The San Francisco call., 1910-07-07

September, she will have as her dra-
matte offering her present vehicle,
anti -Matrimony," the comedy of Percy
MacKaye, which has delighted the
western states. The actress must be
given credit for her daring. She delib-
erately violated all the laws OF the
atrics by taking q new play, by an
American author, and going west with
it. In every other instance on record
the play has been first tried either in
New York or Chicago, and then, having
demonstrated its worth. was taken "on
the road" This method of procedure
did not meet with Miss Crosman's
views. She was going west and she de-
termined to go to the expense of pro-
ducing new play the success of which
was entirely problematical
Like Caesar. Miss Crosman came,
saw and conquered. She has proved
that she knows good thing when she
sees IL, for her new play is pronounced
the funniest comedy of the last ten
years, and MacKaye has Jumped into
the foremost class of playwrights. He
has also proved that there is some one
else besides the late Clyde Fitch who
can dramatize social problems of today
and yet lay claim to being an American
born.
Mrs. Fiske's success yesterday after
noon in "The Pillars of Society re-
suited in the announcement that she
viii appear in three more performances
of the Ibsen drama-next Monday
night. on the following Wednesday
afternoon and again on Saturday night
of next week. Becky Sharp is an
nounced for all of the other perform
ances.
Annette Kellerman is said to be one
of the greatest .'box Office" attractions
on the vaudeville stage. That means
that she entices more buyers TO the
wicket where seats are sold than otner
players Certainly she is one OF the
best exploited personages before the
public. The most intimate of details
concerning herself is not too insignia
cant to be spread by her publicity
agents. For instance, | am informed
in connection with-the fact that she
is TO appear at the Orpheum July "a;
that she IS % years of age; the most
particularly and correctly formed
woman in the world; that she weighs
427 mounds. is 645 inches tall when
she stands up and 34.6 inches when she
sits down; her knee is 1853 inches above
the floor, her head measures 2I.3 inches,
chest 33.l. expanded chest 1913, her
ninth rib 327 inches, waist 26.2 inches,
hips 37.s, thigh 22.2. knee IA, calf IL,
ankle II. instep 81, upper arm II, and
so on to such other items OF lueftiHcd-
ton as that the stretch of her arms
measures 65 inches.
Miss Kellerman is said to attribute
her health and physique to swimming
and dancing and says that when she
was a little girl she was cripple
Her legs turned in. Now they do not
and Professor Dudley Sargent of Har-
ward university has been quoted as
saving that Miss Kellerman possesses
an ali round development superior TO
anv woman ] have ever neen.
After her graduation from the high
schools of Australia her parents gave
her further education under private
tutors. and in consequence of this
learning she has appeared frequently as
a public lecturer. At the Ogpheum she
will swim and dive.
Melville Gideon is a well known song
writer from New York. He wrote THE
BiIliken Man" for instance. On his ar
rival in San Francisco on a vaudeville
circuit he met Jean c. Harvez, whose
guilt stands approved as writer of
'.When You Amt Got No Money, and
Everybody works but Father" Havez
is at the head of Miss Henrietta Cross
mans company which is booked at the
Columbia theater. The two are at work
on more songs. Gideon having demon
strated his skill recently by getting one
of his compositions in Lily Lena's hands.
She will sing 1t at the Orpheum next
week. Everybody Likes Our Mary"
1.-The Maid and the Mummy" finishes
this week at the Princess. 1t will mark