The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
Gossip of the Actor Folk,
Their Plays and Plans.

Amelia Bingham is one of the latest
seekers after a new Mcclellan play.
AS the author of Leah Kleschna' is
now busily occupied with two new pro-
ductions for next season, it seems un-
likely that he will be able to undertakes
anything for Miss Bingham for some
time to come
Lucia Moore, conscientious and ver-
satile stock leading woman of New York,
is Belasco & Mayors leading woman In
Portland, and opened the season there
as Maryland Calvert in The Heart of
Maryland" Eleanor Haber OF San
Francisco also appeared in the play,
taking a minor part, however.
Edna Aug seems to have attained her
desire to break into the legitimate"
She is engaged for the season as one OF
an excellent company at Elitch's Gar
den, Denver
Nat Goodwin gave his first perform
ance of An American Citizen" in San
Francisco at the Baldwin Theater.
"The Confessions Of Lillian Russell
nearly filed the page Of a Brooklyn paper.
Modest space. indeed. and If some other
actresses were to make similar confess
sions. probably the entire edition of the
newspaper would be required.
When it became definitely known
that Togo had put Rojestvensky and
sundry others of Russian persuasion
out of business, young Mr.. Tamamato,
who appears in the Heir to the Hoo
rah,'' as a Japanese valet, reached a
pitch of joy that amounted almost TO
delirium IF that actor wasn't Jap,
it would be a safe bet that he couldn't
stay as happy as that till nigh with
out getting soused, said one man on
Broadway who had seen and heard the
Orientais staggering weight Of enthu-
siasm- Tamamato sustained the reputa-
ton OF his race for abstemiousness-
however, by reporting for duty as usual
at the Hudson for the evening per-
formance. But. as If to demonstrate
that he could have gone to the bad If
he had been so minded, he produced
three OrientaIly wrapped and labeled
quarts of Sake" the japanese wine
after the performance and invited his
fellow members of the company to cell
ebrate with him over Japan's big vic
tory.
1t seems that Sake is chiefly dis
tinguished by a flavor that. to an
American taste. resembles nothing so
much as the odor of burned feathers;
and. while no one was brutal enough
to intimate this TO the happy Tama-
mato, Guy Bates Post could not refrain
from admitting to Nora O'Brfen the
next day that he hoped there would be
no more big Jap victories for a little
while at least
Ibsen is becoming the artistic yard
stick by which ambitious artists desire to
gauge their abilities. Instead OF Hamlet
or Juliet, it is coming to be one of the
present roles of the Wizard OF the North
that fires the player. But with a great
of fhcr~,
sionally throughout the season-with few
rehearsals and an inadequate support.
1.-The Master Builder" was given early
this month in New York Tor the Gilbert
Memorial. and although David Elmer.
Amy Ricard and William Hazeltine were
in the cast and did splendid work, in
spots. still 1t was throughout inartistic.
because OF frequent nudges to the prompt
er and walks to the wings TO inspect hid
den manuscript.
Claiming Pollock. in his little list OF
stage notes sent to the dramatic editors
throughout the country. recently saw fit
to publish the ages of some of our we'll
known actresses There Is doubtless trou-
BILE ahead for him. too, as some Of the
figures given are as far from being true
as some of the actresses would desire.
He gives the following table: Mrs. Lang
try. SO: Fay Templeton, 45: Lillian Rus
sell. 40; Ada Rehan. As; Maggie Mitchell,
70; Kate Claxton, ST. Annie Yeamans. SO;
Sarah Bernhardt 81, and Modjeska. 81
Mrs James Brown Potter. on account
of the failures of several expensive
productions put on by her in London
this season. is reported to be again Sc
riously considering the liberal offers
made her by American managers for
tour in vaudeville.
Raymond Hitchcock was married to
Flora Zabeile a few days ago. The new
Mrs. Hitchcock will continue acting in her
husbands company. of which she has
been member for numoer of years.
Word comes from London that Forbes
Robertson Is to add the role of Romeo
to his repertoire next season. There Is
every reason to suppose that he will
make most interesting production Of
the tragedy.