The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-04-19

there haranguing the jury and making
IL up as I went along Goodwin sweat
drops OF blood. but I got the fellow
back in tine 70 be murdered all right.
though I had 10 lead him q most cir
cuitous and unlikely route
II heard Nat mu-riur as took my
seat: Wei. I'm ID glad that you
got him back IN tine 10 Kill hin be-
fore I died IN this chair
-Tu was some time after that when
I left Goodwin's company. and 70 tell
the truth played him a poor kind OF
q trick 7 had chance TO SO 10 Lon
don in big production. and 50 I went
= didn't co ne any good. for the role
was 70 have assumed was given back
70 the man from whom IL was 20 have
been taken However. Goodwin for
gave me and said he would have done
the same thing had he been IN my
place. and so no great harm was done
When got back 10 New York 7 went
with Walter Jones in the Rice produc-
ton OF The Gay Dsbutants-' There
was a great crowd IN that company
Ethel Jackson. now with the Merry
Widow. was one Nadgs Lessing was
another. and there were others whose
names are AZ the top OF the theatrical
list now. I next appeared IN Richard
CarIe's first piece. .Nan'selIs 'Awkins.'
n which play. besides being Julius
Ippic. was stage manager Josephins
Hall, Etienne Girardot. George c. BOni-
face Jr-. Charles Danny. VIII Arm
strong. Mrs Mckee Rankin. Rose and
Nettie Beaumont. Efze Fay. Marguerite
sylvia Laurence Wheat. Marjorie Rel
year. Elaine Selover. Georgia Cahart.
Madgs Deane. Jean Caskie. Snitz Ed
wards and Harry Kelly are some OF
the names that come 70 me OF those
who helped make Carries first play a
success.
After that came The eddy Throns.'
AZ the New York thezter. and please
let me give you some names: Adele
Richie. May Yohe. Louis Harrison.
Mabel FsntOn. Amelia Summerville.
Frank Doane. William Gould. Dan Nc
Avoy. Laura Burt. Edgar Halstead- Pat
Rooney. the dancer. and Mayms Gehrue-
The season. OF 1901 saw me with
Nay Irwin again Then came poor
Rics's revival OF Evangelins' He stiIl
owes me salary. but I'd go with him
tomorrow II he needed me-
vaudeville caught ne In 1902 and We
did a political travesty. N which Rich
ard Croker. Chief William Devsry and
Tom Plat were the central characters
The piece was purely local IN interest
and was q metropolitan success In
role OF the lord chancellor and played
the part for rs AIS consecutive per-
formances That was another great
company. II included William Pruetts.
who was out here recently: Van Rsns-
selae- Wheeler. Adele Richie. Aims
Redmond. Amelia Stone. Nella Webb.
Aimee Angeles. Annie Tsamans and
Katie Barry.
The season OF 1so4-5 saw ne with
Lew Field in II Happened IN Nord-
land and later I made an unhappy
switch 10 Joe weber's company IN
burlesque. which put me against an
awful deal I resigned regularly after
each performances. but Weber kept ms
70 my contract
~Berween my engagements with Web
er and with Field. Hobart. who had
seen my German Representations. called
me from Philadelphia 10 New York 70
play the part OF Hamnerstsin IN
The Song Birds az the Lambs
gambol = week later The piecs
was a tremendous hit To Eugene
Cowles. De Wolf Hopper. Van Rensse-
laer Wheeler. myself and others IN the
cast II was certainly frOiic and every
man who appeared IN the original pro-