The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1900, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1900. . 30 > —_— s | r A CONSIDERATION OF | 1 pe 5 Eantacti 2 | Rostand’s «“The Fantasticks. - 5 - -+ | Furious combat between Percinet and tofore been unfortunate ¥ Straforel, who falle (apparently) desper- transiators. Mr. Charles Re ately wounded. Rescue of Sylvette by \dering of La Princess | Percinet, hurried entrance of alarmed ® 1. gives the thought | fathers, explanations, reconciliations and fairly well far from poetical in | tableau, with Straforel recovered suf- expressior rious stage versions | ficiently to present his bill to Bergamin. of Cyrano re written in a The second act reveals the wall re- ¢ most recently t earliest written play, “The New York), has M gquate translator in rge Fleming. He cheap trick of put- ine into English e into ten-sylla- them blank vers (Russe f Mr. Iy repro- 1 M Fantasticks laid where stumes are pre scarce chaeological a bright- burnished propriate characters. (these to se Bergamin enemier, By t beside their and Julict me romanti e. from ¥ the gallant his but hap- hate be the fan- oting in a ran evei ks admir- adds fuel only the ad- . v r without & moon, nlight is dear and always in demand. ¥ dwells pariy upon an abduc- ke As you As extras. With first afts to summon his the stage, re- » Sylvette, ap- exquisite little of nothing poorer son’s “'Princess. aking, hail the dark by fiery spark; ng, crescent bark, eweis of the skiea! therwise saw Her rise, for my lays h her childish ways pped, chlld the New Light stars in heaven shining, d my poor divining, be reft and pining . nr > twilight's bars, appear above the garden's vapors. eyes, your ineffective tapers and their self-condemned w Poor » Etraforel and his men ealous stars! They seize ed English only | " | hear a conversation of high-wrought sen- fashion, round her | and place her in a sedan chalr. | moved, symbolizing the unification of the | two families. Rut it is only when divided , by this wall that the two old men can stand securely: united they fall—out. Having the unstinted privilege of each | other’s soclety, of this society they soon grow tired; having no difficulties, either real or imaginary, to overcome, they use up their superfluous energy in studying | each other’s faults. This leads to a furious quarrel. When in this mood they over- timentality between the lovers. Percinet vaunts his prowess in the duel and joins in mutual congratulations with Sylvette upon their taking rank with the immortal band of lovers—Romeo and Juliet, Thisbe and Pyramus, Armnita and her shepherd, Petrarch and Lama. Not content '\’|thv this, the young people poke fun at their | | unsantimental parents; Sylvette, adoring. declares that her Percinet's father is like a tame duck who ha= hatched an eagle's ¢gE. At this Bergamin is €0 enraged that he blurts out the secret of the Ordered Adventure. Syivette doubts; Bergamin rroduces Straforel’s bill. Percinet, too, is told the tiuth. SYLVETTE. (With cencentrated rage) » + + + Oh it was all disaster! Our poetry was sham: and, as soap bubbles rise, And shine, and glow, and burst before poor children’s eves. So are we left abashed and clutching soapy 5 PERCINET. O great dead Loves—great loves—whose fame we mought to share! whom 1 copled; She whose trailing dress O noble Lovelinese! You Was Sylvia’s mantle once. Pale, great Immortals! We are less than raught You gave your royal loves, but ours SYLVETTE. (Interrupting.) Was taxed and bright! Strafore! chodses thie happy moment again to preseat his biil. Percinet, en- raged, attacks him, but is easily beaten off. The unlucky sentimentalist then 1ushes off, declaring that he leaves home “to drink and dice and brawl until the whole world stare.” Straforel again pre- sents his bill to Bergamin, again has it re- ject~d and decides that the only way he can get it paid ie by trying to bring about the reconciliation of the lovers. With this faint gleam of hope for poor Syivette the second act closes. The third act contains but one scene of | importance, but that is the best in the play. It might be entitied “A Cure For Fantasticism.”” Straforel, disguised as a marquis, makes violent love to Sylvette. STRAFOREL. | Say, eweetheart, shall we fly where winds and storms are free? When on our naked heads the wild rains beat— SLLVETTE (Alarmed). STRAFOREL. The pathe of sin are red from bleeeding feet. SYLVBETTE (Piteously). sirt | SETAFOREL. In unknown lande, far from all human ken, We'll live In love content, dressed like two beggar-men. SYLVETTE But (Startled). | But why? STAFOREL (Proudly). |1 have no gold. (Scornfully) You would not have me rich! SYLVETTE (Doubtfully). 5 STAFOREL (Patronizingly). “Love me for myself. 1 know. Don’t blush, sweet witch! (Deciaiming) Once thers, we'll live on crusts— crusts soaked in lovers' tears. SYLVETTE (Horrifled). My lord—! STAFOREL. We'll live alone and all forgot for years. SYLVETTE (Protesting). But 1— STAFOREL, Not in a house. No; we shall find content in simpler things than that. I'll love you in a tent SYLVETTE. | A tent! STAFOREL. Ropes, canvas, tent poles, six or seven, (Declaiming) The only bars between us and high heaven: { SYLVETTE (Aghast). Wrat have 1 done? | Scarce needs to say the cure is effective. Percinet returns, sadder, poorer and wiser, and Sylvette is glad to see him. & sce WL . This very imperfect sketch cannot pre- tend to give the atmosphere of “The Fan- tasticks.” Those who delight in delicate | psychology and in charming poetry should | read the play for themselves. These quali- | ties more than atone for the conditions of dramatic construction due to the author’s youth and inexperience. PERSONAL MENTION. | b, o2, 2rgiments, and they ropurden Colonel J. R. Berry of Los Angeles is at D Ceiifornia « = Casedy, banker of Yreka, is at Smith of Livermore is at the od, a Bakersfield is oil man, Angeles insurance m is at the Grand Dr R. Ward of the United States na s he Occiden J. H vereux, a 7 Colorado mining man, is at “he F Isadore B. Dockwieler, s Los Angeles attcrney, is registered at the Grand. State Bank Commissioner John Markley of Gevserville is registered at the Lick. C. J. Stewart, a Washiugton fruit com- missicn merchant, is registered at the Russ. A. P. Stewart of the Chicago and Alton Rallway is among the late arrivals at the Occidental 8. H. Babeock, traffic manager of the Ric Grande at Salt L Georze W. Heintz, general passenger agent of the Rio Grande at Salt Lake; F W. Thomp- son. general agent of the passenger de- ment, and J. M. Crowiey, general ent of the freight department of the same road in this city, left last night in & special car for Los Angeles, where they wili epend a week. CHANCE TO SMILE. Fair Helen—1 hear you have a secret. 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Sesetessessbon s s e et ennnnn ooh e s stnn b s tuissasitinns s oo snabeon shwshasensssess DECEMBER 16, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e e USSR Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Managet. .- .- Market and Third, San Francisco | sleepers and obeervation cars on the fastest | @nd finest trains in the West. Through tourist | sigeping car San Franciseo to St Paul every ‘l Wednesday evening. This car is elegantly up- | hoistered in dark-green library leather, has 10 sections, double windows, steel platforms, ven- | tilation perfect, all appointments equal to & | first-clase hotel. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt. | Xorthern Pacific Ry.. 638 Market st., San Fran- sco. - i | Henry Miller Says “It Is the Only i | Way.” ? | The traveling public says “‘the only way” is the “Overland Limited,” leaving San Francisco | daily at 10 a. m. via Central Pacific, Union Pa- cific and Chicago and Northwestern rallways and running through to Chicago without in less than three days. Only four days to New R change York or Boston. ! Guillet's ice cream, mocha, camel pistache, } chocolate cakes. usum.,pm“:m.. ." FRANCE AND THE TREATY. HE late Senator Davis left on record the statement that his antendment to the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty, which the Senate has adopted, was copied after the English section™of the treaty of Constantinople, under which the Suez canal was built. 3 That canal was a shorter route between Great Britain and her Indian possessions, and she put in the treaty the provision which her interests required. 1t may well be argued that she is estopped from objecting to the appearance of a like principle in the treaty affecting our isthmian canal. There may be reasons on our side, however, which go against importing the principles of a European treaty into our policy. It may prove to have been better had we insisted upon the ab- solute neutrality of the canal. The Suez canal is in territory alien to England as the Nicaragua canal is in territory alien to us, By transferring to it the principle of the trgaty of Constantino- ple we admit the right of a nation to apply that principle to any canal in alien territory where the circumstances of national interest are the same. France evidently sees this, and sees in it re- vival of interest in the Panama canal. That route is a shorter way between France and her pos- sessions in the Pacific Ocean. With our canal fortified and garrisoned, she will have no rights to its use in a time of stress and strife unless we choose to concede them. Therefore, she has a rea- son for using her concession on the Panama route and applying to her canal the principles of the treaty of Constantinople. As Germany, Russia and Portugal all have Pacific possessions, affected by the same neces- sity for a short water route, France might easily lead a European. concert in constructing the Panama canal under the principles of the treaty of Constantinople. Then the situation would be reversed. As England is now regarded as estopped from objecting to a provision which she originated, we would be equally estopped from objecting to its extension to the Panama canal. The Monroe doctrine would hardly Kgin\'olved and the outcome might be the digging and opera- tion of two canals instead of one, and what selfish advantage we would gain by failure to neutral- ize our canal would be lost by the building of a rival waterway. THE MERCHANTS' SYMPOSIUM. MONG the benefits for which San Francisco is indebted to the Merchants’ Association may be included the debate at the recent annual banquet on “Municipal Ownership and Opera- tion of Public Utilities.” The discussion of the evening furnishes the people of the city with most valuable instruct:on concerning an issue which is now one of practical politics, and it is therefore gratifving thar the association has published in the current number of the Review all the speeches in full, so that they are now available for reading and study by all who take an ‘earnest interest in the question. Tt is to be noted that the subject is presented not only from both sides, for and against mu- nicipal ownership, but also from the different standpoints of practice and of theory. Thus in a comparatively brief space the reader will have the benefit of something like a comprehensive pre- sentation of the whole subject. The editor of the Review directs attention to the fact that alf’the speakers of the eyening, despite their differences upon the main question, agreed that a good and honest civil service sys- tem “is absolutely essential to successful public ownership; that municipal operation of any pub- lic utility without the merit system is doomed to inevitable failure; that it is the essence of folly to imagine that water works or lighting plants can be honestly and economically conducted by 2 municipality dpminated by the spoils system of party politics.” The recent scandals disclosing the lax if nét corrupt methods by which the civil service is conducted in this city under the present administration .ren-ders this point of agreement among the speakers at the symposium a matter of no little significance. With all questions involved in the general one of municipal ownership and operation of public utilities the voters of San Fran- eisco will soofier or later have to deal; and it will therefore be well for them to give heed to this pne truth which the debate at the banquet appears to have established beyond controversy. THE PORTO RICANS. OME time ago Mr. Alexander, a Hawaiian sugar planter, visited Porto Rico to invéstigate the possibility of transferring laborers from that island to the sugar plantations of Maui. He was reported as finding the project feasible. . As a result a number of Porto Ricans were willing to try the experfment and started to their new employment. A morning journal met them this side the California line and by repre- senting that they were going into association and perhaps into slavery with the Chinése induced a large number of them to desert in this city. Thereupon it uses them as an advertising facility and appeals for charity for them, intending to be the almoper of what others donate. The Call knows nothing further about these people or the employment they were to en- ter than the public knows. They were being well cared for en toute, and there is no reason for doubting that they would have been well treated on their arrival in Hawaii. The people of this city owe it to the false representations of the Examiner that a large number of them are left here, to burden us by a demand for charity or congest our labor market by a demand for work It was a splendid opportunity for yellow journalism, and was duly improved. In discussing ways and means to bring about a reform in New York society, Bishop Pot- ter says: ‘“What would be the effect if a company of men and women of recognized leadership should bind themselves together to illustrate in their habit of life simplicity of attire, inexpensive- ness in their dwellings; and should further bind themselves to discourage the habit of excessive accumulation.” The answer to the question is easy. Those leaders would be lost from the swim after the first season and nobody would pay enough attention to them to notice what they were teaching. As a matter of fact, the Bishop can find plenty of such people in every city a.nv':l town in the country. - At a recent banquet of the St. Nicholas Society in New York Mark Twain said: “Gen- tlemen, you have the best municipal government in the wor'd and the purest and most fragrant. The very angels envy you and wish they could establish a government like it in heaven. You got it by a noble fidelity to civic duty.” Of course the banqueters laughed, for everything Mark says goes as a joke, but on reading the thing over next morning they were inclined to think him sarcastic, and now they wish to know what he meant by making such a speech on an occasion designed strictly for the joy ot self-laudation. P 0 A strong effort is to be made at this session of Congress to procure the enactment of leg- islation forbidding the careless use of the national flag. ~Laws to that effect have been enacted by several of the States, but none by the nation, and it is certainly time to remedy the defect. The symbol of the nation’s glory should never be used for ignobie purposes; and as President McKin- ley has said, “Those who seek to divert the flag from its sacred uses should be restrained by public law.” i 7 Bear in mind that of all kinds of holiday novelties none will be more novel in the East, nor more welcome, than those of California production. Help your State and please your friends by patronizing home industries. o P so e amsanal Berkelley’s dream of architectural glory in her university is at last to be realized. This is one of !he triumphs which becomes the pride of no locality but of the State at large. = The miner who has obtained\a judgment of $6000 against a transportation com; for neglecting to land him at Dawson must feel like the fellow who was paid to be lucky. o TR B0, St ; The business motto of the coming week will be: Shop early and avoid the rush. BY BLANCHE A DISSERTATION ON Nordal’s Musical Heresigs. | PARTINGTON. ‘ — IPLING has somewhere said that the only art still unexploited by the sixpenny manual is the art military, that for a silver sixpence everything else from ‘“How to Be Happy Though Married” 10 “How to.Live on Three Cents a Day. may be learned or unlearned, from A to Z! He might have added that the afore- sald omission was possibly less a compli- ment to the complexity of the art than a thrifty recognition of the universal civil- ian conviction that, if there is one thing easier than anotner, it is to fight battles. There are other arts, too. Though m\{sk' cannot boast of a distinguished omission from Kipling's * " of wis- ayman regards the art same patronizing stand- | point as from which the civilian| | eritic regards affairs military. is, not even the profoundest rance of its elements, not the physical incompetency for its appreciation, not even the utmost lack of sympathy with its ideals and purposes, | will deter him, if he so choose, from de- | livering an ovinion on the subject, which he expects shall be taken seriously by a | waiting world. Nay further. Music | the only art of which entire ignorance is | often professed with a certain pride, and may be thus professed without shame in | cur curious clvilization. it is the only | physical incapacity, to say naught of an | Inteliectual "and emotional lack, upon which civilized man is ever known to R"de himself, from him who proudly ac- nowledges that he cannot ‘“tell one tune from another,” to him who more reason- ably but as’ little reverently cries his| color, the later revelations of the inner +| #pirit of harmony. It is unusual, for example, complacently | to challenge attention to one’s own astig- | matic_eyesight, to point with pride to a nose impervious to the violet's, perfumed | charm, to advertise a cheek insensate to | the touch of tiny finge:s or even to own | a lack of capacity for the appreciation of i an olive; but as to tone deafness, that is another story. Even of the chief execu- tive of the nation it has been )uylulle’ told that his musical boast was a knowl- edge of two tunes only; ‘“‘one was ‘Yan- kee Doodlel and the other wasn't.” An old joke, true and threadbare, but with | a point vastly different from its accepted significance. Kings and rulers of the Old World, rep- resentatives of that bete noire of Ameri- can democracy, the “effete monarchy, in spite of admittedly heroic sins of all sorts, nevertheless have been and still are patrons of the thing beautiful as it is ksiown to us. It has always been the fashion among them to affect interest in the arts, even if such interest has been backed by no real love or knowledf, purely from a valuable conviction of the importance of these things to the higher well “being of their people, and a_perhaps only half-conscious recognition that only !through such means could themselves, their reigns, their countries gain any lasting historical significance. Even Nero | fiddled, it will be remembered—and re- | membered, I warrant, more widely than | any other known fact of his tyrant reign. | It is true the ages have also registered | the periodic grunt of tone-deaf philoso- | phers, whose pathetic deprivation has | called forth such fleeting description as “music, the most expensive of nolses, | and the like. But it has been reserved for to-day to produce such lasting monu- | ment to an author’s, musical incapacity as is ventured unashamed in “Degenera- i and, for the matter of that, in 1 - 7" also. | With Tolstoi there is no immediate con- | cern, but the Wagnerian gospel, accord- | ing to Nordau, has appeared in these col- j umns within the week and under no less | distinguished patronage than that of my | esteemea_friend and collaborateur, Pro- | fessor Syle. Professor Syle’s personal at- titude in the matter is eminently modest. . Pretending no familiarity with the art | musical, he has contented himself where | opportunity for composite criticism oc- | curred, with dealing only with the dra- matic verities. In the particular instance of the music- | drama, however, he has permitted him- | self a mistaken belief in the better judg- ment of the German savant, and has thus afforded Nordau yet another opportunity | for the promulgation of his musical | heresies. Not that it matters much here, | as any Wagnerite may comfortably say after the reception accorded to the | “Ring"” during the late' Grau season, byt heresies they are, and as such irritating in their prominence. e & Nordau is a plausible wretch. He cries i no complimentary charge of unorthodoxy j against Wagner, fully aware that the heterodoxy of to-day is to-morrow’s orthedoxy and the later day’s tradition. He prefers, instead, the subtler charge of | atavism, Wagner posing throughout his argument as the model for the musical degenerate. “No music of the future is thie,” \he says, but a return to outworn forms, a retrogression, a mere retravel- ing of an ancient path, with¥the typical atayistic delusion of its novelty. His chlef definite accusations against the master are: His alleged ‘“‘confusion of the means of expression”; his “ignor- ance of what is possible to h art”; his “indefiniteness of thought and feeling. as typified in the “‘unending melo:av * and a barren mysticism, as exemplified In the “leit-motif.” As to the first, Wagner's credo, as I take it, is briefly this: Each art has its possibliities, its limitations: no art is therefore perfect in itself; but it is possi- ble to combine all the meane of art ex- ression into one perfect whole. Written Poetry, appealing only to the eve, is rela- | tively barren. Add Tone-—musical speech— | and there is one joy gained. Again add the Dance, by which Wagner understands graceful action, the “poetry of motion,” and your perfect art is one step nearer | | its goal. stly, to Poetry, Music, Ac- | tion add the scenic art, and in Painting | you have the final appeal to the spirit | and sense. The crucial difficulty is now. | of course, the maintenance of the balance between the several arts, and further ihe right apportionment to each of its own eculiar_function. Right here it is that ordau “claims the essential failure of | Wagner's art, his “confusion of all the | means of expression.”” Right here also 1 claim the essential Impertinence of the unmusical philcsopher in attempting to | define the possibilities and limitations of an art of which his every written line shows him lamentably ignorant. with him who regretted his inability to furnish brains for the understanding of Ms phi- losophy Wagner might well lament the impossibility of furnishing ears for the | hearing of his worik! | "Nordau alleges Wagner's use of music to express that which has been and may | be better expressed by poetry. What may or may not be expressed by music is stiil largely an unknown quantity. Queer tales are told of its power of suggestion and a definite suggestion at that. A deaf-mute | suddenly restored to hearing describes the plare of trumpets as “‘scarlet.” Musi- clans frequently claim that each nate suggests to them a definite color and in- stances of like kind can be indetinitely multiplied. But Wagner claims no such power for his medium. . As to definite concrete form. none krew better than Wagner the ineptitule of mu- sic to express that, and at no time has he ever claimed the possibilit usic can- not say “This is a sword," s Nordau. No one said it could, but music, even to i in a regimen: “leit-motif™ the hero's and intensify the u{lo:.nlntt its gifted hat a key to the otherwise 5 | pherable hie: lyphics ot the Leit- Mottt | scheme™ is ntial 1o the enjoyment of | the W gnerian o{;erl is another delusion and a snare, a fallacy perpetuated by the vietims of the handbook habit for the benefit of that ‘nnumerable crowd of little men who shriek themselves into prom- inence over a great man’s shoulder, No further than the usual modest acquaint- ance with the libretto is required for the musie-drama’s understanding. e leit- motif Is always there. faithful handmatd- en of the dominant suggestion or charac- teristic of the moment, and serving fur- ther the purpose of that essential feature of repetition without which music is an inartistic chaos; but a knowledge of its name i no more necessary than the knowledge of the name of a picture should necessary to its enjoyment. If the Jeit- motif fail to tell its own emotional sto; to suggest its Mq‘yhte-dd al 24 ‘:Mgel?wfi ¥hohave me.nl“ . 0 ve st e 5 m btfnl had wh ends, it l: an outl for that undercurrent—and over. current—of emotion which never other- 1t: hear i } blindness to the new day's harvest of tone | ¢ | wise finds expression, the voice of the sub-consciousness and super-conscious- a_commonplace of the sphy, and in his wholly on of this lies the chiet ness: in =hort, i Wagnerian philo adequate recogn strength of the German master. Wagner holds that by no other method than the “unending melodw’ so called can a complete musical picture be pre- sented. To the voice in the music-drama is only allotted that which naturally finds speech in any circumstance; to the orchestra s | assigned the task—inherently “unending f foreshadowing, defining and suggestion of the as is acoustically physical atmosph the orchestral of the old Greek 1 clusion of its melody can come sirable. the then, being s end, for to these things is no end but only continual change. They are the background of ihe picture. and upon them the singer paints the high iights of his emotion. His melody also consistently and logically lacks the formal cadence ex- cept where such is demanded by the musi- cal and dramatic exigencies hly gains thereby in true definiteness the ear sophisticated by the rise and fall of older mel demands its little cadence in spite of every viola- tion of dramatic semse. The raison d’etre of the older melody form is not sei- dom found in the famed high C of one singer, the gymnastic ability of another the claim of another to the musical cen- ter of the stage for a specified length of time, and in such like v artistic rea- sons. An opera was composed after an arbitrary recipe of so many solos of just such kind, so many concerted numbers much choral work and so much or- atral accompaniment occurring in just such plac d dirama In the mean- time lost in the crowd. From Gluck down. the operatic reform- er's effort has been directed against these things, and it is claimed that Wagner's “‘unending melody. rade to sense. has obviat eratic _absurdity. It is that the so-calied ‘‘unending —melod) punctuates itself in accordance with all essential laws of vocal expression, and that it is the only logical form in which music can be wedded to drama. It is granted that in a com tion of the arts each must sacrifice ething of its su- premacy, but the sum total of the com promise 1s so infinitely more worth hav ing ‘than the single mift of each, th even with its deficiencies. the ~mu drama as evolved by Wagner is the m satisfying art form that we are yet ac- quaint with, and its noble ideal a glimpsa of the highest that has been permitted to man. —_—_— ADVERTISEMENTS. MUSCLE AND NOT FAT. What Thin People Need to Round O# the Corners. What thin folks need is flesh or muscle, not fat. To be symmetrical and properly propor- tioned every persor should have a Certain amount of excess fiesh, but to be plump does not necessarily n to be fat. Fat is undesirable; clogs and retards the action of the muscles, interferes with the healthy action of the heart and lungs and when very excessive, predisposes (oo iatly degeneration of vital organs, to say nothing of the discomfort resulting from too much adipose tissue. 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