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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

the production does not measure UP to the
tale that is told In advance about it depres
sion ensues and disaster results. It is better
to understate the fact than to Overstate it
REssITT denies that he changes his
1 clothes three times a day, though he
~ doesn't resent the assertion that he is
the Beau BrummeI of the theatrical business.
But I do put on a dl4ferent suit every
morning" he admits ~It may take little
more time in the morning to change ones
attire throughout but the comfort that
comes of cleanliness and the knowledge that
ones trousers are pressed and that HIS coat
is fresh from the wardrobe is great enough
to justify the inconvenience. Besides. II
want to change my clothes dozen times a
day. it is my own affair and no others.
remember famous actor once WHO was
sitting in a club. when he was approached
by youngster who apparently. took pr
verted pride in his careless dress and nnsidy
linen The youth was offensive to the ins-
maculateIy clothed player. who finally stared
at his victim and called attention to the
fact that a man owes It to those who have
to see him to have a clean collar and neat
appearance"
REssITT boasts OF a special car. Whether
1 he requires 1t to carry his wardrobe in
~ or whether It is needed as base from
which to execute his affairs when travelling
over the country is not entirely clear to me.
1t is called sonic" and is office. bed
room. parlor and dining room and kitchen
combined. Il am tour of 81 weeks"
said he exhibiting picture Of the car. "aud
I am in all sorts and conditions OF places.
The car is my hotel when wish it to serve
as SUCH and it is my Office and storeroom
wherein I have my cuts and pictures, my
literature and my effects Thus, though we
play in but three cities in California. I am
able to go about my work while the train
is speeding over this great country.
Apparently you are always on the job
said l.
Always" said he, "even when the house
is sold out for two weeks in advance. There
may be seat up in the gallery that isn't
sold"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

ARRIET WORTHINGTON did not
quite know what to make of it.
! She had been scorched somewhat
a few months ago by the
leaves OF the morning papers for a
performance at the Valencia of Peter
PAN" wherein the inevitable and un-
kindly contrast was drawn between
her work in the role and that Of one
Miss Maude Adams. Who, indeed.
could stand the deadly parallel? But
she was persuaded thar there was
some personal animus back of the
critical unanimity of dispa ra cement,
and she was i'll over it. Then came the
accident and the hospital. where a
damaged ankle swelIed and swelled and
where a disappointed actress wept and
wept. The accident, it will be remem-
bered, cut short her engagement at the
Valencia theater, where she was strug-
Cling heroicalIy with the role Of Bar
rie's little boy who never grew up.
Then Miss Efie Bond Of the Alcazar
was secured TO complete the engage
ment OF the fantastic presentation. and
Miss Worthington remained at the hos
pital, nursing her injured limb and her
somewhat tangled feelings.
Would she consider an engagement
at the American theater in the stock
company which Manager Cohn was as
Eembling to fill in the time probably
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25
FARMYARD CIRCUS
IS ORPHEUM LEAD
Sam Watson Will Present Dogs,
Pigs, Geese, BOOSTERS and
Sheep in Novel Act

Sam Watson's farmyard circus, which
IS said to be one of the greatest of re-
cent vaudeville hits in the east and in
London, will be the headline attraction
at the Orpheum this week, beginning
with the performance this afternoon.
Watson's educated donkey, dogs, cat,
pair of geese, a lamb, such as Mary
is reputed to have loved, a sheep, a
pink pig, three roosters, a couple of
bantam hens and a Plymouth Rock won
der, supply the dramatis personae of
as intelligent an animal act as has
ever been seen, it is claimed.
Griff, who is called "London's ia
vorite juggling, testing Johnnie" will
be an important feature of the new
program. His act is said to be full of
the spirit of burlesque, yet wonderful
from a legitimate point of view.
Walter Schroeder and Lizzie Mulvey
will introduce their comedy skit "A
Theatrical Agency" which serves as a
vehicle for the display of their versa
tility and ability as singers and dane
ers. 1t also affords Miss Mulvey the
opportunity of wearing a number of
modish, tasteful and handsome cos
tumes
Herbert and Willing, minstrel come
dians, will present their newest sue
cess. "Oh Man. 1t is a combination
of burnt cork, wittieism and negro
song and is constructed for laughing
purposes only.
his week will be the last of Charles
Dana GibsoIs Electrified Girl Re-
view, julius Tanner, the Three Donals
and of the dainty English singer. Lily
Lena, who has scored a great success.
Miss Lena will be heard in new story
songs. The finale of the bili will be
series of Orpheum. motion pictures
of particular interest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25
Where They Are Going

\Y|ITH the REORGANIZATION of
W. The Princess company there
has been an exodus lately
from the state of players who for
many months were pleasant and
familiar friends on the other side
of the footlights of musical COM
edy.
Fred Mace goes to New York
and joins the 'FolIics of 1907
James stevens goes to Oregon
on vacation, thence to New
York with vaudeville in his eye.
May Boley goes to New York
and may appear I'm vaudeville.
Helen Darling also goes to the
city of the great broadway.
Zoe Barnett is on her way to
the same city.
Bud Ross remains with the
Princess company in fits reorgan.
lied condition.
Edward Temple, stage director,
left the company I'm Los Angeles
for New York.
SolIi simonson, musical direct
or. goes to New York.
Walter Catiett joins the stock
company at We Liberty theater,
Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25
NEW LEADING Wan

Augustus Phillips, the new leading
man engaged by the management OF
the Aleazar theater. has arrived in San
Francisco and Will make his San Fran
cisco debut on the night of August ,
in a play not yet selected. Owing to
the success he is said to have won in
New York in the principal role of The
Tanning of Helen" it is probable that
that piece will be the vehicle of his
introduction TO Alcazar patrons
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

were booked, the play arrived with its peo-
pie and its properties, the engagement was
played and the train took the whole TO
another town for another presentation.
Though the organization moves much it
is not like the rolling stone. The soft moss
Of profit was gathered as snow is picked up
by SNOWFALL But now, and this is quite
authoritative I'm told. comes The Merry
Widow" and captures the prize for attend
ance and money. More than 100 people are
carried, special train of seven cars moves
its properties and effects from city to city,
and so the expense of operating the enter
prise is met and paid. and Savage. back in
New York, or on his steam yacht, travel
ing'in Europe or AAia or Africa, is in touch
with the gold OF his company's success
< PEAKING of gold, the books of the Van
Ness show that little more than $50 900
was spent in the last three weeks by
theater goers in this city to see and hear
The Merry Widow" Do the figures give
you a headache2s Approximately $4,000 per-
sons saw the performance during the %
times that the curtain went up on the Lehar
comic opera, and, more than 5000 disap-
pointed ones were turned away at the box
office unable TO buy the seats which their
money was ready to purchase. It is said
that the average demand week in and week
out of patrons at a box office is for three
seats. Some buy one, some two. some three
and some dozen. The average is three
Assuming this average to be correct there
were $4,000 disappointed ones who would
have gone to the Van Ness had there been
seats for them to listen from And these
multitude which stayed away. discouraged
by the long line that trailed to the box
Office and by the reports frequently issued
of the impossibility of getting good feser-
vations.
y looking over the facts and figures atten-
ton is reverted to>the business manager who
keeps this money making machinery going:
who advises the public about what it wants
TO hear; who gets publcity.fo the concern,
and WIN at he same time hat he is busi-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

1t has been four years since Blanche
Bates has appeared in San Francisco.
in The Fighting Hope" and will be
here within a few week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

Henry w. Savage thinks he has ac-
CURED another success of "The Merry
Widow proportions in his adaptation
Of another Viennese opera, The Gay
Hussars, which had its premiere re-
Gently at the Apollo theater in Allan
VIC Sity- = wirEzEEE,..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25
HARRIET WOPTF4NGT0N IN TWO ROLLS

role and so good in another" she asked
me. rs it possible for one to play SO
badly in one piece and so wen in an
other?"
And 1 CALAMITY had TO admit the pre-
posterousness of the fact
But why not? Could Maude Adams
play Zaza, or Sarah Bernhard assume
the role of Aunt Mary? I doubt it.
The qualities of art are not translat-
able, anyway. and one is fortunate to
be able to do any one thing wen.
Iln Ut the critics said she. "do not
take into consideration the fact
- that an actress sometimes must
get herself up in a role at very short
notice. They do not take into consid-
Grafton the fact that player may have
objected to assume certain character
which is forced upon him. 1 did not
want to play Peter Pan. I did not
know that 1 was to be placed in posi-
tfpn where / had to. 1t was not agreed
in New York that 1 should appear as
Barrie's immortal boy. The role was
thrust in my hands, and when I came
here 1 had to do the best could with
it. / tried to beg off, but they wouldn't
let me. Then came the accident to my
ankle, the suspended and finally the
broken engag cement and the conscious
ness that I had not made good before
a san Francisco audience.
That's why I wanted to know, when
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

was approached by the American
theater management with an offer to
serve as leading woman, whether there
was a prejudice against me, or any
animus which would inspire writers to
say sad things about my playing. And
that's the reason why I'm pleased and
still regarded as fit to play. AS the
countess, which is not an easy role,
believe me, ] have reconciled myself to
the unhappiness 1 experienced in the
Barrie play a few months ago. The
American theater has made me forget
the Valencia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

u7V FTER all there is much of luck
~ in this profession of mine. A
player sometimes gets just the
right role at just the right time. Con-
ditions of staging and all the exigen-
cies of the business seem to conspire
in happy concord. A success is
achieved and thenceforth ones repu-
tation is secure. A trihe less of the hap
piness of luck would have suf1ced to
render the success a failure and the
presentation fasco. That's luck.
"A bit of adverse fate played me
poor trick when Margaret Ellington was
starting out in her career in The Thief
Daniel Frohman asked me to under
study the part. But I was ambitious. 1
did not care to travel along with
production and do nothing but report
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-25

HARRIET woRTHINGToN did not
quite know what to make of it.
U She had been scorched somewhat
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

green lettuce make salad pleas
ing to eye and palate.
Pears and apples of fine flavor
make an excellent foundation for .
combination fruit salad.
Fill red tomatoes with white
cooked sweet corn and serve on
green lettuce with yellow mayon-
naise.
Boiled cider, lemon juice and or
ange Juice may be substituted for
wine in fancy dressings for fruit
salads.
For fancy salad quickly put to-
gether, pack shrimps in green pep
per cups and serve with yellow
mayonnaise.
Put two slices of red tomato on a
bed of green lettuce, place small
yellow tomato on each slice and
cover with a dressing made with
whipped cream.
For an all green salad, boil green
string beans and serve them in Gu
cumber boats on bed Of green let
tuce, covered with dressing col
ored with parsley.
For a white medley, use white
meat of chicken, white stalks of
celery, white portions Of hard
boiled eggs, q little white onion and
serve on white inside leaves of let
tuce, garnished with white cher
ries and dressing mixed with
beaten cream.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
MOTHER STILL GOODIES
DOLL OF YOUTH
CLOTHED IN FRESH, CLEAN
DRESS EACH SUNDAY, WITH
a NEW RIBBON IN ITS HAIR.
(By United Prsss.)


ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.-Although
Mrs. Catherine Adams, who looks
as II 6he were II. is the mother
of a pretty baby boy, she still
cares for the first real big blue
eyed doll her mother gave her
when she was little girl.
For the 10 years she has owned
the doll she has never neglected
Its toilet. Each Sunday finds 1t
with a clean and bright dress, a
new ribbon in its golden hair and
neat little bow about its neck.
The little girls of the neighbor-
hood know about the big doll and
often go to see 1t. They have
never handled 1t, though, because
It is becoming more valuable each
year as an heirloom.
Little John Quincy Adams, not
yet a year old. is not neglected,
however, because of the mothers
fondness for the doll.
The doll Is about two feet high
and has wax face and natural
hair. 1t is generally dressed in
white.
Il think a great deal of the doll"
Mrs. Adams said; but of course l
think million times more of little
John Quincy. It's a different kind
of love l have for him."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
TELL NE A a
NSTORY:M
~CHILDREN,S
~ PlAYTINE
THE PUSSY TREE.


Way off on a star in the blue
sky, where all the kittens grow
and the lakes are full of cream
instead of water. there lived an
old cat called Madam Puss, who
had many mischievous children.
She could have taken care Of
them all right If they had all been
good children, but some Of them
were very naughty, sometimes
tearing holes in each others fur
dresses or pulling out the fur and
Notwithstanding so much of
the time. Really 1t took so much
of her time making them behave
that she couldn't properly attend
to her garden, wher tn mice grew
on bushes just like our tomatoes
do on earth, SO Madam Puss and
her good and bad children were
likely to starve.
One day, just as the naughty
kitty-cats were quarreling. WHO
should happen to come that way
but the king of Catland. a great
big maltese cat. He told them he
would not allow naughty kitties
who were SO troublesome to their
mothers to live in Catland any
longer, so he had a witch turn
them into willow trees and sent
them to live on the earth.
Every spring they blossom out
in their gray fur. and earth people
call them pussy willows"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

The calfskin Ia chrome tanned, so IL
never gets hard, no matter how wet the
shoes get. They have double soles-
large eyelets and hooks-the back are
stayed-Goodyear welt soles-round
toes. They are handsome shoes besides
being just about as serviceable ones as
you could buy. The prices according to
sizes are from $3.50 to g.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
Easy town a
Piano
Piano Buyers Find a Gold Mine Of
Bargains at EiIers Piano
House.

1oo9Ss
Problems of the piano buyer are
easily solved at Eilers this week.
At prices ranging from $13S up
wards you will find second hand
and almost new fine, high grade
pianos that have been exchanged
toward magnificent Chickering
pianos and genuine Pianola pianos.
They are yours for just what we
allowed for them
$1aa, $175, $3.50, $2os, 1925, $247
Payments as low as 81 per
month or $3.50 per week are ac-
cepted ON the cheaper styles, and a
money back guarantee assures
your complete and lasting satisfac-
ton. Furthermore, any time within
two years that you decide to have
Americas best piano, the CHECKER
ing, We will accept your piano in
exchange and allow you all you
have paid on it to apply, providing
1t Is not misused.
Even though the prices quoted
seem ridicuously low, a glance at
the instruments gives an idea Of
their splendid quality.
WORLDS FINEST MAKES.
Pianos that are unsteady artistic
are the only ones worth consider.
ing and even the cheapest piano
we offer has the musical qualities
that he musician appreciates.
When you come to Eilers, you
have selection from the finest
line of instruments that can be got
ten MISUNDERSTANDING, Steck,
Kimball, Decker Hobart M. Cable,
Lester. Schumann, Smith &
Barnes, Hallett & Davis and many
other world renowned makes.
III you know good bargain when
yop see it, you will appreciate the
Offers we are making this week.
The sooner you come the better.
Come to the busy plano store,
corner Sprague and Post, Eilers
Piano House. G. A. Heidinger, man.
ager
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
BABY GIRL WEIGHS
POUND AND HALF
(6y United Press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. "a
baby girl. Weighing just a pound
and a half and believed to be the
smallest child In California. was
discovered today under the care of
Mrs. w. A. Parker, at 281 Canchez
street, in this city.
The infant Is the daughter Of
Mrs. Charles Walter, who, because
of her duties in hotel. has been
compelled to place the baby in the
charge of Mrs. Parker.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

yesterday. He stated that all he
knew Of the killing was what he
had heard. He said that he and
Anderson and Carlson had been
drinking together, that he lett
them at saloon and started back
to the 8. P. & s. tunnel near
Greenwood. where he worked, be-
fore he heard of the murder. He
then returned to his wife's apart
ments.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
FATHER COLLIER
IS PROMOTED

Father H. j. Collier, president of
Gonzaga college, has been pro-
noted to the post of provincial of
the Jesuit province of California,
which embraces southern Califor-
mia, Alaska, Oregon, Washington.
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and the
two Dakotas.
His successor as head of Coma
ga college Is Rev. L. Taelman,
who comes from st. Ignatius mis-
lsion in Montana.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
.boMQRk uHkT
.liEvfR bont.8

Instead Of destroying paper bags
keep them In a convenient place
near the kitchen stove or sink and
you will soon see the many uses
to which they may be put.
Instead Of keeping stove rag 1t
is much cleaner to put the hand in
side paper bag and wipe the
stove and then burn the bag.
When cleaning up the dishes
after a meal it is very easy to
scrape the dry scraps into a paper
bag; close 1t and drop into the
garbage can. This helps to pre-
serve the cleanliness of the latter.
A heavy paper bag makes good
clothespin bag, when you haven't a
better one, as 1t can be pinned to
the apron with couple of clothes
pins so as to hold 1t open, and 1t
possesses the advantage of never
having to be washed or mended.
Plumes will get quite dusty in
the summer. Put them in gasoline,
lay upon a clean sheet and cover
with talcum powder. After the
gasoline dries, shake the plumes
free from dust and recurl with a
dull knife.
Cold. fish Is not specially appetite
ing, but mixed with a cream sauce,
nodded in fish molds and served
hot with Hollandaise sauce for
luncheon 1t is delicious.
A sagging door may be raised so
that 1t will not scrape the floor by
inserting a small washer or two on
the pin between the hinge halves.
Keep sharp watch over your
bread box. as bread molds in day
In warm, damp weather. Scald the
box frequently and air it every
day.
When through sweeping dissolve
q handful of salt In basin of
water and dip the broom in, shak-
ing II out until 1t Is clean. Then
stand 1t up, handle down, until dry.
It will be like new.
coLoRED SALADS.
White pears, red cherries and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
EMIL JOHNSON ON
WITNESS STAND

Emil Johnson, husband of Hilda
Johnson, who accuses John Carl
son with the murder of Andrew
Anderson on Front avenue a
month ago. was placed on the
stand in the preliminary hearing
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
One Cough

A cough, just 4 little cough. 1t may
not amount to much. Or, it maj
amount to everything! Some keer
coughing until the lung tissues are
seriously injured. Others stop theii
cough with Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Sold for seventy years. How many
years have you known ii?
Ask you, doctor e6oui ayers Cheny Pee.
toroL. Ehs says. "Take Il. then foke Il.
If he says. me. then don't. IsI. AYes Co..
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

The board Of public works sent
a notice yesterday to the o. r. &
N. Co. to build steel viaducts on
East Olive avenue and on Napa
street, and to the Inland Empire
Railroad Co. to build a steel VIA
duct on Napa street, work to be
started before September "a.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
Reliable Shoes for
Boys, From SIPS Up

swing, and medium heavy soles, SO
these shoes are as handsome as they
are serviceable. They're made of kan
CARGO grain leather-sturdy but pliable
the backs stayed to guard against
their ripping. Lace blucher style.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

Keep a sharp watch over your
bread box. as bread molds in day
in warm, damp weather. Scald the
box frequently and air it every
day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

So tiny are the feet of the wee
bit of humanity that finger ring
can be easily passed over the foot
to encircle the ankle. The child
was born September /.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
SPOKANE COLLEGE

Fall semester opens Sept. IA. Re
on time. Departments: College,
high school, law school, normal.
music. bookkeeping, shorthand,
surveying, preparatory, journalism.
Personal attention to your needs
Catalogue free on application.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

tion.l as is the shirring " which
shapes the other dress.
The little hats are the modified
Russian shapes which head the
list of the seasons favorites, so
far. The simplicity in trimming
which characterizes these hats
will appeal to every girl and WON
an who dislikes the ornate and
conspicuous in millinery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

Here are two absolutely new
ideas in street frocks to be worn
with or without wraps just as
weather permits. They are de-
veloped in the soft fabrics which
are making such strong bid for
fall popularity.
The cuirass, bodice turned up in
folds at the bottom to disclose the
pleated skirt is a striking innova-