The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-23
"GO|NG SOME" IS
PROVING POPULAR
Pleasing Comedy Draws Big
Audiences Daily at the
Valencia Theater
George Bernard Shaw's Can
dida" to Be Produced To-
morrow at the Garrick
By WALTER ANTHONY


shows prosper II. is getting more
business at the Valencia during this,
its second week. than it did during
the first week In this respect it differs
somewhat from the experience OF Inc
Girl from Rectors,v which did mis-
cradle business at the Garrick during
The SECOND week, but a good business
during the first. Virtue and merit are
their own reward
We of San Francisco have oeeh
.stuns" so many times that we do not
buy tickets for the first night OF any
show. NOT even The Merry WIDOW,
but if the nrgings of the press agent
are found 10 be within bounds OF the
truth. the business that the play does
viii grow steadily
The Alcazar this week. with Inc
Great Divide" is likewise doing more
business than il did the opening week
We NAV patronize the bad but not
for long; but we will give the sood our
Moral: ~Damned>if it isn't good to
ne decent.'-Captain Williams in Paid
in Full"
She was a leading woman when she
was 6 years old. Corinne, who is COM
third Shubert attraction TO be PLAYED
here. made her first appearance on the
stage al the Boston museum in a chill
.irep's performance of .'Pinafore, she
appearine as Little ButtercGp. Fol
many years thereafter she appeared
under the management of Mrs. Jennie
I Kimball and made tour of the prin-
-.ipal cities of the east under the di-
7 Tection of II. r. Jacobs. who now Is
called a veteran manager Corlnne
would not be willing TO admit her fden-
fity as star OF these cid productions
unless she had started as player during
her ''pinafore" days.
Jacobs subsequently built the Corinne
Ivceum theater in Buffalo and named il
after his youthful star. Two seasons
ago Corinne succeeded Fay Tempieton
in "Forty-five Minutes From Broad
way"
She is now in her first season under
the Shubert banner and is playing in
The role that FRITZ Scheff made famous
Mile. Mischief"
The production tomorrow and Satur-
day afternoons of Candida at the
tiarrick theater suggests some lines on
George Bernard Shaw, who by his in
xistent persistence is getting TO be
something of a bore these days. He
writes plays which nobody would care
much to see if they hadn't had the in
dorsement of suppression at the hands
of stolid British censors. At once,
then, we want TO see the forbidden,
which turns out TO be not salacious but
great dialogue.
For Candida I confess a weakness.
II is a real play with motive Of gen
uine dramatic interest, and fine sus-
pense hung up as each curtain falls on
each act. Its topsy turvy philosophy
L. "a
the best of all OF Shaws staged
dramas. Il has been called by an Ital-
ian critic mario Borsal "the greatest
of recent English dramas. Perhaps IL
is; any way it is nightly entertaining
fhe term of the Hartman company
st the Princess has been cut short one
week owing TO engagements previously
entered into. Next week will be the
last Of the unctuous comedian and his
excellent company in this city. The play
will be The Tenderfoot," which was
formerly Richard Carlos starring We
hicle.
A feature Of the performance will
be introduced in the second act, when
a song viii be sung by Oscar Walsh
the tenor Of the Hartman company
-'The Rough Rider Man The verses
were written by. w. O. Mcclellan, a
local newspa perman, and the music was
written by Walter de Leon, one of the
members of the company. male
chorus will be introduced into thefvo-
cal effect.
October 4 Kolb and Dill will arrive
at the Princess in Dream City" and
Musical Director Parents will take the
chair in place of ]. A. Raynes, whom
Hartman STYLES "the blue ribbon direc-
tor" and who will go with Hartman
and his company.
There will be i6 performances giver
in Oakland at the Broadway theatel
by the Hartman company. beginning
Monday night. October 4, and then the
musical comedy folk now at the Prin-
cess will move to Los Angeles for ar
indefinite stay
When James Spottswood of THE Co
ing Some" company at the Vaiencis
tbeater made his entrance yesterday
afternoon at the matinee. Herman Hell
Ter OF the orchestra had q Job framed
up on him. The musical director pulled
from his violin the strains of Men
dlessohn's Wedding March," to which
the other members of the orchestrs
added their need Of triumphant melody
Eugene O'Rourke. on the stage, has
also framed up little surprise. i
was rice. The music deluged the younf
bridegroom with fine harmonies, ant
the players deluged him with rice, al
in honor of the youthful actors mar
rage to pretty widow, Mrs. Kathryn
Hall, which event took place last Tues
day in Redwood City Ferris Hart,
man, James Lackaye, Mrs. Hart ant
other players sat in stage boxes ant
applauded the extemporaneous. stunt o.
music and rice.
Harrison Ford, the new juvenile
actor at the Alcazar, will make hi.
bow next week in Sweet Kitty Bel.
lairs." in the role OF Captain O'Hara
This was the role last played at thu
Belasco house by Ernest Glendinning
who, ii is said, is closely resembled in
features and art By Ford
The three smallest condolences or
the American stage are Mabel Hfte
Ladies, practice economy by havfn.
your ord feathers and plumes dyed O,
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