The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1904, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUI Shy, flushed, ut a hand to worg trembled. go sce Henry Miller's new ¥ a chal fof the week, i r " But ap I atmosphere of— med to me that eyes sparkled usly, t e that bade me t t athless, Cer- the artist’s cross the street mbia’s stage make it out. Could I ily recalled what I had before of the little naturall” “girlish,” things that Miss Micé and Men™ is. she expect? perchapce com- th Pernhardt or Duse? Nay, odest ature. Perhaps atraid of npws- I wondered as I told e in her room un- L Sas & e St. Francls, Within yours, not mine—of ai unpretentious stay if you wish to ng your engage- heater. Miss Busley does thing, there's little to We g~a the small, pink mber, in “Mice ‘and lace is not exactly from the fatly cush- the unpictured brazen, glaring . *h were heaped s I V'e 1 tributes™ of the t before, 1t was hapelessly hotelly. _ es & script of “Mice and | t re was—lovely! | rees > upturhed, rest- | £ ~ f the non-Etruscan s as I live, never a morn- . | ced better when she | £ zred as she | S 3 creature, I es st the gt then, showing ) r little fin- d sting*in a ¥ indicated merves. .| zily Pnrh'.p‘! I |- gre e what to do for 1t?" Oh,” she laughed, | P e Mar- | & be- | she % im- § fat | it o ";»)hm\. o oy =osmes MISS BUSLEY u/l ES Hl I\ E \'” I\’// \(‘FS WITH PLAYS AND PLAYERS. | —— — — — o has brought here more interest demanded it. Then I told her— of the play were discussed! You » good companie the odious comparison notwithstanding heard nothing else. People said she en- d (!pl.,.;u vh-xy M 55 d:: —of .the companies Mr. Miller had couraged the poet—de you think she anghed, sublesly e e Mise Prought here, the 1302 one, for example knew how he felt toward her?” ton and Masgaret —housh E. J. Morgan was missing— “Certainly, and knew that he would % i Isu't it terribly With Lawrence D'Orsay, now starring; be more beautiful as well as useful for S ey William Courtleigh, Charles Gothold, the feeling,” I flippantly settled it. o it owned. Art liott, Mr. and Mrs. Charles There was a little Barrymore talk e § " ' “Can't Walcott, Fred Thorne, Walter Allen, then, and the actress, who knows the 2 you ever-get You : oo _\34:‘; Eustac 3 Mrs. Whiffen, :I;:u-a charming Ethel very well, told me how Mil sa u know how— U n hel Hornick, Lilllan Thur- a ” oy ;v " wphey are all the i to me, Peggy dear’ gate, Dorothy Tennant. Martha Wal- ;:?e?:‘y;"’_id“o;l’:‘“‘,}' :;:L“‘:;;iv ":‘. (‘Miss “Busley, if 'you put your fqot dron, and Miss Anglin, Think of it jo0. WOPFoved. how heau ey pove il - Here it); 'I cannot five And the plays—in fact, Miss Busley, b ipery ;"i U e with t the.deuce is that Mr. Miller has given us the hest in the C . ¢ 10ud’ peda S FUER Canmy - 5 SNt : ley had seen Miss Barrymore first in noise ); ‘come. to my ' market and we haven't forgotten it. . < 5 arms, beloved frilc that “Mice and Men” and i Excellency the Governor’—we = *The *at hands for its cast were quite up to Miller levels? ::f‘x:“‘;':"x :':”:\}(‘:L;:r]";]‘r "_\:‘r:‘m';"“i N the pi quant 1m f the acfing, then re- “I told Mr. Miiler,” his leading lady Her Cousin Kate was, well, w l\';l was it : : Py ke T h:”,""f;,, that he ought 1o PMY not, delighttul? Did Miss Busley think forte . Lovel's part, and I— e Mish Bariy % oo - 5 Tatsoby’ - Dhit just groping in mine yet. We've had S Barrymore thief ehild of New - C. M. pRess . York or Maude Adams? Perhaps Maude > . s sy e e et Adams. She is older and bettér know = rair rd little but a seph Entangled.” “How should you like to play a mew 7,/ “n‘m(le- “h’r-: h‘"ro_ nn.l \:‘:«“n g t after the And you like little cats? g aid h‘o'zkdmlm“;:'”d‘ " the little THEY would go to see Miss Adams in t If they’re funny.” bt S ¥ E - . anything in New York. he % . lady returned. Then she remarked: “I - Someh from “littYe cats got to v . i . . It seems to me,” I said then, “that e 1 ty foundling the frst dct SInk apucH Ithe - Jamemh Ballled.’ o L e e on Lt ie charity foundlings € st ac 5 2 5 . You have a rather uncommon prefer- " of “Mice- and Men.” Seven of them ‘"‘r:‘f““' TOUiIL ek Ik dione RIEre NOW. | hioe Lot IRIHE ARDIEE i RRitolR aths there qualnily. felighttal, and o quite in the hablt of seeing 'han yourself? i ; Paul Gerson, in spite of the jeremiads s heve before'New York.” T haugh- T didn’t notice it,” Miss Busley said nched at the dramatic schools, is ol the: Mav Voikbs Mtk quaint] “What do you want to 5 " trying to teack them to act. . & oe .2 know?" nk again of the unpardor oo AT Busley, we expect to be sending " ¢ 5B R ssicsegs “They are ever so good, don’t you eral plays there shortly, besides all :rh(‘atrl(‘al history and the rest.” I odlake’s «tter,”” I adqq (PIDK?” Miss Busley asked, then tem- good poems, pictures, novels and Sa¥ largely. “Why did you go on the ¥ t e have Aropped it? Ang VOfized: “Perhaps if they knew more battleships and things stage—just had to, no other life, and Mr. Tiden's—hero—wall—" they'd not be so good. And I know “Oh!” said Miss Busley, “leave us ‘N rest of it? < 2 she giggled mischievous! ‘that every something.” No, sir,”” the actress explained. “I had the part foi two answered my shrug- cri o days wonder. that tue actor had not “‘cc nced!” d do you like your part?” I asked then A little doubtfully the little actre nodded: “Yes. It is a very pretty part.”. et T fancy you in something more— soubrettish,” I venture. I think 1 am bnt in something soubrettish, Miss Busley echoed. There was a demure glint In eyes still more convincing than her n assent. hat so bung.” ally, “your Peggy was still eleverer I thought it. Yet T felt you were g things uw. That's what made vous last night?” E m always mervous first nights,” Miss Busley ronfessed. “But last night " afraic for Mr. Tiden, too. If ne up I should have gone up =0, you know. But I am a bundie of roybe because I'm n Rul ‘I'd rather be thin and ner- “Than fat and fascinating,” I offer ceitful antithesis. She nodded in a birdlike way, then suddenly not switched: “You pecple are used to reeing Mr. Miller in the Embury kind of parts?” plied and enlarged further: “We're used to Mr. Miller here first as I pursued magis- one of them gays to herself as I go on, houldn’t T like to show her how to That confidence in oneself is 80 useful—and so fleeting. But what you can do with it! I remember a so- ciety girl who knew abeolutely nothing an hour’s notice in quite a It went off without a hitch. turried a hair. - I'd have had lies” and everything else—" “They don't know what they don’t know,” said her vis-a-vis oracle. “Exactly,” Miss Busley agreed. “Mr. *Miller is rathér a good man fer teach- ing you that.” “So T understand.” © “In fact,” the agtress leaned forwgrd and put up an eager chin to it: “I don’t *know" a better. He has such a really miraculous eye for detail, as well &5 the capacity for seeing the whole effect. You never question his judg- ment, You just lean on it. You say to yourself, ‘when he suggests things, ‘that man knows ewhat he's talking about.’ And be never spares himself. And, agal h.vf is so very generous on the stage. “We know that here,” I told her, and recounted how Mr. \hlkr had pro- duced, for our pleasure, plays without numiser in which he came off hardly even third best as to parts; how we had watched him build up effects for his neighbor ,actors; how we knew if he were found in the ,center of .the stage it was only because the artistic “Then, tell me what you have been doing besides Peggy,” I ordered. *“I saw a picture of you—in tightsl—in ‘The New Clown'.” “Too true,” Miss Busley confessed. “Jessie” is her other name, methinks it-time to tell. “What have I been do- ing? Oh, something of everything. Last season 1 was with Willlam Gil- lette in ‘The Admirable Crichton’—de- ee-lightful thing! Then I was in ‘Lit- ile Mary'—the humor of that is rather too English for American audiences. Oh, T've done a little of everything.” “Do you like the problem play?” “No, sir,”” she said. “I like Shaw, though.” Very respectfully-she asked, then: “Have you had ‘Candida’ here?” I was obliged to own that we hadn’t had ‘Candida’ here, “It has just been done—in New York,” Miss Busley swinkled. “I think i?s charming. Dorothy Donnelly did the Candida—really, she's tremendous- ly good. It is a splendid part, fine, strong, and so many lines that stick, that hold you. Don't you remember where she says to her husband: ‘When there was anything to give—you gave it. When there were bills to pay—I paid them.’ What a story that tells. Fhe man was so -unconsciously selfish.” “Isn’t that the only saving grace of gelfishness?”, “It would be too horrible otherwise,” ghe said simply. “But how the morals went on because I had to earn my own living, and because T could make more money that way than any other. Itisa hard life. If T had not to make my living I doubt if I should ' act. I always feel. so sorry for the poor young things that flutter to the stage. I tell them to go home if they have a home to go to—it's the best place” and ‘very serious were Miss Busley's big, blue cyes. She had been casting restless, hungry looks again at her shoulder, forgetting the sympathy that fronted her. Then she beamed as she suddenly remem- bered, and pinched and patted the hidden rambler into subjection. ‘“When one jtches the greatest hap- piness is to scratch,” T quoted as.Y left her. “Oh, only Socrates, you remember. Vulgar old ruffian, wasn't he?” 4 gt s ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHT THINGS ON THE BOARDS FOR THEATER GOERS The Tivoli’s admirable —its last night to-night, by the way— is responsible for the large expectations entertained concerning “The Toreador,” that opens to-morrow evening. The new piece is by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and was a stunning success in both London and New York. It is difficult with the cast the Tivoli has to give the comedy to imagine any other e + local record for it, but the proof of the pudding— Miss Carrie Reynolds, a new soubrette with a handsome history, will make her debut in the piece. L At the Columbia Henry Miller con- . tinues “Mice and Men.” Miss Jessie Susley, Mr. Miller's new leading lady, has earned considerable favor with the large audiences. “Mice and Men” will be followed next week by “Joseph En- - tangled,” the newest comedy of Henry Arthur Jones, that will be then seen for the first time 4n America. g e 8 The revival of “The Lady of Lyons” at the Alcazar this week will doubtless interest a large number of playgoers. Emphatically old-fashioned as’ it is, this romance seems to be’ perennially attractive, and should furnish Whyte ‘Whittlesey and .Miss FEugenie Thais Lawton—who will be. imported from the Central this week—with a congenlal medium. . Fischer's will be en evidence this week again with a new piece. It is to be hoped that it will duplicate the rec- ord of “A Lucky Stone,” and. as the success of the aforesaid was not less than four-fifths due to the Fischermen and women this is lik: They import 2 new man this week, o Lionel Law- rence, and the former favorite dancer, Flossie Hope, will reappear. B e “Shenandoah,” most famous of mill- tary dramas, will be the bill at the Grand Opera-house this week, with James Neill and his clever company. P Hoyt's “Sergeant James” ‘%ill be done at the Central and will doubtless attract a large audience of fun-lovers to the uptown house. i et e Clit » May and John W. Albaugh Jr., who have maderrecords in New York, will burst upon the Orpheum this aft- ernoon. They bring “A Girl from Kan- as,” by Grant Stewart. Mr. Olopa, a gentleman who from flat-dwelling has come to balancing his piano on his head, Is anothé: novelty. . le e Campbell and Johnson, two membs;s of the famous Zarrow tria of bicyclists, will appear at the Chutes this week. o i s e CHANGES ANNOUNCED AMONG THE PLAYERS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY Josephine Cohan, Four Cohans,” formerly of *“The will 1%y the leading female part in “The Rogers Brothers in Paris” the coming season. Miss Cohan is 2 clever comedienne and an exceptionaily artistic dancer. wOE T e Neva Aymar, t*» comedienne, singer and dancer, who attracted not a little attention with the F;ger Brothers’ Company last season, ’ will play the role of Colin, the principal boy, in Klaw & Erlinger's Drury Lane spec- tacle, “Mother Goose,” the coming season. & .7 One of the most attractive features of Wagenhals & Kemper dramatic spectacle “Salammbo,” in which Fred- erick Warde and Kathryn Kidder will star next season, is said to be the in- cidental music specially composed by Henry K. Hadlév. This music, whizh includes an overture and several ch ruses, is said *o be both impressive and melodious. A. M. Paimer’s all-star cast revival of “The Two Orphara ™ which created a sensation at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York last spring, will begin its tour at tne Colonial Theater in Boston early in Septembe=. An ex- tended route, including the principal cities, has been booked for it. Grace George and Sarah Truax will play the title roles, Louise and Henriette. James O'Neill will play the Chevalier; Louis James, Jaceaes; J. E. Dodson, Pierre; Clara Morris, Sister Genevieve; Elita Proctor Otis, Frochard; Mrs. W. J. Le Moyne, the Countess, and Bijou Fer- nandez, Marianne. Other members of cast are Jameson Lee Finney, %'illiam Beach, Thomas Meighan, Harola How- ard, Harrison Fowler, Edwin Caldwell, Lucy Milliken, Marie Stuart and Ju: tine Cutting. The great scenic equip- ment utilized at the New Amsterdam Theater will be used en tour. . 0+ » Datas, the young English coal heaver, phenomenal for his memory of dates, has ended his six weeks' en- gagement at the New York Theater roof zarden and will sail for London August 2 to begin the fulfiliment of contracts which will occupy his time for fully two, years. . He has made a really remarkable hit in New York, answering correctly and without hesi- tation all questions in reference to dates in the ~history of all nations, lives of noted men, great catastrophes, scientific disceveries, sporting events, battles, shipwrecks, etc., even going back 2000 years. His entertainment is a most interesting one, particularly when one of his audience has evidently come prépared to catch him in lapses of memory. His answers to ‘“fool” questions are always witty. e David Belasco gained yesterday a point in his litigation with Klaw & Er- langer that promises interesting devel- opments. A suit was commenced by David Belasco thréugh his attorneys, ENGTQN ol Vidaver & Josephson, to compel Klaw & Erlanger to account to him for the money tiuey hdd received from the va- rious. theaters throughout the United States for booking “The Heart of Maryland,” Belasco claiming that in receiving such moneys Mesrs. Klaw & Erlanger acted in bad faith tuwa:d him. The appellate division has unan- imously- decided’ that David Belasco need not specify what suis of mor-y Klaw & Erlanger received, but on the contrary Klaw & Erlanger must sub mit to an examination of their books, so that Belasco may ascertain from whem, and in what amounts, Klaw & rlanger - received pay for booking “The Heart of Maryland.” rractically speaking, Belasco has row been ac corded bv .the court the right tc ir vestigate the entire working of what i= -generally termed the Theatrical Syndi- cate, o R Here is a New York pictnr and Rush’s production, ‘Paris b Night,’ on the Yoof of Madisou Squas Garden, New York, claims pr cedsn as the most popular attraction of York's midsummer, and is easily away the best production ever give this famcus am t reso audiences, ;ven when the weather has been threatening. have filled every seat available, while hundreds of persons have been glad to stand the en( userr evening, ~njoying the performance, darinking in the. cool bres t y on th f the zarden when the cit$) 00f ¢ below is sw ering in“neat and humid i e The London correspondent of the D aimatic News has the following in- teres comment upon the recent joint engagement therecpf Mrs. Patrick Campbell and $zrah ~Bernhardt, in Maeterlinck’s “Pelleas and Melisande Maeterlincks play requir culiar style of acting. There no touch of realism and be played so that the whole lost it rical import. Some may hold that this is impossible on the ge; that the play is not a play But you cannot read it with being strucijwith the beautiful sim plicity with which the author h pr d_his allegory of the soul co as a light into an obscure world, where the joy of life has been a stranger. The human soul (Melisande) has wandered forth into the world, and has cast away the crown of spiritualit she is c tured against her will by u ordinary man to whom love is a po session; but the complement of her be- ing is love, pure, idealistic love, and she finds it in Pelleas. The world too dense, however, and Golaud. as its representative, kills the p Pelleas and Melisanc All the hope held out foz the world is that Meli- sande’s chid, half-soul, half-Golaud, will live. It will be better than a joy- less world without love at all. That, at least, is the interpretation which I put on the play, but Maeterlinck is an artist, and his work has the intelligible inexplicity of all art that is worthy of the name. One might as well attempt a logical explanation of the Tristan and of Isolde, of onésjof Watts or_Burne-Jones, of Roditor Gilbert. But as I said at the outset, the play requires the whole to be brought out with consistent clear- ness, and this demands a peculiar style of acging. It cannot be said that Mrs. Patrick Campbell quite grasps the idea of Melisande. I thought that of her acting of the part in English, and yesterday, being hampered by the foreign language, it was even more noticeable. Her Melisande has no mystery; she is an ordinary woman who has married when quite a girl a man whom she does not care for, and falls really in love with his brother. A very graceful woman, it is true, with a strange charm, but still only a woman. It was here that the genius of Sarah Bernhardt was so clearly proved. rom beginning to end her Pelleas was an allegorical figure, taking its proper the pictures or the sculptu part in the picture. Hardly a word missed its significance. And what music there was in her voice! What melting modulations of tome in that beautiful love scene beneath Melisande’s window, and what elagjon of passion in that other when the love of the two reaches its climax. It was not ordinary love- making, but a poetical paean to love in the abstract as the author evidently in- tended it should be, Perhaps the very fact that a woman was acting the part of Pelleas helped toward the illusion, n@king the love less realistic and more abstract; At any rate, it was a singu- larly bezutiful performance. The olaud of M. Decouer was powerful in the ordinary stage style, and for that very reason it did not create the right atmosphere. The vio- lence of the man when he finds ont that his love is not just because he has bound it with his hands should have been more restrained, and the charac- ter as a whole should have had its being in a world ~f gloom. The smaller parts of ‘ienevicve 4nd Arkell, how- ever, were played in quite the right spirit by Mme. Germain and M. Cealis, and the little Yriold was well done by Mlle. - Raymonde, the self-possessed child who made such a hit *3 Zaza. The difficulties of staging wer~ smoothly overcome. It was a pity so many outs and transpositions were held to bLe necessary, and it was a shame that the audi~nce did not liste~ to M. Gabriel Fauic¢'s entr'actes. The French com poser has splendidly caught the spirit of the play, and if there had been less chattering during the short entr’actes, the interest would have been more con- tinuous, for though the play itself is cut up into many s._nes, the dramatic idea is as grodually expressed, and with as organic a consistency as a Greek play or a social drama of Ibsen’s. FRENCH THANSLATING AMERICAN COON SONGS Popular Airs Are All ‘the Rage Cafes and on Boulevards of Paris. PARIS, ‘July 30.—American has literally conquered Par popular airs here are Americ in mu; All st The little comic opera, the music' of the orcchestra of “the open-air t of the Jardin de Paris and Les Ambas- sadeurs are all American. Se 5 from Country Girl” ¥bld sway at Marigny. Coon songs translated into French re heard on ‘all sides as one Tves through the Champs E evening. The most popul sonid is ‘“Dh, Bedelia, I'd Like to Steal ¥ Even the boulevardiers love to sing it. Fresident Loubet, pe demodratic habit of tak mor airing on vards, has been gr 1w ‘T'd Like to § 1 You “oon songs are difficult of transia- tien into French collongialism and effect is marvelous. —_——— LOMDON_GOWN MAKE ARE “SLOW AND UNCERTAIN Vexations and” Tribulations of Ameri- can Women Who Desire Tailor Made Dresses. LONDON, July 30. — American Women coming over to London with the dea of getting Miailo ie dresses, art n yle nd N in price, would be well warned to relin- quish the idea instanter. F t the same quality the price y less’ than at home, ra- tion# of trying to g té {3} an American we work done on time are well yond belief. Here is actual experfenc the ten down at my request by —the tailor being one of ! tion in London a. exactly the same pr vould be E t New York tail Ord »ss May 15 to v 1in jten days. t fitting p ed May 19. Not May 19 st fitting promised May Not ready May 20. First fitting p 22 ised May 22 came a. T. Dre: not d : Telegraphed June 8 Iress that aft- I ed J 9. All wrong; Dre it should Tailc then n Have obtained If you th ask Ar quaintance what she say —_—————— STILL THE BEST SELLING BOOK IN WORLD any BIBLE Publishers Not Alarmed About Over- stock With 50,000 Copies on Hand. Keep on Printing The Bible in the world interval, copies purchased in nels of trade, without rega may be called the official Every book store wh to carry a full Bible. Several importar confine themselves to the and sale of Bibles, and othe find in the Bible their lea g feature. no other book can this be s ing some time ago of the insat! mand for the Bible as an merchandise, an officer of tt ist Book Concern, wt sued cheap is the It I other han- d to what rtakes s the porations manufacture e of ek se cor ot editions sald: “Like all publ o keep watch of the sale of books in gen- eral, even the most popular, so as not to get overstocked. But this never oc- curs in printing the Bible. We just keep the presses steadily at work, and if we happen to find that we have 40,000 or 50,000 copies on hand it gives us no uneasiness. We are sure to sell them, and we go straight ahead printing.”"—The Century. —_—————— Emperor Willilam as a Smoker, The German Emperor has now taken to the smoking of a most elaborate pipe, with specially prepared Havana. This marks a great advance on the mild cigarettes with which he com- menced his sovereign career. After that he crept up to equally mild straw ored cigars of Dutch make, costing a penny, though these he indulged in only at the close of the day. His present habit he has inherited from his father, who was a great smoker of the well- known student pipes, such as Bismarck substituted for cigars toward the end of his life, and no popular portrait of “Unser Fritz” was thought to be per- fect without his long, big-bowled pipe. The old Emperor neither smoked nor snuffed, although the latter habit was adopted by Frederick the Great and continued by three of his successors But the greatest smoker of all the Hohenzollerns was Frederick’s father, Frederick Willilam I, the kidnaper of giants, whose only Parliament was the famous “Tabakscollegium.”—Leslie's Weekly. Dl Breeding Wild Ducks. A new feature In Scotland this year that promises well for the future Au- g sport there is the breeding of wild ducks. A driven wild duck presents as difficult a shot to the crack gunner as a driven grouse, and the birds can be more certainly drivem over the yfrom~p hill loch than from the lying lakes in the English counties, where that branch of sport has hither- to been most successfully introduced and followed. And one great guns low- recy mendation in its vor, which shoul '1 lead to its wider adoption in grouse counties, is that the sport can begin earlier in the holiday month of August than grouse shooting commences on the surrounding moors.—London Ceun- try Gentleman. .