The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19
Notes Of the Theater
At Home and Abroad

The Clansman" viii be seen here
during the coming season
Florence Oakley is Frederick Be
laseo's latest protege for theatrical
honors.
LiebIer and company will put out
two companies TO play The Man of
the Hour next season.
An elaborate revival of The Only
Way" is being arranged for at the
Van Ness theater.
Valerie Bergere is now Mrs. Napol-
con Diagnault The couple were mar
ried in Paris recently.
The Merry Widow" recently com
pleted its years run in London at
Days theater, and is still going.
"Rames." with White Whittlesey as
the gentlemanly burglar, is announced
70 follow If 4 Were King" at the
Alcazar.
Julius Booth, nephew of the great
Edwin Booth, is winning fame as an
actor at the head OF London stock
company playing at the Fulham thea
ter.
Or account Of many requests from
out Of town patrons the Van Ness man
agement announces Wednesday and
Saturday matinees during the Henry
Miller engagement
Lewis AIorrison's daughter, Rosabel,
viii star at the head of a road com
pany in the dramatic presentation,
Faust" She viii alternate in the two
roles Of Marguerite and Mephisto.
Charles Ram Kennedy. author of
''The Servant in the House." is the
husband Of Edith Wynne Matthison,
leading woman with the Henry Miller
associate players. who viii produce the
play here.
La SylDhe. whose dancing created
only mild interest in this city a few
months ago when she appeared at the
Orpheum' has become furore in New
York and is having a Salome dance
arranged for her.
Six months at the Astor theater, New
York, and three months at the Grand
opera house is the record of Wagon
halls and Kemper's presentment of Eu-
gene Walters drama, Paid in Full.
which is stil playing in both cities.
That's going some" say the pro-
ducers.
Richard Carl is contemplating a tour
OF the Pacific coast IN .'AIary's Lamb" >"
which piece is just now 2 reigning
musical success in New York. Carl
although The Mayor Of Tokyo" THE
Tenderfoot" and other Of his musical
comedies have come west.
Joseph O'Mara, an Irish tenor will
make tour OF the United States next
season IN Peggy Nachree," the produc-
ton Of which the late Dennis O'SuI-
livan headed last year. o'Mara is a
Limerick boy and his father is called
"The grand old man of the Irish ma
tionaI movement" having been active
with Butt and ParneIl in the Irish
cause.
Immediately after the close Of the
two weeks engagement at the Van
Ness theater OF the Henry Miller asso-
cfate players in The Servant in the
House" the production viii be taken
direct TO Chicago, where it is booked
for 10 weeks at Powers thezter. From
Chicago the play will return 10 New
York. where It will be seen until a
few weeks before the beginning Of the
London engagement next March
Edwin Stevens was selected as lead
ing man in the production Of The
Cloven Foot" which Henry w. Savage
recently produced in Hartford. Conn.
prior TO the New York presentation.
Stevens role is that Of a Chesterfield
fan Mephlsto, and the play was written
by Franz Molnar, a Hungarian who is
STYLED the SHAW of the Continent"
The play was an instant success in
Budapest and later in the other con-
tinental capitals. Oliver Hereford
translated the. piece into English.
Frederick Burton. who Will be re-
nembered for the hit he scored in
the original production Of The College
Widow" and later in lees Hiram Stub
bins in the London presentation OF
Mrs. Wiggs Of the Cabbage Patch"
has been engaged by Henry ". Saw
age to play the character Of Hiram
Perkins IN the forthcoming production
oe Miss Edith Ellis comedy drama, 7
Take This Man." Many admirers Of