The herald., 1898-02-27

execution yet, there has already been a
great Improvement in the stock companies
| business, and the syndicate's attractions
do not now always demand the high figure
of admission. 'rhe Girl From Paris" for
| example. played here last week on the one
dollar basis-and it may fairly be said was
worth that, and no more. 1t is now evil
dent that Mr.. Frohman has no intention of
| depriving the coast of his attractions.
| There will no doubt be a cessation of the
attempt to make out that the attractions
| sent are supported by the original COM
| pany presenting them in New York. The
public, by this time, is educated to the
knowledge that New York success cam
not be represented in three different places
at the same time by the simon pure original
company. but it will reasonably ex-
pect that the substitutes be as good as may
be procured. Mr.. Frohman has stated
recently in emphatic language: GAS far
as the coast business is concerned. l have
been thoroughly misunderstood and mis-
quoted; but l never contradict what has
been said-what is the use? The contra
diction will come when my companies
reach San Francisco again, as they will
when the proper times come. l was mis-
quoted when 1t was said that intended to
stop sending my companies to San Fran
cisco. What l intended, and what said,
was that wished to step aside from man
an interest in the management of San
francisco theaters. inasmuch as was
compelled to offer companies not my own
large terms to go to the Pacific coast. In
consequence of the heavy expense of the
large organizations l have been interested
In for the past four or five years and the
losses in sending companies not my own
to California. wished to stop it, and did.
am no longer connected with San Fran
cisco management"
Mr.. Frohman continues: 'I am my own
producer; plays under my management
are my own: enjoy their success or suffer
thelr loss; there are no others interested.
There is no combination of any kind"
This denial of the existence OF a combina-
tion is a singular one, in the light of ascer-
tanned facts. and 1t is rather wonderful
that Mr.. Frohman should attempt thus to
throw dust into the eyes of an unsus picious
public The combination or trust of
eastern theatrical managers has existed
for purely commercial purposes. such as
govern any other mercantile trust. If. as
Mr.. Frohman asserts. there is no COM
bination 1t must have been so recently dis
solved that the tears shed at its sad part
ing can hardly yet be dry. prefer to be-,
lieve that the managerial trust is still in
business at the same old stand.
rip Van Wrinkle" Is to be produced by
the Bostonians during the last week of
their engagement in San Francisco II.
c. Barnabee is to play the title part. and
Jessie Bartlett Davis. as his shrewish wife,
appears only in the first part of the opera
Four new places of amusement are soon
to be opened in San Francisco The old
church building on the west side of Mason
street, near Eddy; the Grotto under the
Baldwin: the Louvre restaurant. under the
ST. Ann's building, and the Oberon. are
all being altered for use as vaudeville
houses.
F. Marion Crawford, the well known nov
elist will deliver three lectures at the
Columbia theater San Francisco, next
month. The first will be upon Pope Leo
XII in the Vatican" and the others will
be ''The Original Mr.. Isaac's Early News
paper Experiences in India" and italian
Home Life in the Middle Ages
married at Cleveland, Ohio three weeks
after Mr.. Goodwin received official notice
of his divorce from his first wife. The
laws of New York. where the divorce was
granted, prohibited Mats remarriage dur
ing the life of his number one. But New
York cannot make its DEGREES worth the
paper they are written on outside its own
boundaries; so Nat and Maxine will con-
tinue to be happy. always outside the pale
of the Empire state.
A daughter of the Kendals has left her
home in England to go upon the stage
against her parents wishes. The young
woman, whom the reporters, with their
usual gallantry, describe as quite pretty
has arrived in New York and intends 10
appear in vaudeville. The celebrity of her
parents and the notorety acquired by her
own action in taking French leave with
the purpose of striking out for herself
will attract much attention, and If she has
any inherited talent for the stage the path
to success would seem to have bsen made
easy in her case. Miss Ethel Kendall will
probably be heard from as star at Proc
tors Pleasure Palace in New York.
Among the attractions that will be seen
at the Los Angeles theater 10 the near fu-
ture will be Marie Wainwright in the prob
lem play, Shall We Forgive Herr" in
which she Is meeting with much success in
San Francisco, and for the other attrac-
ton the Black Patti Troubadours are
promised.
The Orpheum management will donate
the gross receipts of next Wednesdays
matinee performance at that house to the
Fiesta fund.
G. A. DICKINSON.
Indecency OH the Stage
The dramatic critics of New York have
recently been much perturbed over the pre-
sentaton IN that city of two exceedingly
nasty plays. The first was Paul Potters
The Conquerors," and the second Royce
Cartons THE Tree of Knowledge," al
though the latter had undergone some
pruning before it was transferred to this
country from London. The critics. with
Few exceptions, according to an editorial
article In the Kansas City Journal. deplore
the gradual but evident encroachments of
the evil-minded dramatists and the moral
ly insensible actors who interpret their
pla is LII -. -