The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1901, Page 18

18 SHAW’S CAPTAIN Conversion OF THE PLAYS BY L. DU PONT SYLE. O-DAY 1 propose to consider briefly “Captain Brassbound’'s Conver- sion,” the last play in George Ber nard Shaw's “Three Plays for Puri- tans”” Though inferior in wit to “Caesar and Cleopatra” and in . char- acterization to “The Devil's Disciple,” this play has an Interest of its own in being’ what might be termed more prac- ticable. “The Devil's Disciple” requires for the character of Richard Dudgeon an actor as good in his peculiar line as is Mr. Mansfield or Mr. Miller—and the supply of Mansflelds and Millers is strictly limited. *“‘Caesar and Cleopatra” requires for the character of Cleopatra a lady as beautiful as Miss Blanche Walsh—only with a stormier and more gypsy-like beauty—and ten years younger. Where is that lady to be found? Where is the girl of 18 who could play this tigress In petticoats? Yet without such an actress “Caesar and Cleopatra” would be even mors unsatisfactory than was “The Little Minister” with Miss Adams left out—or, one might truthfully add, more unsatis- factery than was *“Roraeo and Julliet” with Miss Adams put in. But “Ceptain Brassbound’s Conversion” requires for its interpretation neither a Marsfiéld nor & budding Bernhardt; its | principal character, Lady Cicely Wayn-| fieete, 15 well within the range of such an @ctress as Miss Kidder or Miss Annie | Russell or three or four others that might be mentioned. Moreover, while its setting s ingeniously picturesque, it is mot bodied forth on a scale of Oriental magnificence as is the setting of “Caesar | eand Cleopatra” and would cost only a| tithe of the $25,000 which that dream of the gorgeous Bast would cost to produce. Is it absurd to hope, then, that some man- | ager may be found who, being able to distinguish & heron from a handsaw, may also be able to recognize in this fine play & work that is not too bright and good for human nature’s daily food? * * * Or, must we continue to be fed upon the chopped straw of cheap melodrama and vulgar farce, untii—but Mr. Shaw has himself Gescribed the resuits of (his) three years’ etarving upon such diet. After having survived the terrors of concerts and picture galleries, the theater, he says, struck him down like the verlest weak- ling: “I sank under it like a baby fed on starch. My very bones began to perish, s0 that I had to get them planed and gouged by accomplished surgeons. I fell from heights and broke my limbs in pleces. The doctors said, ‘“This man has not eaten meat for twenty years; he must eat it or dle’ I said, ‘This man has been going to the London theaters for three years and the soul of him. has become jnane and is feeding unnaturally on his body’ And I was rightt I did not change my dlet; but I had myself carried up into & mountain where there was no theater, and there I began to revive. Too weak to work, I wrote books and plays; hence the second and third plays in this volume. And now I am stronger than 1 have been at any moment since my feet first carried me as a critic across the fatal threshold of a London playhouse. * * * Why was this? What is the mat- ter with the theater that a strong man can die of 1t?” What, indeed! BICBT R R e To return to Captain Brassbound. The play opens on the coast of Morocco in a garden belonging to one Rankin, a good Scotch missionary. In a conversation be- tween him and Sailor Drinkwater, a pro- duct of the London slums, and Mr. Ran- | Kin's after twenty-five years J ng the Mohammedans, at Sir Howard Hallam, the Judge, and his sister- Waynfleete, have just r and desire to make interior. Drinkwater begs | t Mr. Rankin will recommend to them | cort, to protect them from the Arabs, | chief, Captain Brassbound, better as Black Paquito. vater (with overwhelming convic- 1 teoll you, guvner, wot he is. ck genlmn, thet's wot "e is. i (gravely)—Mr. . Drinkwotter, ection is an attribute, not of West Coast captains but of the Maker. And there are gentlemen and gentlemen in the | se latitudes. Which sort of gentlem ? Dripkwater—Hinglish genlmn, guvner. Hinglish speakin’; Hinglish fawther; West Hinjin plawnter; Hinglish true blue breed. (Reflectively)—Tech o' brahn from the mather, preps, she bein’ Brazilian. Smuggler though he is, Brassbound has served with Gordon and has promised him never to smuggle slaves or gin, 80 since Sir Howard and Lady Cicely are L d to make the expedition he is en- gaged to escort them. Lady Cicely is a iype of that sweet reasonableness that would have delighted Matthew Arnold. She bas traveled unharmed across Africa protected by this theory: “Why do peo- jle get killed by savages? Because, in- of being polite to them and saying e-do, like me, people aim pistols at I've been among savages, canni- Everybody said they'd Xill me. But when I met them I said how- de-Go, and they were quite nice. The Xings always wanted to marry me.” At the first interview between Brass- bound, Rankin and the traveler, Rankin seems to recognize something about Brassbound, but cannot tell just what it §s. Brassbound evidently recognizes Sir Howard, for he is much agitated, warns & how-ds them. bals and all sorts. @ i @ AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—‘Cinderella.” Columbla—"The Little Minister.”® Central—"The Gladiator.” —*“The 1dol's Eye.” um—Vaudeville. zar—'*Tennessee’s Pardner.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets— Specialties, Fischer’ s—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo &nd Theater—Vaudeville every aftesnoon and evenine. Sherman-Clay Hall—Loacture for the benefit Howard, comes for his white slave Brass- | you would be. of Children’s Hospital to-moirow night. Mechanice' Pavilion—Extibition of the Indus- trial and Aliled Arts Wednesday, April 10, Recreation Park—Baseball. Tanforan Park—Paces Lo-morrow. Special information supplied dafly to houses and public men by the ipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- street. Telephone Main 1042 < BRASSBOUND’S the - Last FOR PURITANS. him of the dangers ahead of him and ad- vises him not to go. Brassbound—You are safe here. I warn you, in those hills there is a justice that is not the justice of your courts in Eng- land. If you have wronged a man, you may meet that man there. If you have wronged a woman, you may meet her sen there. The justice of those hills is the Jjustice of vengeance. Sir Howard (faintly amused)—You are superstitious, captain. Most sallors are, I notice. However, I have complete con- fidence in your escort. Brassbound (almost threateningly)— Take care. The avenger may be one of the escort. Sir Howard—I have already met the only member of your escort who might have borne a grudge against me, captain, and he was acquitted. Brassbound—You are fated to come, then? Sir Howard (smiling)—It seems so. Brassbound—On your head be it! (To Lady Cicely, accepting her hand at last)— Good-night. He goes. It is by this time starry night. PR R B SR A The second act opens in Brassbound’s stronghold, an old Moorish castle in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Thither Brassbound has conducted Sir Howard and Lady Cicely. One of the escort, Mar- 2o, a poor Italian, has been wounded. Lady Cicely takes Brassbound's own room | for him and in general assumes charge of the garrison in a way that astonishes that stalwart buccaneer. Brassbound's men are powerlessi@efore her womanly | charm. When she orders Drinkwater to nurse the sick man, he meekly submits, and—more astonishing still—the rest of the brigands hustle him off for a bath at her antiseptic. command. But to Sir Howard Brassbound is insolent. When an explanation is demanded, he breaks out: “You are not my guest; you are my prisoner.” Sir Howard—Prisoner! (Lady Cicely, after a single glance up, continues stitching, apparently quite un- concerned.) & Brassbound—I Wwarned you. You should have taken my warning. Sir Howard (immediately taking the tone of cold disgust for moral delin- quency)—Am I to understand then that| you are a brigand? Is this a matter of | ransom? Brassbound (with unaccountable inten- sity)—All the weaith of England shall not ransom you. Sir Howard—Then what do you intend to gain by this? Brassbound—JUSTICE ON A ROBBER AND A MURDERER! Then the story comes out. Brassbound | is Sir Howard's nephew—the son of the West Indian planter of act 1 and of a Brazilian woman (who drank herself to| death). He had been robbed of his es- tate, as he believed, by Sir Howard, and his mother, attempting to get her rights, had been imprisoned as a dangerous va- grant by this same Sir Howard, sitting as a criminal magistrate. Revenge is Brass- bound’s idea: he has his ‘uncle in his power; he will sell him to the Moors as a slave! How he was induced by Lady Cicely to forego that revenge, how, with- out a suspiclen of coquetry, she convert- ed him from his purpose—all this is told in a long scene of extraordinary power, humor and pathos. Suffice it, his better nature revives at the touch ‘of a good | woman's hand; when the Moorish chief | §1d1, to whom he has promised to sell Sir | bound offers himself to pay the price agreed upon. Sidl consents on condition that he is to have Lady Cicely! Brass- bound refuses; the fight that is imminent is prevented only by the opportune arri- val, with 4 large force, of the Cadi of the province, who has learned of Brass- bound’s scheme, arrests him and all his men as abductors and prepares to hurry them back to Mogador. g Sir Howard (dryly)—I told you you were not in a strong position, Captain Brass- bound. (Looking implacably at him.) You are laid by the heels, my friend, as I said Lady Cicely—But I assure you— Brassbound (interrupting her)—What have you tb assure him of? You per- suaded me to spare him. Look at his face. Will you be able to persuade him to spare me? e o = Was Lady Cicely able to persuade him? Or was Brassbound hanged? If he was not hanged, did he live to marry Lady Cicely? Does the very suggestion of this shock you? If ves, why? And how did Mr. Shaw get into his play that charming American naval captain, commander’ of the cruiser Santiago, of whom we have vet heard nothing? And where did Lady Cicely pick up her peculiar ideas about the proper arrangements for stokers on | board an American man-of-war? And how did she get Captain Kearney to ac- cept them? And what are Mr. Shaw's views on phonetics and Waterloo road ethics as set forth in the character of that “Paffick Genlmn,” Mr. Dunkwater?— Go to; who am I that I should answer for vou all these delightfully puzzling ques- tions, when my friend, Herbert Stone, will answer them for you if you will but buy a copy of Mr. Shaw’s “Three Plays for Puritans,” as I consider it your bounden duty to do? Which duty, if you do but fulfill, you will thank me all the days of your life. AUCTION SALES. By F. H. Chase & Co.—Tuesday, April 1 o'clock.” Horses and Mules, at'1732 et By G. H. Umbsen—Thursday, April orclock. Business Property, at u"{.’m‘:‘;'#«'i By Easton & ITldrid; ‘Wednesday, April at 12 and 3 o'clock. Persian Huge, sy’ 140 Brock ton street. — Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel,* e % Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. ——— 1 A nice present for Easter—Townsend's California glace fruits. in splendid fire- etched boxes, ¢ Ib. 639 Palace Hotel, gl o oo sl s Easter chocolate cream and fancy col- ored cream eggs, baskets of Townsend's, 6 Palace Hotel, oo 8% $10,000 - - . $25,000 - . . $20,000 - - _ BEST SECURITY GIVEN, Call between 9 ~ Interest 5 per cent - Interest 6 per cent - Interest 7 per cent a. m. and 12 m. Room 118, Phelan Building, San Francisco. T HE SAN FRANCISCO EALL. SUNDAY, APRIL 1901. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. MORGAN ON THE RACES. Publication Office.... HEN Senator Morgan went out to Hawaii to persuade the people to content them- selves with annexation, a deputation of intelligent natives waited upon him and asked what their position would be after annexation. He replied that they would have the same rights as the negroes have in the United States. They then asked what were the rights of the negroes here, and the Senator made no reply. Since then his idea of the rights of the negro has been developed, and it is the idea of all the former slave States. Even the border States, wherein slavery was beginning to die before the Civil War, have the same idea and are acting upon it, as in Maryland. But the Alabama Senator has not left the query of the Hawaiians to be any longer ‘unan- swered by silence, nor by events. He has declared himself, and though the declaration was ob- viously not intended for publication, it is published. In a letter written to Editor Greer of the Standard, Marion, Ala., Senator Morgan says: “The apportionment bill and the counting of the- electoral vote without the question being raised as to the constitutionaiity of the Presidential election in Louisiana and Mississippi is a dis- tinct victory for white suffrage. “Maryland has seen ker opportunity and has hastened to profit by it. When things are coming our way there is no necessity for clamorous discussion until they are settled, lest some one might interrupt. So I think the least’said is the best just now on the negro question. Those people will begin to draw off to the Philippines at an early day. They are already going to Hawaii, and we shall soon find room for white people in the South. Then we shall be a free and happy people. : “When the time arrives I will elaborate these views, L'ut at present it is better not to dis- cuss them. We should take a lesson from the Cubans and discuss the negro question with closed doors in our convention. 3 “The silent progress we are making is very encouraging.” That may be read several times and pondered much. The “silent progress” made is an open nullification of the constitution of the United States and the wresting from the negroes of any voice or influence in their own government. They are thereby returned to the same political condition they were in when they were slaves. But the Senator sees further happy results from this suppression of their consti- tutional rights. He looks to it as a means of forcing them out of the country entirely. He thinks that as some are going to Hawaii, the rest will follow, and that they will people the Philip- pines, making room for white men, when “We will be a free and happy people.” As no one is inclined to battle for the rights of a people who will not themselves defend those rights, it is highly improbable that any considerable number of the Northern people will be found ready to stand by the constitution and insist that all of its guarantees shall be enjoyed by those to whom they were given. Morgan’s citation of the form that nullification took in Mississippi is especially suggestive. There is some craftiness in the Maryland and South Carolina laws, and searching argument and analysis are required to prove them obnoxious to the constitution. But it is not so with the law of Mississippi. It is clearly disfranchisement of living negroes because their dead grandfathers were slaves. No wonder the Senator regards Northern indifference to that flagrant provision as “a distinct victory” over the constitution, though he hides it under the euphemism of “white suffrage.” We think that we are justified in concluding that negro suffrage is doomed, and that the constitution of the United States is powerless to secure it against the determined opposition of any considerable number of people. The whole country on a rising vote stands for white suffrage only, and on a ¢all for the negative no one rises, for the time to do so was when the Congressional apportionment passed the.last Congress. The South will be permitted to disfranchise the negro and yet retain over fifty Congressmen and as many votes in the electoral college, by still counting him for purposes of apportionment and representation. And this, although both are directly and distinctly forbidden by the Federal constitution! This condition opens up a wide field not for speculation but for reflection as to the future status of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. We are, by the active agency of the South and the passive consent of the North, establishing the principle that this is a white man’s govern- ment. We are going back to the Dred Scott decision and accepting that part of its dicta as a re- peal of the fifteenth amendment. All this is in line with what we believe is the present mind and will be the future inflexible policy of the people as to all the islands. Their black and yellow millions will never be admitted to equal citizenship, nor their territory to statehood in this republic. All told, they number about 16,000,000, and the decree may be regarded as written that they are to be permanently excluded. Much future trouble is avoided by present frankness. The reported inducement held out for pacification of the Filipinos, that they are to have statehood and citizenship, is a lure and delusion. They will never have either. If they choose to take the oath with that understanding there is no objection, but to take it with the promise of statehood is a process of sowing dragon’s teeth. , ‘With the principle of exclusive white government established, we will find ourselves with 13,000,000 of domestic negroes and 16,000,000 of islanders on our hands to be governed, without substantial voice in that government. That will be 30,000,000 of people, denied independence, held in political chattelry and deprived of the only means by which they can consent to government. Passive submission or open revolt is all that is left to them. . Before we bind the islands irrevocably it is well to give some thought to these con- siderations. 3 9 FLORIDA RIVALRY. IME was that Florida controlled the American orange product, and looked upon California as a feeble upstart in citrus productions. Then she elevated us to the pedestal of a rival in that line, and complained that our freight rates were too favorable, and, distance considered, made our competition unfair. Then. frost fell upon her orchards, first taking the bloom, next the fruit and then freezing the trees to the roots. She replanted, but before the new groves bloomed they were killed in their turn, and now the effort has ceased. The field is left to California, and Florida plants no more. Her citrus growers are migrating to Northern California, where they can look on the Sierra snows, and fan themselves while picking oranges in December. The sole Flor- ida industry now is serving the winter tourists. The State is turned into a hotel, and there the Northern consumptive basks on the balconies, while the more able-bodied troll for tarpon and shoot alligators. The land of Billy Bowlegs is a sanitarium and pleasure-ground. Now Florida looks with jaundiced eye upon California again as a rival in this new business. The birds of passage who blow out of the boreal region and retreat before the snow have discov- ered that California has advantages over Florida for these purposes, and many a tired wing rests for the winter at San Diego, Los Angeles and clear to the Upper Sacramento Valley. The tour- ists find here sunshine and clemency of climate joined to an energizing zest, while in Flor- ida they find only languor and enervation. So the neurotics, the victims of insomnia, the sufferers from the remorse of a guilty stomach, as well as the hardy but tired and the wholesome seekers for a wholesome change, find what they want in California. They find it, too, in the midst of the finest natural scenery in the world and in the midst of the finest and most constant production of everything that quenches the thirst and satisfies the appetite of man. The canned goods menu of Florida is unknown here. Our gardens are perennial as our flowers, and every food from beans to woodcock and every beverage from the finest water to the finest wine, grows on the premises, and “the maidens are soft as the roses they twine.” Florida will always have plenty of tourists whose strength or purse is too short to go farther and fare better, but California will always have those who would rather live or die in greater comfort. Reports from London announce that two members of Parliament have been unseated, one for bribery and the other for “circulating false reports concerning his opponent during the am- paign.” Suppose a similar rule prevailed in Congress, iow many members of the House of Repre- sentatives would hold their seats after the shake-up was over? i RO e SRl The first reports that have come from the Duke of Yerk since he started upon his tour of the British colonies announce that his ship was caught in a storm and the Duke has been seasick; but we believe the illness was not severe enough to make him throw up the trip. ; : ..Market and Third, S. F. NEW OPERA A Rising in FIRMAME BY BLANCHE NT HERE AND EAST. ND NEW STARS the Musical PARTINGTON. ) HE New York musical press is just now full of the new Reyer opera, “Salammbo,” founded on the bril- liant novel of Flaubert, which was given for the first time In America a couple of weeks ago at the Metropolitan Opera-house with the fol- lowing cast: Salammbo, Miss Lucienne Breval: Taanach. Miss Carrie Bridewell; Mr. Saleza: Shahabartm, Mr. Salignac; Narr Havas, Mr. | Journet; Spendius, Mr. Sizes: Giscon, Mr. Gil- bert: Autharite, Mr. Dufriche; Hamilcar, Mr. Scotti; Mancinelli conducting. The libretto is by Camille du Loche, who, according to James Huneker, has “butchered Flaubert's book to make 2a Parisian holiday,” thcugh accomplish- ing his task successfully according to his lights—theatrical lights.” Of Reyer's part in thé matter Mr. Huneker savs: I could only distinguish two well-defined lead- ing motives in the partition. One came from Gounod's ‘‘Romeo and Jullet,” fourth act, the other is a slight deviation from Tristan's cry !1n act three: 'O Isolde.”” For the rest I have |a vague remembrance of cantilena without melody, finales without climax, a thin, nolsy, shallow and irritating stream of orchestration | and @ vocal score that either sereamed or roared. The harmonic scheme is dull and ghere Is little rhythmic variety. Reyer, as I sald before, has few musical ideas, and he does not conceal this deficiency by the graceful ex- ternals of a brilliant instrumentation. I saw “Salammbo’’ twice in Paris and twice here. 1 never wish to see or hear it again. As well meant as was Reyer's admiration for the im- mortal story, a story that will outlive the mock antiquities of Bulwer, Ebers and Sin- | Klewicz, the French critic and composer was not the man to give it a musical setting. Wag- ner or Verdi—nome other—could bave made of this glowing Oriental prose-poem a music- drama of vital power and exquisite coloring. e e Of exceptional interegt to us Is the of- ficial statement of the New York Metro- politan Opera-house management, issued last week at the close of the winter sea- | son, to the effect that the Metropolitan | forces will really be with us again next season. It has scemed almost over-good to be true, but there now seems to be nd doubt of the matter.. As to who will be j heard here next season in addition to the Grau galaxy of last vear the oracle is silent, but here is a list of artists culled from the Musical Courler who have signed contracts with Covent Garden for the London season: Soprano—Calve, Eames, Ternina, Su- zanne Adams, Breval, Gadski, Strakosch, Sobrino, Bauermeister; .contraltos and mezzcs—Brema, the Misses Olitzka, Del- | mar, Aldridge, Maubours; tenors—Tam- | agno, Knole, Walther. There will be twe | new singers, a young Italian named An- | selmi, who has had a good reputation in | Naples, and a French-Canadian of the name of Mercier. Other strangers to Covent Garden will be Reisse, whose volce is said to be one of the flnest in Ger- | many, and Forgeur, who comes from Brussels. Others who will appear are Van Dyck, Saleza, Van Rooy, Plancon, Scotti, Bispham, Blass, De Clery and Gili- | bert. The conductors will be Mancinelli and Flon Lohse. New works to be given { are Lalo's “Rof @'Ys"” and Dr. Stanford's | new overa, “Much Ado About Nothing.” The libretto of the latter opera, by the way, was written by a Philadelphian, | Julian Sturges, and the Benedick will be sung by another Philadeiphian, much ad- mired here, David Bispham. & Tt will be noted that the names of the De Reszke brothers are absent from the Covent Garden's list up to date, they having refused the terms offered by the new management.. Of course, If the re- port of the illness of the incomparable Jear be only half true, neither Covent Garden nor anywhere else him for many months, if ever. Melba, Nordica, Schumann-Heink and Cam- panani are also among tae missing, and altogether our star list of last year com- pares most favorably with that of the great home of opera in England. As to our own coming season. Calve is already promised by Mr. Grau, Calve who sings Jullet, Carmen, everything, and who is the greatest Carmen of his- tory. It is to be hoped that we shall also have Eames and Ternina among the sopranos, the latter of whom seems to be possessed of the same universal genius as Jean de Reszke; great as a Wagnerian singer and equally wonderful in ltalan opera. Her Isolde is said to be beyond all comparison. With these and Jean de Reszke in addition to his brother, it is quite probable that Mr. Grau would | again be “delighted” with his season in San Francisco. e The American Guild of Organists will hold a local examination for the diploma of associateship in the guild on Wednes- day, April 24, simultaneously with the most important Eastern cities. Names of candidates should be handed in to Wal- lace A. Sabin, the local examiner, on or before April 15. . weo The many friends of Mme. Julle Rose- wald, the well known vocal teacher, will be glad to learn of her complete restora- tion to health and of her intent to return to California during the summer. She will resume her work among us, and says, after four years’ travel about the world, that she will be well content to settle down in San Francisco. L “How to Be an Though in India” is the quaint subject of a plaintive little paper in the current number of Mu- sic. For the Occidental organist, impa- tient of the familiar freakishness of his instrument, this humorous plaint from the tropics is indispensable reading. If he would be content to suffer in such silence as the accident permits the “ciphering”” of a mote during service, the haughty pitch of the reeds when the day it is hot, the classic sleeplessness of the man behind the bellows, let him spend five minutes with this organ-grinder in India. His instrument is a small one, fourteen stops, a rarity in the neighborhood (no wonder!), and tuned ‘once a year by a long-distance tuner from Calcutta. In the tropic summer, during the season of bot winds, its favorite amusement is to unglue itself in every possible place where a respectable organ goes glued. ‘Then the ivory caps of the keys have a happy fashion of projecting themselves Into space (with a preference for the or- garist's nose) at every opportunity, and a delightful habit of wearing themselves curled when the weather permits. The bellows, too, join in the general rebellion, and with the able-bodied assistance of the somnolent native blower are responsible for the many weirdly humorous effects peculiar to the Indian church service. Altogether, the life of the organist in India is not a happy one, and the perusal of his little tale of woe is distincily con- ducive to a decent content with our own musical-climatic conditions. He has, what I understand is termed In Kansas, “a hot time.” o . T W That was a sheer triumph of pera- ment the other evening -tpt.he 'rt::uem Century Club concert, when Mr. Paul Egry, with the Max Bruch concerto as medium, drew a quadrangle encore from a popular audience for his rendering of this purely classical number. The vio- linist’s reception was the more marked, in that he came toward the latter end of a longish programme that began almost half an hour late. This,’ by. the way, was the case with the two former con- certs, and it is respectfully suggested to | the club tkat it is a bad precedent to astablish in a concert series, more es- could know |" pecially of the popular kind. Let thers be added the grace of punctuality to many good features of these entert ments, with closed doors during numbers, and two points toward the e cal education of the audience shall h been gained. To return to Mr. E The violinist is a brother of the we known ‘cellist, Mr. Arthur Weiss, and was himself well known here a few years ago as the leader of a small band in o of the popular resorts, but he has ¢ comparatively lttle solo work. One was of course prepared for something rather out of the ordinary by the player's choice of number, and his interpretation amply justified the prophecy. Mr. Egry has any amount of temperament, a big tone, a faclle wrist and a quick and sure though not always ciean technique. Ho gave an impassioned and spirited render- ing of the concerto, which, as before said, greatly pleased his audience. Another number of interest was the “Elegie” and “Scherzo,” from the new Arensky trio for piano, violin and ’cell #iven by Messrs. Genss, Egry and Weis. The “Eiegie’’ 1s a graceful but thin mov ment without any attempt at elegiac pr fundity, and the rendering of “Scherzo™ left the impression of insufii- cient rehearsal. As it was heard it seemed a rather labored effort in the di- rection of rhythmic ongiuality, not war- ranted by any particular beauty of result. Mr. Weiss furnished the popular classic element with Thorne's “Simple Aveu” and the Popper “Gavotte,” in the tricky ac- companiment to which Mr. Genss lost himself slightly with the rest of us. It is true that Mr. Weiss takes a_consider able liberty with the tempi. Fenss” solos were a musical “Night Son, own, and the Schubert-Tausig marsch.” Two Barglel “‘Spring Songs rendered in amateurish fashion by Mrs. Mulcahy, Miss Lyon, Miss Bruntsch.and Miss Forder, and two barytone solos, sym- pathetically sung by John .Plagemann, completed the programme. As befits the gracious season the char- ity affair is rather in tne ascendant just now. To-morrow, evemag a talk on Si- beria from a new standpoint will be givea by Willlam Mitchell at Sherman-Clay Hall for the benefit of the Children’s Hoa- pital. There will be some songs by Miss Marie Partridge. * * * On Tuesday evening the big charitv concert at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art will take place with the society amateur as per- former and the San Francisco Art Asso- clation, St. Ignatius Training School for Servants, Seamen’s Institute and Armi- tage Orphanage as beneficiaries. An a mirable programme is assured by _t presence of the followmng names: M Gustavus Arnold, Mrs. Jack Casseri Miss Bessie Ames, Miss Hulda Anderso the Misses Sherman, Miss Agnes Bergi Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Will: Byrne and Edgar Mills. of men’s voices from the Bohemian Club wiil add to the joys of living and a dainty t supper wili serve to anmex the ree maining nickels for the cause. Over $1500 worth of tickets have already been sold. * * * On the same evening the Tivoli gives a benefit performance ot “The Idol's Eye,” with speciaities from *the Orpheum, for the free ward and clinic of the California Eye and Ear Hospital. * * + Yet another Tuesday affair, a very unfortunate coincidence of dates, is an- other of the charming song lectures by Father McLoughlin, to_be given at the Metropolitan Temple. The lecture (I be- lieve), is to be titled “The Rose, Sham- rock and Thistle,” and any one interested in English, Irish and Scotch song litera- ture and susceptible to the charm of a limpid and polished English will do well to hear the priest-singer. who certainly has a ‘“‘wonderful way~ with him. ® ¢ * I see that the ladies of the California Club have been fortunate enough to securs Mrs. Arnold for the cpening ceremonies of the Industrial and Allied Arts Exhibi- tion at Mechanics’ Pavilion on Wednesday evening next, and that the talented singer will also be heard at St. Luke’s Church to-day. But Here Isa COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT Where o/ /0 Is Guaranteed on Its Bonds. > sesssoen INTEREST IS PAYABLE SEMI-ANNUALLY AND IS SURE Shares $I Each. 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