The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-20


Discharge star if necessary
LOOKS BAD FOR JONES
Things were happening those days
On February 3 this was the Williams
output:
Just received the letter in which you
say you wired Hale to refuse to make
Awfully glad you did-just keep up
that policy"
Then steinderns head fell into the
Basket. with this shout OF giee from
Williams:
February I. 1901. Mighty glad you
discharged director Saturday. DO same
with Jones if he does not comply with
your rules"
Poor Jones: that is, Miss Nielsen.
But here is the unkindest cut on
Jones"
On March ! Williams sent telegram
in which he spoke of a reorganization
OF the Alice Nielsen opera company. He
said. in part:
Better call it tile Williams and
Perley opera company. / like the idea
Of tHelen) Bertram for the star for
next season. 1t will make Jones jump
stifflegged.' ....
On May Williams telegraphed
Perley:
NIobu SNHcluc u ciedB6 beElTdn-
Jones certainly Will have dozen fits
and that is the place we want to put
him in now"
But there were financial difficulties
as well as incompatibilities between
Williams and his star This came out
yesterday in a letter produced, written
on May ,, 1901. Miss Nielsen had i'm
agined herself to have a vested right
Of some sort in the company and Will
i
not think Miss Nielsen was in any po-
sition to claim an interest in the COM
pany, lin view of the fact" as he
writes. that we are from $4,000 to
$4,000 losers on this production when
I told her our relationship ceased. and
since she wrote a letter on leaving San
Francisco, in which she acknowledged
that / was sole proprietor.
We can easily establish our position.
BE very firm, Frank, in this matter
of our business and render no state
ment to her. She is certainly showing
a very mean and ungratefuI spirit in
taking such a course when she knows
perfectly well she has no more interest
in these productions than the man in
the moon
NOSE GUNST REGRETS
Nose Gunst's letter to Al Hayman.
I.
as follows: Il regret very much that
the sudden success of Alice Nielsen has
evidently turned her head and she has
become unmanageable so that Perley
and Tom Cwilliams) have great
trouble in holding the organization to-
gether.
In Haymans reply he, too. regretted
very much that Miss Nielsen's head
had been completely turned"
IL, Dor1oNfc haho1f off
evidence two contracts. One was dated
February. 1898, had a one year tenure
and provided that Perley should man
age the Alice Nielsen opera company
at a salary of s10O a week. all allow
ances for expenses and 25 per cent of
the profits. Perley's orders were sub
ject to the right of Williams to over
rule by letter or telegram. The sec
ond contract was dated May "a 1899
and held for five years. This contract
provided that Williams was to supply
all money and make good all losses
from week to week In general its
terms were those of the first contract
Il contained as a sort of afterthought
a provision that in the event of Will
nams' death during the tenure of the
contract Miss Nielsen was to secure
his interest in the company unless he
had otherwise ordained in his will.
Perley's attorney contends that the let
ters and contracts prove Perley was
simply Williams agent.
Perley and Williams were also as
ISOLATED in the management of other
companies. The case goes on Tuesday
afternoon at , o'clock.