The San Francisco call., 1898-06-02
ARRIVAL OF THE.
 FRAWLEY COMPANY
THE MANAGER HAS ENGAGED A
 HIGH-CLASS AGGREGATION.
The Plays to Be Presented Will Be the Latest and Best East
 ern Successes.

The theatrical company which J. J. Gottlob and T. Daniel Frawley have been collecting for some weeks arrived last night on a special car from New York after most enjoyable trip The party was minus the central figure, Frawley himself, who will arrive this morning. The company as it now stands consists of Madeleine Bouton, Cora Tinnie Maude Winter, Fanchon Campbell Eleanor Ca rey, Edward M. Bell, Samuel Edwards. Ali Hickman, Robert G. Wilson, John T. Burke, David Conger, Theodore Roberts, Louis Payne and Fred Williams The lat ter gentleman will be stage manager for MT. Frawley, position which he is ex- pected to fill with great ability from the fact that he was the original stage man. ager of the Lyceum Company for many years.
 This is beyond all doubt the greatest aggregation of players that the astute Frawley has ever gathered together, and what is more, it is the highest salaried stock company that has ever played un- der his management. Each member has been engaged with a view to the peculiar fitness of the artist in his or her particu- lar line. The greatest difficulty was expe- rienced in. securing a leading lady who came up to MT. Frawley's ideal and final ly Miss Bouton was chosen.
 All the artists expressed themselves as being particularly well pleased to be in San Francisco and as anxious to begin rehearsals for the opening piece on Mon day, June 13, which is to be Augustin Da- ly's last comedy success, Number g. or the Lady of Ostend.' The season will be for sixteen weeks and the company will present some of the latest and very best plays. They have secured Liberty Hall' and Masked Ball' from Charles Frohman; "An Enemy to the King with which it was originally intended to open, but the comedy Number 9' will better bring out the full strength of the com Daniel. Frohman; "The Dancing Girl" from T. Henry French; 'I he Great Pink Pearl" one of Daly's plays; "A New Yorker" in which Robert HilliaTd sue, M :, by Daly; His Absent Boy. A: M. ral- mer's last great success; .:The Ra- 1ah," made famous by Il. M. Pitt, who ago; Daly's Love in Tandem; Will liam H. Cranes success, "On Probation" and Sydney Rosenfeld's "Our Divorce. !" authors. in America, has just finished a play which he wrote expressly for the Frawley company, and which has not as yet been named. Negotiations are being carried on for several other successes and it is said that the Frawley Company will present succession of the very best plays to be had.
 Fred Williams has been much amused at the published reports of his sons ap- pearance with the company. He is the father of Fritz Williams, who is stili with the Frohmans, and it is the father and not the son who has been engaged by Frawley.
 Madeleine Bouton's last success; was M Bell, the leading man, has been with Charles Frohman for some time past Samuel Edwards comes with an Eastern Roberts portrayal of the character of the villainous colonel in the Heart of Maryland" is well known. The other members are all good artists in their re- spectiVe lines.