The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
May Irwiu rides q wheel.

May Irwiu rides wheel.
Henrik Ibsen was 90 years old on March 25.
Henry Arthur Jones new play is called "The
Triumph OF the Philistines"
The Italian Philharmonic Society, under the
direction OF Signor Spadina, will give ''Il Tro-
vatore" st StockwelTs Theater on Sunday
evening, May 3.
A new dramatic star, Tina di Lorenzo, has
recently created much enthusiasm in Rome as
Frou-Frou, Camille, etc, about the same roper
toire as played by Duse.
After this year Peter Daley will shelve 1.-THE
Country Sport" and has for next season new
farce by John J. McNally, entitled The Night
Clerk
Rapinta, the dancer, has made decided hit
at the Casino. Her success is so pronounced
that the management have engaged her in
definitely.
Boston friends OF Lolita Crabtree have re-
Gently heard from her. She has been passing
delightful winter in Madrid, and she expects
to return home about the LIST OF May. Her
health is greatly improved.
The Woman's League for Political Education
last week discussed the political, social and
geographical history OF New York, and opened
the symposium with a diSquisition on The
Tall Theater-hat.'
William a. Brady says that he has had more
than forty-fye applications for the part OF 'Tril-
BY" seventeen Svengalis and twenty-three
Little BilIees. Nj. Brady, by his arrangement
with A. II. Palmer. viii cover every section OF
the country with "Trilby'' companies during
the next twelYem0nth.
I,cr in, la+t frOrr,
Rome that Italy's climate cannot be compared
with that of California. She adds: i am en-
chanted with the Eternal City, and I feel CRATE
full TO the Russian Government, thanks 10 its
cruel edict, that lam about 10 have so much
enjoyment and happiness"
The sunday night German performances at
the Baldwin this year promise TO be more sue
cessful than before. The season Will be for ten
nights, and the company engaged is said TO be
q strong one.
The New York anarchists have just been in
dulging in amateur theatricals al the Thalia
Theater on the Bowery. The play presented
was The Sicilian Maiden The scenes are
from the events OF the recent revolution. John
Most, Justus Schwab and Emma Goldman were
in the audience.
Some of his plays have Just been performed
in London by company that IS said to have
made Ibsen himself shed tears. One of the
critics, however, said that was EOthing-he
had seen English actors play Ibsen's works that
would have made the old man 90 out and COM
nit suicide if he had seen them. Some time
ago George r. Simms, author Of "The Lights o.
London" confded TO an interviewer that he
did not care for the back-parlOr immortality Of
Ibsen's plays. He was Mortified on reading the
interview 10 frd himself reported as saying
that Ibsen was an immoral old man, who spent
most OF his time in a bar-parlor.
Little Lord Fauntelroy'' has just made his
first appearance in Paris. The gay Parisians
have not the least idea that he has ever made
a theatrical success anywhere else, and are
raving over him as a perfectly new and original
character. The Temps says: What sur
prise box the theater is. Yesterday the Come
die-Pausienne gave as a piece 'The Little
Lord" by Jacques TemRine ard Luhrmann 1t
is founded on anAmerican novel, and was in
tended to amuse children, but behold! The
parents themselves were charmed with it and
the most blase theater-goers applauded THE
Little Lord"
Brand-new plays and startling theatrical
fads are generally little tardy in reaching
San Francisco, and just at present the
average theater-goer may almost see some
thing to be thankful for in this. In Europe,
and to some extent in the East there is a
lament going up that the stage is rapidly
becoming a mere propaganda platform
for the discussion of problems religious,
social and political. The woman with a
past has been presented dramatically so