The San Francisco call., 1903-12-13

only the big cities. You can cover an
awful lot of continent in very little
time that way. The Orpheum circuit
is a fine one to play on. II you nave
something good these people never
haggle about money! There's been
good deal of talk just lately about poor
bills. Why, these people can't help IL.
The turns are not in the market Inc
miserable policy of some of the East
ern managers has driven great many
acts out Of America Why, there are
anywhere from 100 to $50 American
turns now in EuroDe-Berlin, Paris,
Vienna, ST Petersburg. And the best
Of them No other kind goes there
But that doesn't leave great deal to
choose from at home. 1t isn't easy,
believe me, to get nine new acts a
week for ffty-two weeks hand run
ming. No, the Orpheum is about as
good as there's going"
How many houses are there?"
There's one in Los Angeles, one in
Omaha, one in Kansas City, one in New
Orleans and one in Denver. The New
Orleans OrDheum is the only hre-proo1
building in the city. Splendid theater.
There are better than ours.
Rather Miss Redding agreed. I
don't know of a house where the acous-
tics are so bad for one thing. And one
strains oneself because-well, I've a
feeling that that little fellow at the
back there'-Miss Readings large,
round arm swept the rear of an imag-
mary Orpheum-"h just as much
right to hear as the next"
Whose is The Cattle Queen?' My
programme didn't honor the author
"WnI M Cressy's," the cattle
queen" replied; same man that wrote
nv Friend From Texas. That ex-
plotted, by the way, the same charac-
ter in New York. Mr.. Cressy is doing
another sketch for me where she goes
to London.
''The cattle queen inf New York, the
cattle queen in Washington, the cattle
queen in London-like the Rogers
Brothers?"
eAnd 1 was the first one that thought
of It," Miss Redding proudly said
take them to London next June, by the
way, under Henry Tilford's manage
ment. It's going to be either a horrible
failure or a tremendous hit"
"You can't always tell.
"No. sir. I think 1 know something
about vaudeville, but to show you how
mistaken one who ought to know can
be. 1 was within an ace of rejecting
The Cattle Queen That long dark
scene. I thought they'd never stand for
that. And when I got the thing TWEEN
ty-four weeks contracts hinged on its
~ S600
for it, too
What changed your mind about 1t,
Miss Redding?"
sWeI. I determined to read it to a
friend of mine, who was living In the
room below meat the Professional
Woman's League clubhouse in New
York. I banged on the floor with my
heel, and up she came flying. What is
the matter? she said. It's awful |
told her. My plays come and don't
like it. l want you to hear it. All
right, I'll be the dog she said, and sat
down to listen. She's writer herself,
by the way, and very clever. But she
has one of those cold, immovable faces,
don't you know, and when she sat there
like a statue my heart went into my
boots Then when it came to that line
We'll, have my mushy moments like
the rest'-she laughed all over the
place, and 1 read no more. It'll do,
said, If you can laugh like that on a
cold, gray morning So here we are. .
You get many playlets to read?"
Not more than 500 or so in the last
three years-at least it was $50 about
six months ago, and I've read big
bunch since then. Every newspaper