The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1904, Page 19

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1904. = = + EEONL et k M Dalv?” 1 asked I be =0, replied the grave young gen- ~fronting me. further the surprise I p showing by saying 1 < f course be long-haired, and ired collar might add to the long hair. I had so pictured—hyacinthine broad brow, soft collar f it, as the Doet in “Can- I-had identified this fore- of Shaw with them. like this was the mat- erson facing me—at least, t Mr. Daly is only However, I had ote the extreme every- ss short, business when I caught the glint of ve. Probably Mr. Daly es and is collared like the rest Probably, too, there was a e bu ess office of the Co- o here we were—for Mr. Daly hunched it instead of the public eye that ng but the “shawl” speech in id There n t also have been riter, for the actor suggested about it when I first mentioned ¥. But of these things and else there I have only cir- I was too busy stantial evidence. with the n the Daly eves—blue- gray they are as to color, large and thickly lashed—true Irish eyes. But » when he talks of Shaw—see 1 and blaze with the fires of See them again, with thin ff all but a knife-edge of young s thoge who consider his master only a r. Then watch them dance as, Ehaw-lke, he gibes at the gods, the devils and the rest of us. The mouth irved and sensitive, helps, is one indifferent to the nose—boldly turned and he nose of a good fighter. brogue. And it's oh, table brogue of him! a step from the brogue to Daly has said he pre- rather than a king. But to tell me ghat he had the first time nine years Mayo in “Puddif’head 3 which he got his first And how much of a Daly? You said Mick than a be a ry one remembers L] i ulated. “I said it ke up to find s I'm it on billions of years s 3§ k Bruce McRaes” 1 asked. B » s McR; welcom I etved g ‘Cand had . D ). H e thank 4 Alv That was Bernard to hear . k it the type- Next e,” 1 e or t r said then f v out the play ! 1 Salem ex- ' nselves. ‘Well? said one ;o1 W me f two buck said > er.” (“Two dollars,” Mr. Daly tran ol S5 2y SEnoranoe.) I k1 promise better than hat for ws,” I ventured r ally think it will be liked he I m then th e A Daly’s ng shoulders ke < he is only 29—ljes of “Mind,” he added, “I e t too much. I'm no the- orist. 1 know that when you begin to sell ‘Apolio’ instead of ‘Slapolio® it takes time, whether it is in London With indue -vanity, T hope, I ubjoined to this that for the first ght of “The Devil's Disciple,” pro- uced here last year by Henry Miller, the house was sold out. Daly brightened at this to a P I hope they will like ‘Candida’ For, you know?” the brogue armed up h and the eyes danced, Shaw prophesies that I shall lose all kinds of money with the play. He says, ‘and the sooner you get rid of it the better—that dicates are formed to lose money,” but he’s been wrong so far The “he” sghouldibe capitalized to give it the Daly color. “I've made money on Shaw, and I'm going to try t some more.” You would take several hances on a thing that Arnold Daly he will “try some more” if you heard him say it I asked fust what sLys Shaw the actor would next venture to rescue from its terary notoriety He threw back his head in a “long- haired fashio to this. “I think You Never Can Tell’ will be the next. After ‘Candida’ I think it nearer to the general public than any of the other plays.” I told him then that fascinating ech- e of his “Man of Destiny” production had reached us “I want to'do that here,” the %ctor raid shall do it next spring if you are svod to ‘Candida.’ Mr. Shaw is mak- = t)\, g m pay on Cromwell as a com- panion piece. Charles First, you know, comes in with his head under his arm it is a duologue between the two.” With his head under his arm!—" Oh, 1 Yegged Mr. Shaw to let him wear it the usual way,”” Mr. Daly protested, with ridiculously delightful pathos, “but he wouldn’t.” “He usually doesn’t. Doesn't he?” I sympathized in Generally.” his disciple laughed. “But did I not hear of two Daly playlets £oing with the ‘Man of Des- tiny’ in Boston “I'm afraid so, thor owned. “I thing.” “Did you—man to man—show them to Mr. Shaw?” I inquired. “Did 1! I was too clever for that,” the playwright boasted. “Mrs. Shaw asked me to"— “Hu\\‘.ln she?” ‘Waopderfully charming,” Mr. Daly testified. Then he went on to tell me that he had asked Shaw to write him a strong love story to companion the “Man of Destiny.” *“I asked him to write it without any Shaw for the de- light and astonishment of his audi- ences. He suggested that 1 should write thirty-five minutes of the play and give him five—think what he could do with my puppets in five minutes!” Mr. Daly crinkled with fearful joy at the notion. A rich, boyish, buttery chuckle prefaced the next: *“I'd for- gotten all about the love play until Mr. Shaw came to me one day with this: ‘I've been thinking for some time of doing a love story to go with the “Man of Destiny.” I was wonder- ing how something like this would go? Take a young man in love with another man’s wife. He is a very good young man and decides to remounce the pas- sion as unworthy. Heartbreaking scenes. The light of a whole life gone. And so forth. The husband discoyers the situation. Confronts the young man. Honorably, of course, the young man denies the lady's love. Husband bitterly disappointed. Furious! " I sald something here about Mr. Shaw's “‘serioueness.” In a hot moment Mr. Daly had picked up this commonest little sling- shot used against his idol. Curiously it seemed as if some swift invisible tool were at work on his face, carving scorn into the lips, the nostrils, the thinned eyelids. . “Is Shaw serious?” he said, asking the question of the walls, of me, of the accusing public. “Mr. Shaw is more serious than any man now writing. He's saner. If we do not understand him, ours is the fault. People ask if he is sincere. He is sincerity itself. His conscience is absolute. He's a man " the discovered au- had to have some- that—that feels he has certain things to do. These he makes for in a straight line. He would better neither you nor hin If if it meant M\Pr\mg a hair's breadth to either side.” Is this his political or artistic con- science you speak of?” “Both—all the consciences,” said Mr. Daly, and pounded the table with a big, insistent emphasis. “I know little of his political side, however. He did Il me he was defeated in something while T was over there. I tojd him I supposed I should be sorry but that I was glad. That kind of man has no business wasting effort on anything s0 hopeless as trying to drive any in- tell nto the British Govern- ment. It's so incredibly old, so settled ir s ty It makes absolutely r if you are right or wrong, if v mmit the unpardonabie sin of* bein different But it is a thing mos tiful and wonderful, I as- You I ugh, “I'm Eng- lish 1 But d mind e, I'm enj If hugely.” do,” Mr. Daly pro- vmwd ingenuously, “and why not? You can rd to. The Englishman al- ways gets there. His imagination leads him neither to the right nor left. He walks straight through, right over everything to his goal. One must ad- mire him. Kneck him down and he'll brush his eoat and never know it. He can well afford to applaud the wit, gayety and light héart of the Irishman, because”—very impressive was this Irishman’s voice here—“because every gift of the Irishman leans to failure.” “Is Mr. Shaw an Irish Irishman?” I asked Mr. Daly at first mistook me to mean the Boucicault “broth of a boy” type, that shillelahs through the common or garden Irish drama. “Oh, no,” he cried. “They grow only in plays. Then he told me about a new play of Shaw’'s in which the dramatist has two Irishmen and an Englishman as chief characters. He intends to make the Englishman, through sheer racial insensitiveness, win the girl, by the way. But it was the two types of Irishmen that particularly interested me. One is the educated, self-respect- ing Celt, outwardly like any other gentleman, his foil the one that wishes “the top o' the morning to you,” and does the other national stunts for two- pennorth of the crathur. He puts his property brogue in his pocket when talking to his own countryman and is made to confess that he uses it for revenue only. “In short,” the Celtic critic concluded, “he does what is ex- pected of him, like babies and some negroes.” We got back again then to the Eng- lish, Mr. Daly again expressing his strenuous admiration for them thus: “During the Boer wat time, now. 1Is there any other nation on earth that would have permitted pro-Boer speeches on the floor of their House of Parliament? It's sublime, you know. There would have been shots here. And at the mass meetings in Hyde Park the policemen just Jlounged around smiling, with a good-natured dear-me rather-silly-sort-of-thing-this expression. It's noble. How Shaw en- Joys it all, too!” Then he told me something of the Shaw life, of the exquisite simplicity of the Shaw houses—there are two—of the dramatist bicycle-riding, of how he has never had an intoxicating drink in his life, of how he eats no meat, and how Mr. Daly himself “felt like a scoundrel eating meat at Shaw's table,” for the dramatist does not deny his guests. He laughed as he re- called Mr. Shaw's visit to the “Pélleas and Melisande” of Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs. Pat Campbell in London. “I begged him not to go.” I was afraid he would be arrested. But I heard on fairly good authority that he behaved! I couldn't. Awful, wasn't it “We didn't have it here.” “You were fortunate,” said Daly, get- ting up to stamp around as he laughed, “Still for those that appreciate refined burlesque— Edifying spectacle! an elderly female dressed up as a boy making love—ooh. And then they call Maeterlinck the Belgian Shakespeare. Poor Shakespeare! Mr. Maeterlinck should remember that ‘Romeo and Ju- liet’ was written just a few years ago. I think it's a better play. At any rate it's cleaner.” Slyly then I said: “But Mr. Shaw owns that he himself is better than Shakespeare!” “And isn't he?” Mr. Daly asked ag- gressively. “Perhaps he would better be com- pared with Ibsen?” I ventured. “‘Ghosts’ and ‘Candida,’” the ac- tor decided, ''arg¢ the two best con- structed plays ever written, I think. But look again at the difference. What is the use of a play like ‘Ghosts’ 7" “I thought we moderns were content with ‘art for art’s sake'?"” “But it is so morbid, the gloom so deadly,” the actor protested. ‘‘Shaw is just as serious as Ibsen, but he says: ‘Let us laugh about it.” Take the scene between Prossy and Marchbanks. How would Ibsen have treated it? For ext ample, where Marchbanks says, ‘Yes, that is what all poets do—talk to them- selves out loud. But it's horribly lone- ly not to hear some one else talk some- times.” Prossy’s heart is touched, and Ibsen would have had her say, ‘Oh, ah!’ and repeat Marchbanks indefi- nitely, and generally dig it in. But the other man, with a rapier thrust of wit, has you laughing while you think.” “‘Candida’s_morals'—oh, you don't mean it!” he continued. “ertainly Candida’s is not the ‘I-will-be-good'— Dr. Munvon sort of goodness. She is the absolutely sane—if commercial in her affectional instincts—type. She would no more think of doing that kind of wrong than you and T would think of dipping a cup in the gutter to drink. It's shocking, disgusting, the fashion in which people pounce upon that sug- gestion of the play—any play: Shaw has delivered himself somewhere on the subject saying ‘that Candida has seduced Marchbanks as far—' You remember? But of that sentence one word flames for the unclean—shame on them,” the Daly eyes were burning. “They say again that Mr. Shaw is no poet. You said it. I want to see your face after the last act of ‘Can- dida.” " I asked: “Why didn't Mr, Shaw write a poem for his poet in the second act?” Sunshine again. “He asked me,” the actor chuckled—"I'd reag a bit of Shel- ley there—why 1 didn’t recite ‘The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck!” Half! past five! I'm half an hour late for re- hearsal! Your fault!” “So sorry,” 1 said as we came dpwn stairs. “But I'm not a bit, really.” Sl R PROBLEMS IN SHAW'S PLAY PROVIDE TE FOR MUCH DI To-morrow eve 4 bLglns the sec- ond week of “Candida” at the Colum- bia, with Arnold Daly and his conipany of players. Shaw’s play has furnished xpected sensation, in fact rucks of What Shaw means or does not mean in his play is the question of the week. Those who have read the play find new questions raised by seeing it, while those who have en it only in flying to the book for elucidation find new problems to settle. At any rate Mr. Shaw h: succeeded in setting his audience a-thinking, even while they are laughing as they rarely laugh. In fact that there is no sort of playgoer that can afford to miss “Candida.” Its half dozen players, too, are of the best Mr. Daly as the poet, Miss Donnelly as the lady, Dodson Mitchell ¢s the par- son, and the rest, all illumine the text. T Y This evening at the California begins the engagement of Florence Roberts, always one of the popular erigagements of thé year. Miss Roberts vill present for her first play ““Tess of, the d'Urber- villes,” first produced here by Mrs. Fiske some three years ago. In Miss Roberts' company will be found several good people, including Hobart Bos- worth, recently Mrs. Fiske's leading man, William Yerrance, Luvcius Hen- derson, Sterling Lloyd Whitney, Lonise Royce and Anita Allen. One of the novelties of the season will be “Marta of the Lowlands,” ncver before given here and one of the most interest- ing plays of the last New York season. e James Neill and his company will have an attractive bill in “I'nder Two Flags" at the Grand Opera-house this week. Miss Chapman has the role of Cigarette, which the charming and popular actress will doubtless find con- genial. These are the last days of the Neill engagement, and the stirring melodrama is one of the best bills that could have been chosen to close it. o “Nathan Hale” at the Alcazar will succeed “The Pride of Jennico” that will be seen there until to-pight. Mr. ‘Whittlesey will appear in the name role, and doubtless therein add to, his very substantial popularity. The clever Alcazar company can be trusted with the rest. e That wmost fascinating little play “The First Born” will doubtless attract many besides the regular attendants at the Central this week. Produced first at the" Alcazar some years ago, Francis Powers’ Chinese play has since become famous on both sideg of the water. It will be remembered that its scene is laid in the San Francisco Chi- natown, and here where the highbinder and his ways are best known Mr. Powers' little drama is best appre- ciated. Walter Belasco, who accompanied the drama to New York and London and received praise for his artistic portrayal of the Chinese rag-picker, will repeat his characterization at the Central and the Whole performance § "“l Imn‘ U DALY ™WTHE RoLEe or /‘ EUGERE (MARCHBANKS ... | EXPONENT OF THE GEORGE BERNARD SHAW II)L.I VO'! THE COLUMBIA. s will be given under his personal Agnes Cain Brown and Campbell Don- which is deemed necessary to secure supervision. “Turned Up,” a lively ald, also of the Bostonians, and Metr admissjontoits doors. Here it is usually comedy, will fill in the rest of the Carson, is to appear for a short sea. taken for granted that any Amer evening. son in vandeville. He will be seen ir who has made a big pile has ther wo e Of the continued bills “The Torea- dor” at the Tivoli is still running to fine houses. Forrest Dabne; arr, the new basso, has found much favor with the audiences, and the rest of the fine cast is still living up to its record— and more. The Serenade” is to fol- low. P “The Anheuser Push” is a sizable hit at Fischer's this week, with plenty of fun, tune and pictures to help. Everybody has something good 'to do and among them is Georgla O'Ramey, who returns to continue the proverbial Fischer luck in soubrettes. Miss O'Ramey as ysual “makes good,” and Dorothy Morton, perhaps the best lead- ing lady Flscher's have had, is at her best this week. e e e “Our Boys in Blue,” a turn illustrat- ing the life of the American soldier and the latest vaudeville sensation of the East, will headline the Orpheum bill this week. Max and Julia Heinrich will also continue to delight the Orpheumites for this their last week. TP The Chutes has a “banner” attrac- tion in the Empire Comedy Four, re- cently one of the Orpheum star turns. e o HARRY JAMES WRITES IN HIS OWN DEFENSE FROM THE ANTIPODES Harry James, the popular leader of Fischer's old galaxy, now directing their triumphant progress through Australia, writes thus to correct a misstatement that appeared in this and several other papers concerning his relations with the company. Mr. James says: ‘“After reaching Hono- lulu, which was our first stand after Frisco, Mr. Kolb came to me with de- mands that, if I had acceded to them, would have meant breaking up the company. He said that if these de- mands were not combplied with he would close, so it was either get a new Dutch team or a new show. I naturally said close. Matters were in this con- dition until the day of sailing, when Mr. Kolb weakened on his bluff and came along with the show. As re- gards any dissatisfaction among the other members of the company, all statements concerning such are abso- lutely without foundation. Every- thing outside of this connection has been most harmonious.” Mr. James says further: “The show was a big hit in Honolulu, playing to the biggest business ever known in that city. Everything is looking fine for our opening here on Saturday night” (Palace Theater, Sydney). The manager also incloses some notices of the “American Travesty Stars.” There doesn’t seem to be dny- thing the matter with Sydney, so far as Barney Bernard, Kolb and Dill, Blake and Amber go. T Henry Clay Barnabee, assisted by Al a thirty-minute operetta, in which h~ will sing several of his most successful songs. The little company, under the management of Lawrence Anhalt, will tour the countr beginning in Sep- tember, after which Mr. Barnabee will return to his post at the head of the Bostonians. Louis Mann is to star in a play of Bohemian lifg by Harry B. Smith, called “The Second Fiddle.” P ™ Sibyl Carlisle is to rejoin Willlam Gillette's company as his leading wo- man next season. During his final engagement in this country Sir Henry Irving will eriginate the part of Gran'father Coquesne in a one-act tragedy ased on Cosmo Hamilton's story of that name in the Smart Set for September. Despite many flattering offers to re- main on the Pacific Coast, including a proposition to star through Western territory, Donald Bowles, after three and a half years on the coast playing leading juvenile busi with James Neill, will return to the East. « . e Charles Richman has been engaged as leading man to Amelia Bingham for next season. The company opemed at Hooley's Theater, Chicago, August PSR Edna \vlay returned to New York last Saturday,” after an absence of three years, to "appear in the leading role of “The School Girl” at Daly's Theater next month. of et g Lulu Glazer began her. engagement in her new comi¢ opera, “A Madeap Princess,” at Rochester, New York, last Thursday. The opera is based on Charles Major's book, “When Knight- hood Was in Flower,” which has been adapted for comic opera purposes by Harry B. Smith. The music is by Lud- wig Englander. v e . Frank Daniels is to continue with his last season’s great success, “The Of- fice Boy.” He brings it out West. R e E. M. Holland plays the part of Cap- tain Bedford, the detective, in Kyrle Bellew's production of “‘Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman,” which follows “Candida,” at the Columbia. —— TO INVESTIGATE TRAVELERS' SOCIAL STANDING AT HOME LONDON, Aug. 27.—Members of the swell Anglo-American set in London are .hoping to devise some scheme which will render it less easy than of vore for Americans who have no recognized social position in the United States to gain entrance to the best circles here by means of their wealth alone. London society nas not yet learned that the American Four Hun- dred is not composed exclusively of millionaires or ‘“millionairesses” and that it is by no means money alope acquired a distinguished social position at home and when he and his family land on these shores they generally are received with open arms and made much of. “If they are really people of good breeding and refinement no harm comes of it,” said a popular member of the American colony in London, “but if, as often happens, they are vulgar and bent only on cutting a wide swath with their monev, much harm comes of it, because they are regarded as fair specimens of the sort of peo- ple who are social leaders in America. That is one reason why on the English stage and in popular English nov the American in society is always depicted as an atrociously vulgar ature, who scatters money and bad grammar with equal indifference. I bave known many wealthy but hopelessly crude individ- uals at home who, after making an abject failure of their effoftd to get into socicty there, have come over here and made a success of it."” “But how do you and propose to stop it?" she wa “By carrying on a secret campaign against nothings but wealth social pretensions. Wherever we come across them we shall take pains to let it be known that they have no standing at home. We shall establish a species of private bureau for the dissemination of information among English hostesses concerning the an- tecedents of American - claimants on their hospitality. There are enough of us who have taken the matter seriously vour friends d. but active who have to port their in hand to make a success of it. The Amerjcan hog and ‘hoggess’ are ex- cluded from sccietv in America and they should be kept out here.” —_——— NEVER EAT CANDY ANIMALS LEST THEY BECOME CRUEL TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 27.—Though the martial spirit is industriously in- stilled into Japanese children by their mothers from earliest infaney, they are taught to be kind to animals. At home and in the schools they are not even allowed to eat cakes or confec- tionery made in the shape of rabbits, sheep or other dumb beasts, for fear they may acquire ideas of cruelty. A teacher never whips a pupil. If the pedagogue commits an injustice the scholars stay away until repara- tion is made. Professor Ochima told the foreign colony in a recent lectire here on the national system of education that a German teacher once scandalized a school by his brusqueness. The boys and girls talked it over among them- selves and then asked the principal to dismiss him, saying: “He is a learned man, but a pig.” Being informed that the teacher had been engaged for a stated timy they went straight to him and sai “If you have a sen’s (half a cent’s) worth of honor, break your contract and go back to Germany.” He went, -worth mentioning that Paul Steind Curiosity as to the sinian teries of the an Club ““jink will doubtless t y fi T next Thursday aft kind of publ s to be given by the famous cl Though they wiil n have their columned amphitheater, r the scented gloom of the grove a Guerneville, they are to g » th public ear some of the mele have so far echoed been decided t the compos to allow these cor ions to remain practically unknown. Last year, it be remembered, Fritz Sch duced with much Dr. H Stewart > musical setting of th 3 drama by Louis J. Rober was probably the interest shown there in that determined the 3ohemis: give the affair Thursday. only will “Mont be given, but selections from ceding year's festival music by Joseph D. Redding, together with this y sic done by W. J. McCoy. The composers will con- duct in each , and there will be a sixty 1 at their n of the orchestra mpetent hands of picked orche service. The format has been left in the cc Mr. Redding. hears very good things of Mr. The Hamadryads,"” r's drama. 3 I am as- »me char: ting in a strik ional a fine and a unning It is among my info Indeed, Mr. Steindorff put it that “hardly too high pra can b 1 to some parts of the ‘McCoy wor Then there are to be further fasci- nating confid shape of readings from the last * books of the three years i music any day—but affair is to be a P one. The mem b ab ha been re- stricted in their purcha ckets to four apiece remaind Tivoli box of the top gallery the house, vate boxes, $2. the entertainment is Willlam Greer Harrison, ton and Jack Wilson, The progrs € the Orphet his g Thor t Long Pa h by Ar A [cKenzie's “Spring Song.” T 1 prais b not be given to t terpri ha Orphe such ¥ 13 the ¥ ympanin 3 fax Heinrichs worth g for, and his genial, artis t another of the precious t annual er National America will t and organ, 10 a. m. to 12 September 14 (We ¥) ) a to i2m, 2to 4D viola, cello, « to4p. m (Saturday) to 12 m. to note that tion be scholastic Ma gene Dufr Fink, Max roth desiring further minations particulars of culum of ess the secre- nth street, New Gaulois and Figaro of -and th not uncom- » may expect much from Fannie Franci comes this month to the Alhambr: Miss Fran- cisca is compared therein with new enthu m in the o 40 8 Sotihe inine flute, her and the exceptiona ice bringing out rdinary array of adjective ncisca has been out of sight—and out of mind,” pere haps—in this her native city for more than years and the indications ars that she will be wa welcomed on her return. SNhe he directly from FEuropean triumpt not, as sometimes our own return to us, when they can no longer obtain hearing e ivhere. The concert dates are mow ar- ranged for S pb"nhv r 21 (evening) and September 24 and Miss Francisca’'s ]"rvurr|m'l s are to include the newer operas before some excerpts from that have not been heard here w people know that De Pachmann, who will again delight Americ ences this season with his playing, was a “violin prodigy” in early childhood. His father, & doctor in phi- Josophy and law at the University of Odessa, and a violinist of note, was his son’s instructor. The young Vladimir by the time he was ten years old had become proficient enough to astonish the public with his mastery of the vio- lin. However, he preferred the piano for his life work and when he was 13 went to the Vienna Conservatory, where in two years he was awarded the highest honor—that of laureate. S T Josef Hoffman's three concerts here ¢ are to be given in the first week of October. He begins his Ar.erican tour here, coming directly from Berlin to San Francisco. Touring Old World in Motor Car. LONDON, Aug. — Miss Rockefel- ler, the oil king's niece, and he friend, Miss North, now at Claridge’s Hotel, Londen, are traveling through Europe with a courier. They landed at Naples and have bzen for a long automobile tour throigh Italy and France. After a shor: stavy in Lon- don these visitors have planned to make an extended motor tour through- Qut Wales and Scotland. %