Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
SACRAMENTO CRITIC
REBUKES SHUBERT
Especial to The Herald

Especial to The Herald
SACRAMENTO. June 19.-Quoting ].
J. Shubert in a recent interview as say
ing that he found theatricals on the
Pacific coast "in their infancy" a
drama critic for a local paper rebukes
the eastern stage magnate in a series
of stinging sentences.
when Mr.. Shubert had the state
ment written for him in his press
sheet" reads the reply of the Califor-
nian, "he sprung a joke, and j. J. Shu-
/ bert is not a humorist on purpose
/ Shubert forgets that Edwin Booth
made his first reputation not only on
the Pacific coast, but in California, and
not only in California, but in the city
of Sacramento, where he played
Raphael in The Marble Heart for
nineteen consecutive performances,
wonderful thing in the sos for any
city. And Edwin Booth had always
acknowledged his gratitude to Cali
fornia, and particularly to Sacramento,
as being the birthplace of his renown.
"Shubert forgets that the man whom
he himself acknowledges to be the
greatest stage manager and producer
in the country today, David Belasco, is
a San Francisco boy. He forgets, also,
that David Warfield. the greatest char
acter actor today. is a San Francisco
boy, that Nance O'Neil is an Oakland |
girl; that Maxine Elliott also came
from Oakland; that William A. Brady |
the producer, was a California peanut |
butcher from San Francisco to Santa |
Cruz; that Mary Anderson was a Cali
fornia girl, having been born in Sac
ramento; that Blanche Btaes is a Cali |
fornia girl; that Lotta, who made the
greatest reputation of any woman on
the stage In certain line of work,
was born in this state and went east
as the great California favorite, and 1
that Maude Adams was a Pacific coast 4
baby and scored her first hit in Cali
fornia.
'He forgets that Theodore Roberts is
a Californian that Eddie Foy made hS
first reputation in California; that
Francis Wilson also was first recog-
nized in this state. also Edwin Stevens
and likewise Jefferson DeAngelis and |
Frances Starr, now one of Belasco's S
stars.
"Shubert forgets that one time in
his state the greatest stock companies
IF those days were playing in San
francisco and in Sacramento, one the
Did California Theater company and
he other the Hooley Comedy company
IN the old California Theater company l
we're John Mccullough, Lawrence Bar
EFT, T. w. Keene, John T. Raymond |
= b. Bishop and others subsequently
Known to fame. In the Hooley Comedy /
company were such after-stars as
lanes O'Neil w. II. Crane and James
\. Hearne.
Schubert forgets that California was
or years the home of minstrelsy: that
ere such minstrels as Charlie Backus,
BILLY Birch, Dave Wambold and others
an the Birch and Backus MINISTRIES,
Which afterward went to New York
nd made a great success as the San
Francisco minstrels. He forgets that
he best minstrels in the United States
or years were the Billy Emerson min
trels of San Francisco: that Emerson l
ad in his company in addition to
plendid singers such men as Charlie
iced, Billy Sweatnam, Carroll Johnson. /
'ert Haverly and George Thatcher He
orgets that Tetrazzini, the great opera
niger. who afterward captivated New
ork and London, gained her first
reat Naurels in San Francisco He
)rgets that Ned Harrgan, a genius in
is way, who gave some wonderful
haracter sketches of life in New York,
'as San Francisco boy who worked
S caulker on the ships before he
'ent on the vaudeville stage in that
lty. He forgets that Joseph r. Girls |