The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-29
CROWDED HOUSES
GREET COMEDIANS
Kolb and Dill's Success at the
Princess Continues and Sale
of Seats Is Heavy
Other Local Theaters Offer Good
Attractions and Play to
Big Audiences

Kolb and Dill's triumph at the Prin-
cess is continuous Every performance
witnesses a sold out house and seats
for next week are already being sold
by hundreds. According to present in
dications the season will last into next
summer. for the popularity of the Ger
man stars is as great as in old Fischer
days, when plays ran months instead
of weeks.
Maud Lambert and William S. Clifford
as leaders in the support of kolb and
Dill have installed themselves in the
favor of San Francisco and the quartet
is achieving a great success.
VAN NESS
franklin Richie, we'll known on the
coast, will assume the leading role in
the Forthcoming production of The
Clansman' at the Van Ness. The play
will be seen next Monday night. Others
in the company will be Eugene Hay
den, Maude Durand. Charles j. Wilson,
Barry Maxwell, Ruth Hart. Claire
Maisereau. and other prominent play
ers
Checkers" is playing to splendid
business this week.
AMERICAN
The American theater stage will pre-
sent a lively appearance next week
as George M. Cohan's breezy musical
comedy, Little Johnny Jones' will
whirl through weeks enga cement
commencing with the matinee Sunday.
This is probably the best play that the
diminutive playwright has ever written
and each year its popularity seems to
increase instead of diminish. The tune
full Isle of Spice" is attracting appre-
ciative audiences this week and Peggy
Brady, Goo Goo Man" and other
catchy numbers are generously ap-
plauded every evening. A special natl
nee is announced for next week on cleo
ton day.
ALCAZAR
"strongheart,p the greatest of all coll
lege plays, is crowding the Alcazar
theater every night. Bertram Lytell
in the title part is doing the best work
of his career and acts with vigor and
great intensity the scenes allotted him
The Road to Yesterday" a fantastic
comedy by Evelyn Greenleaf Suther-
land and Beulah Dix, will be presented
next Monday night.
VALENCIA
His Excellency, the Governor" Cap
tain Robert H. Marshalrs comedy, is
pleasing patrons of the Valencia thea
ter this week. Robert Warwick, vii.
lette Kershaw and the rest of the Va
lencia players find themselves thor
oughly at home in the crisp, bright
| lines and amusing situations of the
play The entire act music, furnished
by Herman Heller and his orchestra
which now include an organ and q
grand piano, is an attractive feature
and the critical competitions. held every
Sunday afternoon. are exciting wide
spread interest. His Excellency, the
Governor" will give way at the Sun
day matinee to "A Navajo's Love-" g
society romance by Sedley Brown, stage
director of the Valencia.
oRPHEUM
The excellent program at the Or.
pheum this week, with Hope Booth as
the feature act in The Little Blonde
Lady," is making hit and attracting
big audiences to every performance
each afternoon and evening. George
Primrose, the noted minstrel, will be a
the head of next weeks bill, which vii
also include the four Naughtans. gym
nasts; Alfred Kelley and Mathild,
Bottle in a sketch. I'm Trust ant
! sSlfvers" Oakley, P. T. Barnum's ia
vorite clown, are some of the new
corners on next weeks bill.
NATIONAL
Hill ana SylNdHy continue 10 Sldrll'
National audiences with their daring
single wheel stunts. They have proved
as sensa tional a pair of artists as ha.
been seen in this city. The musica
GARDENERS have won popularity fo1
themselves and improve with each per
Torrance. The Nugents, in their clevel
sketch, never grow tiresome and nj
doubt, could remain whole season
at the Post street show house if Man
ager Sid Grammar saw fit to sign them