The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-22
DRAMATIS PERSONE

Duke living in Punishment -. Normal McGregor
frederick. his brother and usurper Of his de-
Amiens and jacques, Lords attending on the
banished Duke..C. a. Deane and c. T. Richman
LIE Beau, courtier, attending upon FREDERICK;
Charles, wrestler to Frederick George 5 Miehiing
jacques and orlando sons Of Sir RoWan leS de- S'sS
Boys. Edmund Hayes and William G. Beach
TOachsone, R. stockweil
s@'1 and r' sa5 D so..a
William, country fellow, in love with Audrey
Observation-Disclosures. Thomas Kierns
Rosalind, daughter to the bamshed Duke.
Celia, daughter to Frederick. Miss Pauline French
Phebe, shepherdess. Miss Freda Gallick
Audrey, country wench. Miss Maud winter
Pages-Miss Lillian Dare, Miss Claire Pracht.
LadLes-Miss Warning, Miss Perrin, Miss Sepul-
veda, Miss Silverthorn, Miss Browning, Miss
Pence, Miss Heffron, from the Columbia Theater
School of Dramatic Art.
Lords-Mr 1ippert, MI. GODFREY, MI. Hopkins,
Mr.. Crawford, from the Columbia Theater School
OF Dramatic Art.
Foresters first tenors-B. G. somers, C. R. Morse,
T. " BLACKWELL. c. a. Elston, from the University
OF California Gee Club.
Foresters second tenors-F. P. Taylor, T. A.
Smith, T. S. knight, b. 5. Symmes and Temple
Smith Of the University of California GIee Club.
FOresters, first bass-R. ]. Russ, q. t. Wede-
meyer, G. II. Whpple and $. L. Rawlings of the
University Of California Glee Club.
Foresters, second bass j. ?. Hutchins, D.
Hutchinson, II. p. Veeder, G. H. Harwood, r. r.
versity OF California Glee Club
TO shakespeare's furthest reach of
XIX idealism was linked the players ut
JAgG termost realism, and, to use the Ian
guage of the play itself, these latter said to
San Francisco:
If you will see pageant truly played
Go hence little and shall conduct you.
How many thousand accepted the invi-
tation is large, practical matter of arith-
metic and the box-office, which should not
be allowed to mar, by so much as a men,
ton, the spell of the poetic presence.
Sutro Heights has its own quality of
beauty, by which it is spoken of among
Travellers wherever in the world they be,
who have once stood upon it's eminence
and under its UNI brageous trees, watched
and heard the sounding ocean.
Of the sights OF earth to be singled out
as worth speaking of the view there to be
had is one. But to the traveller who shall
60 there in all the tomorrow and to-mor-
rows of travellers it will be said: "Here
is where AS You Like It was done that
time in the fall of '95, You remember. Just
here, under these trees, Orlando threw the
wrestler; here Rosalind and Celia, being
banlsned from the court and going to seek
the foresters, came and rested; by this tree
stood the gloomy Jacques while he re-
cited the monologue of the seven ages and
here and here and there, to these real and
living trees is where Orlando, the love
sick, pinned his verses and carved the
name of Rosalind. There stood Touch
stone while he explained the intricacies of
the lie seven times removed"
1t was truly noble accomplishment
fit for history.
To be sure, not each individual of those
thousands who witnessed it liked
it just as well as every other individual
liked it. Indeed, it is safe to say that
several of the thousands suffered con-
siderable impotence as the first act dis
solved into the second, the second into the
third and SO on, and they discovered that
the sparkling and famous lines being
uttered by some of the best players of the
stage, under such conditions as must
awaken their most latent meaning, were
passing unheard by them.
Ideally real the conditions were to be
sure, but the real greenwood tree and the
real blue sky are not good sounding boards.
And that must and should have been and
doubtless was taken into consideration.
Expectation really had no rights beyond