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SRiS i OAk FRANCISCO met Weber so Some of the effects ere as new HIHIHBWB 4nd Fields without the medium I as they were brilliant The fact that iMBHk HeiHlWSSHfiPli i7uni MpPggffeaBagfKSPu JUiiMSriSr I flpSSj III KVU vSi III 1 I ti Lillian Haasell LobIi Mibh ien Fields and Joseph IT Weber In Whoep DeerDoo MMMtttMt4 Firstjglitls a Cjuarairitee That New YoiJiMay Send Its Best to San FraiTGisca With Absolute Safety itgalritw6ritheaudlenceitwlthIheMweet singing making a special success with an Indian songr entitled iRarhona If ellle Lynch the new feoubrette was given an enthusiastlcr reception She proved a graceful and talented iictressi very thoroughly equipped for the bur lesque line she Is taking Jii the first act she had A catchy iong entitled Dorawitn which she madera big hit a small boy suspended Jrom the center of the stage aiding herlnthe chorusl J3be hasah excellent Voice arid will undoubtedly be one of the favorites of ithe company The chorus was carefully trainedcand Stage Manager Jones agaln arranged the girls so as to make a new and pre tty series of stage pictures to go with the various songsJ When the show is pruned as all those showsneed to be fRoly Poly Will take Its place with the other FiEcher successes The Alcazar Theater last night presented for the first time In some iyears iThe Gay Parisians one of the old French farces which haveBlmost disappeared lately It is a very Ingenious plot hinging on the little outing a married man with another mans wife and resulting in yery unny compHcatlonsnd much trouble for all of the characters The gay married man was played well by John Maher and Marie 3Iowe was his wife The fiin of that combination can easily be guessed Durkin was ianother married man whose wife vis ited the Marcotte restaurant witji Maher George Osbourne was the fond father four gtrlg who had their share of the troubles Frances Starr was the clever maid and Hilllard and Conhes8had role WifhrQUlfce i lonK cast The audience rtipelved theplay with constant hilarity The Central Theater blUUstlrht was the EngltebmeldramaIn Sight of St Pauls a play fuU of Bena tlonal Incidents and with Bcenery showing soma of the famous landmarks of London The house was well filled and tb audience applauded vie nmmiv a 11 Mrfltln turn ffeet was produced by a Are scene in the fourth act andia nansom caD was prougus Into play a desperate effort of the Villain Xx escape from Scotland Yard detectives Herschel Mayall has the role of ai jyounB man who Imperils himself to eave the good name of his brother and the wayward brother la taken by Edwin Emery Eugenia ThaULaWtoii is the heroine a comely English glri who finds that the course of true love doesnt nln smooth Henry Shumer is a sharper and Ernest Howell a tlcket of leave man Genevieve Kane plays the Panther a vlllalnn ess and Myrtle Vane has a musical soubrette part The cast is a large one and the play should do good business atr the Central The California Theater is running to largehouses with Murray and Macfc In yight jpn Broadway Then Tivcll Opera house started In another week of trhen Johnny Comes Marching Hdme last night to big business The Orpheums new bili Is giving great satisfaction to crowded houses The Chutes has several novelties in the bUT this wee ft sPBMH JT i 5 541 Wixji Clarence Mackayaon of ha lata JoJ Mackay yesterday transferred h3 of pi interest In tha Grand Opera beeaa property on Allsslon street nar Tatei to James Flood who turn transferred It to Jamas Walsh fata pffcras isecretaryv who holds hta poww of av torney The whole of the OpeFa haasa propertTiJprlor to the transfer majleir teroay stood In the namtf of Clareaoa Mackay The propertr at th northeast corner of Seventh andiTownsead atrests 275 by 275 feet which had stood ine name of Mary Clarence It and Cer4 Mackay was yesterday transferred to James Flood and Wf the Jattsr James EWalsh 7 These transfers are xegarded as made In pursuance of the policy Indicated by therecenttransfer of Mackays ne baML interest In the Nevada block 6n Moat goniery street to the ffeyada Sank CHUTESiE SUBSTITDTOKS KB 1 CB Jiidke Ie Haven of tbeTXnHed Statea blstrictiCourt sentenced Wonr Din the Chinese conspirator in substitution cases to a term of slx months In the CounTf JalU Choy Outgone of the Jnnwa acted as a substitute was sentencedstp serve three months In the County Jail Lee Gun Wong VSuey Quona TeeLee and Lee iJng Gee the other four eabstl tea changed Jheir pleas i from not guilty tp those of guilty They will be senteocea Jaterrr FRANCISCO met Weber ind Fields without the medium 1 of a translator for the first time last nlerht and llkrd th real thing so well that a big audience kept crying Oliver Twist like for more until some minutes after midnight The special which brought the aggregation to California did not cover the distance quite as rapidly as expected and when the noted funists made their bow last night they were plainly under the Impression that Mission street Is a good deal farther from Broadway than itrealiyis reception peculiar to ihls climate helped to adjust them however and before the middle of Whopp had been reached they had steadied to the realization that wild and woolly applies to nothing west of Kansas and the rest of the splendid performance went wjth a swing that must nave been as satisfying to the players astit was delightful to the auditors Jo vVeber Lew Fields Lillian Russell Mabel Fentori Louts Mann late of San Francisco Charley Ross Peter Dalley and John Kelly received prolonged and assuring Individual receptions when they came on and the clever spectacular giddy chorus girls learned that there was enough of the good feeling for them to haye aj full share From floor to celling vthe Grand Opera house was packed and the between space was filled with people to Its mathematical limit Such a first night should alone be a guarantee that Jammed houses willbe the rule through the merry fortnight and is an answer iight off the reel to the question of whether New York can Bend Its best in this line to far away San Francisco with safety The comparison with Fischers Was inevitable The local company which has been Joking and singing4 and laughing its way througiv the Weber Field pror ductlons for so many months had given every theatergoer an inkling of what the real thing might be like But the iFlscher crowd of the past months has been more than an Imitation In some respects After the show of last night it is easy to see that jfiscnero has developed some Individualities of Its own Inv the foyer it was freely said hat when it comes down tothe funny German comedian Weber fc Fields do not entirely wipe out the memory of Kolb and Dill Kolb and IJlll are funny but Weber Fields are finished as well The estimate applies to the whole per formance of the two companies And besides Weber Fields make no effort to be the whole things There care other stars and bright ones in their snow jnere is something about the Weber Fields performance which grows upon the audience 1 lsafnaw and complete comedy art Care and Infinite palps do not stop wlth providing brilliant accessories but go on to make a full and harmonious comedy The daxzllng raxsllng part of it Is brought on so naturally that the effect Is attained without any consciousness of the effort When the curtain went down after the first part it had to come uphalt a dozen times and the audience would not be satisfied until Charey Ross voicing the feelings of Weber and Fields who stood by in the makeup of marble statues had said some ry nice things to the audience and Miss Russell had curtsied and expressed her great pleasure at being among those present Whoop Dee Doo In two whoops le4 the bllU the second part being a clever burlesque pf Catherine For real wit and humor exploded opportunely theplece beats any of the Weber Flelds showswhlcti had Jbeen seetf here It is not Wholly different from them however for the audience had heard before that a true friend is one who knows you are no good and can forget It and the comedians knew iti but they evened with expla nations that ideas are just dreams except that you dont wake up that Octopus lsJust a part of the year which comes before Noyember and that when it comes to horses to dope or not to dope that is the handicap In fact there are barrels of fun brand new The choruses reminded of the Itogers Brotnersgirjs who kick and dance and sing and wink only rnore so Some of the effects vf ere as new as they were brilliant The fat that the original Catherine has never been sfeen Tiere detracted not one whit from the keen burlesque which is broad enough to carry jtself Weber and Fields are earnestly funny If their humor Is lower to captivate than that of Kb and Dill it is a deal more sattiylng when it has you going In ecod part of the show they appear pv as Ger mans but as bad ooya ftr4 they are quite as funny the ih Lillian Rusi i sua be called the fair Yer rv fne was on the stage last hi i aed in face and figure much the same as she did when she was here last7 eleven years ago at the Baldwin singing in The Mountebanks arid other operas She has developed since almost into a comedienne arid she has caught the trick of the Weber and Fields specialty with great aptitude while the placidity with which she used to go through the operas has been fitted by the concocters of those Weber and Fields pieces She answers as pat to the repartee business as any of them and holds her own against the masters of that kind of dialogue The innocent appearance helps her considerably indeed She sang several numbers last night and the voice had much of the old clear and attractive sweetness in its tones She did not venture into exacting music but kept to numbers appropriate to the situation She had plenty of applause for her singing On the Boulevard In Dreamland and Maid of Timbuctoo were all up to her reputation and she had a uet with Ross that was very cleverly done Louis Mann we have knowri before He Is a San ancisc6 boy and has been for many years one of the acknowledged beat German and character comedians on the stage He would not be In Weber and Fields If he had not won that reputation and he Is one of the roost prominent features if not in respect of a finished performance of an absurd part the most prominent The German is a ridiculously exaggerated role but Mann aimost convinces you it is perfectly reasonable and he makes It really a study in comedy How hard that is to do to makehdrseplay ever seem comedy erybody can see One of the cleverest as weR as most ridiculous parts bf his performance was his grief over the ehlckens his pet chickens which had been cooked and were about tq be eaten Tie emotion could not have been more genuine apparently If he had beea weeping over some of his family Although he kept within the limits of comedy and even when he kicked the little Dutchman It was quite a plausible proceeding Peter Dalley we know very well and we knowthat the kind of work he has here Is exactly what hX has been doing for a great many years In this environment Ills peculiarly amusing manner and his quick sharp talking make well the points with which all Weber Fields stuff bristles Mabel Fenton fills the line In which tFay Templeton shines excellently Ross aa a turfman and KJohn TV KellyastKe retired contract or were admirable The production Is the work of Ben Teal also one of Californias contributions to the stage and Mr Teal is next to David Belasco the moist poted stage manager to day SEHII3 THEEE BOYS TO THE COUNTY William Hogari and WUlIam Miles were eaiphsent to the County Jail by Police Judge Mogan yesterday for six months representing two charges of petty larceny and In addition Hogan will have to serve thirty days for assault Dave Bigelow a companion was sent to the County Jail for four months for petty larceny They are all boys not over IS years old I i ii i UNIVJfcSrrY EXTENSION The pext lecture In the uriiversity ex tension course on the French Revolution nbwj being held by the Me chanlcs Institute will be given at the Mechanics pavilion art gallery to morrowmorrow night The subject of the lecture will beBarere the Spokesman of the brest Committee of Public Safety and the lecturer will be Professor Morse Stephens of the University of Callfpr Lillian Hnasell the Star of the Weber and Fields Company OtMtfMMfMMMtMtMMMVtO DEATH NEARING FOR HAVWARD Aed Pioneer and Capitalist Is Not Likely to Survive the Day Losing Ground Rapidly Alvlnza Hayward one of the oldest and most famous of the California pioneers is not expected by his physicians to live throughout the day During the last twenty fpuc hours he has been sinking rapidly and steadily and at the hour this edition went press he was In a semi conscious con dition unable to speak and sloivly breathing his life awayj Mr Hayward was stricken with paralysis last Tuesday He was taken to the home of his mining partner Charles Dr Lane at 3102 Clay Street because It was feared that he would be unable to stand the railway trip to his home at San Mateo He has since been under the care of Dr Arnold Dr Arnold said at an early hour this morning that his aged patients condition was extremely critical he having lost much groundduring yesterday and Jast night Mr Hayward lacks buf a few days of being 82 years old During the last fifteen years he hasj had several severe attacks of illness and upon two or three occasions fell infainting fits upon the street But hlsindoml table energy andthis untiring interest Iri business have kept him at work until a week ago Syhen in his offices he broke down for the last iime Eyerything that medical skill could provide has been done for his relief butvwlthqut availu Hls death wjll be due rather to age and hard work than to disease i KNOCKED D9WN BY COIJON mTH CAB i a While attempting to board an outbound car of the McAllister street line early last evening John Niggle secretary for Schuls Niggle Co residing at 823 Powell street was knocked down by car 25 going in anopposlte direction Niggle was thrown In front of the car and was rendered unconscious by his head striking the rati At the Central Emergency Hospital wheye theinjured man was removed it was found that he had sustained a con cusslonof the brain He also suffered a badly iascerated wound of the lower lip His condition was not considered serious EEXTLED OW OF COURT The uit of Bradbury against the Fiorlston Pulp and Paper Company forcpmpensatpn for acting as superintendent at the comparys works was dismissed yesterdayby agreement of all parties The trial of the case was be gun before Judge Seawell and after devoting several days to taking testimony the parties reached asettlement cut of WUrt 5i act is a striking and effective scene In costuming and acessories it Is quite a fine production and the plot is InterestingInteresting and has some very strong situations It is badly written however and the dialogue never rises to the dignity and strength of the characters It is an imitation not more of the old legitimate drama with some pretensions which it does not fulfill It drags which is not ajl the fault of th authors It needs a big dramatist to handle such a theme as Alexander and as It begins with Alexanders youin neeas a more youimui ana more fiery actor than Louis James to jlay the part which indeed is vapid at lest and only the secondary acting character after all Still there are some opportunities given the actor if he could be convincing It seems as if Mr James would have been better cast for Perdiccas the villain who is a long way the best conceived and carried cut figure in the play It Ir another Iago in commonplace so to speak Mr Warde acts it with weight arid precision but neither of the stars seemed lest night to put any fire into the piece and the surrounding company is more pictorial than histrionic The entire performance leaves the pictorial effect most vivid even although there are several strong dramatic features The only really sympathetic touch Is ii the character of Roxane played by Alma Kruger whose febrile temperament and simple womanly spirit show In noticeable contrast to the rather ponderous movements of the others Norman Hackett has In CJltus a role so badly written that a less earnest performance would make it funny and Miss Engel Sumnerwho doesnot seem to have had much experience1 had rather a hard time of It with Cleopatra a very conventional Jealous woman of the legitimate drama The whole environment of the three cen trar characters as arranged by the authors is amateurish and feeble Next week the two stars will give a Shakespearean repertoire Roly Poly a hodge podge of music arid funny stage business concocted by Will Carleton and Lee Johnson local people was put on at Fischers Theater last evening and went merrily with the usual large first night audience holding most of them to the very end although it ran until near 12 oclock The plot has a kind of melodramatic idea but it Is carried through three acts with the aid of tuneful songs and clever comedy work The music is rather better than most of the musical cornecies we have had but the book Is not yery original although the situations and the familiar horseplay have been cleverly reconstructed The Germans are given agood chance with their tangled conversation and stage business and in the first act they get off amusing dialogue relative Ao the methods at the race track The Hebrew has a less Important part in this production while an Irish character is put to the front Kolb an Dlir were In their familiar roles and with Dillon as the Irishman made up a lively trio Curtis was better than he has been while hex bad little to do John Peachey was castas a sort of canting scoundrel but his Tnustache was really the only thing that Iookd viHalnous Helen Russell Cord RINKING Cofice pr Ttea to spur on a trtd Brain and Nfyes is like flogng a Starving fiorse to make him look spirited Every bit of action thus forced means a ftcavy draft on the future Wi foe majority of pe vltalirylike Opiuni weakenir tfe oi food eaten with it Can you quit cofiee to day if you want to WelL here is aeood reason for pitting it while you can I Coffee acts directly and disastrously upon the Spjyoal which is the center of me whole Nerypus System If vou doubt this try the following test Take four cups of strong empty stomach in the morning Then note the tremors that seize you These tremors spring from shaking hand of the conDmrf Cbff Thev are shudders of the Spuial Cord in aConee lashed system 4 A weary Brain and Nerves need feeding instead of floggingl If they dont work well without coffee you may be sure they wont work long with it What thev need is neither tonic nor stimulant butTfood of a kind that will restore the Phosphates and Albumenj crasumed in excess by overwork These constituents if assiniilated bufl up to normal condition and keep them feeling as good all day as Coffee makes them feel for a few minutes in the day 1 In the outer cpatspf me Wheat berry are located the richest and readiest form of Bram 4juadingvan4 Nerve feeding elements the substances which are consumed fa mental This portion oflthe wheat cannot digested by the stomach in the form of Flour or Bread lsecause it consists largely avycody fibre enclosing in sealeclup cells thettiny IMTmeral particles that are such rapid builders of Brafa and Nerve tissue But what is not milled into a digcstible aandln can 1 mulled into it by the Post process under whiP6Bnm bqd Coffee is made This profcess toosens me sheaths of Cellulose tl fifteen minutes boiling pf iPbgtum tracts the Brain building materials i in fluid fonn ready for prompt assimilation while leaving the useless wppdy portion in i oofifee ppt Postum feeds with these ejgnehts what Coftlse ar Tea exhausts through oyer stimulation Istum bullas Brain Neryii and Heart yfiSte jCofe corrodes and weakens them fii Posuim diners fix bling insteadnro ld Cj cowmn common oMerCaRee vji But dont Tuse tum at alt unless boilcA fuBy fifteaa minutes because it tes that niirnmum tirxie to fixe the Braki food lnuvand develop its nchflavcan4 aroma PostumisaQ3ffee curea Try it fOT ten da ii rm i Postuiil Food Coffee Jfi vy i JMjB1 ri rLig SLl rl i nS5jf izcL laSrj VTi.