The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04

bia Theater, exhibited to CALL reporter
last evening the letter-press copy, dated
May %, 1895, of a communication to the
Actors Association, wherein the manager
requested the association to call upon his
theater for any service it could render in
behalf of the benefit.
The manager was asked: Had Mr..
F'rawley signifed his intention not to ap-
pear with Mr.. Hayes before you wrote this
letter."
He had" was the reply. s'When the
benefit was first mentioned he declared
that he would not, for reasons of profes-
sional propriety, associate himself on the
stage with Mr.. Hayes"
Ibid he reach this decision before the
cast of the character of Virginius was
discussed2"
II am sure that he did," replied Mr..
Friedlander. "He is governed in all things
pertaining to his profession by a very
nice-I may say an almost extreme-sense
of professional propriety. His personal
character is clean and above reproach, and
he expects from the people of his company
a due regard for professional ethics. He
will not even allow members of the COM
pany to stand in front of the theater for
the passing crowd to see. He is an actor,
highly respected in the profession, whose
word is as good as his bond AS I under
stand, his only reason for refusing to ap-
pear at the benefit performance is his
understanding that Mr.. Hayes cast a covert
insinuation on married lady whose char
acter is umblemished.'
''Do you not think, Mr.. Friedlander.
that the lady herself should feel aggrieved
at both Mr.. Frawley and Mr.. Hayes-one
for making an insinuation and the other
for resenting it in manner to invite the
widest public attention."
The manager replied: "Miss Bates is
hrin orb ND Ill
the people OF the company know her to be
lady of the highest character. She lives
with her aunt in the Western Addition
and Mr.. Frawley lives at the Palace Hotel.
/ do not know how she feels about the
controversy. She is capable and indepen-
dent, and should say fully able to take
care of herself. Ii the cudgel was taken up
in her behalf it was because every one in
the company respects her so highly. She
is married lady, the wife of Lieutenant
Davis of the United States Army. At
least do not know that she is divorced"
At the clubs and other places frequented
by Mr.. Frawley he is well spoken of, and
commended as gentleman of good adj
dress and polite associations. He is an
American of Irish descent, and made his
first hit in California while here with
Crane in the Senator" company.
Edmund Hayes, the leading man of
Morosco's Theater, is not without friends.
He has legion of admirers, and is par
ticularly adored by the very young ladies'
of play going inclinations. Nothing de-
lights them more than the heroic attitudes
of Hayes.
An actor who is well acquainted with
the coming personator of Virginius, said
yesterday: "Hayes is an American from
Illinois. He is young man who promises
to achieve fame as an actor. There is dan
ger that he may be spoiled by the admira-
ton and fiattery of women. They are al
ways lettering around him, and he NAV
sometime repulse attentions in a roue d
way, don't believe that he ever cast any
insinuation covert or direct on any lady,
He is very discreet in what he SAYS
1t transpires now that the Morosco
people have contended from the time the
benefit was first spoken of that the hono1
of representing Virginius in the forum
scene should go to an actor of the Morosco
company. The programme in that respect
has been formed. Hayes has been measured
up and down and it has been found that
| the msntel of John Mccullough will fiji
him like the paper on the wall.
| Thursday, June 6, will be day long to
be remem bered in the histrionic calendar