The San Francisco call., 1910-05-26
LITTLE FAVORITE
TO GET new ROLE
What Everys Woman Knows"
to Be Sidetracked for Ros-
tand Production
FOOtlight FavOrite to Appear in
"As You Like 1t" as She
Likes 1t
By WALTER ANTHONY

CHARLES Frohman has arranged that
MISS Adams shall appear next season
In the American version Of Rostand's
'Chantecler." She Will play the lead
ing role, that Of the chantecler him
self. who imagines Oike the wise bird
he Isl that his Growing wakes the sun
and starts the day. The announce
ment Of Frohman's plans is definite
MISS Adams viii have the role and so
local play goers will have this week
the last opportunities Of seeing Miss
Adams in Barrie's play, What Every
Woman Knows" which delightful
comedy will not be repeated for sew
ersl seasons at least in spite Of the
TACT that 1t is proving one of Barrie's
best
A line in the present play is pro-
phetic Of Miss Adams forthcoming as
sumption. One of Maggie's brothers
asks her, as she sits knitting in the
corner, how would she like TO wear q
silk. a silk, David" she asks; what
would DO with a silk? You might
Just as well dress up a little brown
hen"
OF course Miss Adams will not wear
the feathers Of a little hen, brown or
gray or white, but viii assume the gay
plumage OF the strutting hero of the
Darnyard himself. However, she points
out that II will not be the first male
role she has assumed. She was the
"eaglet" IN ~L'Aiglon." the Jester in
~ChicOt the Jester" and Peter Pan.
Meanwhile plans for the big produc-
ton Of As You Like It" are progress
ing IN Berkeley. The forest of Arden
has been ordered and the trees will be
planted in the big bowl Of the Greek
theater; the musicians and singers are
being rehearSed by William Furst, mu-
steal producer for Frohman, and every
production Of the great comedy is
played for one night only-Monday
evening. June s. Miss Adams, as Rosa
lind, viii make her first appearance in
the role Several times she has been
announced TO appear, but some un-
foreseen difficulty has intervened and
her ambition TO play the charming
part has never been gratified. Now,
she says, she will give "As You Like
It. as she likes it. and so keeps Froh-
mans business staff worried with her
demands for elaborate scenery, for eX-
pensive costumes and music, and in
short for all those accessories needed
TO make it perfect production
Fact and fiction are seldom harnessed
double in stage vehicles, particularly
musical comedies. and more particular
y the George N Cohan variety Of melo-
dramatic musical plays. Sometimes the
situation exhibited behind the foot
lights. however, does not change ma
terially after the curtain closes the
play. That was true the last time that
George Washington Jr.'' was played
here. It was at the Novelty, and Flora
Parker, who was Polly, and Carter de
Haven, who was George Jr-, the tri-
colored, star studded role. realized in
fact the relationship Of husband and
wife which the plays story told Of
When George Washington Jr." is put
on by the Hartman opera company at
the Princess next Sunday afternoon il
VIII be the second time in this city that
the two leading roles are played by
married youngsters. .'Muggins" Davies
appears in the role that Flora Parker
introduced US TO, and Walter de Leon
assumes the chars cter of George Wash
ingtOns adopted great great grandson,
the part that Carter de Haven danced
through Muggins, it may shock you to
learn, is Mrs. Walter de Leon. Both
are so diminutive that Hartman swears
he's going TO write a musical comedy
for them and call it The Babes in the
Woods" Miss Davies is one of the
smallest soubrettes on the comic opera
stage and De Leon wasn't able to qualify
at Berkeley for the varsity team by
about 100 pounds. so had TO content
himself with being yell leader.
Los Angeles says that Muggins and
De Leon were at their best in the Cohan
4LlS-Ndl pay WHICH - not a Dig WORK,
but q most lively, energetic one.
Miss Paula Marr, who is William
Golfers leading lady, is likewise HIS
bride The couple were married May
10 in Kansas City and when the
comedian appears in a Lucky Star" at
the Columbia theater at the close OF
Maude Adams engagement, he will
realize, he says, the truth of the title
OF his play, and the reality of the char
acter he assum mes-''the lucky star"
Miss Msrr is considered one of the most
beautiful women on the stage and for
several seasons was q well known
musical comedy favorite in the east.
Lillian Ashley is surely a more eu-
phonious name for q singing comedian
than Mrs. Smith. so none will blame
Miss Ashley for sticking to the pictur-
esQue patrOnymic. She gives what has
been called, elsewhere, a breezy mono
logUe. in conjunction with her songs,
and blows in at the Orpheum next
sunday afternoon, about II hours too
late TO be on the same bill with her
husband, Smith. OF Smith & Campbell,
who are at the big vaudeville house
this week
Theatrical business in the north"