The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

dead from dreamless sleep, while he does not
chuckle and chortle in fatty glee, after the
unctuous methods of Mr.. Crane, yet is he a
hustling, rustling and most realistic SEN
ator, with more of dignity than Mr.. Crane
finds fit or possible and with infinitely less
of noise, for which let US make burnt offer
ings to the gods of peace.
Mr.. King covered himself with glory
AS the relic of the days of Webster he not
only redeems the honor of Dick Phenyl,
sadly out of evidence of late, but goes be-
yond and above it by many lengths. The
old man of the stage is usually thing of
horror and a beast forever. His monoton-
Gus cracked treble, his doddering crook
ed limbs, his tiresome palsied head, the
CHASTITY color and the villainous wig of him
are as detestable as they are familiar, and
even trained actors of the school of Shake
speare, who reveled in octogenarians, fall
into the conventional gaffer of high or
low degree and fall too low for all redemp-
ton. Mr.. Kings Denman is nothing of
this sort. He Isl gentle, pathetic, tired old
man, and so exquisitely careful is the
makeup and so consistent is the portraiture
that after this l can forgive Mr.. King any
thing-even Lord Jura.
The debutante seems a harmless lady,
with contralto notes OF gray and dovelike
quality. She incurred and mourned and
mourned, as the hapless Lucy is intended
to do. 1 always thought the Secretary of
State would have been well rid of his Lucy
had not her pleasant little elopement plans
fallen through under the pressure of the
doughty Senator. Still, no woman de-
served such fate as Mr.. Wyngate's Count
Won Stahl. / remember Mr.. Wyngate. He
can say good-by with more volume OF
sound than any man in the world. l re-
member him in the american Girl"
GOODBYE
Still it is unfortunate that his talent
should be thus limited. One cannot build
up stage career on the word good-bv.
This reminds me of French artist who
was glib enough of tongue and def enough
of brush, but when he tried to write he
never could think of anything except the
word "Bonjour." and the pathetic part of
it was that he wanted to be great novel
ist. think this is quite touching coin
cidence.
have just said that comparisons were
unklno, anu yet VINO can IOr get OeOrPle
Drew in 1.-THE Senator" or find another
Mrs. Hilary like unto hersP am not fond
of Miss Bates, either, in the role of young
matron, wife or widow. AS The Girl-the
Gibsonian American Girl-she is truly
Gear and lovable. Her matronly assur-
ance is less agreeable, and when she re-
comes too blithe, as is sometimes the case,
and INDUCES in exaggerations and hip-haps
she loses much of the pretty poise which
suits her daintily and verges toward the
precipitous edge where vivacity ends and
something else-lower down, you know,
begins Here she would be crowding Miss
Ross, who strives in vain to soar. Miss
Ross is not to be felicitated on having
chosen the stage as profession. She is,
doubtless, painstaking and unquestionably
satisfied with the result, but her friends
should be able to reason her out of that
The ingenue who can fail to grasp such a
golden chance as "Josie" should tie up her
little stagesuruck head in iced bandages,