The San Francisco call., 1904-09-18

week, up to Saturday night, will be
given over to Miss Roberts latest sue
cess, 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.'
1.-THE Serenade." to be revived by the
Tivoli tonight, will be a production to
look forward to. With the TivoH re-
sources, to which with this production
will be added the vocal strength of
Andrew Bogart, an exceptional per-
formance can confidently be expected.
The piece has been in rehearsal several
weeks. and should go smoothly as did
the wonderful 'Toreador."
I'm the Palace of the King at the
Majestic gives way this week to THE
Altar of Friendship" produced here
last season by Nat Goodwin. The
piece will see the debut of Miss Vera
McCord, the. new ingenue, who comes
with many laurels. The pretty uptown
theater is still the center of much Curl
Gus interest for itself alone.
"Monbars" is the weeks bill at the
Alcazar, with White Whittlesey in the
leading role. Miss Juliet Crosby reap
pears in the cast and Will be warmly
welcomed.
Fallen by the Wayside" is the Cen
trails offering this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Truesdell in
Aunt Louise's Advice" will star at the
Orpheum this week. The rest of the
hill pron1iSeS axcaIIanfIv
Eddie Weston and Bessie Beasley are
Chutes lights this week. They are
comedy sketch luminaries.
Georgia O'Ramey will be heard in
a violin solo when she appears in
Miss Mazuma' at Fischer's Theater
on Monday night. She has a new spe-
cialty. called 'Fiddling Mary" and
sings, dances and plays solo at the
same time.
The production of "The Raven" in
which Frederick Lewis impersonates
Edgar Allan Poe, is being rehearsed
by Henrietta Crossman.
If only Angel Guinera is a young
one would. rather hesitate at limiting
anywhere this Spanish dramatists
achievement. 1t has been freely urged
Of the author OF Marta OF the Low
lands that he is reminiscent. 1 find
him extravagantly so. That Guimera
is familiar with his Shakespeare one
finds his treatment of the comic re-
lief One wonders, too, If he is not
on good terms with Hardy. In Far
From the Madding Crowd" there are
figures, not forgetting the giant shep-
herd Gabriel Oak, much like those in
Marta OF the Lowlands." Siegfried
again is suggested. Sardou waves a
hand through the canvas. There are
echoes of The Sunken Bell" scraps
of symbolism la Maeterlinck, a tinge
CT "Cavalleria Rusticana," a little of
everything, in fact but Shaw and Ib-
sen. Nor has Guimera made these
things victofiously his own, as did
those great thieves Shakespeare and
Handel with their plunder. Yet there
is strong, new note sounding
through the melange, like the Bee
thoven note in those first sonatas of the
master of Bonn, mere Haydn to care
less hearing. There is fine poetry in
the play-there has been a poet or
poets at the translation, Wallace Gill
patrick and Guido Marburg are
named. There is audacity in the plot,
free. clean, powerful handling of the
sex motif. and the central figure.
Mannelich, whatever his heredity, is
an epic hero. And the thing just yeIls
for "a Puccini-as Leoncavello has
gone before.
The California, as all the world as far
as Oakland knows, has given us Mar
ta' this week-extraordinar enterprise
of that extraordinary little woman,
Florence Roberts. The performances
also has been extraordinary. With a
generosity that has perhaps not before
been permitted to her. Miss Roberts has
stepped aside to take second place at
the giant goatherd Mannelich's elbow.
There is even a childs part, that Of
Nuri, that almost equals the stars in
Importance. Yet again. as In her Tess,