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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

talent has in one respect adapted Itself to a certain dramatic need. You have, perhaps, more young actors equipped by nature and the training to the role of stage lover than we have had on the English stage for years. Since the days of Harry Montague our young men have been obviously a little ashamed of playing the lover, and certainly mo- body with us has deliberately set out to win the prizes of that character, with no other pretenSionS and nothing else to him.
 The recent revival of the romantic spirit in English drama suggests the possibility that the English stage may yet require to make drafts upon the American stage for the stage lover, in which case the scarcity of the type on both sides of the water will probably raise the reputation and emoluments to be gained by it to that of the fash ionable poet in France and the foreign Ambassador in England, and settle for good the veXed question of what to do with our boys''
 Your American stage knows less than our English stage of that modern au- thority, the actor-manager, and so far if l may say it without offense to friends and comrades it's state would seem to me the more gracious Though l see that the actor-m manager. has done excellent work for the English stage during the last ten or twenty years, also see that he may have prevented other good work from being done. and l feel the constantly narrowing range of his possibilities.
 The most beautiful and attractive thing on the stage is youth, and while the actor-manager can remain young he can be in the heart of all the inter- ests whereof youth is the rallying point; but as the years creep on him and he struggles to shift the focal cen ter of fascination and charm-he must needs do so or let another push him from his place-he is playing fast and loose game with public attention and sympathy and is likely to be stranded before he knows it.
 Impending Tragedy in an Actors Life.
 This is tragedy which has befallen more than one manager in the past; it is happening to some of the actor managers at this moment and will happen to others as time goes on.
 The life of an actor is a short life, the life of an actress is still shorter That is the essential cruelty in the career of the stage. But there is one way to meet it-that of adapting yourself to the conditions as they change One of the first of American actors has done this with great wisdom, but the theory of the actor-manager is to resist that necessity.
 He is fighting law of nature and must, therefore, always in the end succumb.
 The story which the stage tells year in and year out is the story Of youth. yet actors cannot always be young, and for the purpose of the drama (speaking broadly and generality an old man s story is no good to anybody.
 The Star System.
 But if you have less of the actor manager system than we have in Eng land you have more of the star" sys- tenn, and I am by no means sure that the operation of the two is totally diff ferent. Let me say atNonce that I see
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AS to it's personnel I don't know that there is much to choose between that of the dramatic press in New York and of the same class in London. Here, as in England, there is the entirely honest man who sets down in simplicity what he knows and feels, the ponderous egotist who is superior to everything and everybody, and the cynical young scribe who sits In Judgment on other mems plays with play of his own in his brooches pocket. And here, as in England, the public makes up its mind for itself quite independently of Us professed guides to critical opinion, whether good, bad or indifferent.
 Critics Don't Make or Break a Play.
 One point of superiority you have in this regard over our people in England our playgoers are prone to believe whatever they see in the newspapers. and it requires an effort on their part to conquer the effects of an unfavoI- able impression made by the press. Your American people appear to have no such difficulty, and within a week of the general onslaught in the news papers a play or a book in America may stand absolutely "as it's own and be in the full tide of it's success. That is fortunate for all writers, and par ticularly fortunate for some of them, the ultimate court of appeal being al- ways so just and even so generous.
 American Audiences.
 During my visit to America I have seen many plays in many theaters, and I cannot remember a single American audience whose heart did not ring true. That is not common experience of the traveller in many lands.
 It seems to be the accepted theory in America (only too well founded in fact. I am afraid that the English visitor to the United States who has received honor and kindness here will make his bow on this side of the ocean and re- serve his grimaceS until he reaches the other side. Perhaps in the sequel 1t will be found that I have reversed this order of things, for whatever ungra- cious criticism may have had to make of that part of American life which has come closest to my experience is now made, and nothing. remains to me to remember but the generous apprecia- tion and cordial sympathy which my own little section of your great nation has given me from first to last.
 "Shake," Says the Car Conductor.
 Some freedom of handling I may have been conscious of at certain moments perhaps some misunderstanding, and some personal misjudging, but nothing that has left any sore place in my mind, and grudge, any ungenerous feel ing, and for the rest I shall remember my greeting on my second visit to America much as I remember the salu- tation of the conductor of one of your electric cars on Broadway.
 He was a boy of 20, with clear, bright eyes and laughing mouth, and as I got on the car he looked me over from head to foot. will this car take me to Fifty-sixth street?" I said He didn't reply to my question, but asked me another instead. Are you Hall Caine2'' he said. "Yes-will it?' I asked. Again he did not reply, but holding out a grimy hand, he said, "Shakei" HALL CANE.
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of that languor of dramatic satiety which T+N use our own phrase) is the most difficult proposition the English dramatists and actors have to count with. Not long before leaving London 1 sat at a new play in a we'll known theater behind two fashionable ladies and fashionable man. At in tervals during the performance they talked of their own affairs. and once between the acts the man said: Am er-sorry I-er-brought you to this-er play" "Oh, don't mention it; I'm not at all bored replied one of the ladies.
 American Theater-Goer Loves Lover.
 Nothing of that kind Is ever to be found in an American theater. Your leisure class is not large enough to bring the atmosphere of ennui into the playhouse. Your people go into the theater to be amused, not to kill time or to break up the weariness of idle lives. They are like children in the simplicity of their emotions, and, like children, they are not afraid to be made to feel. They do not run away from strong passions, and when they are appealed to they respond. Naturally they love to laugh, but if they can cry and laugh together they like that best of all.
 The prevailing taste of your Ameri- can audiences it is easy to indicate. Nearly every kind of dramatic fare is acceptable to them, but what they love to feed on is love. The manager who would produce a modern version of Julius Caesar" would be a daring man indeed, but the crudest adaptation of "Manon Lescaut" would have it's chance in America. Sensation, street life, character in it's quainter forms, all these hold their places on the menu of your American public, but always the dish of the day is love. The man ager who sees that sees well. He brings to his doors a charming and responsive section of your public which is perfect ly certain to bring all the rest.
 American Actors Hold Their Own.
 Your foremost actors and actresses, with some exceptions. may be said to belong equally to England and to America, and therefore it would III be. come me to say more about them than that we reckon them in the number of our best. And among those who are still unknown to our people there are a few who are sure to come into the heri- tage of their English fame when time and opportunity allow.
 But not to walk, however warily, on such delicate ground, I could wish to say, after somewhat intimate experi- ence of at least two American compan- les. that the rank and file of the Amer ican dramatic profession seem to me at all points equal to the rank and file of the dramatic profession in England. I notice points of difference. You have not so many imitators of great actors. A few years ago every English com pany contained two or more irnitators of Henry Irving, and there are still but few travelling combinations without their colorable version of Ellen Terry. I do not recognize your Jefferson in embryo. and if there was ever line of Booths I fear the school (with the exception of two or three of your act ors) has unhappily died out
 English Scarcity of Stage Lovers
 I think I observe that your dramatic
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tack on Johnson with a revolver. At first the weapon hung fire. but two shots were fired without effect. John son fled into the bar room and in pass ing out through another door encoun- tered Montgomery, as his frlends claimed, unexpectedly, for he assumed that his pursuer would follow him in by the route he had taken. Instantly Johnson drew a knife and stabbed Montgomery four or five times-once in the lungs. Johnson was immediately seized by the bystanders and delivered to Deputy Sheriff Sinclair. The affair created great excitement. The fire company placed strong guard over the prisoner and the town was guarded to prevent a rescue and to prevent a repetition of the several attempts at incendiarism that had alarmed the populace in the few months that had passed In the forenoon of the 23d word was sent to the various mining camps in the vicinity that a tragedy had occurred and that an execution might be expected. About 250o per- sons gathered in the town. In the afternoon the hook ana ladder com pany called a meeting and selected thirty-two men from whom twelve were chosen as jurors. The testimony was taken, and after being out all night, at sunrise of the 24th verdict was returned or guilty or an assault with intent to kill.'' The question was then left to the crowd as to what dispo- sition should be made of the prisoner. When the vote was taken the majority was in favor of hanging him imme- diately.
 The officers for the execution were chosen, and about noon the prisoner was taken short distance from the town, up on the side hill, to conven- lent tree and informed of the fate that awaited him. A rope was brought and a couple of kegs. One keg was placed on top of the other for the condemned man to stand upon. After the rope was adjusted around his neck an op- portunity was given for whatever re- marks he desired to make. Johnson called for writing material but as his hands were confined. a friend who was present noted his remarks. His dying sentiments were expressed in very cool and quiet manner. He protested in strong terms against mob law, and said that all he desired was fair trial under the law before a jury of his coun- trymen- He would abide the conse- quences of such trial. He stated that some person present owed him $20, which he asked should be paid to some other party to whom he was indebted. He also wished ring to be taken from
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his finger and sent to his mother and sister. but his hand was so much swollen from being bound that it was impossible to remove the ring. He re- quested that the rope should be care fully adjusted and that he be permitted to climb on the limb of the tree and jump off This was denied. Then he asked permission to give the word him. self, and that was granted. He was placed on the kegs, the rope was tight ened and distinctly he counted "one, two, three and jumped to his doom, thus partially being his own execu- tioner. During the entire proceeding he was perfectly collected and entirely indifferent about his fate. About 2OOO people were present at the execution.
 The lynching of Johnson created a profound sensation in the public mind and for time promised to lead to se- rious consequences Montgomery did not die from his injuries, nor did he die until many years afterward. The yer dict of the jury did not warrant the extreme penalty Warrants were is> sued for the apprehension of the parties that had engaged in the execution, and Sheriff Sam Austin attempted to serve them. One man was arrested, but was rescued. A posse was ordered out but no further action was taken. The citi- zens of Iowa Hill issued a circular to the people of Placer County, in which they presented the evidence that had been taken before the Peoples Court, the verdict of the jury and the charac- ter of Johnson. It was claimed that the hanging was sanctioned by the de- liberate judgment of some 1900 people. According to the statements In the cir cular. Johnson was greatly the aggres- sor; that he had dismounted from his horse to assault Montgomery, who was walking quietly along with a friend; i; and that when Johnson rushed upon him with his knife. Montgomery fired in self-defense. The friends of John- son presented counter statement. Speaking of the affair. one of the lead ing dailies in the State said.
 That Johnson was fully as desperate and depraved a character as painted: : that he was wholly the aggressor. and made a wanton and unprovcked assault on Montgomery at the time he was stabbed; that he had as fair trial as a man could be guaranteed in an ex- cited crowd of hundreds we do not doubt, but still the facts stare us in the face that he was sentenced to be hanged for assault with intent to kill: that he was found guilty. sentenced and hanged by c body of men whose only right was based upon the power given by might and numbers. and that.
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To the Editor of the Call:
 HAVE now spent six months in
 America, three months on former
 visit and three months on the pres
 ent visit. Half a years acquaint-
 ance with a vast country does not entitle me to sit in judgment upon it, but since you ask only for impressions l am willing enough to give mine as simply as possible, without any pre- tensions to finality of judgment, and, of course, without any disposition to make points at the expense of truth.
 Let me speak first of the things which come closest. came to America to pro- duce play, and hence the theater has covered a large part of my horizon. Your American theater differs from our English theater at more points than one. Your buildings are better for sec ing and hearing, but not always so gooo for ingress and egress, and they would l fear, in some instances, be less able to cope with the dangers of fire or panic In general comfort your houses are superior to ours, and incomparably better than almost anything in Paris or Berlin or Rome. Your prices of ad- mission vary less than with us or with the French, but the gross receipts of your houses, compared with those of any other houses I know of, capacity for capacity, are materially higher
 Theatrical Management Good.
 The management of your theaters would seem to me on the whole excel lent. Even that tyrannical innovation, the Wednesday matinee, has something to say for itself, the theater-going pub lie in your outlying districts being so great and consisting so largely of ladies.
 The Wednesday matinee of a new play in New York is probably the surest and swiftest test of success. If It IS good. if it grows, if it displays in terest, If 1t shows sympathy, your man. agement may be content. They have then got the nucleus of the best public they can play to.
 Your audiences differ from ours in more points than one. It is often said in England that they are less demon strative than our audiences. That is both true and not true. 1 have more than once seen the curtain fall in New York on an acceptable play, with no applause whatever, and in Boston the restraint of the audience has some times seemed to me almost as marked and painful. But, on the other hand. l have never even on a first Light at popular theater in London heard applause more sincere and prolonged than in Boston and New York
 AS a general view l should say there is less complimentary applause with you than with us, but I would even recommend to your audiences the adoption of a little of that dubious form of appreciation as means of getting the best out of your actors Our stage folks all the world over are grown up children. God bless them. and there is nothing which. inspires and cheers them more than ''the clap ping of hands in theater.' Your American audiences have little or none