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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY., APRIL 26. 1903. WITH THFPLAYERS ~~o TIF. MU§K TOLK_ | ; ¥/ PLANCHE PARTINGTON. ITH 1 Halmes come but of Miss Olive Mead the il Paur, c and 29 chestra (Wilhe Cambridge, Januar a Ric € | Bact e Ma ! b Henry 1 a . | rocked be in two places wanst,” a An event fi B S wever, W pressure Grau to scher | A co will 2 | .the new y s t to the this week in “T maker Toymaker" itse | mu be owned rather 2 of ngs that go « but Annie My | has been m | | forces, that rather lacking ceptionally well, ] soubrettes that stage. il i ‘; THE COST OF NAPOLEON'S | BAD HANDWRITIN | His Doubtful Penmanship Blame for Some of His Defects. | Napoleon, accord & to Alexande h battles as he ich a flendish har 10t read his notes and mas, lost ause he wr | generals cov ters, and the trembling marsha of disobe striving to | indecipherable commands, loitered, w dered and did not come up to ti or not right scrat . 0. wag lost. Ca | handing around Nap sanguinary Sunday? marsha to his ald word Gembloux or Wavre? Is this B | eror Bulow?" s ed up for it s ma | none g ) conjecture. S e T S € G NS T T e TR G e R s SRR - T i T T TR S T R D | ¥R R R S R SN R SR ——% andygenter D'Erion d N oy Eod incomfortable and & o vere packed i neat EDWARD ‘WEBB, THE comsmgn OF THE TIVOLI OPERA COMPHNY TALKS OF HIS ART AND FELLOW ARTISTS. | =ity s v stes & wan ver - rody £ s Bt AR NS TG ooy TSRS e SR Tt — —_— - e — apoleon may never b > r home with me £ g X of these clrcumstar His old w mow otk men k me the way Leen or expect to be,” be instantly’ re- am an actor. After all these years 1 have son on the tendency of the modern drama or 'hes€ cireumsta & » he eh to Lk as only a kid then, plied. ' “I was just wondering the other eried. at last a chance, and I want to show the which is well worth reading Nobody dared to Si t p y like m in tow and b y what I could do if I lost my work at “*Irish; and partly French Jew public that Mr. Belasco was not mistaken .. the nlace where, of r 3 . 5 ¢ e A : me h e mile 3 ad my Tivoli—what I could do to remain Webb's authoritv, not mine. “‘But in me. 1 know that it will be a diffleuit |, "0ro inveed to take pieasure in p @ two thick strokes m rw efor It seems com But I'm happler at the Tivoll thuan Gilbert anc llivans are the true c thing ‘m hv"u( .:.v,;:.\- : i)mxe Il“:“aAc';‘«;;“‘"' nessing the writhing farked S itel - ' r 2 big sta hos 1 Ve change the bills o i eer. t is always hard to leave s ac N 4 ! 1 be i 4 ; w, 1 a big star in t I v cen ch ang :!. »‘”| ras, splendid stuff, ‘The Mikado, s Sl thfl{_fi the people, but this the tumid., explosive 1 was peppery; the great man wo » e e Apst: Diten Suouhs¢eRbne B HERN: s » I dpubt e Ene must be dore before 1 fall into a rut.” A woman with swo torn off his interrogator’s epa : » ge ger cam ) We have had me Carmens you get a bad part you don't have to.ive ror would in_England now g Btk ks i eied hair is scized with spasms of eroto- danced upon them. Did he n e dra Vet . ‘How did 1th it for four y etimes hen- greeted ti g t Shia - e 2nd \ How did you i with it f F four onls Bl o ).nPul']“:I‘"j Henrietta Crosman will be the first of Mania or violent grief. She grovels at a his pistol to shoot a little ¢ ark tonis i , or b eave atcale 1 ey e Cons the independent uttractions to appear in FIAN'S feet, or hugs him to her Dbreast ed at his herse? And when pis B BAR LIS kg o Do il mic just as they =B Stair & Havlin's houses at first-ciass ke @ wild beast. And wh he actress missed fire the great s e . # et 3 Sy T A Where it mattereth not whether you SRE G Al pens for a week has thus lowed and and the dog and did not hit but—well-I was trying ve voice, brain or heart, so long as you and Opera-house in Kansas City Panted, has almost worked for my father and at the G into dog retreated with the horrors of war grew 2 e a figure,” I rejoined, then t to-day, ana the synflests Dhreatuts 4 the. setil ) f the frenz de- says a writer in Longman's Ma impersonation hat ve since had the ple quet to this admirably cleve put thelr strongest attraction against her Picts, the pit s’ at he Such was the temper of Na - E h hampereq Ure of doing > mopey was useful.” ,median: “You are lucky in havin g e ey lery cheers until it is hoarse. we know what Marlbe : Sie RElows L I thought. ) ce Mr. Webt e g be-ali and end-all * * * is hysteric the e e - 2 of Then aloud, “When aid you come over?” ‘jy caught it and bowed and I added; Stuart Robson, next to Joseph Jeftersori, {remzy. * * * e aid—and I could ask Bonaparte to writ a ‘pink tea “I came in 'S5, with Carte’s “We also are lucky 'In having a comedlan is the oldest actor on the stage of America @8ree With him—the alm of all art, even hand, so his generals lived a 1if. h Opera Compan, comedian yho can sing.” to-day, and at 67 is formulating plans for ©f the most poignant tragedy. is joy. But jecture as to his meaning and W ned, Tas understudy for - George Modestly proud, then, he said: “I used the creation of new comedy characters fOF all this I belteve (he theater is stead- Was not a success, Thorne in ‘Roko.’ There were pald un- to warble a pretty enough little tempr. with which he hopes to entertain his fol- 1y improving. Erotié plays, are not so knew why. Of all 4 I owned derstudies for every part, by the WaY. I was.the tenor at Trinity Church, New lowing for a decade to come, The first POPUlar as thev once were, and the pub- ries of his failure at bb The company English, except the york, by the way. And, I must tell you, Of these to be shown next season will be i€ IS turning to the best that there is in writing was not ome k back « ed There Yum-Yum, Geraldine Ullmer—she came 0 ' that the part of Ensign Toddles in a dramatization of Charles Dana Gibson's drama # nation had urred t tenors like Mr. Tennery—as he jeurer being Lady Sulllvan than any one ‘Ship Ahoy' whs written for me,” and Sketches in “Life,” entitled “The Educa- o o would certainly have bla I mean, for this was his first yetore or gince, by the way.” Brother Webb even looked a little tion of Mr. Pipp” made ready for the _Henry W.Savage sailed for Europe iast and paper. Those of o, o el wter e ot M S R Y Baiivan e e BROSE Wb v looked e [ L ML L e pisk, The impresero il vt Ml to Ragenwere vers pus ery good thing of singing at YRRt Q0. 7ou Hke' best: mitar belOE A L Senverin TS Taming of Helen,” OMra, “Madame: Butterfly.” M S om: L “;rh,!.h.l"n‘”"r : n teas. But I hear that he did ? has evidently hit the public's fancy, I8 anxious to hear the newest we . "j| very good work with the Castle Square for large audicnces are the rule'at the Aauthor of “La Boheme” and ; 5 T gl il ooty Opera Company, and we all liked him New York Savoy, and everybody secmy 98 s taking an S00-mile trib (0 see ore reiee b nn i you. hnd here down to the ground. He was gentla- delighted with the Richard Harding Davis Performance. A contract for the ' itimore Ameériean an then asked. nd scarce delight of be- the Savoy?' Oh yes, but he didn’t dare to say much Gilbert was by. Talk about the German Emperor when Glibert wi aronn mder a w you mean? Oh, the cam and cat -he could take'a very back seat. = wap, you're sending an exhibit to the . and - sontthey . tenll - bt t Gilbert couldn’t resist taking It ‘out of gog and cat show this week?’ as 1 rose . . N . s in prospect, alno ————————— - Rifpeg 0 Sy W DN eyt er oty hen . vt che U5k i s ety W ke S B P M S o The Girl We Like Best. ’ “You knew De Lussan's earlier Car- ¢hance. I've told it before, but it will go “Well, as 1 rescued one of mine from " # e e the Castle Square Opera Compa She i the girl whose head has not be . the opening night and | = men?’ 1 reverted again, _n[ how he treated Ratcliffe, one of 4 boy who was just going to drown it Mrs. Leslie Carter has scored the great ———— turned by her own good looks. » ' _JUnshue Tt R “I sang with her at the Metropol'tan' M= oldest cingers. Ratcliffe wanted o and picked the other out of the EULtET, ot reinmuh of her chreenin wDu Borc: Singular Marriage Custom Who does not consider herself an of Wales then—patted me Opera-house in New York, both in ‘Car- Make a suggestion of some sort and be- I think not, Webb laughingly ended. and the Chicago press and public unite in When two Negrit 2 i thority on every subject d after it was over.” men’ and ‘The Bobemian Girl,’ just beiore an, ‘I think I've been with you long Surine biat Ber ALt Mak paves bates o O Tl e & DROMSR0L (he' Wiy iy 08 he DRIE 4 36 Ba Saetas t Covent Garden? I came here, two and a half years ago,” enough, Mr. Gilbert—' Gilbert flashed P|a d ACfOPS to stch deeided fidvam“' Philippine Is . are united the whole hurting others by her clever Serenem er Majesty's Theater,” then Mr. Webb replied. “But I liked her always in immedlately, ‘You have, Mr. Rateliffe; ys an . Antage. tribe is assembled and the afflanced pair = Who has some better occupation t t ed into another royal remem- best in ‘The Daughter of the Regiment.’ you may go! J. H. Stoddart, the well known actor, climb two trees growing near to each 9 chatter slang and read decadent nove bras don’t know the erypts and Ehe is superb in that. I was much disap- “That probably had té do with W. S. David Warfield {n an interview say: starring in “The Bonnle Brier Bush,' js Other. The elders then bend the branches WHO is not eternally regulating her a |‘..§‘ an ngs under that theater, do inted that we did not give it here with G. not being knighted like his agreeable have had a varied experience. I have ap- more than pleased with the sale of his until the heads of the couple meet Wh ““ duct by what “people say. ek e her.” . 5 < OO T ;2 peared in vaudeville, comic opéra, melo- ' hook, which was recently published by the the heads have thus come into M““‘” ~ Who Is not suspicious that everybod fbok: s Tt e mli;v‘;“;}:h:#u‘_{lkfi ::fi:;?enh;ex:? anyw 1o Most certainly,” Webb rejolned. “Sul- drama and other things. Iam very ambi- Century Company. A second edition will the marriage is lezally accompiiar ) and M(‘Lf’lz"",’"“ her feelings Wales, got lost thers on one of the -Cat- ~Better then anywhere they & have over Loon e::.';igf,l right, a fussy little Irish- tious; I want to do better. I don’t care be made in June. great rejolcings take p o does not account it the ce, a fantastic end « » With a monocle that about for ‘the mopey. I want to prove that I Here is something from Joseph Jeffer- dance completing the \\'n;rnun\' g k:nll)'l Ah:;n(m"g" Puiere sk aadee 3 d a ee