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Show SHOW LOVE Of I COMIC OPERAS i . Ban Francisco Producers Revive Successes of 35 Years Ago I SA FRANCISCO, Dee. 2. San I PanclSCO lian demonstrated that Its I interest In comic operap. old and new. I has not wan. d by the manner lo ! which It is flocking to the EUvoll Opera hous The operas, presented by Ferris Hartman and i'aul Stein-dorff, Stein-dorff, famous In local annals as having hav-ing present id here 36 years ago ai the old Tlvoli Opera house comic operas that were In vogue at that' time, can be seen for prices ranging' from j:. cents to 91.00. Martinanu and Steindorff aro put- i ting on operas in the original manner! they wore staged years ago. Their presentation of "The Chimes of Nor-: mandy, the Bohemian Olrl." and other such old favorites show a touch' that none of the present day man- ' agers attempt. LO IN MO IKS. Hartman, after a losing venture in I 1 .ho' mmlon picture world, returned, hers to the scene of his earlier tri-limphs, tri-limphs, with the idea of presenting' 1he old favorites, but he lacked finan-I clal backing. He conceived the idea of asking the public If a revival of the operas would be supported and i he appeared before civic urganzatlons and Clubs explaining liis plan. AftT he had been assured verba '.'y that the publli wanted comic operas of oth days, ho sold twelve admis- j slons i jr $lo. Even after he had, 11,600 In the bank from the sale of tickets he was afraid to make the, venture, fearing failure, but oventual-l oventual-l he took an option on the Oakland, Cal.. Auditorium. hired a company and last May. with Steindorff. begun producing comic operas. The operas were presented to crowded houses In Oakland for 1 h weeks and then Hartman and Steindorff Stein-dorff moved their company to San Eranclsco and took over a motion picture pic-ture theatre which they named the Itlvoll Opera house. Hartman and I Steindorff got their follow Ing at the old Tivoli and in obtaining the theatre the-atre here they renamed it us closely ' as tJley couid to the theatre they ; helped to make famous PA1 BXN8 PI K OPJEJR 16 The Knoll Is original In thut the! patrons decide which opera the com- ' pany is to produce Hartman and Steindorff have published a list of 87 operas and (ISA'S announced they will present the opera Ciat receives the alghSSt vote of the patrons. "The Chimes o' Normandy." "Bohemian Girl" and "Kobin Hood" are among the old time favorites voted for. The Rlvoll, following the plan of the eanier theatres Of San Francisco has it bar at Whch "drinks which the law allows" are sold. In the 'blue room" cigarets are given ta the women patrons |