The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

ramos big nose. Roderigo rises to his
mettle and forthwith purchases rich
and sonorous garments as would be-
come his station and develops into {
fashionable and poetic lover. The love
passages are delicately capricious ane
beautiful. Roderigo is Faith itself
BeatriX, while she loves for all there
is in her, is ever haunted by her in
dependence" and her tragic doubt anC
curiosity. This bit of the dialogue gives
the idea:
Beatrix-If woman
Saw his betrayal. heard his ready lies
And knew them lies; saw he was ooupis
False both ways-fouted both, what
should she do? 1879 w.,
Roderigo-You are sphinx to-mghl' lou
What put puf Sc SO mad mad thought into your
brain?
Beatrix~Ts it mad thought?
Roderigo-There are no suGh h1oA'
RoderigoSThen she should face him thus:
You LEI | know the truth. Now go your
Beatr E-g so; you DO not hear me; for
She I oTta the man with all her soul; and
with NE his false love had brought her life
Count 70 her. fqiI h5enceforth as dead-living, but
5er p GeaIf stone. the fount of charity
Dried NJ: and if St. Michael came from
And t6andered truth, she'd say, I'm not
Tins God-forsaken. Ioveless and alone,
The faith within her blasted by the lie.
The mother in her turned 70 sterlIe nate,
A pillar of salt set IN thirsty land,
The woman stands! What of the man?
Roderigo-He dies!
Beatrix is in turn eager for Rod
erigo's love and repealed by its inten-
sity. She is first suspicious, jealous,
abusive, then all tenderness and sub
mission. The part sounds every note
of the feminine temperament, so it is
no surprise that the criticisms Of Miss
NethersoIe's acting of it have not been
all sweet bouquets. The story concludes
with the killing Of Roderigo by an I'M
rival. There is an immense
scene where his body is carried to her
feet. Link me to him!" she cries, and
wounds herself with a poisoned ring.
And then this exalted speech:
ne'er shall know the taste of tears, or
EXCEPT s for bliss. Never know aught but
Not you Shall wed US, Father,
God himself,
Before His Throne!-Before His
THE Termagant" is written in high
and in the old elaborate mode.
but there is strong stuff in it. and mix
ed with its pageantry and heroics is
a certain modern philosophy that Is
very poignant The popular fate of the
production is not yet definitely settled.
Even If it fail other poetic pieces will
be produced in London just the same.
And if it succeed who knows where the
boom for verse drama will stop? 1t
may even go so far as to include VIII
liam Shakespeare, and make him real
quantity in the pleasures Of his play
going countrymen.
It seems to me that the variety bust
ness is getting to have more variety
about it and is generally looking up.
At the Orpheum, for instance, every
show doesn't look alike and the gal
lery is no longer the high and mighty
critic whose hiss is law. They still take
care of their gallery at the Orpheum,
giving it plenty of its own kind of fun,
but the humble patrons of the so cent
plush down stairs are also reckoned
with in the catering, and the sawed
off, comedy has come to stay They
started the local vogue for these little
acts with very bad ones. 1 re-
the first was so rank and so