The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1902, Page 22

[] () N FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1902. FLORENCE ROBERTS TALKS ABOUT HER | NEW PRODUCTIONS | LORENCE ROBERTS an ex- v busy woman these days. with rehearsals, dressmakers ning new productions fcr her forthcoming season at the Al- cazar every minute of her time is taken up Miss Roberts is in love with her profes- sion. She is a deep student and an inde- fatigable worker. The thoroughness of Yer productio and judgment that she has to the lot of is he uses. Despite the fact the trying duties that fall a2 successful artist, Miss Roberts is in splendid health. She looks forward with pleasure to to-morrow might, when she will greet the audience that attends the opening of her fifth sea- son in San Francisco. Miss Roberts has surrounded herself with all evidence of refinement. Her apartments filied with ornaments she has gathered in T travels, and volumes of old plays and books of the present day fill the bookcases. It is here she spends her hours in studying the roles that have won her fame in her profession. Five years ago Miss Roberts opened at the Aleazar with her husband, Louis Mor- rison, but for fourseasons she has starred alone, with White Whittlesey as leading man. On Monday night Miss Roberts opens in “Zaza,” a play that David Belasco wrote for Mrs. Leslie Carter. Compari- sons are odious, but, nevertheless, those who attend the performance given by Miss Robe: d her company will surely judge her g by the artistic work of the creator of the role. “ *Zaza Miss Roberts enthusi- sstically, derful play. The lead- ing role gives one the opportunity to ex- press every human emotion. It is a play Makes, Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth is “coaxed back” by Anita Cream. pplied at night and removed in ne mornin§, thus imparting the full benefits of its medicinal nature. Re- moves Tan, Freckles, Muddiness, Pimples, Moth and Liver Spots, Directions with each jar. 50c of druggists or of us, prepaid. ANITA CREAM & TOILET COMPAN' Los Angeles, Cal. \ is evidence of the care | that is very broad, and if interpreted too | closely is apt to shock the refined sensi- | | bilities of your audience. I have found | that theater-goers of San Francisco are | not in favor of plays that are—what shall | we say—too broad. Had I played ‘Sapho’ as it was produced in New York it could | never have gone nine weeks in this city. 1f I remember rightly, a play called “The Turtle’ was produced at a local play-~ kouse just one night and was cried down, and vet the very same production enjoyed | 2 two years’ run in New York. “My interpretation of ‘Zaza’' is some- "hat different from that of Mrs. Carter. Of course we are of different tempera- ments. My presentation of the role is not as broad. Those who have seen our pro- | duction are very much pleased, and I trust theater-goers of this city will take | the same view. * “Zaza’' is a most difficult role to play. ;The wear and tear on my gowns, voice and physique have been very great. I am now having the third set of gowns made for the part. I have regained my volce | and my general health is improved.” Miss Roberts is very much in love with ‘San Francisco. She thinks it a wonder- ful city and its people pleasure loving. She is surprised that a city of its sige | can support so many theaters and even more surprised that they patronize the opera throughout the vear. ‘She says no other city in the Union compares with San Francisco in the matter of taste for the higher class of productions. “What city would patronize Shakes- pearean plays?” she said. “In all the East the old comedies do not draw at all. Dur- ing my last season ‘The Taming of the Shrew,” ‘Romeo and Juliet' and “The Schbol for Scandal’ were my greatest successes. This yedr I intend producing ‘As You Like It Heretofore I have re- | frained from playing Rosalind because of my size, but I intend to throw height to the winds and essay the role. Mr. Whit- tlesey and I are familiar with the play and take to the legitimate with ease be. cause of the experience we gained in plays of that kind while with Mr. Morri- son. “‘Among the new plays I intend appear- ing in this season 18 one by Franklin Fyles, critic on the New York Sun and collaborator with David Belasco in ‘The |Girl I Left Behind Me.’ It {is called i‘Druse Wayne' and is a problem play. Another play I will appear in is from {the pen of Steele Mackaye. It has not | been named as yet. I also intend produc- ing ‘Miss Pendragon,’ one of the best things that Miss Charlotte Thompson has done. It was to have been a sequel to | "Silver Mounted Harness,’ but we decided against the plan.” Miss Roberts expresses regret that Mr. Morrison would not be here. She said this will be the first time he has been absent from the city during her season. In White Whittlesey Miss Roberts has a leading man of ability. He not only can act, but he has magneti®m. Coupled with these requisites Mr. Whittlesey has a stage presence. He is tall and symmetri- | cally built. His volce is well modulated f and he delivers his lines with grace and | perfect enunciation. Mr. Whittlesey has | acted as leading man for Miss Roberts for | many years. He has played roles of every | character and has won the approval of | the severest critics. He is Vvery popular with the theater-goers of this city and surely will be accorded a warm welcome to-night when he makes his appearance on the Alcazar stage. He plays the part H of Bernard Dufrene. 3 A recent report shows that 259 Chris- tians were murdered in 1901 by the Turks, I= only sixty-one cages were the murder- ers punished, and then with not more than four years' imprisonment. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SENDAY .Sy Publication Office A CPRIVATE INQUIRTY. HEN the revelations concerning the management of San Quentin were made, it was at’ once obvious that a duty was imposed upon the Prison Directors. While there was some appearance of flinching on the part of that body, its conclusion apparently was reached and agnounced by the president, Mr. Fitzgerald, to the effect that an absent member would :eturn on the 6th instant, and then the beard would proceed with-an investigation. We noted then the use that accused officers might make of this delay, but accepted it as inevitable, and the people waited for the action of the Directors. We are not informed whether the absent Director returned or not, but there is'no sign of any preparation for action. Meantime the Governor of the State has entered upon a private inquiry, behind closed doors at the prison., s The public records which belong in the State offices at Sacramento, and*from which they are not to be removed except by the order of a court, have been removed «nd taken to the prison for the use of the Governor in his private inquiry, and citizens of the State, who have the right of access to those records in the place of their legal custody, find that right suspended and therefore denied. If the Governor have the right to remove one record from one office, he has the right to remove all records from all offices; and if he can take one record to any place that suits him, he can take them all—to Los Angeles, for instance. 1f e can so remove one record and hold it during his pleasure, he can remove and keep all records, which implies his power to remove the capital for executive purposes to any place that he may choose. So much for the method chosen by the Governor te facilitate his private inquiry into these irregularities. That inquiry is purely ex parte. The people and their representatives are denied access to it, and have no part in it. The Prison Directors are the representatives of the people in prison management, and are responsible to the people. - The Directors are not present at the Governor's secret inquiry, and have no information concerning it. What will be their position if the Governor report that the management is virgin and un- stained? He hds announced that the revelations, which he is investigating privately, affect him in his official and personal character so seriously that he proposes to resort to the civil and crim- inal law to punish those who are responsible for them. Under these circumstances is he the proper_person to make such an ex parte inquiry, and report upon a case which he makes his own? The Governor is human, and he is also Governor. "Would it not occur to any other man in his place that a vindicatory report upon himseli, rendered by himself, after an ex parte investigation of himself by himself,- will not vindicate him? The people see this distinctly. They see also the peculiar position in which this proceeding places the Prison Directors, and they see also that the Governor’s strange action, whether so intended by him or not, has the direct effect of preventing a public investigation, or of so limiting it as to make it worthless. The Governor’s organs charge with great freedom, vituperation and recklessness that The Call has an entirely personal mative in making these revelations. This charge has no foundation. We have nc more personal motive than we had in exposing the acts of the ring which was manip- ulating the jute bag business of the prison a few years ago. That manipulation was an abuse of which the farmers of the State were the victims. We proved our case, and it is not forgotten that a manipulatos in the interest of that ring, who did the work inside the prison, finally took flight and his place of refuge has not been disclosed to' this day. The matter had been proven already, and his flight was simply a confession. Our metive~then was not personal, nor is it now. 1f the reve- lations affect the Governor so seriously as he declares they do in his signed statement in the Ex- aminer, that is his misfortune, but not our fault. 2 The people want the prison management kept straight, and a newspaper neglects its duty if it conceal crookedness of which it has knowiedge. We believe the evidenceavhich we have secured and published, and other evidence in our possession which awaits publication. The matters which the Governor is investigating behind the door have been submitted by us to public judgment. His very investigation is an admission of the importance which he concedes to them. It would he a far more becorhing act en liis part to let otliers investigate publicly, so that the people may know what is done. We are not afraid of the people. Why should he be? It is interesting to observe that while his organs charge us with a personal motive, he and they make no other reply in an entirely public matter than a personal attack upon those who have made it public. If there are any men in the State whom the Governor can trust and who will have the con- fidence of the people, we venture to advise that he leave to them an investigation and report, after an inquiry that is neither secret, nor ex parte, and that does not require a removal of public rec- ords from the place of their legal deposit and custody. The Governor has publicly announced that he is the accused party, therefore in an investigation his pleading puts himself on trial, and in such trial he has constituted himself judge, jury, prosecutor, attorney for the defense, and witness. If any think that such a trial will settie anything, then who so thinks, thinks vainly. VOLUNTARY INSANITDY. MAN in Berkeley killed a friend and neighbor who entered his house to protect :\1 daugh- ter against his abuse. On his trial the plea of insanity, due to alcoholism, was entered, and the jury found him insane and therefore irresponsible at the moment of the homicide. We believe the plea of temporary insanity at the moment of a homicide was first made successfully on the trial of Daniel E. Sickles for the kiliing of Key. Since then that plea has become common, but its validity has consisted in the cause of the temporary aberration being beyond the control of the person affected. In this view it will be seen that the plea of the Berke. ley man differed from any that had preceded it. His temporary insanity was ascribed to the use of alcohol, but that use was voluntiry. It had no origin exterior to himself and over which he had no control. During his confinement in jail he was not permitted to use liquor, and this forced abstention has continued during his confinement in the asylum for the insane. He now declares himself of sound mind and proposes to ask the courts to set him free{ Is not his case one of vol- untary insanity? If, on being freed from the asylum, he again take to drink, being sane at the time he does so, and as a result he again become insane and kill some one else, will it not be clearly a case of voluntary insanity? If so, if he deliberately, while sane, indulge.in that which will make him insane, and if while insane he commit a crime, is it just to society to acquit him on the plea of insanity? At the time he begins the indulgence that leads to insanity and crime, being sane, he is morally respon- sible. Then why is he not morally and legally responsible for all that follows? Surely the question raised is one of great importance and should engage the attention of courts and of lawyers skilled in medical jurisprudence, as well as of the expert alienists. Central America must be unstable territory. With Senator Hanna proving that Nicaragua and Costa Rica are red hot with lava and ashes, and Senator Morgan countering with evidence that Colombia is subject to earthquakes that make the land look like breakers on the Columbia River bar, and to riots that equal those in the Austrian Parliament, it looks as if the world’s com- merce will have to cross the isthmus in flying machines. It will be well for English newspapers to omit talk about the “surrender of Boer com- mandoes.” The Boers do not surrender, They have made a treaty and are keeping it. To lay down their arms is no more a surrender to the British than like action by Kitchener’s forces is a surrender to De Wet. Miss Helen Gould is a credit to her country. She never appears in public except to do something worthy, or receive credit that she has well earned. The University of New York has just made her a Master of Letters, while the students approved by singing “For She’s a Jolly Fellow,” and she is. i N R T T / 1f it be true that Edward VII is responsible for the liberal terms given the Boers, and for the refusal to visit upon them the least humiliation, then his reign begins with evidence of states- manship that promises well for his empire, and the Boer cheers for their new King are justified. The opposition to Mr. Morgan’s Atlantic steamship trust seems to fear that he may be able to fence in that ocean, treat it as a mare clausum, and punish all intruders for trespass. Frii L A R Can it be true that the practice of the law in San Francisco is so spectacular that it is merely a preparation for a theatrical career? Adcress Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager MR JUNE 8, 1902 .. Market and Third S. F. LOADS OF PRESENTS | AWAIT RETURN OF MISS PEARL LANDERS | Wb t)\G[Rb ever received more good wishes than has Miss Pearl Land- ers since her engagement to Harry Scott was announced a few days ago. Loads of dainty presents and many devoted girl friends await her re- turn to the city. Meanwhile, many love thoughts travel down to the new bride- elect at Burlingame, where she is the guest of Mrs. Henry T. Scott, mother of | her flance. Miss Landers would have re- | turned ere this but for a sprained liga- ment which rendered it advisable to re- main in the country until she could get about comfortably. No debutante of last winter was more beloved than Pearl Landers. So constant- ly was she entertained that her popular- ity became a topic for dawing-rooms and the best conclusion reached was that her gentle, loving personality and sympathet- ic thoughtf lness for others won her best friends. | Nearly every debutante finds the ardor | of her coming-out season dampened by cold blankets of ertticism, and, with all | eves upon her, becomes too nerveus to have a genuinely good time and looks back longingly to the season past when she went informally to parties and danced like mad, having “the time of her life.” But Miss Landers has had nothing to re- gret from the first. Then to make things | more interesting Prince Charming appears and life takes on a roseate hue. As Miss Langers is still in her teens and the groom ct but 22, it will be some time before wedding bells are sounded. . e e Dr. Genthe has almost forsaken soclety of late ang all because he has taken up horseback riding again. Riding was his favorite pastime while living abroad and he has renewed it with a zest born of fondness for a new horse in particular. He never misses a day. However, the en- thusiast is a splendia horseman and rides well. The girls agree that he looks espe- clally distingue in his riding things. I understand, too, that Dr. Genthe bids fair to turn into a full-fledged Jap as Mr. Henry P. Bowie has done, for he is learn- ing the language and is a connoisseur of Japanese art, having coliected a great many pictures, prints and embroideries. ¢ o > Miss Anglin arrives to-day and will play here but three weeks before returning to New York to fill an engagement as lead- ing lady with John Drew. If Miss Anglin is to be as eagerly sought after as usual by those of the Burlingame set who en- Joy clever people, she will have little time to spare. I belleve the Casserlys arc among her warmest friends. Miss Anglin has arranged to tuck herself away in a flat while here. This is the way she lves when in New York. Edith Huntington called upon her while East and returned with a glowing déscription of her apart- ments, in fact pronouncing them among the most artistic she ever saw. « s e This reminds us that Miss Huntington is very artistic herself. She adds a bow, collar or belt to her tojlette with a Frenchy air more éffective than a gown- maker's. Miss Huntington’s ‘‘den,” too, is strikingly artlstic. There is a quiet elegance about evérything in the room and many original touches. While in New York City Miss Huntington picked up a numbeér of the oddest flat-looking lan- terns, which shed soft red and green lights in the “de.n.“ aiva The girls who went up to Santa Rosa for Dottle Amés' wedding to Sam Pond say that she was a picture in her bridal gown of white chiffon over peau de sofe with point lace. The bride is a decided brunette, pretty, stylish and graceful. Perhaps her chijet charm {s her frankness. Her manners are natural, simple and unaffected. As an artist sald of her recently: *She is not of the ready-made sort.” W e At Alice Masten's wedd esterd:; the conspicueus absence of :nlffl:u bawae!r' seemed ah agreeable novelty. Ome end of the drawing-room was banked in with pink larkspur and follage, and this was a pleasing background for the wedding party. The home of the bride's siste Mrs. Willlam F. Perkins, is entirely ne and the wedding was its first scene festivity. When M. K. Masten died he left each of his several children money with which to bufld a home. Alice, the jnew Mrs. Spencer, was the last to build. Her residence on Vallefo street, near Steiner, is nelri:\s completion, . A _week or ten days more will find Mrs. L. H. Bryan clesing her residence to go to Highland Springs for six weeks with her three children and mother, Mrs. Fel- ton, who is expected from Mazatlan, Mex- ico. Was there ever a more deveted mother than Mrs. Bryan? She has such a gcod time taking her out that the gayest .“grown up” social function seems to pale in comparison, despite her popularity. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Bry’n took a large party of children to lnee “The Toymaker,” and on Wednesday she gives a Chuc.u party for her son. ~ Lt i Miss Jennie Adelaide Crocker has ar- CHARMING YOUNG AND BELLE WHOSE EN- GAGEMENT 1S ANNOUNCED. BRIDE | 5 | rived from the East In Ler private car | accompanied by Charles Templeton Crock- | er, and dropped off at Burlingame. This | petite heiress attracts no end of admir- | ation going about in her private car, and although she is but 16, every season will swell her list of applicants for the posi- tion of social representative. She asserts with girlish frankness she will not be long in marrying when she becomes of ags } and it would not be surprising if she acted | with the same impulsiveness. A | Miss Genevieve Peters, the Stockton | heiress, has returned home after spending | a little time in the city entertaining Miss Barbara, who Is one of the celebrated beauties of Kentucky. Miss Peters, too, has many claims to beauty. She is a brunette with remarkable eyes and a splendid figure. She Is very clever, too. As both young ladies are young and, incidentally have stunning bank accounts thé men are quite excusable for losing their heads completely. SALLY SHARP. Cal. glacs fruit 50c per !b at Townsend's* * Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* f Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c & pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present_for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. . f Special information supplied dally to business houses and public by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call, fornia street. 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