The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26
A Characteristic Sketch Of the Famous
Comedian 50 Well Known to
CaIifornianS.
HE is ALWAYS HUMOROUS.
The Great Comedian Of the TiYOll Tells
What BE Thinks of the Wonderful
Californian Product.
HE is INDEED WELL PLEASED.

You have been to the Tivoli; of course you
have. Your memory recalls the many pleasing
evenings you have been delighted with the fan
tastes of the comic opera The leading fun
maker, you will recall, is Ferris Hartman. You
know too well how overwhelmingly funnyiHart-
man can be when he is at his best. He is al
ways at his best. 1t is no easy achievement to
appear funny to the same people night after
night, matinee after matinee. One must pos
sess a great fund of humor to please. Ferris
Hartman is singular genius. His characters
are always interesting, his makeup always
characteristic. You hardly know it is the same
man, and yet when you see him you realize he
does so-and-so only as Ferris Hartman can do 1t.
Hartman as Student.
Men do not fall into things. Genius is very
good, but raw genius don't last long. Genius
and study make the s'rara avis" Hartman is
a real student. He spends hours and hours
arranging his comicalities, "making up his
funny characters. This is no easy matter. One
must be careful to do something entirely diff
ferent from that which had been done and yet
follow closely the lines drawn by the play
wright.
He Is OFF the Stage.
When Ferris Hartman is off the stage you
forget he Is an actor-you believe him to be
great big, overgrown collegiate, brimful
of wit and humor. His wit is not at expense of
some other person; his wit is not the "biting''
kind; it is the putting into juxtaposition the
incongruous and he juxtaposes so rapidly you
are at loss to know from whence it comes.
At the Stage.
If you want to see funny man-exceedingly
funny-go to g. stagg. Nearly any frst-class
stage after II O'Clock will bring you into play
with Hartman. He is singularly original and
peculiarly laughable.
Hartman Serious.
Every man has serious side, and Hartman
is man. Some time ago he contracted bad
case of dyspepsia and nervousness. He was
tired, weary, jaded. He tried many things be-
fore he tried joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He
now praises the great Home Remedy. When I
saw him yesterday he said: "I have no hesita-
ton in commencing the Californian herb
remedy, joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. 1 have
been using it for some time, and find it is as
good as the manufacturers assert. Certainly
it is a wonderful blood laxative. No one cares
to go on record in the papers in favor of any
prescription, but as the medicine has done me
great good / am perforce compelled to say
Yes, q friend of mine recommended me to
take joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla l have met
many people who tell of peculiar cases of
dyspepsia and blood affections that have been
cured by the great herb remedy, joys Vege-
table sarsaparilla. If you don't feel well, try
joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla."
AS left Mr.. Hartman l could not help but
recall what charitable fellow he is. With
heart as big as all outside, he is always doing
something for his friends, or for some one "out
of luck Nearly every performance for char
ity finds Hartman on the list if he can get
away from the Tivoi. The press men are
especially thankful to Ferris Hartman for his
many services to them.