San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-25
PATTI ROSA AT WORK.
Vigorous Defense by Her of the Au-
diences of the Far West-Her
Inrrn fn,. Tim South

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
That popular sOubrette, Patti
Rosa, calls Chicago her home. She
ihas a coy little fiat out on the
North Side, and it is filled with
fine furniture and bric-a-br and
souvenirs of many tours. Just
now she is hard at work with re-
hearsals, as her season opens Sept.
3 at the Haymarket theatre here,
when the regular season of the
theatre opens as well. She will
play there one week for the ben
eft of the local Letter Carriers
Benevolent association, presenting
her new play, "Little Miss Dixie"
and her old success, dolly Var
den" This morning Miss Rosa
was found on the Haymarket
stage, the manuscript of her play
in her hand, and she found time to
chat a little about herself and her
work.
My own stage career began
when / was only four years DID,"
she said. II dimly recall the stage
of little theater in Cheltenham,
England, and its rather grewsOme
appearance at rehearsal of
dance | was to do at night, follow
ing a dancing act done by my
mother. l can call to memory the
pride | had in pink dress fashion
ed by my mothers hands for that
occasion, and not even handsome
Worth costume in later years
could give me such pleasure as |
had in that first dancing-dress.
"A few years later an American
manager, sturdy John StetsOn,
sought the services of my mother
and myself for this country, and |
not long after our coming | found
myself in the role of "combina-
ton star" 1t was the good people
of the south who first gave me
genuine support and encourage
ment, and this may eX-
plain what is so frequently
asked me: why do you make so
many southern tours" | answer
that | like the warm-hearted,
chivalrous and hOspitable people of
that section, and as they give the
best possible proof that they like
me also, | 60 among them season
after season. | have made social
relations in the leading cities Of
the south that / delight in, and
more than once have laid Off for
a night to join in the festivities
of the Harmonic clubs New
Years Eve ball in Galveston.
ain my impressions of audiences
| have nowhere noted a keener ap-
probation and more discriminate
ing judgment than are shown by
the splendid audiences that are
given to good attractions in the
Canadian cities of Victoria, Van
couver and Winnipeg-places that
are looked upon by the untraveled
as frontier towns in all that the
term implies. They are beautiful
cities, with a surprising amount of
wealth, culture and liberality, and
with broad sense of hospitality
that even the subject Of annexa-
ton cannot rutfle.
THE newspaper anecdotes and
gibes directed toward the theater
OF the far west are large
ly the Pigment of the vigorous
Of the professional
humorist and aneCdOte manufac-
turer. The mountain towns of
Colorado afford audiences that in
style and conduct
would not occasion a remark if
transplsnted bodily to the sudito-
rum of the Columbia or of the
Schiller. The ancient story Of the
placard please Don't Shoot the
Pisno-He's Doing the Best He
Cam 10 purely apocryphal. The
tall, sturdy mine superintendent
or ranch uperintendent who acts
as cicerone for a box party, may
likely have Yale diploma on the
walls Of his mining or ranch cabin,
and if perchance l meet him after
the performance he is likely to
say: when | saw you last, Miss
BOSa, is was on the stage of the
Globe IN Boston, 1t was Oben-
reizer in No Thoroughbred was it
not, who realized how small the
world really is? Denver's audiences
that gather in Senator Tabor's
wondrous playhouse cannot he
surpassed, and l hope for the
speedy day when the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law will be
repealed and the free coinage of
silver will prevail and restore
beautiful Denver and the entire