San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

June 14, 1913. THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW II White Rats Union in Dan- ger of Losing A. F. of L. Charter NEW YORK. June 9.—The White Rats Actors' Union is in grave dan- ■^tr of losing tlieir charter in tlic \nierican Federation of Lahor, fcil- idwing the fihng of fotfrteen serious charges against the actors' organiza- tion b}' unions affiHated with the Cen- tral Federated Union of Greater New \ork and vicinity. Bartenders' Union Xo. 3 charged that the manager of the W. R. club house skins the heli) • lit of ten per cent, one-half of which L^dcs to liimself and the other half to the employment agency. Junie j\1c ( ree, president of the Actors' Union, was bitterly denounced for continuing to play the Fox theatres, a circuit Isuown for its opposition to union la- li'ir. Several of the unions have joined iMgether in a complaint again.st the 1 mployment of non-union labor at the W hite Rats' clubhouse. So far the tors have made no answer to the iiarges which have already been mailed to the A. F. of L. John World's Son Comes in for Money Norman L. Ca.se. heir to the estate Mf John World Case, has been located 111 New York. For the ])ast three iiiDUths Mrs. Mindell Case, second wife of John World Case, has been arching for Norman, Vv'ho was the lie of Case's first marriage. Before Ills death the testator made a rccjucst that his second Vv-ife make a .search I'ur Norman, who separated from his lather when Case's first wife secured a divorce. Case wanted his son, w hom he had not seen for many years, t'l share in his etate. Notices of the iTorts being made by Mrs. Case to 11(1 her stepson were published in the I astern papers and came to the at- Inition of the boy's guardian, who is now in Brooklyn, New York. luirly iiis week Judge Graham received a Itgram in which the lad's guardian ! lakes inquiries about the character <\ property left by the testator. Judge ' iraham has referred the telegram to W illiam McNulty, his clerk, who sent a lelegram to the guardian. The es- tate amounts to about $12,000. Lou Jacob's Mother De- nies the Allegations Replying to Louis 15. Jacob's suit I'lir $10,000 for the alienation of the alTection c)f his wife. Hazel Jacobs, Mrs. Ann Wilson, the wife's mother, and Jean Wilson, her si.ster, the de- lendants, deny that they have enticed I iazel away from her husband. Mrs. W ilson i)articularly denies that she has < vcr threatened .suicide if the girl went liack to live with the plaintifi", and lioth deny that they have prevented the ])laintifF from s])caking to his wife, "V have, by threats or inducements, lapt her from going back to him. They also take exception to the allegation of ills complaint that he is ready and willing to support his wife in case she does return. Fitzpatrick & Greeley arc the defendants' attorneys. Jacobs' home is in Los Angeles, but he is in- terested in a theatrical enterprise in .Stockton. His wife is also of the the- atrical profession, having just retm-ned from Honolulu, where she ajipeared as a member of the James Post Com- l)any, her sister also being a member •of the company and ap]:)caring on the same stage. Airs. Wilson is not an acrtess, but travels with her daugh- ters. Jacobs alleges that his v.'ife left him not only for the puqiose of fol- io v»ing her profession, but because her heart had - been estranged from him through the influence of her mother and sister. To complicate matters. Mrs. Jacobs is expecting a visit from the stork very shortly. Evelyn Thaw Appears in London l^velyn Nesbit Thaw slipped into the bill of the London Ilipi)odrome last Sunday without any one in the house being aware Of the fact be- fore the show was over. She came on near the close, making her en- trance from a trap in mid-stage and doing a solo dance. She was very nervous at first, but the audience was soon applauding with zest. Afterward she danced a tango with Jack Clifford, the former dancing l)artner of Irene Weston. Mrs. Thaw doesn't like it because so many people have protested against her appearance on the stage again. She says she is only trying to earn her living. In a recent interivew with a representative of the Lon- don Daily Sketch she said in part: "As to my plans. I am going to earn my living. That is all. ' You might say I left the stage to better myself and I am returning to the stage to better myself. The Daily Sketch attacked me because it thought I wanted to make capital out of my association with a tragedy. If you only knew how little I want to be associated with the past; I never excuse myself for the part I played. .Some well meaning per.son has de- scribed me as a victim of passion. I suppose passion has its victims, but 'victim' is a word I loathe. As love is the steam of life that works the machinery of the world, so pas- sion is a sure indication of defec- tive capacity. I do not complain that I was not told things when I was a child. I thank God my child- hood was free from all stress. I was supremely happy. I was 15 years old when I went on the stage, and I was a child in thought and experience. Men used to come along and take me out—men of all ages—to supper and dinner. It was the finest kind of fun. 1 had two ])assions, one for chocolates and one for mechanical toys, and I sui)pose for two years I was the greatest joke in New York. I do not sit in judgment and say these men were evil; it is not for me to judge them. If I regretted my life, I should re- gret much happiness. I don't want to tell you about my own troubles. I can say only this, that I think that big sorrows give one a sense of hinnor. They certainly bring an ai)])reciation of exactly what is hap- pening around us. The first thing I did v/hen the Thaw trial was over was to gather from all over the world accounts of similar trials in which women had figured. I-settled myself down to read steadily through all the accounts of these trials, with one object, and that was to discover what had become of the woman. And I found that of all tliDse women who had gone out some sank from the sheer weight of humiliation, and .some found snatches of happiness in excesses— .some drank, .some took drugs, but they all went down, down, down. That was the lesson 1 learned from reading these trials, and when I learned it 1 said: T'Lvelyn Thaw, there must be another way," and all that these women did I determined not to do. I have no bad habits. I have no habits which have a weak- ening tendency upon my will. I wanted to see things as they were, clearly. I wanted to know all that was worst. And the woman who can say, T know the worst,' has her feet upon the first rung of the lad- der which leads to happiness. As to ]\lr. Harry Thaw, I have nothing to say. I am satisfied that at mo- ments he was quite mad. I have nothing but sorrow for hiiri." Titled Dancer Wears No Stockings NEW YORK, June 11.—Lady Constance Stewart Richardson ar- rived today on the Olympic. She has come over to show the Ameri- can women how to dress as well as dance. She wore a somewhat start- ling gown, and to reporters she said : "I wear this gown all the time. I designed it myself and the Japanese silk from which it was made cost but 9 cents a yard. Its style is com- bination of a Japanese kimono, made longer, (jf course, and the costume worn by women of other Oriental lands. All women should wear such costumes; they are infinitely more comfortable and in better taste than the styles of the present sea- son." The gown was a sondjer af- fair of brown, its only suggestion of trimming being a bit of white at the wrists and neck. The slashes re- vealed the fact that she wears no stockings even when off the stage. Her feet were incased in sandals of brown ooze. A.sked if she had ac- cepted a two-weeks' engagement at Hammerstein's because of a wish to aid the English charities in which she was interested, she replied. "Not wholly. Neither my husband nor myself have a large income. I am not especially fond of the stage, but I saw an opportunity to make a great deal of money and I accepted." Vaudeville Notes Elliott and West, the grotes(|ue dancing boys, and Gilmore and La I'our, apix\aring in songs and dances, arc coming to the Empress. The Howard Sisters arrived on the China last Tuesday after comi)leting a ten months' engagement over the Australian and Oriental vaudeville circuits. Grace Wolf, Harry layers, George Wren, Cash Knight, Sam Van Alden are with Lewis & Locke's Trip to f'aris Company, playing Nashville, Tenn., this week, and ("hattanooga, 15-27- Because she had dreamed the night before that she would be killed in an automobile accident, Kitty Howe, a pretty young chorus girl of Los Angeles, jumped from a si)eeding car when it struck a rock and swerved to one side. She land- ed in a jiile of rocks, fracturing her skull at the base of the brain, and died at a hospital at .^an Bernardi- nii. Howard I lam, with Kitty Ilowe and Babe Leroy, another chorus girl, were coming down the Waterman Canyon road, just out of San l)ernardino, before daylight, when the accident occurred. .Au- tomobiles bringing the high school senior class from a reception picked up the dying girl. Nothing is known as to the girl's relatives. A letter w'as found in her baggage from j. 1''. Hohmann of Venice. Howard 11am is a member of one of the leading families of San Ber- nardino. Two other young men, William Nielsen and Ray Smith, and a third chorus girl had been members of the party, but were not with the machine when it was wrecked. Denied jjrobation in conformance with the adverse report of the ])ro- bation officer, Mrs. Frances Strand, alias Frances Day, a young woman of 18 and former chorus girl, who had pleaded guitly to the is.suance of fictitious checks, was .sent to Whit- tier Reform School on Wednesday, for three years by Judge W. S. Wells of Oakland. The culprit passed some twenty checks in Berkeley, signing dift'erent names on each occasion. The particular offense for which she will be i)unishe(l was the signing of the name "Mary Lawrence" on a check which was cashed by C. E. Winnie of Berkeley. After obtaining various amounts by this means, Mrs. Strand went to Los Angeles, where she was later arrested in company with Julia liernadou. She viewed her e.scai)ades lightly, and was quite unco<iicerned during the trial in the Police Court. Harry Ilolman and Company in The Merchant Prince, will be seen at the local Pantages on the 30th. Next season Holman will be seen in The Town Constable, which he will use as an alternate bill. Mjartin Kurtzig, for several years one of the best-known managers of this city, is now located in Najia, where he has taken over the old Novelty The- atre, five blocks from the main street, and by sheer ability he has made it the leading theatre of that town. Just now Martin is running pictures and he gets ID cents for them, the other houses getting only five cents. The Novelty is always crowded and the other houses are half empty. Some management, that. Martin Kurtzig is a born showman, a good citizen and a most genial and obliging man. Al- ready he is active in numici])al activi- ties and is a ])rominent member of the Na])a Chamber of Commerce. Morence Roth was divorced from Joseph Roth, a vaudeville actor who lately ap])eare(l on the S. & C. circuit., Thursday by Judge J. E. Barber, sit- ting in extra sessions No. i. The ])laintiff and defendant were married five years ago and succeeded in ex- isting under the same roof, save for such absences as were caused by the theatrical profession, for three years. The luisbaml, however, (leveloi)ed signs of a fitness for the ])rizc-ring and kept her busy using up the stock of family grease paints in trying" to hide the blue disclorations made by the uxorial fist in and about her eye. Mrs. Roth has some artistic asjiirations herself, but she did not care about ac(|uiring an expert knowledge of make-up by any such painful i)rocess. The ])laintiff is at jiresent living at 154 Lisbon .Street, with her friend, Henri- etta l*>rucc- .She asked for no alimony.