San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September 30th, 1899 Rathjen Bros, grocers FINE TABLE WINES AND DELICACIES Watch our money-saving special sales every Tuesday in the Call. TWO STORES 21 Stockton St.— 'Phone Main 5522 3253 Fillmore St.— 'Phone West 152 MARK LEVY Merchant Tailor Best Tailoring at Reasonable Prices Special Inducements to the Profession Room 20 22 \ Geary St. Only Too True Thi; Matinee Girl in the Dramatic * Mirror hits the nail on the head in this manner: ' The critics all seem to have begun the season with axes sharpened to a keen edge. They've been chopping unmercifully at everything in sight since the curtain first went up. "I know that lots of papers demand that those who fill the office of critics should roast' unmercifully on the principle that an attack upon a play, an actor or a book makes the strongest kind of literature. "But on reading over many of the theatrical reviews in the dailies, it would seem that the post of critic is gradually becoming that of the court jester who puts on cap and bells when a new play is produced and starts in to be funny. "And all the time he dances himself into the view of the reader crying aloud, 'I'm writing this. Observe my cold cynical disregard for the feelings of this little actress who is trying to earn her living just as I tried to earn mine before I grew famous, funny and rich! " 'Watch me jump on this old actress who has grown stout and lost her charm. Give me time to think of some screamingly insulting thing to write about her. Notice my style. Don't I do it neatly ? ' "Perhaps this is all necessary for the good of the stage. Mayhap it improves actors in their work. I don't pretend to know anything about those deep problems. "It seems to me just as disagreeable, silly and untrue as the over-fulsome praises that come from the press agents on carbon-copied type written paper. "It's cheap, like a great many other things that have nothing to distinguish them except the flagrant disregard of the rule to live and let live, and do as you would be done by." She Was 'Deeply cMoved I T was at the close of one of Paderew* ski's concerts. The pianist had held his audience spellbound for over two hours. Women had sobbed as that divine "Nocturne," with its tender sadness and inexpressible pathos, throbbed its way into their very souls. Chopin's wonderful music, with its world of feeling, had wrung my heart-strings, and every one about me seemed moved out of himself and strung up to an intense nervous pitch. Then it was all over at last. Suddenly, in the crowd surging out of the theater, I caught sight of a face which appealed to me irresistibly, so full was it of intense yearning, unsatisfied hopes, unrealized ideals. It was a girl's face, sweet, tender, sad, with an intensity and nervous force that was accentuated by her musical temperament now evidently moved to its utmost by the exquisite music she had just heard. There was soul behind those great brown eyes, intellectual power in the broad brow, and a wonderful play of feeling around that tender, sensitive mouth. I could not hear what she was saying to her companion, but her gestures and the different expressions that played over her mobile face fascinated me. As we reached the last exit the crowd moved me close to her. Her voice was worthy of her face. It was low, soft, and full of feeling, but I strained my ears to hear what she was saying. Something about the music I was sure, she was so earnest over it. I got closer to her. We were almost out now. A moment more and it would be too late, aud I was so curious, so anxious, to hear just a little of what she was saying. I did. I heard one sentence, just one. The words came clearly and with much emphasis, "Well, his hair gives me a swift pain." — Chicago News Record. Still at it IV/I rs. Howard Gould — on the ' * stage Catherine Clemmons — the former California actress, has recently with her husband been creating very much of a furor in European yachting circles. Besides entertaining Emperor William and the Empress on board, they have captivated His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Alexis and other distinguished Russians who have pronounced the Gould yacht Niagara superior in comfort and luxury to even the imperial yacht Tsar. The Niagara has cruised off the coast of Norway on the voyage to Russia. The visit of Emperor William was totally unexpected, he being perfectly delighted with everything he saw on board, even the electric curling-irons in the dressing-rooms of the ladies. William and his officers most carefully scrutinized every part of the vessel. When the Czar came up the Neva last week in a small yacht, the Niagara was anchored just below the bridges opposite the imperial landing stage. Mr. Gould had the rigging decked with the flags of all American States. That there are five thousand theaters in America, and that 1,500,000 people attend them each week-day night, spending $70,000,000 a year on theater going are the surprising facts with which Franklin Fyles, the dramatic editor of the New York Sun will open an important series in the next issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. The series will be called " The Theater and Its People," and will run through seven numbers of the magazine, lavishly illustrated with pictures made by twelve different artists. GIVE YOU NEW EYES is something we can't do. But we can make your old ones as good as new with a pair of our carefully fitted glasses. Thorough examination with ophthalmoscope. No charge for same. If your eyes are botheriug you in any way, come and see us. All work guaranteed. 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