The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20

which he calls The Regeneration,
taken from Owen Kildare's story. My
Mamie Rose" is threatened by the
eastern cities with an early DEATH The
play is said TO lack conviction OF ac-
tuality-
Among the leading PLAYERS who will
appear in The Time. the Place and
the Girl" at the Van Ness theater are
John Z Young. Elizabeth GoodaI.. Ma
bel Melyine. Lillian Goldsmith. Theo-
dore ROok. E. c. Alhertson and J. D
Simpson.
Nat c. Goodwin returned to New
York from Paris September s and an,
nounced TO interViewers that he would
spend about a month in San francisco
and Reno and then begin his rehearsals
Cameo Kirby"
one OF the realistic touches in Edwin
Milton Royle's comedy drama. The
Squaw Man in which Dustin Farnum
is starring this year. is the use Of the
Ute language by the Indian chief His
words are translated to the audiences
as well as TO the characters in the play
by real interpreter.
'Hurrsh for Miss Billie Burke and
her new play" says an enthusia site
of Gladys Unger's adaptation of a
French play by r. de Flers and G. Call
lavet called Love Watches" Billie
play is pronounced a go"
A few weeks ago David Belasco is
sued a notice to the public that he was
looking for a play by an american
who wrote it, so long as il was good.
He was forthwith flooded with manu-
scripts neckhigh. Now he has issued
read any more play manuscripts for
several months to come: he says.
Oscar c. APPEL. who was a member of
the local Princess company for several
months. has been engaged by the new
Lyric theater management in Mime
apolis as stage director for the stock
company TO be installed there. APPEL
The Spiders Web. which show closed
here when the star went east TO be
married last December
Frank Campean. who is the only man
that ever appeared in the role of Tram
pas in The Nirginian," Will close his
stage career at the end of this season.
Campeau has invented a process for
reclaiming arid land. It is a system
OF lrrigating out Of which he believes
he viii make a fortune. IF it don't
work, says Campeau. Il will come
back to the stage again:
Victor Herbert is said to have done
some work that compares favora bly,
with his earlier pieces in Algeria" /"
which is being produced in New York.
Since he has had so many notes to
write daily he has not achieved the
musical success that came TO him in
former pieces Algeria" is said by
New York critics TO be the best thing
he has written for years. The libretto
is by Glen Macdonough. which the same
witnesses say is dull and dreary.
Hubert Henry Davis new play. The
Mollusc." which gained a big success
in London, is being produced in New
York and has duplicated its trans-At-
lies in the fact that a mollusc is a
creature which deVotes itself to re-
naming inactive. The mollusc In the
play is a woman who. though pretty, is
lazy and inert. Her devoted slaves are
her husband and her children. The
brother Toms attempts to shake her
out Of her lassitude:
Among the bookings Manager Abe
COhn Of the American theater has ar
ranged for are the following players
and attractions: Hip. Hip. Hooray.'
which viii be seen next Sunday after
noon: "A Knight for a Day." Girls
VIII Be Girls Marrying Mary" lit
tie Johnnie Jones'" Isle of Spice" Jim
Corbett, Max Figman. Florence Roberts.
Fifty Miles from Broadway" Just
Out Of College" Texas" Lola from
Berlin sis Hopkins" Royal Chef. -
land. Gingerbread Man." and Norman
Hackett. The management of the the
ater announces that the schedule of
prices will remain the same for all at
fractions. that scale being from %
cents TO 81.