The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

[arch 14, 1914 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW - up GUARANTEED BEST MADEi ,0 R A P ■ R E P A R , A T I O N S A R E B E S T , Money can't do more than buy satisfaction. It takes less money to buy satisfaction if you buy Meyer's Make-up I(t anil I'.'ic a Stick EXORA POWDER, ROUGE CREAM, CERATE B BRILLIANTINE, SHAM- POO, MASCARILLO 50 Cents Tf your dealor will not supply you, we will, and pay all charges. Write for list of deal- ers from Const to Coast. Charles Meyer 104 W ISth St., N. Y. Mention Dramatic Review. Meyer's Exora Preparation 104 W. ISTH ST., N. Y. C. Meyer's Grease Faint E X o R A P R E P A R A T 1 O N S A R E B E S T ■nglish Actors "Barnstorm= ing" in the Far East LONDON, Feb. ,28.—Actor-man- lij^er Fitzroy Gardner has just re- urned with his company from a tour if the Far East. Describins? the ■ompany's experiences in the Daily lironicle, Manager Gardner said: We left London just over a year i^'i), and since then have covered biiost exactly 34,000 miles, includ- iii' fifteen sea passages, and have isited nearly every place with a i .uropean population and a theatre 111 Italy, Burmah, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, the Malay States, ( iiina and Japan. Our audiences were not always English or even luiropean. In Rangoon there was a strong Burmese contingent in the best as well as the cheaper seats, and one night in Colombo the Cin- L;alese greatly outnumbered the lutro])eans. At Tsingtu, the port of tlie <jerman leased territory in Chi- na, we played to an audience of 300 (icrmans, mostly officers and their imilies, three Englishmen and one \aieric?in. During the tour I had to pay salaries and other expenses in eight . difTerent currencies, re- (hicuig jeach to British money for the purpose of keeping accounts. Aiibther trial was the transport of cenery and baggage. Three times I had to face a strike of coolies when loading or unloading. But the most iHfficuit job of all was to get our things up to Mussoorie, an Indian hiU.station 6000 feet above the sea. l"or the .last half of the climl) there i- n.0 road, and all our baggage and i enery had to be carried nine miles pa rough path by coolies. On one I casion, owing to, I had rea.son to clieye, giving too little backsheesh M Eurasian railway ofificials, lirough a miscalculation in high nance on the way to Cawnpore, our truck of baggage was left in a sid- ing. It took hours of telcgrai)hing M learn where it was, and twenty- • lur hours to recover it, .so that our iirst performance was given with lo- al apologies for scenery and such a • ardrobe as our com])any hai)pened iM have in their light baggage. The lieat on the stage of an Indian or Malayan theatre was simply terrific, for we could have no fans or pun- kahs, as they would have spoiled the acoustics. Imagine grease paints on the face, and the necessity of rush- ing about the stage as in the rough and tumble humor of the library scene in The Glad Eye, which we frequently played. The actors and actresses had to 'make up' several times every evening, perspiration washing out the effect almost as c|uickly as it was made. We played in the New Electric Theatre at Madras before the dressing-rooms were built, and had to dress in the manager's bungalow and walk across the compound to the stage. I\fore than once our money-taker at the gallery entrance wore evening dress consisting of little .but a loin cloth. I was in Calcutta when the alarming news of the attempted as- sassination of the Viceroy was be- ing shouted in the streets. Months later we were in Peking when the formalities connected with the issue of the much discussed Chinese loan were being completed and Southern China was threatening to fight the North. I"or hundreds of miles every station that we passed on the line gohig south from Tientsin was guarded by (iovernment troops, some of whom traveled in our train as a guard. I was on Shameen, the European concession island in the Canton River, when, in June, the liritish police inspector came into the hotel with the news that a French passenger steamer from Canton to Hongkong had been cap- tured l)y pirates only 20 miles away, and the folowing morning I saw a comic regiment of Canton troops march away to the station to attack a little army of rel)els which had captured a town on the line. We ])layed in Cawnpore the evening of that critical day in October when the Viceroy arrived to discuss on the spot the (|uestion of releasing the natives imi)risoned for taking ]>art in the iMosquo riots in August. .^part from undisguised threats as to the use of l)ombs in a native pa- per, which were translated for me, I had reliable information tliat if the jjardon had not been granted very serious trouble was ex])ected ])y the authfirities. We were all very much struck by the way in which the FOR THE BEST SCENE R Y FOR VAUDEVILLE THEATRES, OPERA HOUSES, VAUD- EVILLE ACTS, ETC. - ' The Chas. F. Thompson Scenic Co. |- 1529 FRANKLIN STREET, OAKLAND, CAL." Scenic Advertising Curtains ■■ I'.nglish, who go into exile in the i'ar East to do the empire's work, welcomed our visits. It brought them into touch with London again, and for an hour or two they forgot how far they were from the Strand and the theatres of London." French Drama Society Fight= ing Sunday Law NEW YORK, March 2.—The French Drama Society of New York announced today that it would bring suit against the city for damages because the police last night pre- vented a dress rehearsal of a play adapted by Marquis Cusani Con- falonieri, Italian Ambassador to the United States, at the Garrick Thea- tre. The police acted on a law for- bidding theatrical performances on Sunday. Little Country Theatre, First of Its Kind in Nation FARGO, N. D., March 5.—The Little Country Theatre at the agricul- tural college was formally opened and dedicated with appropriate exercises, at which President John H. Worst of the North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege, Dean Walter Sumner of Chi- cago, Alfred G. Arvold, originator of the Little Country Theatre scheme. Miss Katherine York and others made addresses. The talks of Dr. Worst and Dean Sumner were of es- pecial interest to the large number of students and visitors from the city, who attended the dedication. "This will^be the beginning of a movement that will soon spread to all parts of the Lhiited States," said Dean Sum- ner. "A Little Country Theatre for the rural districts, where good, whole- some entertainment may be held in the rural neighborhood social centers, and the man, Tvlr. Arvold, who has started it, should have a unique place as the originator of such a movement. Let it be an object lesson to you who go into the small communities. If you have this theatre here the students will be producing plays that may sweep the country as plays of the right sort. I congratulate you upon this as this Little Country Theatre will bring fame to your instiution." Mr. Arvold told of the distinctive features of a Little Country Theatre, and stated that so far as had ever been presented to his notice, this was the only one of its kind to serve the special purpose {or which it was designed, not only in the United States, but. in any country in the world. 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Amateur clubs ' re- liearsed; entertainments furnished.: Send for catalog'. Miriam Nelke. director; Pr^iJ J. Butler, principal (stage director AlcaSiar Theatre). . . , ,; WEBER & CO. Opera Chairs All Styles of THEATRE AND TTAT.Ii SEATS 365-7 Market Street San Francisco 512 So, Broadway Iios Angeles, CaL, TOR VV.^>S VOU CANOTSET ELSEViKEtlE there is no distinctly Little Gonntry Theatre that I know of anywhere.;' Miss Katherine York followed with b short paper on the kind of plays to he presented. Reginald Colldy -told of the work of the Edwin Booth D-rrf- matic Clnh of the North Dakota-Agrj!- cnltnral College.- Miss-Mary Gibhdrfs told of the effect of the home'taleitt I)lay. Richard Harding Davis' Miss Civilization, a comedy in one act, wais given nnder the direction of Miss York. Henry Miller has started rehearsals for his new production, Daddy Long Legs, the comedy by Miss Jean-Web- ster, which he is to present shortly. Mr. Miller, now finishing his tour in The Raiiil)0.w, is directing .rehearsals of tlie new play,'but wSll not himself a])pear in it. The leading role will be played by Ruth Chattcrton. . - ,. :