The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1906, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY JUNE 3, 1906. matter of 1il be the lot of pleasu at brings audéville to control ost literally d that the out of a at . would lere Was a rumor week 'that ar- 1 were all gone through 2n New in close Morris Mr. f .the busine: lose. He de- ndent of com- he was ever . whom he is all Western ng the Or- and Castle i Max Ander- erous thea- Western Vaudeville “Billboard” of Cin- Keith even went so Klaw and Erlanger ference which was vaudeville and controlled by the represented in the ests people across the bay ng very well fotwith- vs of disaster. The 1 Greenbaum interests, with iberty Theater and their Park, are delight- d doing good business. Ye Liberty, “Hearts of writt by Mr. Collins, newspaper men, is pleasing nees What a beautiful To have seen a play Seen something abso- for there is only this n America wherein the up on a whirligig so tantly shifted by one ayvhouse i thing about earthquakes is that many people ha: big femblor to enable them comfortable in a crowded the- Bishop believes that one- his former patrons stay.away the plays now because they are id about venturing within the the. ater walls. Of course that timidity will pass away in time and the sooner it does so the better it will be for people, for good nerves make hap- piness and prosperity and we should e faith in our scientific men who say the danger from more big quakes is mot imminent Y The friends of ‘Miss Irene Outtrim, who was playing at Ye Liberty, be. nervous about_ her being oyt in earthquake country the th y and they called her home .and she is now on her way to Australia. Mr. Bishop, who has the big “tent Bernhardt played in, is contemplating £ it up in San Francisco, where may run the outfit as a theater. If prospects of a big playhouse do seem good or do not pan out well transform the theater tent into ce for a big skating rink. But just what class of plays he will ven- ture to put on and just where he will spread the tent are undecided. As for place he prefers a.downtown site, d as for time he thinks he may put the big canvas within thirty days, re Majestic Theater is to be. re- built by Mr. Ede at the old site, and %0 is the Grand to be rebuilt. Mr. Gott- lob, who is reported- by the Eastern papers 2s being on his way back to San Francisco, is by the same reports spoken of as not counting on the Co- lumbia opening up agafn inside of eighteen months.© Mr. Greenbaum, speaking of the “over-optimistic ex- pectations of some people -who talk of the almost marvelous speed with which the city is to be rebuilt, men- tions the fact that our fine costly Bcc1-tramed buildings here have ail required considerable time for con- struction, even in'days when there was not mearly so much demand for build- ing material as there will surely be here for the next few years. Some of > far recovered their merves | years in the process construc- not to Schu- will he and He that somewk of ere is t knowing j t where. sure of seeing and hearing ng the very artists who reviving city, some notes about him may now be of rest Moritz Rosenthal n active as a composer since last i erica, and his tour of this country next >t un Wolfsohn, works, er of his the them for st time in public recently com- pleted a concerto in G minor that b been spoken of highly in Vienna, only place it thus far ha been per- formed. The virtuoso has sketched two other concerti which he expects to com- plete within the next few mor He has been working at intervals during int the past three years upon series of rhapsodies, twelve in numb are said to outstrip tho difficulty of cu r Ameri- that Rosentha ill again | cans his prodigious tech: His new | compositions also emb:; several of a lighter vein, including ‘a suite of Hungarian dances, a barcolle, two ma- zourkas and half a dozen études. Rosenthal enjoys a peculiar place in the friendship and favor of his High- ness the Gaikwar, Maharajah of Bar- oda, the East India potentate who ar- rived in New York last week on the steamer Celtic. The virtuoso has a massive ruby and an emerald ring pre- M sented té6 him by the Gaikfvar five years azo when he was on a tour of India. Rosenthal was the recipient of these gifts after he had been enter- tained royally for a week In the East- ern rulet’s palace. The Gaikwar Is a very cultured man. He understands European music thoroughly. He heard Rosenthal play in Calcutta and was so carried away by that mas- ter's spectacular performance that he invited him to the palace of Baroda as guest. Upon arrival there Rosenthal found a perfectly appointed mugic room containing a grand piano of American make and a pipe organ. Rosenthal is a . skilled performer upon the latter as well as upon his chosen instrument, and during the week he was in Baroda ne made such music as the interior of | India never before heard. Upon leav- ing the Galkwar pressed upon the pianigt the ring. and the ruby. The latter is a pigeon blood of purest water | and, as may be imagined, is well nigh priceless. Rosenthal considers the em- wears it when playing. East is the following detailed account of the “Lambs’ Gambol,” an entertain- ment given by the Lambs' Club for the benefit of the San Francisco Bohemian Club. It was published by the New | rk Dramatic News: “Over six thousand dollars was real- |ized at the Lambs Public Gambol at | the Broadway Theater last Friday af- | ternoon, the proceeds going toward the - | Bohemian Club Fund of San Francisco. | The/ performance began with a brief | address by Clay M. Greene, the Shep- | herd. Then came Joe Herbert's skit, ‘The Devil and His Due’ The scene showed the studio of George Bernard Shaw, with marble busts of Jonson) and Shakespeare in conspicuous places. Mr. Shaw, ably played by T. Daniel Frawley, vented his opinions, of the critics, especially the American ones, and consigned them to the Devil, who appeared In the person of Holbrook Blinn. He berated Mr. Shaw over his plays ‘Don Juan’ and ‘Man and Super- man,” and just as things were getting lively the two busts came to life and proved to be George Fawcett and Sid- ney Herbert. The, skit ended in a hilarious manner. A one-act play, called ‘The Star of Bethlehem,’ de- scribed as a problem play, was well received. David Bispham sang ‘Danny Deever,’ and what proved to be the sensation was a satire called ‘The Song Birds’ written by George V. Hobart and Victor Herbert. Jt treated upon |the Grand Opera difference between Conried and Hammerstein: “When the curtain rose the stage en- trance to. Herr Hammerstein's on Thirty-fourth street was disclosed. A board announced that here was to be had only American opera with Ameri- can singers at American prices pay- able only in American money. Another sign conveyed the information that the opera of ‘Lucia’ would be sung with a double sextet. Oscar Hammerstein, played by William Burress, appeared and introduced his principal song birds, Coocoossey Bouncey, Eddie De Reszt- cure and ‘Madame Yellba, represented by Van Rensselaer Wheeler, Eugene Cowles and Augustus Barratt. After they had given a taste of their quality singers Herr Conn (William Court- leigh) brought.on his ‘pets, Robinson |Caruso, Peter Pantson and Emma Screams in the persons of Stanley Hawkine, De Wolf Hopper and Neal McKay. The two impressarios engaged in,a war of words as to the respective merits of their attractions, and finally to decide a wager as to which was tae eur best bulldings tock fpem three tolbetter organization azreed to a song {owner of the horse test, this providing a finale arranged by | Mr. Herbert in which the two contend- ing parties managed to put férth their arguments in the form of selections from K German and Italian opera har- monized in the chorus. “The bill had a number of other features all of them immensely en- joyed and the entertainment was voted a big succes ver at ‘Idora Park, Oakland, the anagers of the place, Greenbaum and Bishop, are exerting themselves to thoroughly good theater and all the week kept the “Chimes of Normandy” sweetly ringing. They are being ably helped in entertaining the people by the old San Francisco favorites, Ferris ningham. Teddy with Healey, and there all summer. QUAKE REFLECTIONS IN THEATRICAL WORLD Among those generous members of the dramatic profession who have| shown themselves kind-hearted friends| of San Francisco by giving a portion| of their valuable time to benefit per- formances for the sufferers from the earthquake and fire is Henrietta Cros- man. Her doings and her career would be of interest to us, anyway, because of her talents, but they are doubly so just now, when she has been proving the adage that a friend in need is aj friend indeed. Henrietta Crosman and her com- pany plaved the second act of “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” at a benefit for the San Francisco sufferers in Omaha | last week. The receipts are said to be| in the neighborhood of two thousand dollars. { It is probable that Henrietta Cross- | man will make a tour or the North-| west this spring, going as far as Van- couver and Winnipeg. Denver, Salt Lake, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma will be included. She is rehearsing Thompson Bu- chanan’s play, “Don’t Care Nancy.” The piece will have a tryout this spring. In Sioux City the other day Henrletta Crosman saw a.horse with a very se- vere check rein, and with her usual im- pulsive way promptly undid it. The S away at the time, and when he returned he swore vengeance on the person who had un- checked the horse. He hunted up Miss Webb .is in Seattle is expected to play |Crosman and threatened to arrest her. | ater. erald ring a mascot and he always|She became indignant and swore out a |Academy engagement and immediately | warrant for the arrest of the owner of | Stated thels An interesting bit of news from the the horse on the grounds of cruelty to | F@ngement. animals. The man was fined $5 and Miss Crosman is happy. Miss Crosman’s production of “Pil- grim’'s Progress” will probably occur next January in New York. The play will be taken on the road for two weeks, and then go into one of the large New York theaters. The stage settings are probably the most massive ever used, and it will require a large force of men from now until the date of the production to complete them. The company will number two hundred per- sons. There is a cast of seventy and a chorus of eighty. The last scene is the celestial city, and is said to be the most beautiful picture ever put on the stage. In this scene alone it will re- quire at least twenty-five men to oper- ate the lights. HENRIETTA CROSMAN AIDS CALIFORNIANS Among the many good things San Franciscans have lost by the earth- quake is a visit here this season from that popular team of ,players, Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern, which, pre- viously to the great fire, was intended. There was a contract between them and Charles Frohman for a season of forty weeks, which season terminated on the 23d of June. It included a tour of the Pacific States. The Pacific States part of it is all off now be- cause of the disaster. The following explanation, published in the New York Dramatic News, will more fully enlighten the many who are interested in the careers of these talented actors and were anticipating the pleasure of seeing them on the San Francisco stage: “As there seems to be some sort of an undercurrent motive to try to make the public believe that Miss Mar- lowe’s illness is due to the fact of the coming appearance of herself and Mr. Sothern at the Academy of Music Alf Hayman, general r for Charles Frohman, thinks in justice to Mr. Froh- man, who is at present in Europe, the following,statement be issued: “Mr. Hayman .rst desires to state that there is absolutely nothing but the friendliest feeling existing between both Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern, that Miss Marlowe was ill, suffering from a threatened nervous breakdown, as the following letter from her phy- siclan, Dr. J. E. Stillwell, shows: “‘Alf Hayman—Dear Sir: I beg to inform you of Miss Marlowe's improved condition and that she will be able = = Hartman and Cun- | AVERY IND THE: ACTRESS WHO HAS AIDED SAN FRANCISCO AND ONE WHO HAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFUL SEASON. to join her company in Brooklyn next Monday. The rest for the next few days is essential for her recuperation |and will give her the desired strength to complete her season. Yours truly, “‘J. E. STILLWELL, M. D., “‘9 West Forty-ninth street.’ “The contract existing between So- thern and Marlowe and Charles Froh- man for this season is for forty weeks and terminates Saturday, June 23. This forty weeks included a tour of the Pacific Coast. Directly following the news of the San Francisco disaster Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe were notified from the New York office that it was impossible to make the coast tour on account of the great distress existing there. Not wishing to close their season, they replied that they would fill time at any available the- They were then apprised of the satisfaction with the ar- . . . A La Fritzsl Schefl. ‘We bave had the Fritzi Scheff. belt, the Elsie Janis belt, and, behold, the shops are now offering the Fritzi Scheff dress. It is a copy of the one she wears in the first act of “Mlle. Modiste,” It is of black chiffon taffeta with short plaited skirt, short sleeves, with yoke and cuffs of Valenciennes and baby Irish lace combined. “Pity it is, ’tis true” there are few figures so trim as Miss Schef’s, and few wo- men look as well groomed as Fritai does—a charming characteristic that women on and off the stage could well emulate, for much-as I dislike to own it, 'we more often look slouchy than well put to‘ether.—:’l‘he .Blllbosrd. Fritzi dScueff is sailing for home to- day with her satchel just choking with good American dollars which Mile. Modiste has warbled for all season. She will spend the sSummer honey- mooning once more with her stalwart and handsome husband in Germany and Austria, returning in August to resume “Mille. Modiste” where she left off at the Knickerbocker Theater.— New York Dramatic Nev.rs. « BOSTON, May 14.—Margaret Anglin's return to the Boston stage as a star was the most important event of the theatrical night. She had not been seen here “since that notable night more than two years ago when she was one of the great company of actors who had the curtain rung down foréver upon the historic Boston Museum. Since that time she has been greatly missed from local theatricals, but not forgotten by any means, as was appar- ent from the heartiness of her recep- tion at the Majestic. The play was “Zira,” in which she has been seen in New York this season, and the favor- able reception which it had there was repeated in every respect. siss Anglin will be the last dramatic attraction of the season at the Majestic, and will re- main here for a fortnight. Grace George was the other new- comer of importance in town tonight, and at the Colonial she was greeted by an especially large audience. The performance was made a complimen- tary benefit to J. R. Keen and Frank Cauley, the box office men of the Park, whose house closed for the season he- fore they could have their annual tes- timonial, and who.moved for tonight so as to take it here. George will stay a fortnight. R : Nance O'Neil, on the other hand, will | close hor stay in Boston this week with | much of Spalding’s s . s % 7/ 7 the revivals of old successes. A big audience tonight saw her give “Magda,” and two performances of “The Jewess” 2and a matinee of “Camille” will follow. Then, instead of ving “The Story of the Golden Fleece,” she will’ give “Oli- ver Twist” for the four performances. this city, although she has poromised it several times.—.wew York Dramatic Mirror. . . . Too often a.people of the stage given credit for something they do not do, “especially when the affair smacks of the unsavory, and how often is the case reversed when a generous and noble deed is done. Too often does the press endeavor to spice its columns with sensational reflections, such mat- ter receiving its value not because of its truth or untruth, but because it is readable for a large clientele and is calculated to swell the circulation. However, is is not always the case. Some of our leading journals are will- ing and sometimes glad, perhaps, to give credit and praise where commen- dation is due. The recent San Fran- cisco disaster, which offered great op- portunities for kindly thinking peo- ple to prove their benevolence, was in- strumegtal in securing for player folk a small part of th€ praise they de- served. Everywhere professional peo- ple were called upon to participate at benefit performances and in many cases the people of the stage took the initiative. No other class or profes- sion gave so willingly their time and money. While other organizations, religious and secular, were helping their own people the people behind the footlights were contributing in larger sums to the general fund, deferring assistance to their fellow players unc. after the general good had been pro- vided for.—.ue Billboard, Cincinnati. « . . ‘““The Tourists,” the Messrs. Shuberts’ latest musical production, which is to be the summer attraction at their home theater, the Lyric, in New York, had its first performance at the Lyric Theater, Philadelphia, on Monday last, May 2 It proved to be one ot the brightest of the many clever plays presented by this management. Scenically, the produc- tion is gorgeous; the locale, India, giv- ing opportunities for pictorial display that have not been overlooked. The book of “The Tourists,” written by R. H. Burnside, general stage manager for the Shuberts, proved decidedly witty, and Gustave Kerker's music of the catchy, whistleable variety. A formid. able array of principals are in the cast of “The Tourists,” headed by handsome Julia -Sanderson and quaint Richard Golden, Will T. Hodge, George Schiller, Mabel Wilbur and ..stelle Wentworth. After two weeks in Philadelphia, “The Tourists” goes to the Majestic Theater, Boston, for a fortnight, after which its summer engagement in new York will begin.~ : 5 The Shuberts are rapidly deciding upon their new attractions for next season. Three musical plays are an- nounced for fall productions. The first is “The Snow Man,” from tne pens of Stanislaus Stange and Reginald de Ko- ven. Its premier will take place about October 1st. The second is a comic opera, the book of which was written by A. 1. Cahn oi. Washington, and the ‘music by Julian Edwardes. The third is a musical ‘comedy- with book by Skinner and Campbell and Joseph Her- ‘bert, and the music by Ludwig Eng- hnder.—Lyflc.Then'ter, tlew York. FLORENCE, March 31.—For weeks the Florentine public have been looking forward to this concert with the great- est amount of interest and curiosity. Camille Saint-Saens, the great com- poser, who was making his first ap- pearance in Florence, and albert Spald- ing, the young American violinist, who has studied in Florence and whose pa- rents have made their home there for ‘the past ten winters, were the attrac- ‘The Florentine public have heard mfl?fll Paris, C Z She has never played Nancy Sykes in| & DY) 2% cities in the south of France, and have been looking forwward to his appear- ance in Florence with great expec- tancy. He has not played in Florence since he was 13 years of age, when he appeared in a charity concert and was pronounced then a musical prodigy. Since that time he has studiously re- frained from presenting himself before the public, but has continued his studies in Florence, and for the past two years in Paris, and therefore at the present time he does not present him- self for public approval proclaiming his age as a reason for fayorable ecriti- cisms, but he appears as a finished art- ist who has played with success in the leading musical centers of Europe. This combination of Saint-Saens and Spalding secured at the Pergola Thea- ter last evening a packed uouse. The boxes and stalls were filled with the leading people of Florence. In the royal box was seen the Count of Turin and his alde de camp; in other boxes were all the leaders of Florentine so- | clety, also many of them occupying stalls. The capacity of the house was totally | inadequdte to accommodate the crowds | who were clamering for seats.—From the Musical Courler. .« s The performance of “The Lion and the Mouse” at the Lyceum Theater real- ized for the California sufferers $20vi.ou. Messrs. Daniel Frohman and Henry B. Harris donated the receipts, tue members of the company and the Charles Klein, the author of the play, his royalty. In adaftion Henry B. Har- ris arranged for a benefit to be given by the Western “The Lion and the Mouse” eompany now appearing at Los Angeles.—From Hudson Theater, New York. . . The Ellen Terry jubilee matinee will be -given at the Drury Lane Theater in | London on June 12, the theater having | been donated by Arthur Collins. The second act of “Much Ado About Noth- |ing” will be a feature, with Ellen | Terry as Beatrice, Marion Tery as Hero, | Kate Terry as Ursula, Minnie Terry as Margaret, and Fred Terry as Don Pe- | @ro. The Benedict will be Beerbohm | Tree. H. B. Irving and George alexan- | der have consented to appear, and Mme. Melba will sing a song between the acts.—New York Dramatic News. g tle re Henry B. Harris has received from Ben Stern, manager of his Western | “The Lion and the Mouse™ company, the |first account of the organization’s |escape trom San Francisco on the morn- ing of the earthquake. Mr. Stern writ- |ing from Fresno on Thursday, says: “After the shock I hurriedly collected {Miss Coghlan, Miss Shayne, Arthur | Byron and George Parsons, who were stopping at the St. Francis, with me. I hurried them into thé square in fromt of the hotel, where we werg joined by all -the members of the company, and never was I more thankful for that feeling in the heart of every actor—to find his manager in time of trouble. “We were due to leave the city for San Jose at 9 o'clock. I hurried to the Palace Hotel to secure a conveyance, but was told at the office that the barns were burning. I found an express wagon and asked the driver if he would take us to the depot. He named his price at $30, to which I readily as- sented. I had hardly completed these arrangements when a man rushed out |of the Palace Hotel and offered him {$300. The women by this time had |ecrowded around the wagon and after |one look at their anxious faces the | driver said he would stick to his word. “We started for Third and Townsend streets, where I had hoped against hope to secure a train out of the city any- where. found a great chasm in the ground which forced us to turn back. We had | barely retraced out steps before a house fell some yards distant across the road blocking our way. The only avenue of escape that presented itself was a narrow street where houses were burning fiercely on either side of the way. The women crouched in the bottom of the wagon, the men walking on each side holding newspapers and hats over their faces. The flames seemed almost to meet above our heads. Arriving at the ferry, we found thou- sands fighting like demons to get on to the boat. “As it drew out of the slip crowded to the rails the sight was one I will never forget. Everybody fell on their knees thanking God for their safety and praying for the relief of those who had been left in what was a veritable hell.”—From James Forbes, Hudson Theater, New York. < . R. F. Outcault, the creator of Buster Brown, was given the position of head- liner at Shea’s in Buffalo. His act is confined to rapid drawings.—New York Dramatic News. . Harry Corson Clarke has the proud distinction of having been hit five times by fire, each of them occurring in San Francisco. In 1897 his starring tour was delayed in “What Happened to Jones” because a theater burned down; the fire at a theatrical printing estab- lishment a few years later destroyed all his printing and he had to remain idle; then two hundred plates of char- acters played by Mr. Clarke during his stock season in California were burned out at a photographic establishment, jthe night he opened at the Columibia; the Baldwin Hotel fire caused Mr. Clarke to lose all his wardrobe, and he was again out in the cold. Still true to his old stamping ground. he stored a great many of his costumes and per- Msonal effects at a storage warehouse ‘which was burned to the ground during the recent fire. There should be nothing charming about San Francisco for Mr. Clarke in the future.—New York Dra- matic News. There seems some doubt in the minds of many of the people who attended the big gambol of the Lambs the other day as to whether it was really a gambol. I want to assure all the the doubters that it was. It was not, mayvbe, quite up to the usual run of gambols; but still it was not, as many in the audi- ence supposed during the performance For a of one of the skits, a clinic. few frightful moments the Lambs jumped the barbed-wire barrier that encloses their merry pasture and bleated rather pitiously in the problem- play fleld which stretches, bleak and barren, on the yonder side of the fence. In a skit intended to teach clubmen that the light of home is a surer guide to the haven of happiness than the al- uring will-o’-the-wisp that beckons men into the swampy morass of club- land where home instincts are lost as the sheep that perisheth, Harry Wood- ruft dilated upon the joys of twins and Willlam Courtleigh in a neat coat of hair powder descanted with wisdom quite wonderful for a bachelor on the beauty. of maternity and the evil of race suicide. It was really quite won- derful, even if ineffably tiresome, and I felt relieved when a majestic mother who sat in the same row with me de- in withering tones that that was no for a pure lady, and teok her attaches of the house their salaries, and | ‘We turned down one street and | | unsullied womanhood out of the | theater, treading heavily on my toas as she made her exit. But. honest, it | was a gambol. and they raised oodles |and ocodles of boodle for the dear boys |of the Bohemian Club in Frisco.— |Helen Ten Broeck, in New York Dra- | matic News. | . . |* Ben Stern, who did veoman .service |during the San Francisco affair, he be~ |ing out there with “The Lion. and | Mouse” company, is on his way to Chi- cago. Mr. Stern effected an arrang ment with the’ Southern Pacific Rail- road whereby free transportation was given to all who were in distress, and assisted in switching some of the at- tractions so they could play in some of the other Pacific towns, especially {those booked for the summer in San Francisco—New York Dramatic News. TR R Nance O'Neill's engagement at the Hollis Street Theater in Boston ended on Sajurday night when she appeared as Nancy Sykes in “Oliver Twist.” . . | Some reason for Henry Minter's re- markable success as a stage manager, proved this year in his productions of |“Zira™ and “Brown of Harvard,” are |shown in the following cogent and com- mon sense ideas expressed by him on what constitutes good acting. His con- | tention that it is easier to be a good actor than a bad one is somewhat novel, but his argument cannot be gainsaid. Mr. Miller’s. opinion is worth quoting in full: “To be a good actor, speaking his- | trionically, is easier than to be a bad |one. This is a proposition that may | sound strange to many critics and re- viewers who find nothing but faulti- |ness in the methods used and results obtained by the majority of players. They may be right in their contention —probably they are—but that does not | prove the untenableness of the fore- going. “The assertion here is not that all actors are highly successful in the practice of their art, but that they |should be. One of the great pities of |life .s that most folk insist upon doing | things the hardest way, and therefore the wrong way. It Is much easier to do a thing right than wrong. whether t be a simple daily duty, a momentous | business transaction, or the delineation of a character in a play. Although |ghis truth is obvious, it is amazing how many persons fail to see it. | ‘“Aectors are. particularly prone to overlooking this natural law. Years of observation have taught me that very |few of them ever concern themselves with the seif-evident. They o out of | their way to do the unnatural and the | strained. I think some explanation of | this lies in the common designation of | their calling. Being called actors, they think it incumbent upon themselves to ‘act’ and many of them do it with an energy, persistence and conscienious- ness worfhy of a proper cause. at the art has been known as acting has | done it harm from which it may never |recover. When a man or woman | studies a part, the soul idea should be the portrayal of character, the com- porting of self in the manner that com- | mon sense and intelligence would dic- | tate, without absurd posturing and | grimacing or self-consciousness’ and | awkward concern.”—From the Shu- berts, New York. S B i P R SR R OLD DICKENSIAN SHRINE ‘ OBLITERATED IN ENGLAND | Portion of London Rich in Associations [ taren. | LONDON, June 2.—The chairman of | the London County Council and some |of his colleagues journeyed on Satur- day inte a portion of London rich im Dickens associations, for the purpose of opening the newest of metropolitan playgrounds, which is situated on the site of the old Marshalsea Prison and | its yard. | The yard was once attaghed to the | churchyard of St. George's, and was | used as the parish burial place. Sev- eral years ago, however, it was taken over by the London County Council, and now, as a result of the Long-lane. im- provement, it has been transformed, in common with an additional portion of | the churchyard, into a pretty, open space for the poor children of the bor- ough. The improvement uas invelved the obliteration of a Dickensian shrine that Wwas a favorite with thousands of both Englishmen and Americans. True it is St. George’s Church i left—the church where Little Dorrit once found a ° refuge, and from which in later years she was married. Nothing of the Mar- shalsea, however, now remains except a portion of the original prison yard wall, which incloses the northwest ame gle of the new playground. Stuart Sankey, chairman of the parks and open space committee of the Lon- don County Council, who declared the ground open, referred to the fact that it h‘ad taken eight years to acquire it. Evan Spicer, J. P., chairman of the London County Council, expressed the prevailing opinion when he said he be- lieved the ground would be a perfect Godsend” to the children of the district. —_—— Intrigue at German Court. BERLIN, June 2.—Sensational revela- tions of secret influences at work at the German court are made by the Deutsche Tageszeitung and one or two other leading Conservative newspapers. A powerful group of German noble- men and high officers of the army and navy, who may be briefly termed the war party, have recently redoubled their efforts to acquire predominant in- fluence at court. and thereby over the home and foreign policy of the German Government. The aim at getting rid of Prince Bu- low and the new Foreign Secretary, Herr von Tschirschky. Having removed from power these two statemen, both of whom exercise a moderating influence, the war party hope to initiate an energtic ‘aggressive policy. They are pan-Germans /and believe thag Germany should become the su- preme power in the world. Their fArst object as a means to this end is a rapid increase in the strength of the German fleet. & The dangerous character of their in- trigues may be gathered from the fact that the Deutsche Tageszeitung, which is itself a strictly Conservative journal in favor of a big navy and a streng for- eign policy, denounces them as a public danger. % S~ — i Forced to Sell Polo Ponles. LCNDON, June 2.—Am ted in polo will hear with regret of the losses that have impelled the Me- Creery brothers, Lawrence and Walter, to give up this pastime. Their fortune was vastly impaired by the San Fran- cisco fire. Walter sold his ponies at Tattersall's the other day. He refused to part with his well-known mount, Daly. —_— King Becomes Too Stout. LONDON, June .—King Edward, un- able since his accident in the rabbit w.mwmnw“ Sir Treves has ordered the