The San Francisco call., 1905-08-13

SfrouS of showing sincere feeling in
scene in which Electra was supposed
to lift UP the urn containing the ashes
F, of her son, Polus had his daughter ex-
humed and her bones placed in the
receptacle he carried on the stage.
The Shuberts, who have announced
their intention of booking their houses
and attractions hereafter in absolute
independence of the theatrical trust. ac-
quired four new theaters last week.
This quartet includes the Colonial The
ater, Cleveland; the Empire Theater,
Newark; the Lyceum Theater, Balti-
| more, and the Duquesne Theater, Pitts
burg, which last place of amusement is
to be known henceforth as the Belasco
These additions give the Shuberts
twenty-seven places of amusement the
bookings for which, made up of their
own stars and those of David Belasco
! and Harrison Grey Fiske, comprise such
players as Sarah Bernhardt, Ada Rehan,
Mrs. Fiske, Mrs. Leslie Carter, David
Warheld, Blanche Bates, Jefferson de
Angels, Lillian Russell, De Wolf Hop
per, Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin.
c. M. S. Mcclellan, author Of Leah
kleschna," has written a comedy called
"On the Love PATH" which will be pro-
duced early in September at the Hay
market Theater, London, the American
rights of which have been secured by
Charles Frohman.
Among the new plays which Charles
t'rohman has secured is a poetical work
In four acts called "Mizpah," by Ella
wheeler Wilcox and Luscombe Searle;
the dramatization of "Wolfyille" by
Clyde Fitch and Willis Steele; drama
tization of The Letters of Self-made
Merchant to His Son." by Paul Potter
ana George Horace Lorimer; a new
French play, the combined work of Ju-
liam Lemaitre and Jerome X Jerome
which was originally produced at the
Renaissance Theatre, Paris; a new play
by the author of The Marriage OF
Kitty" called Paris and New York;
| a comedy called 'Marjory Strode," by
A Z. w. Mason, the English novelist;
comedy by II. V. Esmond: the Ameri-
can rights of the plays Robert Mar
shall may write in the next three years;
comedy called DIR. Wakes Patient"
which is to be produced at the Adelphi
Theater, London, in September, and the
great comedy success of the Athenee
Theatre, Paris, called THE Heart Of
Sparrow" which is being adapted by
Cosmo Gordon Lennox
n. c. Goodwin. who begins a three
years starring engagement under
CHARLES ErohTans management in
September, Will first appear in Beauty
and the Barge" which will afford his
audience an opportunity of seeing him
in what is called a low comedy char
acter. brinning over with fun.
Jaguarina, the famous swordswoman,
who has not appeared behind the foot
lights for seven years. will return to
the stage next season in a melodrama
J. III ITrfA
That Kills" This actress has SO long
been identified with noted fencing con-
tests that her abilities as an actress
have been almost forgotten. She is a
remarkably clever comedienne and a
character actress of rare ability.
She began her stage career as a child
In John A. Ellslers stock company in
Cleveland, where she remained many
years. known as Ella NJ. Haitian. When
but l6 years old, as q member of the
Ellsler company en- tour in support of
Frank l. Frayne and his wife in Isl
Slocum.' She saved the closing of the
company by taking the place of Mrs
Frayne, who was i'll. and allowing this
actor to shoot an apple off her head
with backward shot. taking aim from
mirror. for three weeks. Frayne aft
erward killed an actress in this act.
Jaguarina, when quite a young girl,
developed remarkable skill as fencer.
and afterward became the pupil of famous
Colonel Thomas II. Monastery of Chi
cago. Under his instruction she be-
came the greatest fencer In America
especially with the broadsword. both
in foot or mounted contests. To-day she
mas the record OF forty-two broadsword
contests with noted male fencers on
foot and horseback, winning eyerv
contest.
In 1886 she challenged Duncan Ross in
San Francisco to meet her with broad
swords on horseback. Ross declined to
accept her challenge and left the coast.
Subsequently she defeated Sergeant Owen
Davis OF the Second Cavalry, champion
of the United States army, In Mechanics
Pavilion, San Francisco. in a mounted
contest, by score of eleven points to
seven. Davis knocked her off her horse
in the second attack, but, undaunted. she
remounted and defeated him Subse-
quently she defeated Captain E. c. Jen-
nings, master alarms of the Olympic
Athletic Club of San Francisco, In a
mounted contest by a score of eleven to
ten points. Both Davis and Jennings
had previously defeated Ross, which
shows she was not presumptuous in her
belief that she could defeat the giant
Scotch athlete.
Notwithstanding her hard training In
athletics. Jaguarina is a splendidly pre-
SeTNeu Woman OIL Striking beauty.
An American critic writing about the
Fiskc Leah Kleschna," from London.
says among other things:
1.-The author of Leah Kleschna' should
go down on his knees to Mrs Fiske. and
after salaaming and groveling in abject
humiliationS he should tell her, in poig-
nant emotion. that 1t was she-and no.
body else-who made his play. Last
night at Sir Charles Wyndham's new
theater, / saw Leah Kleschna, In its
! London garb. and I unhesitatingly as
sert. that, without Mrs. Fiske, it tumbles
down into the very middle of utter melo-
drama When the play was produced in
New York we all commented on the fact
that Mrs. Fiske, as Leah. had bravely
tackled a non-star part. and had ctre-
fully subordinated her role to three 9TH
ers admit that I thought so myself.
After having seen the London production,
however-a handsome production. with
capital cast, and everythong that Charles
Frohman could possibly inject into it,
there is no doubt In my mind that Leah
Kleschna' was imperiously dominated
by Mrs. Fiske, and that without her tho