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

18 HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1901 R e e RIS SR S NSRS R X GRAND OPERA SEASON AT THE TO OPEN WITH BY BLANCHE TIVOLI | “AIDA.” PARTINGTON. LINDA MONTANARL STRAZZA. PReve / | 5 0-MORROW evening Frederick Mc- Greer's handsome new curtain rings up at the Tivoli on the initial pro- Guction of the grand opera season [ of 1901, “Aida,” the operatic ancient of days and time-honored opening bill. It would hardly seem proper to begin the season with anything else, even to the sudience, and with managers and singers “Aida” has become a superstition as a mascot opening. Not that one minds, for “Ajda” is a delightful opera, but its in- variable appearance as the initial offering of a season savors of the comical. One begins to wonder what would happen if snother opera were substituted, some- thing new, to be violently original; but perhaps that would be tempting the foot- light fates too far. At any rate this year they are to be sppeased and we to be pleased by “Aida” once more and as usual to-morrow even- ing, with the following adequate cast for its interpretation: Salassa, the most artistic actor and ginger that the Tivoll has ever had, will be heard as Amonasro, which part he ren- dered so splendidly last year. The name part will be sung by Nice Barbareschi, whose Aida is also gratefully remem- bered; and Castellano, whose high, bright tenor did good service in the role last geason, will be heard as Radames. Of new singers in the cast Collamarini as Amneris and Dado as Ramphis are dis-| tinctly acquisitions. Dado has been heard heard here but once before, with Madame Sembrich, on the opening and only night of her ili-fatel season at the beginning of this year (hoodooed,evidently, by sub- stituting “The Barber of Beville” for “Aida”), but his work on that occasion warrants one in saying that the principal basso of the Tivoli is a very considerable artist and that his Ramphis will ke one of the roles of the evening. Collamarini's abilities are well known here, and though #he has not yet been seen as Amneris the is said to be one of her best. Nico- Nini will be the King of Egypt and Plo | Faccl will sing the messenger part. RS “Rigoletto” will be the alternating bill of the week, with the same cast as last year. Ferrari does very good work in the name role. I hope he has left his trem- olo behind him. Repetto, the charming little songbird, sings Gilda; Russo, the hero of the shooting bund and altitudin- ous mote, again sings the Duke's part; Nicolini is the brigand, Sparafucile, and Poletini's sympathetic voice will again be heard in her last year's part of Magda- Jena, which was an exceptionally good bit of acting, by the way. . o - To-morrow evening, too, Mr. Paul Stein- dorft, thé musical director of the Tivoll, will make his first appearance here as a conductor of grahd opera, and from his | achievements in light opera so far there s everything to be hoped from his efforts. Mr. Steindorff is very hopeful of the work of the orchestra and chorus. The chorus has been well rehearsed and the vocal naterial is of unusually good quality, many fresh young volces having been ®dded. The orchestra is also enlarged, one important addition being the harpist, Madame Carusi, lately a member of the Metropolitan orchestra in New York, and altogether things promise exceedingly well for the Tivoll’s coming season. ‘We owe much to the little opera-house that has been working so faithfully and modestly for twenty-two years, and there s indeed mo lack of appreciation for its efforts. When it is remembered that the larger part of the musical population here owes what knowledge it has of the operatic classics to the Tivoll, not always £0 brilliantly given, it is true, but always respectably, the debt owing will be grate- fully acknowledged and perhaps more than the usual good wishes of the season £0 to the management at this tide in its affairs. For one, I say here’s to the pres- ent season in all its goings and comings, and may it be the best in the worthy rec- | 40c, ONE OF THE SINGERS WHO WILL BE HEARD HERE IN GRAND OPERA. A SR e B AR A LIRS + sical usefulness has served to draw at- tention strongly to the possibilities of the organ as a solo Instrument, through the numerous recitals that have been given on the Stanford memorial organ during the convention. Attention has also been called to the fact that though San Fran- cisco is to lose the valuable services of Dr. H. J. Stewart, who leaves Trinity Church for an appreciative $3000 position in Boston, we have in Mr. W. B. King an organist amply qualified to take his place. Mr. King's achlevements in chorus accompaniment during’ the convention will not be readily forgotten, and his solo work, with its clean, crisp technique, large grasp and thoroughly musical spirit, is no less brilliant. The young organist, for he is still quite young, has also a thorough- ly artistic repertoire, in which are to be found most things worthy from Bach to Widor, whose pupil he was—Widor, I nat- urally mean—during a two years’ stay in Paris. The First Congregational Church of Oakland is Mr. King's stronghold, and if you go there you are likely to hear some music, though the organ is only in- differently good. Dr. Stewart will give a farewell recital on the Stanford memorial organ to-mor- row evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Me- chanics’ Pavilion, at which the following good programme will be played: Suite Gothique Introduction Choral; Minuet Gothique. Priere a Notre Dame; Toccata. Alr with variations, in G. Lemmens Fantasia in D mino Merkel a Priere in D flat... b Intermezzo in B flat Dalingrts Slumber Song .... Schytte a Triumphal March % (Sigurd Jorsalfer). I bIm Volkston . . }Grieg © Ranz des Vaches. -1 4 Danse & la Paysanni Fantasia—"Das Rheingold" agner Also, as a tribute to their retiring ai- rector, the choir of Trinity Church will to-night sing Dr. Stewart's oratorio, “The Nativity,” the service to begin at a quar. ter before 8 o'clock. The solos will be sung by Miss Millle Flynn, Mrs. J. E. Bir- mingham, H. M. Fortescue, F. G. B. Mills, T. G. Elliott and W. R. Kneass. Harry Samuels will play the violin solo, “‘Adoration of the Magl,” and also a solo during the offertory. P Teachers Will Be Paid. Auditor Wells yesterday began deliver- ing salary demands for November and December, 1898, to the school teachers. This action is the result of the dissolving of the injunction proceedings to determine the status of the $7000 advanced by merchant creditors to the teachers in March, 1900. About 400 teachers were pald previous to the filing of injunction proy, ceedings, and the rest will now receive their money, which has been so frequent- 1y tied up by litigation. Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_————— Townsend's Callfornia glace fruits, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- ets. 638 Market, Palace Hotel bufidlnx.' —_———— Selling out. Best eyeglasses, specs, 10 to Look out fer 81 Fourth street, front of barber and grocery. . Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telephone Maln 1042. ¢ ——————— Baron Lambermont of Belglum, who has been accepted as arbitrator by Great Britain and France-in regard to certain questions In dispute in West Africa, was ;guwem of the Brussels conference in 1890, ——— Are You “Of the Old World”? Everything pertaining to the New World may be easily and cheaply seen at the Pan. American Exposition, and the best way to get to Buffalo s by the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road, carrying Nickel Plate Dining Cars, In which are served Amer- ican Club meals from 35¢ to $1 each. Book free, showing pictures of exposition bufldings. H,o;eln;cmmmodnlcm reserved. JAY W, ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 37 Croecker San Francisco, Cal. s S —_—————— Best Way to the Yosemite, The Santa Fe to Merced and stage then via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Haszel Gm: Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. ————— Camp Curry, Yosemite, introduced and maintains the moi- ord for grarnd opera that the Tivoll is earning for itself. R The Epworth League in Its various mu- erate rates of §2 per day, $12 per week: lcss than $40 for an eleven-day trip to Yosemite via the Big Oak Flat route, 630 Market, or Santa Fe route, 41 Market st. . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN: D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - ‘ Address Cnmvv;ulliculions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager ...JULY 28, 1901 2t NI, Tkl Market and Third, . F. RECIPROCAL RESPONSIBILITY. N issue of interest has developed in the machinists’ strike. While it is gpparently an issue of veracity between Mr. O’Connell and the chairman of the manufacturers’ organization, the real question is far away from that. : It is alleged that the employing machinists a year ago entered into a contract, solicited by their employes, one condition of which was that differences should be arbitrated, in order to prevent just such a paralysis of trade as is now alarming the country. It is claimed that the authorities which control the strikers, violated this agreement. To this Mr. O’Connel! rejoins that the employers want to arbitrate locally, which he will not permit, as he demands that the arbitration and settlement cover the entire industry of the whole country on identical terms. * The reply made to this is that the same artificial conditions cannot apply to the various natural conditions affecting the machinists’ trade. The conditions under which the material and its transportation may be had, the cost and accessibility of fuel, the absorbing capacity of the nearest market, and other. things, natural and physical, are said to make identical artificial condi- tions a misfit. This is illustrated by the difference of conditions between this coast and the East. This is so influential that it is said by men well informed that if artificial conditions here are made arbitrarily identical with the East the machinist’s trade will disappear as a California industry. This statement illuminates Mr. O’Connell’s declaration that the contract has not been broken. But suppose he is right, and it is intact and carries with it the power to apply equal artificial conditions to the whole country, if he had broken it, how could he be held to legal re- sponsibility? . s This question of equalityof responsibility is rapidly coming to the front, and is destined to work a change throughout the labor union system by advancing it to the higher plane of legal and financial’ responsibility. Complaint is now made that in strikes and controversies between unions and employers the latter resort to injunction and invoke the restraints of the criminal law. A calm inquiry will find the reason for this in the legal and financial irresponsibility of the union. Labor unionism is itself brought into disrepute by the acts of its members who go to extremes that would not be thought of if the union were liable to an action in trespass for dam- ages. Injunction is sought and military power invoked because on one side is destructible prop- erty and legal responsibility, and on the other organization and its power without responsibility. We say with a full and friendly knowledge of the situation that the unions suffer from this condition of things. By the power of organization they can compel the making of a contract which nothing can compel them to keep, and for the breach of which they cannot be made to respond. Labor and capital are equal partners in production. The dignity of each requires that they be equal in all things. Capital makes a contract with the consumer to deliver to him at a certain date a certain thing or aggregate of things, to be produced by labor. At the same time labor and capital make a contract, covering hours and wages. Labor, in its present condi- tion of irresponsibility, may break its contract, ‘and so compel capital to break its contract with the consumer. But capital is financially responsible, and the consumer can enforce against it the penalty clause of his contract. But when capital seeks to recoup its loss by enforcing its contract with labor it finds behind it no responsibility. On the other hand, every court in the land is open for the enforcement by labor of its contract against defaulting capital. It can collect damages for any infraction as to hours or wages. Intelligent mechanics and laborers will see at once the one-sided condition which this implies, and the ultimate loss of public sympathy for powerful organizations whose legal irresponsibility is equal to the damage they may inflict upon others. Such a condition is so far from ideal that it cannot endure. Make responsibility equal and the swarm of deputies of the civil officers and the armed soldiery will disappear. In a hot dispute the employer will not invoke force against force, because the union party to the dispute must respond in penalty from its treasury or by assessment of its members for any damage done to his property, as he is compelled to respond for any financial or physical damage endured by his employes. 7 The establishment of equality between employer and employe, between labor and capital, between the labor union and the corporation, would forever abolish the invoking of the criminal law in labor controversies. The much complained of judiciai injunction would disappear. The existing heat on both sides would be cooled in the presence of the equal law. As a rule in strike contests the kernel is hidden by the husk. The kernel is an issue that usually involves sincerely the dearest rights and interests of labor, but the husk is the legal irre- sponsibility of the labor organization. That organization may wreck the employer’s truck, even when driven by himself, and the act is the use of irresponsible force against responsible prop- erty. His only remedy is an appeal to the criminal law. Perishable freight is unloaded on the docks by the distant producer under the implied contract with the hauler set up in the law of common carriers, and further accented by the exaction of a license from the hauler. This whole system of obligations and implied contracts is broken, and the producer’s property rots on the dock. Third parties are wronged, society is damaged, and there is no responsibility. If we are really a civilized people there must be devised for these things a remedy that is respectful ot all rights of all people, and its beginning must naturally be perfect equality of responsibility. PORT. STATISTICS. HE Puget Sound cities are justly proud of their commercial progress, and are not to be blamed for the ambition they cherish that the future metropolis of the coast may be upon 4| those waters. There is nothing in the commercial statistics of the port of San Francisco, however, to cause fear in our people that our scepter is about to change hands and our primacy to be taken from us. The entries in the San Francisco Custom-house last vear were 23,174. Custom-house re- ceipts were $7,484,241 86, an increase of nearly a million in one year and of two millions over the year 1898. The thnnage entered last year exceeded that of the year before by nearly 400,000 tons, and that cleared by 448,550, making the year’s increase in inward and outward business by sea 848,000 tons. As showing the increase in ocean facilities drawn here to carry this increased commerce, the steam tonnage inspected here for the year exceeded every port in the United States except New York, and the sail tonnage inspected was greater than at New York in the number of ves- sels and larger by 30,000 tons. — e A (i T AL S SRR SR S e e i WARDE WILL BRING ouT AT BALTIMORE MISS WOODS’ NEW PLAY. BY GUISARD. T Forde's Opera-house in Baltl- more, in September next, Fred- erick Warde will bring out a flve-act tragedy by Miss Virna Woods, a clever young woman, who has written a good deal, of one kind or another, and who is a Sacramento Californian. Miss Woods’ tragedy has been in Mr. Warde's possession for something like a year, and Its presentation was promised at a much earlier date. It will be placed in Mr. Warde's repertoire for the com- ing season and is to be seen in San Fran- cisco in January next. The author will attend the Baltimore rehearsals and wlj shortly leave California for the purposé. Miss Woods’ choice of subject is pecu- liar and interesting. Her central figure is Horatlus—not the famous Roman who has so long “kept the bridge” at com- mencement exercises—from whem the play takes its name, and who turns out to have several claims to consideration as a tragedy hero. He is Horatius of 70 B. C., one of the combatants in the celebrated battle of the Horatii and Curiatif, in which the bloodthirsty Romans antedated by years two thousand odd the French gris- ette’s famous conception in the farewell song to her soldier lover: “Let those who make the quarrels Be the only ones to fight.” Tt will be remembered that the bosses of that particular battle, with a gleam of the inspired righteousness that occasion- ally attacks rulers, agreed to fight it out among themselves to save useless blood- shed. Accordingly, they chose three on a side, with a vow to stand pat on the result of the triple combat, in which, after Olympic heats, Horatlus was left sole sur- vivor, with a consequent victory for the Horatian_governmental trust. Also, if I remembdl aright, the hero in question did away with his sister in picturesque fash- ion on account of her most nztural love for one of the enemies of her house, which, by the way, furnishes the love interest of the play. The scenes of the tragedy, in all five, are laid in and about Rome, and of course blank verse is the form of its expression. Concerned with Mr. Warde in its produc- tion will be Charles D. Herman, Barry Johnstone, Antoinette Ashton, May Warde and Virginia Drew Trescott. Mr. Warde is having special scenery painted for the piece. There is a lively curiosity among Eastern critics to see Miss Woods' play, for the label “Californian,” connect- ed with dramatic interests, as with peaches, is rapidly becoming synonymous for something good. = “Robert J.” has. been doings things again. Under the signature of Sincialr, Robert J. of that ilk, the lady last week wrote me objecting variously to dramatic eriticism as “she is wrote” in this paper. and I, Guisard, in seemly fashion, to put to gout, confusion and utter obfuseation the"complaining damsel in question. This week she writes to say that she Is no lady and demands apology for being so ad- { dressed. All'right, here you are, Robert; you are no lady, and I heartily apologize for nav- ing so addressed you. But, my dear girl, you should remember that even dramatic editors are not omnivorous—as Mrs. Mal- aprop would say, and that when letters arrive that are written on a small size “cream laid,” in a delicate French fist, with the usual feminine overskirt and per- nickety beginnings here, there and every- where, the supposition is that they are written by a person of your sex. Also, Only neglect of opportunity and failure of enterprise can lose us our lead. As for our am- bitious rivals, the prospective increase in the Pacific trade will furnish them opportunities com- mensurate with their facilities, position and enterprise, and they will be members of a great family of cities here, of which San Ffanciscs will be the patriarch. Aside from our advantage of harbor and inland transportation by ail and water, this city is at the edge of a productive field that is unlimited, almost, in its capacity to produce what the world wants, from the soil. This'will be the world’s greatest market for fruit products of all kinds that can grow under temperate zone and semi-tropical conditions. It will be all that Palermo is in citrus fruits, Marseilles in oil and wine, Paris in glassed goods, Valencia in raisins and Glasgow in pulps and jams. The volume of each commercial speciclty in each of those centers will be more than aggregated here. It is, too, a production in which we have no rival in the world, and that imyplies its permanent primacy. Other conditiors clange, but the soil and sun- shine are stable elements in production that nothing can change. The profits of this vast produc- tion that is at our doors will flow into other channels of enterprise, create other industries, sup- plement the natural with the artificial, and be a foundation which will bear a superstructure the nobility of which will be limited only by the enterprise and good taste of our people. The young man who is now getting a foothold in any productive business in California is doing wisely. He is investing to get dividends out of the future of what promises to be the most prosperous country in the world. - It is a sure thing that if decent Republicans overthrow the bosses ip the primaries they will make a clean sweep in the municipal election, but if they'do not there will be'no sweep at all. VSIS 3 SR It is announced that the glass bottle makers have formed a trust, but the good old earth- enware jug remains we believe within reach of every citizen. From the number of entries for the Senatorial race in Illinois it would seem the bars have been let down and anybody can get in. v g R Robert, you will remember next time—a man commonly dates his letters, does not say “for shame" and never fakes up his valuable time in defending misunderstood matinee heroes. He mostly fights wind- mills, otfierwise critics, for the unappre- ciated girl actress. Verbum sap. * e o ‘With a brand new Metropolitan reputa- tion as an actor, and a sturdy two-year- old baby, George H. Robinson wandered into town the other day looking absurdly like the sandy-haired youngster that used to “play theater” meorning, noon and night In the basement of his father's house on Van Ness avenue a short while ago. Mr. Robinson is proud of a few things that concern him, very proud of those ten, twenty and thirty cent raree- shows that used to be held in that un- syndicated basement, where he was box- office artist, playwright, “leading heavy" and “general utility” all in one. He also looks modest when it is mentioned that Nat Goodwin offered him an engagement on sight, after a Commencement Day per- formance at Stanford University, where Goodwin and Maxine Elliott appeared on the same bill in “The Silent System,” and he is undisguisedly proud, too, of being a Californian, as well as several other things that are greatly to his credit. But all these things are as dust beneath tue feet in the opinion of the clever Thespian when compared with his remarkable jour- ney from New York to San Franeisco as sole escort of his son and heir spparent, George H. junior, an exacting young gen- tleman not yet two years old. George H. Jr. has not been interviewed, but his proud parent declares that he was deliv- ered at the Robinson home her: mtact, sound of wind and limb, and in the pink of condition, and is net at all inclined to discount his achlevement. “It's the hardest part I ever struck,” =z ! - o e R SR S RS T TR TWO CALIFORNIANS GAIN- ING FAME IN THE THEAT- RICAL WORLD. s says George H. junior’s escort. “Kept me busy from morn till dewy eve, and from dewy eve till daybreak. It's a dead cinch gauging public taste compared with the difficulty of finding out whether the in- fant stomach prefers ice cream or frult cake, and forgetting one’s part is not In it with mixing up the paregoric and sooth- ing syrup cues. Oh, I know a thing or two now! But he's a great boy, my son.” - Among other things that Mr. Robinson knows, always after his parental accom- plishments, Eastern critics say that he knows how to act. He has been during the last season with Willle Collier’s com- pany in “On the Quiet,” Collier’s latest success, that has just completed an ex- traordinarily lengthy run in New York, and has attracted considerable attention by a clever performance of a reporter’s part in the play. The stage was always the Mecca of the Robinson boy's ambi- tion, strongly against the parental desire, by the way. From the time of his base- ment temple to the dramatic muse until his career at Santa Clara College, whers the unusual facilities for practical study of the drama fostered his lively desire, he steadily studied for his chosen voca- tion. After leaving Santa Clara College Mr. Robinson went to Stanford and there took up the study of law and the drama. There also he began to write, one of his farces, “The Converdlon of Uncle,” being given with success by the junior class. Afterward he went East with Nat Good- win to play with him in “Treadway of Yale,” that somehow got shelved. In the interim between the Goodwin affair and “On the Quiet” Mr. Robinson was occu- pied In writing sketches, among which were “A Family Affair,” “The Spiritual- ist,” “The Elixir,” “Dick Burton’s Rival™ and “A Game of Con.” He iIs now writ- ing a story for Harper’'s that he will call “Splinters,” dealing with the life of a street acrobat In New York, and is also re-engaged for next season with Willie Collier. The actor i3 now on his vacation and will remain for some few weeks longer in California. LB it As I sald before Mr. Robinson does not permit the fact that he is a Californian to be forgotten In the East, where he says it has a distinct value on the rialto. Californians are doing good work there and the connection is coming to be recog- nized. Loulse Allen. one of th& Allen sis- ters, and Willle Collier's wife Is sharing laurels with her clever husband in all of his plays—“Man From Mexico,” “On the Quiet,” “Mr. Smooth™ and others—at Madison Square Theater. Edwin Stevens, one of the most versa- tile genluses on the stage, is now with the Empire Theater stock company and has lately won much success as Baron Stein in “Diplomacy,” and has also writ- to:' exquisite little tragedy that was perto at the annual Lambs’ Club. A Theodore Roberts, who has not yet had any opportunity for his peculiar talents with the Frawley pecple here, was the success of the show as Canby, the ranch- man, in Thomas' new play, “Arizona.™ Mr. Roberts was also one of the big features of the sensational Brady produc- tion of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” as Stmon Legree. And there's another bunch of Californians. L. R. Stockwell, in the same thing, made a wonderful hit as Marks, the lawyer. Frank Hatch of Co- lusa is stage manager for all of Brady's productions and Joe Grismer is his stage diréctor. Then Phoebe Davies, Mr. Gris- mer's wife, played the lead in “Way Down East” for a year, and since then “Betsey Ross,” at the Manhattan Thea- ter, that Mrs. Fiske has leased now. Then there's, Ethel Brandon, Ada Lewts. Valerle Brugulere. Blanche Rates, Rutn White, John T. Malone, who played lead- ing part in Richard Mansfield's produc- tion of “Henry V" this year ud who is another Santa Clara College graduate. Gearge Osbourne Jr. is another. He Is tn “Mrs. Dane’s Defense,” which comes here next week. The woods are full of them and they're all on Lroadway, which 1s the latest metropolitan news.