The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20

operd mas been heard III san W ~
cisco, and the interesting colneiuence
is noted that Edith Mason and Ihomas
Persse, the leading soprano and tenor
OF the company at the American' 4bP
opera was last presented in this city
at the Grand opera house.
Miss Mason should be at ner pes
Zerlina. while Persse will have another
! opportunity to show his lyric ana MS us
trionic ability in the character OF Fra
Charles .Swickard will attend to the
staging of the opera and Will appsa..
| In the role. of Lord -Allcash-s 4s sas
will include Bernice Holmes. Robert
Olga Osborne and D. McFadden. paal l,au'
Steindorfr Will attend to the musical
end or the performance. r,o.r
The next attraction at the AmerlcMdn M
Will be Hip, Hip, Hooray, the ars. /.
big musical production to be I,e neara I "a a. !
the Market street playhouse. hice 1.1, any
appear at the head of an all star cast
and the production promised Will pe
on the same sumptuous scale as lsa
given it when the piece had It's IA,
nous New York premier and enjoyed
Its long metropolitan run
Valencia
"rhe Conauerors. a romantic love
story OF the PruSslan Wai,
which was the medium for the nrst
great success of William FaVersnaHl
and Viola Allen, will be the secona
onerllng OF the new valencia ninc viii en1aeb be
started on run beginning with the
matinee this afternoon.
Paul NJ Potter is the author OF the
play. He Will also be remembered as
/ the author of the dramatic version OF on
'Trilby," and In ''The Conquerors' ne
tells picturesque and highly dramatic
| The play will offer exceptional emo
tional opportunities to Robert war
wick, the leading man, and Miss Will
iette Rershaw, the leading lady. war
WICK will appear as young German
officer stationed in an old French cha
teau. where two sisters. are lying
alone. The officer is reckless scamp.
who amuses himself by. shooting at
and annoying the two sisters. Finally
the elder sister rebels, and when he
informs her that to the .conquerors OF
war war belong the spoiIs of love the elder sf
wine into the officers face. Though
taunted and insulted by the girl, the
reckless officer is finally brought to
sense of his iniduity and falls genuinely
| in love.
Clever staging and beautiful scenery
will be factors in the success of the
play, and the big company. which has
already proved its artistic ability, will
be appropriately cast and splendidly
eostumed.
There will be matinees on wednes-
day, Saturday and Sunday.
Princess
Ferris Hartman will begin the sixth
week of his successful engagement at
the Princess theater tomorrow night
The Toreador" is the comic opera to
be presented. It will be remembered
as one of the greatest hits of the
Tfvolfs career. The music is sparkling
and catchy, and its dialogue is witty
The role of Tommy Gigg will be in
Hartman's hands, and his success in
the part heretofore is guarantee of the
allotted to the cockney tiger, mistaken
for the toreador. Arthur Cunningham,
as the real toreador. will repeat one
or his greatest lyric successes. Melvin
Stokes, who is already firmly estab-
lished in the favor of Princess patrons,
will be cast as Augustus Trail, and
Wallace Brownlow will fill all the re-
quirements of the role of the governor
of Villaya. Jack Tobie will burlesque
Creatore, as the leader of the lunatic
asylum band, and Walter de Leon will
have chance TO distinguish himself
as Sir Archibald Slackett. Christina
Dora Selby, Sybil Page will be Nancy
Staunton, Sarah Edwards will be Mrs.
Walton Hoppings, and Zoe Barnett will
of Donna Terese. walter Catlett as
Pettifer, Fred Kavanaugh as Rinalda,
Daun Seaton as Mr.. Probit, Frank
Wallace as Morino and Muggins Davis
as the owner of the flower stand will
The run of "The Toreador" will be
limited to one week. The Fortune
Teller will be given for the last times
this afternoon and evening.
Orpheum
Jessie L. Lasky's latest hit. 1.-The
Pianophiends," will be the headline act
at the Orpheum this week commencing
with tho matinee to-day The in
which the act is set represents piano
salesroom, in which five young men are
seated at pianos playing ragtime. They
are Joined by four handsome girls, who
nine pianos are being played at once
in perfect ensemble. Vocal music is
introduced to vary the program and
the act ends splendidly.
The seven Yulians are also coming g
this week and will be new to Orpheum
goers: They are experts in athletics
Claude dnd Fannie Usher will appear
in a slang classic" called 'Fagan's
Decision" The role of Fagan repre-
sents defeated pugilist who. during
Thus when he meets his Waterloo he
is ito the good financially. In his
Loneliness he is about TO adopt IL
year old girl, when he discovers that
the waif is the daughter of the pugilist
who had put him out with foul punch.
There is much rough pathos in the
playlet.
The Reiff brothers. styling them
selves the American Dancing Boys
will introduce an original singing and
dancing act. This will be the last week
of Gardiner and Vincent, A. o. Duncan,
the. two Pucks and of Charmion. A
series OF moving pictures, showing the
great Marathon race at the Olympic
games in London, viii be projected.
Central
RattJing Nelson will close his on
gagement at the Central theater in
The Curse of Drink" with the fare
well performances this afternoon and
evening. Packed houses have been the
rule all week
The White Tigress of Japan will
be the attraction for a week, commence
ing tomorrow night. 1t is an exciting
and well constructed melodrama and
1T has much additional interest because
of the oriental color which appropri-
ately characterizes the production
The plot concerns the greatest inter-
| national scandal ever uncovered. that
of the white tigress' of Japan, who is
charged with being a nihilfst by the
Russian courts apd is deported to ST.
IBERIA. She is a woman of high breed
ing and great culture. The fnstigation
of the intrigue to convict her is laid
at the door of a Russian nobleman.
After gaining her liberty the woman,
with vengeance in her heart, devotes
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