The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30
SUNDAY PLAYS
GOTHAM PROBLEM
FrOhman Proposes Sabbath
Performances on East Side
for Working Classes
William A. Brady Will Test
Law When New Theater
Is Completed
By c. c. CARLTON

man s idea or giving theatrical enter
tainments on the East Side" SUNDAY
afternoons and evenings, in order that
those whose occupations preclude their
attendance weekdays may have a
chance for recreation and diversion.
has aroused a controversy as to the
propriety or wisdom of giving such
sunday shows. Frohman would not
keep his Broadway theaters open sun
days. but that he is liberal minded on
the subject is shown in his plans for
an East Side theater. where he expects
10 give dramatic readings and other
forms or instructive entertainment on
sunday afternoon and evening
William A Brady viii so even far
ther. lie says that when his new thea
ter is completed he viii give "legiti-
mate performances Sundays until q
complete test Of the present law is
made or another law is enacted IF
the vaudeville managers have the right
10 give the kind Of Sunday entertain
ments they now do I certainly have the
right to present on Sunday dramas pos
sessing artistic and ethical value" says
Brady.
Henry B. Harris is strongly opposed
10 sunday shows. Lee Shubert is of the
opinion that the law should be abso-
lutely explicit and not give one class
privilege not enjoyed by all.
Daniel Frohman opposes Brady's
plan He says: II think that the
drama should have one day of rest out
Of seven Play goers need rest as
well as the actors, and I am opposed TO
giving performances of drama on sun
day for that reason, but see no objec-
tion TO presenting lighter forms of en-
tertainment, such as vaudeville and
musical comedy on Sunday. I think
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sunday or not should be optional with
the manag ger-that is, he should not be
absolutely forbidden by law to present
plays on that day"
Actors, TO man. are opposed to
sunday performances. For them il
would mean more work and no more
pay. They have seen how this works
in Chicago, St Louis. san Francisco,
Seattle, Cincinnati and other cities.
The adherents and critics of Luther
Burbank have been conducting a wordy
warfare in the columns OF a New York
paper, the critics alleging that Bur
bank is not entitled TO the credit of
discovering" or creating the so called
'spineless cactus"
a doubt is cast on his claim by the
department Of agriculture bulletins.
Doctor Grifhths Of the department finds
that the spineless variety may be culti-
?
gulf OF Mexico, the southwestern cor
ner Of New Mexico and on the coast of
the grea ter part Of California. Any
where else, he says, the minimum win
ter temperatures would spoil the crops.
Ia the entire discussion Of these
spineless cacti. Doctor GrifIiths sees no
reason TO give any credit TO Burbank
for their creation In fact, he thinks
iii may be the ignorant AIeXicans who
evolved them.
The subject of California's claim to a
El0rious climate has also been contro-
verted by some fasteners who COM
plain that the chilly moisture laden
arr" OF California's coast is more un-
IIeassnt and less healthful than the
most intense cold weather Of the CEN
traI and eastern states. ". J. Fem Of
Eontclair, \. J., for many years resi-
dent of California, uses the columns of
the Herald TO dispute this assertion.
He says: Take San Diego, for in
stance. It is far south Of Italy and on
about the same parallel as Jerusalem,
Morocco and the Madeira islands, but
the winters are very mild and the
summers cool.
monopolize all the fine climate Of the
state. Owing 10 the Japan current that
sweeps along the coast, the low desert
areas and the very mountainous char
acter Of the state more variety in eli
mate is found there than in any other
state OF the union. 1 know, for / have
travelled all over the state, by horse
back or wagon. from the Mexican from
tier TO a point far north of Sacra-
mento"
Maud Allan says: i never took
lesson from Isadora Duncan or anybody
else. Ny inspiration came altogether
from the study OF the Greek vases and
statuary and from my own ideas as to
the way 10 express physically what
music meant TO me. / began In Vienna
In 1903 at the time Miss Duncan was
beginning in Berlin, and it is impos-
sibIe that L should have initiated her or
anybody else. But how I have been
Inflated Two years ago ] had to
dance at the Palace music hall in Lon
don and watch woman sitting in a
box preparing TO initiate everything 1
did. There by her side sat her hus-
band copying down note by note every
bit OF my music that he might bring il
over here to play for his wife on a roof
garden. That hurts most OF all, be-
cause that came from my own coun-
try
Replying to criticisms regspding her
costumes. she said: NY Safome cos
tune seems to me far more decent than
those dfrectoire dresses. or the bathing
garments worn by respectable women /
who have no intention of bathing in /
them-on the beach. And I am sure /
quite sure, it is more decent than some |
Of the gowns worn in the opera houses. /
] feel no sense Of wrong when ! inter- /
pret Salome.
But I love best to dance the Peer |
Gvnt' Of Grieg. the 'Marche Funebre' of 1
Chopin, and in all my interpretations /
Of Chopin's music, as well as the other, /
i try TO do what nobody has ever done 4
before OF course. as Miss Duncan and /
] continue TO dance we put the same !
things on our programs. My inter-
pretatiOns. however. are altogether my /
own. and ] have never seen any other /
d ncer in anything that 1 do. so il can /
not be said that ] am not original"
Charles Rollo Peters. the well known |
California painter OF landscape, is here /
en- route 10 California, from England /
where he has lived since the great fire |
IN San Francisco.
Peters is now exhibiting some Cali
fornia landscape in a studio at 40
West Fifty-seventh street Broad /
reaches of coast at Monterey, in moon