The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-18
"SEVEN DAYS" is
MIRTH PROVOKING
Screaming Farce Brings Out
Fair Sex at Matinee, Break
ing Attendance Records
By WALTER ANTHONY


There was a matinee yesterday at |
the Columbia theater. The house was
sold out, extra chairs were trundled !
in and some who could find seats no
where stood up through the three acts
OF Seven Days" Most of the audi |
ence was comprised of women. They
controverted the masculine argument
that the fair sex lacks sense of
humor. The feminine point OF view
took in the episode OF the cooking of
the omelette and the toasting of the |
bread with a rather more comprehen- |
siye knowledge than men were likely
TO assume. And the ladies shrieked
when the omelette was in the max
ing. Norman Mitchell as Kit trying
to cook was the hit of the act.
The management of the Columbia
asserts that all records for comedy
productions have been sma shed in the
Wagenhals & Kemper production.
Sadie Harris owes her success on
the stage to divorce-not to her own
divorce, but somebody's else. She
was given the role that Bessie Devote
had rehearsed in the Shuberts' pro-
duction of The Midnight Sons" Miss
Devoie's somewhat prominent figure
in Frank Goulds domestic snarl dis
appeared from New York when the
IL.
who was staging The Midnight
Sons, selected Miss Harris to take
her place in the musical comedy |
Later, when Janet Beecher withdrew
from the cast of the Lottery Man. |
TO become a Belasco star, Lee Shu-
bert offered the part to Miss Harris, |
VINO then went from musical to |
straight comedy, and will be seen at |
the Savoy next Sunday night when
the Savoy opens with The Lottery |
Man
Arthur Hoops has been playing the
heavy roles in Hackett's produc- |
tons at the Alcazar theater so vividly |
that his stage approximations have
been the despair and dread of all low |
ers of fine romantic drama such as
Hackett excels in However, his |
career of wickedness-his stage career, !
L mean-was suddenly cut short Tues
Jay morning by an attack of fitness
which viii keep him confined to his |
bed for several days. His place was I
taken on short notice by George Bald |
win, member of the Alcazar stock |
company, who appeared in the role of |
the duke of Winters in Monsieur /
Beaucaire. within II hours after the |
manuscript was placed in his hands. |
The audience Tuesday night might |
NOT have known OF the feat had not |
Hackett mentioned it in his curtain
speech Hackett has thus far been |
unable to avoid the curtain speech. |
The audience demands it nightly.
E. NJ. Rosmer, who leads the Or
pheum orchestra through everything
from grand opera, music drama and |
pack to ragtime, is back at his organ |
again He spent two weeks far from
vanity fair in Lake county.
Minnie Duprees recent Succavc =,
The Road to Yesterday" which was |
produced lately in New York, caused |
her to be much discussed comedienne |
She viii be seen next Sunday afternoon |
at the Orpheum at the head of a small |
but able company in The Minister'S
Wife" 1t is one act play by Frank |
ferguson and provides Miss Dupree |
with splendid and sprightly vehicle |
for her talents Al Jolson was last /
years featured ebonized star with |
Dockstaders minstrels. He is now
in vaudeville and will appear next |
Sunday.
For more than two years. every dav |
and Sunday, too Walter de Leon has |
not missed a performance of the Fer |
ris Hartman opera company, wherein |
he appears advantageously as Juvenile |
and light comedian. From Idora park
to san Francisco, to Los Angeles and |
back again to Oakland, he has always |
been ION the job" But he gets a week
off during "DIikado" week, which is |
two weeks hence
The present production, "Mary's |
Lamb which is the most popular Of
fering provided by Hartman and his |
lively company, is to be followed by |
"Florodora,' and that in turn by |
revival Of The Mikado." Then De |
Leon will take his week off,
He says he expects to spend no time |
.l0R- IL,
silent hauntS of nature, nor yet to idle |
with those other bars closer at home |
and lighted up. He is going to put the |
final bars of music into shape which |
will compete a pretentious composition |
on which he is at work-a light opera |
score.
Fred Belasco has decided to open the |
Alcazars regular stock season Monday |
after next with His House in Order" |
a Pinero play that has not been pre- |
sented in San Francisco, although it |
scored emphatic success in both Lon |
don and New York. 1t will be the me-
dunn of introducing the new leading |
woman and man, Jane Gordon and !
Thurston Hall, both of whom have ar
rived and reported readiness to begin |
rehearsals. Miss Gordon is an Eastern
actress who has filed some very i'm
portant positions in stock and on the
city, having appeared here as Lillian
Russelrs chief support in "Wildfire,"
and with George Fawcett in THE Great
John Canton" Grace Barbour, the new
second leading woman, and Thomas
Chatterton, engaged for the season as
Juvenile man, will be first seen at the
Alcazar in THE Girl l Left Behind Me-"
which is to be the bill during Admis-
sion week.
Sullivan and Considine, through their
representative, w. p. Reese. have do
mated the use of the American theater
for the benefit to be given tomorrow,
under the auspices of the White Rats,
to Matt Trayers, a well known come
dian of this city, who is very i'll. The
benefit will include the regular after
noon and the two evening perform
ances, and many of the vaudeville |
players in this city, as well as some |
from Oakland have volunteered their
talent and time to make the benefit /
big success financially. While Trayers |
is not member of the organization |
of vaudeville performers, his old time
partner, JUNE McCree, with whom he
used to appear in San Francisco many |
years ago. is now president of the