The San Francisco call., 1910-02-03

Of the Mantell enga gemept al the New
Columbia she viii be seen as Lady Mac
beth Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona,
Goneril. Portis and as Marie IN De
Lavignes Louis AL'
one of the most complete libraries OF
dramatic literature il the world Is pos
sessed by Miss Blanche Walsh. and is
Installed in her home at Woods Holl,
Massachusetts. The heroine of 'Resur-
rection." The Woman in the Case,
..Tbe Kreutzer Sonata" and The
STRAIGHT Road" win be seen at the van
Ness this next week in new play
The Test" by Jules Eckert Goodman
who until three years ago was a news
paperman in Portland
Rv 2 coincidence Frederick Warde,
Who with James toured the country for
many wears. in classical dramas, was
i, san Francisco at the same time thet
lanes was playing at the Van Ness last
week. Warde is not now on the stage
hut is giving lectures on the Drama ne
is making the circuit OF the racine
coast. but will not lecture in San Fran
cisco.
when Florence Roberts, who will ap-
near at the Novelty theater next Tues
dsv in The Transformation, was play
ing in that drama in Rochester, New
York. she had curious Illustration OF
the potency Of stage illusion. After one
of the rnatinees the callboy brought her
a nofe which he said had been given
him by "an old lady" TO which ne hao
been told there was no reply
T-non Miss Roberts opening the mis-
s;ve she discovered two pages OF "ad-
vice" from a great admirer- Ihe note
went on to say that the writer mao no
ficed in the first act Of The Trans
formation that the doctor had let Co
linet1e. in the person of Miss Roberts,
5;e and in the last act that same man
OF medicine had been unable TO restore
phillipe's eyesight. AS woman who
had had much experience with doctors
the unidentified correspondent and
friend advised Miss Roberts earnestly
70 change physicians post haste
Miss Roberts did all that she could TO
-oroplv with this suggestion, for she
cent the note at once TO the author
of The transformation, Rupert
Hughes.
The evidence that San Francisco is
2 producing center OF growing conse-
o1ence is at hand in the fact that the
AIcazar touring company, trained un-
der Fred Butler and personally watched
nv Frederic Belasco makes its first
publfc appearance tonight at Vallejo.
As staged at the Alcazar. the romantic
nlav. "St Elmo" was a huge success
and showed us why it had been a New
York hit. The reason was that 1T told
a pretty story, unmarried by vulgarity
or by the Introduction of the morbid
IT proved clean, and New York ap-
rroved il. though ii was written half
century ago
4 dress. rehearsal Of the road COM
many was held last Tuesday afternoon
at the Alcszar, and the principals
ACQUITTED themselves we'll Miss Gerda
Nelson assumes the role of Edna Earl;
play the part of st. Elmo Murray;
Louise Browneu. one of the best char
scter actresses that the Aleazar has
ever had. Will be seen as Agnes. and
George Baldwin, another member of
the Alcazar company, viii take the
role Of Murray Hammond. Georgia
woedthorpe will have a pretty comedy
character and Ralph Bell. Edgar Sin
clair and Chris Lynton vii be others fn
the cast.
After a month or two in California
the company viii be taken to Portland,
where il will be under the John Cort
booking, and from there on will tour
over the Cort circuit through Oregon,
Washington; Idaho. Montana, Utah and
Colorado until June IS.
There'u be more classical music at
the Orpheum next week when Nine.
Panita, the flute virtuoso, appears. Her
advertised repertoire includes q con-
certo by the French fiautist, Tolou, a
Mozart andante: a suite by GODDARD and
compositions written expressly for the
flute
Marie cahilI declares that one of the
best matrimonial bureaus in the world
is The Boys and Betty Everybody
around the place. she told me. gets
married. In former days when the
musical comedy stage was sort OF
How to Mix Good One" Booklet
free-teIls all about mixing drinks.
sent on REQUEST postal will do. A.
p Hotaling g. Co, proprietors of Old
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