The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1897, Page 28

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1897. HE story runs that one evening 107 Massenet and Henri Cain (fiance MY\ of Emma Calve) were discussing La Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Santa Lucia” and other new operas in which music that charms the public ear iz wedded to police court plots. Massenet remarked that he craved for a more lurid story than the Santuzza episode and Cain replied that he bad a plot on tap which would just fill the bill. They thereupon discussed the de- tails and decided that in crder to pile on the agony properly there must be no solos or duets or set numbers of any kind, if possible they desired to £o one better than the late lamented Richard Wagner in the way of making the action continuous. *“La Navarraise,”” produced here for the first time last Thursday, was th§outcome of this confab. It is now nearly three years old, but up to‘date it holds the championship for getting more condensed agony into a given space of time than any other lyric drama. 1f “La Navarraise” is a fa.r sample of the trend of modern lyric drama 1t won't be a decade before stronger nerves are re- quired to attend the opera than to go to an axecution. At the latter function one, or at most two, men are whisked with painful suddenness into eternity, but in “‘La Navarraise” companies of gallant soldiers are wiped out wholesale with all the realism of actual warfare. It is la guerre, I'norrible guerre, in all its revolting hideousness that forms the theme of “La Navarraise.”” Wounded Idiers are brought in on stretchers hed in gore, the smoke of gunpowder hangs heavy over the stage and gets into the nostrils of the spectators, and the very air seems thick with carnage. Noth- ing recalls the grotesque parody warfare | the | of every-day melodrama, where wounded are so often made the butt of an unfeeling gallery. in “La Navarraise’ everything seems real; the battle is actually raging a few vards off, men are being shot down within hearing. Officers are giving sharp, short, decisive orders, suitable to the emerzency of the moment; dusty, begrimed stragglers come in from the retreat, exchanging fusillades with their pursuers, the wounded dragging themselves psinfully, all who are able to carry a musket fighting and shooting to the last gasp. The action is breathless in its rapidity, snd the orchestra adds the illusion of absolute realism by the s way in which it transcribes what is pass- ing on the stage. Divorced from its music, the libretto of *‘La Navarraise” might be grewsom® and | nothing else, but words and score together | form melodrama heaped on melodrama’s head in so realistic a way that the spec- tator starts and gasps with excitement. There is no time (o stop and analyze; the ear is filled with tone pic:ares and the eye with stage piciures so luridly and rapialy painted that in the illusion of the mament “La Navarraise” seems more fac' than fiction. Judged from a first hearinz, Massenet | bas not shown much melodic invention in his score—melody never was his strong point. The overture cpens with a strongly marked theme, as suggestive of disaster as the “knocking” motive in the first bars of Verdi's **Force of Destiny.” Before the overture is balf finished all semblance of theme is swamped in sounds as of a Fourth of July celebration or a grand ee of devils in Chinatown. It is the is repuising the royalists at close through avarraise” this din is re- newed, and though nervous peop! and pray alond that no stray bullets wiil come their way, the shooting adds m velously to tt seems to have been the composer’'s main object. A great deal of the vocal like recitative, th the music mizht r y The gem of the opera isthesongand chorus sung by Busta and the other sol diers—a lovely, characteristically Spanish melody, of the serenade kind, accom- panied by strings, touched pizzicato, and by the soft rhythmic clapping of the sol- diers’ hands. Enthusiastic applause would no doubt have grested this num- ber, but Massenet wrote ““La Navarraise on the “encores strictly prohibited’’ plan, 50 he rudely breaks into his lovely sere- nade by bugles sounding the order to march, and before one spectator has had time to clap his hands, hi, prestol tne soldiers are all in motion, and the cha nce for the encore fiend has gone forever. The musicin which Anita and Araquil recall how they first met and loved is | characteristically Spanish and sweet and melodious withal. No doubt Massenet intended 1t to represent an echo of the days when sweetness entered into the livesof these unhappy lover: No opera bailt on the *‘Cavalleria R ticana” plan would be compvlete without the intermezzo. It is as doom. Massenet's intermezzo is played as the ni:ht is supposed to pass and the soldiers are bivouac] round the camp- fire. There is any amouat of originality and considerable quaintness about this intermezzo, but Mascagni has no need to tremble for his laurels. Speuking person- I could not decide whether the inter- mezzo reminded me most of the Scotch bagpipes or a Chinese orchestra. is ‘very I2m almost tempted to go into extrava- gances over the way “La Navarraise” was acted, costumed and generaliy stage- managed. The worn, dirty uniforms and bicod-stained bandages, the pellmeil rush- | ing hitier an! thither and the martial bearing of soidiers and officers were all startlingiy realistic. 1 forgave the fact that the singing of the men was not up to the standard of the company, for the man- agement had put men cn who could act. ling | realism —and realism | core sounds inevitable as | gray twilight, which gave place to night again. In fact, the only possible explana- tion for the rapia alternstions of light | and darkness was that the electrician saw fit to modulate the glow according to the intensity of the emoticns expressed on the stage—the carker the passions the more funereal the gloom. Having seen Foedor in “La Navarraiss’’ I am now possessed of a burning desire to see what the besutiful Aimee Pa-cal would do as Anita. The curiosity to hear Pascal is quite widespread. Foedor says that Pascal cannot sing. Pascal declares that tie only hindrance to her singing is that Foedor will not give her a chance. *“The best way to decide the question is tolet us hear Pascal,’” said a French friend of | mine the other day, and he added aurait un grand succes de curiosite’— and you know a success of curiosity fills the man any other sort of success. | | | ‘ M. Jean Jules Samuel Barnard has | | | | achieved greatness and will godown to posterity side by side with Napoleon, Louis IX snd Charlemagne. ago Barnard was unknown to fame, to-day his name is on every tongue in Paris. This modern hero has not led a crusade against the Mosiems or won another Aus- | terlitz, but he has achieved a greater vic- | tory than Napoleon dreamed of—Jean | Jules Samuel | routed the theater hat from French soil. wave breaking over France lately. | papers have published columns of inter- views on the hat question. Male theater- goers, walled in benind big chapeauz, have | made anti-hat demonstrations? but all to no avail, for the hats were always with them in every part of the house, blotting out the stage and turning the joy of tbeater-going 1mto & delusion and a mockery. | | | | | | | One evening, when the anti-hat wave } was at its height, Barnard bought an or- | chestra ticket at the Athenee Comique to | see “Mme. Putiphar.”” taken his seat than he ‘realized that he might as well have gone to the Bois de Boulogne or any other semi-rural retreat, or his view consisted solely of a wilder: | ness of flowers, foliage and birds that | bristled in every direction from two | theater hats. Barnard did not call an usher and make a scene, he uttered no audible protest. He puton hisown ha | and awaited developments, | He had not long to wait, for aimost in- mediately there wers protestations and | cries of “chapeaul chapeau!” from all | sides. An usher approached and polilely \ begeed him to uncover, but Barnard re- | used, alleging that immediately in front f him were two ladies whose h. were much higher than his, and that they com- pletely hid the stage from hi usher insisted and menaced Bs a commissaire of police. When matters became so strained that a riot seemed im- minent Barnard withdrew to the box- office and asked the treasurer for his moaey back, the treasurer refused and another employe of the theater Barn went away. The epilogue to these incidents was that the director of the Athenee Comique received a citation to appear before a Justice of the Peace, at the request of M. Jean Jules Samuel Barnard. After summing up the facts in the case, the citation, robbed of its legal phraseology, reads something like this: There is no rdinance in France compelling men to ake off their hats in the theat Women’s hats, by their ridiculously exag- zerated dimensions, cause much more annoyance than any man’s hat could pos- | sibly do, and yet th: are tolerated in every part of the theater. The difference of sex does not suffice to exp!sin this in- equality in tolerating an abuse. Men | have more excuse for keeping on their hats than women, as they suffer more from baldness. In consequence M. Jean Jules Samuel Barnard demands the resti- tution of the 8 francs he expended for kLis seat, plus 24 francs damages for having been deprived of the pleasure of seeing the performance. | | | | The French press considers it a fore” | gone conclusion that Barnard will win his case, which means that he will establisn the fact that the Code Napoleon contains no article which prohibits the wearing of hats in theaters by men. Wiih the Bar- | nard precedent to sustain him s theater- goer eclipsed behind a big chapeau has a | simple remedy. He puts on his own hat |and immediately the performance is stopped Dy cries of “Chapean.’’ | By claiming equal rights for both sexes | Barnard is considered to have soived a problem that statesmen, philosophers, ment's coffers as quickly as | A month | Barnard has practically | There has been a great anti-theater hat | The | No sooner had he | after baving the refusal witnessed to by | Mme. Foedor sang splendidly as Anita, | thouzh the weakness of her low notes was | very apparent. If Foedor's voice were of | equal power throushout what a falcon | E—— she would be! Her sacting was whole- Baldwin Theater. souled and conscientious, but she does ot | “His Grace’ de Grammont,” the play possess the subtle, tragic power that|with which Otis Skinner will open his er. makes you feel cold chills in the region of | zagement at the Baldwin Thes your spine, as an ideal Anita should do— | row, is by Ciyde Fitch. still Foedor deserved the many curtain | of how the Chevaiier de Grammont dur- calls she received. | ing his exile from the court of Lonis XIV The only quarrel I had with the staging | of France, which he spent in England, of “La Navarraise” was the freakish way | Wooed and won, despite the most det light effects were managed. | Mined opposition on tne part of the Eng- ish King, the band of the most beautifal | woman of her time—Elizaveth Familton. | The scenery and dresses were fashioned aiter designs taken from paintings now st Hampton_Court, and are in every detail correct. Skinner will present *His Grace de Grammont” at every performance he supervisors, poets and journalists have grappled with for years in vain. MantE EVELT. be high noon, with & clear sun overhead, Anon a pitchy darkness came over the age, znd before many more bars had been played the dawn sppeared. The radiant morn was succeeded by a cool, ter to-mor- | It tells the story | will give during the first week of & gacement except on Saturday evening, when “Hamlet” wiil be presented. It was as Hamlet during the winter of 1896 that Skinner achisved the triumph of his career. Columbia “Theater. “For Fair Virginia,” a romantic play of | war times in the Old Dominion, by Buss Whytai, will be given at the Columbia Theater to-morrow night, with the author and his wife in prominent parts. This play { | | was originally produccd at the Fith | | Avenue Theater, New York, nearly two years ago, and nas since been continuonsly acted, except for the usual summer recess. 1t has been played in every section of the country except the Pa Coast, and had | the unusual fate fora piay dealing with the | Civil War of being equaliy successful with | the Northern and Soutbern audiences. The entire production is carried by the company, which contains tae names of several actors who are familiar to | theater-goers, among them being Mabel Bert, Frank Doane and John Woodard. Others in the company are George F. | Farren, John Borden and William Hopper. Grand Opera-House. " To-morrow’s vroduction will be *‘The Dago,” which has for its principal char- acter a villain known as *“The Dago,”” who kidnaps a little girl at the instance of the child's aunt. John J. Pierson plays the title role, and Baby Lewis will be the child heiress. An Irish policeman, Henry Lewellyn, and a tramp, Nat M. Wills, help 1o find the little one and circumvent the pl of the wicked aunt and her tools. ith Baby Lewis thev introduce songs and dances, as will also Irma Fitch. The strengtn of the stock company will appear, and a number of sensational effects are promised. Alcazar Theater. The latest success of Augustus Thomas, the author of ““Alabama,” “In Mizzoura,” etc., is entitled “New Blood’’ and it will be the bill at the Alcazar Theater to-mor- row. It is a problem piay dealing with the conflict of opinion between capital and Ibor and the solution of the social condi- tions which confront the world to-day. It was first produced in Chicago two years 2go and ran for eight weeks in the beight of summer. The entire Alcazar company will sppear in the play, which will be elaborately mounted, new scenery having | been painted for the production. The last performances of **‘The Strategists” will be given this afternoon and evening. At the Oberon. Herr Stark and his orchestra continue to draw large audiences. The new pro- gramme for to-morrow eveuing is as fol- lows: ic,” Keler Bela; waltz, »vici; gavotte, “Fondly Thine Own,” Jungman; selection from ““Iravista,” Ver “Ma Voisine,”” Waldteuiel; minuet (for string), Bocherini: violin solo, Herr Stark; march, Mendelssob; Ladrs,” Ro | nd pizzicato | polka from “Sylvia,” Delibes; ’celio solo, Herr | Weiss; waltz, ““Juristenbal Tanze,” Strauss; | “La Manola,"” Eilenberg; serenzde, Moszkow- | - aki; march, ““Die Bande Kommt,” Schild TJivoli Opera-House. To-morrow “The Merry Wives of Wind- sor” will give place to the operatic spec- tacular burlesque “Don Jusn ad Lib.” This work from the pen of John P. Wilson was originally produced at the Tivoli Opera-house in September, 1594, when it ran for over five weeks. It follows closely the o use of, the company is in the cast. songs, dances, topical eccentricities and quibs of humor will garnish the produc- tion as wel! as new scenery, eic. Two bal- lets, under the direction of Ida Wyatt, n- | adventures of Byron’s hero, but, as tha title indicates, many liberties have = been taken with the story of that erratic young 2 2 adventurer, whiie the Rhine legend of | prozramme this concert will begin at 3 “‘Lorgley” and the quaint old English bal- iad of *“Lord Bateman” have been made Ferris Hartman will appear in his orig'nal creation of Muley, a retired pirates’ majordomo, and the strength of The 1atest willlnlsobe features. In the second act AAIDEE 1N DON JUAM AT THE TIVOLI_ a grand special y scene will be introduced on board suip. At the Orpheum. Henry Lee, the artistic novelty, will continue to be one of the lealing stars at the Orpbeum this week. He will show a number of new characiers 10-morrow evening. and will give a special profes- sional matinee on Wednesday. Barnes and_Sission, styled “the singer and the maid,” will make their first San Francisco appearance. Galifornia Theater. For Tuesday night an elaborate produc- tion of Verdi's “‘Aida” is promised by the members of the French Opera Company. Another Verdi work, “Rigoletto,” is to be the Thursday night bill, and on that evening the opera will have the advantage of the fine barytone, Albers, in_the titie role of the hunchback. On Saturday night Halevy’s “La Juive” will be re- veated 1n response to a popular demand. The management announces s popular- price production of the pretty operetta, “‘Le Voyage de Suzette,” for Sunday even- ing mext, April 4 On Monday night, April 5, “William Teli” is to be sun, The opera has not been heard here for some time. The double bill of **Chalet’ and “I Pagliacci” is announced for Wednesday evening, April 7. These operas will be followed by “Hamlet,” “Carmen” and *‘La Favorita.” “Car- men’” will be given as the bill for the final matinee of the season on Saturday, April 10. At the Chutes. At the Chutes the open-air perform- ances given every afternoon and evening are proving very popular. The bill for the ensuing week will include the De Pue sisters. skirt dancers; the Marco brothers. comedy acrobats; the Joshinato troupe of Japanese contortionists and jugglers, and the animatoscope. James J. Corbett will give sparring ex- hibitions with John McVey this aiternoon and evening. The regular prices will pre- vail—10 cents for aduits and 5 cents for children. There will aiso be a balloon as- cension. % Musical Mention. Mme. Camilla Urso, the famous violin- iste, will give the first of her series of con- certs at Golden Gate Hall to-morrow evening. She will be assisted by her own company. The programme is as follows: Pisno solo, ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Lisat), George 1. Werlby: tener abia, from “Der Freischutz" (Weber), Edwin Douglass; Chanson Sarrazine (Victorien Jonciere), Miss rge H. Wesley; prano and tenor, “Charity” (Faure), Miss Me- thot and Mr. Douglass; violin solo. “‘Reverie” (Vieuxtemps), Madame Camilia Urso; songs, (s) “Du bist die Rubh” (Schuberf), (b “In Springtime” (Fesca), Edwin Douglass; songs, () “Sans Tol” (Wi Ha: lot), (b) “O Sorrow, O 8 ski), Min:ie Methot; violin solo,“The Wiiches’ Dance” (Peganini), Madame Camilla Urso. The fifth concert of the San Francisco Symphony Society will be given at.the Columbia Theater next Thursaay after- noon, April 1. Owing to thelength of the' o’clock sharp. It is to bé a festival of Wagner music. The programme, which embraces excerpts from six music dramas, is as follows: 2 Overture, “fannhauser,” orchestra; ntro- duction, Arla Elizabeth, “Dich, theure Haile"; introduction, recitation of Woliram, Eliza- beth’s Prayer, Song to the Evening Star; Elizabetn, Mathilde Wilde; Woliram, Jacod uller. “Lohengrin’’ — Prelude, orchestra; aet II— Elsa’s Prayer; invocation Ortrud, Elsa and Ortrud: 'Elss, Cecelia Adler Kees- ing; Orirud, Katherine Fleming Hinrich. “Siegfried” — Waldweben” (Murmuring Forest), orchestra. “Goiferdammerung” — *‘Gesang der Rhein- tochter” (Song of the Rhine Daughters), or- chestra., “Die Meistersinger”—“Preislie prize song); quintet—Eva, Mr . Keesing; Magdalen, Mrs. K. F. Hinrichs; Weiter, Rhys Thomas; 'David, Aiols Werner; Hans Sachs, Jacob Muller. “Dio Walkure” — “Wotan's Abschied und Feuerzauber” (Wotan’s Farewell and Fire Magic), orckestr ' (Walter's Gustav Hiprichs will deliver a lecture on the Wagner works, with illustrations at the piano, on Wednesday next at Golden Gate Hall upstairs at 3:30 o’clock. There will be no admission charged and all music-lovers will be welcome. Mme. Billoni-Zifferer will give s con- cert uuder distinguished patronage " at Golden Gate Hall on the 30th inst. The artists assisting Mme. Zifferer will be Miss Ernestine Goldmann, Nathan Lands- berger and L Martinez. Several novelties are promised for.the concert to be given by Mr. and Mrs. Ursumando next Thursday evening at the Association Auditorinm. At the next Ensemble concert the pro- gramme will be fuil of selections new to this City. It will take place on April 3 at the Association Auditorium. Mme. Thea Sanderini announces a con- cert at Golden Gate Hall on the evening of April 3. Dramatic Brevities. Sarah Bernhardt is arranging s grand bene- fit for the Cretans. “Called Back” isto be shortly produced at the Alcazar Theater. There will be no opera matinee at the Cali- fornia Theater next week. N. C. Goodwin is to play & return engage- ment at the Baldwin in May. The burlesque ‘‘Excelsior Jr.” comes to the Columbia the first week in May. For the week of April 5 Otis Skinner hasa new play called “A Soldier of Fortune” for presentation at the Baldwin Theater. Harry Benrimo, who has been seriously ill, makes his reappearance with the Alcezar com- Pany t0-morrow evening in “New Blood.” Two entirely new ballets have been prepared for “Don Juan” at the Tivoli. The Dance of the Mermaids is said to be & symphony in color. Following Otis Skinner at the Baldwin will appear Primrose & West’s minstrels. Charles Kent, the barytone, is a member of the com- pany’s vocal corps. For the farewell nightof the opera season arraugements are being made by the manage- ment of the California Theater ior the rendi- tion of a triple bill. It is understood that De Wolf Hopper and Sousa are to join forces next season, the ar- rangement cailing for the apperance of the great bandmasier and his band between the acts of the opers “El Capitan.” The four plays to be presented by the Ly- ceum Theater Company during its coming en- gagement at the Baldwinare “The Masflower,” “The First Gentleman of Europe,” “The Late Mr. Costel.o” and “Prisoner of Zenda.” In “An Unequal Match,” in which Miss Doro- thy L'hote makes her debut at the California Theater on Aprii 2, Lionel Clarx, Carl Smith, William Fenton, Charles Thornton, William Malloy, George Eyan and others will assist. Neil Burgess, the American comedian, with his racehorses and his wonderful racecourse machinery and scenery for “The County Fair,” has sailed from New York with a view to opening in Manchester, England, on April 12 for one month. Londou to follow. William Hawley, a young English actor who came to America with Wilson Barre:t, has been engaged as a member of the Alcazar company snd makes his first s, nce to- morrow evening in “New Blood.” Iu addition to being an actor Mr. Hawley is a clever wielder of the brush and his pictures sre well known in the East and in England. TIVOL! OPERA-HOUSZ MESEENXsTINZ KRELIN. Proprietor & Manage: —LAST TIMBE— The Merry Wives of Windsor! R T R A The Most Artistic Production of the Season. SEATS NOW ON SALE FOR To-Morrow Evening and All Next Week DON JUAN (AD LIB) ——A HODGE-PODGE OF—— MIRTH———MUSIC———DANCE. Popular Prices—-——25c and 50c¢ i, MATINEE (TO-DAY) SUNDAY. Parquet. any seat. Balcony, any seac. 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