The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

to play at Days Theater and practically,
under Days management, since the i'm
perlal Augustln is to organize and re-
organize her company. Before Cora Urqu-
hart Potter was distressed by bee in her
bonnet, which buzzed about the elevation
OF the stage, her one idea was to enter the
charmed DAILY circle. The Fates, coupled
with her inefficiency, were against her. 1t
Is easy enough to get into Days with ever
so little talent and whatever has been said
or sung to the contrary, red tape counts
here for nothing. Daily is the most impair
tai as he is the most unpleasant of man
ayers, and, excepting always his stars, has
but one rule for prince and peasant alike.
Yes! 1t is easy enough to get into Days
If one is satisfied to get only so far in and
wait, it may be for years and it may be
forever, for chance to be seen by an
audience.
| do not really know how many chorus
people are getting fifteen dollars a week at
Days just for standing about in the wings
and saying my lord, the carriage waits. !"
Daily is always on the lookout for talent and
hates to let a promising youngster slip by
him, but 1t usually begins and ends there,
ana most persons are averse to wasting a
fair young life for the empty honor of
| being known as q silent member of the
Daily Company.
| 1t is with certain painful surprise that
note the continued success of the Gaiety
Girl Company. It is now playing in Sgd
ney or Melbourne, I forget which, at SAL
aries which are simply stupeDdous. This
shows what the cachet of London will do
assisted in my humble opinion, by that
singularly fetching poster of Dudley
| Hardy's, which promised so much more
than Gaiety Girl fulfilled.
When I read in LIE Figaro that Paris
| found Marcel Prevost's dramatization of
his ''Demi-Virgins" might be too risque
for French audience, l smiled sweetly.
| This sudden quaIm of modesty was so
utterly French. Paris had survived the
book, in which nothing was left unsaid,
and even on the stage it is impossible to
speak the unspeakable. However, Pre-
| vost took warning and has flown, it seems,
to the opposite extreme. The play is so
refined that Paris is bored to madness at
the sight and sound of it, although Jane
Hading has the leading role. There is no
denying the cleverness of the story-that
is, from the standpoint that it is clever to
talk learnedly about all sorts of forbidden
things.
| La Grande Duse has begun her London
engagement and gives no evidence of her
large and extensively advertised illness 1t
is gossiped abroad that her managers make
the extremely foolish mistake of supposing
her reputed feebleness of body will en-
nance her attractions as an artist. At all
events they invariably publish report of
her approaching demise week or so be-
fore she appears in any big European city,
very old and shabby trick which never
yet has done an actress one atom of good.
That is one comfortable quality in Bern
hardt. She is subject to "vapors," and her
disposition frequently interferes with her
performance, but she has never worked
her dear public for sympathy and one does
not read at regular intervals that she is
lowering on the edge of an early grave.
May Irwin is to star next season in a
play especially written for her by the
dramatic critic of the Boston Herald. L
devoutly hope that this farce-comedy, for
such it is, affords her no opportunity tor
singing Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey
Boy" I like Miss Irwin. 1 have liked
her from Daily to Daley, as it were; but
she has imposed the Honey Boy on an
indulgent public for an all-suficient period
of years, and it is time she gave him last