davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

produced at the Theatre rte-Saint-
Martin, in Paris. last December, with
Couuelin in the title role, has been the
greatest French success of recent
times. The London Telegraph gives an
account of part of the play, in which
1t says that the central character, Cy-
rano. so admirably played-false nose
and abby M. Coquelin, is an ugly.
lovable. unselfish hero, who, when he
finds that his love for his cousin Rox-
ane is not returned, and that she loves
Christian de Neuvillette, devotes him
self to the task of writing love letters
to help his rivals suit. Christian gets
killed in the wars, and Cyrano himself
is suffering from a mortal disease. In
a. beautiful scene in the fifth act the
secret of the love letters is at last dis
covered. Cyrano Is, at Roxane's re-
quest. reading the last message from
her dead lover. 1t is already dusk. yet
Cyrano seems to know the words by
heart. SO the lady finds out the truth.
Roxane quitting her hand on his
shoulderl-How can you read? It is
quite dark
(He starts to find her so near him,
and his head sinks on his breast. A
long silence. Then in the darkness she
speaks.)
And for fourteen years he has played
this camel
Cvrano-RoXane!
Roxane-It was YOU
Cyrano-No, no!
Roxane-I understand all the gener-
Gus imposture: The letters. it was
you?
Cyrano-No, nc!
Roxane-The dear, mad words, they
were yours, The voice ir the night, It
was yours! The soul that spoke to me.
it was yours.
Cyrano-No. no; did not love you.
Roxaue-You loved me-
Cyrano-No; 1t was the other
Roxane-It was you. You loved me-
Cyrano-No.
Roxane-Already you hesitate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
Baldwin,.

The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle," a play
that has received no little attention
from the Eastern critics and even from
the monthly reviews since its success
full production at the New York Ly-
ceum Theater will be presented for the
first time at the Baldwin Theater to-
morrow night. The play is from the
pen Of Madeleine Lucette Ryley, who
also wrote christopher Jr." and An
American Citizen" both of which found
much favor in San Francisco. In
Mysterious Mr.. Bugle" there is said
to be no attempt at sentiment or any
thing in the nature of a serious story.
For this good reason it is called farce,
though it is said to be written in the
spirit Of comedy and to appeal more
to lovers Of the witty than lovers of
the silly.
The humor of the situations is
evolved from the white lies of one
Betty Fondacre and the unreasonable
jealousy Of her fiance. Tom Pollinger
Tom having a wealthy but eccentric
grandmother to propitiate, persuades
Betty to keep her engagement to him
a secret, and, being of jealous dls-
position, he makes Betty pretend that
she is a married woman in order that
WOulQ-De SullOTS w htII 'lI CtAy
They agree that she shall call her
self Mrs. Bugle, name they choose
at random. This causes Betty to tell
any number of harmless f1bs which in
volve her in endless difficulties, one or
which makes her cousin, Allan Fond
acre, conclude that Tom Pollinger is in
love with Betty's sister Julia, which
discovery he confides to Betty. Out
ragged at her lovers duplicity, Betty re-
venges herself by telling Tom that
there really is a Mr.. Bugle, and that
what he has supposed was sham is
reality This brings matters up to
concert pitch, and the latter part of the
play concerns Toms jealous anxiety
concerning the mythical Mr.. Bugle,
who is not entirely accounted for I'M
til the final curtain rings down.
Prominent in the cast is Mr.. Joseph
Holland who has not been here for
long time, but who will be none the
less welcome on that account. Other
names more or less familiar are Crotch
en- Lyons, Winona Shannon, Agnes
Findlay, Edgar Norton, Lucius Hen
derscn and Charles Collins.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
TURN THESE PICTURES UPSIDE DOWN AND YOU'LL SEE

stage as a means to an end. While at
tending the art school at Munich he de-
veloped his talent as an entertainer in
the little sociables among the students,
and when the time came that he found
himself short of means he then began to
turn his talent to account.
There is also a little romance in his
life. For time Rudinoff retired to a
monastery, and it is said that some of
the sketches he executed on the wall are
still the wonder of the monks. He con-
cluded, however, that his life as a priest
to the world and for a time was engaged
as illustrator on the Partisan magazine
Later he took to the stage, and hopes
within year to return to the art school
at Munich,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
THE OUTER WORLD.
News and Comment of Distant
PIaus and Plauers.

Poor Clement Scott! Nearly every
body has taken a whack at him since
that unvarnished interview about the
morality of actresses. Only Bernard
Shaw and Robert Buchanan were con-
spicuously in the defense of their col
league Shaw, with his usual open
ness, says that Scott told but half the
truth, but that the parsons needn't read
as they would do better to look to their
own congregation, who employ laun-
dresses to shine and starch their Sun
day linen at wages that virtually COM
pei immortality. Buchanan settles the
subject with single epigram: ''Twen-
ty thousand virtuous women on the
stage, and only three actresses"
Few people know that Scott wrote the
words of Promise Me-" Selma Do
laro, who is now dead, used to tell
good story on the London critic. She
joked shamelessly about his infatuation
for her, and the climax came when she
explained how he used to write lyrics
for private circulation. One day, while
at luncheon with two other actresses
who were among the public favorites
of the hour, the three women began to
compare their notes.
II say, girls said Miss Dolaro, "a
new poem was sent to me this morn
ing. I'll tell you the first line. Then
want you to guess who 1t sounds
like!"
With roguish twinkle in her eyes,
Dolaro struck mock posture and be-
gan:
OH Promise me that some day you and L
But, without waiting to give her an
answer, the second actress burst in
hastily:
May take our love together to some sky
Then, suddenly, the deep contralto
voice of the third actress intoned sol
emily:
Where we may be alone and faith
And find the hollows where these flowers grew.
That was enough. In less than an
other minute those three women had
tried and convicted Scott of threeply
deception; and the story Of his duplic
ity-thanks to the vivacity Of Miss
Dolaro's tongue-was soon standing
joke in every club in London.
And this all took place years and
years before Reginald de Koven had
discovered the poem, and, with the as
sistance of Jessie Bartlett Davis made
it once more famous.
Richard Mansfield is endeavoring to
secure the American rights for Ed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
Orpheunn.

In addition to the already strong bill
at the Orpheum several new attrac-
tons will mark the new week Prom
inent among them is VIII II. FOX,
whose humorous representations at the
pianoforte have given him the title or
the vaudeville Paderewski. Athas and
Collins have been brought from Aus
tralia for the Orpheum circuit. They
are classed as the very best OF Aus
tralian vaudevillers and it is expected
they will make a hit. Burke and For
rest, whose work was so well received
here about one year ago, Will return
with Number of new and good things.
The Orpheum has had cake walkers
and buck and wing dancing, all by
genuine colored people. but now come
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Mcintosh, a colored
team, who confine their efforts TO
straight comedy. :,
The hold-overs include Rudinon,
whose smoke pictures. limitations and
shadowgraphing have made MIN
great Orpheum favorite; Josephine Sa-
bel and the human music sheet, with
new line of songs, several of which are
entirely new to the Pacific Coast, and
the Jose Quintet in new selections.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
ChuteS.

A big collection Of wild animals is
now on exhibition at the Chutes. There
are twenty-five lions, an elephant and
almost everything else in the quadru-
ped line. Chiquita is still there, and
for some time will continue to receive
every afternoon and evening. A good
vaudeville show is given in the Free
Theater. and this afternoon two per-
formances will be given at 2 and
O'Clock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
Columbia.

There will be another week Of Prim-
rose & Vests minstrels at the Column
bia, during which new songs and spe-
cialties will be introduced, and then
comes Rice's "1492,' musical ex-
travaganza that appeared at the Bald
win nearly two years since. The female
impersonator of the present production
is Stuart, the Male Patti" The Her
aid Square Quartet, Thomas Meade,
the boy tenor, and some sixty others
are of the COMPANY
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
Army.

Cyrano-No, dear love. did not love
you.
Roxane-Why for fourteen years have
Won been silent, when on this letter,
where he is nothing, these tears are
yours?
Cyrano-This blood on the letter is
his
Roxane-Then, why break this sub
lime silence Of yours tt-day?
So the scene runs on with Increasing
pathos. The hero is dying, but has
not been able to deny himself final
interview with his lady love. At the
last he wins from Roxane's lips his first
and only kiss.
Even Carmen" can be canned too
much, writes Action Davies apropos of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
made in the prices, SO cents being the
Alcazar.

1.-The District Attorney" a political
and social play written by Harrison
Grey F'iske and Charles Kline and well
known here, will be presented at the
Alcazar next week. "A Gilded Fool
will be played tonight for the last
time One of John Drew's successes,
1.-THE Butterflies by Henry Guy Garlic
ton. will be given at the Alcazar in
the near future
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

The Sun says it's an Ill wind that
blows no theatrical manager good. Not
only has the disaster to the Maine
caused THE White Heather" to play
to larger business than ever on &C
count of its realistic scene at the bot
tom of the sea, but an extra force of
playwrights is now working night and
day upon a melodrama which will bring
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

The Call had to be done in pen and ink
and much more carefully executed than
his work for the stage, but even in this
the five sketches were finished in fifteen
minutes.
Mr. Rudinoff does not intend to follow
vaudeville. but hopes some day to return
to art. AT present he is dealing with the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
TiVoli.

With Sunday nights performance
the Tivolis "Geisha" production Will
come to a close and then good-by to
the prettiest musical comedy Of recent
years and one of the most credttaple
performances ever given by local
company. The piece to follow is THE
Widow O'Brien." a bowling farce with
copious musical interpretations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
California.

The California will be reopened to-
night with revised production of
Town Topics" a farce comedy which
was given at the Columbia a season or
two ago. A radical change has been
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

Minnie Seligman's vaudeville version of
the play conducted by Martha Morton.
Mr.. Davies says that the performance
was like trying to force full length
portrait into a pocket picture frame
large fragments of both Carmen and
Miss Seligman Tapped over on either
side.
Here are some more Imitation Oscar
Wildisms from 1.-THE Tree Of Knowl-
edge" which has just closed in Lon
don and will last the season out IN New
York:
Misunderstanding. don't abuse the major.
The major is brick. .
Mrs. Stanyon-PoSSibly; but you neeont
throw him at my head all the time.
Nigil referring to the clever rascal of
the play)-Eis one delight is to make him.
self out to be worse than he is.
Monica-Really? l doubt If he'll sue
coed,
Nigil-I think 1 could be happy If 1t
Roupell-Your past? You treat your
past as a child does the seed 1t has
planted out of sight the day before-you
dig it up to see how it's getting on. Why
don't you sow forgetfulness and get
h-onica to help you?
Roupell-Married happiness is largely
dependent on mutual retfcence.
Belle (the deserted adventures to her
former lover)-There is no quality so
austere as the virtue of a man who has
seen some one else.
Old Sir Mostyn-Optimism is the intoxi-
cant of youth and the narcotic of age.
Nigil advising his erring friend to face
the consequences manfully)-The lives of
other men before you have been warped
and bent. Lay yours on the anvil and
hammer it straight again.
Monica should like to bring little
happiness to you. Sorrows are often only
phailtoms that will disappear If we let In
a little daylight.
The lovesick major-The matrimonial
brigade is the finest branch In the service.
Belle-Wait until you're under fire!
Monica refuses the major but offers him
friendship.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

sketch is turned to an upright position
the result of his deft work becomes ap-
parent. He has with these few strokes
of the crayon drawn the head Of man
or woman that ranks as character
sketch.
Another line of work in which he ex-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

of Peter the Great" George Bernard
Shaw, one of the foremost critics of
England, because, as his manager said,
three lines Of adverse criticism In the
Saturday Review would be Of no value
to the Lyceum Theater.
ASHTON STEVENS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

cells is in that similar to illustrations
used in this connection, and are known as
"double-headers." When viewed from
one position one character appears, and
when the picture is turned another way
an entirely different profile comes to
view. OF course the illustrations furnished
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
Olympia.

The Olympia Music Hall offers va
ried bill of music and vaudeville.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

how quickly he executes his ideas in
black and white
With a sheet of paper and with a black
crayon he in less than half a minute
makes a few quick strokes, a dot or two
and there appears tangled mass of lines
which at first sight appear meaningless
to the audience, for his pictures are
drawn upside down. The moment the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

Richard Mansfield is endeavoring to
secure the American rights for Ed
mond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergirac,"
the poetic play which, since it was first
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

Much interest in New York is ex-
hibited in the return of Josef Hoff
mann, who played with Thomas Or
chestra last Tuesday week. When
last heard in America young Hoffman,
was a child prodigy; now, from all ac-
counts, he has fulfilled the promise of
his youth and must be reckoned one
Of the very first pianists of the world.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

the Cuban situation essentially up to
date. Most of the Cuban dramas are
now doing one night stands, having ex-
hausted their popularity in the big
cities, but nearly all the managers of
the combination theaters in New York
are now trying their utmost to cancel
the contracts of the companies that
they had engaged for next week in or
der to bring the shop-worn Cuban plays
back to the metropolis at once.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

At the Orpheum they manage the
living sheet music better by supplying
Sabel with something close to the ad-
vertised quota Of live coons. but, as
in the Ministries. the act does not get
fair trial for the lack Of catchy song.
Sabel is all her old self and even a little
more; she sings like a steam whistle.
shouts like two, and is entirely some
thing immediate, galvanic and special
This week she will increase the number
of coons to sixty-five and try anew song,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

~ UDINOFF, the talented Russian,
who is now at the Orpheum, has
* furnished The Call with some Of
4 his freehand trick drawing, in
- tor ho OpIv who
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
FINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.

The small number of deaths among the wounded and the early removal of the living to our coast show that the arrangements made by the government for the care of the injured have been first class. The officials who have the credit of so we'll guarding the suffer CTS from fatal inattention and delay deserve great credit. In their prov ince they have acted as nobly as the men in the trenches before Santiago It was, of course, as necessary to have suitable accommodations for the poor fellows who were hurt as to take the city, for modern warfare requires that barbarism shall be wanting both among the combatants in the field and in the treatment of the victims after wards. The administration rose to it's responsibility sp1endidly, and it has so far delighted the country that one may query whether today anybody can be- lieve that all the stories of confusion in the management of the army after the soldiers were. equipped for fight ing were we'll founded. In the Franco Prussian war the French could not be- gin to take care of their wounded and
 in the Russo-Turkish war the Rus sians found that Plevna severely taxed their hospital service
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
WHAT ABOUT OUR GUNS?

It is an interesting question how our warships, especially those which are most needed by the government, will get through this war That their hulls will be. :n good condition nobody can doubt. They have no dangers, practi- cally, to run and they are now in no worse condition than any ships might be expected to be in after voyage in tropical waters. What the government ought to think of is its guns. These tools of war are never long-lived. They rapidly deteriorate even during peace, for when they are not fired cor rosion is in process, though not always visibly, and if used for practice the natural ability of the piece to with stand wear is being tested. Since the bombardments of Cuban ports began the guns of most of our largest vessels have been subjected to considerable use Just how much perhaps the corre- spondents have not correctly informed the country. Each time a charge is fired it injures the bore and the rif1ing and it is supposed that after fifty or sixty shells or shot have been thrown any ordnance of more than eight inches caliber may be in need of re- placing The life of the largest wea- pons is believed to be not more than one hundred and twenty discharges.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

Soon after man passes 40 he begins to lose interest in the Fourth of July noise.
 Any man who looks cool and com fortable in this weather may safely be accused of using baby powder.
 Lots of Atchison people are going away for the summer, but just the same there is lots to do at home.
 Be careful what you say in the first place; the greatest waste of time is that spent in retracting and denying.
 When a man is so good he wants his wife to go away for the summer for her health, her folks regard him with suspicion.
 After a couples engagement has been announced they don't seem to enjoy being alone as much as when they had a secret. The military way to get husband is for girl to make night shirt for the volunteers and enclose her name and address in the pocket. A German who was telling today of the joys of living in the old country, said that when war story was circu- lated over there, it was true.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
LOOK INDIAN"

When you drop a small object on the floor look Indian and you are sure to find it." says the Philadelphia Ledg- CT, which thus describes the method:
 Somebody dropped a tickpin in the hall the other day and had hard work to find it. She hunted high and low and on her hands and knees, and with candle, but it was no use. The pin was very tiny it's value being due to association rather than to size or bril- liancy. The somebody, after a final shake of the rros, was about to give it up forever, when one of the chill dren chanced to come along.
 ''Why don't YOU look Indian for it?'' he asked. Before the somebody real ized what was meant down dropped the voungster on the floor. his head and his whole body lying sidewise and just as close to the dead level as possible. Tn this position his eyes roved. rapidly over the floor. "I have it!" he shouted, and sure enough, right in the middle of the floor. in so plain a place that it had escaped notice, was the missing stickpin.
 The vounester then explained that Hooking Indian meant putting the head to the ground in order to catch sight of the smallest object between ones self and the horizon. "They do it on the plairs all the time.' he said. That's why they can always tell who's coming. But it works in houses just as well as on the plains. Why, we never lose anything in the nurs- cry nowadays; we just look Indian and find it right off,"
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15

MT. Richard Harding Davis was very indignant with MT. Poultney Bigelow ment of affairs at Tampa But now that he himself is with the troops be- fore Santiago he is severe almost to harshness upon General Shafter's man agement of the campaign. Bigelow and Davis appear to be of the same brood of officious writers who lack ability to know when they are making asses of themselves.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
THIS BUSY WORLD.

Rubber tires on a carriage add 25 per cent to the durability of the vehicle and decrease the cost of repairs 50 per cent
 The outside walls of many of the houses in Mexico are from three to six feet thick, to withstand earthquake shocks.
 A Japanese bride gives her wedding presents to her parents as some slight recompense for their trouble in rear ing her.
 In modern naval conflicts opposing vessels seldom come within two miles of each other until the vanquished ves= sel strikes her colors.
 Any Spaniard over the age of 13 is liable to be called into military service for three years. By the payment of 1,500 pesetas (s3OO) he can escape mil itary duty.
 The best houses in the city of Manila are of stone and are handsome resi-
Arizona republican., 1898-07-15
A MEMORABLE CONGRESS.

The dominant note of the congress sional session just ended was the pa triotic note. This is especially true of the months that have elapsed since the mangled Maine settled down in the oOze of Havana harbor, and events be- gan to march. Never did the country see partisan politics more handsomely double-Quicked to the rear The money needed by the army and navy has been supplied with unstinting hands. The departments have had only to ask and to receive. The neces- sary war taxes have been levied. In the great task that has devolved upon him the president has had the, loyal help of the congress right along.
 The session just ended has estab- lished two great precedents-set up two great landmarks of national pol icy. By its action in the case of Cuba it has affirmed in practical way the right of this country to intervene with force and arms in behalf of an op- pressed American people whose suffer- ings have become intolerable. By an- nexing Hawaii it has definitely broken with an ancient tradition that would have confined the republic to this con- tinent, and has affirmed in a practical way the right of the United States to acquire and hold territorial possessions separated from us by thousands of miles of sea-
 The second session of the Fifty-fifth congress will be remembered; no fear about that. It will be remembered be- cause it has done memorable things.