The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1906, Page 10

10 EDNA MAY'S NEW ROLE A FAILUR “Belle of Mayfair” Not Popular in London. RICH PEERESS DISAPPOINTING Life of Duchess of Roxburghe Is a Quiet One. “Twin Plays"Make Hit with Paris Critics. Blame Is Laid on | Husband, Who IS =] a Scot. LONDON, May 4—Never did an American peeress prove a sadder disap- pointment to British society than the ® | young Duchess of Roxburghe. Beeause e, hospitalities were expected There was an idea that she t to outdo all her countrywomen ial leader. Her friends were nvineed that she intended after rriage to rent, or build, a great town house and make it a center of gaiety. And what has she done? Practically nothing, at all events Juliet | nothing big. Her luncheons and small and | dinner parties at Claridge’s for her H ate friends have been greatly ap- ed by them. Her tiny house ¥ at that huge Scotch palace, of | Floors Castle, have certainly been any- s has | thig but gay and even ber Grace’s in- WS Sensly s e felt lonely and ‘‘out of that great barracks desolate to be a prison. ciety is yet again faneying that the chess means to take up her position season as one of the great hostess- e has no such intention. It is doubtful that she will take a house. real truth in the matter is that Duke of Roxburghe hates Society a large 8. It bores him; it both- ers To use his own countrymen’s ' definition he is somewhat f‘dour’’ in which| temperament. Seotchmen are invaria- d a good !!,1'. difficult, and even an American wife some of | has her hands full if she hopes to man- al com: a8 obstinate as mules and those o understand the Scoteh character ill tell you a Scotchman never death bed, yet he loves her de- y all the time. The Duke of Roxburghe has been a > be obeyed. Even his pretty an wife obeys him! has never been a hitch in the domestic m ery, for the exeellent reason that her Grace has fallen in absolutely with the ways of her Lord and Master! That he is such a disappointment to Brit Society. The practical joker has been having 5 fun lately with the typewriter. 1, and on E issued a large mumber of invita- so distinct- | tions a couple of weeks ago to a lot of > _{nobodies for a ball at Sunderland House. The invitation explained the +|dance was to be an informal ene and .| but twenty-four hours’ notice was giv- en, while there was no R. 8. V. P. in the “twin Paris the in other Romain y Georges one above the wife he loves her until he is| lier, much accustomed to give orders | So far there | BARRIE PLAYS KNAVISH TRICK Fools the Public With His Two New Plays. Actors Make the Shows a Suc- CESS. LONDON, May 4.—James Mattheyr Barrie played a knavish trick on his personal affection such as authors rare- |ly win, when he flouted them with the grotesque ending of his last mnovel, ““Tommy and GriZel.”” And now he has served his play-goers in the same way that he served his readers. It was of her wast wealth, great, elaborate, in- | With brightest anticipation that every- | one who by influence or money could get @ first-night seat from the Frohman management, crowded into the Comedy Theatre recently to see Barrie’s two new pieces, ‘‘Punch’’ and ‘‘Joseph- ine.” | It was reasonable to suppose that | this brilliant audience had assembled to see two plays; but what they got was two cartoons bearing the same relation |to dramatic art that newspaper car- toons bear to a Royal Academy exhi- bition. In the first, we saw a humble room, from the rear window of which & Punch and Judy show was being |given to an invisible crowd outside. | The crowd hooted and jeered, and poor |old Punch and Judy were broken heart- ed to bave the conclusion thrust upon them that their style of entertainment | was outworn. A butcher-boy entered in the midst of the sad scene, announcing Ithat he was ‘‘The Public,”’ admitted that he had laughed at Punch in the old days, but said that he was mow bored, and that Punch and Judy must {move on. The premises, said ‘‘The Public’’ had been let fo the new man. | Whereupon Punch belabored ¢“The Pub- {lie’” with his stick and killed him. But |the butcher-boy’s remains scarcely had |been removed hefore George Barnard Shaw—red whiskers and all (but smok- Although usually kind-hearted |ing a eigar which the real Shaw doesn’t | | do) —burst in and took possession. Him, too, Punch tried to kill, but his stick merely broke in two over the newtom- er’s head. So Mr. Punch and Mrs. \Judy hobbled out, and Shaw went to | the window and bowed to the cheering populace outside. Thers were bright gleams of fun and imagination and sentiment here and there, but these were aside from the main point that an |audience asking for bread had received |a paper wad. | Then followed the main piece of the \evening, with precisely the same result. | ““Josephine’’ was a political cartoon in |three panels, which American audiences | doubtless never will see, for it deals en- tirely with loeal politics. Suppose, when the Tariff Controversy was at its hot- | test in the United States, the most pop- ular, imaginative and gifted of Ameri- ‘can playwrights of the day had taken it into his head to make a drama out of the abstract facts of the sitnation, with pretty girls to represent Protection and readers, who loved him with a kind of | Last sum- ors, Feydeau an outing T that purpose went to the corner. Elated, honored, delighted, | Tarif Reform, and young men to Te| the recipiemts in all theirt war paint |resent, say, Blaine, Cleveland and Mec- arrived punctually—as nobodies always | Kinley in all except make-up, and with do—at the time indicated. (Many of Uncle Sam as the father of the young the iuvited had never even seen the men! Well, all one can say is that if e of the most fashion-| y gpas” in They inhabited Rue Stanislas, through a teleseope). The Duke and Duchess had a small, quiet political dinner party the same the two. pieces | 2igbt and wers still in the/dining-room ey }ECES | when their guests for the ball began to il the tOWN. | grrive It is well-known among his cond floor &nd | friends that the master of Sunderland , the windows of the| House has no sense of humor. He was e of the other, | furious when he saw the invasion and the Morris | heard ev: moment the sound of <ar- 2d, however, | riage wheels. were prowvided| It was the Duchess who saved the from the same Situation. She had all the electric |lights turned on. She received every | guest, shook hands with him or her, offered refreshments and having more intuition than anyone else soon ‘‘tum- ” to the trick. No one was humil- on—of a good |jated; everyone went away charmed 1 pl of late,|with her tact and her kindness. I hear in “The Earl and|the Duchess is in a chronic state of in “The Orchid” | laughter ever gince the performance in “The Catch of | and she has told her friends she mever July. Coolus oce Feydeau There is no denying interpolate the fact that have t feature—if the Season.” 4id not expect ; "e"‘l‘t i‘—:?g‘tl:fdz % much since she Sliah composers to mipit this, BOW-| "Ny Deoble npon wWhom Uity Joke #ver, but Paul Rubens does 50 frankly | oas' Dlaved the slightest knowledge of | in a new ditty which he has just in-{the fitness of things they would have troduced into his musical comedy “MT. | realized it was impossible for the Duch- Popple,” h is sung by Violet|ess of Marlborough to give a ball with- Lioyd. The runs as follows: |in something over a month of the death *Man, Man in America, {of Lady Howe, her husband’s aunt. Do send me over a songs | Bat the majority of those invited had ¥or no English play runs for more|Bever even heard of quy l:‘lowe_. than a day The sender of the invitations is well- It you don’t send one alon | known st the Bachelors’ Club and on R e e T the night of the ‘‘party’’ he and his Any old rubbish I'll try. the arrivals; and they must have been Tll get a new dress, if I make a suc- | very much annoyed and puzzled at the cess, |way in which the ‘‘guests’’ were re- And T'll capture the town by-and-by.” | ceived. That is outspoken, at any rate, but| A T it may be erved that Mr. Rubens, MEXICANS WILL NOT LET who gave us “Three Little Maids” and i *“Lady dMadcap,” is one of the few com- | American Fishing posers of musical comedy who are Omg?:t nx.:dym 1‘" Denied Right quite able to make hits with their own | to See Diplomat. Bougs, and who have no meed to crib| GALVESTON, Texas, May 4—aMan- American anes. It is Seymour Hicks | ager Munn of the Gulf Fisheries Com- who is the arch-offender in this re-|pany of thiscity yesterday received dis- spect, and most of the Yankee tunes patches from the Watren Fish Company which be interpolates into his musical 9f Pensacola, Fla., stating that the firm plays are appropriated without .uy.!md just receive‘_i varq rom their fishe eredit to their authors whatever. |ing smack Ballie Stein, seized by a Ronald Macdonsld, son of the late‘;\t:f“&“ g':nbn:: Th‘;;':‘.’cw’ stating g 1 e en ‘om ooner were Dr. George 1‘““0“‘1?' and suthor °tiheld in prison and communication with “The Sword of the King” has dram-|¢ye American Consul was absolutely de- stized his latest novel, “The Sea-|ynjed them. "Maid,” end has arranged with Oscar | Manager Munn, who succeeded in 'Anhe for the English production. | getting a eablegram to the eaptain of e ————— i Killed by Sewer Cave-in. at the same time the Pensacola and Mo- confederate watched in the bitter cold | THE YANEEES SEE CONSUL. ! _LOS ANGELES, May 4A—Fifty fest -@f the outfall sewer now under course of copstruction caved in at Sunset boulevard and Centennial street at imoon yesterday, bearing several men under 15 feet of earth. J R. Ruvovaeh was taken out dead and Henry Rudves and ‘Wak 6STIOULL injured may dle. bile boats were seized, stated that noth- ing can now be learned from the officer snd it is feared that his crew have been thrown into prison and demied commun- ication with the American Consul Mausger Mupn eommunicated with Senator Culberson aud requested him to report to the State Department and se- eure action. Duoke and Duchess of Marlborough the ¢¢ lay’’ had been offered by anyone | less tgnn a Barrie, no manager would | have dreamed of producing it, and no | audience could have been found for it, | except in a political wigwam. But that |was exactly what Mr. Barrie did for | England with ‘‘ Josephine.’’ | In this, like others of Mr. Barrie’s | recent plays, the whole was considera- {bly less than the sum of its parts. \“3osephine’ abounded in really witty | @etails, ingenuities, bits of the real dra- ! matic stuff, all sorts of ineidental de- lights that kept the audience from be- ing altogether indignant at the prank played upon it. And the parts repre- senting—or rather typifying—Chamber- lain, Lord Rosebery, Arthur Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, John Bull, the Irish Party, and Free Trade and Fair Trade, were taken by some of the brightest and ablest actors on the Eng- lish stage. | #Josephine’’ in particular, as enact- %ed by Dion Boucicault, ad represent- |ing the Chamberlain ideals in the form of an ambitious and masterful old maid who courts each of the boys in turn, was no less than a masterpiece, thanks to the ingenuity and humor with which the actor burlesqued the methods of the average leading lady. Whatever real triumph there was in the play belonged to Boucicault rather than to Barrie. PRSP COREIY o T AT REFUGEES FIND WORK IN THE CITY OF ANGELS Employment Bureau Opened by the Women’s Parllament Does a Thriving Business. LOS ANGELES, May 3—One hun- dred women, driven southward by the earthquake and fire at San Francisco, have found good positions in Los An- 'geles and vicinity, through the offices |of the employment department opened by the Women’s Parliament. Here | the crowds of refugees gathered today, |asking for any kind of honest work. |The employment bureau was opened for girls and women, but the men who applied were cared for also. Many sad and pitiable cases are brought to light at the bureau. Many of the women and. girls are entirely | without means of support and have been separated from loved ones and friends by the catastrophe. All their |ills they are bearing bravely and seek- |ing employment to secure funds to his company’s detained smack, taken search for their relatives. PERERERS M Ot S Caring for School Chlidren. SAN JOSE, May 3.—Some hundreds of San Francisco’s school childrenare | —— in this city with their parents, and arrangements are being made by the local school authorities to accommo- date them at the opening 12506 Fruitvale Avenue, ¥ ml\'fll receive prompt Mlm schools next Monday, THE SAN FRANGCISCO NOTICE. JOS. FREDERICKS & CO. HAVE OPENED | TEMPORARY OFFICE AND WAREROOMS " AT 2200 WEBSTER ST, Northeast Corner of Clay, San Francisco. sTock EXPECTED DAILY OF CARPETS, FURNITURE, DRAPERIES, SHADES, BEDDING AND WALL PAPERS. WORKMEN ON DEMAND. H. S. WHITE MACHINERY (0. WRECKING, APPRAISING. AND INSTALLING OUR SPECIALTIES. Plenty of Boiler Engines, Pumps, Pipe, etc. Metals of all kinds bought; spot cash, paid for all material. YARDS, COR. NINTH AND BRYAN" San Francisco. The Office of Y 5, 1908, Westchester Fire Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. LOSSES ADJUSTED AND PAID AT 478 TENTH STREET, OAKLAND. 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