The San Francisco call., 1910-07-03
HARTMAN BEGINS
FAREWELL WEEK
Noted Comedian at Princess
Produces ''The Maid and
the Mummy"

With the matinee today the farewell
week of The Ferris Hartman season at
the Princess will be started on it's way,
and the initial production for stock of
1.-The Maid and the Mummy will be
given. This musical comedy is the one
that served Richard Carle so we'll
throughout the east, and Hartman will
be the only comedian outside of Carle
himself to have appeared in the piece.
AS may be well imagined, there is
considerable of an Egyptian flavor to
The Maid and the Mummy. The
spirit of the land OF the sphinx has
been grasped In fine fashion. Carle Of
ficiated as his own librettist, and the
attenuated comedian is quite as ready
with his pen as many ans author un-
known to the stage itself. 1t is bright
in line and whimsical in idea, this very
eccentric comedy. Originality in its
truest expression is its keynote.
The story concerns the efforts of DR..
Elisha Dobbins. an archaeologist, in
securing a mummy upon which to per-
form certain experiments The doctor,
be it known, has invented an elixir of
life. He is also great student of
things Egyptian. Wherefore he is de-
sirous of killing two birds with one
stone.
BY bringing a mummy to life he will
be enabled to test the efficacy of his
elixir, and, incidentally, should the ef-
fort prove successful--of which there
is not the slightest doubt in the doc
tors mind--he will be in a position to
gain from the reborn mummy all man
ner of priceless knowledge concerning
the ancient land of the Nile.
Flo, the doctors daughter, is be-
loved and in turn loves a young Bra
lillian who staggers under the sobri-
quet of Don Romero de Cabanos. Pa,
like true comic opera parent, does not
altogether approve of the match, but
finally agrees to give his consent upon
the Brazilian, who processes for love s
sweet sake being an Egyptologist.
securing him a class A specimen of
mummy for his experiment.
Don Romero goes in his plight to
Ferris Hartman-or, rather. Washing
ton Stubbs, an impecunious curio dealer
whose curios consist mostly of stage
props, for he is, in sooth. reformed
actor. Stubbs has a mummy case. but
no mummy, so Bolivar, his man of all
work. is pressed into service For a
consideration Bolivar agrees to be-
come as fine mummy as may be
found.
In order that the mummy may not
llId uliilocil III SttdlSc
when he is awakened, the doctor has
an Egyptian room built in his house;
his family and servants are required
to dress after the ancient Egyptian
mode and the lotus becomes a motif for
the house decoration. And so the
mummy is brought to life; the doctor
and his theories triumph-for a time,
at any rate; the curio dealer corrals
some coin of the realm and the hand
of his former leading woman, to whom
he was in arrears for back salary: the
doctors daughter weds the Brazilian
of her heart, and everything turns out
just as nicely as you please.
Hartman should be a hit as Wash
ington Stubbs. for the part was SEEM
ingly built for him. His droll person.
ality will stand him in fine stead for
the role. Myrtle Dingwall will be the
maid and Walter de Leon the mummy
Composer Robert Hood Bowers has sew
eraI solos in the score that will show
Miss DingwaIl's delightful soprano to
advantage.