The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10
TO STAGE CATCHY
OPERA AT IDORA
Musical Comedy, "The Fortune
Teller" to Run at Park
for Two Weeks
Nance O'Neil Opens Tomorrow
at Yes Liberty for Six
Weeks Engagement

| OAKLAND. May s.--Beginning the
big week of feet festivity at Idora park
the comic opera The Fortune Teller
will be produced Monday night, intro
ducing two weeks run. 1t was aft
! er some consideration that the man
agement finally decided to select this
eastern favorite for the boards during
the stay of the ships in the bay The
company which is to produce the piece
has been in>preparation for 1t during
the last three weeks, and, from stand
point of scenic effect and costuming,
this second effort with The Fortune
Teller Will outdo even the success of
| a year ago.
! The Fortune Teller" combines a
! pretty story of love with a series OF
situations that are exceedingly funny,
and operates upon a basis of merri-
ment and sentiment that made 1t pos
sibIe for Alice Nielsen to score great
hit when she first appeared in the
play in New York city Musically
there are few things that Victor Her
bert. the composer. has done that equal
the strains in THE Fortune Teller"
An interesting feature of the produc-
tion- by the Idora Park opera COM
pany is that Paul Steindorff. the leader
of the orchestra. is the man who ar
ranged the music and conducted the
original production with Miss Nielsen.
PLAYS DOUBLE ROLE
Miss Edith Mason. who scored dur
! ing the last two weeks in the role of
Bertha in THE Strollers, VIII play
| the double role of IrTna the heiress of
whom Count Berezowski is enamored
and Musette, the gypsy girl, who close
! ly resembles the beautiful Irna.
i u, 7
/ of Captain Ladislaus, Hungarian hus-
sar. Sander, the gypsy lover OF Mu-
settle. will be played by Charles Ar
ling, the new barytone. Ferris Hart
man will be seen at his best as Boris,
the German gypsy father of Musette
This part affords Hartman an excel
lent opportunity for the easy swing of
his natural fun. Fresco. the ballet
master. will be done by Walter de
Leon, and George Knowlton is to be
Mile. Pompon, an opera singer. Ann
Tasker will sing Rafael. A full chorus
Will support the cast.
The opera is in three acts.
All OF the concessions at Idora park
will be in operation.
Captain Penfieid, the aeronaut who
made the ascension over the bay on
! Wednesday. will make his weekly as
cension from the park tomorrow aft
ernoon.
NANCE 0'NEIL AT YE LIBERTY
Nance ONeil viii commence a special
season of six weeks at Ye Liberty play
| house Monday evening.
The opening play will be The Sor-
ceress, the play in which Miss O'Neil
achieved remarkable success during
her visit to Oakland last summer, and
also at the Novelty theater, San Fran
cisco The play was written by Vic
torien Sardou, probably the besa Of the
present day French dramatists, and
was prepared for the American stage
by Louis n. Parker.
The scenes OF The Sorceress', are
| laid in Spain in the year 1907. and it
by Cardinal Ximenes. then the grand
! inquisitor.
Miss O'Neil's role in the play is 70
raya, beautiful Moorish woman,
whose captivating charms cause
young Castillian nobleman to fall in
love with her, although he had been
sent especially to arrest and bring her
before the fnquisition tribunal upon a
charge of sorcery. AS the death PEN
| atty was imposed upon all those Chris
tians who became. lovers of Moors at
that time. the love story of the Moor
ish girl and the Spanish captain was
carried on with danger to both of
them, and Is told in the play with a
succession of surprising climaxes and
a continuity of plot that increase the
/ interest step by step.
The young star will be supported by
the entire strength OF the regular
Liberty stock company.
! The Soreeress" is TO be given for
next week only and is to be followed
1 by oliver Twist" in which Nance
! O'Neil will be seen. in her famous
Characterization of Nancy Sykes.