The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-01

the chief actors were fimsily concealed
under pseudonYms, but every one who ran
could read. or protested TO be able to read,
that George Gould had been assigned the
role of honor in the title of the novel, "a
God of Gotham" and that Laura Den was
the heroine and that Ada Lee Bascom had
assigned 10 hel self the role of ingenue-a
part she. had generally played in Laura
pon's company.
"a God of Gotham flourished for a
week or two OH the bookstalls, and was
snapped up eagerly and read by old Cali
fornians who knew the authoress-then it
disappearel, and for love or money not
anot her volume was forthcoming. Cos
sips whispered ihat"A God of Gotham"
had read ha>work;himaelt, and had man.
aged to have:it suppressed He found that
the mirror had been he up TO nature too
plainly for his own satisiaction and either
bought up the :: editions or brought in
fi1enceto bear to s3ife~ the novel. This is
merely hearsay, and does not amount TO
evidence, but you. canhot buy "a God CT
Gotham, at the book sellers to-day, nor
can you order q copy through the pub
fisher.
Fooled in her desire to win fame as q
novelist. although encouraged by the first
success of her hook, Ada Lee Bascom
turned her attention to playwriting. Here
her dramatic experience stood her in good
stead and her melodrama, "a Bowery
Girl" was success from the first. 1t bad
long New. York run last year ahd was
moved from theater 10 theater, as the
audiences kept up beyond the expecta-
tons of the management. Last autumn
Miss Bascom came home for the first time
in several years and while here she wrote
1.-The Queen of Spades" for the produc-
tion of which Miss Elizabeth Marbury is
now negotiating. Every one will wish the
plucKy California writer success.
!. Already great many arran gements are
being made. in a dramatic way for the
great Paris Exposition of 1900. If you are
going tola Vile Lumiere on that occasion
the proposed mareorama will take your
breath away.
You will take your ticket and board an
ocean liner at Marseilles. The masts will
tower up to the sky, the engines will be
. throbbing, steam cranes will be letting
down the baggage into the ho.d and, in
point of fact, You will have all the illusion
:of a start on an ocean voyage. Slowly the
Came biere. will disappear and you will
find yourself in mid-ocean with the vessel
rolling and tossing. In turn you will
visit every town OF beauty and interest on
the coast line OF Europe and Asia, stop
ping from time to time to let singers and
dancers OF. various chimes come aboard
sun goes down on an angry sea. The
m DON rises. but 1t is quickly obscured by
clouds, and you hear the roaring of the
wind and the sea dashing against the
boat. The captain mounts the bridge and
shouts his orders to the crew, who are
rushing here. there and everywhere
handing out the lifebelts and lowering the
boats
And just at that moment when you are
wondering if you could not tighten the
boat by throwing off yet one more evil
ha bit that you contracted in happier days,
the sea Gains down, and you sail up the
Dardanelies and see Constan tinople in all
its morning glory. The voyage will last
one hour, and four kilometers Of canvas
will be unrolled before your astonished
ewes. The machinery for the Storm will
produce such a realistic effect that it will
cease TO be an illusion for the nervous.