The San Francisco call., 1908-10-11

anything else but tax receipts and the
abuse of the country between cleo
tions,'' said he
That's it. Don't buy a ranch if you
want q life of leisure and rest Guilt
vate the stage instead. At least fell
low can sleep in the mornings here, but
it's a disgrace in the country. Your
Deighbors look askance at you If you
get up after 6. o'clock in the morning.
They gossip about it and say you must
be immoral"
Its good to live in the country for
q few months in year. but then it's
we'll to get back in the crowd again
and jostle and rush and worry again.
Miss Evelyn Vaughan is not the
typical actress of the weekly papers
She looks too much like woman and
less like carefully established aggre-
cation OF garments. ] imagine she will
be a fayorite at the Alcazar Her
deep brown eyes are expressive and
hide the trace Of q twinkle usually,
betokening the sense of humor which
is like salt in bread-very wholesome.
She Is frail in stature, but seems to
possess compensating amount of
nervous energy. She is like those lit
tie women whom we hear, now and then,
play the piano witt insight, imagina-
tion and an energy that comes from
Pervous strength and perceptions and
not from bodily vfgor She should
play emotional roles finely, If she acts
up to her appearance. Indeed, my
recollection of her assumption of the
role of Dorothy Nelson in Strong
heart which play she appeared in at
the Van Ness last December, is that she
was at her best in the one scene in
which she had emotion to portray.
That was tilankless,' she said, that
i =
nearly abject in its servility to the
part of the Indian which Ralph Stuart
played. 1 had no chance to do any
thing but pass the situations quickly
into Strongheart's hands, and the role
was quite uneventful. 1 liked much
better the role Of the widow in The
College Widow which l did the season
prior, TO the trip in 'Strongheart.' IL
think l can play the lighter roles
equally we'll with the emotional ones,
but as to that you shall see for your
self. Before the days of my stage
widowhood L created the leading role
in Tire Spoilers, and that was a good
part.
But this is my first visit to the
west, if you except the short visit of
last December in Stuart's company
Il prophesy that you will want to
stay at least as long as 1 have stayed"
said Lytell, 'and maybe you'll buy a
ranch yourself. They have made a
native son of me here. and l never
want to go back
Miss Vaughan didn't say anything.
[ think she is homesick. Its terribly
lonesome" she went on after awhile,
ito make the long, hard trip across the
continent all by yourself. and have no.
body to help you while the time away
in friendly chatter. L haven't recovered
from the fatigue of the journey vet
You see, l have only been here since
last Friday and one feels a little
friendless at first
NO / do not mind stock work
have done lots of it. But it's pretty
hard on one. I don't know how easily
but it's tremendously interesting and
inspiring.
Here for instance, is the variety
which the work brings out We com
mence with Jones The Hypocrites,'
which is fine satire and contains some
really big emotional scenes, in which
figure as the poor, unhappy girl whose
misfortune is the center and storm fac
tor in the play. No sooner does this
piece get going on oiled wheels. so to
say. than it is replaced by The Road to
Yesterday which in turn gives Way TO
ON the Kings Highway. Then comes
the recent Belasco success, The War
renS OF X1TRln1d. dnU dII6r that The
Girl of the Golden West The Darling
of the Gods in which l have to stand
comparison with Blanche Bates: then
another Belasco play, The Rose of the
Rancho wherein Frances Starr made
her biggest fame. Then comes .Du
Barry, with the inevitable contrasts
that must be drawn by everybody be-
tween my conception of the part, and
that of Mrs. Leslie Carter. Edna Good
nil ha CaJlpd rs
with that OF any actress who under
takes the leading role in The Genius,
which is down on the list, and Maude
Adams looms up like a radiant shadow
graceful and sweet. In Barrie's fine
play, The Little Minister which is also
on the list. Sunday suggests Ethel
Barrymore; When We Were Twenty
one recalls Maxine Elliott, and so with
all the following plays the task is
doubly trying and nerve rackins. he
cause they were written for sneciai
stars. whose limitations and exceIlen-
cies were tenderly cared for by tbe an
thors There are Sweet Kitty Ral-
Iairs.' THE Vagabond Prince His
House in Order that fine Pinero NAV
.Auericans Abroad House of a Tho,,,
sand Candles Cousin Kate Prince
otto old Heidelberg The Secret Or
chard.s Alice of Old vincennes.' arbe
CIimbers.' The Eternal City .Mada,ne
Sans Gene, Inc 1iii ana the judge
The Crisis .Salomy Jane Strong
heart Leah Kleschna,' Brown of Har-
ward The Heart of Maryland aThe
Man on the Box, Caught in the Rain
.The Gilded Fool The Christian ~rbe
Love Route A Strenuous Life In the
Palace of the King, The First Born,
and-but there, that must be the 40
ulays before us this season.
.Don't they take your breath away?.