The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
Attractions at PIayhouses

san Francisco and expire on the road.
Attractions at PIayhouses
Next in the order of Idora parks
musical offerings will be a grand OPP
era experiment. not excerpts sung out
OF doors to the accompaniment of
band or orchestra. but a regular oper-
attic company playing standard Italian
and French operas in the theater on
the grounds of the big amusement
park.
The Bevan grand opera company 10
now being organized in New York to
supply the company and the roper
toire. Alexander Bevan is the director
and assembler of the company. He has
advised Manage Miller of Idora park
that he has secured nearly all of the
principals and guarantees that he has
some high class songbirds.
Bonci, a brother of Caruso,s only
rival. will be the leading tenor. He is
said TO have a voice of exquisite
beauty. Bevani will be the basso in
the cast. Umbert Sacchetti will be
another of the tenors. He comes from
the Metropolitan forces. Ettore Cam
pana will be the leading barytone. Be-
van says Campana is a remarkable
singer and graduate from the Pesaro
conservatory. Italy. Edmee Dreax.
formerly with the Carl Rosa opera
company. is another one Of the artists.
repertoire of Faust" Martha"
"Rigoletto." La Boheme" and Lucia"
has already been agreed upon. The or
chestra will consist Of 80 players, di-
rected by a Chicago leader.
Prices will range from % cents to 81.
says Miller. The opening date is set
for July II.
The orpheum bin of next week will
present Frank Fogarty. the Dublin
minstrel, after an absence of a season.
As creator Of a new stage type of Celt,
but reproducer of a very real type, he
proved a unique success when he ap-
peared at the opening Of the new Or
pheum theater. Another promised fea-
ture of the program will be the presen-
tation Of Mag Haggerty' by the Ryan
Richheld company.
There promises to be a gaping hiatus
on the Rialto shortly. Some of the
merry villagers are about to depart,
accompanied by their superiors Joe
Cohn has kidnapped bunch and is
taking them to Honolulu for nine
weeks and perhaps twelve or even
more if the lazy land likes them.
Cohn says he's going to start some
thing in the tropics. 1t will be mu-
steal comedy and those he is taking
along as the starters are Maude Rock
well, Helen Byron. Carleton Chase, Ed
win T. Emery, Louise Mink, Ora Har-
ris and at least 10 representatives of
the merry, merry"
Mabel Russell at the Orpheum. SIM
porting Eddie Leonard in his minstrel
act, is a familiar figure to many the
alter goers in this city, particularly to
old patrons of Morosco's, when meIo-
drama thrived and villains Kissed at
the Grand" opera house in Mission
street. She was soubrette in the stock
company while Chris Bruno was the
leading comedian. Afterward she and
Bruno toured the Orpheum circuit for
three years until a vaudeville offer
lured Leonard from the Cohan and Har-
ris minstrel company, when he and
she undertook a life engagement, she
becoming Mrs. Eddie Leonard at the
Little Church Around the Corner in
New York year ago.
Since the days of old Morosco's and
the Dewey theater in Oakland Landers
Stevens has been purveyor in extraor-
binary to the high and lofty sentiments
of this theater going community, with
only occasional lapses into viIlainy.
He has played, perhaps, more styles of
virtue than any other living man, and
still he does not seem to stale at the
task, but remains as good and noble
as ever. Next week he will undertake
responsiveness. He will play the role
of Cameo Kirby, the southern gambler
but gentleman, which part Dustin Far
mum created for US last season at the
Van Ness theater.
The lie Brun opera quartet and Paul
steindorffs orchestra at Idora park are