The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15
NEVADA MINES ARE
. SETTING OF DRAMA
Rachel Crothers' "The Three of
Us" Will Be Put on by
Bishop Players
"Half a King" to Be Given by
Selected Cast at the IdOra
Park Playhouse

OAKLAND, March 14.-Rachel Gro
thers' great western play, Tho Three
Of U.s. will be presented by the Bishop
players in Ye Liberty playhouse this
week with its opening performance
Monday evening. Manager Bishop has
secured this drama fo- production after
much trouble. The play has never
been seen in the west. though fer more
than 200 nights it was presented to
large audiences in New York.
The story is a romance OF a Nevada
mining camp. Its characters are
strong and virile and all human The
situations of the play are intense and
highly keyed, but they lack all the
lurid features and glamor of the sensa-
tional melodrama. They are just big.
natural incidents, fraught with deep
meaning. in the lives of real characters
whose love, happiness and sorrows
make up the story.
The plot turns upon the character of
the heroine, Rhy MacChesney, who is left
to support herself and two younger
brothers upon meager income left by
her father. This role will be played by
Miss Marian Barney, the beautiful and
talented young actress who recently
Joined the company. Others in the cast
are Landers Stevens. George p Web
ster, Robert Harrison, Henry Shumer
Jack Sheehan, George Friend, Miss
Georgie Cooper. Miss Lillian Elliot and
Master jesse Mendelson.
The play will be given an artistic
mounting. 1t should prove as refresh
ing and interesting production as the
local stage has offered in a good many
months. In preparation for presenta-
tion at Ye Liberty after The Three of
c IA hon fr,1 low yaIr
of Old Drury.''
NEW OPERA AT IDORA
The Idora Park opera company will
present Monday night the comic opera
that was, perhaps. Francis wilson's
greatest success. Half a King" is the
piece. and with its wealth of music and
fun and beauty 1T is sure to make de-
cided hit In this community.
Great care has been taken in the Sc
lection of the cast to present this opera.
The players chosen will make the most
OF the many opportunities for excellent
work offered by music and story. In
the cast will appear Thomas Persse, the
popular ter7~, who has been in New
York atteGL 10 to business interests
for coup CT months. Others to ap-
pear with him are Ferris Hartman, Ann
Tasker, Nettie, de Glow, Grace Travers.
Walter de Leon, Walter Catlett, Joseph
Fogarty, Edna Robinson and other fa-
vorite members of the company, among
them. of course, large number of
pretty chorus girls.
The opera will be richly staged and
costumed 1t allows for particularly
picturesque effects in this line, for the
story goes back to tx scenes of Paris
icn life In the sixtee ~, century Half
liking is an opera thar has many song
hits in addition to its fun. 1t will put
both singers and comedians to their
best efforts.
There will be number of attractions
1t Idora park tomorrow for the Sunday
crowd that will go there for a weekly
outing. During the afternoon and
evening special program will be given
in the immense skating rink and open
air band concerts in the grounds. In
the afternoon there will be a perilous
parachute jump by Miss Carrie Clifford
from balloon at an elevation of 1000
feet. All the concessions will be open