The San Francisco call., 1910-05-08

the lost tribes. and maybe find out who
the belligerent person was that struck
Billy Patterson. But one can not do
all this in seven minutes, can one?
leave it to you, with the assurance
that il isn't my fault that these and
other questions remain crooked interro-
cations We didn't even get as far as
the subject OF transubstantiation, nor
touch on the transmigration of souls.
I KNOW a young man very much in
love with an actress. He is a hope
less and all but helpless idolator,
whose worship is expressed in the
fragrance of the flowers he sends her,
sighs and once a month dinner. That's
on paydays, naturally. He is going to
propose as soon as he gets his next IS
raise ana live happily ever afterward.
Sure he is He went to the Alcazar
last Monday night to hear Just Out of
college" and was fearfully upset over
some Of the dialogue. How much a
year do you suppose it takes to dress
my daughter2@ asks Septimus Picker
Ing, the pickle maker, of Edward Wor-
thington Swinger, the boy who is just
out of college and quite out of funds,
but who nevertheless wants to marry
the girl whose papa manufactures
pickles. oh. about S1o0," says the
Latin scholar and tennis expert. The
response then made by Pickering, the
pickle maker, was what worried the
amorous young man heretofore referred
TO. He lost weight and couldn't sleep
for thinking about it. Something that
Miss George said on the subject of her
gowns may give him some enlighten-
ment on the cost of clothing a star and
put him out of his misery, help him
save money by cutting out the monthly
dinners and reducing his florist bills,
and he may marry himself to his job
like Doctor Wullner, who says he's
welded 10 his art.
This is rather an inexpensive pro-
duction," said Miss George glancing for
the twenty third time at her diamond
studded watch on her dressing table
under the big mirror and looking at
me expectantly. THAT is, it only re-
third act dress is the one I put on for
the second act, too. So my clothes for
this production are not as expensive
an item they might be. They cost
me about $1,000, that's ALL
docs that paltry sum include your
hat as well?'' asked.
Everything" she said.
~ NE day after many manuscripts
III had been read during their hunt
- for a comedy for Miss Grace
George to appear in last season, her
husband came home highly delighted.
II read a bully first act this afternoon"
said he to Mrs. Brady, but the rest of
the play needed so much fixing up that
gave it to Clyde Fitch. 1t will ft
you like a pair of gloves" he finished.
who wrote it?" asked Mrs. Brady.
"A young newspaperman by the name
of Thompson Buchanan" replied her
spouse.
Then why don't you let him. fix it
himself?" asked Grace George (Mrs
Brady.
uliSliy persuaded my nuSDanQ,
she told me, ito get the book back
from Mr.. Fitch and let me read il. 1t
was "A Woman's Way but in a very
different way from that it now travels
There was melodramatic scene in the
second act between Mrs. Howard Stan
ton, the role 1 play, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Blakemore that changed the character
of the whole comedy, and the curtains
needed fixing badly, but the first act
was just about as it stands. So the
three of us-Mr. Brady, Mr.. Buchanan
and I--put our heads together. Mr.
Buchanan was with us at the .rehears-
ais and we thrashed the comedy out
until it stands as you see it. Mr. Bu-
ch2nan had the idea and the spirit and
the dialogue, and his product only
needed the skill of the Snowman to
make it a good comedy
And the skill of a good comedienne
to make it a success I suggested,
sparring for more time.
But Mr.. Buchanan did not write the
play for me at all said Miss George
He didn't have me in mind a bit and