The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. DECEMBER. 11, 1898. 29 anything really remarkable d sacred ¥ and dare the s of Oakle , where on Thu nted rship and acted u wil embe 1an presen of the posters thor and the proud type, to share in the gerial features of the lovely leading lady for > among the day illustratio the man- age with a vengeance. Why only yesterday I received a carefully typewritt document from the Alca- a ncing the new week's bill as . Pal Southern life from t gustus Thomas.” As Whistler would say, Why drag In Th M delineation pe Au- i Germany the au- ary publie- had to adventu hing really > unnovel an its follower in was bou on nkly play- con- 1y a night he y since that disas i people and i theat that rongest of | ir shows. that die ympared to, say, th 1ys and soda | a rs of the dran 'y do happen, e con- | T ugely | that | other ; 1 equal, v to put the craftsman of n with normal hu- e something nething above it. He dis- | his 1 serfo | -time audience’s fe. and superiority s On the other hand his person- 3 hich belongs more or less to I is perp lly the subject of nde 1quiry; and the modern the modern press agent r d on this to the last limit, tion. When they talked it over a little | would seize 'the manuscript out of his la it many players have grown | while later Rostand unfolded the plot | hands, and, before I knew it, find my- | egard it as a part of their legitimate | of “Cyrano.” Coquelin w a bit skep- self ac.ressin- imagirary audiences, | age actor has few |tical, but Rostand’s enthusiasm was | poker in hand in lieu of a sword, and, His pe chariti quar- | boundless and the play was started. with any hat that came to hand doing and scandals alike are the property “I found out later,” said Coquelin, | duty for the plumed headgear of our the pu You or I might be twice | “that Rostand had gone straight home | hero. Little by little, line upon line as noble and receive not a tenth of the | and worl for nearly twenty hours | the masterpiece grew under his ha.nds: praise that he does; twice as imprudengt ; without leaving the study, where his | My career as an actor has thrown me AMUSEMENTS. > Al THE LEGITIMATE IRISH COMEDIAN, A Play of Charming Motive. PATHOS AND COMEDY. PRICES - - - 15& 2_5@50, 50c and 75c¢. Next Play—‘O’'B " COLUMBIA | THREATER. { TO-NIGHT—LAST TIME, ; “GAYEST NEANHATTAN!”; MONDAY, DECEMBER 2. | MATINEE SATURDAY. A LC o AND HOE E OF Evergreen Success, HOYTS A PARLOR | | | | | | | | | | | | I EVANS GREAT GIGANTIC MASTODONIC MEGATHERIAN FEATURES. 9 9 THE BIGGEST AND BEST FARCE COMEDY OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED. \ up | Daly in his collaborations | writer sa IORRIA Beginning TO-NIGHT—First Time Here at Popular Prices | m. DANIEL SULLY AND A THOROUGHLY COMPETENT SUPPORT, Presenting the Latest Comedy Drama Success, * UNCLE BOB. | To-Day ana To-Ntgnt. | Birst Time Here of the Great Cofnedv-Drama, oo > o & P00 000000 Undignified Attitude of the Modern Manager AND ACTOR- nd not a tenth of the blame. To the odern actor all the world's a stage E I n the dead center of it; and he ac s this responsibility with phil- osophy. When the public cared less | ut the personal livesof players, th ik could do no wrong. But now | the modern press agent has put a pre- m n on the smallest folly of the actor. And I know from personal observation that many managers religiously believe that scan spells succe: Advertis- ing has become an established part of the player and there are plenty of will hands and tongues to do the work formeodest players. Reticentactors are seldom unaccompanied by broadly confidential press workers and man- agers. *Publicity is the watchword and publicity is as frequently nasty as nice. Thes not pretty facts, but they are facts nevertheless. It is hard to tell who is.to blame, the public, the press or the profession. haps all three are equally responsible. . . So wild, numerous and different have been the stories of how “Cyrano de Bergera find production—one t the play had been ar before it was. picked n in a second-hand book 1er that Rostand had offered vy manager in Paris before he nduced Coquelin to try it; an- up b stall; it'to eve at the ggestion of a famous e 7, 7/ &) urgent ough | critie, and so forth and so forih—that | of my bed, reading the result of his €enth | T am delighted to find that Eliot Greg- | labor, ory has interviewed Coquelin on the subject for the New Yorx Times. Mr. Eliot is a journalist of distinction and integrity, and although h account may not be quite as romantic as those which pictured the Rostand genius struggling in a garret and waiting the impatient years for readers and man- agers, it at least has the pra tical ad- vantage of being true. Coquelin and Rostand had long been friends. The actor recognized the poet's genius and several years ago promised to accept any play that his young friend might write and give it an immediate produc- | D00 OHOEGOOD PPOPP09000000000609® By Ashton Stevens. POOPOOPOOOO POCO000P90CO90000669 | wife had found him at daybreak, fast asleep with his head on a pile of manu- scripts. He was at my rooms the next day before I was up, sitting on the side \Juri1us PWiTMASH AT THE- SuLLy AT FHE. \- (ALFORNIA As the story unfolded itself I couid hardly ' contain..my ' satisfaction. His idea of putting the quaint interior of the, Hotel de ‘Bourgogne Theater on | the stage was most original,”and the baleony scene"even in outiine, enchant- ing.. After the reading Rostand dashed | off‘as he had come, and for many weeks | I saw no more of him.” Then --Cequelin described Rostand's return: “Seated by my bedside, if not actually on the coverlid, he would declaim ‘his lines- until, lit at his flame, I would jump out of bed, and, dressing-gown hastily around me, A Story Interesting to All A PERFECT PRODUCTION. wrapping my | AT THE CoroMBlA in with many forr:# of literary indus and dogged applivation,. but the power of sustained e.ioft and untiring, un- | lagging zeal possessed by that fragile youth surpassed anything I had 8eén. As ‘the ‘great work began taking 'form Rostand hired a place in the country | so-that no visitors or invitations might | tempt him away from his daily toil. Rich, young, handsome, married to a woman all Paris was admiring, with| every door social or bohemian wide ‘open‘before his birth and his talent, he | voluntarily shut himself up for over a year in a dismal suburb, allowing no | amusement to disturb his incessant | toil. “Mme. Rostand has since told me | | that at times she seriously feared for ‘his reason and his life; that he aver- | aged ten hours a day steady work, and | when the spell ‘was on him ‘would pass | night after night "at his study table rewriting, cutting, modelin~ his play, never contented, always striving after a more expressive adjective, a more harmonious or original rhyme, casting 1 T | N Ml e ) | v ) o A i ) MAUD GAGE. WAT THE CHUTES, aside a month’s finished work without a second thought when he judged that another form expressed his idea more perfectly. That no success is cheaply bought I have long known; my pro- fession above all others is calculated to teach us that truth. If Rostand’s play is the best this century has produced, and our greatest critics are unanimous in' pronouncing it equal, if not supe- rior, to Victor Hugo's crowning efforts, the young author has not stolen his laurels, but gained them leaf by leaf during the endless midnight hours of toil and brain wringing effort—a price that few in a generation would be will- ing or capable of giving for fame. Never, never have I lived through such an experience as the first night. Victor Hugo’s greatest triumph, the first night of ‘“Hernani,” was the only theatrical event that ecan compare to it, and that was injured by the en- mity of a clique who persistently hissed through the performance. There is but one phrase to express the enthusiasm at our first performance—une salle de- lire alone gives any idea of what took place. . .As the curtain fell on each suc- ceeding act the entire audience would rise to its feet shouting and cheering for ten minutes at a time. The coulisse and the dressing rooms were packed by the critics and the author’s friends, be- side themselves with delight. I was trembling so I could hardly get from one costume into another, and had to refuse my door to every one. Amid all | this confusion Rostand alone remained cool and seemed unconscious of his vic- tory. He continued quietly giving last recommendations to the figurants, over- seeing the setting of the scenes, thank- ing actors as they came off the stage he had shown during the rehearsals, | and finally when the play was over, and we had time to turn and look for him, our author had disappeared, having quietly driven off with his wife to their | house ‘in the country, from which he never moved for a week.” The Galifornia. Commencing to-night at the California | Theater Daniel Sully will present his new plece, which is a character drama, named “Uncle Bob.” The story tells of one Ro- bert Byrnes, who gives up home and. for- | | tune in order that his old comrade and business partner shall not discover the | dishonesty of his own san, young Good- | rich. Two love storles are intertwined with this plot,-and a- peculiar virtue of | the piece is, it is said, that the villain | does not appear until the last act and then | only to come home and be forgiven. The | piece calls for a number of vocal and in- strumental selections, which. will be..at- | tended. to. by the Rocky Gq! and a pianist. . Mr. Sully will.play; the part of Robert Byrnes (Uncle Bob), Which is s;xd to be well: fitted - to -his style o{i work. | The Golumbia. : Bright lines, a dozen new.vaudeville features, handsome costumes, thirty com- petent performers, pretty girls'and music | that sets your feet a-beating time, are | the promised elements of “A . Parlor | Match” revived, which commences at the | Columbia. The farce has been rewritten | and brought up to date, but it has not| lost any of its fun for all that. It {s this | poliey of continually adding new features, always brightening, ever changing to suit | the times that has made Evans and Hoey's famous vehicle outlive many others and has won a fortune for its owners and a | welcome from the public. It ‘has been | exactly fourteen years since-Hoyt's first | play piece first saw the light’of produc- | tion. "This year we' are promised a large and competent company. Among the per- | formers are many of the orlginal compa- ny. . Old Hoss” is played by Mark Sulli van, Philip H. Ryley, one of the b our younger comedians, is the inevitable | book agent, ar;g dainty Edith Hoyt is the | “Innocent A dozemn vaudeville features, includlnF Tom Browne; -the| whistler, the Olymple Quartet,. the Kingsley sisters, Eloise Mortimer, prima | donna soprano; the mysterious .cabinet and the great cake walk combine to make a performance that iéltters. The engage- ment is for two w The Alcazar. Augustus Thomas’ quaint and sympa- thetic play of Southern manners, ‘‘Ala- | bama,” will be the next week's bill at| the Alcazar. This same plece was first | played here at popu'ar prices by the Al- cazar Company a season or two ago. It was a success then and promises a profit- | able revival. Mr. Osbourne will have the splendid old man part created by E. J. Stoddard; Ernest Hoolings will be the | Captain Davenport, and Miss Gretchen Lyons the Southern heroine. The other | larger parts will be in good hands too. ?(I)]yl's “A Midnight Bell” is the piece to ollow. Morosco's. To-morrow evening a drama strange here, by Alma Earl and Willis Boyer, en- | titled “Temptation of Money,” will be | producéd at Morosco’s Grand Opera | House, with the most'special scenic effect. | Among the places to be represented Tngland; Madison Square Park, New | Yorl, and the electrocution chamber at | fing Bing. The play has a plot which il- | lustrates the crimes men commit to gan | possession of the almighty dollar. —id- | ward O'Connor, a comedian from the | with the same self-possessed urbanity | g | States: will be Carruthers Castle, North Devon, | Wi East. will make his first appearance, ani play Mike O'Regan. Marie Winson will | introduce several specialties as Kitty. | The balance of the cast is as follows: | Neille Carruthers, Lorena Atwood; Lady Waters, Gwendoline Vortex: Belle de Mar, Maude Miller; Janc; Ralph Walsh, James M. Broph Gilbert Carruthers, Max von Mitza] Ecgar Royal, Landers Stevens; Rasru | White, Fred J. Butler; Larry, George Nicholls; Jerry, Maurice Stewart. The | piece will be plentifully interspersed wiia | specialties, | a Sir The Orpheum. The Orpheum announces five new acts for this week. Of these the headliner is George Fuller Golden, who is said to be the prince of monologists, and whose stories of his friend Casey are said to be exceedingly funny. Julius P. Witmark is | looked to to furnish one of the most pleas- ing turns in a vocal way that has been AMUSEMENZIS. San WALTER ORPHEUM CO., Proprietors. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. |A GREAT NEW BILL OF ALL-NATIONSTARS Francisco, Cal., Estab. 1887 Los Angeles, Cal., Estab. 1894 Sacramento, Cai., Estab. 1897 Kansas élty, Mo., Estab. 1897 Important Engagement of the Trun;~A!l;r|Atlc Sr;r GEORGE FULLER G (CASEY’S FRIEND), THE PEER OF ALL MONOLOGISTS. OLDEN JULIUS P. America’s Sweetest Singer, in a Repqrtolre of Delightful Songs. WITMARK.... THE THREE ME _Famous Novelty Acrobats From the Winter Garden, Berlin. RKELL SISTERS MOROSCO'S GRAND WaLTsR Morosco, Sole Lessée and Manager. st Performances of | “BLACKLISTED.” | COMMENCING MONDAY, DEC. 12th, ! TEMPTATIO MONEY! BONGS, DANCES, MEDLEYS. A ROARING COMEDY. INDAY ..10¢, 25c and s0c PIANO RECITAL —=BY— Alice Beach McComas, CENTURY HALL, 1213 Sutter St., bet. Van Ness ave. and Polk st. | MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 12, 1898, At 8:15 O'Clock. Under the patronage of Mayor J. D. Phelan, Mrs. Wm, H. Mills, David Lubin, Irving M. Scott, 1. W. Hellman, Marco Heliman, H. N. Clement, Mrs Jas. Neall, Mrs. Marriner-Camp- bell, Miss Coolbrith, Mrs. W. A. Truesdale, Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs. Frank Sulllvan. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. S SATURDAY AND § ning Prices.. 4 FRANK LA MONDUE ‘“The Clown and the Clothesline.” Singing Comedienne and Acrobatic Dancer VIOLET DA ====MME. CAMILLA URSO-===- PAUL BATT rs ACROBATIC BEARS Greatest Animal Act Ever Seen at the Orpheum. "ARNESEN | _Famous Equilibrist. I BAKER, SELLERY & BARTLETT Bits of Comedy and Operatic Gems. MATINEE T0-DAY (Sunday), Dec, | t, any seat, 25c; Balcony 10c; Children 10c, any part. "h Parquel GLEN PARK, THE MISSION Z0O. SENSATION OF THE AGE! ing, Dashing, Thrilling Feat "7DAY, Dec. 11th, at 1:307. m. LEAP FROM THE| "OUDS, 300 tt. into al *t—By PROF, WILLIS, ABig Vandeville Bill in FRE: Ampkitheater! Admission Refreshments and Lugeh in Cafe. Take San Mateo Electric Cars. Valencia, Missfon, Sutter transter P. C. J. C. (INGLESIDE.) - HANDSOMEST RACETRACK IN AMERICA, Five or More Races Daily. DECEMBER ... veeen 2TH DECEMBER . <. 26TH ——WEDNESDAY—— THE PALACE HOTEL STAKE: 20— ENTRIES - 20 Trains leave Third-street station at 12:45 and 35 D, m. Round-trip tickets, 25c. Electrio cars on Mission and Kearny. streets every three minutes. ADMISSION. . . ...ONE DOLLAR. 8. N. ANDROUS, President. F. H. GREEN, Secretary. i AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY THEATER. “GOOD-BYE, OLE.” MATINEE TO-DAY—————NIGHT AT 8 Last Times of the Great Swedish Comedy Success, “OLE OLSON.” TO-MORROW (MONDAY), DEC. 12, MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, The Big Sensational Show, HARRY MARTELL'S Realistic Southern Pro- duction, Sable Soulful Singers. THE SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR! | The Only Show of Its Kind on Earth. ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE. WITHOUT A RIVAL. Gunny-Sacked Cotton Picking Chor- isters. Male and Female Afric-Hued Artists. EVENING PRICES. 1c, MATINEE PRICES. Dec. 19—Hoyt's “A BUNCH OF Monday, KEYS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mrs. Ernestine Kreling, Proprietor and Ms TO-NIGHT AT § SHARP—LAST TIME OF Edmond Rostand's Romantic Play, CYRANO DE BERGERAC! TO-MORROW EVENING —AND ALL THE WEEK— The Favorite Comic Opera, “THE MASCOT!” THREE PRIMA DONNAS IN THE CAST. ERS—LICHT, WILLIAM PRUETTE te BIEPO, C0X" Three Comedians in the Cast, STEVENS—BRANSON—WEST. Popular Prices..........c........ A Reserved Seat for the Matin Our Telephone, Bush §. INGLESIDE COURSING PARK TO-DAY! TO-DAY! OPEN STAKE. ....ALL THE.... Crack Greyhounds! ‘and ‘it will land Take, a Mission-street car you at the gates. : ADMISSION, 25c. LADIES FREE. AMUSEMENTS. ALCAZAR THEATER. THIS | THE PRIVATE SECRETARY | SUNDA —AND— | NIGHT. |KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. To-Morrow (Monday) Night | The Idyllic American Drama, ALABAMA! A Story in Poetry of Southern Life. sices. 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50c. PRICES. SEATS BY PHONE-MAIN 254 ...OLYMPIA... Eddy St., Cor. Mason. Ameriea’s Most Beautiful Music Hall u0RE NEW STAR ATTRACTIONS me CONCHITA GRE SINGING COMEDIENNE AND DANCER. FORMAN & HOWELETT, Banjoists. FREDA, Turkish Daneer. EMILY | CHIEDLE, Australian Aerialist. ...AAD TEN GREAT ACTS... ADMISSION FREE. MATINEE TO-DAY. CHUTES AND 700! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NEW BILL IN TEFREE THEATER. MARCO BROS., Contortionists; THE STAN- | LEYS, in_“Mrs. O'Grady’s Wash Day”; FLO GLADSON, in Coon Soi KELLEY_ AND VIOLETTE, Soclety Sketch Artists: MAUD GAGE, Whistler; OMNE, Japanese x!;ady Ma- giclan; ““THE ASTRONOMER'S M, and ENDLESS NOVELTIES SEE “JOE STORMS JR." 'SALLY"” and “'CONGO. Every Thursday—AMATEUR NIGHT, 10c, including Zoo-and_Theater; Children, 5e; Sundays and Holidays, 10c. SUTRO BATHS. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, AT 2:30 P. M., SWIMMING RACES FOR VALUABLE PRIZES. AND OPEN DAILY FROM Bathing from 7 8. m. to 5 p. m. Mrs. McMahon, Julia | & heard in the Orpheum. The Merkel sis- ters, acrobats, have been brought from Berlin for the Orpheum circuit.. Frank La Mondue will furnish the comedy act as “The Clown With the Clothesline.” Violet Dale is an acrobatic dancer, and said to be as clever as she is pretty. The hold- overs include Camilla_Urso, who appears In a new repertoire; Paul ty's bed and Baker, Sellery and Bartletf, com ans. The Tivoli. On .Monday evening, after two weeks’ Tun of serious drama, the Tiveli returns once more to its own special line of busi- néss with a sumptuous revival of Aud- r: ascot.”” - The piece will be cast to the full strength of the company: Edwin Stevens will appear in his favorite role of Prince Lorenzo, and Annfe Myers will be.Bettina, the good-luck maiden.. Wil- liam Pruette plays Pippo, the shepherd; Ivia Crox, Prince Frederick, and Anna ter, the Pri After one week of “The Mascot,” comes the big spectacular production, “The Yellow Dwarf.” New Gomedy. Harry Martell’s “South Before the War" and cinematographic reproduction of “The Passion Play” will entertain the patrons of the Comedy Theater this weex. There will be all sorts of realistic darky effects — dancing, banjoing, singing, a { man with a big mouth, a human frog. a lively cakewalk and a brass band, to say nothing of the continuous picture of ne- gro life. The GhuTes. There will be almost a complete change at the Chut Free Theater next -week, only Maud Gage, the whistler, and Omne, the Japanese woman magician, being re- tained. Marco brothers, contortionists; the Stanleys, in their original Irish crea- tion, *‘Mrs. O'Grady’'s Wash D: ence Gl John Williams, ba The Olympia The Olympia Music Hall has a strong dson, singer of coon songs, ytone, will be new. | card in Conchita, who is well known to Others are Freada the theater-goers of this ¢ Forman and_Howlett, banjoists, and others. Matinee to-day. S\_m\phjr\g Concert. The third concert of the season will take place at the Orpheum on Thursday afternoon next at 3:15. The principal item in the programme is Beethoven's great “Pastoral” symphony. In this work the composer depicts the varied scenes of country life, and he has given the follow- ing indications of his meaning: First movement, the cheerful impressions ex- cited on arriving in the country; second movement, by the brook; third movement, peasants’ merrymaking; fourth movement, thunderstorm; fifth movement, the shep- herds' song of thanksgiving after the storm. In addition to the symphony the pros gramme includes Schumann’s celebrated ‘Genoveva'' overture; ovement from Hoffmann's “Friethj symphony; an adagio from one of Hady ring quar- | tets and a fantastie by Moussorgsky, en- titled, “Une Nuit sur le Mente ave'” (Walpurgisnacht), which will be heard for the first time in this ¢ Syle on the Drama. William R. Jenkins of New York has just published a little book entitled, “Es< E in Dramatic Criticism. with Impres= * It is writs ten by L. Du Pont Syle, assistant profes= sor in English literature .n the University of California and dramatic critic of the Sunday. Examiner, and contains a pains- taking study of “The Influence of Moliera Upon Sheridan and Congreve,” and sev- eral shorter essays and some dozen no= tices of plays that have been presented in San Francisco thin the last year or so. The Moliere essay is new; but for a few changes the rest of the book has appeared in the Examiner. “We are just begin- ning,”’ says Mr. Syle, by way of introduc- ion, “to-have a drama in the United the ‘Impressions,’ recorded in the second part of this little book, are an at- tempt to preserve material that may (or may not) be useful to the future historian of that drama.” Whether Mr. Syle’s local notices of “Robin: Hood," *‘Shall. We Forgive Her?" “The Geisha,” “Trilby,” and so forth will be of use to the future historian, is a So far the only American critic o has succeeded in making readabls books of his newspaper criticisms is Wil- llam Winter—and Mr. Winter has weeded carefully, selecting only plays and actors really worth remembering. In’ France Mr. Sarcey has refused to have his dramatic reviews republished in book form. In London Bernard Shaw has done the same. They agree that such work has a place in journalism, but not in literature. However, Mr. Syle's ‘‘Moliere’ tudy is carefully prepared and full of valuable fact, and several of the shorter s will bear reading; but the “Im- pressions” are at best cuttings from yes- terday’s newspapers, question. ‘THE OUTER WORLD. Gomment and News of Distant Plays and Players. It has remained for a writer on dra- matic subjects in that highly literary | periodical, the Bookman, to bring to light the fact that Oscar Wilde's new play is being acted to-day in America. Says he: “We chronicled a year or more ago an epigram of Oscar Wilde's to the effect that the first and most important rule for one who would live as do the thor- oughly enlightened, was this: ‘Never go to see a play by Henry Arthur Jones. Now comes the curious rumor that ‘The Liars,” ‘which_has been running so suc- cessfully at W ck’'s, with Mr. Jones name upon the play bill, was in reality written by Mr. Wilde. For obvious rea- sons. Mr. Wilde could not just now get any play of his accepted by an Anglo- Saxon manager, and so they say he ar- ranged for Mr. Jones to do some work upon ‘The Liars' and thus make it possi- ble for him to father it as his own. We do not vouch for the truth of this report, but it is certainly an Interesting one. It is a perfectly —moral lay in its intention, but its morality is not precisely of the brand that one asso- ciates with the name of Mr. Jones. Onm the other hand, it is full of epigram, though this is hardly up to the epigram- matic standard of Mr. Wilde's acknowl- edged work. So we do not express any opinion of our own, but merely say that if the story is true then time has brought to Mr. Jones a very real revenge upon the Neo-Greek who once despised him.” Pinero's ‘“Trelawney of the Wells," which ran the best part of last season in London, has received its production in America at the Lyceum Theater, New York, being presented by the Lyceum Company, under the management of Dan- jel Frohman. It was pronounced a de- cided success, and the prediction is freely offered that it will last the balance of the season in the metropolis. ' ‘Within a brief period—hardly more than a year—the American stage has lost Coul- dock, Mrs. John Drew, Thomas. Keene, Joseph Proctor, Thomas Whiffen, Joseph ‘W. Shannon, Charles T. Parsloe, W. J. Scanlon, John Wild, Harry Meredith, Charlotté Thompson, Margaret Mather, Carrie Turner and others who adorned it. The deaths of these actors sum up a great public loss, but the loss to. the profession is_even greater, for among those who have departed are artists whose werk was an education to the ris- ing generation of players who must in time take their places. li(ascagnl's Japanese opera, “Irls,” was produced in Rome. Italy, last Tuesday night and triumphed. BASEBALL! RECREATION PARK. TO-DAY ar2:15 P. M, NATIONAL LEAGUE STARS. WATSON VILLE ATHLETICS. _ ROSENTHAL L3 METROPOLITAN TEMPLE, EVENING DEC. 29 & AFTERNOON DEC, &L