The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16
ETHEL BARRYMORE
MAY LEAVE fROHMAN
TaIkative Actress Is Carefully
Guarded to Prevent Her
Discussing Rumor

Where is Ethel when the play is
out?
Does Charles Frohman, or his agents
take the talented and one time loquaci-
Gus Lady Frederick and have her
disappear between performances. or.
simply. have they devised dainty
golden paddock with which they seal
her ready lips so that she might not
answer the serious question. to-wit:
Does Miss Barrymore intend TO leave
! the Frohman house and cast her fair
| fortunes and manifold gracss with the
Shuberts if certain exceilently high
brow drama which her spirit Graves is
not assigned TO her for next season?
/ Ethel Barrymore has not been asked
ftbe question concerning. her reported
uItimatum for a SUFFICIENT reason that
nothing in the shape Of an interroga-
tion point is perulitted within speaking
d;sfancs of ths Srohpsan star. Her:
/ rffeffds say II 81 sic has volunteered TO
them the information that she wants to
/ do heavier roles than those in which
she has been cast by the Frohmans.
/ Miss Barrymore aspires.
| While Lady Frederick is a charm
ing play and a sight better than the
play which her uncle, John Drew, drew
from w. Somerset Maugham's linotype,
il is not serious piece with transcend
ent heart throbs.
! But how can the public know what
Miss Barrymore has demanded of Froh-
man when the lady is kept in a sound
proof vacuum?
| STAR CAREFULLY GUARDED
Victor f. de Kiraly, the Frohman
representative with Miss Barrymore's
/ company. plays the triple rove OF re-
ceiver, transmitter and ground wire
when an attempt is made to interview
| the star. And Miss Barrymore's hus-
band. R. G. Colt, also acts as a sentinel
and allows no. skirmishers. to approach
within hailing distance. Although
Barrymore Colt does not arm himself
with the historic weapon which his
| grandpapa invented and which was
successfully used TO reduce the popula-
ton of Texas and Arizona In the old
days he still is a valiant watchman at
the side of his brilliant wife.
Miss Barrymore has long been a
Frohman star. She ever has had good
plays. Report says she has told her
| friends that she wants better plays
Report says she is dissatisfie with
Frohman because she has been cast in
comedy. Report. says recently she
learned that the Frohmans had ac-
cepted deep play which would be
profoundly produced next year; that
Miss Barrymore. coveted the leading
part; that she told the Frohmans that
tif she was not given the role she
would go to the Shuberts.
If Miss Barrymore were allowed to
| be interviewed undoubtedly she would
! frankly tell whether or not these re-
ports are true
But Miss Barrymore is not allowed to
be interviewed.
the Van Ness theater after the pr
formanc OF, Lady Frederick Victor
E. de Kiraly met the interviewer at
the outer works and cried, Halt, who
goes -there?'
| When he heard the request to inter
view Miss Barrymore he said that she
was not permitted to be seen.
But may 1 write note to Miss
Barrymore?" was asked.
Yes, and I will take 1t to her.
After the note was written DE Kiraly
disappeared somewhere into the In
terror. When he reappeared he said
that Miss Barrymore directed him to
answer the note. which he did, So that
is all the good that did.
COLT ON THE FIRING LINE
| At HAS p. m Monday a reporter
waited at the Barrymore-Colt apart
ments at the Fairmont. There was
Colt on the firing line. mo. no. he
said, there can be no interview: al
though the only objection I have Is
the lateness of the hour. 1t would do
no good any way to see Miss Barry
more regarding this matter Frohman
knows all about ii. and any statement
for publication will have to be secured
from his press agent
AT 11:45 a. m. yesterday. Just after
Miss Barrymore had returned from an
automobile ride. Colt was more decided
than ever that she should not be inter
viewed. He flew into a rage, such a
rage that 1t seemed a blessing that the
grandpapa and not the grandson had
| Invented the highly efficient revolver.
He would not even say whether or not
| Frohman had refused to permit Miss
/ BARRYMORE to be interviewed. beeause
recently in St. Louis she was quoted as
having enthusiastically abused society
In general and the New York "400- spe-
cifically.
or does thsAstar go into eclipse be-
/ hind an invisible cloak? Or does Froh-
mar, s. agent make her lips fast with a
golden paddock and hide her away in a
caSe7
who'n lead the expeditions to rescue
/ the fair LADY, --