The San Francisco call., 1901-10-14


Iheater 10 a house only half full, but
crammed with enthusiasm, and Creatore
IS now the vogue far as the audience
or last night is concerned.
Mr. EHery's new conductor has done
splendid work with the band. In less
man year he has brought ii to a pitch
OF precision, a perfection of ensemble
that even Sousa has not eXcelled. His
ways are not SOusa's, though ii has been
declared that he out-Sousas Sousa But
no two men could be more unlike. Crea-
tore conducts with every hair of his head
and there are a lot Of them-wfth great,
swinging arm strokes, with every inch
Of him, and with the most evident alb
sence OF gallery play He is after his eff
feet and doesn't care how he gets il, and
furthermore does get il every time. The
ban0 plays as II II had played together
for years, with a brilliantly clean attack,
cisiOn, climax
1t is nicely balanced, has a splendid
wood wind force and some golden brass.
One thing only, the band has yet not quite
got the pitch of the house, especially in
the lighter plumbers, that need toning
down. They could better I'LL a place three
times as large.
Last nights programme opened with a
me, swinging march of Creatore's,
Royal Purple" that at once placed
the leader with the audience. A splendid
rendering Of the 'TannhauSer' overture
came next, in which Creatore tossed his
locks TO the tune Of one of the finest
cltmaXes that has been heard here. The
wood wind could not be distinguished
lowed with a harp number that had no
parIie9lar pIsGTje9 n reason reason for existence, but
played "Traumerei," a somewhat over
sentimental Interpretation.
The seXtet from Lucia with Signori
and Basile as soIoists. was magnificentiy
given; also the La Gioconda" numbers
The Chopin Funeral March" was an
other fine number-a little slow-and some
popular selections as encores aroused an
unlimited enthusiasm and showed that
CreatOre and his men are amply compe-
tent 10 meet SOusa on his own ground
Nine. Barii is the singer of the organ
soprano Voice she Sang Robert. Toi
Cue jaime and as an encore Annie
Laurie"
There will be concerts every evening
this week and matinees every day ex-
cept to-day Go and hear the band if
you can.
The Tivoli will celebrate tonight the
gramne taken from the works of the
famous Italian maestro. Scenes from III
Trovatore,' 'Otello," Aida, 'Lombar
di" and "Nabucco" will be given and al
most all the clever people of the grand
opera casts viii be heard. On Tuesday
Barbareschi as Elvira, Castellano in the
name role. Ferrau as Carlos, King Of
Spain, and Dado as Don Silva-an excel
lent east. Iado sings in this the beautiI
doubtless be heard at its best therein. On
Wednesday evening the debut Of Miss
Bsrnetta Mueller. charming young sing
er. who has just returned from study in
France and Italy, will take place. She is
10 sing Media in Il Pagliacci.' Salassa
will sing his famous part Of Tonic the
clown. and Russo will make his first ap-
pearance as CaniO this season ttCacalleria
Rusticana," Of course, accompanies the
4 Pagliacci." and besides, Agostini in
his spIendidlv successful Turiddu. Mon
tanari will essay Santuzza and Collama-
rini viii be seen in the small part of Lola,
should make The double bill altogether
one Of the best Of the season.
The Central and the. Alcazar theaters
are both closed for tonight on account of
the death Of Mark Thall Tomorrow
night the AlcaZar will open with an
amusing farce called 'fThe Girl in the
Barracks by the author of THE Proper
Caper,'' that some time ago made a sue
oeEs with Alcazar patrons. THE Girl in
the Barracks recently scored a hit at
the New York Casino where IL ran for
several months. and will probably repeat
its success here
for Wife" goes on az the Central to-mor
row night, and will be elaborately mount
ed and cast TO the full strength of the
Central Company
There should be a good performance of
The Little Minister" this week at the
Grand Opera-house. with Herschel May
al, who has been winning much favor Of
late. as Gavin Dishart and Miss Hall as
Lady Babbie. Miss Hall has quite recov-
cred from her recent severe illness. and
with her sympathetic intelligence. gfrlish.
ingenious spirit and quaint coquetry
should make a captivating Lady Babbie.
Ogilvy, Agnes Maynard that of Mamie
Webster and William Greenleaf Lord Rim
toUl.
There We're some things at the Or
pheum last night that pleased the usual
big audience. The whole bill was attrac-
tive but Tommy Baker, monologist, and
Monroe, Mack and Lawrence, who ap
pesred in a sketch entitled How to Get
Rid Of Your Mother-in-law,' pleased the
audience most. Baker sings well and had
clever songs to sing. Wifred Clark and
company presented a new farce, entitled
IN the Biograph,' and it caused whole
Little Maud Sorenson. assisted by Mas
ter Tom Dunn and Gladys Sorenson, per-
formed very cleyerly, and the De Courcy
brothers made great hit with their mar
velous acrobauic WORK
Joe. Myra and Buster Keaton, Mitchell
and Barnard and the Sisters O'Meers are
still on the bill. and the biograph displays
some interesting moving pictures
ANY one afflicted with the blues should
drop into the California Theater this week
and witnesses a performance af Mason and
Mason's roaring farce comedy Rudolph
and AdOlph.'
This is the first production of the sketch
in this city and II certainly was voted
success bv the audience last evening,
Judging from the laughter and applause
that met every comical situation ana
funny joke.
Mason and Mason are great exponents
OF low comedy. They are both cast for
Dutch comedians and they are both very
clever. Their dialect is most humorous,
their makes great and their whole de-
pertinent a clever piece OF character
work There are some novel specialues
given throughout the performance. Miss
LOttie Williams Salter made "A big hit In
her coster songs, which were greatly ap-
plauded. The Sisters Laurence give a
unique dancing and acrobatic specially.
which is a new thing in San Francisco.
The performance throughout is good.
A fine programme has been prepared at
Fischer's Concert-house for this week 1t
includes Maud dAlma, a dashing SOU
brette; Harry Holmes. clever specially
artist lillian Slinkey, soprano, and Sill