The San Francisco call., 1904-11-07
MARIE TEMPEST
IN A new PLAY
She Appears in a Drama of
Domestic Life, in Which
Divorce Court Figures
PARIS ENJOYS DICKENS
Paderewski Finds Demand
for Autograph So Great
That He Now Retails 1t

LONDON, Nov. 6.-Marie Tempest il
still under the management OF Charles
Frohman, and If London likes The
Freedom Of Suzanne" as her new piece
is called, Americans will see 1t as soon
as the English run is over. This play
is in three acts and tells the story OF
a young wife, who has just obtained
divorce from her husband Not for
any reason of great seriousness, main
ly, in fact, for the sake of liberty"
Hardly, however. has her complaisant
husband been got rid of and the free
dom of Suzanne" obtained than that
lady begins to sigh for the yoke again.
And. needless to say, the end Of the
play finds her back in it, but only after
happenings that should provide con-
siderable amusement.
This, by the way. is Marie Tempest's
fourth venture since she said good-by
to light opera and blOssomed out as
a comedy actress. She made her debut
in English Nell" the Nell Gwynne
play which Anthony Hope made out
Of his novel, Simon Dale" Then she
appeared as Becky Sharp in the drama
t.ZatiOn Of Vanity Fair" made by
Robert Hichins, and with so much sue
cess that she needed no new piece for
year or more, when she scored again
In The Marriage Of Kitty, which ran
fo~ $50 nights in London before being
taken TO the United States.
Since he gave us that brightly writ
ten musical comedy, Three Little
from only as the author Of certain "ad-
ditional numbers for works from other
pens. In collaboration with Colonel
Newnham-Davis.h however. he has been
working on a new piece, which is now
finished and about to be produced by
~ = IL
Mischief Maker" and will be given at
the Prince Of Wales Theater. Colonel
Newnham-Davis, known heretofore
chiefly as an amusing writer about res
taurants and their patrons, is the lat
est son of Mars to turn his attention
to the stage, thus following in the
footsteps of Captain Marshall and Cap
tain Basil Hood.
MORE GLOOM FROM GORKI.
Maxim Gorki's new play, Summer
Visitors" which the Russian drama
friends, may be given in London
eventually by some courageous soul,
but it is not likely. For although
across the North Sea they seem to en-
joy sOmber plays, English folk do not
and Gorki's newest piece is even gloom
ier than his other works. The Sum
mer Visitors" are the better classes Of
Russian society, who, says the play
wright, are like holiday makers in the
country, always on the lookout for
fresh fields and new excitements- GOrlH
declares that the life lived in these
circles is like a bog which smOthers all
the living strength of the rising gener-
alton.
Unlike those in Gorki's other pieces.
the people of this one are all society
folk. The heroine is a young girl who
tries to reform her friends. but who
zho
undertaken. There is a typical GOrh
scene in which, from her dying bed.
this girl gives a sort of lecture TO her
relatives on the 'canker gnaWtng at
Russian society" and implores them
to renOunce their fast life. The piece
will be given at the St. Petersburg
Dramatic Theater. Gorlxi's friends are
said to have been much impressed with
it's power.
CHARGES FOR AUTOGRAPH
Paderewski has begun to charge
money for his autograph The pianist
is now in Australia, but he writes to
a friend here that the percentage OF
autograph hunters is larger in the An
tipodes than in any other part of the
world" So. not long ago. he deter
mined to charge his Australian admir-
ers half a crown, or sixty cents, apiece
for his autograph and he says that he
means TO devote the proceeds to the
Chopin memorial fund at Warsaw.
LIE GrillOn du Foyer" is a long way
from suggesting Dickens to the nom
linguistic Anglo-SaxOn, but that Is the
title under which an adaptation Of THE
Cricket On the Hearth is being given
at the Paris OdeOn. This Dickens play.
in which ToOle made one of his greatest
successes and which Arthur BOurchier
revived in London last winter, is at this
writing delighting crowded houses at
the Latin quarter theater. Janvier plays
Caleb Plummer and Mile. Sylvie is little
Dot. Both are capital, and incidental
music by Massonet adds greatly to the
success of the piece.
One of Arthur Paterson's novels, The
Kings Agent" has just been drama
tized by Edward Rose, whose play will
be given in London soon after Christ
mas.