THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900. 9 THE CALL'S NEWS OF THEBAY CITIES ALAMEDAOAKLANDBERKELEY HOME STUDY CIRCLE TWO WOMEN, TWO MEN, MONEY, SUIT. STAGE HISTORY OF CORIOLANUS. MRS. HEARST IS WOULD END HER Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. WELCOMED BY Widow Spiars Sued MISERY 'NEATH Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. William J. Rolfe. Dr. Hamilton W. Mable, Dr. Albert S. Cook. Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Deramon. Dr. Vlda D. 3cud- for Alienating the der and ethers. X. CORIOLAUTJS. Inhis repertoire inhis last year upon the- SALTY WATERS stage (1SIT). when, however, part of THE STUDENTS the The Play as an Acting Drama. Volumnia iMrs. Siddons having retired Love and Affection from the stage) was taken by Mrs. Fau- The play of "Coriolanus" is never acted clt. the mother of Helen Faueit. Also It Great Demonstration Mrs. Mary Schutter as Shakespeare wrote it. To begin with, was the play he chose for his farewell of Mrs. Lane's Hus- it is much too long for the exigencies of appearance In Edinburgh, where he was the modern At least a great favorite. Finally.It was the play- in Her Honor. Was Despondent. stage. two-fifths Covent must be omitted in any modern repre- he chose forhis last appearance In ? » Garden, in his "ever-memorable farewell band. sentation of the play. Again, for nearly to the stage." June 1817. 150 years theatrical managers not 23. ¦ Oakland Office San Francisco Call, did have Of that last appearance John Howard THE UNIVERSITY'S NEW ERA ? ? 908 Broadway, Jan. 17. confidence in Shakespeare's work In ".Cor- Payne, the dramatist and player (author ina fit of despondency Mrs. Mary iolanus" and conjoined with his work the of "Home, Sweet Home"), wrote: While playwrights. Schutter. aged 3S years and of respectable work of other During the Ican never forget Kemble's Coriolanus. His A Promise Extended That the New attempted to jump whole period, say from the time of the entree w»» t*e> most brilliant Iever wltn»s»ed. appearance, off the and, know, His person derived a majesty from a scarlet ferry Berkeley on its last trip from reformation (1660, for all we robe, h« managed with dignity. Buildings Will Be Begun This boat time) which Inimitable San Francisco last night, but her attempt even from Shakespeare's own down Tha Roman energy of his deportment, the se- Year and Speedily Brought to the year IS2O, was not raphic grace of his gesture and the movements at suicide was frustrated by the deck- "Coriolanus" self-possession brought out once even nominally, as of his perfect displayed the to Completion. hands. great mind, daring to command, and tii?dain- She was given into the custody of the Shakespeare's play. In17-19 a play on the in* to sotlclt. admiration. His form derived an ? police and was detained all day same subject was produced In Covent additional elevation of perhaps two tnchea from Oakland hope BERKELEY, Era," at the Cliy Prison in the that some Garden, written by James Thomson, the his sandals. In even' part of th<* house the Jan. 17.? "The New friend or relative could be located. To- audience roee. waved their hat» and huzzaed, that was the burden of the student dem- night she was removed to the Receiving poet, the author of "The Seasons" and and the oheerlnK must have lasted more- than onstrations and the faculty addresses and Hospital. She will be examined for in- "The Castle of Indolence." It is a sort five minutes. the congratulations and exhortations of sanity to-morrow. of combination of Shakespeare's play and Hazlitt, thf critic, gives a mere detailed reception To the police Mrs. Schutter stated that Thomson's play, compiled in the main by account of that memorable evening: the regents at the big student to confined in Agnews Insane Asy- Hall to- she was Thomas Sheridan (the father of Sheridan Ktrable took his leave of the stags on Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst in Hearst lum about a year ago and wishes to be Mr. r.ight. and larger her the dramatist), and improved and amend- Monday night, in the character of Ctirlnlanu?. It was to a new order sent back there. She complains that coming forward to pronounce his things architecturally, intellectually great deal; that ed by John Philip Kemble, that has had On his' Srrt of head troubles her a she vogue the stage. farewell he was received with a shcut Uk* the speakers too to work any longer most upon retiring it, th# and patriotically to which had become weak "Coriolanus" Is likewise too complex In thunder. Cm his after applaus* referred and for thtir enthusiastic and that she had therefore concluded to was lon«r before it subsided entirely away. nrhich its construction, too indirect in Us dra- ? of it end her misery by jumping off opposite ? ? It was nearly twenty years slnca auditors cheered, and ail centered tnai matic movement, to be a very effective In thp same rh.iracter; Hearst, Goat Island. Mrs. SchUtcer admltteu play acting, we first saw Mr. Kemhl-? around Mrs. Phebe A. to whom once before, prior to commitment for except under conditions yet how Rhort th» interval seema. The Impres- was given and who she her admit of great spectacular and scenic yestenlay. this student reception Agnews, made an attempt to end her that sion seerrs as distinct as if it were has dune so much to create this "new to display. As an illustration of this it may ? ? ? we forget numberless thinus. but life. mentioned that Kemble era." The prison at first were doubt- be when produced not the first time we saw Mr. Kemb'.e. nor It was a welcome to Berkeley for Mrs. The Defendant and Mr. Lane officials it he introduced a procession not defl- shall we easily forget the last. Coriolanus. the ful as to her dementia and suggested that Hearst, who lias taken up her residence could the in this city, where she can be near the of If she so desired she leave the advancement of Claim That It Is a Case prison. The woman, however, broke down work she has chosen? in tears, declaring that she did not know the State University. The students and ? the faculty and all connected with the B Iack m a iI? Damages of where to go if released: but she was will- wanted Ing to be recommitted to Agnews, where university and its surroundings, laundry of to pay their respects to the woman who $25,000 Sued For. she would resume work In the began their "new era," and so the wel- the hospital for the Insane. come was extended en masse in the form > The woman's husband is said to be a of a gigantic reception participated in by . barber in San Francisco, but she claims of the university and the stu- was compelled to leave him because the faculty Now comes all the complications, which she suvport. dents of both sexes. hinge upon the money which the Widow he refused to contribute to her It was most lining- that it should have Spiars is supposed to have had, and which he«n given in Hearst Hall, the new au- she says she has not got. But whether 2itorium erected by Mrs. Hearst and dedi- Oakland Office San Francisco Call, she had or had not the money,. the sus- MUST PAY ALIMONY TO cated to the students' use. This was the 908 Broadway, Jan. 17. picion that she had seems to have caused only place in town of sufficient size to ac- EDWARD LANE of Fruit- all kinds of trouble. Mrs. Lane says brought there sick, and Irented a room THE WIFE HE FOOLED c-ommodate those who wished to pay their that her husband has deserted her for In Mrs. Spiars' house because it was near respects to the only woman regent. vale Etlrred the caldron of fate the -wealth of Mrs. Spiars, and she wants My brother tried to get a room there, It was a tremendous crowd that filled to the bottom and there arose some of Mrs. Spiars' wealth return but Ihad heard him say that would OAKLAND, Jan. 17.? As an "out-all- in to he the seating capacity of the hall and over- a suit for $25,000 dam- for damaged affections. Edward Lane, like marry the widow for her money, George Il'.I1 Foye, whose wife, therefrom husband, says and Iadvised her nighter," '. flowed into the aisles and lined up ten ages against Mrs. F. "W. Spiars. the that it was because to have nothing to do Ada Foye, has just been granted a di- deep in the rear of the room. MRS. affec- his brother, William Lane, wanted to get with him." a widow, for the alienation of the vorce, any and all defendant As Mrs. Hearst's party entered from the itis that Mrs. Spiars' wealth that all this hap- Mrs. Edward Lane tells a different outclasses covered passageway a ringing shout an- tions of her husband. And thus pened, and Mrs. Spiars says that it is an story in support of her suit. husbands in divorce suits. The couple nounced the fact and the yell-leadei all these who know the parties are won- effort upon the part of William Lane '.'My husband has left me and his fam- were married in 1894 and lived happily students, broth this same and Mrs. Edward Lane get of ily, and 1b now living at until 1898, when husband, who is a railod for three cheers from the dering what kind of a to some the home of salesman,the and followed it up with an "oskey wow- is brewing for those concerned, the wealth that she has not got.