The San Francisco call., 1904-08-16
4" "Mellow-Drama" Limit
Given at Central.
Other Bills.

II it takes nine yards OF pink calico
to make an apron for an elephant,
how long will il take a mosquito with
a wooden leg 10 bore a hole through
cake OF sandsoap?
Answer-No matter how thick the
apple sauce is-remember she's your
mother.
l can't think now of anything more
like the plot and morale of For Her
Children's Sake It's mostly about
mommer but sonny has a turn and
shoots pepper for his mommer's sake.
There wasn't a dry eye in the Central
last night when he did it, Mine were
streaming. In fact I should have en-
joyed a shot at the gentleman myself.
He's so very, very bad. And the lady,
she's so very, very good. And what
she does for those kids. To begin with,
she runs away from home TO find them
a papa simply on purpose to wallow
in sorrow for their sake.
Twas Christmas eve. The mistletoe
hung in the castle hall The gay
guests were all assembled in the par
sonage. Dr. Horace Parker, the fam
lily medico. is discovered asleep in the
shade of the sheltering Christmas tree.
The rector's daughter-gay. Innocent
comes in to kiss him with all the arch
ness of a Sunday-school picknicker
The yillainess appears. She, too, has
set her heart on the medico. But he
loves the rector's daughter. The viii
lainess determines to be r-r-evenged.
Stealthily she mows a lock from Par
ker's sleeping brow. Triumphantly she
rakes it into a locket that reposes on
her false bosom. 'Ther-re nowi" she
Misses in papa's parsonic ear, that is
what he gave me when he promised to
be mine. Arsk me no mo-hore."
The proof is damning," papa sternly
decides. There is the door, sir"
And daughter, determining to follow
him, is driven from 'ome She first
asks the family Chloe what win the
world think of me, If l follow the die
tates of my hearth"
Tell the world to go to hell" Chloe
puts it.
In fact For Her Children's Sake" is
hardly a comedy of manners. For per-
sons brought up under the ecclesias-
tical wing they are in fact singularly
free. Edna embraces the family but
Ter (who seems to have dropped in
from an Irish team at the Orpheun)
at the smallest provocation. She
chokes her lydy friend In the rudest
fashion 1t is true the lydy friend has
been chatting her about earning her
daily chcp by s-riding-the proud
rector's daughter. Still, Edna does
warn ner aIIGIWaTQ. Out OF my SlRnI
before I forget myself
For she has become a circus rider for
her children's sake. She didn't marry
the DOCTOR She married another. The
doctor was reported dead, but is called
in to treat his old love.
He says that reports of his death
We're much exaggerated The ringmas-
ter Edna has married F. H c. S.
discovers them and is Jealous The
lady is brought behind scenes from the
arena With -four hours to live" and
a pint of gore dripping from her left
cheek The ringmaster swears ven-
geance on her for killing his best
horse" Then the boy takes a pot shot
at him. Hits. Thunders of applause.
The most remarkable person in the
cast is George Nichols, stage manager.
One has held Henry Miller before as
the head and front Of this side OF stage
craft But there are yet things for
Mr.. Miller to learn. Even David Be
lasco with his $4,000 quilts has hardly
achieved the surprising realism of Mr..
Nichols boudoir scene. There is, in
fact, nothing left TO the imagination.
Which is about as much as should be
seen of Mr.. Nichols round the Cen
trail for a day or two if this singularly
frank detail is retained.
The rest of the people, including
Herschel Mayall and Ethel Clifton, the
new leading lady, bring all possible
seriousness to the performance
r2TAN(<IJE pa APTTNCTnAY