The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1897, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1897. S AY k tea and<doughnuts fiit befors my mental vision when I recall ibe theaters last week, not that this mild form of re- freshment was tendered to afnusement- seekers by any ent management, simply that w and doughnuts | ! ak i excite the nerves and stir the | n about as as most of | last week’s novelties. sherent im- ssions that stand outon my mind | ter atten hem all are Ferris Hart- man’s clever skit on the 1 ballet, at | the Tivoli; an ineffably complac V| hero, with an *Ill-just-smile-sweetly-| - you - photograph- me’’ air, at the ‘ George Osbourne and scme artistic the Alcazar, and a Hunga which the ms sudience enfirel nd or apprec scenery at orchestra, Orpheum unde ing behind a I had the advantage of sit seasoned firs ter at the openis ce of the Hungarian | Orches s he was k pass his criti trating t in a 1 had an op! inward He wa pene- | ortunit sms voice n and 1t decree. on ac and was recklessly prodigal in | the consumption of Mank cocktails Hi: giri, whom ore a monumental hat, amented with two spread- ach large enough to | with nu bric: best e possession of this a source of great on to her—some people it so comforting to purchase one seat and take up ten times as mucl view of e as th s for._ It is z for notbing, and that tion. | Weil! I'll be switched, the: of thew! Call that an orel emarked th rhieras the me an took tform. He listened erit 3 3 the performance of the ove ture to “William and after forti- | fying himself with third cocktail | remarked severely: v ain’t no g 1 bave t tha am Tell’ lots of times the Orchest but there, what can you of a can’t trombone? so practiced critic’s views cherish a most unreasor Waldteufel’s “Concert Wa. the good s even of a connoisseun dard ‘Trow H ther W aia he’d z like th McClosky, but the himselfdancing toa w and the owner of the ked, “I wish they firs It was when Berkes’ “Hungarian Fan- | tasie” was being piayed that tie contempt of the gen in the diamonds broke ail bounds. s like the wind howhng through low’s whiske; he re- marked, then 1 knew that however much the Hungarian Orc it woul ed firs c-lovers alto th chew gum tify them tain the evening’s entert £ cocktail When t arians had left the stage Rosner's orchestra siruck up a slap-bang ure to one of Miss Caldw por after the melancho e” sounded like an ax cutof a p How Rosner’s music has degen- ed since the day n he conducted the Red Hungarian Orchestra!—but that's another story. The fir er was | touciied in a tender spot by those noisy | sirains: “There’s sc style about that | 4 ngly; ‘“something you can pick upa home with you,” apd 1 began to understand how managers must feel when musical enthusiasts blame them for not keeping up a hi_her standard of ar f tue managers were in the show b entirely for their heaith. ters who mu ne: Victory Bateman is going to leave the Grand! When I firstsaw her I thou ht her the bes woman Man, Morosco had ever captured, but familiarity with Miss Bateman’s acting has led me to believe that she does not act at all—she is just Miss Bateman under all circumstan- ces. Her lines may be different and her costumes diversified irom week to week, but her in pretation never varies hair's bread ‘From Gre mountai Ru to sia and Icel. West and in the I life and low life, in sickness and in healtn, posed to be a princess 4, in the wild and woolls suorous South, in bigh wheiher she is sa ora peas Bateman; 3 fined and genteel in manner, with a slight tendency to laugh and cry at the same time in moments of emotion, and she always pe lates the st rapidl when in trouvle, as if sorrow, like a feel ing of chiiliness, could be walked off by a brisk constitutional. She is perfectly | natural on the stage simply because she | ne: attempts to assume the slightest mannerism that is not herown. Pleasing as this young woman is in some respects, Miss Bateman always plaring Miss Bate man is a case of toujours perdrix. Variety is the spice of life, and for the sake of ob- taining this seasoning at the Grand s change of leading woman will not be an unmixed calamity. What a marvelous triumph of perse- verance Nordica is! She has climbed up to her present exalted position chiefly by means of the Wagnerian ladder, and I am sorry that she has pandered to popu’arity by putting Marguerite and Leonorason Der programme, for neither is one of her strong characters. Her greatest successes bave always been made in Wagnerian roles, and if she had wanted to tickle the popular ear she might have given us a sample of her Elsa, instead of treating us to the hand-organ airs of “Il Trovatore.” I remember the first tme 1 saw her she | was with Mapieson, and, as usual, the old gentleman was in financial straits, and was not paying his artists. Nordica’s first husband had disappeared on one of his balloon expeditions, but the time”of pro- bation required to prove his death had not expired and she hal not come into his money. There were no gorgeous 1m- ported nor diamond tiaras in those days. Nordica was working like a busy bee 10 gain expeiience and make a name and she had neither time nor money for diamonds. She sang Marguerite in 'cos- | herself coveted ) a— tume on the platform, and a very shabby costume it was, so shabby that an accol plished musician who was in the par | remarked afterward: ‘‘Some of those singers cut a much better figure, but, mark me, that woman in the old purple | gown will make a bi of them.” gger name than any Nordica has come 1mnto her money since then, and has bartered it away for a Hun- garian husband, and they do say if she haa ner time over again she would be the Maine widow still, for life has not been all | diamond tiaras wi Zoultan Doame. the alt; h her since she married , which superstitious people said was a bad omen, and she has had disap- | pointment on disappointment since, but Nordica would be more than a woman, more than human, if she had not found some balm in Gilead in the recent fiasco of her rival Melba in the very role she so much that she shook the dust of the Metropolitan Opera-house off her feet because she could not have the exclusive right to it—the role of Brunbilde. Nordica is 1n:a position to sey now to the Metropolitan manazement, “I told you so.” Marie EVELYN. Baldwin Theater. 0On Tuesday evening the much-talked-of Nordica concerts will open at the Baldwin Cheater. The programme for the first concert is as follows: Overture, “Eur; <... Weber Serenade, “Fauat” ...Gounod 3.0 Aria, “Nobil Signor’ ..Meyerber Mme. ... Wagner Erkel Hungarian aria, “Erszebeth”.. Mme. Xordica Introduction, third act ohengrin” Orchestra. Third ac: of “Faust” (in Italian) Marguerite.. Wagner ..Gounod me. Nordica Mme. Scalchi .Baron Berthaid Mephisto J. C. Dempsey Isidore Luckstone, the pianist and ac- companist, will also conduct the orchestra, The piece de resisiance of Wednesday’s concert will be the last act of “Il Trova- tore,” and at the Saturday matinee the ast act of “Siegfried” will be the leading aitrection. Modjeska,supported by Joseph Haworth and aiy interesting company, will be the next dramatic attraciion at the Ba!dwin. The Modjeska season opens on the 25th st Golumbia Theater. Charles H. Yale’s spectacular produc- tion, “The Devil's Auction,” opens to- morrow night in what is said to be an en- tirely new dress. Many opportunities occur in this performance for the intro- duction of ballets and specialties, and come interesting novelties are promised. One feature is the *‘Ballet of the Boule- yard,” in which an Oriental scene changes to a realistic representation of Broadway. Then follow a pantomime scene represent- ing the comic side of police life, the Midget quadrille dancers and the Trotley Car pan- tomime. A novel singing specialiy is the new song by Charies H. Yale, entitled ““On the Rialto,” which depicts in words and music the characters one encounters during the summer months in New York’s noted thoroughare, Eroadway. As the song is sung the various personages sppear upon the scene. Rlcazar Theater. To-morrow evening a scenic production of Harry Mawson’s well-known war play, “A Fair Rebel,” will be given, in which the entire Alcazar company will appear, together with 100 members of Company L, First Regiment, National Guard, a corps of military telegraph linemen and a full drum corps. The scenic and mechanical effects will be eiaborate, ana will show a revolving scene, changing from the inte. rior to the exterior of the tamous Libby She burst into tearsat | | week at the Tivoliand until furth | given as benefit nights to the members of | of the theater, which will be decorated with ! | been set aside as “officers’ night,” and in- Prison in one act, and the laying of the; field telegraph lines and the actual send- | ing and receiving of messages. 5 The first three nights of the week will be the National Guard who will appear in the piay, and on each evening they will mount a full guard of honor in the foyer flags and flowers. Wednesday night has vitations have been sent to Governor Budd and his staff and the officers s ationed at the military posts of Sun Francisco to be present at the theater that evening. Tivoli Opera-House. The second edition of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” which contaias many new don, 1s writing her memoirs. This is what she has to say of Offenbach: ‘‘During the run of ‘Madame Favart’ Offenbach came over to see me and was piofuse in his compliments. Offenbach was a'ceilo plaver in the Covent Garden orchestra in the forties; it was his partic- ular wont to give Sundav evening ‘at homes’ and invite members of the orches- tra to his tospitality. At each ‘at home’ he woula play over some of the operas which later on witched the world. When over here he told me that he overheard a remark made one night by one of his con- freres wno had accepted his invitation: ‘We don’t mind going and eating this fel- low’s dinner and drinking his whisky, but we wish to heaven he would not play us over those rotten operas of his.’” A= | | | ductor remarked: “Most of the music springs from the impulse of the moment, and that is why a book knowledge of har- mony would- Spoil its inspiration. Not every Hungarian is born a musician, but those who are have the gift of improvisa- tion. ‘Tnese players of mine were not trained; they ~ar2 born improvisa- tori, and you see that-they never usea note of music in their performances. If I taught them the rules ot harmony, they could not harmonize as they do now, they wouid become machine-made players. Yes, I have studied myself, but as a child I improvised for years before they would let me take lessons. I come of a family of warriors, and my family did not want me to become & musician.” Mr. Matus 1s a clarionet soloist as weil 2s a conductor, and has played with a number of celebrated conductors, such as Gilmere and Thomas, but he likes con- ducting his national music _best. His band was a popular fad in London ten vears ago, and he performed several times at Windsor Castle “'by royal command.” Paris Protests. The Theatre de I'(Buvre at Paris has actually succeeded 1n shocking the Paris- ians with its last “new”” production. At the fall of the curtain on “Ubi Roi”’ the audi- ence was hissing and leveling insults on the piece. One of the critics, in describ- ing the scene, says: “Ibsen was baa enough, but he was harmless and inco- berent. Now, Yorry hascome along with this piece which is sickening and vulgar. There is not a line of wit in 1t. Not a dramatic scene. The language was_that of a drunken militiaman, and the epithets that were exchanged would damn a man’s raputation even in the company of men of the worid. Even that dank and emaci- ated crowd of women who are wont (o pass as members of the esthetic cuit, and the curly headed and Byronic collared youths who represent iuture thought, could rot get up courage enough to fight the honest indiznation of the mass of the audience. The honest playgoers shouted: ‘Vive Scribe!” ‘Vive Moliere!” And Ibsen’s contingent let them have their say.”’ Tie piece must indeed have been bad to arouse such a demonstration in easy-going Paris. Dramatic Brevities. L. R. Stockwell hus joined the Bacon stock company. The Gay Parisians company will go to Aus- and attractive specialties, will run all this r notice. After the run of this turlesq Wallace’s ballad opera “‘Maritana’ will be sungin its entirety for a few nights in order to | make preparations for the new burlesque, | “‘Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp.” for | which a number of striking specialties are | being arrangec. Among them are the | Cicopatra ballet, the dauce of the slaves, the dance of the household-workers and an Oriental-statue march. Henella and Remonde, the clever dancers, have been re-engaged for “‘Alad- din or the Wonderfut Limp.” ! Grand Opera-House. A melodrama with startling scenic ef- fects is promised for to-morrow evening. The play is “Azainst the Stream.” It is new to San Francisco, and, in fact, has never been produced on the Pacific Coast. Mortimer Snow as the bank clerk plays a | triple role. Victory Bateman is to be the weetheart in this ber last week at the srand. ‘The rich young man is to be es. sayed by John J. Pierson. Fred J. Butler is in the cast, as is Rosanionde O'Connell, the bright and pretty daughter of genial Dan O’Connell. At the Orpheum. A number of changes are announced in the bill at the Orpheum for this week. The Frantz family, who sre credited with being among the greatest of all European | acrobats, have arrived from Australia, where they made a great success. They | appear in evening dress and so clothed perforra the most difficult acrobatic feats. Binns and Binns, who style themselves “The Two Noblemen,” will appear in | musicel specialties, while Wilson and Waring, the tramp and the dancinz girl, may also be dependwd upon to furnish amusement. Kiralfy’s ballet comes on in new costumes. They will introducs a | sailor dance. Lientenant Nobel, with his | | | lifelike figures, and the Royal Hungarian Court Orchestra remain. People’s Palace. Mahara’s Minstrels, thirty-five genuine darkies, will continue to provide amuse- ment at the People’s Palace. In the o George L. Moxley is one of the bright particular stars and Tim Anderson with bis little banjo comes i for a share of applause. Biiy Younc sings, while the comedy work of Dan Avery 1¥a feature of the performance. Gleason, the Horse-Jrainer. The Mechanics’ Pavilion was crowded again last evening when Professor Gleason gave “Lawsuit’’ his third lesson. The norse shows signs of improvement, al- though Gleason characterizes him and “Tiger Jim’’ as ‘‘the meanest horses on earth.” To-night he promises todrive “Lawsuit’” and “Tiger Jim” side by side. A number of other vicious and wild animals wili al=o be handied. It has been decided to give the afternoon verformance to-morrow at the Pavilion instead of the Velodrome. Gleason will give his last exhivition Sunday night. At the Ghutes. Tke Chutes off:r a wonderful attraction this afternoon and evening in Professor Bristol’s {roupe of performing horses, donkeys and ponies. There are thirly of the animals and the amount of intelli- gence that they exercise is something sel- dom seen. A largeopen-air ~tage hus been built just outside of the skating-rink and there will be ample accommodations for thousinds of spectators. During Januery tbe Chutes are only running on Saturday and Sunday, but the skating-rink is open every afternoon and evening, rain or shine. Offenbach’s at Homes. Florence St. John, the singer, who made “Madame Favart” popular in Lon- BORN IMPROVISERS. P. K. Matus Tells How Hungarian Musicians Play Without Knowing a Note. There is a good deal of interest attaching to Hungarian musicians just now on ac- count of the influence they seem to have bren exercising over heiresses. All the Eastern papers have been ringing with the scandal of the American princess who has deserted her husband and her home for the sake of a Hungarian gypsy violinist, and one of the richest heiresses in Paris recently fell so completely under the speil of a Hungarian fiffdler’s impassionec strains that she would have lavished her entire fortune upon him if a guardian had not been appointed to restrain her extrav- agance. Unused to luxury the fiddler took to the wildest dissipation, which finally killed him, and he was buried re- | cently in Parls with as gorgeous a funeral as if he had been a prince. No _doubt one cause of the fascination that Hungarian music exercises over sus- ceptible natures is iis utter spontaneity. Speaking of Hungarian players, P. K. Matus, conductor of the Royal Hungarian Orchestra at the Orp eum, said yesterday: “Our musicians play, by nature. If you were to teach those men,” and he waved his hand toward his band, who are most of them typical Hungarian types, “if you were to leach them music by rote they wou'd lose the power of playing at all. “How is it that our- national music springs entirely from our hearts? Ob, it is very simple. For over a thoustnd years the Hungarians have been persecuted, op- pressed, down-irodden by the Furks and the Slays. They have had to live with the sword in the hand, and have shed so many tears that it as passed into a prov- erb, ‘A Hungarian takes his pleasure in weeping.’ Our people have sung to ex- press their grief, and most of their songs have been in a plantive, minor key. These melodies have been generally the expression of some simple sentiment. A g:rl, as she comes from harvesting in the fields, carrying her bundle of corn, will think perbars of her absent lover, and as she wauks along she will put her regret into a plaintive song. When she zetsto the vil- lage the ot er girls will hear ber and they will sing it with her, and put in beautiful harmonies thay if I attempted to write them down most trained vocalisis would find too difficult to sing. All these harmonies are correct, though the girls have never learned a note of music; they are born musicians, and if you taught our neasants from books you would spoil the eift that nature has bestowed upon them.” In speaking of compositions inspired by the occasion, Mr. Matus remarked with Yerfecz simplicity: ~When I was a youth had to go away to serve in the Hussars. My sweetheart feared she would never see me again, and she shot herself in the churchyard. As soon as the news was brought.to me, I poured out my grief in composing a czarda to her memory—that is one of our national compositions that begins in a sad, plaintive movement, and then changes to a theme full of move- ment and snimation,” While discussing the different forms of national Hungarian com position, the con- tralia in March. John T. Suilivan, the husbaud of Rose Cogh- QRPHEUM {1an, has reached New York from San Fran- | cisco. Murie Halton will shortly make her vaude- ville debut at Koster & Bial's. Mrs. Henry E.‘Abbey has been secured as leading lady for John Sleeper Clarke. Bianche Walsh will plaz the leading part in “Straight From the Heart” at the Academy. There are twenty-two speaking parts in “Sweet Inniscarra,” Chauncey Olcott's new play. E. J. Henley is to play Romeo to Margaret Mathe:’s Juliet during the engagement at Wailack's Theater. Oiga Nethersole wiil most likely plav the leading part in “The Lady of Quality” at the Kuickerbocker Theater. A receiver for the Ads Rehan silver statue (a Worid's Fair curiosity) was recently ap- poinied in Topeka, Kans. Preparations are being made at the Tivoli fora summer season of xrand opers. A Wagner series is in contemplation. | Herbert Kelces and Effie Shannon intend to become joint stars next senson., Mr. Kelcey is after a new play by Clyde Fitch, Charles Cushman, only brotner of the late | Charlotie Cushman, the great American ac- tress, died in London recently, aged 78. Modjeska will open her season with a pro- duction of Sudermann’s play .*Magda.” Jo- seph Haworth will play the rolo of the Major. Among the actors who grace Broadway in the army of the. unemployed are Frederick Bryton, Rose Coghlan and Lawrence Hanley, all ex-stars. Nellie McHenry went around the hotel cafes and clubs in Cleveland on New Year's eve and sang several songs for » charitable assoctation. She collected over $100. E. H. Sothern has an unfinished dramatiza- | tion of “Henry Esmond,” Thackeray’s brood in & bundred chapters, and he regardsit a great play for next year. Upward of 400 manuscript plays written or owned by the citizens of the United States | are played nightly. They give employment to from 5000 (0 6000 actors. ““The Bootblack” is 1he name of & new Eng- lish five-act drama. The notion opens up a new iden of play-namin. For example, “The Baked Potato Man,” “The Tamale Boy.” Bishop Potter is likely to start an_argament with many people besides Dr. Max Nordau by his assertion that no one can be a great musi- cian whose iife and ideals of life are not high. William A. Brady professes to have found a successor to Professor Herrmann in an amateur wizard of Salt Lake. His name is Eliason, end he will accompany La Loie Fuller to Aus- tralia. Martha Morton has been severely scored by & Chicago newspaper for appropriating wit out acknowledgment the piot of The Duchess novel, “A Little Rebel,”’ for her play, A Bachélor’s Romance.” In “A Fair Rebel” at the Alcazar Theater this reek there will be field telegraph line in ope- ration, and_negotintions are being made with the Postal Telezraph Company to make con- nections ome evening duricg the week with ih-ir main_lines and have the messages sent from New York City to tha Aleazar stage. Some idea of the enormous number of plazs writ'len by ambitious American dramatists can be estimated from the fact that from thirty (0 (orty new manuscripis are received ench week at Rosenfleld’s ty pewriting offices. There is no geographical monopoly in this aspiring dramatig spirit, for the plays are re- ceived from all sections of the country. 1t curious fact in this connection that & very Jarge proportion of these efforts come from small towns, places which are, as a rute, found ouly o: county maps and in the datebooks of barn-storming managers. Recently as Thomas W. Keene was leaving the stage entrance of the opers-house in Columbus, Ohio, he was met by four young Tadies, one of whom stopped him with the ex- clamation, “Ob, excuse me, is this Mr. Keene?” “Yes, mis-,” said Mr. Keene. “Wiii you please give me your neckue for a crazy [quim We are collecting all the articles we {can irom actors for that purpose.”’ 1f ths tragedian had been ettacked by footpads and tola t hold up his hands and surrender his watch, diamonds and money, he conid not have leen more surpriscd. Mr. Keene began 10 seel around his neck, but could not find & necktie there. Somewhat embarrassed, he r | plied, “I am sorry, miss. butIleit my neckt | at the hotel; I will send you ore by the first thunked mail.” Then the girls nhim kindly and diseppe: snickered, NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. SAN WALTER. DirecTor Generat. FRANCISCO. CAL. coran. tes7. LOS ANGELES CAL. esus. 1294, NEW YORK OFFICE, Rasvillon Buiiding, 13-15 West 28¢h S¢ U'karrell . bet. Stockion and Powell. SAN FRANCISCO’S GREAT MUSIC HALL. Weeolx Commemncing Monday. Jan. is, STRONGEST BILL EVER OFFERED AT THIS POPULAR HOUSE 11—NEW C:LEBRITIES FROM ABROAD AHD THE EAST—11 The Greatess Novelty Europe Has Ever Produced, 7" Frant=z Framily—7 The Most Wonderful, Staraing and Seosational Acrobats on the Face of the Earin—Tfitve Ladies and ‘our Gentiemen in Full Evening Costume. New York’s Favorite Comedy Duo, JOHN WILSON AND BERTHA WARING, The Famous Tramp and the Dancing Girl of “Little Christopher” and more recently of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.” The. Famous The Two Noblemen ===LIEUT. 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