The San Francisco call., 1904-03-14
CORRICAN STARS
At THE HEUM
Versatile Actor Appears in
a Sketch That Is Both
New and Interesting
''THE OLD MILL STREAM"
Play Replete With Heart
Interest Opens at CalifOr-
nia-Kopta Concerts Please
"THE OLD MILL STREAM"


The something different" is to be
seen at the Orpheum this week in the
sketch introduced by Emmett Corrigan,
to wit, Jockey Jones'" by Edward j.
White. Mr.. Corrigan Is no stranger to
most of us. Those that saw his creepy
Jekyll and Hyde at the Grand Opera
house some time ago are unlikely to
forget the fact. Since then the actor
has fallen a victim TO the wiles Of
vaudeville. Lucky vaudevillel More of
Mr.. Corrigan's kind and his kind of
sketch would persuade that variety is
various and the legitimate a snare.
Jockey Jones" is a racing sketch, the
Jockeys part being played in hospital
cot throughout the playlet. Jones is a
jockey that is riding to win bride by
losing his race. Then Jones pal
comes in to hear the jockey promise his
lady love that he will lose the race if
she will marry him. The pal" Carroll
Stone, has put everything on the race.
knows also that Flossie is false to
Jones and so tells the jockey The
jockey then says that the race shall
be won, but not by him. We learn then
that he is in the hospital, minus his
knees down-an accident of the day
before. Then lights are lowered and
there is sort of Valkyrie ride-the
Jockeys vision on a screen behind,
Jones in a jockey cap and coat deliver
ing a sort of Ben Hur chariot recital
sitting up in bed. We can see his horse
win, his pal" brings in the news, but
the jockey falls back dead. One won
ders if the cutting off of foot would
not have served the authors purpose
sufficiently Mr.. Corrigan hardly con-
vinces of the larger tragedy. Also the
donning of the jockey garb is super
fiuous and misleading. But the little
story is admirably told and admirably
acted by Mr.. Corrigan and his COM
pany. The illusion was strong enough
for the gallery to hiss the naughty lady
as she came to the front of the curtain,
even after the Valkyries had just been
seen galloping through the staircase
transparency that should have hidden
them.
Loney Haskell is also new this week
and seems to find his jokes amusing.
The audience occasionally agrees with
him. The Nichols sisters, if they would
sing without chewing gum at the same
time, would please better. They are
clever coons, we'll voiced and with a
noble laugh between them. But most
of their words are lost TO fame and
from what are not should be worth
while BLANCHE PARTINGTON.
THE Old Mill Stream which opened
at the California Theater last night, is
one of Daniel Sully's opportunities. y
perfect arrangement of comedy and
drama affords chances for the we'll
known actor to display his versatility
and he loses none of them. The audi
ence was appreciative and gave ap-
plause without stint. The production
is one of the best seen here for a long
time and deserves good attendance.
The play is in three acts and from
the pen of Fitzgerald Murphy. The
scene is laid in the heart of the Cats
kill Mountains and Sully assumes the
role of Robert Ryan, called Uncle
Bob, rural groceryman and post
master There are no stirring stua-
tions in the plot, but it savors of easy,
everyday life and contains no i'm
probabilities. Sully, through the acts,
maintaining a character distintively his
own. He works from life and overdoes
nothing. He passes from the senti-
mental to the humorous in flash and
with a grace that has won for him his
fame
Complications arise from the COM
mencement of the play. Gus Shultus,
an old settler. which part is ably taken
by William F. Kohman, attempts to
ruin Ryan by breaking a dam and pre-
venting a stream of water from supply
ing the latter's mill. Ryan forestalls
this by putting in a steam plant, but
enmity continues until the last act
There are several love affairs, all end
ing happily. and money affairs that
carry the piece to finish. The cast is
particularly strong. The ten persons
-.
work, even the baby that smiles and
blinl1s and waves it's tiny hands at the
audience. Harold La Costa. as Sam
Wilber," is an artist. and Virginia
Cranna. as Gill Cooper" is graceful
and winning. c. o. Wallace, as ABE
Shultus," and Olga Bowen, as Mar
garet Ryan" are good. Bertram Yost,
William d. Reed and Ethel Carpenter
complete the capable cast.
The attendance at the Kopta novelty
concerts notably increased with the
house Of yesterday afternoon at Lyric
Hall, when the plano quartet Of Rich
ard Strauss was given for the first
time. The chief interest of the after
noon centered in the Strauss number,
that was excellently handled by Mr..
Kopta and his associates. Like much
other of Strauss, the quartet Is dar-
ingly ugly in places. 1t has the char
| acteristics of the middle period of it's
| authors development with some of the
earlier, almost Mendelssohnian sweet
ness, particularly In the slow move
ment. There is also the psychological
! quality familiar in his later work ac-
| lively prophesied, and here as there
J the composer becomes what can only
be called ugly. Interesting, profound
! ly all through, the quartet is, in spite
of this, and the handling of its nota-
| BILE rythmical and other difficulties
was most creditable to the players.
The American string quartet of Dvo-
| rak was also very pleasingly given,
! with two smaller string numbers, and
| Mr. Kopta was heard in a brilliant
rendering Of the Ries "Perpetuum Mo-.
| bile"