The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1895. MAY IRWIN IN “THE WIDOW JONES” AT THE CALIFORNIA THEATER Bernard Bryan, in Dan Mason’s new comed which 2 of the highest class gar, while 1f well med it s free scope for the mos: ¢ methods. Dan- iel Sully would appear to have been born for the role, which he invests with a charm peculiarly his own. Miss Julia Hanchett as Mrs. Belle Dash- shed comedian ington, a frisky widow angling for a hus- | band, might bhave sustained her parta little better. In some of the more comical situations her acting had a certain airof crudeness almost approaching to bur- lesque; while Miss Kate Michelena as the deserted wife was so harrowing in her portrayal of Helen Farwell’'s weight of woe as to give one a very uncomiortable feeling every time she appeared on the boards. There was a smooth, suave villain in the person of Herschell Mayall, who rolled his eyes and clinched his fists according to the most approved methodsof antiquity. The subordinate parts might have been worse though they surelv might have been much better. As a whole, however, the play is well worth hearing. Baldwin Theater. The farewell performances of Rice’s 11492" will be given this week at the Bald- win Theater. They will include a Christ- mas matinee at popular prices. The artists of this organization have prepared several novelties in the way of songs, dances, wit- ticisms and costumes for the festive season. Miss Bonehill’s latest success entitled *“The Knickerbocker and the Shoe”” wiil be ren- dered at every performance. The Kilanyi living pictures will be seen as usual. Next Sunday night Herrmann beginsa return engagement at the Baldwin Thea- ter. He will introduce a feature which is said to surpass anything he has yet at- tempted in this City; in fact, he has at- tempted the feat but twice before. This act will consist of Herrmann catching bul- lets fired from the guns of six soldiers. California Theater. The California Theater puts forth to- morrow evening for its holi veek’s at- traction one of its strongest bills of the season, May Irwin in “The Widow Jones.” The company comes direct from a bril- liant wseries of Kastern engagements, among them a run of seventy-five consecu- tive {erformances at the Bijou Theater, New York. Miss Irwin’s capacity for fun making, her humor and her magnetic persona! are well known. “The Widow Jones, written speciaily for her by JohnJ - Nally, who also wrote ‘A Country Sport and “A Straight Tip,” is said to give the new star ample opportunity to be seen at her best. Miss Irwin has introduced in “The Widow Jones” two ditties entitled “The: New Bully”’ and “I Want Yer Ma, Honey,” which have proved highly popu- lar in the East. Miss Irwir. will be surrounded by a com- pany which includes John C. Rice, Jacques Kruger, Joseph M. Sparks, George W. Barnum, Roland Carter, Richard J. Jones, Ada Lewis, Anne Sutherland, Sally Cohen, June,” is a part | easily seem vul- | Kathleen Warren, Lillian Heckler, Agnes Milton, Mabel Power and Mangery Teal. ing Miss Irwin’s engagement at the fornia Theater there wiil be Christmas and New Year day matinees. Columbia Theater. Two hours of langhter are promised to- | morrow evening at the Columbia Theater | by Fanny Rice in her new play of *Nancy at the French Ball.” The character of the impetuous but true- | the influence of Dolly Green, a woman who tries to make her discontented with her lot; but Nancy is shrewd and true-hearted and the French ball teaches her a lesson, by which she profits, though it 1s not till the last act that the audience discovers that Fanny Rice has been preaching a ser- mon in her new play. The holiday company includes: W. H. Fitzgerald, Herman Ehrent, John J. Con- ley, Edward_Trautman, Frank E. Morse, Miss Alice Vincent, Miss Reba Height, Miss Grace F. Nolvin, W, H. Frillman and Master Willie Meek. Grover’s Alcazar. The matinee to-day and the performance te-night will see the last of *‘The Streets of New York” at the Alcazar. To-morrow will be presented for the holidays the pageant, “The Great Black Crook.”” The sceaery will be of an elab- orate description, and electrical effects will be used in two great transformation scenes and the incantation scene. The cast will consist of the strength of the company, with some special additions. The ballet will_include the French quad- rille dancers Heloise, Fantine, Janet and Marie, the Sappho ballet and a comic ballet d’action, entitled ‘‘The Chimmy Fadden” ballet. There will be a grand Amazon march with armor, costumes and implements of mimic war on the stage. he specialty performances introduced will comprise Captain Walter Beach, the manfish, who eats, sleeps, etc., in_a reser- voir of water. There wiil also be Le Noir, the human nondescript, who ties his legs, arms and neck into the knottiest of tangles; Delaney and Charmion in an aerial act; Josephine Gasmane and Daisy Grogan. Leonard Grover Jr. will perform the part of Greppo. Commencing with Christmas day there will be matinees each day during the week, and after the matinees there will be a dis- tribution of Christmas toys, confectionery and presents, The Alcazar. “The Streets of New York” is a very old play, but like an old friend one cannot tire of it when its intenser scenes are not overdone. The acting during its presen- tation last week was mixed. Some of it was very good and the rest very bad. The | palm was by common consent awarded to | Frank Armstrong as Badger, the clerk, | who made a simply coarming hero. | Rough, and even a little uncouth, as his | part requires, he sustained it with so much ability ana was so purely natural as to move the fairer portion of his audience to | tears or rapturous applause at will. Francis Powers, as the villain, and May Noble, as the villainess, if the term may be employed, did some excellent work, but the remainder of the dramatis personz were nothing wonderful. Between acts John E. McWade, ‘‘the hearted Nancy is said to afford Miss Rice ballad king,” as he is called, has been ren- LEWIS WILLIAMS AS COLUMBUS IN RICE'S “1492” AT THE BALDWIN. | | be one of the funniest women on the stage. | It is said that the story of Nancy, if writ- | ten down in cold type, would read rather | like a sermon, but as worked out by the | star and her company it is received with | roars of laughter. | not because there is anything particular | funny in the story but because Fanny Rice | makes her hearers laugh. Nancy is an ignorant young woman, whom poverty has deprived of even a common school education. She fallsunder SCENE IN “AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS” AT MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. Nancy i ncites hilaritr, | y | full opportunities for proving herself to , dering some of his ever-welcome songs, be- ing apolauded to the echo night after night. His rich, sympathetlic barytone sounds at its best in"the tender, old fash- ioned ballads of a quarter century ago, which he renders with exquisite expres- sion and artistic finish. Mr. McWade will be remembered as having sung years ago | in “‘Pinafore” with Jessie Bartlett Davis, now of the Bostonians. Grand Opera- House. Manager Morosco’s holiday attraction, which will be produced to-morrow night, isa revival of Jules Verne's “‘Around the World in Eighty Days.” Efforts are being put forth to make the adventures of Phin- eas Fogg and Passe-Partout particularly attractive. New scenery has been pre- pared, marches and dances, participated in by over a hundred young women, are being rehearsed, and there will be novel mechanical effects. There are over forty speaking characters in the cast. The eccentric hero will be ;layed by H. Coulter Brinker, and Passe- artout by the Qakland playwright and manager, Louis Imhaus. Among the prom- inent features of the production will be a new Amazon march led by Julia Blane, a high wire performance by the famous Cebellus, a ramboro dance by Florence Thropp, a cymbal dance by the priestesses of the mosque. At the Orpheum. It is stated that for m3nths the Orpheum management, with John Morrisey as chief adviser, has been preparing a surprise bill for holiday week—variety, novelty and high-class vaudeville are all to be represented. The Manhattan Comedy Four, Clifford and Huth, Bernard Dyllyn, the three De Bolieu Brothers and Newell and Shevette are down on the list of new arrivals. As vocal comedians and ec- centrics the Comedy Four are said to be unsurpassed by any in the country. Their methods are original and their business is of their own creation. The sonzs and sketches are entertaining and their voices are above the average of “team’” warblers. Clifford and Huth will appear in dialect and character sketches together with songs and dances. Bernard Dyliyn will sing songs in his weil-known style. The De Boliens will give an exhibition of ac- robatic work and Newell and Shevette will be seen in their great triple horizon- tal bar act. Tivoli Opera-House. The Christmas spectacle at the Tivoli will be “Ixion, or the Man st the Wheel.” Ixion, it will be remembered, is credited with being a king of Thessally who took a trip to heaven as a guest of King Jupiter and fell in love with that potentate’s wife, the goddess Juno. The original spectacle is 8 good piece of farcical humor, but it has been deemea wise to revise it slightly, and this task has been relegated to John Wilson. The man- | agement expresses satisfaciion with his work, and to-morrow the public will be called upon to judge it. _Alice Carle is to be the Ixion, and con- sidering it unseasonable to persecute her at Christmastide Mr. Wilson has decreed that instead of being tied to a wheel she shall be the recipient of a bicycle. Laura Millard will be the Juno, and little Gertie Carlisle will play Cupid. Ferris Hartman, being deemed a necessary ingredient to a holiday spectacle, has been assigned the role of the poet. Thomas C. Leary will aprear as Ganymede, Jupiter’s cup-beater, who will incidentally talk about the Chutes. The music of ‘“Ixion” has been rearranged by Adolph Bauer. There will be a matinee on Christmas day. “LA NAVARRAISE.” ‘An Opinion of Massenet’ Pean Success. The New York Herald says: “The most important musical event of the week was tbe first performance here of Massenet's ‘La Navarraise. “If conciseness and rapidity of action were all that was necessary to make a one- act opera a success, then Massenet's work would easily throw even ‘Cavalleria Rusti- cana’ and ‘Pagliaccl’ in the shade. “It is the shortest lyric drama extant. You can sing it, act it and shoot it in fifty minutes. Without the shooting it might easily be done in half that time. That M. Massenet, who has written some really Latest Euro- charming music — one has but to think of his orchestral suites, his ‘Manon’ and his ‘Werther’ — sbould | have been guilty of such an error of taste is surprising, to say the least. Ana the story of “La Navarraise” is as repellent as the music is cacophanous. A man_ who will commit murder for the sake of love and gain one might not only understand, but sympathize with. A woman, never. “It was generally hoped that in ‘La | Navarraise’ Mile. Calve had found a role FANNY RICE AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER. utes until the truth dawned on him. Then the agent bought the drinks. Dramatic Brevities. Clara Morris is still pegging away at “Camille.” And now Sarsh Bernhardt declares Jeanne Granier to be Duse’s equal. which would reveal to us her extraordinary A Parisian manager has made an offer THE MANHATTAN COMEDY FOUR AT THE ORPHEUM. talent in a new light. As usual, Mile. Calveachieved a great personal success; for the woman is interesting, magnetic and intense always. But the roles of Santuzza and Ophelia give her much greater scope than the part of Anita. She sang and acted with tremendous energy. And yet one could not help regretting that her wondrous gifts were wasted on such meretricious music, such melodramatic matter generally.” Turned Away Crowds. Alf Hayman had fun with one of Charles Frohman'’s agents at the Empire Theater. Boston, the other night, when Olga Nethersole was too ill to play “Camille.” Money washeing refunded at the box-office and hundreds of disappointed peo?;le were streaming out of the lobby when the agent arrived. He was unaware of the star’s ill- ness and opened his eyes wide at the sight of the crowds leaving the theater. “That's the way it has been since 7:30 o'clock,” remarked Havman, cheerfally, “turning ’em away by the hundred.” “‘Great Scott! what immense business!” mi(‘l ghe agent. “C. F. certainly does have luck.” = He continued in this strain for ten min- for the French rights of “The Heart of Maryland,” Belasco’s successful drama. In the revival of *‘The Prisoner of Zenda” at the Lycenm Theater by the stock company, Herbert Kelcey will for the first time in_his American career ap- pear in a ‘“heavy’’ role. The new theater which A. M. Palmer will manage in Chicago will be one of the finest in the country. It is at present called the Great Northern, probably be- cause it will be adjacent to the Great Northern Hotel, but this name may be changed. At Jacksonville, Fla., the gallery audi- ence at the first performance of “Triloy” were 8o disappointed in not finding the play of the “problem” variety and wicked character, that a riot occurred and the stage manager was compelled to ring down the curtain at the beginning of the third act. The different pronunciations of ‘‘Le Col- lier de ]2 Reine” heard by the men in the box office of the Hollis lead them to infer that the pronunciation of French in Bos- ton is not uniform. The prudent man FERRIS HARTMAN AS ACROPOLIS AT THE TIVOLL asks about “The Queen’s Necklace” and leaves the French for his neighbor. Augustin Daly, whom one would im- agine to be as well informed as any one of what is going on in the dramatic world of Berlin, has of late developed a wonderful knack of choosing nothing but the feeblest vroduct of Germany. Said Richard Mansfield the other day: “‘Before 1 was taken ill I came to the con- clusion there were too many theaters in New York, apd you can judge of my sur- prise when I recovered to find that a man named Hammerstein_had built a whole row of theaters along Broadway.” Yvette Gilbert bas arrived in New York. Her nose is not Grecian, and her beauty is not in accordance with any regular rules. She is stouter than one would be led to believe from her photographs, and has red hair of the latest Parisian shade. The Olympion Hammerstein is to pay her §4000 a week, and she is_going to sing her songs just as she did in Paris. FIELD FOR OLIVE CULTURE What a Live Mariposa Orchardist Has Done With the Berries. Some Successful Experiments on the Elk Horn Foothill Ranch. Four and a half miles from the town of Hornitos, on the direct road to Mariposa, is the Elk Horn ranch, owned by Buffum & Stockton. In early times it was simply a watering-place for the thirsty animalsthat bauled the heavily freighted praire- scliooners to the higher altitudes of the 2old belt. When it first came into the hands of its present proprietors it was utilized as a stock range, with occasional sideshows, such as Angora goats and choice breeds of poultry. Then the own- ers commenced adding improvements, including new buildings, substantial fences and putting in an extensive acreage of wheat. Combining the useful with the ornamental, they planted small orchards of orange, pear, fig and other choice va- rieties of fruit, and set out a miniature vineyard, so that they have latterly rested in the shade of their own ‘vine and fig tree.”” Their wheat-growing was a suc- cess 1n yield and quality, and their fruit and grape crop a joy to their friends, who shared their hospitality and feasted with- out stint or price. In 1887 N. 8. Stockton, one of the part- ners in the ranch, made an_experimental venture in olive culture. It was the ini- tial step in what bids fair to become an important industry in the foothills. Mr. Stockton, while in the City a few days ago, ave for the benefit of the readers of THE ALL the details of his progress in olive cultuare up to date. He began in 1887 by setting out upon an acre of ground 110 two-year-old trees. They commenced bearing at three years, and in 1891 he produced the first olive oi in Mariposa County. From this same one- acre tract in 1894 he gathered over two tons of olives and made quite an amount of oil of most excellent quality, besides pickling several hundred pounds. 1le has added to the area of his olive orchard, which now embraces ten acres, with 900 thrifty, growing trees. They are all bear- ing, but only tbe original acre in quantity to justify the gathering, which was com- menced during the first week of the pres- ent month. From this little patch he expects the crop will amount to abput four tons. R He will pickle not less than 900 pounds. The exhibit of Buffum & Stockton in olives and oil took the vhird premium at the Midwinter Fair. Noirrization is re- quired for the olives, nor for other orchard and vine products. 1t is the infention of these progressive gentlemen to extend the area of their olive orchard, and as they own about 2500 acres of land, 1500 acres of which is agricultural and specially adapted to olive culture, the possibilities in this direction are grand. 2 : In this connection, it is the deliberate and published opinion of expert olive or- chardists that the region known as the “oothills,” including the territory lyving along the goid belt from 600 to 1500 feet in altitude, 1s the ‘“natural home of the olive.” ~The altitude of the Elk Horn ranch is 1049 feet. There are other locali- ties, within a~few miles, possessing the same characteristics of soil and climate. The trouble is that, as a rule, the olive- grower has to wait a few years for a profit- able return,’as the olive ordinarily com- mences to bear fruit at si1x or seven years of age, and only comes into full bearing at the ace of 8 or 10 years. It is a very hardy and long-lived tree. There are trees growing in this State, planted by the mission fathers, which have lonfi sinca passed their centennial vear, and it is stated upon good authority that in the neighborhood of Jerusalem there are olive trees over a thousand years old. Wt ILLS K SUEFRIGT His Letter to Mrs. McComas, in Which He Avers His Allegiance. Ladies Who Desire the Franchise for Their Sex Welcome Him to the Ranks. William H. Mills has declared un- equivocally for woman suffrage, and the ladies who desire the franchise for their sex are rejoicing greatly in securing such a champion. The Pacific Ensign quotes the following from his letter in reply to Mrs. McComas® inquiry whether he was a suffragist: To this I beg leave to reply that I am infavor of equal rights and the imposition of equal duties upon ail responsible people. Intelli- ence and accountability are inseparable. ‘'oman has intelligence, and therefore she is accountable. The possession of civii rightsim- poses civil duties. Civil rights are conferred upon womsn, and they are not unaccompanied by civil duties. Our Government is founded upon the doctrine that all governments derive thelr just power from the conseut of the governed. Woman is subject to government and to law; therefore, her consent is necessary | to the establishmeni of just government, | Equality before the law is a fundamental | maxim of our institutions, and this necessarily implies equality of the right to participation in the formation of law. The genius of republican institutions is de- | rived from the selihood, the seli-control and | the self-ownership of humanity. Each ac- countable indivi 1 has a right to control nis or her destiny; and since the enactment of law influences alike the des of the men and women of a country, it establishes the equal right of men and women to control their own destiny. Woman is possessed of all the inherent at- tributes which belong to men. The crowning attributes of mankind are reason, conscience, sensibilily and immortality. Woman is pos- | sessed ot these, and has, therefore, that full round of being which not only entitles her to that right of consent which makes her subjec- tion to government just, but imposeson her the full measure of the duties of citizenship. Having a destiny, she has an equal rightto a voice in the formation of those intiuences which direct and control that destiny. Her intelligence, accompanied b countability; her civil rights, attended by civil duties; her subjection 0 government, vesting in her the right of consent; the nobiliy of her destiny, growing out of the moral and spiritual nature of her being, all combine to impose upon her the high responsibilities and solemn duties of the elective franchise. In the same letter you ask: “Do you think the constituticnal amendment now before the l)eu'ple of California, relating to woman sui- rage, will carry?” ner ace 1 beg leave respectiully to represent that it is quite 100 early to have an opinion on this mat- ter. If the election were to take place within the next thirty days, in myopinion the amend- ment would not carry. What the result wilt be in November, 1896, [ do not claim to be possessed of sufficient foresight to hazard an opinion. Yours very truly, ‘WiILLIAM H. MILLs, THE HERVATSEA SLOGA. Editor Piskulich of the Croatian Jour- nal Issues a Finely Illustrated Holiday Number. The Hervatska Sloga, the Croatian journal published in this City, has issued a splendid Christmas number of twenty- two pages. It is owned and published by L. W. Piskulich at 629 Washington street, and is the only publication in the Croat tengue issued in America. Editor Piskulich came to the United States a few vears ago, and, after a close study of the English language, launched his paper on the sea of journalism. His holiday number is a creditable issue, the cover being printed in colors and hand- somely illustrated with pictures of prom- inent people of the Slavonian race in this country and Europe. There are over 20,000 Slavs in this City, and the Hervatska Sloga has a wide cir- culation among that people. Croatia is to the Austro-Hungarian em- pire what Ireland is to the English Gov- ernment; censequently this Slavonian journal teems with strong utterances against the Teutonic power that finally brought the Croats under subjugation forty years ago. 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