The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1903, Page 12

OT all the humor and pathos of stage life is contained in the pla enacted by the actors themselve Lillian Burkhart, the clever little actrcss who ope three weeks’ sement at the Orpheum this after- roon, arrates an ' experience with site society that contains much of both. It was startling to the least. “During my last engagement sco,” st “I was given a siriking proof the actress may rever forget her art in soclal pleasures. 1 recited at a gnefit tor the Women's I, given by the ultra-fashionabies 10us maple room of the Palace As 1 was leaving, one of the pat- scs rustled to my side, exclaiming: My dear Miss Burkhart, I have seen ) titile of you this m 1 do so t to know Won't you me to-morrow after- s a g po- in San “‘Oh, wnarever shall I do to entertain my guesfs. I suppose I shall have to Te a magician.’ Without a word I hung up the re- ceiver and when I came to I thanked the kind fate which had prevented my meet- ing ‘a few friends socially and very in- formally.’ But the secret of the actress' pe: charm for the public is naively revea by Maude Odell, the famous romantic actress. who is filling a limited starring engagement at the Grand Opera-house this week in “Under the Red Robe,” anl who will be seen to-morrow night as the heroine of “The Countess Valeska.” “An actress,” she says, “should put thought into the dressing of the part, but generally she does not, and it tco often happens that there is no one to do her thinking for her. I have seen some of the cleverest of acting injured by clothes mnot suitable to the part, cos- tumes upon which money #nd time had been expended, but which did not show of their own. Every woman likes to look the same at thirty that she did at twenty. To do this, iet her find a becoming y of dressing her hair, and let her alw dress it that way. 5 “It creates the individuality, and if you haven't seen that woman for five or ten years you invariably will say: ‘My dear, you haven't grown a day older than when I saw vou last. You look just the same.’ And that woman will look t same until she dies or her hair falls out. /At the same time I do not believe that in this effort toward Individuality one should lay herself open to a charge of eccentricity. As there is a line between genius and insanity, so there is a line between the striking and the eccentric. “To be graceful one should never let the feet show. The character of a stage adventuress which I have so often play- ed is emphasized as much in the dress as in the acting. The feet are kept in sight. The dress, sweeping and swishing across the stage, reflects the mind of a woman Fatal Wedding,” which has just ciosed an engagement at the California Theater, is one of the most striking. The scenes are laid in New York City and treat of the machinatiors of an ad- venturess who separates a husband from his wite and children, in order to win him for her own. In this she is aided by a lover who, for a consideration of $20,000. places the wife in a compromising situa tion, who being discovered the hus. band is divorced. The adventuress i frustrated in her scheme to marry this man through the efforts of g little child. who overhears a conversation between the woman and her lover. On the very day of the marriage, this child brings her mother to the church and as the knot I about to be tied she stops the ceremony. Her husband is shown the proof of her innocence, the ba:led woman, who hal hoped to be his wife, drinks poison, and & reconciliation follows between the divore- s socially and ed couple. Again in contradistinction from this type of play, but one in which, however. heroine will have her despite that may 1d by her stern old father is “Sowing the Wind,” which will be seen at the Alcazar Theater to-me row night. It love story wherein the questic redity makes .some tense It is one of the may tiller and Viola Alien played here. any conception of the ideas the part de- manded when dressed for the stage. \glements. The “When my friends ask me how to gress ysed. But the next I irnvariably tell them to create an in- npelled suddenly to chang dividuality. Good dressers have a mind and extra reh sals ne i- yreaking the engagement my apologies gri r the telephone and was re- t with a sigh of dismay and who is planning to sweep all before her. 1 have known of instances where a short dress has maimed a part. And of all’'the startling plays that show the adventuress type in her variety, “The yself on the t to be re Q — IAVOE OJDELL AT THE GRAND OPERR HOUSE ///g/sflf OpELL CLEoPATRA" CLINAK OF THz FRTAL WEDDING AT THE (HLIFORNIA WIZLLIAM GILLETTE IN THE WEIRG GRS CHRMBER “CENE in JHERLOG /4 ;(, “/[J' 24 THE LRI CERLIT, “THE fCESURRBECTION . AT THE KEFPUBZLIC | N “The Resurrecton.” which w cott's offering the se whi the Theat: e has sior m TE-T G % play of Russian life as 2 double d g I { 3 . 21 : o0y s . magnetic as any p! . 4 fect, but in almc ry w tzation of the famo: ount I was published serially in which for sime unexplained when’ but half ¢ such a sensatiol simuitaneous! n in fact the big cit! < to see is a duplicate of the as now being given in Nes The story of t play for a peasant giri wh rather than marrv him as he wishes of the theme rather strength lles. Those who have seen it s emot‘cnal and in many places intensel that the book will be widely after Miss Trescctt presents her pi ew we William ond wee morrow that Is as that has y entirely Hoimes rrow night Ze1 L LIAN [BURKNALR, AT THE OFPHELI . LILLIAN IBURKHART . oN , - AT THE FLCAZAL.