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24 AT THE THEATRES THE Ptranpe Adventures of Miss Brown" is not exactly a farcecomedy that scintillates with genius, but it is bright and enter- taining. More than that, it tells 3 tangible tale in dialogue, and is not merely a string of clumsy on which to hang third and fourcii rate vaudeville perform- I ances. Strange to say, the public in this seems to prefer farce-comedies that are mere excuses for vaudeville shows. It is hard to say why this should be so, for the Orpheum gives a better variety show than any farce-comedy organization can afford to offer. There are expenses of statre management, connected with a theatrical company, even if it is a theatrical company only in name, which makes it unprofitable to engage as i good all-round vaudeville stars as a regular music-hall organization can present.

We have been so dosed with Dad singing and worse aancing, under the name of farce-comedy, that "The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" at the Baldwin comes as a refreshing relief. The modern stage-manager gets in more of his deadly work every year. Plays are constantly becoming more spectacular and realistic, tanks are bigger, machinery is more complicated and millinery and smart frocks are rapidly becoming of more importance than good and clever acting. But what a boon the stagemanager would confer upon dramatic art, if he could be induced to restrict his efforts to new plays and to melodramas! No one would grudge him those, Tor generally Bpeaking they are not worth rescuing irom his clinches. Bat alas! the stage-manager, the milliner and the modiste are slowly but insidiously encroaching on all that is sacrea in the drama, though of the preat plays Goethe's "Faust" has hitherto suffered most at their hands.

There is scope In "Faust" for spectacular display, but the line should be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere assuredly is at illuminating the flowers in Marguerite's garden with incandescent lights. Could anything be mere banal and vulgar? One thinks at once of a superior sort of beer-garden, or at best exposition-grounds, with a military band playing and electric fountains somewhere ia the background. All the illusion of quaint medieval Nuremburg is shattered by this fin de siecle innovation, as completely as if Marguerite chewed gum or Faust interrupted hisloveroaking to order cocktails for two. It's Morrison's "Faust" that they are playing at the Columbia; the name of Goethe does not fipure anywhere on the programme. The public is informed who supplied the electric light, who made the costumes, who directs the destiny of the calcium glow, but the man who wrote the play is not worth mentioning.

It is just as well, perhaps. In another and a better world Goethe might jangle his harp and play harsh discords if this particular Morrison production of were brought prominently to his notice; but how indignant we should be if foreigners ignored our American geniuses in thai way. Sup pose Berlin managers took it into their heads to produce works written by men on this side of the Atlantic and excluded the names of the original writers to glorify those of their own countrymen. We should feel out and injured if we saw that Herr yon Piltzner's "Robin Hooi" was quite tbe rage in Berlin or that the Baron yon Pretzel's laughable comedy "A Trip to Chinatown" was the hit of the theatrical season in the Fatherland, and there is no doubt that we should question whether the Herrs and the Baron's adaptations were scintillating enough to blot out tbe names of the original writers. It is the modern tendency, however, both in plays and music, to give credit to the gentlemen who make the adaptations or transcriptions and give little or none to the original writers, so Morrison, who has three "Faust" companies on the road, is quite abreast with the times.

Baldwin Theater. "The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" will form the bill for the Baldwin Theater to-night as well as for the rest of the week. Variety will be introduced into the performance by seasoning the play with some songs. These will include a parody of the ancient dity, "In Days of Old," and a ballad entitled "Wailing for Me," both of which, will be sung by Eddie i-oy. One of the chief events of the dramatic season will be the appearance at the Baldwin on the 18th inst.

of Augustin Daly's company with Ada Rehan as the star. She will be supported by James Lewis, George Ciarke, Charles Richman, Kdwin Herbert Gresham, John Graig, Bawin Varrey, Thomas Bridgland, William Hazeltine, Hobart Bosworth, Henry Gunson, Robert Shepherd, Frederick Truesdell, Sidney Herbert, George Wharnock, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, Miss Sybil Carlisle, Miss Helma Nelson, Miss Mildred Holland, Miss Marie St.

John, Miss Belie D'Arcy. The opening production will be "The Countess Gucki," a new comedy in three acis, by Franz yon Schontnan, adapted by Augustin Daly. The rest of the repertoire will include "The Two Escutcheons," "Midsnmmer Night's Dream," "The Last Woid," "Twelfth Night," "The Hunchback," etc. California Theater. A new programme will be introduced by Primrose West's Minstrels for their last week at the California Theater, which begins to-morrow night.

Besides different tongs and jokes there will be introduced a gennine cake-walk, a reproduction of the one given at. Madison-square Gardens, New York. The management announces that ail local talent can participate in the ouke-walk free of entry, and that prizes will be awarded the winners. The champion. James Robinson, who is a member of the troupe, will be seen in tliese affairs, and it is stated that a man of local proweas to dispute his Championship.

George Wilson has a number of new things for this week's programme. On Monday, the 18tn Hoyt's "Trip to Chinatown" will be presented at the California by the company selected Ly Hoyt and McKee to appear in the piece during the coming Australian tour. Among its members are: Harry Conor, Geraliiine McCann, Georce Beane, Sadie McDonald, Frank Lawton, Patrice, Arthur Pacie, Amelia Btoue, J. Aldnch Libby and Madeline Lack. Columbia Theater.

The Morrison company's production of "Faust" will remain the attraction of the Columbia Theater for another week. One of the features of the production is the number of scenic effects produced by numerous electrical appliances. Particularly in the Brocken scene does the electric fluid play an important part. Wednesday evening will mark the first anniversary of the opening of the Columbia Theater under its present management, and it is intended to mark theevent by making a special feature of the music under the direction of Eugene E. Scbmitz, the clever young leader of the Columbia Th eater orchestra.

"Faust" will be followed next week by the comedy 'Pawn Ticket No. 210." interpreted by a company which will include Mi-s Aniy Lee, Marion P. Clifton, May Buckley, Julia Meirose, Delia Darcy, Prirnross Seraon, Frank Doane, Joseph P. Winter, Alex Gaden. David Murray.

Frank B. Clayton, Jay L. Packard, William P. Nielson. E.

A. White, Percy F. Bolton, Thomas B. Dunn and Master Marty Semon. Grand Opera-Home.

For his second week at the Grand Edmund Collier will appear in the leading role of a modern melodrama, entitled "Tne Cross Roads of Life." The part he takes is that of the captain of a life-saving crew, and around him and the persecuted heroine the villains weave a plot of disaster, which keeps the audience on the tenter-hooks of expectation to know how virtue is finally to be triumphant. The hero finally solves the problem of his destiny ana protects Ihe heroine in a manly and truly melodramatic fashion. The good and bad traits in tbe characters loom up with monumental prominence, and it is said that in tne role of the captain Edmund Collier finds a role is thoroughly congenial to nis powers. Miss Lisie Leigh will as the heroine, and Florence Thropp has a part which permits her to indulge in songs and dances. Tivoli Opera-Hoase.

The bill at the Tivoli this week will consist of "Fra Diavolo," an opera with which familiarity never seems to breed contempt. The title role of the brigand chief will be taken by Martin Pache, a part in which he met with considerable success both in Europe and in this country when he sang with tne Strakoscli Opera Company. Arthur Boycewill take the role of Lorenzo; John J. Raffael will appear as heretofore as Lord Allcash; H. West and Ferris Hartman will enact the two brigands, Beppo and Giacomo; W.

H. looker will make his first appearance as Matteo, the innkeeper; Kate Marchi will sing her favorite role of Zeriina, and Carrie Roma will appear as Lady Atlcash. "Fra Diavolo" will be played for one week only, after which "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the favorite atory in an operatic setting, will be given with an augmented cast, including several specialty and blacK-face artists. At the Orpheum. Tomorrow evening Wood and Bhepard and Fields and Lewis will give their initial performances at the Orpheum.

Wood and Snepard will De remembered as entertaining performers who appeared here with the Howard Athenaeum company, Thatcher, Primrose West's Minstrels and with the Lottie Collins company. Fields and Lewis are comedians and parodists. By special request they will present their racetrack hold-up scene, la which they so realistically show the difliculty experienced in coming away from the turf with money, even after a winning has been made. John W. Kansome.

the New York topical comedian, will continue to give his impersonation of "Boss" Croker, enlivened with stones and political illusions. Charlotte Perry, Carr and Jordan. Morton and Mack and the Mimic Four will all remain this week at the Orpheum. New Auditorium. Active rehearsal is going on in the Stanford University Glee and Mandolin Club for the concert which will be civen at the New Auditorium on the 22d inst.

It is said that the programme will include a number of novelties not yet heard in Ban Francisco. Macdonough Theater. Richard Mansfield will appear at the Macdononeh Theater, Oakland, to- morrow night in "Bean Brummeli." and on Tuesday evening he will present "Dr. Jeltyll and Mr. Hyde." The Trans-Oceanic Star Specialty Company, including the famous Rosso midgets, will be seen next Thursday evening, and Primrose West's minstrels are booked for two nights, May 18 and 19.

Local Italian Opera. The Ziliani Musical Society, assisted THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1896. Mrs. Elizabeth Mowry soprano, and Dr. D.

A. Hodghead tenor, will produce Verdi's "Ernani" at the New Bush-street Thea- ter on Thursday evening next, May 14. The cast will be as follows: Elvira, Mrs. Elizabeth Mowry; Giovanna, Mrs. Pauline Wand; Ernani, Dr.

D. A. Hodghead; Don I Carlos (King of Spain), Alfred A. Borlini Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, P. Lafranchi; Don Ricardo, I.

iJresciani; Jago, L. Lacaze. The opera will be produced under the i direction of Maestro Fanstino Ziliaui, who has already successfully produced ''Martha" and "Crown Diamonds." The ohorus is a laree one, and those people who have attended the rehearsals speak enthusiastically of several of the principals. Coining JCvcnts in Music. Next Thursday evening Berniiard Mollenhauer will be tendered a benefit concert in Golden Gate Hall by the patrons and members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra will render several selections, and Mollcnhauer and Homer Henly will be the soloists. James Hamilton Howe will conduct. Andrew Bogart, a barytone who has sung a good deal in local concerts for the last two years, will be tendered a farewell Deneht concert in Metropolitan Temple next Wednesday evening, as it is his intention to pursue his studies abroad. Mr. Bogart will be assisted by the Saturday Morning Orchestra, and the Philomel, Treble Cleff, California and Plymouth quartets, as well as by Miss Sophia Newlands, soprano, and Mrs.

Olive Reed, contralto. Mrs. Eunice Westwater announces a song recital in Native Sons Hall on the 19th inst. Robert Tolmey will give a pianoforte recital in the Y. M.

C. A. Auditorium on the 26th inst. Miss Carrie Bowes' next pianoforte recital will take place in Golden Gate Hall on the 27th inst. A California Dancer.

With Ada Rehan's company, which opens at the Baldwin on the 18th, will appear for the first time here Miss Isadora Duncan, a young Californian, who left this City about a year ago for New York. Very few were aware of her intention in going East, and will be surprised to see her return on the stage. Miss Duncau joined one of Augustin Daly's companies upon her arrival, and has been with him since. She made a hit in the French pantomime, "Miss Pygmalion," with her grace. ul posing and dainty dancing.

Her dance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is billed for the second week, is original, as in fact is all of her work. She will also dance in "Twelfth Night." Miss Duncan is a daughter of Mrs. Dora Gray Duncan, who is well known here, being an old San Franciscan, so there will be a pleasant reception accorded her on her arrival. A Loyal Californian. Holbrook Bltnn, the young San Francisco actor who has won so much praise from press and public alike, writes thus from Grand Rapids, concerning his travels for the past three years: "I have seen almost the whole country and our own eolden State and our own Golden Gate are unsurpassed.

I have loitered under the drowsing palms of Hawaii and bathed in the waters of its coral-reefed shores; I have sailed among the icebergs that girt the waters of Alaska and summered in that flowerless land, I have wandered among the tropic verdure-hung forests of the South, and climbed the classic mountains of Vermont; I have gazed ir fixed admiration at the beautiful entrance to Charleston harbor and stood enraptured as the sun sank behind the reef at St. Augustine; but there is no lend like my land; no valieys so sweet as our with their swiftflowing, cold streams, that sing canyon songs as they rush onward to the lowlands; 1 have seen all the great harbors of this country, but have yet to be so near the perfect as when looking westward, crossing our own bay, I see the great gate and the limitless Pacific beyond. The regret of a lifetime is in exile from this garden of the dear, old California. I am counting tbe days till the season's close, to be within her portals once again." ASTONISHED CHICAGO. A Wild, Weird Drama by Sir Henry Irving's Son.

A romantic one-act play, "Godefroi and Yolande," by Lawrence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, has caused considerable comment in Chicago. The drama was produced for the first time on any stage in the Windy City the other day, by the Irving- Terry company. Miss Terry plays Yolaude, but Sir Henry does not appear in the performance. The New York Herald, speaking of this work, says: 'Godefroi and Yolande' is a grewsome medieval play, the story of a French courtesan in royal favor, who, in the midst of her life of splendid vice, is stricken with leprosy and cast out among the ostracised colony. "She has held a very court cf her own, magnificent in its appointments, daring in its shamelessness, royal in its personnel.

In her household is a youth, Godefroi, who loves her with what playwrights are pleased to call a pure love. His mother comes to Yolande's castle and endeavors to open his eyes to his infatuation and induce him to leave, but is driven away by Yolande. "Preparations are being made for a grand bal masque, which tho king is to attend, and though Yolande is ill she joins the guests. At the bail the king is told by one who has been much in the East and has learned to quickly detect symptoms of leprosy that he has touched the hand of a masked guest who is infected, and warns the king of his peril. There is a scene of tumult, and the suspected leper, being at last compelled to unmask, is found to be Yolamle.

"Cast out, she wanders among the lepers, followed only by Godefroi, who sacrifices himself in order to be her companion and her savior. He labors with what his mother declares is a spirit that is surely Christlike to work Yolando's spiritual redemption, to save the soul of the woman he loved, though the body is Tust all cure. And this he does, bringing Yolande finally to repentance for her past and to making peace with her God." I.aokaj New Play. Wilton Lackaye, who made such a succers as Svengali in "Trilby, 1 proposes to star. He has several plays he intenls to produce, but the most important is one entitled "Dr.

of which Charles Kiein, tbe librettist of "El Capitan," is the author. Dr. Belgraff, like Svengali, is a hypnotist, and he uses his power to conceal a murder he has committed. Remorse seizes him, however, and he takes to drink. Weakened by dissipation, he gradually loses his hypnotic influence and his secret is betrayed.

Rather than pay the penalty of hi 9 crime he swallowed a draught of poison and the play ends as he falls dead. Rather a grewsome affair, is it not? But Mr. Lackaye says it is a very strong play and that he feels of its success. He may possibly give it a trial production somewhere this sprintr, but he intends to open his starring tour in the "West, and will not brine his play into New York until he has ii in perfect working order. AUGISTIN DALY.

Career of a Man "Who Has Done Much for the Drama. Born at Plymouth, N. July 20, 1838. and educated in Norfolk, with some finishing touches put on in New York City, Auguistin Daly is claimed as a Southern man, though New York and the Nation now claim him, and is proud of him for what he has done for the stage end dramatic literature. He became dramatic editor of the New York Sunday Courier in 18(59, and successfully held positions on the Express, Citizen, Times and Sun until he became a manager of theaters by opening the old Fifth-avenue Theater.

To him was due the production of Henry Mosenthal's "Deborah" in America, and the brilliant success of Miss Kate Bate man in the well-remembered character of Leah the Forsaken, thirty-two years ago. While yet a youth he adapted plays for Mrs. John Wood, Mme. Methua- Scheller, Rose Eytinge and Avonia Jones. He was the earliest adopter of Charles Reade's "Griffith Gaunt," and he had a principal hand in converting Henry Ward Beecher's novel of Norwood" into a play, in days when the name of Beecher was a watchword for the public enthusiasm.

As a writer of original dramas he was very early in the field. His melodrama of "Under the Gaslight," produced in 1807, containing the rescue from death upon the railroad track, proved the precursor of a long line of sensational plays upon American subjects. His "Flasn of lightning," in 1868, was another success in the same field, and his play of "Pique" still continues to be the best of American domestic dramas. During his first season a manager, that of 1869-70, when he had to contend against the rivalry of Booth's Theater and of WallacK's, he produced twenty-three plays, of which three were by Shakespeare, and every one of his revivals was conscientiously planned and sumptuously accomplished. He presented that fine tragedian E.

L. Davenport when at bis best. He brought out Mrs. Scott-Siddons in Shakespearean tragedy and comedy at a time when that lovely woman was in the prime of her beauty. He managed engagements of John Brougham.

Georpe L. Fox, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, E. A. Sothern, Mile. Aimee, Adelaide Neilson, Charles Mathews and Fechter.

He was the first to present the noble Spanish play of "Yorick in 1874, and he introduced the first of the comedies of Bronson Howard. He discovered and fostered the talents of Clara Morris, Agnes Bethel, Fanny Davenport, Catherine Lewis, Kate Cla.x-ton, Sara Jewett, James Lewis and John Drew, and it is to his wise guidance and bojd enterprise that the public owes its enjoyment of the genius and success of Aua Rehan. His revivals of old comedy and his presentations of the plays of Shakespeare are among the most careful, tasteful and beautiful that have been accomplished. He has started and established three theaters in New York, has conducted prosperous performances all across the continent, on the Pacific and in Germany and France, and he has performed the almost incredible feat of establishing a new theater In the city of London. This is a remarkable career, and it is a career honorable to the manager and useful and impressive to society, and while brilliant with eood deeds well done it is augury of much beneficent achievement in the maturity and repose of developed powers and assured repute.

Dramatic Brevities. Mrs. Henry E. Abbey contemplates returning to the stage next season. Henry Jrving's American tour closes in New York Friday night.

May 15. Henry Dixey has been re-engaged for next season by Charles Frohman to play tue principal part in "Thoroughbred." They are publishing in Paris alleged extracts from a book by Bernhardt about Americans. The extracts so far as heard from are all complimentary, so it may be merely a compilation from Bernbardi's newspaper interviews. On the 24th inst. a local Italian opera company, under the direction of Professor Paniza and Professor Martinez, will give "Cxitpino la Comare" at the Bush-street Theater.

Anjonii the soloists will be Mrs. Cuneo McLean, Mrs. Douglas, and Signori Paniza, Almapia, De Grazia, Bcrtini, Grella and Daniele. Miss Apnes Simpson, who is said to be a perfect type of Trilby beauty, will on Saturday, the 16th sing for the first time in this City the Chopin impromptu which Trilby is supposed to have sung in her hypnotic state. The success of the book caused some Paris publishers to have the pianoforte solo transcribed for the voice.

Herr Fritz Scheel, the leader of the Olympia Concert Orchestra, has been invited to direct a symphony concert, which will probably taVe place at the Carnegie Music Hall on Friday afternoon, May 15. The orchestra will Decomposed of seventyfive musicians selected from the Philharmonic and Symphony societies. Miss Ada Rehan intends to go to Europe early in July and will spend her vacation at her summer house in Cumberland, England, on the Irish Sea. The other members of the company, most of whom are re-engaged for next season, will spend their time as they choose until the middle ol August at least. H.

A. Jones has called the piece which he has written for Mr. Willard "The Rogue's Comedy." The play is in three acts, and the part which will be played by Mr. Willard is that of a gentleman who puts into practice on every occasion some peculiar theories on the subject of honesty. Here is a story of father and son.

It was the premiere of a new play by the younger Dumas, and Dumas pere was loitering in rhe vestibule of the theater. "Had you a hand in this?" asked a friend of the veteran. "Yes," he replied. '-For what were you responsible?" "I am responsible for the author." he observed, and passed on. A peculiar custom prevalent in Mexico is that of selling a ticket for a single act of a play.

One nmy see ati entire play by purchasing a large ticket with a coupon for each act, which gives a sitting in the best rows of the orchestra circle, reserved for this purpose. A ticket for only one act involves a seat outside this charmed circle, and its holder is expected to retire voluntarily at the end of the act or pay again. Hermann Sudermann, the author of "Magda," is described by the Berlin correspondent of the New York Tribune as still a comparatively young man, having just passed his thirty-eighth year. His tinely shaped head and lectures and his long black beard give him a very handsome appearance, and at glance one would not take him for a German. He has more of the Southerner in his looks, and there are a freedom and a joviality in his manner and conversation that are very utilise the Prtibsian character, but make him most pleasant to meet.

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n. ADMISSION 91.00. Take Southern Pacific trains at Third and Town- send streets Depot, leaving at 12:40 and 1:15 p. Fare for round trip, Including admission to graai stand, 91. Take Mission-street electric lino direct to track.

A. B. W. a LEAKE. President.

Secretary. PICKICS AND EXCURSIONS. MX The Grandest Picnic :1,11 If 7 jf JO. the Season UltUfta Ii MOUNTAINS .3 THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY and Family OF THE UNION PRINTERS' MUTUAL AID SOCIETY WILL. BE HKLD ON THURSDAY MAY 21, 1896 At GLENWOOD PARK Santa Cruz Mountains.

Tickets for the round trip (including SI on Children (between 5 ana VI years) V)o Tickets can be procured of any member of the Society, or at 608 Montgomery Room 18, or at the wharf on the morning of the Excursion. A fine I.n:id will accompany the i rcnnlnn The train will he made up of Flrst-classs Passed ger oaohes. Pr.ses for adults aiul children Boat leaves Oakland Ferry (narrow gauge), foot ot 11 arket at 8 x. m. sharp.

burning, train leaves Oienwood at 5:30 p. x. XHJlurnm EL CAMPO, THE POPULAR BAY RESORT. Now Open Every Sunday During ths Season. Music, Dancing.

Bowling. Boating, Fishing and mU ea ts at city tiJe Kn fc ChUltrea inCIUdIDB i THE STEAMER URIAH save5 ave Tib iron Ferry 10:30 a. 12:10 p. 2 and 4 m. Returntns leave Xl campu a.

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