The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1899, Page 31

THE SUNDAY CALL. 81 N b G. M a € A and the being a actor, new whose f and Lon- [ g man He is th in this 1glish, a finished a rominent st beautiful ladies on the nd Miss Mary Gardiner of Bos- also with Modjeska. The en- pany numbers twenty-six per- Little Bessie Blskirk of Los Angeles ays the Dauph in ‘“Marie An- ot 8 ( Ima Baker of San who has developed considerable v a8 a singer and actress, will take the part of the Princess Royal, daughter of Marie Antoinette, In the play of that name. Modjeska, of course, plays Antoinette. As before I | WILL JOON URTHE (OPYRIGHTED 1699 The Great achress fn the best of health and hard 1} at work for the ¢eming sgason. she will als: pear as Mary Stuart, & d to her temperament popular. pon her t they he had no I never had a part wel and In which she is decidedl Commen ! plays, Modjes were all grand, a favorite among the favorite part in all 1 the stage,” said the f: her quaint and bea v 3 nette will be my prin- coming season, in some continued Mme. is all based upon 1 the names are his- facts- torical, and it is a true story, therefore strong, 1 so fine as that which 2 The lan- guage, too, is all beautiful. The ‘Marie Antoinet e will play has nothing to do with old version of Glaconetti, but is quite different. Our version, written by Stuart, will be given for the f this season, and will be gorgeot “I ha wanted to take the part 1t never liked the which the language is far from attractive. I have wondered how I could make so much out of it. It {s more of a ma than the new style. Mr. Ke 1 take the part of King Louis XVI. The ‘Ladies’ Battle, in which Mr. Kellerd is prominent, but i a costume tuart. ed Modjeska, as to her opin- atford-on-Avon. 1, and there- I am devoted nce for women. ‘Henry VIIL' and atrice in ‘Much and then there is >n Constance in ‘King y is so somber that s produce it. I asked Fdwin Booth, when I was with him, why he never played ‘King John,’ and he said it was too gloomy, as well as too expensive.”