The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1901, Page 8

[ ] RlexzndraDagmar exandra Dagmar she was born. T is a wonder t , who ar- rever may r box office. 3 ag she was @ Very young career in Lon- n American. is way. She called r. who w Theater, 3 road. Sanger at s run- West- first was an- e asked her. se 2 she replied r Wilkins saying that X Richard 1IT' for me?” s as anything n 1 as 1 please,” he s N ease es she acquiesced. B £ made their appear- hast. There in erself: England of the ess, Miss Grant first time she had ever heard s an American or as Miss he manager knew me to America and here , the favorite £ of the whole matter. is Denmark and that real name, and lesire to be accredited w e or any other race. s s e boards ever since she was a mite of a girl. This part of her she got over be- before she realized -agented as “‘stun- g and. “splendid™ here is 8o much of her lary § proportion. was so tall that woman’s part. She start- r der the management Thorne “Peter Wil- omime presented. Ja- s the fairy queen, and k on and off the stage until the second girl's pectedly Dagmar then, and she st g as sec £irl led to her road company which was ditions of pieces, he won her pantomime n she took to the concert 3 the vaudeville. udeville queen. mes her every season in its has now come to know. he “variety theater.” to its favorites, will her as the prince in “Cin- part she made ‘her first ¥ with a “swashing ide” she is said over no equal, and she has been play the boy in pantomime ice we saw her here s been app Forty Thieves” and And London consid- ish possession that 1l you to-day that she d another to latest recruit to vaudeville said believed Louise Thorndyke of Dion, and the cr s Dion will turn in his lizes that she has steppe » vaudeville boards. He lived ched upon the legi ma ved t e himself pointed out as € nusband of the American woman who (. And now vaude- ifor, as usual found that there is not enongh in Jooking like Bernharit. For the mutter of that, she never saw any re- nce herself. However, if the pub- s was quite willing to trade on at the resemblance has in ed. She is still willowy, ways the great bond be- Mrs. Boucicault Las the traditicnal Cleobatra curves—the serpent gracz that has ever been attributed to thet lady of the Nile Another likeness is in the yellow mane whick Mrs. Beucicault wears in a frowze very like that of the French actress. Their eyes, too, are similar in pale color and quickly shifting expression. The last time that San Francisco saw her she was playing wizh the Miller com- pany in its first famous summer season here. She made no great name for her- self then by her acting, but she twined throuzh several weeks in the yeilow sat- ins and turquoige velvets which she af- fects, to the d=light of all eyes. She comes to the Orpheum now with a tketch by Augustus Thamas. It is called “A Proper Tmpropriety.” Her support consists of Herbert Pattee and Nellie Mayer. e Bilda Seens. N Eastern beauty is coming to the coast to try her luck against the California beauties who have only heard of her. New York says that Hilda Spon; {s more than pretty— in fact, that she i¥ the real thing, but San Francisco, you know, has always judged for herself. Moreover, we have lots of beauties of our own. What is still more, we are very well satisfied with them. California has always considered that she had beauties enough for home con- gumption and for considerable export be- sides. She doesn't need to import. So Sastern beauty comes here it is not to a particularly warm reception. She has to make her welcome for herself after her arrival. Hilda Spong is the leading woman of Daniel Frohman’s stock company and she comes to us as the hergine of “Lady Huntworth's Experiment.” She is play- ing the part.of Caroline Rayward, the noblewoman who poses as a cook. Play and player together have made a success of it this past season. Nobody could attribute the success to either one or the other; they are, as al- ways, dependent one upon the other, and the interdependence in this case has work- ed to a lucky end. Miss Spong has had a varied “assort- ment of trainings. She has played all kinds of parts in Australia, New Zealand and England. She has been comic and tragic and everything in between, and her playwrights haie ranged from Shakespeare to Pinero. She is the most amiable person, raising no objection to being either Rosalind, Julict or Imogen Parrott, which she was in the original production of “Trelawney of the Wells.” She objects to being called “‘one of Dan's beauties.”” - You never knew a beauty who dign’t.want to impress you with the idea that she was all brain, just as the clever women long to be deemed beauties. New York has said that Miss Spong is plenty of both. It is up to San Francisco to in- dorse or veto as she will, LOVISE THORNDYKE BOVUC ICAULT Gremey _7 Q@ EITH DAGMAR \ g1 -