The San Francisco call., 1913-09-17

at the critical moment. and taking a
new hold on her courage the sensitive
Marie renewed her hopes of dramatic
| salvation, which were fortified later
by successful performances as the
wistful oliver Twist in the all star
revival Of that play by the Lieblers
in New York
And now she's going back to Lon
don and face ITS impossible first
nighters again. There will be no
auto suggestion" to rob her in fact
of her voice. as was the heroine in
The Climax" Marie Doro's grit
should be rewarded with a victory
Acting is not as profitable voca-
tion in Germany as it is in America,
according to statistical person in
Berlin who has compiled columns Of
figures carefully gathered from orig
inal sources and which show that the
German players average income per
season (of eight or nine months) is
only 1915.
TIE mutually fiattering success of
Miss Ruegger at the Orpheum in a
cello recital sandwiched between typ
ieal vaudeville is sufficient justifica-
tion for Martin Beck TO sign up more
musical artists. and this he has done,
David Bispham being the latest to
listen to the lure of '.variety's7 gold
A special matinee will be given to-
morrow at the Tivoli, when Mrs.
Scott and her associate players VIII
appear in "Magdaf' at bargain prices.
X X
Edward Everett sometimes other
wise called Evergreen, Eternal, Ever
iasting) Rice is at it again
He's gone into the moving picture
industry and is producing film ver-
sions of his old successes which, If
1 remember any of them correctly,
should be successful as silent enter
tainment, for they used to make
great visual appeal "Evangeline,"
Conrad, the corsair," and ~Adonis''
are some in projected preparation
wonder who's going to play Henry
E. Dixeys youthful role in "Adonis-"
What a cloud of histronic names
the mention of Rice brings up. In
.Evangeline, for instance. Rice him
self told me, on the occasion of his
last visit here when he had a tabloid
spectacle at the Pantages, that Di1ey
played the forelegs, and Richard
Golden, the hind. of the heifer that
ambled through '-Evangeline" when
that work OF art and nature was
given to bedazzled world way back
in 1874. william H. Crane, Nat
Goodwin, Loie Fuller. Richard Mans
field, Sol Smith Russell. Pauline Hall,
Amelia Summerville and Digby Bell
are some others of the stellar .names
that once upon time, in capacities
Of various Importance, were on Rice.s
long payroll
The first of John Cort's vaudeville
road shows to come to his theater in
this city will be headed by Anna Held
and the second one to arrive will be
starred in by Lillian Russell.
Cyril Maude, just coming from Lon
don, is to add to the classicism of the
present season by presenting the
screen scene from. The School for
Scandal as a curtain raiser to his
comedy presentations in America.
Moving picture operators were on
hand when Anna Held and her daugh-
ter, Llama, arrived in New York on
the La France from Paris last week
They took pictures while Annals
trunk was being unpacked, just as
though revelations of the chic ac-
tresses' lingerie had never been made
beforel
Among the reported New York sue
cesses booked for presentation at the
Columbia this season are The Con-
spiracy," Damaged Goods stop
Thief" THE Trail of the Lonesome
flnG NnOI kle SOA6 uOE the DOO1s Dul
the play). "Kismet" and Widow by
Proxy"
" X X
John Mason's first performance in
the new Augustus Thomas comedy.
Indian Summer" will be given at
Buffalo, September 20.
X X
The last time that Guy Standing
was in America he played with Theo-
dore Roberts in "The Right of Way"
He returned from England last week
to assume role in George Scarbor-
ough's play, "At Bay
X X X
While Mrs. Scott is reviving in
terest in 'Magda," in which Nance
O,Neill formerly starred and achieved
her greatest fame, the former star
of the Hauptmann drama and one
time protege of Mckee Rankin. is
playing vaudeville engagement and
/ is a Keith star In a playlet by Gas
ton Mervale, self Defense"
WILDER WALKER HONORED
AS gift on the occasion of his
sixty-sixth birthday. WILDER Walker.