Maude Granger

One of the artistic events of the theatrical season will be the appearance of the famous New York favorite, Maude Granger, at the opera house, to-morrow night. Maude Granger is in every sense, an artiste. She is a later gradúate of the same school that has produced Clara Morris, Rose Eytinge, Kate Claxton, Rose Coghlan, Fannie Davenport and Agnes Booth, and has been associated with them all in the greatest stock companies New York has ever seen. She has been beading lady in turn -at Daly's, Wallack's and the Union Square, New York, and has probably been as prominently identified with notable metropolitan productions as any actress we have. Her first visit to the coast was when a mere girl and as leading lady with that brilliant ensemble of dramatic talent whose production of "Diplomacy" and other plays of that calibre will always be recalled as one of the most interesting events in the dramatic annals of San Francisco. The greatest prooi of the fair Granger's artistic merits is her versatility, which she certainly possesses to a remarkable degree. She has supported in leading roles such stars as as Edwin Booth, John McCullough and George Rignold in tragedy, and Lester Wallack, W. J. Florence and Joseph Jefferson in comedy. 'It might be said, however, that it is in the emotional drama that the fair Granger excels. Her name is today more prominently identified with such roles as "Camille" and "The Creóle" than any actress we have, unless it be Clara Morris.