The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-04-08

Not exactly. We lost the manager
reckonsd uP. q little more than $4,000
IN The 6-sc I've months
The people did not Gomez
No. they weren't used 70 coming
they have 70 get the habit" the man
aEer explained And we gave them
pretty good things Nat Goodwin-s play
Turned II. A Fair Rebel and sucn
like But they wouldn't cone We got
pretty desperate then Mays the time
Mayer and walked Up Powell street
together and held or breath as we
looked round the corner 70 see II the
lights were on
They always were
Always the manager said And
there was q very nice light II Ny Be
Iasco's black eyes as he added People
we're very good 10 Us Once though.
big twinkle al this. I thought We were
goners They sent z new collector
with The gas bill He wasn't only new;
he was very drunk and very much II
esrnest-I used 70 give The other fellow
thezrer tickets for himself and MS IAN
Ily. and he'd wait But this one-ne
said Have you got your money
No. I told him. -but I'll have i by
Saturday.
You've got 70 give il ne now" SAID
ne. or and he put his hand 70 lis
hip
I thought he was going 20 shoot
BelsscO said. and one could feel the IN
cIdeEr marked N his memory as II i
had been nailed there But Il was
worse. he pulled out big pair OF
miners He said r I 6idn'- pay him
there and then he'd cut on the gas
Then M Belaseo thrust out plump
hand for ny inspection, with z diamond
rIuou The little lnger o. z certain but not
Z
you see thsr2 IN not suDe-sIlI1ous- oUl
you Couldn't get thai ring for slss1-or
ANYTHING pawued that ring for me
first tine that day and goI the man 20
vat ard paid his bill. l pa~Esc Z seven
times after that WHEN they threatened 10
CIT Is Of
How about the actors ! asked
Oh they stuck 70 Us through every
thing TIE manager testified He said II.
sveerlv as Il Il vas 10 be expected OF
actors He added. Charmingly. and i one
had not already known why The PLAYERS
would stick to Manager Belasco the
reason would have been good for il. I
think. may be, they stuck 70 Is because
they knew that everything We had vas
shared with them. and that anything
coming would be also theirs We used 10
walk home. you know. Mayer and ! and
other thinEs-
Other things." I knew. included beans
-C- z STEADY G-EL- E-l--N-A--
did rot tell ne anything else
re vas laughing now al the memory
OF this: .sMany's the tine after I've paid
salaries that I've had 10 borrow q half
dollar hack from the boys Then some
times they'd come for . cents-nOt 70
kick. you know. but Just because they
needed ft-znd they'd wait AZ the front
o< the 1hezrer until some one bought
sest-znd then I've given them the y
n
And then The tide turned" ! was be
ginning 20 want 70 hear OF the happy
ending and the way Of L
The good times began AZ the Alczzar
about six months after the Belssco man
sgeuent took Il IN hand. ne told ne Il
came about he said, through sugges-
ton his mother made Il came about
nor less. one might say. through the af-
fecrionsts reverence OF the son Tor the
mothers wisdom
One day" he tells i, mother said 10
ne Fred. may make e suggestion 70
ou1--hfngs were Just al their worst
then Indeed. you may. said Well
mother said, when I was 2 young girl, l
always used 70 60 % the thester when {
they nut on East Lyme. and there
were always crowded houses How would
il be Il you were 10 ny it, Good sug-
gesttou. mother. I said right there. II
struck ne right. somehow, and went
down 70 The theater and told George
Osbourne 70 change the rehearsal Il was
Tuesday. and they had Just started q
new olsv. But the minute I said East /
Lynne 70 George he said. good Then /
Il vas pretty funny Mrs. Bates came up /
70 ne
Blanche Bates mother.
Yes" Belasco nodded. and the first
thing she said 70 ne vas Why don't /