The San Francisco call., 1901-12-15
ERE we are againi
BT
CUIShRD.

IKE we are again
That seems to be what the
- dencately expansive smile Of the
long lost Ferris Hartman, that
one meets on the streets these
days. is remarking It's a good
Christmas face, promising well Tor the
only Christmas entertainment proper that
the town affords, Little Red Riding
Hood at the TiYOli, so please you, to
enter on its seasonable career tomorrow
evening.
All the old TivoH favorites are at home
again. and glad to be home, after an alb
sence Of four long months, and most Of
the familiar faces viii be seen tomorrow
night in Little Red Riding Hood Mr.
Hartman has written the book, originally
with a star part all for himself in the
title role, but he has unselfshly given
il up after much persuasion 10 Miss
Chapman, though he says regretfully: i
did look too cute for anything in that
sweet little red hood, don't cher know?"
He has annexed the next best role, how
ever, as King Fire Fly, who gets trans
mOgrifed by a bad fairy for six scenes
and various sins into Simple Simon, who
wears the turned-doRn collar and turned
I'D nose that suit Mr.. Hartmans ingen-
uous countenance so diVinely. Lest we
forget, all that history has to say touch
ing this sweet young life is given here be-
low:
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going TO the fair.
Says Simple Simon to the pienan.
Let taste your ware
Says the pieman TO Simple Simon.
First show your penny;
says Simple Simon TO the pieman,
Indeed. I have not any,
1t viii at once be seen how the sweet
and simple pathos Of the character ac-
cords with the best-known characteristics
OF Mr. Hartmans genius, and one Of his
sCbtlest impersonations may confidently
be looked for. II is a significant circum-
stance. I don't know why, but feel in my
bones its weird significance, that the pie
man is not in the cast up-to-date. o
where. o where can he be? Perhaps he
has fallen a victim to Fred Kavanagh.
who has been training for the wolf in the
cast For I imagine a nice, tender pie
man would make much better eating than
Harry eastman, who will play little Red
Riding Hoods maternal grandparent. But
what is the matter with Red Riding Hood
herself. il the story permitted, or plump
little Annie Myers. who wanders in from
another page OF fairyland as Boy Blue?
But there is always a fairy queen to the
rescue. and this year she is named Bar
netta Mueller, the pretty young woman
who tried to sing Media and couldn't
during the grand opera season. I'm sure
she VIII make a pretty fairy queen
though, and she has a large staff of as
sstant fairies that help along the good
work 1t viii take them all, every one,
TO cOnfound the wicked plots and machin-
ations Of Edward Webb as Baron Rub
berneck, and to see that Prince True
Blues (Arthur Cunningham affairs are
settled up TO his princely deserts. Little
Miss Muffett also peeps into the story,
and other historical eminencies too num-
erOus to mention.
There are TO be ballets galore, a snow
ballet in particular, with a snow gentle
man-nOt the iCeman-tO run matters, and
snOwballs and icic.es and all sorts of nice
Christmas cardy things to look at. The
Transformation scene will be a wonder,
with illustrations from twelve Of Mother
lGcose's epics, Boy Blue" 1.-The Old Wo-
man Who Lived in a Shoe" "Ding, Dong,
Bell" Mary Mary, Quite Contrary
and 'The Cow Jumped over the Moon
among them. It looks something like d
merry Christmas" when the TivOli gets
TO work AT its Christmas show, and II is
likely that all the compliments of the sea
son VIII be IL order tomorrow night
when il begins. The same to you and
many of them.
Though opera of the grand sort has