The herald., 1893-09-10


Mrs. Mary A. White, who is as hel
casd states, special correspondent OF the
Daily San Diegan. though that paper
believe has ceased publication. has writ
ten a fve-act play called Who Is Tc
Blame, which che states Mr.. Martin
Lehman will produce on the I'd prox'
with "his new stock company"
1t is claimed that Who Ia To Blame is
original and fresh, and strikes the key
note of glsring abuses and popular re-
forms without dogmatism or cant.
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Miss Jennie Yeamans as Jane shows
what true artist can do with purely
farcical part. While she did not lose
any opportunity OF creating laugh she
preserved the higher features OF acting
throughout the performances, and pro-
daced thoroughly excellent portrait OF
an English maid servant.
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The Riverside newspapers have been
excitedly discussing the subject Of
whether young woman member OF the
Jane company swore at the waiter who
upeet cup OF coffee down her back.
The young woman protested that she
spoke very politely to the waiter; the
waiterrcorroborates her statement, but
some flighty young men who happened
to be in the hotel dining-room claim
that her language was full of prayer
book terms, but not full of piety.
Ii she did not swear she is to be
pitied. Just try to imagine what awful
things woman would think who was
too polite to swear under similar ercum-
stances.
Mr.. Sam Harrison, who 10 here with
The Girl | Left Behind Me company,
tells me that his brother, the comedian,
Louis Harrison, has decided to abandon
the etage and devote himself to play
writing. Out of his work in preparing
The Isle of Champagne, Venus, and
Princess Nicotine he has cleared up in
q years time about $50, 900, and natu-
rally proposes to continue at so profit
able business.
Mr.. Robert Mantell owes pleasant
incident to his presentation of Hamlet
in this city couple of weeks ago. A
HthLElCdi Luhu WuO bhW buO pcilUi LII
Ice was go taken with the hearty
tors style that he made him propo-
;ion to star in Shakespearian roles
five years; to mount his plays
msnifcently and to surround him with
ns best support obtainable. Mantell
may yet wear Booths mantle, but he
ilss considerable to learn. He is, how
ever, most promising investment, now
that Hamlets are go rare.
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Los Angeles audiences are very shv
OF attending last night performances,
because some companies are dishonest
enough to cut their plays short in order
TO catch the night Southern Pacific train
nrth. Manager Wyatt is pnwerless to
revent this, and condemns it as heart
as anyone. The railway company
w holds the train for theatrical COM
panies until IL 30, but that Is not near
enough. If it left ct 80 it would meet
the requirements exactly, but on ac-
count of its mail contract with the gov
ernment it cannot delay the train any
longer. So there you are.
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Miss Edith Lemmert, the we'll known
young woman who left this city to 60
upon the stage, has cause to feel graft
fed at the success che has attained in
her new profession. After about year
al experience in a repertoire company
"ne was engaged by Lawrence Hanley
Tor his production OF The Player, piece
in which there is a play within play.
Miss Lemmert appears in two of the
principal acts of Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet, and assumes the character
OF the heroine 80 dear to the aspirants
for Thespian honors. But Miss Lem
merits Juliet has been seized upon by
the principal critics of the critical city
of Boston, and sn amount of praise has
been lavished upon her performance
that, coming from such source, might
turn the head of any novice. The fol-
lowing quotations from Boston papers of
August 29th will be self explanatory;
Daily Globe: Miss Edith Lemmert
was an agreeable surprise, presenting a
Juliet that would have delighted the
bard OF Avon himself. Her voice is
musical and she speaks as if her soul
were in every word. She we'll deserved
the applause showered upon her.
Daily Traveller: Miss Lemmert's
Juliet was the great surprise. Unher-
aided, almost unheard Of, she won her
way TO the heart by the sincerity of her
work, while her excellent reading APP
pealed strongly to the intellect. Her
voice is sweetly musical and her face
beautiful in expression.
Boston Herald: Miss Edith Lemmert
made charming Juliet; indeed, che
surprised everybody with the daintiness
and the expression with which she read
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prologued, perfect storm of approval
broke upon her. She ehared with Mr..
Hanley in the honors OF the evening.
The above is furnished me by q friend
OF Miss Lemmert, and of course ie very
pleasant for the actress and her friends
in this city, but bad selection of critics
was made. The papers mentioned do
not rank very high as disinterested COM
mentera on art matters.
Now what did the Transcript say? or
II she has appeared in New York, what
did the Tribune or Mr.. Stephen Fiske,
In the Spirit of the Times, think OF her ?
These critics are the ones whose decision
would have some effect.
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Whether Miss Blanche Walsh had the
good sense to call San Francisco "a jay
town. or not, the fact remains that the
term is properly applied.
NO more offensive display of want OF
breeding and provincialism was ever
chronicled in the west than the features
at Mr.. lrving's first night in that city
last week. The applause was boisterous
and ill-timed, and when Mr.. Irving sp-
peared before the curtain a number of |
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