The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
People and P!a4s.

Max Hirschfeld, who will direct the Tivoh grand opera season, was the leader of all the Castle Square (BoSton) grand opera productions.
 Shenandoah" did nine weeks of great business in Chicago on its latest presen- tation. Good things are appreciated even in the big village.
 NIT. James Keane, who has been spend ing his vacation at his old home, left for Denver last week, where he is to join the Manhattan Beach stock company, pre- vious to going to New York for his regu- lar season at the Manhattan Theater.
 Among the passengers lost on the French liner La Bourgogne were Bernice Wheeler, who made hit in "Chimmie a ana Saf bad Mess of fe Boston Symphony Orchestra Company. The two former were accompanied by their wives who were also drowned.
 The Belasco-Thall company now in re- organization, will play its opening date September g. The company has in its re- pertoire many of the Alcazar successes, and with a carload of scenery and para phernalia promises to be one of the best ganiZations that ever played the coast.
 Among the artists engaged for the IT, voli grand opera season are: Marie Bran dis and Anna Lichter, sopranos; Mary Sig. Rosselli and Thomas Green, tenors; Maurice de Vries and William Pruette, barytones, and Sig. Wanzen, basso.
 There are lots of prize housekeepers among the women of the stage; Rose sell. Mme. Modjeska Is a great house keeper, and May Irwin delights in going about her house dusting, with a towel about her head. Little Edna Wallace has a most formidable apartment in New York which she looks after personally. She has a cook and butler and maid, who boss her around because she is such a mite of humanity.
 The spectacular Kiralfys. we'll known in San Francisco. have during several years confined their affairs to Earls Court. Lon- don, where they are now giving -represen- tations of naval encounters between American and Spanish warships. These exhibitions are said to be extensive and accurate, and they are changed from time to time to keep up with events. It Is said that they will be brought to the Madison square Garden next winter, and may come to this city.
 And so the inevitable problem play is going to bob up serenely again next sea- son. There are a good many squeamish people who cannot endure reading Zola even. How they will stand for him on the stage l don't see. Mime. Saccard (Reneel made the Parisians squirm at first, but l believe they settled it that her self-qe- struction in the last act atoned for her guilty love of her stepson. MT. Valentine will have to make this very apparent in his English version, or New Workers will do more than squirm.-New York Ora matic News.
 The vaudevilleites are up to strange acts in the way of patriotism. In an Eastern roof garden an artist wrapped himself in Spanish flag, as in a mantle. and stood in the attitude O. diver high above a deep pool of water: At given signal an attendant touched match to the hated red and yellow banner, the
 'professor' took his downward plunge, fluttering with fire, and To! when he arose from the pool he was clad in the stars and stripes. How it was done Is not stated, but it was clever pyrotechnic performance indicating that 1t was not difficult to extinguish fire or Spain If the proper course was pursued and that the Americans have Spanish flags to burn; and that aint no lie"
 Here is a little story which Marshall P. Wilder tells about himself: While giving an entertainment in a small West ern town some years ago he was stand ing at the door as the audience filed into the hall, when a big lumberman tried to push his way past the ticket-taker with out ticket. Cant go in unless to pay [, my friend said Wilder. Well, I've got no money said the iumberman, but I'll give you my dog pointing to a hound that was trailing behind him. "All right, I'll try some of my new jokes on him. ' said the humorist quickly. ''Go ahead; I don't want your dog; take him in with vou." After the performance Wilder met the fellow and asked him how he, liked the performance. Well" grunted the countryman, "Im glad I kept my dog"