The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-22
Barber Of Seville Charms Throngs
FIerschelM aydIMdy JoinNrs. Fiske|
ACTOR GETS
GOOD OFFER
rendered Le0d in
New Play

Mrs. Fiske wants Herschel Mayall
The fact is exposed in correspondence.
She wants him TO break his contract
with Manager Abe s. Cohn of the AM
erican theater; meet her and Harrison
Grey Fiske in New York next month
and join her company as leading man
in October
Mayall wants to 90 and yet he wants
to stay. If he is in New York August
he viii have 10 break his engagement
in this city which he is reluctant TO
do. 1t is The Duel in real life" he
says.
When Mayan was in Covington, KY,
last month he received an OFFER from
Mrs. Fiske. through Mrs. Beaumont
Packard of the Packard theatrical
agency to join her company. which will
open in New York in October in new
play Mayan replied. accepting the
OFFER, but il seems that the telegram
did not reach its destination. Not
hearing again from Mrs. Fishes agents.
Mayan accepted Manager Cohn's offer
10 lead the Americans summer stock
company. and left the east Immediately.
Yesterday Mayall received q for
warded letter from Covington, asking
him to reconsider the Fiske offer. 1t is.
in part, as follows:
I received your letter in answer to
my telegram regarding Mrs. Fiske' S
engagement. The telegram you speak
Of never reached US. We could not
imagine why we received no reply. and
1 can not understand where il could
have gone to. Mrs. Fiske does not
open until about the first of October.
and as you say YOU are engaged for the
early part Of the season. would IL not
be possible for you to get out of that
enga cement by the time Of her open
ing? Both she and Mr. Fiske viii re-
turn 10 town about August 9. and
would like. if possible. 10 have an in
terview with YOU at that time. Do
you think you could arrange to be
here2 1t seems to me that this would
be an excellent opportunity for you.
and would advise your trying to come
on MRS BEAUMONT PACKARD.
New York. June %"
Mayall says that If no other arrange
ments can be made he will play out
his engagement at the American thea
ter and turn down the offer of Mrs.
Fiske.
The devious ways OF the chorus girl
are always interesting. From the
ranks Of the spear carriers have come
many stars OF the first magnitude on
the stage horizon. Even Marie Doro, a
Frohman luminary, was once a comic
opera lady with salary as short as
her skirt.
Dorothy Bunch was here at the
Princess when Kolb and Dill recently
held their season OF success at Man
ager Loverich's playhouse. She was
a chorus girl and earned and got as
much as SIS a week According to the
salary list at the Wigwam she's get
ting just SO more than four times that
sum as vaudeville player. Great is
vaudevillei She does not have 10
change her clothes thrice during an
evening. All she does at the wigwam
is TO sing three songs. The audience
does the rest
She was picked out of the Kob and
Dill chorus, I'm told, when the COM
pany was IN Los Angeles and was
booked over the Sullivan and Consi-
dine circuit Hence the present Wig
wan engagement and next week at the
National The less work you do the
more money you get, seems to be the
ruling truth in vaudeville as elsewhere.
The production of The Barber OF
Seville yesterday afternoon at the
Princess theater suggested many things
10 me- In the first place, that opera
was the first TO be presented in America
as the opening attraction of an Italian
grand opera season. So, in a way. it is
the pfoneer opera of musical America