The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1901, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1901. - e EESCUA PR L e — THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL LIFE AND ART WORK JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager CAUSTIC CRITICISM OF ARTHUR SULLIVAN, WHO MADE BUNDAY & .0 - w bt 5 D ey T L APRIL, B, ot OF SIEGFRIED WAGNER'S LATEST : MUSIC FOR THE WORLD Publication Office.....cceezveeeecccsioocncocncsacasans @Markfl and Third, S. F. OPERA “HERZOG WILDFANG- BY L. DU PONT SYLE. PARTISAN SCHOOLS. BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. F the thousands—one might| even say millions—who have | enjoyed the delicious music of | Sir Arthur Sullivan’s operas only | the few who are musically culti- | vated have realized that this art | of his, which appears so gracefully spon- | taneous and so easily melodious, is in re. elity the result of intense application, se- | vere training snd the expenditure of an | amount of intellectual energy compared with which that displayed by a Prime| Minister or Admiral of the fleet s child’s | play. Few trained musicians, I think, will question the truth of this statement, for they know what the labor of orchestra- | tion—and such orchestration as Sullivan’s —means; let those who are untrained try | to imagine for a moment what is the na- ture of the task which the composer sets | Bimself when ke sits down to write mel- | ody end orchestral accompaniment for even the simplest ballad. They will con- fess, I think, as Mr. Disraell once con- fessed to Sullivan himself, that they have not the slightest conception of the method of attack and presentation; they could as #oon form a mental picture of the size of those ether atoms whose diameter we know to be less than one one-hundred- | thousandth of an inch (but how much less | ‘we know not), or of the mass of Arcturus, | which, I believe, is roughly calculated to | be seventy times that of the fading star | we call the sun. [ bl g It was only the other day that Sullivan | @led, and the grass was hardly green upon | his grave before he was followed by | D'Oyley Carte, his friend and comrade of many years. Of the famous trio who did ®0 much to lighten life for 0 many only Gilbert ig left, and he now is approaching | to three-score years and ten; soon will he | be gathered unto his fathers, and who, | then, shall make song and music for the English speaking world? Oh, yes, we shall have tragic writers a-plenty; Phillips, | with his undoubted gift of high poetic| seriousness; Swinburne, with his fatal ple- thora of words—"a hundred where one would do,” as Matthew Arnold so well said of him; Watson, with his passion, limited in range but sincere and intense. All these will be with us to remind us that man that is born of woman is born unto sorrow, just as if we really needed to be continually reminded of that? I £hould not mourn greatly the departure or the silence of these modern tragic poets; indeed, I could make shift to get elong very comfortably without them, | having Sophocles and Shakespeare. But T do mourn when time casts his envious dart at the man who is at once both hum- orist and poet, for he happens along so in- | frequently in this oddly constructed | world. Such a man was Hogarth in paint- ing, and such a man was Sulllvan in music. When shall we look upon his like again! i The story of Sullivan’s life has recently been simply but interestingly told by Arthur Lawrence (Stone, Chicago). His father (a bandmaster) was an Irishman &nd his mother came from an old Italian | family named Righi. Whence came his | wit and whence his musical faculty are too clear to meed discussion. Everything in the boy’s enviroument favored the de- velopment of his jminense musical talent. At eight years of age he could play almost every wind instrument in his father's band, at twelve he was admitted a chor- ister at the Chapel Royal on account of the manner in which he sang a difficult aria from Haydn and at fourteen he won the Mendelssohn scholarship in compe- tition with sixteen other candidates, all | older than himself. For two years he| studied in London with Sterndale Ben- mett and Goss; for three more at Leipsic with Moschelles, Hauptmann, Rietz and Plaidy. “I am obliged to work tremend- ously hard here,” ne wrote. ‘“No sooner 1e one master dispatched than I rush home | ship was sought and valued by such men | of_popularity. to prepare for another.” But the hard work told. At eighteen he was composing his music to “The Tempest,” which was performed at Leipsic with great success when he was nineteen and was repeated with still greater success In London the next year (1862). 'Sullivan was now a made man; at twenty he had established a reputation greater than that ever be- fore established by any English composer of his years. That his worth as a man was not less than his worth as a com- poser is shown by the fact that his friend- as Dickens and Rozsini. Compared with this honor his subsequent intimacy with the Duke of Edinburgh was an affair of small moment. His immense success as an operatic composer was due to no mere chance, but was based upon prolonged study of stage | effects while a member of the orchestra at Covent Garden. His first dramatic composition was the music to *“Cox and Box” (Burnand’s libretto), produced at the Adelphia Theater in 1865. Five years later he met Gilbert and in 1872 they wrote their first opera, “Thespis’—forgotten | now save for one charming song, “The | Little Maid of Arcadee.” *Trial by Jury” followed in 1875, “The Sorcerer” in 1877 (why is this never given now?), and with “Pinafore,” in 1878, came world- wide reputation. Curiously enough this plece did so 1 oorly for the first few weeks that it was about to be withdrawn when an arrangement of its principal alrs for military band caught the ear of the pub- lic and sent them in shoals to the Opera Comique. The opera ran for two years in London; in the United States it was plaved at one time by forty-two different companies and one hundred thousand bar- rel organs were constructed to perform it and nothing else. Such are the penalties Sir Arthur Sullivan’s other successes are too recent to need recapitulation. All that it is worth while here to do is to call at- tentlon to interesting material in Mr. Lawrence’s book other than that already touched upon. Among this will be found the American Reminiscences of chapter VII; Sullivan's Personality and Method of Work, chapter XII: the lecture on mu- sic delivered by Sulllvan at Birmingham in 1888, the complete list of his writings compiled by Wilfred Bendall, and the Es- says in Rhythm, page 224. Some day a better life of Sullivan will be written, but that cannot be while Mr. Gilbert lives. In the meantime this book will stand a not unworthy monument to the only English composer worthy to rank beside the great Purcell. T Mr. R. H. Russell sends me a charming little edition of the “Bab Ballads,” with | the daintiest reproductions of the author’s | quizzical fllustrations. Many of the old favorites are here, including “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell” and the immortal “Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo,” but many also are missing. There is a 10-cent edition put out by a cheap publisher in New York, which contains twenty-two ballads not in Mr. Russell’s edition. Why these were omitted it is difficult to imagine, for some of them represent Gilbert at his best. Such are “The Reverend ' Stmon Magus,” that scathing satire on simony; “The Haughty Actor,” a ballad which every successful histrio should commit to memory; “The Fairy Curate,” which con- tains in embryo the opera of “Iolanthe”; last but not least, “The Way of Wooing,” that most humoristico-romantic of varia- tions upon the theme “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady. * * * Your reader, my dear Mr. Russell, has evidently entered lightly upon the delicate undertaking of selecting his Gilbert without knowing his subject thoroughly. To omit such gems frcm vour collection is like showing us the crown jewels in the tower when the Koh-i-noor is away on exhibition some- where else. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, o . —Answers to querles sent to this department are sent in &s soen as cbtained and they appear in print in the order that they are turned GQuestions ondents do not-see (he corree, nts e nuudmn:uvmyundt:mmmu should not feel disappointed. | CITY OF CHESTER—L. A, City. The wreck of the City of Chester was on the 224 of August, 1888, SCHOOL DISTRICTS—G., City. A lst| of the school districts of California may be obtained from the State Superintendent | of Public Instruction, Sacramento, REVENUE STAMPS—E. E. F., Oak- land. The market price by dealers for | two-cent revenue bank checks stamps are: Blue, imperforate 2 cents, part perforate B0 cents and perforated (old paper) 1 cent; orange, forated (old paper) 2 cents, silk paper 50 cents. LINCOLN AND THE WAR-J. H, City. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the l4th of April, 1865, and died the next day. Genperal Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse April | 9, 1865, and the Civil War was proclaimed | £t &n end on the 20th of August following. BEST WHITEWASH—L R., Citv. The | Yollowing is sald to be the best preparation | for inside and outside whitewash. It is that used by the United States Govern- | ment: | “Slack a half bushel of unslacked lime | with bolling water, keeping it covered | during the process, strain it and add a peck of salt that has been dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice | put in boiling water and bolled to a thin | paste, half a pound of powdered Spanish | whiting and a pound of clear glue dis- | solved in warm water. Mix these well to- gether and let the mixture stand for sev- eral days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and when used put it on as hot as possible with paint or whitewash brush.” COLONIAL DAMES—J. B. H., Decoto, Cal. The National Soclety of Colonial Dames of America is composed of dcle- gates from the State societies. These ex- ist in all the thirteen original States and the District of Columbia. Under the con- stitution of the national society it is pre- scribed that the members shall be women “who are descended in their own right from some ancestor of worthy life who came to reside in an American Colony prior to 1750, which ancestor, or some one ©of his descendants, being a {ineal ascend- ant of the applicant, shall have rendered efficient service to Lis country during the colonial period, either in the founding of & commonwealth or of an institution which has survived and developed into importance, or who shall have held an important position in the colonial govern ment, and who, by distinguished services, shall ‘have contribuied to the founding of | this great and powerful nation.” Services | rendered after 1776 do not entitle to mem- bership, but are accepted for supplemental epplications. There is no admission ex- cept through colonial ancestry. The offi- cers are: President, Mrs. Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend; first vice president, Mrs. Gillesple, Philadelphia, Pa.; second vice president, Mrs. W. W. Gordon, Sa- vanaah, Ga; secrelary, Mrs. William B. Reed St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.; assisiant secretary, Mrs. J. J. Jackson, Baltimore, Md.; treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Byrd Nicholas, $18 Connecticut avenue, Washington, D. C.; registrar, Mrs. Emil Richter, Portsmouth, N. H. There is an- other and distinct organization also called the Colonial Dames of America instituted in New York City in 18%, of which Mrs. T. M. Cheesman of 109 University place, toat city, is secretary. It has chapters in a number of the States. Write to the secretary for a circular of information. | geles, is & guest at the Occidental. | Holland; B. A. Selfridge, at Park Avenue; PERSONAL MENTION. Judge J. C. Daly of Ventura is at the California. H. M. Wheeler of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. Judge J. M. Hughes of Sacramento is staying at the Lick. George M. Mott of Sacramento is stay- ing at the Occidental. D. M. Drunheller, a liquor merchant of Spokane, is at the California. J. B. Hamilton, a druggist of Los An- C. G. Canter, a fruit raiser of San Jose, registered at the Occidental yesterday. Louls F. Breuner, the furniture dealer of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. L. Grothwell, an insurance man of Stockton, is spending a few days at the California. James R. Lowe, a merchant of San Jose, accompanied by his wife, is staying at the Califogpia. Governo? Gage will arrive in the city to-day from Los Angeles and will be a guest at the Palace. —ee———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 27.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. Greenwood, at Imperial; T. R. Hutchinson, at Normandie; Miss Mc- Netl, §. F. Pond, E. B. Pond and wife, at R. Finking and wife, at Imperial; Miss Carleton, Miss V. Faulker, at Criterion; J. Hart and wife, at Grand Union: H. P. Well, L. P. Well and wife, at Savoy; J. F. Young, at Everett. From Los Angeles—G. B. Johnson, Miss P. B. Johnson, at Manhattan, ———— CALTFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 27.—The follow- ing Californians are at the hotels: Ra- leigh—E. H. Hamilton, San Francisco; Shoreham—A. H. Butler, Miss Belle But- ler, L. M. Kaiser, San Francisco; Willard —G. B. Grow, San Diego; Metropolitan— 8. B. Goodman and wife, Fresno. —_———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. ‘WILHELMINA'S WEDDING. T4 like to have been at the wedding, That brilliant and beautiful scene; I'd like to have ribboned the carriage And shied an old shoe at the queen. —Plain Dealer. *“Boy,” called Senator Hale of Maine, addressing the attendant of the cloak- oom, *“have you seen my rubbers?”’ Yes, sir,”” respon the boy with a grin. 'Well, where are they?” “You have them on, ‘Washington dispatch. “The meat we had last night,” remark- ed the new boarder, “‘was overdone.' ‘“Well, it won’t be to-night,” replied the old_stager. “Think not?” —World's “‘Sure. It'll be done over.”"—Philadelphia Press. ol “What is this charge here?"” asked the business man of the telephone collector. “‘Oh, that’s for a I5-minute conversation your ‘wife had.” “With whom?” “Her dressmaker.” . ““There must be some mistake, young e I rstmaker i Artom o ing h maker i her life!"— Yonkers e HE public school teachers, and the friends of the public schools in this city, may well feel uneasy at the prospect of subjecting the teachers to a most offensive, and, in the end, dan- gerous, partisan control. I'here has been more intrigue in the present School Board and more fantastic injustice toward the teachers than ever before in the history of our schools, the unfragrant time of the “Tough Old Board” not excepted. What the world called a “compact” between the Mayor and the Examiner, but what has been characterized by the Mayor and sworn to as “an understand- ing,” was a pledge in advance to give a partisan newspaper a finger in the school pie. Other ap- pointments to the board seem to have recognized in the social clubs a right to representation in management of the schools, and the net result is a control that has founded the school system upon intrigue, and given it over to interests that have no stake in the high purposes of common school education except to use the power of its organization for the promotion of ambitions that ought not to use teachers and janitors as horses to be ridden to the wire—indifferent to their fate thereafter. The new regulation for the maintenance of an eligible list and its use as a means to clear out the whole teaching force at will is justly offensive to the teachers and injurious to the schocls. Under the new rule fifteen per cent of these eligibles are to be chosen from educational insti- tutions that have a course in pedagogy, thirty-five per cent are to be selected at will from other cities after having.shown unusual ability in teaching. The other fifty per cent of eligibles are to be processed into place by mutual agreement of the members of the board. In selecting from this list to be permanently appointed, numerical and chronological order will not be observed. By the consolidation of classes it is possible to obsolete any teacher now in the department, who may go upon the eligible list, provided it is not already full, but may remain there forever, with no guar- antee of re-employment unless possessed of a sufficient “pull” to get back. This list is the only door that opens into the department. The graduates of the San Fran- cisco Normal School and the State Normal School must compete with Stanford and Berkeley and fight for a place in the fifteen per cent of the list which is assigned to institutions where ped- agogy is taught, while more than twice as many places are subject to be filled by persons from New York, Chicago, Boston—anywhere, when in the judgment of members of the board they have shown unusual ability in teaching! This is the opportunity sought to quarter on our tax- payers, relatives, friends or favorites of the board, from the East or anywhere outside of San Fran- cisco, while the graduates of our city normal school must take their diplomas in hand and go beg- ging for the chance to earn bread among strangers. It discredits.that normal school, and dilutes the value of its diploma, as its recognition is so limited at home it will get less abroad. Combined with the power to consolidate classes at will, and throw out teachers now in the department, this plan for eligibles puts every teacher absolutely at the mercy of the board, and effects just that disturbance which is the most inimical to good work in the schools. There is no profession which requires the repose of certainty more than that of the teacher. Standing in ioco parentis, teachers have much of the responsibility and many of the cares of parents transferred to them, without the sustaining influence of that affection which the child feels for the parent. The manners, morals, cleanliness znd physical safety of thousands of children of all ages are handed over by parents to teachers for one-third of the time every school day, from the time children are five years old until they pass out of the public schools twelve years later. In that period the teach- ers must not only administer the duty and functions of the parents, but they must train a gener- ation for citizenship, for the purposes of the state, and upon that training depends the vast future of the government itself. ‘What other class carries such a burden? What other has such responsibilities? What other deserves equal security of tenure and freedom from the afflictions of intrigue and the offensive domineering of partisanship and personal self-seeking of those who are in legal control of their fate? . ! In every respect in which the teachers should be safe in their merit and experience, safe in their tenure, safe in just and considerate treatment, this new plan strips them of all protection, and by so doing injures the efficiency of their service. We are well aware that the board is able to fall back on names of great authority to jusiify a system which it has sought for its own use and advantage; but neither the presidents of the universities, nor their professors of pedagogy, nor the principal of the San Francisco Normal School, nor the State Superintendent, can give reasons for the plan which overweigh those against it. It is unjust to teachers, irimical to their best work, unfair to the graduates of our normal school and treats contemptuously theright of our people to these preferments, merit being equal. It leaves the board without a check or limit, bit or rein, beyond its own will, and that unguided by knowledge or experience of practical teaching, unchastened by any sympathy with teachers, and unrefined by any exalted appreciation of their high calling as the trustees of parents and the patient sentinels of the safety of the state. A GRAND JURY OUTRAGE, F the report made by the Grand Jury concerning the Police Department fair-minded and inteiligent men will have but one opinion. From first to last the report shows evi- dence of partisan bias, of personal prejudice and something of malice. It is in fact in the nature of an outrage against which it is the duty of good citizens to protest. The Call is not now, nor has it ever been, an apologist for Mayor Phelan or for Chief Sul- livan. It has had many occasions to criticize the Mayor, and has done so without fear or favor. No paper in the city or in the State has more severely condemned his shortcomings as an official, or has more repeatedly pointed out to the people the frequency with which he has violated ° his campaign pledges and the spirit of the charter of which he professes to be the foremost cham- pion. Recognizing, then, the full extent of the defects of the administration, The Call nevertheless maintains that he and the Chief of Police and every other official is entitled to fair play and should not be subjected to the style of attack that has been made in this instance. The American people have long noted the frequency of outrages committed by grand juries in their reports, and again and again a call has been made for an" abolition of the system. The re- port of this Grand Jury will revive the question in San Francisco, because it exhibits in a striking manner the terrible power placed in the hands of grand jurors and the injustice with which that power is often used. A grand jury sits in secret. It has authority to indict whom it chooses and upon what evi- dence it chooses. The accused has no right to demand a hearing, no right to confront his ac- cusers, no privilege to examine those who testify against him. The ease with which such powers can be used for partisan or malicious purposes has long been known; and it has repeatedly hap-~ pened in all parts of the country that grand juries have used their powers for the basest pur- poses. Rarely have they accomplished any good. Many times have they done much evil and wrong. Sometimes they make reports “whitewashing” incompetent or bad officials, and sometimes they make reports casting suspicion upon innocent persons solely to gratify partisan hostility or personal malice. : : ; Why should any American citizen be subject to that kind of outrage? The question is per- tinent to more issues than the one now before the public. The Mayor, the Chief of Police and the District Attorney have been this time the victims of outrage, but who can say where malice will act next? The secret, sly, star chamber system of the Grand Jury is unworthy of American civil- ization. It is a relic of bygone barbarism and should be abolished. ; The prune growers who have been afraid they would have more prunes this season than they could sell have been relieved from all anxiety on that point. It looks now as if the combine would have ample time to sell all the fruit it has on hand before another big crop comes in. R BRI A A dispatch from South Africa announcing the capture of a Boer camp is almost always fol- lowed by another announcing the capture of a British troop, and consequently every time the British public gets ready to cheer something happens to make it stick in the throat. In the latest number of the Commoner, Bryan says: “T am not planning for another Presi- dential nomination—if I were I would not be editing a paper.” The young man talks as if he had learned something since the last election. 2 —————— About the only person who has not yet had a say to the public about the situation in China is the Empress Dowager, and yet there are people who say a woman cannot hold her tongue IEGFRIED WAGNER, son of the great master of the German music- drama, has committed a second opera, “Herzog Wildfarg,” that was produced for the first time on March 23 at the Court Theater in Munich. According to the lively account of a Leipsic correspondent in the Musical Courler, this second effort of the son of Richard Wagner and grandson of Lizst is an even more pronounced failure than was his first attempt at operatic compo- sition, the ‘“‘Barenhaeuter.” Those crities who had before reserved their judgment for a final decision now emphatically deny the possession of any talent for this or other form of musical composition to Stegfried Wagner. It is freely alleged that “Herzog Wildfang™” is but a feeble imitation of “Der Meistersinger,” which it closely resembles in plot. The text, also written by the composer, is graph- ically described as “tommyrot.” Frau Cosima Wagner managed the pro- duction, which was given under the di- rection of Ernst von Possart, who saw to it that every possible chance of success, in the excellent cast and splendid staging, was afforded the new opera. But all to no purpose. The opera was greeted with hisses and catcalls all through the per- fermance quite powerful enough to drown the cheers of the Wagner party, but not sufficient to deter the young Siegfried from appearing time after time before the curtain to respond to the demands of his friends. Poor Siegfried! he has evi- dently the usual fate of the son of the great man before him. The performance ended in a perfect pandemonium and young Wagner left the place & full- fledged martyr to the Wicked Critics, who are always found in wait for the New Genius. Dok After the long silence of the Saturday Morning Orchestra their good work at the concert on Thursday evening last at Sher- man-Clay Hall came somewhat as a sur- prise. The club has been working stead- ily during the winter months under the competent leadership of Oscar Weil and their faithful effort took effective shape in the modest, well chosen and well ren- dered programme of Thursday evening. Mr. Weil's name is naturally enough found anywhere else but on a programme glven under his direction, but it is well recognized that it is to his peculiar in- spiration the young ladies of the orches- tra owe the satisfactory level of accom- plishment of which their concert gives evidence. The first orchestral number was not al- together promising—an arrangement of the Beethoven “Pathetique’” adagie. The rendering leaned to the ultra-sentimental, snowing itself in lagging tempore and an indisposition to obey the baton. The shading and balance of the parts were, however, very satisfactory. With the secend number, a ‘“Marcia Glocosa™ of Hilier, given with much spirit and rhythmic swing, the orchestra had pulled itself together, and by their third num- bers, a Bach Sarabande and the B minor prelude and fugue, amply evidenced the progress that has been made during Mr. Weil's directorship. The Bach numbers were by much ths best offering of the orchestra and were played with evident enjoyment of their quaint and dignified | movement. Some of the Schubert “Laendler” ended the programme, and though net up to the Bach level were yet played in sutficiently worthy fashion. S omie The club was assisted by Miss Alice B. Toklas, a clever pupil of Otto Bendix. She gave a broad and dignified reading of the Schubert “Der Wanderer.” The young pianist has the sure, clean touch of all Mr. Bendix's pupils and pos- sesses besides marked temperament. The orchestral accompaniment to Miss Toklas’ number was indifferently good in places, owing, perhaps, to a lack of rhythmic authority on the pianist’s part, at least in Miss Freeman's violin number, the Viott1 twenty-first concerto (first move- ment), it was so conspicuously better as to suggest the criticism. Miss Grace Freeman, another good student, is a Minetti pupil, and gave a very intelligent and musicianly rendering of the Viotti movement. The concert, on the whole, was a decided success, and the next affair of the kind is awaited with pleasure. Town Talk of last week contains the sprightly autoblography of a Californian girl, who is one of the many that have won success in a chosen line in other than her own State and country—Carrie Northey Douglas, formerly of East Oak- land, and now of the Turner Grand Opera Company in England. The sketch is well worth reading from many standpoints. The singer has achieved the enviable po- sition that is hers by sheer hard work, and modestly disclaims any but the genius of industry in accounting for her success. Mrs. Douglas ends her ietter with the following suggestive credo: “This brings me down to date, and in looking forward to my future contracts, that will keep me busy for some years to come on this side of the wide, wide ocean, 1 can justly say that I have earned thrcugh hard work all the success and happiness I am now enjoying. No one has helped me; there has been, no man’s blank checkbook for me to flll in at my pleas- ure to buy my way to success, neither a woman's perfumed note to open the por- tal for me. It has been WORK, WORK, WORK! filling each hour of my day and my dreams at night, leaving po room for the careless, idle moment, from which are born temptations ending in shame and degradation. Yes, work has made me what I am. My voice has been my one true friend, in shadow as in sunlight, in success and in failure, that has never de- serted me. In grateful return I treat it as such, guarding it as the richest jewel I possess, and living that life that may never cause it to be ashamed of me, its mistress.” In her letter Mrs. Douglas touches —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. Humphreys, After fifty years Dr. Humphreys' Specifics enjoy the greatest popularity and largest sale in their history, due to intrinsic merit. 'l.'hgy cure the sick. NO. CURES. 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New York. ehkhihhkkkk hhkkih upon a subject of prolific interest, the charity concert, and reverts rather bit- terly to her Oakland experiences in con- nection with the same. She contrasts her recent audiences at St. James Hall in London, when she gave for the first time her own song cycle, with the $85 house she drew at the Oakland Coliseum on the only occasion when she invited an Oak- land audience to recognize substantially her long service In the cause of charity in her native town. She never appeared again after that experience without be- ing paid, and well, for her work. As be- fore said, the charity concert is a prolific subject, and a dangerous one in these days of thrifty women's clubs, but it has the attraction of its danger, and ere long some courageous Don Quixote will be tiiting at the windmills, and great will be the confusion thereat. e Miss Frankie Werthetmer, who has re- cently returned from a flve years’ visit to Europe, where she has been studying plano at Leipsic, will be heard in concert on May 2. Miss Wertheimer received spe- cial mention on her graduation from the Leipsic Royal Conservatory. P e There will be a gathering of the clane English on Tuesday evening next at Sherman-Clay Hall to hear the very good ballad concert programme that has been arranged by Wallace A. Sabin, F. R. C. O., in ald of the funds of the British Benevolent Society. Vocal—Mrs. Dexter, Mrs. Birmingham, Algernon Aspland, Mr. Van Linghem; pianoforte, Arthur Flck- enscher; violin, Miss Kathleen Parlow (an English-Canadian, aged 10); accom- panist, Wallace A. Sabin. Tickets are on sale at Sherman & Clay’s music store. .- . A pleasant innovation in programmes Is promised for to-morrow evening in the recital of modern classics for piano and volce, to be given by Miss Grace Barker Marshall and Bert Georges at Sherman- Clay Hall. Korbay, Loewe, Neidlinger, Wilby, Woodman and White are repre- sented in the vocal part of the pro- gramme, and Rachmaninoff, Pachulski and Arthur Foote are responsible for the piano inspiration. e The regular monthly musical service at Trinity Church will be held this evening, and the programme has been appropriate- 1y selected entirely from the works of Sir John Stainer, who died early in the pres- ent month. Sir John Stainer was for many years organist of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, London, and stood first among Eng- lish composers of church music. The se- lections to be sung at Trinity include three of Stainer’s best anthems: “Awake! Awake!” “Lead, Kindly Light,” and “O Clap Your Hands”; also solos and chor- uses from his cantatas, “The Daughter of Jalrus,” “St. Mary Magdalen” and “The Crucifixion.” The soloists are .Miss Millle Flynn, Mrs. J. E. Birmingham, H. M. Fortescue and T. G. Elliott. During the offertory Dr. H. J. Stewart will play selections from Stainer’s organ works. The after- noon organ recital will include the fol- lowing: Sonata No. 1, in D minor ...Guilmant Introduction and allegro, pastoral, finale. “Alr,” with variation, in D. Beethoven “Le Predication des Oiseau: . Lisat (St. Framcis “Marche Solenelle’ Mailly Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50¢ a pound, in_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- kets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel bullding.* sressriualt S i e 4 Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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