The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1901, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL. S Once Known as <Fatty™ Walsh’s Little Girl of Mott Street and [s Now Applauded as a Leading Star of the Theatrical World. LANCHE WALSH, in her elec- tric lighted and bellboyed suite, finds it a far cry to the Mott-street house where she was a baby. It must give her ce feeling to swish about her i-pound empress robe and re- memb she used to think her- self lucky if she could get hold of a shrag big enough to swish about ay that it was the Queen’s The little Italians of Mott reet were train-bearers when they e willing. Sometimes they wantzd 2in themselves anl guard. Last night on my 11 o'clock wav home I stopped in to sce 2 girl who is always willing to do the talking. T em slways willing to lst aer, be- cause she tells such good stories that they must be founded on fact and clspboarded with fiction. “Blanche Walsh is coming, said. “Here’s to she r,” we agreed over the oyster cocktails. “Now you pi ond go to sleep le up those cuskions while I tz11 you about she said. She buried me to the ears in Navajos. “Blanche ‘Fatty’s’ daughter, wou know, and she lived in Mot street, which was a hodgepodge of cats and babies and gin. “She was part of that hoigepodge. “Ome of her chums was a little i che had learned street ger. gll of her songs. They were the ones that Francie’s father sang over the zed wine of nights. “Omne day Francie cut her foot on a Dottle that had been broken the night before. She knew that it wouldn’t do her any good to tell this at home as &n excuse. <« <I]] take your placs,” Blanche of- fered. “So she put on Francie’s dress and went out on the street as a singsr. « <]l bring you back enough money so you won’t get whipped,’ she mised “She was charmed by the delight of acting a part and by the szcrecy of Ler e more than doubled her of earnings. e returned and offered oney she me<t instead orm of jealcusy. 20 good. You must *a’ Yo "1 earned it cause the hear me sing.’ I don’t want no dp’t take it, then,’ and into the gutter. s own reward is the only one virtne ever gets,’ Blanche says the story. SARAH COMSTOCK. great gulf Blanche then < i vy Sspe- She ty's brat” r times, or *“Fatty's kid.” pon who spoke of her and he spoke. There is a nice tween E t and Kid. When he w ng she was the Kid and the name; when she was as all children who are any w how to be, she was the e was th e »irl whom Tombs people caught sight of now and whom they ceme to know as be- little girl. Walsh was “Fat- s the big Irishman who was warden of the Tombs. The home that Blanche Walsh was born to was a he Mot street. Tom Walsh, her father, was a strapping young Iri nd residing as he did in & New York district peopled by Italiar »migrants he soon gained a political pull by proper frages. It constituyents in the their political suf- instructing his exercise of came to pass that this instruction, e benefiting the sons of Italy, brought to Mr. Walsh. machine’s chief- Walsh with fa- looked upon Fatty appointed warden of ie Tombs, a verv old establishmen inhabitants were not of the upper crust. Fatty had no se- rious objection to this. however. He was prospering d he s not squeamish about his companions o~ about those wha helped him to his prosperity. He wanted to know why a Dago -ote wasn't as goo1 any other vote, and the man who zot the the most of them was wasn't he? Fatty w idly turning out to be a “best man.” He was coming into a following that made him temporari'y as famous as his daughter has now be- come through the pract-ce of another art. Perhaps there is sane hLereditv absut the thing, after all. Old Tem Waish mnst have had a way of gripping peaple and getting hold of them just as Blanche does to-day; and people ars a, good deal alike, anyhow, whether they be Italian immi- grants In Mott street or $1 5 audiences in the best’theaters. It must take some of the same kind of power to gain their at- tention and their good will. People who talk about things in » serious and a sei- entific way call st magretism. Blanche would be called a magnetic actress: Fatty has been known as a first-class ward poli- tician; they were father and daughter. His prestige and hic fame are things of the past—so far of the past that most of the public who wilness his daughter do not for the momant think of any re- lation between them. But it was in his Mct‘-street home that she passed her babyiaod. It never for a momert was a common- place babyhood. Record has it that she squealed with admirahie elocution. Fur- thermore, Dr. Hogan noticed somethi peculiar about her head He and a professional friend were in the room together when ‘he mother was lying 111 in bed. “Look here,” sald H . who was the family physician ani aiways took a big interest in all that pertained to the house of Walsh. “Come to ine window: I want you to look at this baby’s head The mother became interested and some- what alarmed. “I've brought a thousand of these into the world,” went on Dr. Hogan to his con- federate, "'but I never saw one like this.” Mrs. Walsh was writhing by this time. “For heaven’s rake,” she sa’d, “what is the matter with its head?” *“Oh, it's all right, ma’am,” reassured Dr. Horan, “except that it ougct to be- best man, I ever saw. It would make a great and successtul man.” ““Oh, iIf that’s ail I 2ar go to sieep.” re- plied Mrs. Walsh, who was alwavs stronger on philosophy than on specuia- tion: Blanche began to grow up at 36 Mot street. It w the same neighborhood where hundreds of little foreigners swarmed and ‘swore =nd were blase on- lookers at all the vices in the calendar. lans since that day una it is still of the slums—no better, no worse. It has always been as bad as it could be. It's a queer thing, isn't it, when one expounded by educators ell over the coun- try and the globe, for that matter, abodt the effect of environment? With the two sides and the two ends of Mott street for the four walls of her world one wouldn't have expected that Blanche Walsh could ever have changed anviking but her frgnt door address. Her mental address would have been 36 Mott street for all time if the theories were infallible. The belief in environment has gone even outside the realm of science. Poetry has accepted .t. Walt Whitman talks about a boy who was brought up among lilacs and breezes and that sort of thing undil ““they became part of the child.” Now what are Walt Whitman and Dr. Jordan and all the rest of them going to do about it in the face of Blanche Waish's fine, strong, subtle art? Later on the famiiy moved to City Ha'l place. There Blanche grew up, attending branches she had instruction in vocal and instrumental music and in dancing. One night in the winter of 188 (she was 15 at this time) a benefit was given to the family of Dr. Dwver. at the Winsor Theater. and she recited a poem. It was a success and ker mind was made up be- fore the last of her applause was over. She had read a great ceal about Charlotte Cushman and Mary Anderson; they werc her heroines and she determined on that night to follow in their footsteps. With this purpose set before her as a sort of signal lamp in her path she joined the Lyceum School of Acting, but she stayed there a very short She was prac- tically without knowledge of the stage when she joined Marie Wainwright's com- pany. ; Miss Walnwright started her and schooled her and is proud of her to-day. Blanche was 17 when the start was made; she had to be taught to walk and to stand and to fall. Within a season she was playing such parts as Olivia in “Twelfth Night”; Zamore In “The Honeymoon''; Queen Elizabeth in “Amy Robsart,” and Grace Harkaway In “London Assurance.” Her training was all practical and of the best, but its results did not come at once. She was to go through a deal of Tqv Germans are making arrange- ments to beat th> Americans in the Goodwin took her, as you may remember, and then dropped her overboard some- where between hera and Australia. She finally began to star as the Sardou hero- ines. and although the critics sald nice things about her the Sardou plays wera old and old plays 4o not satisfy the box office. She tried a pew play which was a faflure. Then, In the nick of time, Julia Arthur took unto herself a husband and resigned a good vlay before its pepu- larity was nearly exhausted and Blanche Walsh fell heir to it. It is Emile Ber- gerat’s “More Than Queen,” in which she cpens here. Miss Walsh, who nightly—and occasion- ally at a matinee—dons the robes of an Empress of France, is not a physical cul- ture devotee. She is not of the class that affects knee treusers, jerseys and short sleeves and has her room littered with In- dfan clubs, dumb-bells, rowing machines and other paraphernalia that indicate the occupancy-of the “athletic zirl.” Yet if it came to a test of strength there is no doubt that heavy odds would be in favor of her prowess as a modern female San- dow as against the claims of the regu- larly trained lady calisthene. Miss Walsh's work in ““More Than Queen” is not alto- gether of a mental caliber. There is no doubt that her mind is weary after the strain of the several strongly emotional scenes In the last two acts of the play. Yet her physical exertion is not much less tiring. In the coronation scene at the end of the third act, for Instance, she is com- pelled to walk thrice across the stage In a gown that weighs something over 100 pounds. AdA to this the strain of drag- ging the garment over the floor and It is patent that a hod-carrler has an easy time of it compared to Miss Walsh at this particular time. Yet she says that she has not felt any 111 effects of the task as vet, and she has been wearing the gown for numerotis weeks. “Last season,” says Miss Walsh, “in the Sardou plays I was compelled to wear many heavy costumes, yet my health re- mained good throughout the tour. This heavy physical work appears to have the effect of keeping me in ‘good condition,” as they say about the prize-fighters, and my health has never been better than in the past year or so.” And this young woman, robed an Empress of France before an admiring audience which claims that she looks and lives the part, upon whose health count- less attaches are hanging and in whose welfare countless admirers are Interested —this young woman is “Fatty” Walsh's little girl of Mott street.” - - German Trains to Go Two Miles a Minute. speed of their rallroad trains. A rate of from 125 to 155 miles per hour 1s to be attained on the military line from Berlin to Zossen. The cars, which will run singly, will be propelled by electricity. Two cars are belng built, one by the Ger eral Electricity Company, and one by the firm of Slemens & Halske. Emperor Willlam, who is always pro. gressive, has taken up the subject. He has expressed himself as In favor of a complete change of the entire railway service. Electrical power, he says, must be used for the transpor#tion of the pas- sengers, though for the present it will be necessary to continue using steam for freight. At a recent conference between the Kaiser and Prince Counselor Rathe« nau, superintendent of the works of the General Electricity Company, the latter declared that It weuld be a great na- tional triumph if Germany could be tha leader in the greation of the means of transportation. Several financlers and princes of dustry some time ago formed a soclety to consider the applicatien of eiectriclty to raflway roads. A result of their work is.that the military 'ine between Berlin and) Zossen, which is sighteen miles lons. will be used for experiments to demon- strate that a higher rate of speed can ba obtained by electricity than by the use of steam. For the present the experiments are confined to passenger service. Tha cars to be employed will accommodate fifty passengers, and wil! resemble in con- struction the sleeping cars now in nse in Germany. Richard Guenther, Unitel States Consul General at Frankfort, d clares that if the exveriments on th Ilne succeed, the tims is not far distant when it will be possible to travel for example, from Berlin lo Hamburg in a fittle over an hour 'n ecars which will follow each other at intervals of ten min- utes. By raising the speed, which now averages thirty-sev miles per hour for fast trains, to 155 miles per hour, and by dispatching the cars singly, the ideal rafl- n- — and the “True Filend of Italy” was long to a boy. It's the best formed head Chinatown has stolen in upon the Ital- thinks of all the theories that are beirg the public schools. Besides general trouble before she made her hit. Nat way of the future will be reached. Rstrologists Say the HKoroscopes ©F KinGg Edward VI d Other RUI Portend Troubl 7 N vear, 1901, say the astrologists. ruped—that is to say, ar elephant—came Incide also with the unlucky month of carious, and he will have to fear reverses threaten to-cause her much trouble. In with Saturn, all of which could not be on his guard against the dangers which i sun enters again tat sign which neaf to killing him ;n India. He twice January, In which he ascended the throne whose conseauences may be, excessively tHe years when Saturn shall be in the. Worse, because the position of the two tho fspeéts of this planet wam him to i tivity of King Fd- escaped belng shot in Ireland. In 1§73 His great-grandfather, George III, died grave. Twins, in quadrature with Venus, there violent nlanets and that of the chance of expect from the enmities of pretended curiously enough, he was shot at by a mysterious woman at in January, 1820. His grandfather, the When the Kaiser leans too heavily on will be danger for marriage or children; death form a triangle which indicates friepds and protectors, especially those y arous er ‘ward it is on that he t of fortune expect. The he samé time, In perils and powerful e position In the ns and fortunate cords and dis- especially volurion L nfluences are and me of re rs, wh ' vaguely sre on the royal will 1 peodle,” hinting riand will not possess T mpletely in the f of the kingdom. VIT is 5 rs cid. The sizn rth ¢ 41 confers that ce are two by it as t - at the timc r Edwar nt goin marked Frcm Death. been horne out ‘e. In 188), America, d by a crazy inting at Compiegne, he bis neck breken by be- a ho; A greater quad- Monte Carlo. And 'n 1900 young Sipidio attempted to shoot him In Brussels. The other dangers he has always had to fear are diseases of the head, stomacn, fevers (he has had typhoid), and the maladles due to excesses. When Saturn shall enter the sign of the Fishes the life of the King will be trou- bled by fillnesses, quarrels with closa friends, and misunderstazdings with pow- erful rulers: and this -are planetary event is due just six month: from now. The astrologer calls attention to the number 9. which is the dynastic number of his family and the mystic number of his horo- scope, referring back (o the ninth arcana major, the Throne of Osins. A picture of it shows a chariot crowned by a dals, sup- ported by four columns. On the charlot stands a warrior, covered with & cuirass and armed with a sword snd scepter. He is crowned with a circlet of gold. Now, in the theme of revoluticn, the sword. scepter, and gold are threatened by bad aspects, indicating that two of them will be put to the service of the other. Fatality of the Number 9. The fatality of the number 9 with re- spect to this family is remarkable. The Duke of Kent, father of the late Queen, was one of nine children, while Victoria was the ninth sovereign of England since the revolution of 1688. She was born in 1819, mounted the throre in 1837 (1 plus 8,plus 2 plus 7 equals 19, when she was 19 vears old. She had nine children. Her eldest son was borfi on November 9. The Prince of Wales married the daughter of Chris- tian IX of Denmark, who at the time was 19 years old. It was at the age of 81 (8 plus 1 equals 9) that the Queen died, hav- ing recelved her deathstrcke.of paralysis cn January 9. The threats of the King's horoscope co- Duke of Kent, died in the same month of the same yvear. His great-aunt, the Prin- cess Elizabeth of Hesse-Hamburg, died on January 5, 1840. His great-uncle, Fred- erick, Duke of York, died in January, 1827. His son, the Duke of Clarence, died in January,:1892. And his brother-in-law, Henry of Battenberg, died in January, 1896. Advice to the Kaiser. The Kaiser’s horoscope shows no death due at the present {ime. In order to throw more light on the question one astrologer has recourse to a kind of cabalistic analy- sis. From the letters contained in the He- brew words of the date, the question, the Kaiser's name, and the name of the rul- irg planet at the time of the apparition, he disengaged the following counsel: “Shut yourself up in your proper sphere, out of which you are speedily threatened with deceptions, treasons and ennuis, be- cause your temperament will Infallibly carry vou beyond the limits you have set for yourself.” While the new relations which threaten the Kaiser are many, he himself is sure to be as injurious to them. Especially to new and powerful friends does the Kaiser threaten to be injurious. He will have redcubtable enemies in the high grades of both the army and navy. His horo- sccpe promises him the solution of many difficulties by means of secret societies, but he is at the same time warned against the ideas they may suggest to him and the acts they may lead him to commit. Again, he must be on his guard against sick people, for contagious diseases prom- ise to be injurious to him. If he be raised to an even higher dignity than that he now possesses its cause will be fortuitous, and he ought not to felicitate himself on his supposed good fortune. It will be pre- the sword and counts too much on force let him remember the words. “Who takes up the sword will perish by the sword.” Nevertheless, his-own life is not threat- ened by violence. His planetary aspects for 1901 suggest instead: ‘‘Let your health be dear to you. Be vigilant in your eat- ing, drinking and bathing.” Saturn and Mars this vear are unfavorable to his family, threatening equally his royal spouse. Forecast for Wilhelmina. The Queéen of Holland received at her birth, on August 81, 1880. the names of Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, and she is of the hcuse of Nassau, whose astrology has been worked out a hundred times. These names and the family name added together, cabalistically give the number twenty-three, the first of the minor arcana, which is the Master of the Scepter. This arcana represents the young Queen beautifully, because it is symbolized by a crowned King, seated on a throne and holding a scepter in his right hand. The maxim which refers to this arcana recommends the consultant to seek a protector and counselor in both private and public acts. The sign under which Wilhelmina was born gives a double character and a cold power of rea- soning. nevertheless susceptible to changes of ideas. The will, though strong, may be moved by either the sentiments of the heart or of interest. The sign gives equally intelligence, ingenuity, the love of beautiful things, and a certain slowness to anger. It is a double sign and some- times, therefore, modifies the ideas and sentiments already formed. It may also lead to two marriages. The enemies which the young Queen has to fear are financiers and courtiers of high situation. Disputes about property apd this danger will com2 from two causes: By the fault of the Queen—that is to say, a.certain haughty self-con- fidence joined to inconsistency of resolu- tlon on her part; and by the faults of otha: phien and people in high places, who may be a cause of ~ scandals. ‘Treasons of friends and near relatives are to be feared, as well as falls and sub- mersions under water. The sign of longevity is not promising. Young Spanish King’s Lot. Alfonso XIII of Spain was born on May 17, 1886, at 12:30 p. m., in the second decan Aharph, in submission to the arch- angel of Saturn, Rempha, who presages obstacles in enterprises and unlucky de- pendencies. The zodiacal sign is that of the bull. It gives to those born under it an unambitious character, but confers obstinacy, pride, highness of spirit and generosity. The Indications of the gen- eral birth theme are extremely bad. Saturn in the first house and in quadra- ture with Mars at the culminating point of the horoscope announces grave perils, physical and moral. This same planet in the ram—a most violent sign—signifies dangers to his life, in its ninth, four- teenth, eighteenth. twenty-first and twen- ty-fifth years. When In the annual revo- lution Saturn arrives in the Twins, the Archer, and the Fishes these dangers will be accentuated. Mars threatens him with great hatreds, Internal troubles in his realm, and even the loss of his throne. If the voung King should travel at any time when the moon happens to be in the sign of the Crab he will risk great danger by iron and water. The moon is also un- favorable. The chance of life is struck by the quadrature of Saturn, and the charce of death is found in the Archer, in oppesition with Mars, and in quadrature these dangers are equally threatening on 1and, on water and by fire and iron. More- over, the chance of death is found in the eighth house of the horoscope, the house of troubles, strikings, woundings and violences. and is placed directly under the rafs of the sun. a sure sign of short life. The'summit of the birth ladder of Al- fonso XIII, with his names. when added together cabalistically, mives the same major arcana as that of the late Presi- dent Carnot—i. e., the eighteenth arcana; which is The Twilight. Its picture repre- sentation shows a fleld feebly lighted by a half-hiGden moon. Two towers rise on the edge of a road that loses itself in the horizon. At the foot of one of these tow- ers is a dog howling at the moon. Be- tween these two agimals there is a crab. The towers are symbols of false security which does not perceive hidden perils. The maxim of the arcana is; ‘Never for- get that you are a son of the earth, and that everything here below conspires against you. Low and servile minds flat- ter you and deceive you, and wicked peo- ple stand on the edge of the path you tread. Observe, lsten, and learn to be silent!” Mozafter-Ed-Din, Shah of Persia, is something of a horoscope caster himeelf. He was born at 5 a. m. on March 25, 1853, a year governed by the sun. March 2% is comprised in the first decan of the con- stellation of the Ram, and is placed un- der the influence of Asiccan, archangel of Mars. The symbol of this day is hiero- glyphically represented by two men, one painfully chopping wood, the other hold- ing a scepter. “The zodlacal sign of this birthday gives an ardent character, con- tempt for dangers, and obstacles, and great highness of mind. mingied with good nature and a high conception of duty,” insists Mozaffer. He is always near to his person. They agree that the vears in which he has the greatest dan- gers to expect sycceed each other by 7 and 9. As he was born-in 1553, they would be the years 1862, 1369, 1878, 1885, 1894 and 1901. His escape from the Parls assassin in 1900 was the oniy belated example, and every serfous attempt against his life has been in one of the years mentioned. The sinister appearance of Mars in the Sev- enth House of his horoscope is a certain indication of death by assassination, while the quadrature of Mars and Mercury de- clares that !t i5 to come about as a result of strange passions. Adding together the equivalent numbers of the Hebrew letters of names, dates and planets, spreading out the sums and forming them into geometrical figures, this incantation was pronounced by a Paris astrologer: *“I conjure and call upon ye, strong and holy angels, good and powerful, in a strong name of Fear and Praise, Jah, Adonia, Elohiem, Sadal, Eie, Asamie, and by the names of the discerning angels governing openly in the Seventh House, before the great angel Teira, and by the name of his seal, which is that of a pow- erful god, T call upon you to reveal this mystery!” Three times the result came out the same—the year 1%1. Is Mozaffer-Ed-Din, therefore, to perish in this year? His Persian astrologers pretend they can not solve the questicn. Do they fear to tell him the truth? If. indeed. his end be so near ancther indication of his horoscope takes on a new importance to ail Europe. According to_the quadrature of the four signs of the Ram, the Crab, the Balance, and the Goat, struggles are to be feared between the four powers respectively in- fluenced by these signs—that is to say. ‘Turkey, England, Russia and Persia. 3( these struggles are to be feared by him they must take place before his death— and consequently in this year. 3 2 h