The San Francisco call., 1913-09-18

| spienuld business at the Eolumbia
theater, will say au reyoir after next
Sunday nights performance. The
John Steven McGroarty pageant
! drama of early California is not tc
be sent to any other place, for 1t re-
turns Immediately to its own little
playhouse at the Mission San Gabriel
where a few weeks hence it will open
its third season
Mariana founded on the drama,
Don Caesar de Bazan," will be given
at the Tivoli next Sunday night with
the regular Tivoli cast of singers re-
turned from their brief tour. Mrs
Scott will conclude her engagement
Saturday night, and the noted anna
teur player will have the satisfac-
tion of knowing that her histrionic
efforts have benefited the Happy Day
home and provided it with generous
fund. much needed in the philan-
thropic work.
Ralph Herr will have another ef-
fective vehicle in Miss Nobody From
Starland." which is announced to
follow Madame Sherry at the Alca
Ear, commencing next Monday night.
1t is musical comedy by Hough
and Adams, co-authors of several
other successful melodious offerings,
and Mr.. Herr originated its principal
character. Preston Halliday, an ec-
centic young man who experiences
many amusing mishaps and commits
| numerous ludicrous blunders while
battling imaginary pursuit for an i'm
aginary crime. 1t is role exception
ally well adapted to the inimitable
acting methods of the comedian, who
is now scoring a hit as Theophilus
Sherry.
Six new acts are promised at the
orpheum next week. William Bur-
| ress, one of the best character
comedians ever seen in this city, will
appear at the head of a large COM
pany in a new version of Victor
Herbert's The Song Birds" Burress
will present his famous impersona-
tion of oscar Hammerstein j. C.
Nugent and Julie York will offer a
sSit. The Regular: James Mullen
and Alan Coogan have an oddity that
they call odd Nonsense; Carl Nc
Cullough will present a travesty.
'Footlight Impressions; Dave Lane
and Charles O'Donnell in an act, The
Lunatic Tumblers." and Carl Rosini
with Mile. Margaret will offer some
sleight of hand tricks Next week
will conclude the engagements of
Delmore and Light and Valerie Serice
in The Little Parisienne."
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I'm Mexico" a musical farce, is the
principal attraction at the Pantages
this week. Alt Goulding in the lead
ing role has shown himself to be
capable comedian. Another splendid
offering this week is the musical
production Of the Five Bonnie Lasses.
Carter the Great, conceded to be
one of the successors to Alexander
Hermann, tops the new bill opening
next Sunday. He promises all of the
antique and modern mysteries and
illusions presented by elite magicians.
Carter possesses magnetic person
ality, and the fact that he Is return
ing over the circuit the third time
in less than one year speaks for his
popularity. Raul Pereria and his
stringed sextet offer the added act.
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Crowded houses have been the rule
at Grauman's Imperial theater, where
Eugene Sues THE Mysteries of
Paris" has been produced during the
last week. This latest triumph by
the producers of Les Miserables'' in
cludes nearly one hundred scenes.
taken in the slums of Paris. AS pro-
duced at Grauman's Imperial it has
been positive sensation and has
caused more talk than any picture
seen here in years. THE Mysteries
of Paris" will be presented up to and
including Saturday night, to be fol-
lowed on Sunday by David Belasco's 8
most popular and fascinating star,
Mary Pickford, in '.The Bishops Car
riage," by the well known local
author, Miriam Nicholson.
Enid Gray. who is next week to be
seen here as the mother in "The
Lure at the Cort, has special repu-
tation for her delightful playing of
mother roles. She has created many
parts of the kind in all sorts of plays.
sad, serious and comic. In The Lot
terry Man. with Helen Lowell, Miss
Gray originated the character of the
Little Mother, a most charming ex-
ample of her art. Only recently she
was seen on the Pacific coast in "Ex-
cuse Me-" the Rupert Hughes farce,
in which one of the real hits was her
impersonation OF the minister's wife.