Evening star., 1917-03-25


Graduated From Light Opera.-Wil-
liam p. Carleton. the Poll leading man,
grew up in the musical atmosphere
that surrounded his father, William T.
Carleton. 4 famous singer of an earlier
day and the founder and owner of
the Carleton Opera Company. which
made annual visits to Albaughs Grand
Opera House.
1t was natural that the son of the
distinguished singer should look for
ward to an operate career. He began
in his fathers musical stock organi-
cation and soon was engaged for i'm
portant parts.
One of the earliest and best was the
role of Harry Bronson, In The Belle
of New York" He was with this noted
played with the original London com
pany. Light opera seemed to be his
forte
1t was John Craig, manager of the
eastle square stock Company in Bos-
ton, who saw straight" dramatic pos
sibllltles in the young man and turned
his talents in that direction.
An Active ActOr.-Waiter Catlett has
repertoire of over two hundred and
fifty musical and dramatic plays and
has just passed his twenty-seventb
birthday anniversary
Born in San Francisco, he made his
first appearance as the organ grinder
In Brownies in Fairyland" at the
California Theater. in 1901. An Aus
tralian organization known as the Poi
lard Lilliputian Opera Company. need
Ing boy tenor. engaged Catlett to sing
roles in The Belle of New York" ..The
Geisha." The Mikado," Paul Jones'
and The Runaway" After playing the
nfH OF nv,@
returned home. In the various San
francisco stock companies he support
ed Nance O'Neil, Mckee Rankin. Joseph
Haworth and Dennis O'Sullivan. inter
preting the boy parts in Temperance
Town." The Girl 1 Left Behind Me- ;,
The Great Suburban and "Oliver
Twist"
Growing out of boy parts and not
being able to secure others he got a
position as treasurer of the Alcazar
Theater in San Francisco where he re-
mained for two years, when one day the
juvenile man in the Liberty Theater
Stock Company. in Oakland, was hurt.
Hearing of it. Catlett agreed to help the
company out inside of twelve hours
he memoriZed the part and went on the
stage without missing a single cue or
line. He remained with the Liberty
Players FOR two years. appearing in
every role from Marks in Uncle Toms
Cabin" to the first grave digger in
Hamlet"
firing of dramatic work, he accented
an engagement with the Idora Op.ra
Company in Oakland, singing leading
comedy roles in old and modern light
operas and musical comedies with the
idora ana various other coast COM
panles up to the spring of 1909. when
Henry W. Savage saw his work and en-
gagged MN for the part of Algie in the
revival of The Prince of Pilsen." in
Chicago. For the ensuing three seasons
he was featured in the leading comedy
roles IN western companies of Madame
Sherry The Red Rose" and with
Kitty Gordon in The Enchantress."
After short seasons with the Tivoli
opera Company and with Bronco"
Los Angeles and San Francisco he was
engaged by Oliver Morosco for his Bur
bank Stock Company in Los Angeles
Mcintyre, the Blackface Comedian
1t was in November. 1S6s-forty- nine
years ago. that Jim Mcintyre of the
famous old time black-face team of
Mcintyre and Heath. made his first ap-
pearance on the stage. He was a coun-
try boy from kenosha, Wis. when
he arrived in Chicago. determined to
become a great clog dancer. He ap-
at Korwin's Variety Hall, Clark and
Madison streets, Chicago, and the news
boys In the audience appIauded so
vociferously thatl the manager gave
him an engagement at $40 week and
.'cakes"-the equivalent of board.
A little later he travelled through
the south with the John R. Robinson
acquaintances, among them Joel
Chandler Harris.