The San Francisco call., 1897-08-29
reorganized and strengthened. will occupy
the shell" on MONDAY evening, Septem-

reoreanized and strengthened. will occupy
the shell" on Monday evening, Septem-
ber 13.
Dramatic Brevities.
Walter Thomas Is engaged to Hope Ross.
Congratulations are in order. comely
couple!
At Pacific Grove "curfew'' rings every night
1t Is the signal that "kids" have TO vacate the
street and is known as the "hoodlum bel"
There is no truth in the RUSSELL Daily story.
Mr. Daily would do himself proud If he could
catch the handsome Lillian Tor his anemlc
forces.
Miss Blanche Walsh is not returning with
the Secret Service company from London,
having been detained there by her mothers
illness.
Hall Gaines dramatizatioa of his new story,
1.-THE Christian" has been performed for copy
right purposes at the Grand Theater, Douglas,
Isle OF Man.
Cleo de Merode, whoit is claimed was salts
fed with about $50 month in Paris, is to re-
celve three times that amount week during
her engagement at Roster & BiaPs in the tall.
Such is lack.
Hope Ross, who succeeded Odette Tyler in
the role OF Caroline Milford In Secret Serv-
1ce," has been engaged 10 play ingenue roles
by Charles Frohman this season.
If actresses and others desire to come before
the pubic prominently all they have to do is
to announce that they pro pose Klondik1ng
next spring. Even the most suspicious copy
cutting editors fall into the trap.
w. E. de Verna, who desig igned and con-
structed the properties and scenic effects of
the forthcoming spectacular Production Ma
Academy n
from overwork, at his home in Brooklyn.
The California Dramatic Club will give a
grand production of "Lochinvar' on Sunday
evening, September 5, at Native Sons Hall,
Miss Ruth Belleville, society belle, will
make her debut before the footlights on that
occasion.
Edward Xavier Rolker, the lyric tenor, for
merly head of the vocal depar tment OF Schar-
wenka Conservatory, New York, and Pierre
Doulllet. pianist, win give joint recital at
Sherman, Clay & Coz Hall, on the evening of
Septem Der g.
An invitation concert will be given at Sher-
man, Clay & Co.'s Hall. oa the evening OF Sep
tember %, on which occasion John S. Rafael,
the barry tone, will be The solost The concel t
will be given under the auspices OF Miss Alice
Bacon and Giulio Minetti
A literary Bohemian is at work on great
naturalistic novel, SAYS French paper. 1.-The
marchioness," he writes, became as white as
shirt" Glancing at that very moment at
his own wristbands he is seized by scruple,
and adds, 'WhIter even than a shirt"
David Belasco viii remain IN this City until
the conclusion of "The Heart of Maryland"
engage ment at the Baldwin Theater He is
10 return direct to NV York to prepare for
the production OF "The First Born" in that
city.
for production during his coming engagement
at the Baldwin Theater. 1t is to be called
"a Fool and His Friend" This is not to be
the only fool that we to meet this season,
as Crane will show us "A Fool OF Fortune"
"Whats the matter now % asked the lead
Ing acGor as the manager tore letter to
shreds and stamped his feet.
.Matter? That performance OF yours is so
internally bad tnat this person demands that
his name be stricken from the free list"
W. NJ. Hanley has contra acted with Samuel
II. Fried.ander to play Rober: Man tell IN
San Francisco and other coast cities next
Omaha, April z, and continue for fifteen
weeks.
An English paper (The Referee) announces
that, Cured on by the success OF his London
ventures" Charles Frohmah will produce g.
number OF American plays in London, 'anong
them new 1arce adapted by Dave Belasco,
and the same writer's Chinese play" Such is
fame
Augustin Dalys American company, with
Ada Rehan as leading lady, will commence an
English tour a: Newcas tie on-Tyne tomorrow.
On Thursday Miss Rehan ana company gave
an open-eiI performance OF ''As You Like It''
at what is officially described SIS as tratford on
the Avon River"
! Charles Ulrich's Chinese play, "a Celestial
Maiden" now touring the coast is meeting
! with great success 1t has been booked for
| two months ahead, but it is likely to be pro-
| duced in this City before the expiration OF
| that Time The interior critics unani-
nous in lis praise.
Mrs. Madeline Lucette Ryley has written for
| Nat Goodwin q comedy based OH the life and
| adventures OF Richard Savage. There has
! been more than one play written around this
| unhappy poet aud play wright. The last one
/ produced YVES the work OF J. NJ. Barrie and +.
| Marrlott-Watson, and it was very successfully Y
tried few years ago at the Criterion, London.
Sarah Be1nhardt has now received the dra.
matte version of "Hamlet'' that is to be
mounted at the Ren naissance this season. The
authors have closely followed Shakespeare.
| On the bills 1t will appear as "The Tragic His
! tory OF Hamlet, Prince of Denmark which,
| it is serted, was the original title used al
| the first production and for the first printed
| edition.
| The English newspapers criticizethe
| Eng lish performance OF "Civil Service un-
| favora bly,. The Morning Post says: "The
| charm Of reticence and delicacy of treatment,
| due to the subordination OF one part to an
other, Sc noticeable in the American company
has almost eatirely vanished, and III its place
we are given the glare OF crudity and the
noise that unhappily mar our native produc-
| tions."
Harry Mann, the manager of the Knicker-
| booker Theater, has arranged with firm of
decorators to decorate the dressing rooms OF
| that theater in intern tional ors for the
| engagement OF the English 'In Town" COM
| pany. This is return com pliment to this
company for the courtesies extended to the
secret Service" company in London The
dress g-rooms of Mr.. Giilefte's company at
the Adelphi Tneater were decorated in a like
manner.
Professional pistol shots beware! The Judge
of the Criminal Court, Berlin, has sent for six
months imprisonment the gentleman who
considered himself the legitimate successor of
William Tell and who some time AGO at n