The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Dramatic Notes

Dramatic Notes
Warren and Blanchard are other
favorites soon to reach the orpheum.
Augustus Thomas has completed a
new play, The Member From Ozark"
The next Hartman attraction will be
Richard Carle's big hit, THE Mayor of
Tokyo"
David Belasco has arranged for
tour of THE Easiest Way" which will
include the Columbia theater in its
itinerary.
When Hartman appears this after
noon in George Washington Jr." at
the Princess theater it will have been
just is years since the popular come
dian appeared in a blackface role.
His press representative says that
George NJ. Cohan is hard at work on
his new musical play" Everybody
thought that writing musical plays was
about the easiest thing Cohan did.
Virginia Harmed and her leading
man. William Courtenay, have arrived
in this city and have begun rehearsals
of Anna Karenina, in which Miss
Harmed will begin her starring season
Monday night. June 6.
Frederic Belasco has returned from
Los Angeles, where he staged an elab-
crate revival of "The Rose of the
Rancho" He says that the Belasco-
Tully play is destined for record run
in the southern city.
When the Alcazar company produces
"Trilby" tomorrow night Miss Vaughan
will have won the distinction of being
the first actress who ever sang the
song allotted to Trilby and who played
the role as well.
Margaret Anglin's forthcoming ap
pearance at the Columbia theater in
'.The Awakening of Helen Richie will
remind theater goers of her former sue
cess in Mrs. Danes Defense" and will
suggest interesting contrasts.
Henrietta Crosman is to make a trip
to Honolulu after playing her engage
ment here. She will be accompanied
by her company and will give few
performances of her new play, Anti
Matrimony," a new farce by Percy
Mackaye.
The doors of the Columbia will be
open all summer, the bookings being
continuous and of a high order. Stars
will follow one another in HALEY time.
After Maude Adams comes William Col
lier, then Margaret Anglin, then Mrs
Fiske and later Henrietta Crosman.
It is a curious fact that Walter de
Leon, the clever light comedian of the
Hartman company at the Princess,
shutters in his speech when away from
the footlights; but on the stage his
lines are read as smoothly as possible.
he rha ha
factorily explained.
Miss Evelyn Vaughan. whose fare
well week at the Alcazar begins to-
morrow night. will visit the Yosemite,
Del Monte and other interesting Cali
ward. Her plans for next season have
not yet been made. but she proposes to
rest until September and may make a
trip to Europe meanwhile
Among the artists whom Manager
Miller has secured for his grand opera
season at Idora park are Sacchetti,
tenor from the Metropolitan opera
company; Campana, who is claimed to
have been Masca gni's favorite barry
tone, and Miss de Drew, mezzo So
prano, formerly of the Royal Carl
Rosa opera company of England.
1t is coincidence that Virginia Har-
ned and William Courtenay. who are
to commence a summer season at the
Alcazar next week following the regu-
lar company's presentation of ''Trilby,"
were two of the principals who ap-
peared in the first American company
to present ~"Trilby'' in this country.
Miss Harmed had the title role and
Courtenay played that of Little Billie.
If there is anything in inherited
tendencies, Maude Adams comes natur-
ally by her dramatic instinct. Her
father and mother were members of a
stock company in Salt Lake City, where
the future star was born. Her parents
name was Kiskadden. but for stage
purposes the heroine of What Every
Woman Knows took part of her
mothers name, Annie Adams When
she arrived in Salt Lake on her way
to San Francisco Miss Adams was
given an official welcome by the cftv
council, which presented her with a
set of resolutions in which she was
referred TO as "the highest type of
modest womanhood idol of the Ameri-
can stage and the states most illus
trious daughter" That seems to dis
prove the assertion that "a prophet is
net without honor save in his own
country