The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1904, Page 19

SAN FRANC ISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1904. 19 1\ f (¥4 . re f moral reform wandered ur the Central last M evening. It was, in fact, to £ t b: 8 Whex to thinking a cup of tea and e can herself. How t & one else w one day ther were to-day,” sald the one ve a co ou see. I n't mind rd chocolate, though, How old are you?” 1 shall be seven on October 15 th child daintily lifting out hard between her tiny finger and &2 course,” she I've been months, but I the little What do you like to play best Sad perts,” sald the Infant Duse, Ehe perked up her tiny chin and added: don't like comedy. I prefer the emotional Seriousiy as I could What, for example? e my part in ‘E of all,” she decided twelve typew what do you think? siand 1t I esked her: ha's Burglar’ “It's a long en sides. And I couldn’t under- One night when 1 was play- ng in the piece I saw a lady with two ttie girle in one of the boxes. She was ng like everything, and the two lit- tie girls giggling, giggling, gig gling. Why do you think that was I gave up and asked if she often oked at the audience. Martine sunk the delicate oval of r cheeks In her hands and said: “No, on't, becauw I get out of my part f1a Now, I know that papa and ma are to be in the audience to- Really, I'm scared to death. I knc that I am not going to act I never do if I think of the audi- ence.” Then Martine told me that her “real s a chronic invalid, that her amma” was dead, but that her Aunt Leavy were "just as she loved them. > she sniffed. bathing me between act last night with alcohol. Chil- & nuisance, aren’t they?” “All mothers, their children when they , 1 mean. Don’t you think ke 1 - dare not speak a But when they get older and sassy they don’t like them so well. Hope I y die if 1 get sassy—but perhaps I ow.and don’t know it.” Serjously, as the small philosopher in front of me, I said: “I'm not sure. But often the mother's fault when the esy.’ They tell them 1 punish them if they do tain things and o . ildren do them and their mas don’t punish them,” continued child. “They iet 'em grow ‘sassy.’ 1 right if you stop 'em when the tiny, white-frocked de talking? Just as I have vord for word, the childish piping away. Do you re- ber that I said Baby Martine was ars old?-She was chattering of dolls en I heard her again I never play with dolls,” she said. I let the cat play with 'em. And I the cat. It's name's ‘Be- a beau rd I sald t was Frances Starr and the izabeth Murray n ‘The Moth of Baby Mar- e, posed with ne Butterfly,” ing baby u remember that?” I r just the llne ghe-said,” child. * ‘See, just like father, him my e. She was 2 years old then. d you don't like comedy?” I pushing the candy over to her, took a “hard chocolate” quietly and said again: “No, I went to Fischer's one night with papa and mamma. They sat there just laugh- d hing. I put my head on lap and went to sleep. I was the silliest old thing I It was called ‘Fiddle Dee re, Mr. Fischer! t that is burlesque at Fischer's, v, 1 explained respectfully. Oh, burlesque, you call it,” she said; 11, I don’t like it, whatever you call we )ssibly if you saw some of at the Columbia you y them,” I suggested. been to the Columbia,” ‘And what are we going to do when we grow up?” I asked. Well, I want to be a leading lady, of Martine said, drawing up her little white neck. “I don't want to play parts like Zaza and Sappho, though. I haven't seen them, but I've heard people talk about them. I like most of the plays I've seen here. I was in awful one last week, though— Just Struck Town.” But that was at the California. And what else have you been in?” egan to feel extremely young with experienced little soul beside me. Oh, I've done Little Eva, and I cre- ated the part of Chan Toy in ‘The ¥ t Born'—we going to do that a week or two,” the tiny mum- said. She blushed then, as with artist's shame, she asked me if I i been in “The Toy- ker."” I was, but I wouidn't tell ybody, though. I was the Little Bo- cou k I that = Peep on top of the drum. I hadn't a word to say!—Oh, here’s Ollie!” 1d Ollie, rosy-cheeked, boyish, burst into the room, the picture man follow- . dren posed themselves g chair, Ollie, with her big, biue eyves, saucy upturned nose, topped by a red Tam, and serge suit, a complete foil r to the other little one. I purple-veined hild, the fine brow, the small, , the accurate oval tem- long She was saving: “I've or ke to eat all day, Ollle. aug And 1 couldn’t eat myself but two egsz two bac a plate buttered toast and—ob, fried potatoes and cof- And I had ’em in bed! That's what you get for being up late”—to me. Oh, 1s it?” I said “I'm fond of egg: she laughed. “Do you know—oh, my sister, that's Geor- gie Cooper, she used to send me to the theater with eggs mnd milk and lemon beaten up together for my brother-in law—that's Landers Stevens. It's de- 1 us,” and Mi Ollie smacked ap- proving lips. “Well, Landers used to notice that it got less every day. He only laughed, though. But it's real good—do you good, Teeny'—to Miss Martine. “Martine doesn’'t llke eggs, or com- v had a bit anything slices < edy,” I began. “I'm sure you do?” “Yes, I do,” Miss Cooper decided. She has a quick, boyish laugh, the gestures a boy, sometimes the boy voice. “What kind of thing do you want to do when you grow up?” “Like Miss Roberts does,” Ollie said. - Roberts does so many kinds * I remarked. t's the reason,” Miss Cooper put “And what are your favorite parts now?” “Fauntleroy for one,” she replied: “I've just played a beautiful part in ‘Jim Bludsoe,’ down in Los Angeles, too, Little Britches. I had a good part in ‘One Summer Day,’ just lately at the Alcazar.” “Honest Injun, Ollle,” I challenged her and pushed over the candy, “what do you like to do best in the whole world?” e “That’s.a hard cne,” Ollie confessed, her teeth meeting over a purple wad of sugar. “I—think—going to a picnic. Or dressing dolls. I can't really dress ’em, you know, but I make a bluff at it. Oh, no, T know—T'd rather go in swim- did you learn to act?"” me by me natural d unshyly. Me too,” remarked Baby Martine, “Do you go to school?” Miss Cooper TWO STAGE CHILDREN ozzrs ycoopsr! S BABY 2 MIRITHE: neir Folk 9 WHO HAVE BEEN APPEARING AT THE CENTRAL. | < ma teaches me,” she re- plied. Then she laughed a funny th appened last night. My pistol w g0 oft.” is the boy that shoots ommer's sake in “For “What did y “Just held t some one else fired « " sald the of funny My mam- and I got really was country town— s Miss Cooper's ac- ~“and they got entirely deli s W c on “co a boy to bed and cut the rest of the sctnes mamma got behind the bed and said his lines. Madame Vine has to say, you kn Oh. my dear, dear Willie, you are dead!" Then the boy jumped up and shouted: ‘Oh, g0 long, I ain’t dead!" " I laughed and asked if the story were true. “I think so,” has told it same way. “Mamma sometimes tells stories she means to be true,” Martine advanced. “What kind?” asked Ollfe. “Stories us kids tell?” Ollle said. “Mamma a good many times the “Like fairy stories,” Martine de- scribed. h, I thought you meant the other kind,” said Ollie. “Fibs?" Martine asked. “Oh, no.” And with an armful of both of them an abashed critic went slowly down the Central stairs. PERSE e e “CANDIDA,” SHAW’'S MOST TALKED OF PLAY, WILL MAKE ITS BOW HERE One of the most interesting engage- ments of the season is that of Arnold Daly and his company in “Candida,” at the Columbia this week. “Can- dida” is perhaps the most talked of of those most lavishly discussed plays —the Shaw repertoire. It is the latest to be played. New York made ac- quaintance with it only a few months ago, at Arnold Daly's hands, and as a sensation its triumph was complete. Mr. Daly himeelf is an Irishman and completely in sympathy with the other brilllant Hibernian who fathered the play. The conjunction is uncommon and the engagement promises to be one of fascinating interest. In Mr. Daly’s support, that will be identical with his New York entourage, will be Miss [Dorothy Donnelly, who has bounded suddenly into fame through her characterization of Candida. Miss Donnelly, it will be remembered, ap- peared here as Mme. Alvarez in “Sol- diers of Fortune’—without any par- ticular distinction, however. The com- pany comes fstraight from New York for the engagement and returns there again immediately after it, the two weeks being in fact another of the brilllant coups that have distinguished the Columbian management this sea- ey A Fischer's to-morrow evening puts forth another new burlesque, written specially for the house by Will Carle- ton and Lee Johrison and called “The Annheuser Push.” There are three acts, one picturing the St. Louls ex- position grounds by night, the second a brewery and the third the opening of the Falrmount Hotel. They will be on top again with the new soubrette, who, will be clever Georgia O'Ramey— loved and lost to Fischer's only a few. months ago. . . The Alcazar returns to romantic drama this week with “The Pride of Jennico,” in which White Whittlesey will have a congenially romantic op- portunity. There are still to-day's two performances of,“The Manxman,” that can be cordially recommended to the playgoer. e The California puts on “The Man of Mystery” this afternocon and is actively preparing for the Florence Roberts en- gagement of four weeks that begins on Sunday evening next. Miss Rob- erts has decided upon “Tess of the D'Urbervilles” as her opening play and will also produce for the first time here “Marta of the Lowlands.” . e . James Neill and his company will be seen at the Grand Opera-house this week in the stirring war drama "Held By the Enemy. . At the Central they are tremendous- ly up-to-date this week with a new war play, “A Spy at Port Arthur.” P S Eva Willlams is headiined at,the Or- pheum this week. Next week the dis- tinguished singers, Mase and Julia Heinrichs will appear. s s e Marcus and Gartelle, comedy skat- ers, are headlined at the Chutes. do STy e ACTOR FOLK RETURN FROM THEIR SUMMER VACATION JOURNEYS Kyrie Bellew will follow “Cahdida” at the Columbia Theater. B TR Arnold Daly is considering a prop- sition that hds been made to him to produce Bernard Shaw's “You Never Can Tell” and “Mrs. Warren's Profes- sion.” AP RO Edith Wynne Mathison has signed a contract to play leads with Henry 1 } @\ — PR SR Irving’s company for the next two years. ! et ROeN Nat C. Goodwin will open his sea- son with an elaborate production of 1. N. Norris’ comedy, “The Usurper,” produced at the Theatre Francais last tober 3. i Edna May Friday for “The School September 5. led ‘from London last pear in Theater *r s e Olga Nether: to lease a Wi End theater in London and if successful an adaptation by W. ¥ of Paul Hervieu's “Le Dedal which was produced at the Theatre Francais last season. T William H. Crane has returned from Europe and is resting at his country place. Cohasset, prior to his rehearsals, which begin August 25. He is to ap- pear in ‘“‘Business Is Business,” the play which createq so great an im- pression at the Comedie Francaise last season and which is still being played there. Mr. Crane's company will in- clude Joseph Wheelock Jr., Walter Hale, Katherine Grey, Mrs. Dellen- baugh, George Backus, Sheridan Block, Harry St. Maur, R. Payton Gibbs, Guy Nichols, W. K. Dupont, Gabrielle Ravenelle, Emma Field and George V. de Vere. Charles Frohman will produce “Business Is Business” at the Criterion Theater, New York, on September 19. el RO William Gillette will remain on his house yacht, Aunt Polly, working on his new play until late in September, when he begins his season In “The Admiral Crichton. o e tiie Charles Frohman has re-engaged Bruce McRae to play the leading role with Ethel Barrymore in the produc- tion of “Sunday.” o Taile Mrs. G. H. Gilbert has written Charles Frohman that she is full of health and eager to begin her work and has asked for her part in the new play, “Granny,” which Clyde Fitch has written for her starring tour. The play will be produced in Philadelphia. R Clyde Fitch will arrive from France the middle of August. He will re- hearse and produce two plays for the holidays—Clara Bloodgood in “The Coronet of a Duchess” and Mrs. Gil- bert in “Granny.” P N To my mind the most hopeful fea- ture of the theatri situation in America is the great spirit of inde- pendence and discrimination which the public has shown lately with re- gard to theatrical attractions. For the managers, to be sure, it has been a bitter experience, but it has taught them, I think, a much needed lesson. They realize that the public is longer to be taken in by “flubdub™; the bitter truth has been borne in on many of us that the dear old public will no longer swallow buncombe whole. For four or five years the country enjoyed a period of exception- al prosperity. The people were more or less theater mad. Plays good, bad and indifferent attracted large auc made no ences, their managers me hand over fist. But with last season the tide turned. The first victim and the one that most richly deserved its fate was the badly dramatized novel. The publi absolutely refused to swallow Yy more of these crude and inchoate ¢ coctions dramatized overnight and ! erally chucked upon the stage after a couple of weeks’ rehearsals. The next in line to suffer was the made to order star—the man or woman who, after one or two cesses in leading roles, suddenly somed out as a would-be arc light in the theatrical firmament. If the past disastrous season has done nothing else it has at least duced these two theatrical impositions to their proper level. And I make this statement in all kindness, too, for no one knows better than I the cease- lees toil, the unselfish devotion, the in- domitable perseverance and the heart-breaking setbacks which many actresses and some few actors are ex- periencing in thgir struggle to reach the top of the ladder and to maintain their position there. The stage in America to-day stagnant on account of the commer- cial spirit which has been Introduced into its dealings during the last six or seven years. No one appreciates and deplorés this fact more than t actors themselves—and no one— more’s the pity—is so afraid to say so. If the actors are under a yoke of cemmercial tyranny to-day they have themselves to blame for it. There was a time seven years ago, when the theatrical syndicate was first formed, that Messrs. Joseph Jefferson, Nat Goodwin, Richard Mansfield, Francis Wilson and W. H. Crane, by merely standing shoulder to shoulder, coula have nipped the scheme in its bud. To-day, much as any of them private- ly and unofficially may bemoan this fact, there isn't one of them who doesn’t jump when the syndicate pulls the string.—David Belasco, in Septem- ber Smart Set. . suc- blos- re- is s . Sir Henry Irving promises to appear in a new role when he makes his fare- well tour of this country next spring. Probably the last part he will ever create will be that of “Gran’'father Coquesne,” in a little one-act trage built on Cosmos Hamilton’s story that name in the Smart Set for Sep- tember. Mr. Hamilton, a young Eng- lish author, who has come into sud- den fame, has made the dramatic ver- sion of his story at Sir Henry's quest. or re- o The title of David Warfleld’s new play is “The Music Master.” K is in three acts, and its author is Charles Klein, who wrote the same star’s pre- vious success, “The Auctioneer.” “The Music Master” went into re- hearsal at the Belasco Theater last Thursday morning, under the super- vision of Mr. Belasco. Mr. Warfield's company will be one of the strongest to be seen in New York this season. The cast will include Marie Bates, Minnie Dupree, Antoinette Walker, Isa- bel Waldron, Sybil Klein, Campbell Collan, Archie Boyd, Willlam Boag, Harold Mead, Carrington Yates, J. W Benson, H. G. Charlton, Louis Ver- ande, W. G. Ricciardi, Leen Kohlmar and several ot Consistent with Mr. Belasco’s estab- lished policy not to give out in advance the story or nature of new productions, nothing is announced concerning “The Music Master” further than that it will show Mr. Warfield in an entirely novel character, radically different from any in which he has been seen heretofore. Mr. Warfield's first productfon of “The Music Master” will take place at Atlantic City, Monday, September 12. He will open in New York at the Be- lasco Theater, Monday, September 26. T Two of Henry W. Bavage's leading comedians, Charles E. Evans of “The Sho Gun" and Harry Bulger of “Wooa- land,” are spending their spare time in Boston playing jokes on each other. One evening last week, after a per- pormance of “Woodland,” Bulger sought Evans, who had just finished a rehearsal of the Ade-Luders opera, and a game of billidrds was proposed. The game started shortlv after 11 o'clock, ahd about 2 o'clock in the morning Bulger confided to Evans that he was without funds. “You'll have to pay the check,” Bul- ger said. The other comedian had a large sum of money, but he couldn't resist the temptation to play a joke on his friend. “Well, we're up against it,” said Evans with a twinkle in his eye. “I haven't a cent either. "\’thtlwill we do?” asked Bulger; “the proprietor will surely call the po- lice and we will be arrested.” “You remain here while I go to my hotel and get some money,” said Evans. Bulger did as he was told and amused himself for two hours waiting for Evans to return. Finally he was so sleepy that he decided to confess to the proprietor that he had no money. “I am waiting for my friend to come back with some money,” explained Bulger when the proprietor said it was necessary to close the place at daylight. “Your friend paid the check when he went out two hours age,” said the proprietor, b | Ramepe @Patlmgtowo Those chamber mu will be mo: Kopta ic concerts than plea is who of Mrs. Mansfelidt takes charge of the piano end of things as an ¢ eptional capacity antest featu aso: her bri t Kopta characteristic. individuality, covery Oscar emble was ome of the ple of the last s sides the were all equally aracter, indeed string ones tone of the strongest rammes pur- posed are of the esting na- ture as th of n, and con- tain sev ties. Here they are: I. Coneert ng Quartet No. 13 (Mozart); A ¢ zione for piano and vi Kreutzer Sonata, op. 47 *n); Plano Quintet, op by requ (Sinding) IL. Concert: String Quartet, op. 18, No. 2 (Beethoven): Rondo Brilllante, (Schubert); Plano time kow- ITI. Concert String Quartet, op. Sonata o4 (Arensky) ik v Concd String Quartet, op. thoven): ~first String Quartet ): Ple ano Qu ¢ first time — (Brahms). V. Concert the String Quar ner); Andantino con va the Quartet, op. 33—f ); Piano Trio Sa ring Quintet with two (Veit). (Known as the tet.) VI Concertg(gvening) Quar- tet, op. c m the String Quartet, op Canzonetta from Quartet, op delssohn); Finale from Quartet, op. 67 (Haydn); Piano Quintet—first time— (Sgambati) ————— BLIND BARONESS STAR RIDER IN A CIRCUS Widow of Bankrupt Nobleman Leaves Equestrian Ring Only After Sustaining Severe Injury. PARI Aug. 2 Americans have visited Pa ceedingly exper who 1l recall an ex- the the ever woman rider at Nouveau Cirque, who astonished public every evening by her cl ing and was billed as the Baroness de Rhoden. She was a real Ba born in Breslau, the ¢ h to-do German stock broke she was a her suicide be he She was left and h resource. She a3 a_good and agement at Riga the engaged h refused to pay her anything, saying she was serv- ing her A reputabls newspaper w her a positic her success b In the Viadimir ve apprent of it Baron Oscar Wradren, of a noble fam- ily of Eothoma, fell in love with her. Eeing impe the Baron's wooing was s and they re married at once. His fo es were ruined and as she would not consent to leave the cir- cus, both became riders. He was very jealous and had several duels over what he deemed affronts to wife. Lieutenant de Castenchold he shot dead, when the latter tried to strike him with a cane. The Baroness saw it and never recovered from the horror it caused her. Later she came to Paris, appearing both at Nouveau Cirque and the Folles Bergeres. One feat has never Jpeen achieved by anqther rider. e drew her horse upon his hind feet and threw Herself back, lying down until her head touched the croup. The Baron died and the Baroness continued her career, resting from time to time. One day the mald went to the Ba- roness’ room at 9 o’clock in the morn- ing to throw open the blinds. “It is night,” the Baroress ex~ claimed. “No, madame, the room is full of sunshine.” Then the Baroness knew that she had boen stricken blind. Nevertheless she rode that very night and was thrown against a post so heavily that she sustained serious Injury. She dis- appeared from publie view and it was long before the reason was known. Now she has taken up another career, being a woman of remarkable energy and force of character. She went to a teacher of singing, Mr. Romani, whom she had known at the Bergeres. He was touched to see her in so sad a plight and asked her if she could sing. She said she could and sang for him. Her voice is strong and sympathetic and she has progressed so rapidly in her music studies that she will sing this winter in drawing-rooms. —e————— YOUNG ITALIAN FOUND TO HAVE TWO HEARTS One Is in Usual Place but Atrophied, the Other Is Said to Be Perfectly Healthy. ROME, Aug. 20.—The discovery has been made at L vy, during the medical exa Gluseppe de Magsgio, . that the man pe sesses two more than the usual namber and two hearts. The are on either side of the chest cavity, that on the right being healthy. the other being atrophie De Maggio has been offered §1800 for his body after death by an American museum, half to be paid at once and the rest when e s &