Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — AUGUSTUS PHILLIPS’ STAR [ARTICLE]

AUGUSTUS PHILLIPS’ STAR

In the Ascendency-—Scores Big Hit In Bellasco's “Squaw Man” at San Francisco. Augustus Phillips, fresh from a season’s big success in one of New York’s leading theatres, took theatrical San Francisco by storm in his first appearance as Jim Carston, in the “Squaw Man” last Wednesday night. It will be remembered that such actors as Dustin Farnum and William Faversham have played the same role before the same critics that greeted “Gus” on his initial appearance, and the opinion is general that ho fits the character and catches the true “westerness” more easily than either of the two stars mentioned. The dramatic critics on Frisco’s leading dailies are unanimous in an expression of appreciation of his most excellent acting. Two of the papers devoted over a column each to a favorable criticism of his work.