portland July Y would be an event Of
considerable importance In the writer's
opinion. Neser Is going 10 he one Of the
best II not the king pin, 2.e-yard runner
IN Western Washington. RE has prom
isiug opponent IN Fraser. but Fraser has
not had the proper facilities TO bring out
what there is I'm him. Muldoon. the L.
OF W high jumper. Will try out with T.
e. Sharqe Tor place on the AN-Washing-
ton team