The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1896, Page 22

HE penitential season of Lent has | not caused the patronage to lan- | guish at the local theaters. At| the Baldwin Frederick Warde has ranted. in ti approved | and old-fashioned melo le,and the: more ke has awoke the slumbering | echoes the more his admirers have planded. The Carlton Opera Company | has been reaping the reward of merit in | the shape of attendance and applause, and Morosco's gorgeous scenic effects have pro- | duced the same happy result. At the| other loeal theaters no wail of lamenta- tion has been" heard ifrom the box-offices, | and as for'the Paderewski and Sousa con- certs the. size of the audiences was only | limited by the fact that there were noteven holés and corners leit in which to stow | away more people: In plays adapted from the French, where the word “Madame’' has been retained in 1 the English version, it seems to have be- | This is the latest conundrum among stu- dents of Shakespearina. Dr. Jon Stef- ansson started the question in an article that appeared in an English magazine, and before the Elza@than Society in Lon- don the other day Dr. Jon held forth at considerable length and with a powerful | accent to show that Shakespeare visited Denmark. To prove his case the doctor put in a series of dates booked in and arounnd Elsinore by several companies of B h players, especially by the com- pany headed by Will Kempe. Kempe was quite the Ferris Hartman of the period for “gagging,” and it was (according to Stef- ansson) against Kempe that the bard di- rected his remarks against clowns speak- more than is set down for them. Jon Stefansson believes that young are played small parts on He does not ap- ing S| Kempe's Danish tours. pear to be able to adduce much evidence in support of his theory, but the idea is 1k FERRIS HARTMAN AS RIP VAN WINKLE. come the accepted thing to pronounce the word with a strong accent on the final syllable. In “The Mountebank” this ten- dency is pushed to an extreme. by some members of the Warde company. The actors evidently labor under the delusion that it is quite French, whereas in fact the “Madanm” is not only a provincialism but 18 painfully suggestive of swearing. Duse is again the sensation of the hour in New York, and one cannot help regret- ting that she is not for the San Francisco market.. The worst of it is that the great tragedienne is failing in health and may never revisit America. She is sick, too, with the glamor and artificiality cf stage life and longs to retire in-the very zenith of her fame. The loss will be ours if we have.not the enterprise to secure a visit from the great fin'de siecle actress. Those who have never heard Duse no not know what they are missing, but the people who have felt her spell regret that she is not coming where her genius would be sure to be appreciated. ““Did Shakespedre ever go to Elsinore?” more interesting than many of the whims put forward by would-be Shakespearian authorities. Baldwin Theater. The production of “King Lear” by Frederick Warde and his company is an- nounced ‘for to-morrow evening at the Baldwin Theater. It is eleven years since this tragedy has been revived B8y an Amer- ican actor, and its presentation will no doubt arouse consiaerable interest. ‘Warde has been meeting with consider- able success in his Shakespearean revivals. He has never believed, as some managers have asserted, that to produce Shake- speare meant loss at the box-office; on the contrary, he has attributed a certain lack of patronage from which some revivals have suffered to lack of attention in meet- ing modern stage requirements. fn “King Lear”’ it is stated that Fred- erick Warde will surround his production with efficient and careful staging. “King Lear” will be given on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings and at the matinee Saturday; ‘‘Damon and Pythias” on Tuesday, and ““Julius Cesar’’ Wednes- day and Saturday evenings. ““A Milk-White Flag,” one of the latest EUGENE CANFIELD IN “A RAILROAD TICKET” COMPANY. Nois: e | Hoyt productions, will be gven at the | Baldwin Theater Monday week. Paderewski’'s Farewell. The great Paderewski-Marsick concert will take place at the Baldwin Theater to- night. It will be positively the pianist's last appearance, as he will cross the bay to his private car immediately on the con- clusion of the performance. The following programme will be ren- dered: Sonate... wreesenninss.. Paderewski Alleg Intermezzo. Finale—Allegro molto quas! presto. aderewskl and Marsick, Tmpromptu, op. 142, Papillons. Chants Pol Polonaise. .. Cracovienne F Paderewski Adagio. . Alirs Russe: .. Marsick Wieniawski California Theater. ‘With the exception of the Marsick con- cert on Friday night, the California Theater will be closed this week. The next attraction is Milton Rovle, who will present his latest’ success, entitled “Mexico.”” This attraction will be fol- lowed in rapid succession by Peter Daley in “The Night Clerk,” Roland Reed, Prim- rols]e & West’s minstrels and Robert Man- tell. California Theater Concert. Arrangements have been completed for the appearance of Marsick at the Califor- nia Theater on Friday night, March 6, for one recital. He has arranged a brilliant programme, and as his appearance to- night at the Baldwin Theater with Pader- ewski will familiarize the San Francisco public with Marsick’s violin_virtuosity, his concert on Friday night will no doubt arouse considerable public interest. Columbia Theater. ‘A Railroad Ticket'” will begin a week’s engagement at the Columbia Theater to- morrow night. The play is a satire on the railroad ticket brokerage business, and is also intended to ridicule the modern haste to grow rich. The role of Chips, the ambitious office- boy, will be played by Eugene Canfield, who is well known in connection with his successes in Hoyt’s comedies. Charles E. Grapewin will appear as Robert Ticket. J. H. %‘ Clasher, the Rain King, who has nothing but real estate, will fall to the bhands of J. H. Bradbury, a comedian known from his previous appearance here in support of Nellie McHenry. Harry Porter, an actor formerly in the support of Frank Daniels, will appear in tge dual roles of Tammany Hall and Lithograph Bill. The comedy role of the Collector will be assumed by Frank Gardiner. The feminine contingent will include Mattie Lockette as Bessie Shorthand, the type- writer; Beatrice Norman as Mrs. J. Hy F. Clasher, Hattie Waters as Isabelle Inger- soll, and a bevy of beauties in the minor roles. The specialty portion of the enter- tainment will, it is said, include a number of novel features. At the Columbia To-Day. A grand benefit will be tendered the Theatrical Mechanics’ Association this afternoon at the California Theater. A long bill of attractions is promised, the names comprised presenting a brilliant array of talent. Doors will be open at 1 o’clock, the performance to begin promptly at 2 o’clock. Grand Opera-House. Manager Morosco will this week again take advantage of his big stage and its equipments to produce a melodrama, the essential feature of which is the spectacu- lar. The play to be produced is by Louis EBagan, and it _bears the sensational title, “A Midnight Flood.”” While the story of Eagan’'s play is said to be deficient in any startling originality there is plenty of human interest running through it, with a judicious intermingling of comedy and pathos. The main feature, however, is undoubtedly the title scene. It will be an exact reproduction of a pic- ture taken at Johnstown the morning after the bursting of the dam on the memorable night in 1889, Essie Tittell and Darrell Vinton will reappear in the leading roles and the com- pany will be supported by Gilbert and Goldie, who have been especially engaged for tneir latest specialties. Grover’s Alcazar. The Carlton Opera Company will pre- sent Auber's romantic opera *“Fra Dia- volo” at Grover’s Alcazar to-morrow, Tues- day and Wednesday evenings. For the rest of the week, including the Saturday and Sunday matinees, *The Bohemian Girl” will be performed. W. T. Carlton, Miss Rena Atkinson and the rest of the star cast will be seen at every performance. Tivoli Opera-House. Robert Planquette's opera, “Rip Van ‘Winkle,” will be sung at the Tivoli Opera- house to-morrow night. The plot of the opera adheres closely to Washington Ir. ving’s story and is one of considerable in- terest. The action is supposed to take place in the villace of Sleepy Hollow be- fore and after the Revolutionary War. Ferris Hartman will play his role of the good-hearted vagabond; Carrie Roma will reappear after an absence of two years as his wife Gretchen; Pearl Landers will be the Meenie of the first part and Annabel Schnabel the Meenie of the last act. John J. Raffael will sing Detrick, W. H. West Peter Stein and Kate Marchi Katrina. Little Gertie Carlisle wil! be the Little Hans and Martin Pache his grownup coun- terpart. Thomas C. Leary will character- ize Nick Fedder, the landlord of the Royal George I1I Inn, and the son Jan the pro- prietor of the Washington Arms. Special care will be taken with the staging, espe- | cially in the incantation scene in the sec- | ond act. 4 Balfe’s opera, “The Rose of Castile,” will follow, after which ‘‘Said Pasha,” Richard Stahl’s opera, will be given. To- morrow evening the musical directorship of the Tivoli will be assumed by Carl Mar- tens, late of the Tavary Opera Company, under whose baton a season of grand opera wiil shortly be sung. At the Orpheum. Eight new people are promised by the Orpheum management to appear to-mor- row evening. Wills and Collins, travesty sketch artists, will present the original skit on ‘“Pygmalion and Galatea,” while Miss Norma Wills will sing selections from *Robert the Devil” and *Il Trova- tore’’; Alburtus and Barkus are cham- pion club swingers and jugglers; the Andersons, a colored comedy duo, will ive rough plantation sketches, and the e Kilippis are grotesque and character dancers. £ The Pantzers, the Wiltons, the Rossleys and the Brothers Dianta are retained. Carroll JPhn:on and Billy Carter, who have been favorites during their stay, will leave for Los Angeles this afternoon after the matinee. New Auditorium. The University of California Glee and Mandolin clubs will give a concert at the Auditorium on Eddy street to-morrow evening. The Glee Club is already well known, but this will be the first appear- ance of the Mandolin Club, which was organized at the university last au tumn. The clubs will be assisted by Mrs. Olive Reed Batchelder, contralto, and Charles E. Parcells, violinist. Souvenir pro- grammes have been prepared, designed by Mr. Quinan of the Josh. The concert is under the patronage of a number of prominent ladies and gentlemen. Annie Eva Fay, a‘disciple of Mme. Blavatsky, will appear at the Auditorium on Tuesday night. The lady, who has been studying the occult sciences for twenty vears, is said to have penetrated far into the mysteries of India. Her en- tertainment is a pleasant mixture of the tricks of fakirs and the science of the learned mahatmas. She professes to have complete control over her astral b even to the extent of making it vi the corporal eyes of the audience. Pearl Noble Testimonial. Miss Pearl Noble, the well-known cor- netist, is to be tendered a testimonial con- cert, on Tuesday evening, at the Linder- man Opera-house, Alameda. The enter- tainment is uuder the vatronage of the Woman’s Exchange of Alameda and the local churches, for most of whom Miss Noble has done considerable musical work in the past. A number of well-known performers will give their services on the occasion. The ladies’ string gnartet, consisting of Miss Gruenhagen, l‘}iss Mabel Crabtree, Miss May Barrington and Miss Anne Barring- ton, will play. Among the other execu- tants will be Arthur F. Johannsen, Samuel Adelstein, Leo Cooper, Gertrade Judd, E. D. Crandall, Miss Lillian Featherstone and the Misses Pearl and Maud Noble. Macdonough Theater. A. M. Palmer's “Trilby”’ Company will appear at the Macdonough Theater, Oak- land, next ‘(\'ednesunv afternoon and even- 1ng. The organization is en route to Aus- tralia, and the haste to get through to fulfill engagements accounts for the fact that Oakland is to have an attraction not enjoyed by San Francisco. The personnel of the company is the same, with few exceptions, as last season. Nellie McHenry will open in “The HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 189 FREDERICK WARDE AT THE NLADAD T0 BLANE THE BALDWIN THEATER. the Vaudeville, in Paris, will not add much to the reputatiou of the great dramatic critic. Itis interesting, but hardly amus- ing. At the Metrovolitan Opera-House' this winter in New York the zood nights have had to pay for the bad ones. With the exception of *“Tristan and Isolde,”’*Lo- hengrin” and “Die Meistersinger,” the German opera season was a failure and Guonod had to pay the deficits of Wagner, while Bizet settled the bills of Beethoven. On February 29—Leap Year’s day—*‘The Sporting Duchess”” ended its six months’ run at the Academy of Music, in New | York, the largest theater in America. The production comes to the Baldwin later in the seagon. Opera in New York. New York is complaining bitterly that Boston has interfered in a rude, impolitic | manner with its opera plans for next sea- GILBERT AND GOLDIE AT MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Cycle Girl” at the Macdonough on the 6th inst. Dramatic Brevities. Miss Affie Warner will appear in the production of “A Milk White Flag" at the Baldwin. James O'Neill's version of “’i‘he Lyons Mail”” will be produced by him during his coming engagement at the Baldwin. Seymour Hicks recently delivered an ad- dress on “Burlesque” before the Play- goers’ Club. In it he gave Beerbohm Tree some very sharp raps. “Trilby’ is really to be done in Paris, “Trilby” in French! What becomes of the English jargon of the student quarter, what of Zou-Zou’s English? Washington went wild over Duse and it looks as if this American tour was going to be something like the triumphal pro- gresses which foreign actors used to make here twenty years ago. M. Claretie of the Comedie Francaise has followed the custom of the English theaters and forbidden ladies to wear any hats or bonnets in the stalls at that the- ater. Now, America, it is your turn. “La Bonne Helene,” the two-act comedy in verse by Jules Lemaitre, produced at o son. The cause of the trouble is that Melba’s Boston admirers have offered to give her an especial opera company, $2000 a night and a percentage 1f she will sing exclusively for them. Speaking of this sentimental offer, the Press remarks: Armed with this document the diva Eow demands $2000 a night from Abbey & rau. That is bad |enough, but worse remains behind. The moment Calve heard about the rival soprano’s proposition she jumped into her carriage, drove to the Metropoli- tan, entered Abbey & Grau's office and said: “Bon jour,” M. Abbayy.” “Bon jour, Madame,” said he. *‘You want me again, come back?’ said she. “I had hopes in that way,” said he. ‘‘I'res bien,” said she, “I come back. But for more of the moneys.” *Pardon me,” said he, ‘1 did not quite understand.” “I come back,” she repeated, slowly, “but more moneys next vear.’’ “Why, Madam,” said he, “‘you are receiving a very large salary now.” *It is the mere nothings,” said sne. *‘Voila! Observe the publeek, the house I bring—ten, twenty, fifty thou- sand dollaire. It is nothings.” ‘‘But, Mme. Calve,” said he, “it is dou- ble what you receive in Europe. *‘Mon Dieu!” said she, “what of that! I am re- move, torn from my chateau, from the beautiful Paris. I come in the ocean— three, five thousand miles. I have the mal de mer, the sea sick. Voila! I am ALBURTUS AND BARTRAM, AT THE ORPHEUM. dead. Icome where they do not know the language civilized. I have the climate, the weatlier, the cold—one day hot, one day the—wnat you call it—blizzare. 1 have the bill of the doctaire. son Dieu! it is nothings. Behold, I come back in the ocean, the sea sick—but I must have the moneys—must have the 12,000 franc a mght.” “Whew!” said he, formance.” *“Why not?” said she. “Mme. Melba demand 12,000 francs. Voila! can she be the Carmen—the ten, fifty thousand dollaire house? Is Calve to be put below Melba? Impossible. Bon jour, Monsieur. “Bon jour, Maaame,” said he—and there the matter rests. Now, all this nonsense was brought about by Boston. W¢é say nonsense ad- visedly. No impresario in the world could affora” to pay $2400 a night for Meiba. Of course, the capitalists of the Hub, who are enamored of her charms, may come to these terms, but their proposition is senti- mental, not business. Our managers dou- ble the prices of Burope. They can afford to do no more. If Melba and Calve insist on these exorbitant salaries the end of the matter wil be that we shall have to do without Melba and Calve. SSUED FAOLTY STAPS, A Defective Plate Has Caused the Government Much Trouble. How a Postoffice Clerk Outwitted a Philatetist Who Wished to Purchase. Through the blunder of a Government engraver the TUnited States has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of aefective postage stamps of the new 2-cent issue, the Postoftice Department has been compelled to destroy a plate that cost it $40,000, and stamp collectors and dealers who were fortunate enough to learn of the matter before it came to the eyes and ears of the authorities have reaped a rich har- vest. Stamps that were worth 2 centsas their face value before the mistake was discovered are now held at ten times that amount, and :he price wiil enhance as they erow older and are scattered through the thousands of collections in the country, thus becoming one of the rarities in which the philatelic enthusiast delights. For many years the Government let out the contract for printing stamps to the American Bank Note Company, and this corporation was responsible for the abso- lute accuracy of the precious bits of paper that pay the way of the correspondence of the country. Recently, however, the Fed- eral authorities decided to do the work, and a vast engraving and printing plant, with an army of employes, was estab- lished at Washington. One of the men in tie engravers’ department is responsible for all the trouble, which involves the call- ing in of hundreas of thousands{of stamps. A few months ago it became known to the Stamp Burcau that the 2 cent stamps then beiny issued were being counterfeited to a large extent and 1t was decided to make a rew issue containing secret marks that would render identification of the spurious stamps easy. Orders were given for new plates that would remedy the mat- ter and the most expert engraversin the department were put at work on them. In addition to the water mark the stamps show a faint line of perforations on the gummed side that is not apparent to the layman, but to the philatelist is very plain, Each plate is intended to print 400 per- fect stamps and each plate is numbered, the number showing on the margin of the printed sheet, so that in case of a mistake, such as the one in question, the depart- ment can tell just which stamps to recall. The new issue had hardly mace its ap- pearance and had not yet reached this coast when philatelists aiscovered that two rows of stamps on the lefthand side of plate 170 were defective. The first row was entirely correct, but rows two and three, extending from the top of the sheet to the bottom and containing an -aggregate of forty stamps, were fanlty. 1n each of the upper corners of the cor- rectly executed stamps appears a double triangle, one within the other. The space within the inside triangle is closely filled with fine horizontal lines, as is the body of the stamp, while the narrow space between the heavy lines of the triangles shows clearly white. In the first defective row the inside tri- angle is missing and the fine red lires are unbroken, while in the second imperfect row the two triangles are present, but the white space that should be between does not appear, the fine red lines running en- tirely across. These imperfections would not be apparent to an inexperienced eye, but to the expert are glaring defects, and to the Government they are practically unpardonable, and the engraver who made the blunders will probably soon be looking for another position, if he is not already doing so. Stamp-dealers obtained possession of thousands of specimens before the defects were made known to the Government, and the collectors of this City made a desper- ate effort to do so, but the information of the imperfections reached here ahead of the stamps, and very few went into circu- lation. _ One collector struck the trail of a quan- tity that had reached a sub-office in the southern part of the City, and attempted to 'h“F them, but the clerk was posted, and quietly informed the philatelist that he could have them if he was willing to pay a handsome premium. As such transac- tions are cle=rly prohibited by the regula- tions of the Postoffice Department, the young man was running considerable risk of losing his position, but there is honor, sometimes, even among philatelists, and he was not reported, the collector taking the matter as rather a good joke that he should have been outwitted. The stamps that have not already passed into the possession of collectors and deal- ers have already been recalled by the de- partment. et e Killed Himself by Morphine. Hugh Kennedy, bricklayer, 33 years of age, was taken to the Receiving Hospital at3 o'clock yesterday morning suffering from me phine poisening. He died st noon yesterday and the body was removed to the Morgue. Kennedy had been rooming at 511 Pine street. He had been despondent on account of being outof work. That was hi: taki the dose of morphine, an Mission Street Line. Responsible for ‘the Death -of Mrs. Witbeck. : THE CAR HAD NO. FENDER. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury After Hearing the Testimony of Eye Witnesses. The Coroner’s jury yesterday held the street railroad responsible for the death of Mrs. Witbeck, who was run. over by an electric car a few days ago and died from the effects of her injuries. The deceased was 73 years of age. An efforr was made to prove that Mrs. Witbeck was hard of hearing. - Dr. Dozier said he had to speak a little louder than usual to her, but he stated that'hereye- sight was as good as.could be expected ~of a woman of 73 vears. C. W. Witbecx testified that his motlier was in the habit of going out to his bouse at the Mission every Sunday tor the last seven years, and that he had never noticed her hearing to be impaired in the least. She always went back and forth unat- tended. 5 J. M. James, a police officer, saw the lady leave the corner of the street and walk in front of the car. The motorman rang his gong and continued to ring it until the car struck her and she was knocked down. She did not appear to hear the bell. Witness did not notice any effort on the pari of the motorman to stop the car. C. W. Witbeck said he never had any trouble in making his mother hear him when he spoke to her. Kmelie A. Wanz testified that she wit- nessed the accident and thought that the motorman had done all in his power.to stop the car. David Morrison testified that he saw the lady cross the street and saw the car knock her down. William Barnum, who was motorman of the car going in the opposite direction, saw the deeeased step on the track about ten feet in front of the car that struck her. He testified that the only zuard on the car was the board in frontof the wheels, which were back under the car. H. L. Howard, the motorman on the Mission-street car that struck Mrs. Wit- beck, said that the woman was about four- teen feet in front of the car when. he first saw her. He rangthe befl. and made an effort to stop the car in time to prevent the accident. He said the car was without. & fender. CONVICTED BUT FREE. Rern Kenny Can Laugh. at Sefitences and Prison Walls. Kern Kenny is a lucky man. He is con- victed of obtaining mouey under false pretenses and has been sentenced to eight years 1n prison, but he is at large and thers seems to be no immediate prospect of his incarceration. 3 When Kenny was convicted his attorney gave notice of appeal and filed a bill of exceptions. This bill has to be settled, but it is gone and no one knows anything avout it. In the meantime a writ of prob- able cause has been granted, and for neariy two years Kenny has been-out on bail, and he is as far from the penitentiary as he ever was. He has complied with all the preliminary formalities of an appeal, so the appeal cannot' be dismissed on a mo- tion by the people. The only way which appears at nlf feasible is to have the writ of probable cause revoked. HABERLIN WAS CLUBBED. Bernard and Bridget Kennedy Wanted for the Assault. Patrick Haberlin swore out a warrant in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday for the arrest of Bernard and Bridget Ken- nedy, husband and wife, on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The parties_live on Seventh avenue, be- tween M and N streets, South San Fran- cisco. On November 28 several boys were amusing themselves by throwing.stones and Haberlin interfered. -~ Kennedy got hold of him .and kept his arms pinioned while his wife Bridget belabored him with a club. Haberlin has been confined to his bed ever since, and yesterday he was able to get out and swear out the warrant. NEW TO-DAY. A CONFEDERATE VICTORY. A Texas Colonel Captures a Life Long Foe. Story of .a Struggle for Years, Ending In Success at Last—The Hero’s Own Statement. Hurrah!t ; Another victory won. And aiter a life of fighting. In youth, men recklessly acquire habits which for a time they can easily manage. But as time goes on the power of gelf-control slowly weakens until the habit gets the upper hand. 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