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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
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BY AshtoD Stevens.

The recent epidemic of romantic drama
has taught them the use of gaudy
clothes and sidearms and a something
of that sOnorous elocution that the
Bard demands. These moderns will
perhaps hold in the proper disesteem
those fake traditions in acting and in
depreciation that have done more than
anything else to keep Shakespeare out
of touch with the popular end of-the-
century theater, and bring about
nice little renascence of very musical
and uplifting style of drama. At any
rate the enterprise of the players in
venturing on what for many years has
been regarded as almost fatal territory,
and the grit of the managers in risking
the productions cannot be too highly
commended. 1t is not probable that all
these people will be successful, but if
| only few succeed others will be en-
couraged and the ball set arolling; and
maybe the new century will find in
'tragedian and classic comedian"
something better than terms of re-
proach.
| The passionate press agent is now
adays excessively partial tO pulling the
long arm of coincidence Cor the leg of
the dramatic critic-just as you prefer
in giving his human wares the proper
plumpness of space in the newspapers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
Grand Opera-House

The Southwell Opera Company has cap
tured the public fancy and is doing a
splendid business at the Grand Opera
house. The singers have raised them
selves greatly in popular esteem by
their admirable performance of "Caval-
leria Rusticana.'' Tomorrow evening
they present Strauss Gypsy Baron
which certainly ought to do big bust
ness. The opera is rich in delightful mel
ody and contains a story which is exceed
ingly interesting and is told with agree
able and picturesque surroundings This
production is to be beautifully mounted,
and the costumes, which are exceedingly
handsome, have arrived from the East
The cast will include the three prima
donnas and the two leading tenors. 1t is
as follows; Sander Barnkay. Thomas II
Persse, Count Carnaro. Arthur Wooley:
kalman Zsupan, William Wolff: Oltakar,
Miro Delamotta; Pail. Mace Bonneville
Josif, Charles Airing; Saffi, Edith Mason:
Arsena, Eleanor Guist and Daisy Thorne
alternately; Mirabella, Bertha Ricci:
Czria, Hattie Belle Ladd.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

THF theatrical week has been re-
markable for excellent produc-
tons Of familiar operas by the
Southweu and TivoH companies,
for two emphatically first-rate
athletic acts and one marvelously I'M
successful attempt at character imita-
lions in the Orpheum, for the alleged
humping of one manager by another
and for the building of no new theaters
in the columns of the press. In i'm
portance this aforementioned item is
the most Perhaps a whole bunch of
playhouses viii be builded in the news
papers this week and all our calcula-
tions go for nothing; but in the mean
time we may hope; the sign is en-
Coura ging. When the millionaires and
managers refrain from erecting morn
ing and evening editions of theaters
and opera houses for a whole week it
augurs we'll for architects and builders
and playgoers. It is very easy to set
up a new theater in type. Any we'll
regulated press agent can do it at an
hours notice. 1t is much easier than
losing ones diamonds, or ones repu-
tation, or ones husband, or any of the
other feats in pressagentry, and is
quite as inexpensive. Some time when
the week is dull I may build one on this
page with a coupon annex that will en-
title you to a velvet-mOunted orchestra
chair for the opening night-write the
play myself and choose the cast from
illustrious histrons who are dead. That
is. if the fad lasts. But l fear it will
not These phantom theaters make bril-
liant literature. but add nothing to the
tax list and seating capacity of the
town. and already the public is becom-
ing just a bit skeptical.
That we need a new theater will find
few deniers. After a play famine that
lasted several years theatricals are now
fairly on the way to boom. San Fran
cisco has been taken to the heart of
the managerial syndicate. and the only
available theater for the syndicate is
the Columbia-which means just one
frst-rate attraction at time. For in
stance the Frohman company, headed
by Henry Miller and Edward Morgan
that comes soon for an extended and
what is practically a stock engagement
will. while it occupies the Columbia
close the city against all other high
class attractions. To be sure Mr.. Fried
lander will have the California in shape
by that time; but Mr.. Friedlander is
not one of the brotherhood of the syn
dictate and cannot get the syndicate at
fractions, which, generally speaking
are all the notable ones in America. Ir
fact he has already avowed his inten-
ton of largely giving over the Cali
fornia to lectures, concerts and what
are usually termed platform attrac-
tons" Aside from that Mr. Fried
lander Mr. Hayman and ourselves
know from experience that the Cali
fornia Theater is off the line for ex-
pensive shows. Location means much
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
Looks Easy bus dust Try to Do 1t.

society belle and the villain is about to
be solemnized in New York's most fash
ionable church before a very aristocratic
congregations 1.-The other woman" in the
case, the wronged wife, appears on the
scene, and rushing down the church aisle
calls a peremptory halt to the marriage
ceremony at the same time uttering an
impassioned denunciation of the groom.
The climax of this act, as the groom
strikes a cowardly blow at the woman he
has betrayed and fells her to the floor,
stricken from the church. is said to be
one of the most dramatic and thrilling
in the America drama. In the
last act the tension gradually relaXes
and the audience sees the villain obtain
ing his just deserts, while honesty, truth
and love triumph.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
Alcazar.

On Monday evening at the Alcazar will
be revived I'm Mizzoura,' the play which
has been accepted in the West as THE
Old Homestead is in the far East, and
which is incidentally a much finer drama
than Thompsons. 1t is a picture of
country life in Missouri. 1t relates the
secret love a blacksmiths daughter had
for a man of evil record and a fugitive
from justice, whose character she knew
not. 1t also pictures how the Sheriff of
the play had quietly furnished the girls
father with the means for her education
and how he loved the girl Kate and never
told her. 1t tells that when Kate re-
turned home from one of the Eastern
scoffed at the thought of marrying a man
so beneath her in education, not knowing
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
TiVoli.

At the Tivoli Opera-house "Orpheus
and Eurydice" will receive it's last pre-
sentation tonight, and tomorrow
evening De KoVen and Smiths romantic
comic opera in three acts. The Manda
rim, will be sung for the first time in
this city. The libretto and lyrics are said
to be written in Smiths best style and the
music is reported tuneful and catchy. The
mandarin of Fuchau, where the scene of
the opera is placed, bears a striking re-
semblance to Fan-Tan, a vagabond and
on this the story hinges. The mandarin
sees Jesse, the vagabond's wife, and falls
in love with her, but the laws of China
allow a man only twelve wives, with
which comfortable quantity he is already
provided. Complications ensue in a rush
Ing manner and fun reigns supreme.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
KneiseI Concerts.

The Kneisel Quartet will give two cham
Der concerts at Sherman & Clay Hall next
Friday evening at Sis o'clock and Sat
urday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The first
programme will comprise Mozart's quar-
tet in D minor; Schumann's quartet in
major and Smetana's quartet in E minor.
This last work is a remarkable one, and
was written after the composer became
totally deaf. The second programme will
include Haydn's quartet in g major; Bee
thovens quartet in e fiat major, op. "A,
and Schubert's quartet in d minor The
tet now before the public, and will be ac-
corded a hearty welcome.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
Musical Mention.

Haydns symphony in G. major (the
militaryO; an arrangement for string
orchestra of "The Old Folks at Home"
by Carl Busch (first time here; Sousa's
very latest march, Hands Across the
Sea" (first time); Schumanns 'Marchen-
bilder,' for violin and piano, and miscel-
laneous numbers, constitute a programme
to be given under the direction of Alex
ander T. Stewart at the Unitarian
church, Oakland, Friday evening.
The seventeenth musicale by the McKen-
zie Musical Society of 100 voices will be
given in the Odd Fellows Hall on Thurs
day night
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

1 am the monarch of the sea-Fritz
Williams Can't you guess the rest?
how years afterward they met on the
Lyceum stage and she confronted him
with that very same autograph album
and he said, What, you aren't that
little demonstrated girl?" and how they
both laughed and worked happily to-
gether ever after, or for the season
anyway? OF course you can. But the
lovely part of the story is the happen
ing along at the same time of Pima
fore" and Fritz Williams and Fife
Shannon. The press agent who
thought that out is a topical wonder
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
CLEVER HEAD BALANCING FEAJs HE EsoNLLos At T oRpE

But this yarn about Effie Shannon,
who comes to us tomorrow night. and
Fritz Williams, who leaves us tonight.
and 'Pinafore," which has been filing
us with pleasant "reminiscences at the
Grand during the week, is ingenious
and timely enough to be true. 1t seems
that long, long ago Mr.. Williams made
his first appearance on any stage in
Boston production of "Pinafore" in the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

belle, who, however, falls victim to the
duplicity of an aristocratic scoundrel. and
him to the Verge of matrimony. but es-
capes marriage with him at the foot of
the altar.
The first scene of the play reveals a
childrens party given by adults attired
in short dresses and childrens panta-
let's at the mansion of one of New York s
400 The shadow of a crime turks, and
the curtain falls on a suicide. In the sec
ond act as the marriage of the young
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

part of the Admiral. The same event
full night marked the debut of
Miss Shannon, who was cast as
one of his sisters or his cousins
or his aunts There was not
tot in that chorus says
Miss Shannon, who was not tumultu-
ously in love with the proudly strutting
admiral. l remember we'll how
brought him my autograph album and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
The Chutes.

At the Chutes the list of performers
will include Weston and Herbert, musical
comedians; Martin Franklyn, a parodist
and dancer; Waldo and Elliot. aerial con-
tortionists; the Morrells, banjoists; An
tonic Vargas, barytone; Lucretia Vincent,
dancer, and Little Maud, child singer.
Arizona Bill and Coma Belle, snake
charmers, are in the zoo. There will be q
balloon ascension this afternoon, and on
Thursday night an amateur minstrel per-
Torrance Will be given.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
Columbia.

In announcing the successful stellar al
lance of Herbert Kelley and Ef1ie Shan
non in THE Moth and the Flame" at the
Columbia Theater. beginning with to-
morrow night, the management of that
house promises one of the best New York
Lyceum Theater successes. THE Moth
and the Flame" is said to be a play with
a moral, an intensely dramatic produc
ton, dealing with the fashionable social
life of New York City. That it is an
American play by an American author
and deals with American society is a cir
cumstance altogether favorable in the
eyes of an American audience. 1t tells
story of the love of an honest man for
pure young woman, a New York society
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that he had furnished the means for her
schooling; and it ends happily.
Orpheum.

The new bill at the Orpheum has four
new acts, and one of these is claimed to
be the novelty of the day. 1t is by Moung
Toon and Mong Chef, Burmese jugSlers,
who have been attracting the attention
of the East to the extent that they have
been made the subjects of special stories
by the Sunday papers, Harper's, Leslie's
and the magazines. A popularity of their
work is that they do all their Juggling
without touching the articles with their
hands, using only their feet and the mus
cles of the arms. shoulders and legs.
Other new features are Montgomery and
Stone the blackfaCe comedians. who were
such favorites when here about a, year
ago, Billy Van. the minstrel, in his spe-
cialties and the DonoVans, irish come
dams.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
California.

An elaborate production of Palmer
Cox's Brownies in Fairy nd will be
given at the California 1leat~r Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday June l. 2 and
S, under the auspices of the California
Club over 200 children will take part.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
olympia.

The Olympia has for its new cards the
Hartwell sisters, who are said to be very
clever acrobatic dancers; the four Sal
WINS, acrobats, and Way and Maitland.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21
Mrs.. Johnson
Saved from
insanity ny
Mrs. inkham

menced to have spells with my spine.
Every month | grew worse and at last
became so bad that | found l was
gradually losing my mind,
THE doctors treated mc TO- female
troubles, but I got no i've. 81. One
doctor told me that I would be insane.
I was advised by a friend to give Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
trial, and before | had taken all of the
first bottle my neighbors noticed the
change in me.
i have now taken five bottles and
cannot find words sufficient to praise it.
| advise every woman who is suffering
from any female weakness to give it a
fair trial. l thank you for your good
medicine. "-MRs. GERTRUDE NJ. john
son, J~oNEsBORo, TEXAS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21
WANTS Etc.

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Arctic Refrigerating Machines for cool
ing refrigerators, guaranteed 70 per cent
cheaper han ice. Exclusive territory as
signed. Arctic Refrigerating Co., Gin
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For RENT-A good location for a
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for a small family in the rear of the
Office. Up stairs over Harris barber
shop. For particulars inquire of d.
Kaiser, Ormsby House.
FOR SALE-A fine baby carriage in
first class condition, cheap. Inquire at
this Office.
For RENT-Furnished house of five
rooms. Inquire of Mrs. Barnes.
FOR SALE-FiVe cOrne lots. House
and barns, owned by Mrs. NJ. Fox, in the
eastern part of town, is offered for sale
cheap.
To be well shod means much to YOU in
health and reputation. \ small amount
of cash will bring you a good shoe at Ed
B~urlington's. Why go with cold and
damp feet. Take a look at his long line
of reliable footwear, made by shOemak-
ers. No shoddy around his store-can't
afford to sell it.
Geo, A. Tyrrcll is making a specially
I Of Hama Njal, Ga,,JT1- .,l-, r,,.Ty,5,,,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21
THE CASE OF E

A very complex social problem
whose ramifications run deeper than
the civil law, will come before the pee
pie of the United States for discussion
in the case of Congressman Roberts,
whose seat in the Lower House of
Representatives will be contes> ed this
winter, on the ground hat he is a
polygamist.
The talk that he will resign his seat
without a fight is all nonsense.
He will be in Washington when the
time comes and make a fight tOr his
seat, such a contest as was neve betO1e
put up by any one man on the floor of
Congress. Those who know HIM say
that there is not a bette oralor OF de
bator in the United States today than
Roberts and that there is 10 nan in
Congress who is at all anN.ous to
cross swords with him. In al inter
view he says:
The dam r to the American home
in protection OF which this present
agitation is invoked and which is
urged as its Justification, does not
lurk in the sun-blessed valleys Of
Utah, filled with farming villages
where domestic peace and happiness
rise every day to greet the morn and
crowd the hours with quiet joy, The
good people of New York City and
other cities can find it much nearer
home.
I'm this city where I am writing
the city of Helen Gould-and men
ton that lady's name with the pro.
foundest respect and admiration fol-
her good works, her ~womanly charity
and, withal, her bread goodness, ans
only regret that she has been misled
in relation to conditions in Utah-here
in the city of her home, within a few
thousand feet squaAe, may be fOrnc
more that menace a home than ever
existed, or l hope ever will exist, il
the whole State of Utah.
And, knowing this, it looks just {
little ridiculous to see well-meanlng
reformers so far misled by misrepre-
sensations of Utah affairs as to bt
found standing knee deep in The
swamp Of social evils about them
vainly trying to tip-toe themselve:
into a position where they can pee
over the rugged summit of the Rocky
mountains to fLd a more desperate
menace to the American home.
Leave Utah alone. She is able
and she will werk out her own alva
ton, if indeed she is not already a!
far along that road as any State in The
Union"
What has New York to reply Il
this? Certainly nothing, for in tina
CITY social leaders can outrage ever,
law of deceucy and faunt every dis
graceful thing in the face Of the mora
law, and then secure the presence c
the Ri. Rev. Bishop Potter, head c
the Episcopal Church Of America, t
tie house to ask the blessing at til
table, IS he did in the Sloan case.
Then we Sc the publishers Of news
papers who are reading moral lecture
to Roberts, travelling about in yacht
and private palace cars loaded u
with bevies of notorious harlots Will
they lombard Roberts with the
moral canon. Steamboat leads {
prostitutes and bawdy houses O
wheels will do more damage to tn
"American home than Roberts an
his three wives, You have DO rigt
to criticize or attempt to reform you
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21

81 had female trouble of all kinds,
had three DOCTORS, but only grew worse.
l began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills
and used the Sanative Wash, and can
not praise your remedies enough. -
MES. EFFIE PERKINS, PEARL, La.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21

have received
from the use of
lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Soon after the
birth ofmyf first
child. | COM
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21

lLETTER TO MES. PINKHAM NO. 93,2841
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-For some
time have thought of writing to you
to let you know of the great benefit l
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21

unless your own life is
than his. Possibly you havn't
particular special license then,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-11-21

Ed. T. Dupui4. Attorney at Law. Office,
Bullion & Exchange Bank Binding
Carson, Nevada.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-09
"Chums' Even In Marriage.

Ensigns Powell and Dubose. of the
navy. are staying in New York with their
brides preparatory to going abroad TO
study at Glasgow. Ensign Dubose was
married in this city on Tuesday TO Miss
Elsie Jasper. and Ensign Powell was
married Thursday in Oswego. N. ". to
Miss Bertha A. Osterhous and Ensign
DuBose acted as his best man. Te
bridegroom and his best man were grad
uaied from the Naval Academy together.
Both chose the Copstruction Department,
were pupils of Hobson and bokh served
in the war with Spain. POWELL COM
manded the launch from the New York
which followed Lieut.. Hobson into San
tiago haIbor, The story of Ensign Pow
ellis long search for Hobson and his
men. and how he ran the gauntlet of all
the enemy's batteries is well known.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-09
Anne Arundel Items.

Mr.. ID. Herbert Duvall, OF "Wallace's
Cottage" has gone to Mariinsburg. w.
Va. TO begin his duties as instructor in
Military Science and Professor OF Maihe-
matics and Chemistry at Berkeley Mill
tary Academy.
The busy farmer is now working from
daylight until dark saving his crops. The
tobacco is nearly all housed and quite
lot OF corn has been cut. Sweet potato
digging IS under way and many barrels
are shipped daily.
SO far this season not single box of
peaches have been shipped from River
view. With orchards aggregating 50. 900
trees within reach OF that place. that looks
like failure. Apples have been shipped
right freely this season. but recently the
bottom seems to have dropped out OF the
market. and shipments have fallen off
very much.
There has appeared a strange fatality
among the horses in the Second district.
Mr. Michael Coolahan has lost three with
what the vetinarian pronounces spinal
meningitis. Mr.. Daniel Duvall lost
his much beloved and valued "Stone-
wall Jackson" He died very suddenly.
as he was perfectly we'll at sundown and
at sunrise cold and stiff in death.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-09
Discovered by a Woman.

Another great discovery has been
made. and that too by lady in this
country. "Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood Its severest tests. but her vital or
gans were undermined and death seemed
imminent. For months she coughed in
cessantly, and could not sleep. She
finally discovered way to recovery. by
purchasing of us bottle of DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. and
was so much relieved on taking first
dose, that she slept all night; and with
two bottles has been absolutely cured. :
Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz. Thus
writes w. c. Hamnick & Co., OF Shelby,
N {. Trial bottles free at Feldmeyer
Brothers Drug Store.
Regular size soc and 81 90. Every
bottle guaranteed.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-09
Order of Red Men.

The Great Council of the Improved
Order OF Red Men of the United States
will meet in Washington city on Wednes-
day next. September 18th. On Tuesday
night public reception will be given at
the National Rifles Armory. On Thurs
day President William Nc Kinley will re-
ceive the members a: The White House.
after which an excursion to Mount Ver-
non will take place. The session will
last four days. and will be held at the
Ebbtt Hotel. on + ST.. N. w. Dele
gates from Chesapeake Tribe. No. 81. OF
this city. are K. Vinton Clayton, Julian
Brewer and ]. Guest King.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-09
showmen are courteous.

The Great Wallace Show is noted for
nothing more than it is for its courteous
treatment of patrons. Once they have
paid their money and passed inside the
mammoth stretch of canvas. they are re-
garded as guests, and are treated as such.
All questions are politely answered and
parents can make the menagerie good
schooling for the children. Well inform
ed attendants are constantly present TO
discuss the habits and natures of the
many wild creatures which have been
collected from all lands and seas Of the
globe. Everything possible is done to
make the show both instructive and en-
tertaining. Will appear in Annapolis on
Saturday, September 10Th.