The San Francisco call., 1905-05-07

was in San Francisco before, while /
sat, and, / fear me much, stared
at her. Nor do I repent, perdie. It IS
not every day one gets the chance of
such delightful SHINING. For Julia Mar
lowe is beautiful in the best sense Of
the word. her face musical with mean
ing, instinct with every enchantment of
line and tint One began at that mad
dening dimple in the chin. of course
Herrick would have sung it the grave
Of many lovers. Sober can only say it
fits most enticingIy under the laughing
lips. full and red Pearls, Herrick's al
chemy would have made of the little
white teeth, even as corn, that CLINT in
the lovely and frequent laughter. Com
edy sits on the tip Of the nose, piquant-
ly upturned, yet Of a cut and size that
spell both beauty and brains. The eyes,
heavy-lidded, full, clear. brilliant,
gravely and firmly over-arched-these
/ reached and became conscious Of my
sin.
] was saying: Yes, one was apt to
exaggerate the age Of actresses then
suddenly stammered the thing l was
thinking: What color are they, the
eyes?"
Laughter filed them as their owner,
quite simply. leaned tc the light and
said: Gray y-blue-like yours"
Mrs. Woodward commented that they
changed with the MarIowe mood.
explained that mine had on occasion
been called green. Miss Marlowe said
that on occasion hers were green-then
cozily began: What shall we talk
about?"
There were few things theatrical that
we had not talked of an hour later,
problem plays. Shakespeare, the
clothes drama, voice production, Ibsen,
whether or not it was delightful to be
on the stage" and what not. 1 cannot
decide now, as 1 could not then.
whether the fine, alert wit, the lumi-
nous intelligence, the uncommon and
delicious common sense with which
Miss Marlowe discusses things, or the
pure music Of her voice the play of her
mobile face. is the most charming
thought when she said Come in" on
a low. mellow, mellow G, that it did
not at all matter what she said so long
as she said it. i thought when she
arched that eloquent right eyebrow,
Upturned a quizzical corner of that mo-
bile mouth. that il did not at all matter
what she said so long as she looked So
And then when she discussed the cast
ing Of play. personal dynamics. any
thing in fact. l thought that il did not
at all matter how she looked, nor if she
had had voice cracked as Verges so
long as she talked that way Give Miss
Aarlowe, too. while you are about 1t.
upward Of five feet five of bonnie wo
manhood, large, lovely arms, neck like
a tower. and an extremely becoming
black net gown, with rare old ivory lace
at throat and neck thereupon.
Naturally one fell to early talk Of
her Beatrice Of the night before. Nat
urally / was glad TO be permitted TO
say again how much 1 had enjoyed II.
That her Beatrice had not been played
as the shrew she is commonly made I
repeated particularly liked me.
Shrewish she is said the Beatrice
but so little shrewish, and so much
else besides. II is such a frequent mis-
take, isn't it?-take Katharine as in
stance-to play character all in one
key. She is made simply a shrew.
when she is so much else. remember
William Rolfe-"
The Cambridge Shakespeare man?v
] interrupted.
The same" Miss Marlowe said;