The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03

California as star at the head of her own
company in comedy written especially
for her by one of the leading playwrights
in the country-he is her husband, but
that's another story, though it is all in
cluded in the two years career.
Success has not spoiled this lucky young
woman, however. She is still girlish and
unsophisticated enough to find unaffected
delight in bunch of roses, to revel in the
sunshine and to extract a schoolgirl's sat
isfaction from a drive to the Cliff House
She scarcely looked more than a school
girl as she sat in her parlor at the Occi-
dental Hotel yesterday, waiting for the
carriage that was to take her to see the
sights. The room was literally filed with
roses that friends OF Charles Hoyt had
sent to the young wife and she could not
stihe the expression of her satisfaction at
the gorgeous display.
You know this is my first visit to the
coast. L never saw anything like them be-
fore" she said, half apologetically, indi-
eating the roses with a small hand that
was ablaze with diamonds. 1--WE have
just come from San Jose, where / saw
houses there with rose bushes climbing
right over the roofs. Welll l had to be-
heye 1t, because | saw it, but if any one had
OOAd 1llc dDOub Tie Cdil jose RdTuGlS DcIOTG-
hand, should have been skeptical."
Mrs. Hoyt laughed when asked whether
she was still as enthusiastic about her pro-
fesslon as when she first went on the stage.
Il am more SO; it grows upon one. Now,
frankly, don't you think it is better to be
an actress, or newspaper woman, or an
artlst-anything where you can work and
have ambitions instead of sitting at home
and making tidies2
"a new woman? No, indeed, am not
anything OF the sortl New women all con-
sider 1T sacred duty to understand poll
tics, and politics bring so many gloomy
forebodlngs In their train. If you are a
democrat and the Republicans get in you
say the country is going to the dogs, and
when the Democrats get into power the
Republicans say exactly the same thing.
As the country never does go to the dogs
it seems to me that politicians are pessirn-
lists unnecessarily; but that may be be-
cause l am not new woman and know
nothing about the subject"
This was certainly new view to take
of politics, but Mrs. Hoyt appeared to
have arrived at it by her reasoning. She
is girl who looks as if nothing. not even
the conviction that the country was going
to the dogs, could induce her to take
gloomy view of life. Her large grav ewes
sparkle with fun, she has bewitching and
ready smile and even her Tam oShanter
hat was set on her blonde curls in a iauntv
and cheerful way which seemed to saw
that the wearer was quite above worrying
over trifies.
When it was suggested that she take
the part of new woman in her husbands
play Mrs. Hoyt explained Carefully that
she was supposed to dabble in politics
more from pique than from conviction.
cit is an aunt who induces the Con-
tented Woman to run for office against
her own husband. She has had tiff with
her husband, SO she is willing to take that
way of getting even, but she only mas
querades as new woman; she is not The
genuine article.
'.Did my husband write the play from
actual experience in Denver2 No. ex-
pect he evolved it out of his own brain.
t'His method of working is something
like this: lie sees character that is out
of the common-perhaps it is only some
man he meets On the street, but he thinks
of that man as if he had known him, and
when ne once has him firmly on his brain
he builds q plot around him; then he has
a play. He never writes till the whole
plot is evolved in his brain. and then he
puts the story on paper in week or two.