The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22
WITH OTHER CASTS.
Why Many New York Successes Fail
on the Road.


Many actors and actresses of established
reputation nowadays find it extremely
profita BILE to remain in New York the year
round, accepting at extra salary nothing
but so-called especial engagements" which
are always of limited duration, and giving
them a certain amount of leisure between
times. A manager who has new play
which he wants to take on the road WILL if
he possibly can, produce it in New York
and present it here for two or three weeks
with particularly strong cast, especially
engaged for the occasion. OF course, the
actors and actresses SO engaged get enor-
nous salaries for the two or three weeks
they play, but when the piece starts on its
tour through the country their places are
filed by much cheaper people. billboards
displaying the original eulogistic quota
strength of the company.
That's one reason why the theater-
goers of Harrisburg, Pa, for instance,
often wonder what in the world the New
York newspapers could ever have seen to
praise in play that to them seems moth
ing but poorly acted farce or melodrama
of the worst variety. The Harrisburg cast
isn't the New York one by many hundred
dollars, and as q rule $50 week man
can't act as we'll as one who gets $500. If
he could he'd be getting the $500 and
"doing the New York act."-New York
World.
Dramatic Brevities.
Nine. Nevada has retired from Hinrich' S
Opera Company.
Robert Mantell is one of the early book
ings at the California.
G D.. !.
CATION will soon appear at the California
Theater.
Babies are henceforth to be charged full
price for admission to the Tabor Grand
Opera house in Denver.
During his stay of three weeks at the
Baldwin Theater Richard Mansfield will
present no less than fifteen plays.
Duse will return to this country next No
vember. Instead of bringing over her own
italian company again, however, she will
be supported by English-speaking actors
and actresses engaged here. and she will
be seen in "Romeo and Juliet" "All's
Well That Ends Well' and cleopatra"
Sydney Booth, nephew of Edwin Booth,
has been greatly praised for his perform
ance in the support OF Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke.
sThe Night Clerk" which will soon be
presented by Peter F. Daley at the Cali
fornia Theater. is the latest effort OF John
]. McNally, editor of the Boston Herald.
The contest between the two rival Juliets
in New York has been short-lived. Mrs.
Potter's artificial, stilted veronese lady has
4 + ,od IrllI Iof
of Julia Marlowe.
A New York musical critic is charged
with going to sleep and snoring at Wag-
merriam opera performance. The accusation
is absurd, of course. The idea of snore
being heard at a Wagnerlan performance!
Kansas City Journal.
Jessie Bartlett Davis is now an expert
fencer. For a month she has been in
structed daily in the art of handling the
foils by Regis Senac, the champion
swordsman. She is now looking around
for an opera which will give her an oppor-
tunity to fight.
According to the New York Mail and
Express Anthony Hope has adapted his
story, 1.-The God in the Car which has to
do with the rise of South African mag
nate, Tor the sage under the name OF ''The
Price of Empire" He has made four
act play of it and has sold it to George
Alexander of London.
s'Duse has continued to be the great
overshadowing attraction of the week.
SAYS the World. "She went to see Mr.. and
Mrs. Taber one night and her enthusiastic
applause and cordial appreciation showed
that she, too. realized the greatness of the
young woman who has long been recog-
nized by the discerning as the foremost
actress on the American stage. Duse's
tribute to Marlowe was the tribute of the
greatest living actress to the most promis-
ing"