The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19

on strike and couple of eccentric
Dutchmen are engaged to hll the
vacancies. Mr. James has taken
especial pains with the music, and
Mr.. Lask has invested his best ability
in drilling the chorus. so there is
every reason that ''Whirl-I-Gig" will
eclipse even ~Fiddle-D -Dee-Dee" in at
tractiveness.
Clay NJ. Grcene's melodrama, ~The
Plunger.' is to succeed "The New
Soush" at the Central Theater. com
nle1ciag tomorrow evening. Will R.
Walling. Jane Kelton. Oza Waldrop
and other favo-ites Of the company
are to be suitably cast, and the scenic
production will be lavish. especially
the trestle of-the New, York Il" road
which is exceedingly realistic.
Eldorado Parlor, n S. G. W.. will
be beneficiary OF the box office re-
ccipts for next Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. and it would be super
fuous to say that the Natives" will
be present in force,
'When the Earthquake Came" is
the title of the first playlet to treat of
our recent unpleasantness. 1t was
written by two Eastern women and
brought back to the vaudeville stage
Minnie Dupree, who is said to have
scored quite hit in it at Keith &
Proctor's Union Square Theater, New
York
Harry D. Byers, who has won an
enviable reputation as a character
comedian in several Pacific Coast
stock companies, left yesterday for
4 New York to join The College
Widow" company as stage director,
He has been identified with the Al
cazar and Grand Opera-house in this
city.
There is a possibility that Frank
Healy's Tivoli opera company will be
seen in San Francisco before they en-
ter their permanent home at Seattle.
Teddy Webb is the leading comedian
and the rest of the people have been
under the Leahy management at some
time or other
Harry Bishop will utilize the Bell
Theater, now being reconstructed. to
: play the Shubert attractions until
such time as the Majestic rises from
its ruins.
Frank Bacon, who is East securing
plays and engaging players, predicts
that the Colonial Theater on Meal
lister street, will be ready TO receive
the public within month The OPEN
ing attraction has not yet been de-
cided upon.
Fred Belasco continues to asseve-
rate that the New Alcazar, at Sutter
and Steiner streets, will be turning
EN- away the evening of September
IS Getting materials on the ground
is the hardest part of Mr.. Belascos
constructive work.
Mrs. T. P. O'Conner, wife of the
well-known London editor, has writ
ten 4 four-act play entitled I'm Bond
age" and T. Daniel Frawley says that
Mary Van Buren, who is a lifelong
friend of the authoress, will play the
leading role when it is produced in
this country under his management
Los Angeles is the latest Western
claimant of Nat Goodwin as future
voter. He is said to have purchased
$4,000 worth of land near Ocean Park
as site for his home when he is off
the road. Nat will have his joke, even
if it lacks novelty.
Alice Nielsen will travel with high
class company when she starts west
ward as a member of the San Carlos
operatic organization. To date the
other important singers engaged are
INordica, Schumann-H -Heinck and Cam
panari. After a ten weeks season in
New Orleans, commencing November
IS, the company will begin tour that
is to extend to this coast
z. d. Price, who was one of the di-
rectors of the Alcazar Theater when
grief came to the city, has been ap-
pointed general business manager OF
the Interstate Amusement Company, a
New York concern, with 100000 capi-
tai and a broad policy of developing
plays. He will assume his new duties